SweeneyGate & the Democrat brand (07-30-2025--Hour1)
The Pete Kaliner ShowJuly 30, 202500:37:0634.01 MB

SweeneyGate & the Democrat brand (07-30-2025--Hour1)

This episode is presented by Create A Video – Leftists are freaking out over an ad for American Eagle jeans featuring Sidney Sweeney. There might be a lesson here for Democrats, who are struggling to recapture support among young men. Stacey Matthews from RedState joins me to discuss the Democrats' branding problems, as well as Roy Cooper's run for US Senate in North Carolina. Subscribe to the podcast at: https://ThePetePod.com/ All the links to Pete's Prep are free: https://patreon.com/petekalinershow Media Bias Check: If you choose to subscribe, get 15% off here! Advertising and Booking inquiries: Pete@ThePeteKalinerShow.com

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What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, go to dpekclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for your support. So where was I? Oh, at the end of the show yesterday, third hour, final segment, I mentioned the story of how Sydney Sweeney the actor actress? Can we say actress? Now? Are we going back to actress? Did that happen? I lost track because there was this thing where it's like, no, everybody's just an actor now, and so you could use the word actress anyway. She's she's in movies and that she apparently is not just attractive, but she is also a Nazi. And this is apparently now day too many of the national conversation about what American Eagles ad campaign with Sidney Sweeney saying she has good genes j E A N S but also g E N E S. Get it. Dad pun right that this is quote Nazi propaganda. This is straight out of the Third Reich. Okay, So Charles C. W. Cook, And I'm gonna tie this to a larger political thing going on here. But like you've heard, the politics is downstream of the culture, and this fight erupted online and it's not even a fight, Like it's like mugging a dead guy. It's not a fight. Okay, this is it. It's just dumb assery, which I actually should right, I should play this again because buzon no dumb massery. We are in it, and the politics is downstream of this kind of dumb assery. So Charles C. W. Cook, he's a writer over at National Review. He's originally from Britain, but he then became an American citizen, and he is a national treasure. I always say that I love reading his stuff, even if I have to look up about half a dozen words in the dictionary when I read his pieces. He says, Sweeney wore jeans and showed off her figure and drove a vintage car and did other Sydney Sweeney esque things in front of the cameras. No sooner had the spot debuted than it had been deemed provocative and offensive and found guilty of sparking debate. Okay, the question that was presented by Sweeney's New American Eagle commercial was whether or not the Nazis were good. Yes. Indeed, the national conversation that has been bolted to this transient exhibition of denim has been about eugenics as conceived within the Third Reich. Eugenics which, by the way, promulgated by Democrats. In North Carolina, we have a rich history of the eugenics and it was the Republicans when they got into office, under the leadership of then House Speaker Tom Tillis, that did the formal apology to all of the victims of the eugenics, and I think they even set up a compensation fund for those people that were so Abusedenics was the idea that you could breed out the bad people or bad traits. And for the eugenicists that were pushing this, a Lah Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, which was part of this eugenics idea, was that you have the undesirables kill their babies and this way they don't reproduce and you only get you know, the production of quote unquote elites, right, the good kinds of people, right. That was that was at the heart of this idea. Obviously completely discredited and deplorable, and not in like a Trump supporter kind of way, but like actually deplorable. And it's one of the reasons why the Nazis were very interested in the work that the eugenicists were doing under you know, this progressive banner in America. Now, you may not have known any of that, maybe you knew all of it, maybe you knew some of it or whatever. But apparently American Eagle and Sydney Sweeney they knew this. And see they are trying to put this back into the American blood stream. That's what the accusation is, that this is somehow a dog whistle to the Nazis aka anybody to the right of Elizabeth Warren. And as I mentioned yesterday, the thing about dog whistles is only the dogs hear them. Only the dogs hear them. And so when you jump onto your TikTok page and you record yourself and your vehicle doing the hand thing, you know where you pinch your thumb to your forefingers, what that birdhand I think is what it's called right you know that. Yeah, see, okay, I got the I got the h the nod from Bernie, who is the designated gen z represented Oh millennial, Sorry, never mind, we can't trust anything, he said. No, I'm kidding. He's the designated millennial, but he speaks for anybody younger than millennials too. I'm gonna lump that in there anyway. So when you do those videos and you are admitting that you have heard some dog whistle, that means that means you are the dog that they are, that they are gearing that too. Okay. So I just saw the ad and thought, oh, look they put that that hot actor into another into a commercial. It was sort of the reaction I had same reaction. Really, remember when Paris Hilton, I think it was, did the Carl's Burger's ad where she's like in a bikini on a on a hot rod vehicle and eating a big, messy hamburger. That was probably before most of your time, but like that was That's how I saw this ad. So this national conversation swiftly after the ad was released. Cook writes a handful