CNN still at it. Scrolling through X and Trump's very orange.
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Unfortunately history has shown that "attractiveness" is a hugely important factor in popularity of political candidates for women, so this is a very effective tactic at getting the women vote back in line.
Sadly for them, they need to have an attractive charismatic alternative to show him against for their side, instead of a cackling goblin lady, and the Left hasn't had one of those in years. Newsom seemed to be the selected one, but he is too weighed down with baggage now.
Either way, its a very effective tactic that works so they have no reason to stop other than morality and scruples, and we know they have neither.
To be honest, it's for men too. See: Sarah Palin.
Fundamentally, it's a failure of universal suffrage.
It is a factor for everyone, but the extent in which its influential differs heavily.
Palin wouldn't have mattered if she didn't also exude tough, self-reliant energy which is a major plus to guys on the Right. Well she would have still been picked by McCain and forced down our throat, but she would be a forgotten VP loser whose legacy is trivia cards like Pence.
Compared to someone like Trudeau who I got to hear legions of women vote for because he was "young and handsome and has tattoos!"
I don't think those are different things. I think it's just attraction to different things. And it's still legions of normies voting along generalized optics and feels in all major elections, on all sides. Like I said: it's a failure of universal suffrage itself. If people could only vote on local elections, and you had some kind of stratified elections, or you had competency and property requirements, this would be a totally different conversation.
Hell, even Vance was convincing thirsty gays on the Left to vote for him.
Gonna have to disagree with you there. Palin's issue was that she was a woman with (R) next to her name, and came to the political fore at a time when Journalism and Mass Media had much more of the Public Trust than it does now(with limited alternatives.)
Given all she did as Governor of Alaska(promoted state welfare, actively fought against Big Oil) and in her personal life(large family, successful husband), if she had a (D) next to her, the mass media of the time would have lost their goddamn minds simping for her en masse.
But, she didn't, and she was the VP for a milquetoast, middle-of-the-road Republican, so she became an easy target no one really thought twice about attacking.
Was especially jarringly obvious as the previous post has normal color saturation.
These people are scum. It is not possible to hate them enough.
Someone suggested to do my scrolling in black&white/grayscale to deny my brain some of the dopamine. Idk if that works, but I learned something that most people dont realize, since internet came after the color display: color is underutilized and almost never important online. It is very rare that I have a reason to switch out of grayscale. I'd say the most important thing color on the internet accomplishes is the aformentioned dopamine hit- as a part of web design/marketing, and I decided that you can "miss me with that shit."
Things Ive switched grayscale off for include... reading improperly labeled color coded graphs (a bad sign for the graph)..... and checking to see how deeply orange cnn has colored the President (not very deeply orange, I must say). Really nothing worth the technology of a color display.
How do the other channels look?
Dunno. But in the top picture he looks normal, and in the bottom one he looks like an Oompa Loompa.
Om pa Loom pa Doopidy Orange
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oh god
I figured the lighting could be different in the oval office though.
Possible, but I've seen pictures and video of him in the oval office where he looked normal. And I've seen outdoor lighting where he looks orange ... on CNN and MSNBC.
That's fair. We have no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt. They pulled the same trick with Joe Rogan.