Losing my will to live: David French and the comments

The Times makes fun of Dems and their asinine attempts to workshop their way out of the demographic hole, David French feels the need to flex his Christian boner, and the comments are a+

I am in a funk.

Sure, I get a chuckle out of the whole T.A.C.O. mania, and even the memes and AI generated art is fun.

But then I realize that this is what the goddamn Democrats and the left always fucking does. We get up in arms over something cute, while Trump and his minions continue to destroy America.

Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Ad nauseam

Truth is, there is no depth too low for Trump to plunge to, no moral norm that he and they won’t cross, and there is no going back. The damage that is being done is not going to get fixed before I shuffle off this mortal coil¹.

Then I read about the secret group of Democrat leaders who are meeting in posh hotels to discuss how to reach young men, how to finance a slate of influencers to talk to them and make them realize how wonderful Democrats are.

That makes me want to shoot myself in the face.

Talk about tone deaf, and not reading the room, the fact that they think they can workshop, focus group, and fund a path out of this to bring the lost-boys back into the fold is just fucking nuts.

Essentially, they want to counter the “Manosphere”.

Stop.

That gives runway to the execrable David French to write this bit of piss-dribble about his touching experience of a driver as he was shuttling to an event blubbering and weeping about how Professor Jordan Peterson was his savior.

“The Democrat’s 20-Million-Dollar-Man Problem” (gift link)

It starts with this weak stream of piss (I guess to be “relatable”):

It’s not every day that a stranger cries right in front of you.

But that’s what happened to me in 2018. I had been invited to speak at Grove City College, a small Christian college outside Pittsburgh, and a young man picked me up at the airport for the 90-minute drive to the school.

During our conversation, he asked me, “Do you know who Jordan Peterson is?” I said yes. Peterson’s self-help book, “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos,” which had been released earlier that year, was an enormous best seller. It has sold 10 million copies worldwide.

To me, even 7 years ago, this is groan worthy. Peterson was then an influencer who was “out there”, and balls deep in his behavioral psych bullshit, and a lot of his material was lapped up like mother’s milk by the incels, MRA’s and PUA’s. I wrote about it here just after the election:

The Manosphere - Where the Fuck did Trump's strength amongst Gen Z men come from?

But, here is French tongue bathing Peterson’s wrinkly ballsack:

I’d read the book and liked it. It’s not a political tome. It’s written to provide meaning and purpose for a generation of young men who too often don’t know what to believe or whom to trust.

You liked it? Really? Did you know anything else about Peterson and his shitty ecosystem?

He goes on:

Peterson “saved my life,” the man said. He choked up. After he’d finished his enlistment with the Marines, he left the Corps with no job, very few friends and no plan. He descended into depression. But Peterson taught him to find meaning in small accomplishments, in making the next day better than the last, and now he was on his way — he had a job, he was finishing a degree and he was making something of his life.

So this driver credits Peterson for giving him purpose. Whoop de fucking doo, we all have doubts, we all struggle, we all have to figure it out. What we don’t need is internet influencer shite feeding these insecurities.

And those insecurities are what drove the 18-19 year-old cohort into Trump’s stubby arms with abandon.

And it is this backdrop that the motherfucking Democratic intelligentsia are seriously talking about 8 digit spends to build a fucking left leaning influencer ecosystem.

This is where I actually agree with French:

I thought of that young man when I read a fascinating report by my newsroom colleague Shane Goldmacher about Democratic soul-searching after November’s defeat. “Democratic donors and strategists,” Goldmacher writes, “have been gathering at luxury hotels to discuss how to win back working-class voters, commissioning new projects that can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places.”

One of those proposals is a $20 million effort “to reverse the erosion of Democratic support among young men, especially online.” The goal is to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.”

Yeah, that tracks, and those fuckers are gonna try to workshop this shit away.

It ain’t gonna fucking work.

He continues: (and I agree again)

I don’t fault Democrats for trying to reach men. Donald Trump’s gains with men were instrumental to his victory last November. It will be difficult for Democrats to win back the White House if men keep tacking to the right.

Yet I’m afraid that too many people are getting the challenge of reaching young men backward. At its core, the manosphere is not about politics, certainly not party politics. Yes, it’s always had political aspects and implications, but its roots are cultural, and much of its growth was an organic response to a deep personal need.

This is true, but it also isn’t something that can be fixed by fielding a slate of lefty Rogans, Petersons, and Tates.

And if I hear one more person say that the Dem’s need to just go on these shows (they are almost all Youtube streamers) and counter the narrative, I am going to lose my shit.

The manosphere is real, it is a black hole, and it has sucked a full generation of young men in, and they are not coming back.

The only real strategy is to look for the next generation.

But let’s do what I always advise against, and look at the comments…

Comments are nvts

Here’s M from New York who is sure he has the answer:

Gee, so, if we just put all the Trans ickiness on a Falcon Heavy and fire it into the sun, this would go away.

Sadly. the less than 1% of transgender people in the population are enough to trigger a fuck-ton of hatred, and the blame for why Young Men wanted to fellate the TACO king.

Let’s see what else I can find…

Wait, I think Ed is on to something… It is all about the misogyny and racism. White males no longer have the easy button

Let’s check in with One Person:

Is there something in the fucking water in Ohio? JD Vance, Bernie Moreno, and this One Person all are dumb as dirt.

Not to be outdone by Ohio, here is someone from New England who feels the need to write a tome of a comment, with all the confidence of a mediocre Middle Ages white dude:

 This person seems to mistake classic Democrat support for things that the fucking Republicans have been dry-humping for fucking decades. And he trots out the DEI trope. Remind me again of which administration that is trying to silence law firms, media companies, and even people who make fun of TACO man and Musk?

Srsly, do these fucking people need to be reminded to breathe?

That’s enough for this traipse into the hell-pit of The NY Times’ pet ReligioConservatwat.

Ok, I lied, I want to end on a high-note, the best comment I read (and only 7 people upvoted this)

BOOM, nailed it.

1. I just turned 60, and if I am lucky, giving my family history, I might get 20 more years