E-girl engagement-bait week

Bride and prejudice

As a great philosopher once said, it’s so confusing sometimes to be a girl. American womanhood is at an inflection point this summer, according to Cockburn’s nieces. Can a white girl wear denim and avoid being called a Nazi? Is being hot and an adequate dancer and in a Southern sorority allowed again? (When was it banned?!)

Perhaps most crucially: what passes for decorum these days? That’s what Cockburn finds himself wondering after witnessing a rather unbecoming display of the American right’s finest female minds duking it out on X this week.

The imbroglio began Sunday when Sarah Stock, best known for her appearances advocating for “xenophobic nationalism” over democracy on that enlightening YouTube debate show from Jubilee, Surrounded, posted a picture of her modest engagement ring with the caption “I won”.

Other “commentators” – Cockburn’s nieces inform him the appropriate term is “right-wing e-girls” – began to pile on. “The ring size 💀,” responded Emily Wilson, a young lady who sells “the Rothschild Puppet Masters” T-shirts on her website for $32.99 a pop.

“You give it up for free hoe,” responded Morgan Ariel. “Might want to sit this one out. @emilysavesusa.” Ariel, you may recall, was ousted from her Turning Point USA ambassador role after saying that “the Zionist Jews controlling our planet are all pedophiles who have no regard for the sanctity of human life and purity.”

“Morgan you are a single mother with a public video admitting you have HPV. You may want to sit this one out too,” jumped in Pearl Davis, who penned and sang the Nick Fuentes tribute song, “Why Can’t We Talk About the Jews?”

Ariel replied to Davis, with her trademark Wildean wit, by accusing her of having a different sexually transmitted disease and commenting on her supposed choice of partner.

Concurrently, Wilson responded to Ariel: “Morgan, your baby daddy abandoned you. You’re raising a bastard child. But yet somehow someway you think you’re better than me or anyone on this app? You gave it up for free, got left in the dust, and now post rage bait on X to supplement the inadequacy of your monthly child support payments.”

“None of that is true Emily, but unlike you I don’t lie so here are some facts,” Ariel replied. The “facts” listed are:

• Accusing Wilson of engaging in a lewd act in the hotel lobby of a Turning Point event, surrounded by families
• Claiming Wilson brags about sleeping with married man and doing drugs, saying she is ‘ran through’
• Saying Wilson calls “young virgins losers” and encourages them to have premarital sex

“You’re a disgusting feminist whore with a Jezebel spirit who uses filters in all of her videos and lives in rebellion to God while grifting off of the conservative movement and simultaneously trashes women who desire to live God honoring lifestyles because their engagement rings didn’t cost enough or their lifestyle isn’t flashy enough,” Ariel concludes. “But yea, I’m the one who needs money, you gold digging hoe. So yes, I am better than you.”

For what it’s worth, Wilson contests Ariel’s allegation about the lobby incident, telling MailOnline she was merely “sitting on somebody’s lap.”

The feud continued throughout the week, dragging in even more ex-TPUSA ambassadors. At one point, one was accused of having a “fupa” (Cockburn longs for the time he didn’t know what that was an acronym for) and she “clapped back” by posting a swimsuit photo. That’ll show them. Cockburn can’t help but feel a touch sorry for TPUSA, who have caught an awful lot of strays this week. The women spent last night trying, and failing, to arrange a livestream or panel debate to air their grievances face to face. 

Just as humiliating as the catfighting was the nearly 19-minute-long video on the Bulwark analyzing it, where three men – average age 39 – cover their receding hairlines in snapback hats and pick over the riveting debate. It has over 300,000 views at the time of writing.

“In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels,” Jane Austen’s Charlotte says in Pride and Prejudice. Maybe we would all have had a more pleasant week if everyone involved in this sorry affair showed less.

On our radar

NEW FED WHO DIS President Trump has selected Stephen Miran to replace Adriana Kugler as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors. 

GET TO THE CHOPPER Representative Rob Bresnahan of Pennsylvania seems to have been hiding the fact that he owns a helicopter worth more than $1 million from his constituents. 

OH SNAP Colorado is the first blue state to join in on prohibiting SNAP (food stamp) dollars from being used to purchase soda. 

Nate Morris: J.D. or DEI?

Let’s check back in on Nate Morris, the garbage-truck-driving Kentuckian seeking to replace Mitch McConnell in the Senate. Morris offered a raucous “MAGA” display at the Fancy Farm picnic in Kentucky last Saturday. With Senator McConnell in the audience, Morris, his onetime donor, looked to his opponents and said, “Perhaps you could both show us the seat of your britches so we can finally understand where Mitch McConnell’s hand goes.” With that, a chorus of boos echoed around the little pavilion, but Morris didn’t seem to mind.

Morris has had better luck with crowds in the past – particularly when talking up his DEI bona fides, a record he has sought to scrub since announcing his Senate bid and rebranding as “MAGA.” For instance: he sat down for a fireside chat at the 2023 SOAR Summit to talk about how the company he founded, Rubicon, (which he left in 2022) had excelled at hitting diversity, equity and inclusion benchmarks.

“I’m proud that Rubicon, under my leadership, we were a great place to work, five years in a row, had some of the best numbers with diversity, with inclusion, and that to us was very important,” he said.

Morris then explained why exactly having a diverse workforce mattered to him. He saw a need to “make sure that we were also getting a sample of the people that we needed at the table to be able to get this job done.”

Of course, Mr. Morris would prefer Kentucky voters to forget all that – and instead would like them to think of him as the new J.D. Vance, a comparison drawn in a flattering NBC News profile Tuesday.

Morris said his friendship with the Vice President started several years ago and deepened over their shared love of junk food. “I knew he was a real hillbilly when we started talking about what we like to eat,” Morris told the network. “J.D. is a friend, and I’ve been very inspired by his success.”

Cockburn suspects that Vance may consider Morris’s DEI record a little less appetizing than his diet…

You’re kidding: Nancy Mace drew attention to herself?

Talking to a press scrum after a town hall meeting last night, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, candidate for South Carolina governor, got into it with a local female reporter. The reporter asked a question about a South Carolina highway interchange, which apparently Mace had neglected to fund. The details of the specific issue are too parochial to matter to Cockburn, but the exchange was lively, and instructive, because of that.

“Is that an accomplishment you can tout?” the reporter asked.

“Absolutely I can tout that,” Mace said, her eyes ablaze at having someone dare challenge her. “And you’re a raging Democrat, a raging leftist with that kind of questioning.” The question was actually more or less non-ideological, but Mace wasn’t having it. She added:

“I would say as a woman, you might want to think about how you treat other women, the way you question them. Because women are going to lead this country off the brink… the first female president of this country is going to be a conservative woman, and not some liberal like you.”

Cockburn has said for a long time that the first female president is likely to be an attractive, charismatic Republican. Perhaps come 2032 or ’36, America will get the social-media influencer tête-à-tête it deserves: Mace versus AOC.

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