cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45122184
“Oh my God, I want a hot president,” Jennifer Welch of the I’ve Had It podcast said in an interview last week. “Hot democrat alert,” posted Democratic influencer Keith Edwards in response to a video clip of Sam Forstag, a 31-year-old smokejumper running for one of Montana’s two House seats. If you search Jon Ossoff’s name on X or TikTok, you’ll be met with a number of thirsty posts calling the Georgia senator a “total hottie.”
“Jon Ossoff—there was just something about him,” said the content creator Qondi Ntini, who runs what can best be described as an Democratic thirst-trap X account, where she frequently refers to Ossoff as “Senator My Boo.” She’s raised thousands of dollars for Democratic candidates through the account and has been invited to the White House and the DNC as a part of their content-creator programs.
“The way I see thirst and the people that I choose to support, it’s more about their values and what they can do for their constituents. The hotness stems from that, and it makes them hotter. It’s also kind of a rebuke of toxic masculinity,” she added.
42 Comments
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 139d
No. Give me a Danny DeVito type campaigning on nationalized healthcare and the end of ICE over a Chis Hemsworth clone spewing the same corporate democon bullshit.
Susaga@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 139d
But Danny DeVito is the biggest thirst trap of them all!
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 17 pts · 139d
Hell yeah, he is!
jwt@programming.dev · 9 pts · 139d
It's gonna be a very classy affaaaiirrr.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 139d
OOOOORRRRGY
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 139d
Maybe back on Taxi, but it's easy to look like an adonic sex god when you're standing next to Judd Hirsch.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 139d
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d
That was Bernie Sanders. He ran for the Dem nom for president twice. He lost twice.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 139d
That was the joke though?
scarabic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
That’s not far from what we had with Bernie.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 27 pts · 139d
Y'all don't think Sanders is the cutest guy?
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 139d
He hasn't done enough cameos as Dany Devito's cousin or whatever. Probably still invisible/"yesteray's news" to these DNC shills even if that were to change.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d
😍
Auk@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 139d
People want progressive candidates not hot shills.
Goferking0@ttrpg.network · 12 pts · 139d
Unfortunately dnc only wants shills so will fight any alternatives harder than the gop
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 138d
I don't think the DNC really cares about winning. They just want those $$$ to keep flowing.
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
OP article was prolly written by Clavicle
devolution@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 139d
This stupidity is what led to Trump. I don't want a fuckable candidate. I want a capable candidate.
AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 139d
Are you admitting you find Trump fuckable? That's... brave.
devolution@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 139d
Ewwwww... You are banned.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 139d
I'm actually seeing a real lesson from the Mamdani campaign here. Not the one I really want to see them learn, but they learned something, at least.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 139d
This whole article sounds like it's really stretching to stitch together a narrative.
I’ve Had It podcast? Keith Edwards is a Democratic influencer and not a former reality show contestant? Qondi Ntini, an Instagram account with less than a thousand followers?
limelight79@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d
Half these "trends" that get articles are really just two people doing something stupid.
How many people were actually eating Tide pods? I seriously doubt more than a handful.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 1 pts · 139d
And yet, unsurprisingly, other commenters here are lapping it up and using it as yet another reason to hate the Democrats.
Real progressive thought leaders, this lot.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 139d
Electing a random Lemmy user would even be an improvement
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 138d
Implying we’re aren’t fire 10/10s.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 138d
Are we not chiseled by the Greek gods themselves? Are my superior calves and soft flowing locks a joke to you??
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 138d
Those are the ones with the small pee pees right
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
A subtle sign of civility and refinement. 😌
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 138d
Reeeally subtle
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 138d
President Beep?
kbal@fedia.io · 11 pts · 139d
Oh I'm not laughing. They're really pulling out all the stops to try and lose, and it's appalling.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 138d
What would be motivating them to win? Does anybody even get fired when they lose? Do they lose any voters when they lose?
negativenull@piefed.world · 10 pts · 139d
Also hinting about wanting non-geriatric candidates?
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 139d
That's ageist, the greatest sin of all in the DNC. You CAN'T say that, but you can always call Bill Clinton hot. What? You would rather Obama run again? Sorry, he's too young, unqualified, soft on crime ...
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
And wears tan suits! Unqualified.
verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 10 pts · 139d
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 138d
some podcasts are better than others... e.g. philosophize this, planet money, darknet diaries...
I guess you mean the talk-radio type podcasts where 2/3 of the time is just banter...
verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 4 pts · 138d
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 138d
Whenever I see a leftist shilling for the Democrats, I always just want to say: "Do you have any idea how much they hate you? They hate you so much."
verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 1 pts · 138d
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 138d
We don't fucking need "hotter".
We need some fuckers who can start straightening out the rampant damage to the U.S. (ALL aspects) caused by the orange faced shitgoblin in the white house.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 139d
Is that how they think Trump got elected?
I'm terrible at judging men's attractiveness, but I remember someone who is much better at that looking very closely at his picture to recreate something and going, "holy shit that guy is ugly".
daannii@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 139d
The I've had it women are generally not shallow like that on their videos. They are legit. Surprised about this. It must have been a joke.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 138d
I mean, when Forstag's press circuit looks like this...
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