Finally I have a chance to post some cheesecake with a genuinely newsworthy purpose:
This might not look especially racy to you, and when I first heard about it I figured it was just an ordinary case of a conservative guy trying to make a buck. But no! Vox informs me today that it's become a flash point on the right:
It’s called “Calendargate,” and it’s raising the question of what — and whom — the right-wing war on “wokeness” is really for.
....Last month, Ultra Right Beer — a company founded as a conservative alternative to allegedly woke Bud Light — released a 2024 calendar titled “Conservative Dad’s Real Women of America 2024 Calendar.” The calendar contains photos of “the most beautiful conservative women in America” in various sexy poses. Some, like anti-trans swimmer Riley Gaines and writer Ashley St. Clair, are wearing revealing outfits; others, like former House candidate Kim Klacik, are fully clothed. No one is naked.
But this mild sexiness was just a bit too much for some prominent social conservatives, who started decrying the calendar in late December as (among other things) “demonic.” The basic complaint is that the calendar is pandering to married men’s sinful lust, debasing conservative women, and making conservatives seem like hypocrites when they complain about leftist immorality.
Fabulous! I only wish that I believed this would become a huge, ongoing fight rather than petering out (so to speak) after a few weeks. But this isn't the kind of thing Fox News will obsess about, so it's unlikely to last.
Or—and hear me out on this—maybe Donald Trump will get involved. The guy behind the calendar has said he doesn't support Trump, which is usually all it takes to bait Trump into a wild Truth Social screed. Wouldn't that be something? Donald Trump insisting he's offended by a slightly sexy calendar and its objectification of women? But it might be good for his recent campaign to persuade Christian conservatives that he's really one of them.
It's usually liberals who conduct internecine wars over trivia like this, so it's nice to see conservatives taking a crack at it. Let's keep it going, OK?
Trump's gotta be torn on this one.
On the one hand, the calendar is objectifying women (I don't see Bill Gates in a swimsuit), and objectifying women is good and natural, he thinks.
On the other hand, the calendar's creator doesn't like him.
I'm guessing that Trump's sense of resentment will win here.
"objectifying women is good and natural, he thinks."
They all think that.
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He'll call the women dogs, and claim he's going to put out a calendar of Trump Girls, who are the hottest you've ever seen....
It will all be pics of Ivanka.
They don't need "calendargate" to make them seem like hypocrites.
Right. They strongly support the Constitution, yet they support a guy who worked hard to try to reverse the elector vote count in a presidential election. Hard to get much more hypocritical in politics than that.
Social conservatives say they strongly respect women, yet they support a guy who says he doesn't wait when pursuing a woman - he just grabs the woman by her pus*y. Also, Trump had sex with a porn star while Melania was at home with their baby son.
And on and on.
Exactly…
Without bad faith…
Republicans would have no arguments at all
Who are the women in the calendar? I don't recognize any of those names. Are they RWNJ women rugged MAGA men are supposed to wank to or something?
I see one of the calendar models is posing with a Corvette. Doesn't Biden own and love a classic Corvette (earlier generation, but close enough)? Wouldn't that be grounds for cancelling Corvettes? I mean, if having a trans model is grounds for cancelling Bud Light...
It's the circular reasoning of boner and dick, always in conflict yet always in uneasy alliance.
Give a guy a hand. No? Well, ok. It's all about rugged individualism, anyway. Mine, not yours. You're a puss.
I just like to feel included.
In what?
--stuff. Getting the military to shoot illegal immigrants from helicopters while they're on a raft outside US territorial waters.
Guns! You're alright, puss. Through me that towel.
Ummm … who takes a bubble bath with at least a bra on?
Ahhhhaha, hilarious! They spent hours, thousands of dollars, thoughtful meetings about which shot should be included, and yet ...
Oh no---it's triggering my Porn Alarm!!!
What will my porn buddy think!!! (no, not that kind of buddy)
Haha!
What? No Melania? Haven't they found her yet?
All pretty tame compared to Melania's GQ shoot. Do MAGA people realize Melania flies around on Trump's jet in the nude?
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/donald-trump-melania-trump-knauss-first-lady-erections
DJ Barksalot is daring anyone to make a big deal out of this,
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1745280894720504075
That is exactly how I'd have put it!
I think we can stop arguing whether the eight million dollars were emoluments — “No, they were bribes!”
And the fact that Trump effectively admitted bribes was widely reported nowhere.
65 years ago I spent a bit of my time admiring the photos in Playboy.
Little did I realize I was being groomed to be a closet Republican.
Wowza! The right is getting Woke!
Fox won't obsess about this because they themselves would dearly love to dress their female anchors and reporters in red, white and blue micro-bikinis and six-inch stilettoes. In quest of a few more ratings points (and it would work, too!).