America has mommy issues. And daddy issues.
This is an election pitting mommy against daddy. And last night was one of the finest performances of toxic female privilege ever to grace a stage.
I watched the debate highlights last night — not having the stomach to watch the entire thing, nor the desire to loan my eyeballs for the corrupt media machine to profit from — and it was…whatever. More than anything, it called to mind not so much a substantive political back and forth, but a marriage counselling session where the therapist is very much in the tank for the high-handed, bitter wife.
I don’t have an opinion on who won. Does it even matter, when we are talking about this level of fakery?
But what the debate did make clear, is just how much this is an election pitting mommy versus daddy. And unfortunately for us kids, mommy is manipulative and underhanded, and daddy is crass and a little bit authoritarian. [Side note: I do not think Trump is authoritarian in practice. He just reads that way because of his blunt statements and swagger.]
Ultimately, we’d be better off if daddy gets custody, but mommy is going to deploy every weapon in her emotional arsenal to humiliate and character assassinate daddy — the wellbeing and safety of us, kids/citizens, be damned.
It’s so obvious. We’ve seen this dynamic before. Anyone who has been a teenager will remember the unpleasant reality of having to deal with the popular mean girl and her slavish hangers-on. The in-group dynamics that drive humans to pledge undying devotion to people who are demonstrably unworthy, is something that never ceases to amaze me. The Harris campaign is exactly that. Kamala is Queen Bee and the media are her drones.
After the Democratic convention, and the many preceding years of Trump Derangement Syndrome in the media, we did not need confirmation of this. But here’s just one small tidbit. Last night’s debate was “moderated” by ABC. And when I say moderated, the kind of questions they lobbed at their queen were along the lines of: “So one a scale of 1 to 10 — just how amazing are you?” And “Donald Trump is a lying liar whose pants are on fire: do you agree?”
Anyhoo, ABC is of course, owned by Disney. Dana Walden, who is a “top executive” at Disney, is besties with Queen Kamala and her hubby.
Even The New York Times saw fit to point this out:
“On paper, the potential for a conflict of interest seems obvious: ABC News, the host of next month’s high-stakes presidential debate, falls under the purview of a top corporate executive at Disney who happens to be longtime friends with the Democratic nominee.
The executive, Dana Walden, first met Kamala Harris in 1994. Their husbands, Matt Walden and Doug Emhoff, have known each other since the 1980s. The Waldens — “extraordinary friends,” per the vice president — have donated money to Ms. Harris’s political campaigns since at least 2003, when she ran for district attorney in San Francisco.
“In many ways, Dana and Matt are responsible for my marriage,” Ms. Harris joked at a fund-raiser.”
Cute!
But never fear. The Times also reported that: “[Walden] does not weigh in on editorial decisions.”
Sure, Jan.
Kamala world is the political campaign version of the Barbie movie from last year, frothy, fake, woke and not at all good — but perceived by many as fun. The visit to the spice store, the cracking of the egg with one hand, these are moments where Kamala comes across well — to liberal white women.
Kamala is perfect for liberal white women: she’s always laughing (unthreatening); she loves to dance (just like us!); she condescends to the big male ape she’s being forced to deal with on the way to saving the world (so relatable). At the spice store in particular, you can see the intense effect she has on the white women, who weep and gasp just from being in her presence.
The entire Kamala campaign is, as is fashionable to say now, mommy coded.
And Trump? Well, he’s been doing the rounds of the manly-men podcasts (all of which have huge audiences, btw), having in-depth and quite intimate discussions about serious matters. And to the extent that Kamala out-foxed him at the debate — which I don’t really think she did — it was because she managed to provoke him into lumbering, unpolished, answers about migrants eating pets that will be clipped and widely ridiculed by libs.
But I don’t agree with the commentators who panned Trump’s performance altogether. I thought he managed to stay mostly serious and didn’t hit below the belt, while she very much did — claiming military leaders told her he was a disgrace, mocking the size of his “crowds” and pulling the fakest faces I have ever seen. It one of the finest performances of toxic female privilege ever to grace a stage.
It remains to be seen who America wants to be with more — mommy or daddy.