It is good politics to repeat that “your little girl cannot have the dolls she wants” line many times over multiple news cycles. - ThreadSky

scotttobias.bsky.social • 12 days ago

It is good politics to repeat that “your little girl cannot have the dolls she wants” line many times over multiple news cycles.

Reposted from Aaron Rupar

Bessent says that little girls who are sad about having fewer dolls should just have it explained to them that they will have a better life for it

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shelldefelice.bsky.social•12 days ago

thegiaour1814.bsky.social•12 days ago

You will have a better life after you have a worse childhood. Cool.

House in 2065? Sure.
Barbie Dream House? Dream on.

mchobs.bsky.social•12 days ago

Especially because its self inflicted and didn't need to happen 😒

jcs77.bsky.social•12 days ago

@atrupar.com I am feed up w/all this talk about little girls & their dolls. NO ONE speaking on this matter has any idea about this subject (those w & those w/o) daughters or kids. Just mouthing off to appease trump. Totally 😠😝

lihoro.bsky.social•12 days ago

Love the 🕶️

awcohen.bsky.social•12 days ago

Well, no, but the GOP is doing what they always do, which is calling their critics little girls, “pussies,” “cucks,” etc.

codemistress.bsky.social•12 days ago

The Putin Strategy: Repeat something over and over that is a total lie, and the rubes will think it is true.

dkmarsh.bsky.social•12 days ago

Getbent matching Nutlick stride for stride in the Lipsticking the Pig competition.

ebestes.bsky.social•12 days ago

I'm going to make a fortune off those Beanie Babies in the attic this December

loinerscum.bsky.social•12 days ago

Maybe shoot the pony she really wants too, that should take her mind off the doll void.

papabear333.bsky.social•12 days ago

sandylyle.bsky.social•12 days ago

If they were planning on having free and fair elections again, they wouldn't say stuff like that. But they don't plan on it, so they don't care.

mariootsa.bsky.social•12 days ago

Especially when the weirdest rich people on earth keep saying it.

experimental22.bsky.social•12 days ago

Trump and these other regime creeps should stop talking about what young girls want.

deblavoy.bsky.social•12 days ago

Maybe, actually, if you’re trying to normalize the virtue of no Xmas presents. Repetition is truth.

derrelldurrett.bsky.social•11 days ago

Maybe Scott is a secret leftist!

patndave4919.bsky.social•12 days ago

You tell your little girls first. Dick Head!

human-hello-wav.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's interesting that he's not saying:

"Instead of crushing a little girl's Christmas by rationing her dolls, we're going to limit the number of yachts and vacation homes the rich can purchase."

It reinforces the notion that "shared sacrifice" is a con.

socialuntruth.bsky.social•12 days ago

schatzkin.bsky.social•12 days ago

And only five pencils. But no sharpeners or erasers. Austerity hurts.

mchobs.bsky.social•12 days ago

Especially when it was unnecessary to have that conversation in the first place. Might as well say daddy went and drank and gambled all our money away so no dolls for you, but this will build your character

karencaulk.bsky.social•12 days ago

How come they are only singling out girls? Maybe boys need to be told they are only going to get 3 dolls instead of 30? The Repubs need some new material.

joannu.bsky.social•12 days ago

Ah, the anti-Barbie strategy. Brilliant! I would encourage them to keep this up.

flagrantlydefiant.bsky.social•12 days ago

I love how suddenly the problem is our gluttony.

futureme2034.bsky.social•12 days ago

I do not believe a word coming out of this mans mouth. And I would like to keep him away from our young girls.

econtrarian.bsky.social•12 days ago

I’m curious why you want to keep Bessent away from young girls.

futureme2034.bsky.social•12 days ago

because he is willing to use young girls to justify a president.

econtrarian.bsky.social•12 days ago

Got it. I was thinking that you might be concerned that he would molest young girls, which is highly unlikely given Bessent’s sexual preferences. But as Seinfeld would say, “not that there’s anything wrong with that.”

theshaneman.bsky.social•12 days ago

I know so many boomers who complain about how many toys so and so’s kids have nowadays that I do worry this message isn’t as much of an absolute failure as it should be.

scotttobias.bsky.social•12 days ago

Republicans have generally been uncool with the notion of even a tiny bit of collective self-sacrifice.

zeeek.bsky.social•12 days ago

Republicans have also generally been in favor of at least pretending to uphold the constitution historically. If Il duce says buy fewer toys, they will buy fewer toys and thank him for it.

theshaneman.bsky.social•12 days ago

Yes but they are also cult members and if the sacrifice also hurts someone that they don’t like it may be worth it to them.

femaleatlaw.bsky.social•12 days ago

Framing it in terms of "girls and their frivolous bullshit, amiright?" is not an accident

jilrubia.bsky.social•12 days ago

Yep.

