Posted on 08/28/2025 8:38:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I’ve seldom seen a better example of a rhetorical question—one to which the answer is so obvious no response is necessary—than this:
No. No there isn’t, with perhaps one exception, thanks to a woman. One would have to go back to 1998 when Democrat Michael Dukakis, a man never accused of overt manliness, decided to strap on a helmet that made him look like a 2-year-old in an NFL helmet and mount an M1 Abrams tank for a brief spin for the cameras. That ludicrously incongruous image, which has never left the public consciousness, not only doomed his candidacy but has served as an icon of Democrat lack of manly virtue since.
When Donald Trump did a photo op in a garbage truck around the time of his wildly successful shift at McDonald’s, Democrats desperately tried to compare that to the Dukakis tank ride disaster.
It didn’t work because Americans knew Trump had been in real estate and construction forever and was completely comfortable around real Americans who hold real jobs. Trump fits in everywhere and with everybody. Dukakis didn’t, nor do the current crop of Democrat candidates, and particularly not Islamist, Communist Zohran Mamdani, who appears to be certain to become the next Mayor of New York City, whose residents apparently haven’t had it good and hard enough with the previous several leftist mayors.
It turns out Mamdani fell into Dukakis’ tiny footsteps when he proved he’s neither good nor hard at Brooklyn’s annual Men’s Day celebration. Talked into trying to bench press 135 pounds, the 33-year-old Mamdani had to rely on a 64-year-old spotter to keep the bar from crushing his girly-man body.
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I wonder if the writer saw my post?
Probably.
Demorats, the party of pansies.
The really hysterical thing about “Dukakis looking silly in the tank” is that it was HIS idea.
Done on purpose to show his absence of toxic masculinity......I’m surprised his polling didn’t go UP after that.
What? A lack of original thinking in the MSM? Ha!
Riley Gaines publicly mocked NYC mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani
on social media after he failed to bench press 135 pounds during a public event.
Gaines posted a video of herself bench-pressing
165 pounds, captioning it, “Take note, Zohran Mamdani”.
Gaines added, “I’m not saying we should judge politicians for how much
they can bench but I’m absolutely judging a politician for how much he can bench,”.
Here he is in 1956 Korea after enlisting in 1955.
Mamdani the Tea-Bagger.
I served on tanks back in the day and the helmet would look silly on most. I think it was ths suit and tie underneath the coveralls that did it for me. But Frankly, I did not think it looked so bad because I was used to all of us looking like a peanut head in one of those helmets. —meh....
Trump in the garbage truck...He fit the part with the orange vest and all—and we all realized it was a stunt done for the cameras...
The New York dude...he must have known that the Men’s Festival was on the schedule and should havr begged off bench pressing as it would wrinkly his suit or soemthing and then instead pick up so lighter looking dumbells and do a few curls instead.
I am reminded of Calvin Coolidge in an Indian Headdress. What was the old adadage for politicos—no silly hats or holding babies...?
Bill DeBlasio supports him. That alone should ruin his chances.
I remember that Dukakis media show with the tank. GHWB campaign immediately turned around and made a campaign commercial out of it. The commercial talked about all the foreign threats facing the U.S., and whether it was time to have someone who knew nothing about foreign affairs as President. The tag line was showing Dukakis in that tank with the voice-over "America can't afford that risk."
Ouch.
LOL!
That's an insult to pansies. They're pretty tough flowers when it comes to cold weather.
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