His interview with influencer Adin Ross earlier this week is part of a broader effort to answer Kamala Harrisā€™s nomination with an unabashed courtship of too-online misogynists.

UFC head Dana White, theĀ wife beater, is ā€œa fighter.ā€ North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is ā€œvery tough,ā€ while Chinaā€™s Xi Jinping is ā€œstrong.ā€ Elon Musk, the transphobe who has turned X into a megaphone for bigotry, is a ā€œgenius.ā€ So said Donald Trump during his 75-minute livestreamedĀ interviewĀ with Adin Ross, the 23-year-old gamer and influencer.

The adjectives and verbs for all of the women they discussed were very different. Kamala Harris was said to be ā€œweakā€ and ā€œstupid,ā€ Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were ā€œcrazy,ā€ and AOC was described as ā€œrantingā€ and ā€œscreaming.ā€ And, of course, there was that appellation Trump applies to every womanā€”most famously to Hillary Clinton in theirĀ final debateĀ in 2016ā€”who doesnā€™t supplicate herself before him: ā€œnasty.ā€

In other words, the interview was vintage Trumpā€”the latest of a million-plus examples proving that, no matter how many smarmy advisers and gullible political reporters insist otherwise, he is incapable of changing who he is for political expediency. Heā€™s an out-and-proud misogynist who intends to appeal to closeted misogynistsā€”and no one should be happier about that fact than Kamala Harris.

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    only a matter of time until trump and maga start screeching ā€œgEt RiD oF wOmEnS sUfFrAgE,ā€ since itā€™ll be women who destroy him the most on election day

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      I think Thiel already wrote an essay about that.

      https://time.com/4529800/donald-trump-women-voters-2/

      The movement slightly pays homage to Silicon Valley billionaire (and Trump supporter) Peter Thiel, who wrote in 2009 that giving women the right to vote was bad for democracy: ā€œSince 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to womenā€”two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertariansā€”have rendered the notion of ā€˜capitalist democracyā€™ into an oxymoron.ā€

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            Itā€™s partially a joke, but there is non-negligible subsection of privileged gay men who believe than any form of femininity is beneath them, to the point of misogyny. They believe that trans women, femme presenting NBs, and even femme leaning cis gay men are lesser than them. Hence the joke among the queer community that ā€œthey hate women more than they like menā€.

            Reading Peter Thielā€™s essay, it certainly seems to reflect the mentality of those types of people Iā€™ve interacted with IRL. Fortunately they are drowned out by the rest of the queer community.

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        gee, who would have ever guessed womenā€™s right to vote would be bad for a party that wants to oppress women

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      True, but plenty of men are vehemently against trump as well, like myself! Proudly!

      The women are going to win this for Kamala though. I wonder why they used to not let them voteā€¦

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        it wasnā€™t until the 70s that women could open their own bank account without a manā€™s name attached