TDR Live: Trump's Gettysburg, Ben Shapiro's Sex Ed and More with Emma Vigeland

The Damage Report host John Iadarola is joined by Emma Vigeland, correspondent and producer of TYT’s Rebel HQ, to go through Tuesday’s top stories.

As of Monday, over 163,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. Kayleigh McEnany insists Donald Trump’s executive orders are nothing like the ones Trump criticized Obama for signing. Communities across the country are at risk of being misrepresented in this year’s census. The Trump administration is expected to lift Obama-era restrictions on the release of Methane. Republicans freak out over reports that the Big 10 is likely to cancel their fall football season. The “cool kids philosopher”, Ben Shapiro, inexplicably performs WAP to make a point about feminism??? Anti-mask crusaders continue to harass essential workers across the country.

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“It’s clear enough that Ben Shapiro and Republican candidate James P. Bradley’s puritanical pearl-clutching over Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s (censored!) music video “WAP,” which stands for Wet-Ass Pussy, is largely irrelevant.

Shapiro’s and Bradley’s statements decrying the explicit message of the song and the (un)dress in the video constitute the kind of performative moral panics that are so baldly opportunistic as to render them banal. (Though, aside from his ranty and tedious video, Shapiro’s tweets express a bizarre curiosity about the rappers’ vaginal health in which he solicits input from his “doctor wife”.) Yet, here I am writing about them because it is now a central function of being a public conservative scold to swerve boldly out of your lane and perhaps onto an entirely different highway, in another country. These hysterical men have made lascivious rap their business by cosplaying as responsible parents, framing their repulsion as dignity and concern. (Bradley exclaimed on Twitter that the song made him “pour holy water in my ears and I feel sorry for future girls if this is their role model!”) So, the moment has arrived at which we must reckon with the not-so-slick game potential conservative lawmakers and self-righteous “dark web” lecturers are playing by supplying us with their Wet-Ass Pussy takes."

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