God, it’s awful. I mean, really awful. Maybe the worst thing I’ve ever seen—and I watched an episode of She Hulk once.
I’m talking, of course, about the latest Democrat political ad, aimed at convincing “real men” to vote for Kamala Harris.
The 90-second advertisement, doing the rounds on social media, was produced by Jacob Reed, one of Jimmy Kimmel’s writers, which helps to explain why it’s so diabolically, cringe-inducingly bad.
It features a variety of “real men,” from a gym rat and a biker to a rancher and a hunter, all of whom make braggadocious claims about their masculinity, before revealing that they’re also—big surprise!—“man enough” to vote for Kamala Harris.
“I’m a man,” says one man.
“I’m a man,” says another.
“I’m a man, man,” adds yet another.
“And I’m man enough”—then another.
“I’m man enough to enjoy a barrel-proofed bourbon”—and another.
“Meat” (it’s the second man again now).
“Man enough to cook my steak rare.” A new man. I notice that he appears to have gynecomastia, which is man boobs.
Get ready for the swerve.
“I’ll tell you another thing I sure as sh*t ain’t afraid of”—I think this is man number 3 again—“women.”
The cast of manly men then list all the ways they support women—from ensuring they have full reproductive rights to having the freedom to be “childless cat ladies,” in a clear dig at Trump’s running-mate JD Vance—before ending with an endorsement of Kamala Harris.
“If a woman wants to be president? I hope she has the guts to look me in the eye and accept my full-hearted endorsement.”
If you’ve made it this far, congratulations: you’re made of stern stuff. Lesser men (and indeed women) would not have lasted the full 90 seconds.
I present to you the cringiest political ad ever created. pic.twitter.com/P0JMI1caNS
— Champagne Joshi (@JoshWalkos) October 11, 2024
And now comes the important question. Since when did the Democrats care about unreconstructed men who like grilling and repairing their cars and lifting weights and would sooner probably vote a Thanksgiving turkey into the White House than a Kamala Harris?
Truth is, they didn’t and they don’t. You know this, I know this—they know this. And yet…
Everything about this advert is a lie.
For a start, the people are all actors, and not one of them is the kind of I suppose wavering Republican who would usually vote red.
Take Wayland McQueen, for example. He’s a far-left comedian who lectures people on white privilege, which probably explains why you’ve never heard of him.
Or Lanre Idawu, the jacked black guy who likes meat and deadlifts 500lb but is man enough to braid his daughter’s hair. He’s a Nigerian actor who does gay-for-pay movies and photoshoots with his bum out. He’s a friend of the Obamas, unsurprisingly.
But it’s the message itself that’s most egregious, so totally out of keeping with what we know about the Democrats and their attitude to men.
At the Democrat National Convention, we got to see what the Democrats really think about masculinity. Instead of Hulk Hogan ripping his shirt off, the audience got Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff bumbling around, and Dana Bash telling us it’s okay for men to have low testosterone and not like shooting guns or doing other stereotypically manly stuff.
And then, in the parking lot outside the United Center, there was a mobile Planned Parenthood bus offering free vasectomies to convention-goers. Ten men got the snip. Getting a vasectomy is a political act these days, apparently, a way for men to show that they’re willing to take their fair share of the burden as women’s “reproductive rights” come under threat from the Orange Man and his evil allies on the Supreme Court.
This is what the Democrats offer men of all ages: emasculation.
And especially white men. That’s why they picked Tim Walz as Kamala’s running-mate—Walz the buffoon, Walz the bumbling dad you see in television commercials, comedies and films, Walz the dude who runs around making bizarre, frantic gestures and gurning because he doesn’t know what else to do, making everyone else uncomfortable but you have to tolerate him because he’s Tim Walz.
The real Democrat attitude to masculinity is the attitude we saw on full display when the trailer to the Tucker Carlson documentary The End of Men dropped in the spring of 2022: bemusement, ridicule and accusations of repressed homosexuality. If young men want to take their lives into their own hands, if they want to give up porn, start eating properly and exercising and making friends with other young men who have a positive influence on them—well, they should be discouraged. They should be called gay. Gay Nazis, in fact. This fitness stuff reeks of Lena Riefenstahl and the Triumph of the Will and all that. Discipline. Purpose. Yuk!
In truth, this pathetic attempt to appeal to “manly men” is just another sign of the growing desperation in the Democrat Party as it becomes clear that Kamala Harris is on course for a thumping defeat, despite all the advantages, fair and unfair—but mostly unfair—that she possesses over Donald J. Trump.
Even Barry Obama, that cool cucumber, is now shouting in public about how young black men aren’t doing their part and need to step up and show some enthusiasm for Kamala Harris.
It’s all falling apart.
If you take one thing away from this 90-second glimpse into the abyss, it should be that: the Democrats can smell what’s coming, and they don’t know what the hell to do about it.
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