jilrubia.bsky.social•12 days ago

For real. Nearly every abhorrent thing they say, if it lets people complain about others, usually sticks around as a rally cry with those folks. Hope this doesn't work that way.

gabby0219.bsky.social•11 days ago

This Bessent guy is weird.

marker1204.bsky.social•12 days ago

And I thought Bessant was one of the few smart people in the administration.

cathy3of6.bsky.social•12 days ago

Creepy AF

thisfox.bsky.social•12 days ago

Let's see them substitute "How many guns you can have" for this doll nonsense, and we'll see how that goes with the base.

gordon-eldest.bsky.social•12 days ago

Doll?
What about her father car?!

francis617.bsky.social•12 days ago

He’s gonna start drinking 🍹 more than Pete Kegsbreadth.

lorrainelogo.bsky.social•12 days ago

Why is it always little girls? Aren’t boys going to suffer and not get trucks or Legos? IDK 🤷🏻‍♀️

offdamountain.bsky.social•12 days ago

And why is it not a little boy and his toy trucks?

ryandleonard.bsky.social•12 days ago

It’s super great messaging. I hope they continue saying it. As loudly and often as possible. ‘American girls are weak and need some toughing up’ is a great tagline coming from the misogynist party.

danielzinski.bsky.social•12 days ago

Actually it's smart. Last thing you want is adults thinking of what they'll have to give up. So make it about something relatively trivial.

jilrubia.bsky.social•12 days ago

Takes the sting out of the insulin injection supply talk. Keep 'em busy with trivial stuff is right!

twifferthegnu.bsky.social•12 days ago

the best politics. specially when billionaires say it.

jaredsmithcny.bsky.social•12 days ago

I channel my inner Trump/Bessett when I try to explain to my only child she doesn’t need more Squishmallows.

scotttobias.bsky.social•12 days ago

Haha. I have definitely been there. Can’t even see my kid’s mattress there’s so many of them.

isonope.bsky.social•12 days ago

Um.

koyoteelaughter.bsky.social•11 days ago

Kind of feels like one of those big companies that doesn't want to give employees fulltime hours so they can have benefits giving advice to those employees on how to cope with not having enough money to support themselves or afford a dentist.

Maybe do you make do with 20 teeth instead of 32.

rebuthered.bsky.social•11 days ago

This man is the singularly least impressive person on earth. Does anyone see him speak and think "oh this guys in in charge" or "that is the smartest person in the room" Never. He may not be the smartest thing in the room when he's in a room alone.

rebuthered.bsky.social•11 days ago

They are doing it on purpose, they are laying the ground work to frame being aggravated about empty shelves as little girl behavior.

tommistephenson.bsky.social•12 days ago

Secretary Thurston Howell III, speaking of the poor condescendingly. God, he sounds so pretentious.

mcatb.bsky.social•12 days ago

Wtf with the dolls? How about food, shelter, transportation and medication????

lbennet.bsky.social•12 days ago

The morons keep saying it- you keep it up boys!

heidil973.bsky.social•11 days ago

Rubbish

juliatowe.bsky.social•11 days ago

We weren't better off in Trump's first administration. We won't be better off, this time around. Kids aren't stupid.

readingwarrior.bsky.social•12 days ago

DPRK.

supastaaarz.bsky.social•12 days ago

Boys will be unaffected though. Probably because it’s just girls that are needy and materialistic, demanding piles of dolls.

mavismoggie.bsky.social•11 days ago

Better than saying their mums and dads can’t have new clothes, shoes, household electrical goods, phones, laptops, low-priced furniture, pots and pans etc etc

johnnydoey14.bsky.social•12 days ago

Not for nothing, he looks like a fucking serial killer

jettye.bsky.social•12 days ago

How about a man won't have 37 guns, but he'll be just as happy wity2 or 3?

melbaggers.bsky.social•12 days ago

Why is it only girls who have to give up their toys?

stevesubera.bsky.social•12 days ago

Because we have an infinite supply of guns.

wildalchemy.bsky.social•11 days ago

TBH this feels like yet another way to attack women. It isn't the part about dolls, it is the si going out of "little girls". Like we can't be rational and need things mansplained to us. Pisses me off!

intj-views.bsky.social•11 days ago

This *little girls’ dolls* talk is pissing me off.
Anybody realize how sexist and paternalistic it is?

coloneltompeeping.bsky.social•12 days ago

Can little boys have all the dolls they want then?

coloneltompeeping.bsky.social•12 days ago

"Your daughter is a spoiled brat who has far too many toys. What she needs is a good thrashing and a couple of nights in the coal cellar. She will thank you for it one day."😬

123simco.bsky.social•12 days ago

No one has done more damage to this country than Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch helped get us here!

lynnjbirds.bsky.social•12 days ago

Putting the creep in, really works for them.

gregoryellwood.bsky.social•12 days ago

MAGA voters won't care

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