of people on the Internet and by the way, I'm reading this portion because he totally nails the way these things develop. The timeline here. Okay, So, after the ad is released, a handful of people on the internet began complaining that American Eagle had released a white supremacist commercial, and, as is often done, the self licking ice cream cone was swung immediately into action. Some people were talking about it online, which meant that the press was able to write about it as if it's a real story, which meant that the opinion outlets were able to get involved with a clear conscience, which meant that the press was able to write about it some more, which meant that other people were guaranteed to talk about it online, and before too long we had one of those perplexing news cycles that start with a single mind numbing complaint from the most ridiculous people in the country and end with daily updates on whether any of the figures who are passively involved in the circus have yet quote responded to the allegations. End quote. That's the timeline, That's the way these things always unfold. Right, you have some randos on TikTok or Instagram or Twitter, not even Facebook anymore, but okay, maybe every now and again Facebook, Right, but you have some people say some utterly stupid things. Media then picks it up because this is what media does now. We just sit around and scroll through the social media feeds for anything that could be a story. I literally saw a segment on a news station, a local news station in Atlanta, major TV market, and they have a segment where they have a reporter quote unquote, stand in front of a screen and literally read to you tweets which you can see behind her on the screen, like that's a news story. Some people are saying some stuff and I'm going to tell you what they're saying. It was like the people that were like, I got to tell you what Donald Trump tweeted, No, you don't. I could just read his tweets. I don't need you to do a whole news story on something Donald Trump tweeted. I could just read what he tweeted. So this is the cycle. Then you know, the news covers it, then more people are aware of it, and then you get more people commenting on it, and then everybody the opinion people jump in and just as he calls it, the self licking ice cream cone, Ben Shapiro, responding to one of the lines in the ad, she says. Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My genes are blue, get it blue jeans, and Ben Shapiro said, I can assure you her eye color is, at best, the third thing that men will notice about her. At best. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past, while transcending generations help us process the meaning of life. And our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video. Started in nineteen ninety seven in Minhill, North Carolina. 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I don't know who needs to hear this, but when you put attractive women in your ad, that's a marketing tactic in order to convince the viewer that they want your product. Men and women. Women look at the end and they'll think subconsciously, maybe they say, oh, if I drink that soda like Cindy Crawford did, I'll be like Cindy Crawford. Men think, oh, if that's what chicks like to drink that, I'm gonna drink that pepsi too. I'm gonna buy the American Eagle jeans. There's a let me bounce over here, Aren McIntyre, he's a columnist at The Blaze. He says, it's interesting how mutilated men pretending to be women in Sports Illustrated was just fine, but one white lady in jeans is the return of the Third Reich. Yeah, that's that's exactly right. Sidney Sweeney's initials. By the way, I'm not sure you've heard of this, but her initials are SS. What do you think it means? Charles C. W. Cook goes on to say, if there's anything subliminal going on, it's that American Eagle wants consumers to think that if they buy the product that their featured star is wearing, they will become like her. Right beyond that, there's nothing of consequence to interrogate here. So why is this annoying? He says, Partly because it's dumb, and yes, we need less stupidity rather than more. Partly because once again the media have indulged the silliest people in America rather than ignored them as they deserve. And partly actually mostly really because this incident illustrates the preposterous double standard that our would be arbiters of taste routinely apply to quotidian uses of the English language. When the phrase at hand is let's say, from the river to the sea, or how about globalize the Intifada or defund the police, we are treated to exquisite journeys into nuance and context, alongside detailed dissections of how words are translated from one language to another. In those cases, we are assured that nobody who says any of those things actually means them, even when their utterance is attached to a clear declaration of intent. But when American Eagle makes an advertisement for denim, all hell breaks loose. A pretty blonde girl says she has good genes in a commercial for genes, and the presumptions instantly invert, right, they flip. And here's the thing about all of the protestations about this ad that are coming from the left, that's where this stuff is coming from. None of them have come close to answering the only question that matters here, which is why why would American Eagle do anything of this sort? Why would Sidney Sweeney consent to help if that was the intent? And who, upon watching the spot would react to it by reaching for their copy of mind comf Well, obviously anybody who has a copy of mine comp maybe right, you have to be, as he says, a total bloody moron, And that's correct, that is absolutely correct. There is this corruption of the language, and then there is this weaponization of this type of thing, right