Election 2024

Liz Wolfe | 10.25.2024 9:45 AM

Keep your kinks to yourself: At a Turning Point USA rally for Donald Trump this week, former Fox News anchor—and now, independent media mogul—Tucker Carlson got mighty poetic:

"If you allow people to get away with things that are completely over the top and outrageous…and you do nothing about it…you're going to get more of it," he began, analogizing the Trump-America relationship to that of a father and his misbehaving children.

"There has to be a point at which Dad comes home," he continued. "Yeah, that's right. Dad comes home, and he's pissed. Dad is pissed. He's not vengeful. He loves his children, disobedient as they may be. He loves them because they're his children."

"Get to your room right now, and think about what you did! And when Dad gets home, you know what he says? 'You've been a bad girl. You've been a bad little girl, and you're getting a vigorous spanking right now. And no, it's not gonna hurt me more than it hurts you. No, it's not. I'm not gonna lie. It's gonna hurt you a lot more than it hurts me. And you earned this. You're getting a vigorous spanking because you've been a bad girl. And it has to be this way.'"

This strange, kinky soliloquy on the right reminded me of this terrible graphic—not the first of its kind, and representative of a whole genre—on the left:

Come on, we all know there's only one VP candidate you would be excited to see at the family gathering — and he's the one who will actually protect IVF, abortion access, or LGBTQ rights.

Voters know who is fighting for them and who is just creeping them out. pic.twitter.com/viWahTwtIk

— Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) October 1, 2024

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