Democrats are rolling out a novel strategy heading into 2024: kinky ads featuring Republicans.
Cockburn, whose stance is pro-kink and anti-shame, came across new billboards that House Democrats are launching against Congresswomen Jen Kiggans and Michelle Steel. The two trailblazing women are depicted gagged, next to a bare-faced Donald Trump. The ads argue that the women were silent when former President Trump said he wanted to defund federal law enforcement.
Kiggans won her seat in 2022, two years after Trump left the White House, while Steel won hers in 2020, so overlapped with him for all of two weeks. The ads suggest that the main strategy Democrats have to retake the House is rehashing the anti-Trump messaging that was effective… when Trump was actually president. But hey, Democrats have been using the same campaign tactics for almost a decade now — why change it up?
The billboards were first exclusively passed on to ABC News earlier this month and follow on from Punchbowl News’s attempt to get a response from House Republicans to Trump’s April comment that they should “defund the DoJ and FBI until they come to their senses.” Trump is currently under investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith, among others.
“Vulnerable House Republicans — who time and time again attempt to paint themselves as moderates who are pro-public safety — have shamelessly refused to condemn the twice-impeached, criminally-indicted former president’s call to defund the law enforcement agencies that keep our communities safe,” DCCC spokesperson Justin Chermol said of the ads. “These House Republicans have put party politics over public safety — and we won’t let Americans forget.”
To be fair, it’s not just female House Republicans the DCCC have gagged: in the interest of equity, they’ve also taped over the mouths of old white guys such as Representative David Schweikert and drag queens such as George Santos.
Cockburn wonders how the congresswomen feel to be part of the DCCC’s hostage fantasy. Who knew that the “D” in “BDSM” stood for “Democrat?”
