The Left's Pitch to "Manly Men" is Failing While "Elliot" Page SPIRALS, with Michael Knowles

An absurd piece in the Atlantic that has to be discussed for a minute was written by a guy named Russell Berman. And his headline is The Return of the Democratic Manly Man. The Democratic Manly Man is coming back, Michael Knowles. The article begins with a story on Brian Poindexter, who's running for Congress in Ohio. They point out that Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside of Cleveland. Reuben, man's man meat. When he had delivered a message that coming from a Democratic House candidate in the year 2026 sounded almost provocative, quote, there's nothing wrong with being masculine, Poindexter told me. It's OK, he said, to be a manly man. Poindexter's own manliness credentials are fully in order. The 46 year old started working in a machine shop as a teenager, spent years hauling furniture across the country before finding stability as a union ironworker. He drives a Ram Bighorn pickup truck and built with his buddy turned campaign manager a shed, a shed in his backyard. Michael, he built a shed. It's part of his manly man credentials. Now, Poindexter is running for Congress trying to flip a Republican held seat in Ohio with a pitch aimed at a constituency that has abandoned the Democratic Party over the past two decades. Men. OK, and then it goes on to say how the Democrats have lost all men. No men voted for Kamala Harris except if they had man buns. And the author, to his credit, points out that like a few months ago, he got a call from a Democratic Party operative who pitched a story on the Democrats effort to, quote, win back the manosphere. The operative ran through a list of half a dozen candidates in key house districts who are, quote, engaging culturally in male spaces, because that's that's what a manly man does. He engages culturally in male spaces. And the author of the piece actually notes the absurdity of trying to pitch him on a story about winning back men by arguing these men engage culturally in male spaces and says, yeah, there is there remains anthropological distance that points to the depths of the party's problem, just in using that phrase to pitch this writer for the Atlantic on doing this story in the first place. The Democrats are focused, however, on finding manly men to run under their party banner to try to win back the manly men who rejected them soundly under President Trump during Kamala Harris's run and during the 2020. My daddy, my daddy was a factory worker. My granddaddy laid the railroad tracks. And the one thing they both told me as a boy is to engage culturally in male spaces. You're not going to convince me otherwise. No, sir. This is really pathetic. And of course, it takes more than a Reuben sandwich to prove one's male bona fides. This guy who says that there's nothing wrong with being masculine is is obviously contradicting what the entire left has now told us for about 30 years, which is that it's toxic to be masculine. The masculinity is toxic. It's poisonous. It has to be extirpated. Now, the Dems realize that blew them out of the water. The reason they're focusing on this is Blaine Dexter, by the way, this is yeah, you know, he's he's kind of got the look to him, but he doesn't have the party. And he doesn't have the platform because the reason they're focusing on sex here rather than race, say, you know, they're clearly trying to run some more white guys. They had Platner up in Maine that didn't work out so well. They have Tallarico. But the reason they're focusing on sex is because what really lost the people for the Democrats was not the hideous racial ideologies that they've been pushing. I wish that had lost the people, but it didn't. It was the sexual stuff. It was the feminism leading into the gay rights stuff and reaching its apotheosis with the transgender ideology, specifically transing the kids. That's what lost the common sense for the Democrats. That's what Republicans campaigned on in twenty twenty four. Even when they're talking about the economy, even when they're talking about immigration, even when they're talking about foreign policy, the real cultural touchstone for them was the trans ideology because it showed that the Democrats had completely lost their judgment. And if they couldn't be trusted to know the difference between a little boy and a little girl, they couldn't be trusted on any other issue. So the Democrats know they have this existential problem that they've got to fix. But the difficulty for them is they're unwilling to give up all of the woke stuff up to and including the the trans ideology. So if you it's one thing to go out there and say we want to win men over again and we want to win back the working class and we want to win back unions, union members, by the way, who vote Republican. Even union leadership these days is not reliably Democrat. I mean, that's that is an existential crisis for the Dems. But but it's one thing to go out there and say it. But if you're going to if you're going to convincingly say it, you've got to give up all the gay stuff and the trans stuff and the lavender stuff. You can't have one of these guys driving that Dodge Ram truck on like a farmer's field and pulling over and letting Dylan Mulvaney get inside. Yes. No. Yeah. I mean, there's you can't put on the hard hat and the vest and say, you know, we ordinary Americans care about is putting food on our table and making sure that the intersectional disadvantages that the trans Muslims have faced for decades are finally corrected. That's weak. It just doesn't work. You know, it's kind of like we Yellowstone tried to do. Yeah, they want, you know, they want to have the Americana, but it doesn't play. Tallarico is a clear example of this to Tallarico. Yeah, they say, look, we got a white guy who's straight, I guess, and Christian. But then he opens his mouth and his girlfriend lives in whatever, you know, she goes to another school and then Christianity is not Christian at all. And it doesn't it doesn't play weird thoughts about the Virgin Mary. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and about about God himself is as being non-binary. And so it doesn't work. You know, to me, the clearest expression of this problem for the Dems is Gavin Newsom, because he knows that he can't win as a woke guy one because he's a white guy. And so that he just won't be able to win that faction. But he knows that the Democrat Party still demands the woke stuff. So, you know, one day he's hosting Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon on his podcast. 