I'm gonna say something about this Nazi POS MTG.... [View all]

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I don't know if this has been said here before but I awakened thinking this:

the reason...THE REASON...that this hideously bigoted, intellectually benighted, anti-Semitic lunatic-conspiracy-theorist-disciple has gotten this far is not obvious.

Now for the explanation, and please stay calm: when I was growing into my adolescence in the Sixties and early Seventies, there was a type of novel published in paperback, available at certain bookstores and newsstands. They were known as "Sleaze Paperbacks" - I'm certain many of you partook of them - they were a common form of what we used to call "release material". Interestingly, there were many significant writers who wrote thousands of these under pen names, one such writer was Robert Heinlein of Science Fiction fame, but I digress.

For the uninitiated, they presented as follows: the female protagonist was either a hero or a villain, and if the former, often worked for government agencies or secret companies who of course, were the "good guys" and of course the initials of the agencies were, for example, N.Y.M.P.H.O or L.U.S.T. - you get the picture - and the story would involve her adventure bringing down some evil leader of a whole cabal using her wits and various body parts. Now, the language used in these was very different from today's pornography, it was more "civilized" and very descriptive in a formal literary sense. Every so many pages, the narrative would involve a "scene" and you could find these scenes by skipping to pages which had long paragraphs. But I digress again.

The endings were always satisfactory and you'd be all set for her next adventure.

Now there's the villainess: these books were really dark, the lady would be portrayed as pure evil in stark sexual form: black leather dress, pointy heels, lots of hair falling heavily to her shoulders, rituals of sexual torture and death involving extreme prurience followed by descriptions of extreme suffering. These books, while erotic in their own right, were extremely disturbing and they stayed with you, sometimes FOREVER. Trust me. There was one scene i cannot to this day, get out of my mind 55 years after i read it standing in a bookstore while my mom was shopping for holiday presents in the same store. But I digress for the last time.

Now to the covers of the books: invariably the cover depicted a pre- or post- sexual encounter with the individuals posed provocatively: the vast number of these were drawings, some color, many in black and white, depicting the "thrust" of the plot. Many of these were drawn, painted, or photographed by legitimate artists who made good money doing this work. These books sold well. (It must be noted for the record that there were many subjects that would absolutely be taboo these days including pedophilia and incest, and people today would (rightfully) go directly to jail for possession or publication of these materials). The women were almost always portrayed as huge-breasted, narrow-waisted, long-legged and there was not much left to the imagination, and in some regions, there was no censorship for drawn nudity. None. At all whatsoever.

To my point: this "lady" from Georgia, a state which has given us much to cheer about in the last couple months, is a character out of one of the latter category of novels. Her campaign ad, paraded around so effectively by Steny Hoyer on the House Floor yesterday, was a cover of one of those books. Standing there in tight-fitting costume, blond hair cascading down, holding an AR-15, with three frightened faces of ladies staring in her direction, mouths in fearful rictus, with the vicious inscription below the composite photos, this is just like one of those books.

This appeals to the prurience inherent in many individuals and the desire to experience sexual violence with all the overtones. and by the way, if you think for one moment that this was a province of males, I will tell you that I had a coworker when I first became a dentist who was a young lady who had these books hidden in her apartment and at work and would read them voraciously and got away with it because she would tape legitimate literature covers to these books. (The reason I discovered this is that I saw a suspiciously thin copt of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island on her shelf in her treatment room. I thought perhaps it was a condensed version and when i opened it....well, DU rules prevent me from telling you the subject matter.

But this Congresswoman embodies this fantasy come to life, and the haters, bigots, and general all-around creeps have an icon to replace Trump. and also, please notice that her fellow Congresswoman, Ms. Boebert, a brunette, has garnered somewhat less attention, although as far as I'm concerned, they're two peas in a pod. Perhaps the old Clairol ad rings true once again: Is it true blondes have more fun?

If one describes having "fun" as being a pure malignant sociopath, then perhaps so.