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A couple of recent Harris/Walz campaign ads making the rounds of the internet serve as further evidence that the desperate Democrat Party is not only out of touch with American men and women who aren’t privileged celebrities, but that it is contemptuous of them.

Exhibit A is a 30-second spot from a progressive organization called Vote Common Good urging women to keep their votes for Kamala secret in order to avoid trouble with their Trump-voting (and therefore probably wife-beating) husbands. It features a middle-aged woman sporting a glittering Stars-and-Stripes cap (to signify that she is conservative, or trying to pass as one; it’s revealing that Democrats acknowledge that their opponents, and not themselves, are the flag-waving patriots). Her husband, whose cap is also adorned with a flag and American eagle, tells her as she steps up to the voting booth, “Your turn, honey.”

“In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose,” celebrity Julia Roberts intones in a voiceover (ludicrously, I might add, since women never lost the right to choose to avoid unprotected sex with someone they don’t want as the father of a possible child), “you can vote any way you want, and no one will ever know.”

At the booth the woman hesitates as she looks over her choices: Harris/Walz and Trump/Vance. Looking up, she catches the eye of another woman voter, and they share a knowing smile of sisterhood and complicity before they both check the Kamala box. As they exit the polling place with their husbands, the first husband asks, “Did you make the right choice, honey?” With another knowing wink at her friend, she replies, “I sure did.” Julia Roberts delivers the punch line: “Remember – what happens in the booth, stays in the booth.”

Presumably this ad is directed at the wives of Republican men, because married Democrat women are surely married to men (and I use the word loosely) who are also voting for Kamala “Shout your abortion” Harris and Tim “Somebody help me load this shotgun” Walz. The message here is that the wives of Republican men are Trump supporters only because their overbearing MAGA menfolk won’t allow them to vote differently. Democrats believe they own the female vote, just like they believe they own the black vote, and they condescendingly believe wives for Trump are nothing more than hostages suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, that they have no agency or mind of their own. Democrats believe this quite simply because they do not personally know any Republican women.

In the voting booth, women still have the right to choose. New and important ad from @VoteCommon featuring Julia Roberts reminds women that no one will know who they voted for. Pass it on. pic.twitter.com/XALnryVPNm

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 28, 2024

Exhibit B is an absolutely jaw-dropping and literally pornographic ad from a pair of Democrat groups, Progress Action Fund and Defend the Vote, is causing a stir. The 30-second ad opens with a young (20-something?) man in bed, lustily masturbating to porn on his phone (you can hear loud female moaning from it), Suddenly his phone is snatched away by an older, white, suited male sitting on the edge of the bed.

“What the hell, man! How’d you get in here?” the young man asks.

“I’m your Republican congressman,” the older man replies. “Now that we’re in charge, we’re banning porn nationwide.”

“You can’t tell me what to do! Get out of my bedroom, you creep!” says the young man, but the congressman says, “I won the last election, so it’s my decision. I’m just going to watch and make sure you don’t finish illegally.”

The Hill reports that this explicit ad campaign, called “Republicans Rubbing You the Wrong Way” (get it?), is intended to depict Republicans as the party that interferes in people’s personal lives, and will stream on connected TVs, online and streaming services in all seven battleground states.

This is the message the Democrats want to send to young men? “Vote for Kamala so you can maintain your enslavement to porn”? Sure, it’s not news that Democrats are obsessed with removing any legal and moral boundaries to sexual libertinism, but this is wildly out of touch with a whole generation or two of young men today seeking masculine self-actualization and striving to rise above their animal nature to be the best they can be. They recognize that porn addiction is scornful weakness, and they’re working hard to conquer it.

Apart from the fact that Republican lawmakers have no plans for a federal ban on pornography (not that there’s anything wrong with that, as the comedian Jerry Seinfeld might say), what this ad tells the young men it’s targeting is that the Democrat Party is aiming at their basest instinct, encouraging their enslavement to one of the most serious social scourges our nation faces. This absolutely will not resonate with today’s young men, but Democrats don’t know that because as I’ve written numerous times lately, they are clueless about masculinity and out of touch with what young men today want for themselves.

Full disclosure: many years ago before I saw the light in many ways, I worked in the porn industry. I speak from personal experience when I say that it is a dark, insular subculture of lost souls (I was one) and the demonic, and it’s become much more so in the time that I left it. Today more so than ever, it enables and encourages human trafficking and sexual violence, and it destroys families and marriages and relationships and sets young men and women alike on a path to self-destruction that requires an Herculean effort to escape. And now Democrats proudly proclaim themselves the Party That Protects Porn. Shameful and evil.

These two ads are just a couple of the most recent examples that the Harris/Walz campaign, desperate to secure male voters, doesn’t even understand that it is alienating men more with each passing day, because the Left hates and fears masculinity, just as they hate and fear women who don’t identify as feminist (i.e., most American women). The Democrat Party does not know how to empower men or women or families – only how to tear them down.

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