to make what is white black and black white. It's to invert and the same people that are now telling us that this ad is somehow a dog whistle for eugenics or Nazism or something, right, they are the same people that tell me I don't understand the meaning of globalize the Intifada, that that's the real problem, my misinterpretation of when I hear jihadists want espouse killing me and all the Jews and eradicating the state of Israel right now, I just don't understand the nuance and complexity of the argument. When I say defund the police, I don't really mean defund them, I mean reform. Well, okay, why I just say reform the police. Well, we already made the T shirts. Like I mean, there's no explanation for why when people say the things they say, And then I get some sort of an interpreter in the media that says you don't really understand what they're talking about. I'm pretty sure I do. I'm just listening to them as I would you, pretty straightforward, I would say Chris Selly on Twitter, he's a columnist for the National Post. He says, this whole Sidney Sweeney thing speaks to a theory that I have. And here's the theory people's sense the era of maximum crazy might be coming to an end, so they're cramming in as much crazy as they can before that, which that's an optimistic That is an optimistic way of thinking about it. I may try to adopt this way of thinking on this stuff. I don't know. Let me check the uh, let me check the text line here. Stan says, Yeah, Liberals say Sidney Sweeney and American Eagle or Nazis. But they also say from the River to the Sea. That's exactly right, exactly the point that Cook made. This is a South Carolina number. Hitler actually gave awards to some well known progressives for their great work. More importantly, I thought I was the only one who noticed the bird fingers phenomena. That's when they're when they're doing this thing where they're like they're like pinching their fingers together, like all four fingers to the thumb. It's like a little bird. It's like you're doing like a shadow puppet of a talking hand, you know whatever, Like you're in a puppet anyway. And they do this thing to the camera like I need you to understand this thing that I'm saying. And they're just like bird tapping there. Yeah, this is a local number. Pete. Such bottomless dumb assery. Democrats constantly casting their guilt upon others. This time they're squealing about racism and eugenics when they're when these are their own creations, right, abortion, number one cause of death for African American children is the number one votainer for them in every election. Thank you for your use of the votainer word. Thank you, m M and stances. If you put Sydney Sweeney's initials backwards, it's suddenly satanic. Oh no, app is on repeat for some reason. I have heard there's problems with the streaming app so oh on Odyssey. Yeah, I'm not sure what has been going on with some of the streaming platforms in the last few days, but but yeah, there are there are issues across different platforms. Oh, here's another one. Jessica Simpson jumping in the time machine. Scroll back twenty years to when movie star Jessica Simpson came out with her line of jeans at Belks. She had just starred in the Dukes of Hazard movie. I never thought of her as a Nazi, right yeah? Yeah. So in a related story, democrats are trying to figure out how to win back young men. I would just offer this Sydney Sweeney freak out that you got eyes are seeing among your ranks, right, I would submit that this is a pretty good example of how not to win back the dudes that you have lost. Okay, you got some problems, got some problems with the young men, and the Sydney Sweeney freak out is an example of why you're having those problems. Here's a great idea. 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Okay, so you write in this piece about the quote free fall that the Democrat Party is in right now, You've got several quotes from various Democrat officials, and it all seems to be stemming from poll after poll after poll that shows people don't like them as a party brand so much. And you yeah, so the latest one is the Wall Street Journal, Right, the. Wall Street Journal came out with a poll recently peaked, and it was kind of fascinating because you know, there's been this, you know, coordinated campaign among the media and Democrats to bring down you know, Trump and the Republicans especially, you know, the closes we get to the point twenty six mid terms. But the problem is is that even though the public does have concerns about some parts of Trump's agenda and some parts of the Congressional Republicans agenda, they still don't trust Democrats. And it's even on the issues where they have concerns over the Republican agenda, they still trust Republicans more than Democrats by a pretty substantial number. To resolve issues like the economic issues and that sort of thing. Foreign policy matters. They still overwhelmingly trust Trump and the Republicans in Congress more than they trust Democrats. And this may be to what led Ken Martin, the DNC chairman, to describe the party as being at quote rock bottom. I mean, when the chair of your party is basically admitting that, and you know that there's a problem. Yeah, rock bottom. You've got a quote from John Anzelone who is a Democrat polster, who says the brand is so bad that they don't have the credibility to be a critic of Trump or the Republican Party. And to your point about the numbers, you've got the quote in here, here's just one. By seventeen points. Voters disapprove of Trump's handling of tariffs, so he's underwater by seventeen points on tariffs. But Republicans are trusted more than Democrats by seven points on that matter. So, however bad Trump is in his approval numbers, the Democrats are worse, which is amazing. And part of