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We don't have time today to explain who Ian Miles Chong is. That is a different episode. Let me know if you want it. But honestly, I don't even know if I do. But Ian Miles Chong, this like right wing Twitter influencer, friend of Elon Musk, tweeted this video of like a football cheerleader.
We don't have time today to explain who Ian Miles Chong is. That is a different episode. Let me know if you want it. But honestly, I don't even know if I do. But Ian Miles Chong, this like right wing Twitter influencer, friend of Elon Musk, tweeted this video of like a football cheerleader.
Okay, work, Moira. Come on.
Okay, work, Moira. Come on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I think it's pretty clear that Ian Miles Chong does not necessarily have a rich life outside of Twitter, but it is interesting that these, these ideas that these kind of like terminally online, weird right-wing internet gremlins make about like, oh yeah, I'm actually the underdog for thinking that a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader is sexy and,
Well, I think it's pretty clear that Ian Miles Chong does not necessarily have a rich life outside of Twitter, but it is interesting that these, these ideas that these kind of like terminally online, weird right-wing internet gremlins make about like, oh yeah, I'm actually the underdog for thinking that a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader is sexy and,
how that trickles into mainstream attitudes within the right today.
how that trickles into mainstream attitudes within the right today.
You're still being oppressed by that one Dylan Mulvaney Instagram Bud Light video.
You're still being oppressed by that one Dylan Mulvaney Instagram Bud Light video.
Something that I put in here under this Ian Miles Chong tweet about the cheerleader being hot is it's just like between this, the Hawk Tua thing, this, I think what you said about Dave Portnoy being the successor to the Hugh Hefner throne, which is true. You have this idea that on the right now, there is this like... sexual politic of domination.
Something that I put in here under this Ian Miles Chong tweet about the cheerleader being hot is it's just like between this, the Hawk Tua thing, this, I think what you said about Dave Portnoy being the successor to the Hugh Hefner throne, which is true. You have this idea that on the right now, there is this like... sexual politic of domination.
But simultaneously, like they still are the party policy wise of, you know, being anti contraception, anti abortion, by virtue of these things, anti recreational sex. And it's like, how can you be the party of sex and fun and young, beautiful people and also have all of those policies? Like, I guess for me, I'm like, Are people not seeing the contradictions here?
But simultaneously, like they still are the party policy wise of, you know, being anti contraception, anti abortion, by virtue of these things, anti recreational sex. And it's like, how can you be the party of sex and fun and young, beautiful people and also have all of those policies? Like, I guess for me, I'm like, Are people not seeing the contradictions here?
Are people just buying into the vibes and not looking at what the policies are? Where does that shake out?
Are people just buying into the vibes and not looking at what the policies are? Where does that shake out?
Ashley.
Ashley.