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It explores same-sex relationships in the animal world, and she is making a publicity tour for these two movies and given us some barn burners of some soundbites. Let me start with number nine. Let's start with number nine. In terms of looking at nature as if it's some heteropatriarchal structure is absurd and that this gender binary that we've created is nothing but a quaint little myth. And I think her work and this documentary really, really shows that what we have been taught in school in regards to these structures, men being superior, women being inferior, you know, submissive or what have you, it being this, yes, heterosexual existence is just completely false. Looking at nature as some cisheteropatriarchal structure is absurd. Michael, you are absurd. I feel you do this. I've said it for years that, you know, we got to look past the cisheteropatriarchy of nature. What's so stunning to me about what she says is she's burning down a straw man. She says, you know, the stuff we're all taught in school about how men are superior to women. What are you talking about? We're not. What we're taught in school now is that women are superior to men and men are toxic. But even if you go back to the bad olden days of the 1950s or something, we weren't even taught that then. We were taught that men and women are complementary, that we're distinct and we cooperate together. But women are better at some things. Women are better at being women, for instance, and men are better at being men. And when men try to be women or women try to be men like Ellen Page, it's not convincing at all. Ellen Page is an actress, and actresses are universally 100% crazy since the dawn of time. So the fact that this woman has an obviously severe mental illness, nothing about that is surprising. I guess what's really sad is that it used to be that actors and actresses would harness their innate insanity into the imaginative world of the work of art. And now it's bled out and they're treating the entire world as their canvas, as their kind of performance. And it's not persuasive at all. And it really might destroy Christopher Nolan's Odyssey. It was unclear who she's gonna play. One second, before we get to the Odyssey, I just wanna say one other thing about this business about the LGBTQ animal world. The truth is, literally no one on earth has given that any thought whatsoever. No one is walking around like, are animals gay? Are they queer? Are those two lesbo kangaroos? It's not a thing. Only people who look like Ellen Page and are so unconvincingly trying to convince us they're the opposite sex are thinking about such a thing. So now there's been a lot of negative reaction to this woman having a role in the Odyssey as some sort of strong male figure. There was a report that she was meant to play Achilles. That apparently is not true. She's playing some other character who I guess isn't even in the Odyssey, but is in some other ancient story and has been written in. And in the context of, I think, promoting that, she went on something called Democracy Now, gave an interview with them on June 24th, and said the following about people who don't like trans people, all right? It's all about the fact that she's trans, not that she's a woman and not convincingly chosen to play a strong male ancient figure. Here we go, Sati. And what do you say to young people who feel the way you do? Just to know that you're not alone and loved and celebrated by so many and try and block out the noise from absolute vile losers who must just be so profoundly uncomfortable with themselves they can't handle, that someone could get to a place that I think trans people do get to, which is a level of self-acceptance and understanding that I think is really beautiful and profound. So it is the critics of this transgender ideology who are profoundly uncomfortable with themselves, Michael. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Is that from a play? I think that's from a play. It's really sad watching and listening to her in this state of mania because she doesn't look healthy, she doesn't sound healthy, and she doesn't look happy. This is the real problem. Not at all. You look at old pictures of her when she was a lady, and she still is a lady, but back when she was openly so, and she looks happier, and now she never looks happy. Yeah, she was pretty, pretty girl, and I'm sure she's experienced all sorts of trauma and psychological distress and all the rest that's probably led her to this. But notice she has to immediately project and say, no, no, it's the people who criticize transgenderism, they're the ones who are deeply uncomfortable. And I'm slightly uncomfortable because I ate a lot of hoagies over my weekend, and so my pants are a little tighter now. But in terms of my identity as a human being, I'm not uncomfortable, and normal people are not uncomfortable. That's the defining feature of having a normal view of identity. And it either doesn't occur to them or they don't want to admit that some of the criticism of transgenderism, in fact, a lot of it comes from a place of charity, because we all know that you're not doing well. We all look at the statistics. We all know that the rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide do not decrease after the transition. In the case of anxiety, it looks like they actually increase. We have eyes, we have ears, yeah. Let me show you one other. This is her in 2019 talking about Jussie Smollett. Tell me if this is- We have a media that's saying it's a debate whether or not what just happened to Jussie Smollett is a hate crime. It's absurd. This isn't a debate. I agree. I agree. In terms of connecting the dots, in terms of what happened the other day to Jussie, I don't know him personally. I sent all of my love. Connect the dots. This is what happens. If you are in a position of power and you hate people and you want to cause suffering to them, you go through the trouble. You spend your career trying to cause suffering. What do you think is going to happen? Kids are going to be abused and they're going to kill themselves and people are going to be beaten on the street. I have traveled the world and I have met the most marginalized people you could meet. I am lucky to have this time and the privilege to say this. Okay, except he was a race hoaxer and she's one of those sick young women who takes on other people's problems literally as her own and is completely distressed over something she's seen in the news, which was obvious bullshit. And somehow at some point thereafter convinced herself that cutting off her breasts would make things better. No BS, no agenda, no fear.