the problem is I think that the Democrats repeatedly say that it's it's their inability to message correctly. They're not breaking through. It's just that people don't know what our message is and what we stand for. It's not the policies. They would agree with us on all of that stuff, it's just the messaging. So what do you think of that argument? Well, I mean, the thing is is Sarah Hole message seems to be we hate Trump. I mean, and you can't. I think we've talked about that in our own elections. With four feete Republicans, you can't just be the you know, the other guy's bad. You've got to talk about why you're you're good, supposedly, and they're not doing that. You know, the only thing they talk about is how you know Trump is the next Hitler and you know the Republicans are trying to steal your right to vote and all this other stuff, and there's no real substantive discussion on the issues. It's just orange man bad, Republicans bad. That that's the only agenda that they have, and that doesn't really sell well with people. And the orange man bad narrative definitely doesn't sell anymore. Mean, if it did, Trump never would have gotten reelected in twenty twenty four. So that ship is sailed. And because that's not working for Democrats anymore, they're just they're lost, they are completely lost. Ben Dominic, who is an editor at the Spectator, he laid out the Democrats platform as America sucks, the economy sucks, cops are Nazis, Ice is Nazis, and Sidney Sweeney is a super Nazi. So there, that seems to be what they're running with right now, which I look. I hope that they continue right down this path. It'll make it a lot easier for Republicans to beat them in the midterms. And speaking of the midterms, we now know Roy Cooper officially announced his run for the US Senate seat Michael Wattley, the RNC chairman, former North Carolina GOP chairman. He's expected to announce, thought it was this week. He'll be uh running as a Republican obviously, and maybe there will be a primary there. I don't think Cooper is going to get a primary. I think Wiley Nickel, right didn't he didn't he drop out immediately? As of today he and he officially announced that he was suspending and he has thrown his endorsements to Cooper. Yeah, how many times did he announce that he's withdrawing, because if he like, if he asked to match every time that he every time he announced, because he had like three announcements and all right, so I don't know, are two of them still operable or not? All right? So what's your what's your what's your read on the on the race right now as it stands? Well, I mean it makes sense that Democrats was the DNC were said to heavily recruited Cooper to run, and Cooper was probably already considering it anyway before the recruitments part started. I think Democrats think they have a real shot because this state, you know, the the demographics here in the landscape is ever evolving and ever things. And Cooper won two state wide elections here. He as far as the governor's race and he also won the state wide race for attorney general as well. Cooper is a lifetime politician, and he is, you know, fairly well known. They feel like that, you know, his brand is is fairly well known, and he's been dissected and voters still approved him even after all that. So they really feel like they have a shot that North Carolina will be one of the four steeps that they hope to flip in twenty twenty six. The problem is is that Pete, as you and I know and many of our fellow conservatives know, is that in twenty twenty there was not a lot of scrutiny of Cooper and in twenty sixteen, the media rode the HB two anti HB two waves and dragged Cooper over that finished line. So there was not a lot of media scrutiny of Cooper in either election side all that he's won for the governor's race. So I think this time around it's going to be different. Mistakes are higher, and Republicans are a lot more loaded for bear now when it comes to super than they were in twenty twenty and twenty sixteen, So I think it's going to be a different ballgame here. Obviously, this is probably going to be one of the most expensive. It's not the most expensive Senate race in the country as the Tillis and Cunningham race was in twenty twenty. Yeah, twenty twenty. So yeah, it's kind of an issue and Whatley for those who don't know. In twenty twenty two, North Carolina had a red wave. It was a mid term election year, and it was the election year that people thought that it was going to be a red wave nationally for Republicans. It wasn't, but we did have a red wave in twenty twenty two, and that's when North caropin. That's when Michael Watley was the chairman of the NCUGOP. You can you read into that, which you will, but you know, when you have a red wave in your state in contrast to what happens in the rest of the country, I think that says something about your leadership ability. Yeah, I would agree, all right, and real quick, I spent a lot of time on this yesterday, and I'll circle back later in the program. But the veto rama that occurred in the General Assembly, which one of those, Well, were you surprised at any of those override votes that succeeded? Well, I wasn't, pete only because the ones that they seemingly picked yesterday to override were the ones where they knew that they had previously had Democrats support in the House at least one or two, if not more. So I think that they, you know, they don't take these shots without thinking, you know, ahead of time, you know, are we going to have a reasonable chance of bringing one or two people over, one or two Democrats over? And it's kind of interesting. There were fourteen vetos that josh Sein has done this year and they were able to override eight of them. And the funny thing about it is is that they were able to do it with Democrats, right, and