Itās called āCalendargate,ā and itās raising the question of what ā and whom ā the right-wing war on āwokenessā is really for.
While most people were enjoying the holidays, extremely online conservatives were fighting about a pinup calendar.
Last month, Ultra Right Beer ā a company founded as a conservative alternative to allegedly woke Bud Light ā released a 2024 calendar titled āConservative Dadās Real Women of America 2024 Calendar.ā The calendar contains photos of āthe most beautiful conservative women in Americaā 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) ādemonic.ā The basic complaint is that the calendar is pandering to married menās sinful lust, debasing conservative women, and making conservatives seem like hypocrites when they complain about leftist immorality.
Iām not sure if you mean in primaries or election, but wouldnāt their situation in elections be the same as the other sides: you vote for the less bad (from your pov) of the two. Surely itād be Trump rather than Biden for them, even if theyāre on the wrong side of that right-wing divide
I have a hard time understanding any justification a Christian puritan would have for voting for Trump. The man embodies the excess of every sin that they obsess over, but I guess heās the only politician whoās so open to lying to them about the things they most want.
Would Biden and Democrats be more up their alley?
I donāt think Iāve met anyone of any political leaning who would like Biden to be president. People, myself included, still see him as practically perfect compared to Trump.
Iām not defending the Democrats (Iām independent and have no party loyalty). Iām just noting the outrageous state of American politics where puritanical conservatives are so terrified of change that theyād rather vote for a person who openly hates them and their way of life because he lies to them that heāll maintain the status-quo.
Trump is trash. Biden is trash. Almost all people with any proximity to the presidency are party-loyal trash or wannabe dictators (I.e. Desantis). That said, Iād still rather vote for trash who isnāt openly quoting Hitler and insisting heās completely above the law.
I just meant in the sense of better out of the two. I know basically nobody thinks of him as a great candidate, but from what I understand of the American system, the only thing that matters is whether the other guy is worse.