EMERGENCE: The Towel-Snapping of the Bros!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2026

Creepy obstacle to an emergence: The towel-snapping topped the pile at Mediaite this morning. Grown men need to start telling these undergrown boys that it's time for them to shut the frump up.

We offer thanks to David Gilmour. His report starts like this:

‘How Is This Real?’ JD Vance Mocked for ‘Tone Deaf’ Opener to MAGA Voter’s Affordability Question   

Critics ripped Vice President JD Vance as “tone deaf” after he responded to a young supporter’s concerns about housing affordability for families by cracking a joke about Senator Jon Husted’s (R-OH) butt during a Fox News town hall.

The awkward exchange unfolded Thursday night when Texas Christian University student Kate White, vice president of the school’s Turning Point USA chapter, challenged Vance over how Republicans expect young Americans to marry and start families when homeownership remains out of reach for many. 

“How does the right and yourself expect us to start families young when you know the average price of a home in America now costs more than $415,000, which just feels out of reach for us,” she asked.

All in all, Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow! 

It wasn't just a "MAGA Voter," as the headline reported. The question came from a young woman whose values and understandings have led her to Turning Point USA, the movement Charlie Kirk built! 

We aren't fans of the bulk of Kirk's work, but Ow ow ow ow ow! The young woman had asked a serious question. 

Here's what the pair of Bros did: 

(Continuing directly from above) 
Rather than immediately addressing her concerns, Vance began by pointing out that almost nobody in the audience had asked about Husted.

“Well, first of all, again, thank you for the question and thanks for the support,” Vance said. “I want to point out that I think that I’ve been asked four or maybe five questions by my count, I’ve only been asked one question about Jon Husted’s a*s and it was by Jesse Watters.”  

Watters, who was moderator, laughed, insisting it was what people were talking about, before Vance quipped: “Maybe you should run for Senate on the Democratic side here in Texas, Jesse.”

The clip quickly went viral on social media, however, drawing criticism from commentators who questioned why the vice president had opened his response to a serious economic concern with an unrelated political joke.   

And so on from there. For the record, it wasn't just a "political" joke. It was a towel-snapping sexual side-trip of the type these underdeveloped men keep inflicting on this nation's failing culture.  

To see this creepy throwback "mutt culture" at work, click here for Greg Gutfeld's opening monologue on last night's Gutfeld! program. Meanwhile: 

In fairness to Vice President Vance, we've said it here several times in the past. Almost surely, someone who was abused in his childhood the way Vance was is likely to show the effects of that mistreatment later on, as a chronological adult.

Our view? It's time for grown men in this struggling nation to tell these creeps to shut up. That said, we know of no salaried Blue American journalist, male or female, who has ever said a word about the undisguised misogyny which rules the Gutfeld! show most nights.   

Yesterday, down in Texas, a young woman asked a serious question. Before her question was addressed, two classic frat boys had some fun. 

So it goes as candidates like Amy Acton and Annie Andrews try to let a saner day emerge—as a candidate like the Rev. Adam Hamilton threatens to win a Senate seat in Kansas. 

(Candidate Hamilton is "senior pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, the largest United Methodist congregation in the United States." It's beginning to look like he could snag that Kansas seat for the Dems.)

As you know, Candidate Acton (like Candidate Andrews, she's a doctor) was mugged by a campaign ad last week—by an ad which probably backfired. The ad came from the camp of Vivek Ramaswamy, one of our current collection of billionaire bros.

We thought we'd show you what stands in the way of a fuller emergence at this time for our badly endangered nation. The obstacle takes shape when people like this, from Trump on down, spread their gruesome values all through the culture—as Blue America's salaried "journalists" all run off and hide. 

Here goes:

The analysts loved Candidate Acton's messaging after Ramaswamy's ad appeared. We ran through that messaging in Monday's report, but this is some of the stuff of a badly needed emergence:   

Candidate Acton / Hints of emergence

Eric and I want to thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts for all the support, and all the love, you have shown us this past week, and every day on the trail. 

Thank you. Thank you.

[CHEERS] 

My name is Dr. Amy Acton—

[CHEERS]

I'm an Ohio girl through and through. I grew up in Youngstown.

[CHEERS]

It's the stuff of Bruce Springsteen songs... 

When I grew up, we didn't know what party you were in. We knew what union you were in!

[CHEERS]

We knew what branch of the military you served in, we knew where you worshipped. We knew what civic groups you were in. 

But the biggest thing we knew was that you had one another's back, and if it weren't for the tough, deeply resilient community I had, I wouldn't be here today

They had my back when I needed it most...   

In Ohio, we work hard and we watch out for one another. My opponent just doesn't get it. 

Mr. Ramaswamy, you are not just out of touch, you are out for yourself and you're a danger to my state. Apparently, there is no low to which you won't stoop. But look:

I'm a scrappy kid from Youngstown—

[CHEERS]

—and scrappy kids from Youngstown, we never back down from a fight!  

If you want your nation to stage an emergence, that is helpful rhetoric. 

She's inviting the churches and the military back into the tent, but also, of course, the unions. And with everyone back inside that tent, she's saying we have to look out for each other, that she'll never back down from that fight.  

("Eric and I," she says as she starts. An assurance is lurking there too. If you're inclined to flip out at this point, you may be a helpmate for MAGA.)   

We Blues are going to have to admit that we've been wrong in many of our attitudes and ideas. It will be good for us to admit that because it's a well-known fact that it's true.   

Needless to say, the billionaire nut-balls, the throwback males, rushed out to support that braindead ad. With that, we take you to last Saturday's broadcast of C-Span's Washington Journal.   

Mimi Geerges was moderator that day. To watch the program, you can just click here. 

As C-Span callers frequently note, Geerges has a superb disposition. She was also playing by C-Span rules, according to which moderators almost never offer their opinion about the matters at issue.   

The program started at 7 a.m. Eastern. If you click ahead to 7:36, you'll see Geerges play tape of Vance saying that Acton "is unfit to serve as governor of Ohio." 

If you click ahead to 7:40, you'll see Geerges play tape of the sitting president supporting "the terrible things the mother said" about Candidate Acton. He does so at great length.  

When powerful people behave in such ways, citizens do get misled. If you click to 7:36, you'll hear Sarah from Indiana saying, at considerable length, that Candidate Acton "is not a good person" and that she is "not fit to be in the office."

The next caller will be Roy from Cameron, Texas.  You'll hear him confidently cite the mother's claim that Acton is a liar. 

(Quoting: "Just because somebody had a traumatic experience when they were younger doesn't mean they have a right to be a liar later on in life.") 

As men like Vance and Watters and Gutfeld take their cues from the disordered Trump, our culture is in a dangerous downward spiral.    

These are the Bros who just can't adjust. Tell us when you see any Blue American journalist telling these apostles of an ugly, dimwitted throwback culture that it's time for them to grow up.

That it's time for them to stifle themselves. That it's time to shut the freak up. 

Emergence is struggling to be born. A lot of very helpful vision is coming from ministers and doctors and women.

The Bros—the fellows who can't quite seem to grow the f*ck up—keep fighting to push it on back.