that you know, Democrats are really up set right now to veto overrides, but they faily have themselves of lightning because they couldn't get everybody in their party in line. It's really kind of funny when you think about it, which is. Actually I mean, it kind of speaks to a failure of Josh Stein to not be able to count those votes. And know, I mean like Nasif Majeed out of Charlotte and Carla Cunningham out of Charlotte as well, they both broke with their parties or their party to vote with the Republicans on different bills. But that's all they needed was one vote. And for Stein to not be you know, working them like Roy Cooper worked these Democrat lawmakers in the past. I think it speaks to the power that Cooper had and the machine that he ran and the punishment that he needed out to other Democrats that did not fall in line versus Stein's approach, and that might not redound to his benefit. Right exactly. And you know the funny thing is if I'm not mistaken on the bill defined man and woman in Saint Law, I'm not mistaken Magee did not vote for that bill initially. Oh, and somebody could correct me on that, but I'm thinking he did not vote for that bill initially, but when it came to the VITA override, he changed his mind. Like I said, I kind of I looked at over last night. I was writing about it last night, and yeah, somebody could could check me on that, But I think Magine actually kind of was a legitimate. Slip well, and that that would indicate something I've been I've been saying since Cooper announced, which is that the HB two issue, the whole vibe has shifted on that issue from when he used it to be Pat McCrory by the skin of his teeth, right, Like I forget. It was like it was like a couple thousand votes he won by it was. It was very very close. McCrory was challenging all sorts of ballots and stuff, but he ended up conceding. But that HB two issue, it is not as potent benefit for Cooper any longer. If anything, it might be to his detriment. Now I think it's going to be the detriment in more ways than one. Pet And I know you remember this as well. In addition to opposing HB to Roy Cooper actually was huddling with corporate entities in this country who were calling for boycotts but North Carolina around the time the bill passed, and Mark Bennioff from Salesforce to the of Salesforce. He was kind of leading the charge to get people to boycott our state over the bill, and the Wall Street Journal reported that Roy Cooper and Mark Bennioff met around the same time. So Roy Cooper went through pretty desperate lengths to beat Pat McCrory on this issue, and I think he did it by trying to sabotage his own resident, the people of his own state. He tried to sabotage them, and to some extent it worked. I mean in the end, when we all, when we all look at the numbers and everything, the boycott really didn't amount to a hill of beans. But it was the intent, to me in this case that matters. Because he wanted to be elected governor, he actually huddled with a CEO that was openly calling for boycotts of this state, the state that he wanted to lead. I think that tells us a lot about Roy Cooper. Well beyond what his opposition ah to be two fella. Yeah, absolutely, he would punish his own constituents if it meant personal political game. Absolutely right, Yeah, Stacey, I appreciate you making time for us as always, Stacy Matthews. You can read her work over at RedState dot com. Hey, take care and stakehold. All right, you two, all right? If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place so you can compare coverage and verify information. 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I'm sure it's completely co incidental that they had the press release and the New York Times article out at the same time, unless, of course, they told the New York Times what they were going to do, so the Times acted as a stenographer for them. But they quote then the New York Times story highlighting what Priorities USA is doing to ditch outdated tactics and experiment with new and bold tactics to rebuild trust, re engage voters, and retool how democrats run ads online. WHOA what is this online ad thing that you're talking about? What is that? The story highlights Priorities usa newest pilot programs focusing on content and targeting with digital advertising. It's another brand new term hmmm. One is called nest. It gathers data from sources like podcast transcripts and online comments to try to make heads more timely and appealing. Another is focused on building new audiences of potential voters to target on YouTube and outgrowth of discovering that watchers of politically write coded content were more influenced by democratic messaging than any other cohort. So they're going to start advertising on the Rogan podcast, I guess. The third aims to use search tools on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram to reach younger voters. They go on to say that there is a concern that too many of the decisions have been made by party officials on high relying too heavily on polling to guide their choices on policy positions, messaging, and advertising, while ignoring other important signals that could help influence voters. Danielle Butterfield, the executive director of Priorities USA, says, we need to rethink things. The same elitism that is abundant in our party exists in the way we make decisions like whether your sitting president will have a primary challenge or whether he will remain president or who the replacement of him will be after the coup, like that sort of thing. Now, one of the test sites North Carolina, along with Virginia and Pennsylvania. The three programs will be tested right here. Looking forward to that. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetekallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.