Amanda Marcotte: Project 2025 is terrifying. The people behind it are also weird. Meet John McEntee, who ran personnel for Trump's White House. He also runs a shady "dating" app for lonely MAGA men. The marketing for the app is more pathetic than you're imagining. www.salon.com/2024/07/10/t...

Project 2025 is terrifying. The people behind it are also weird. Meet John McEntee, who ran personnel for Trump's White House. He also runs a shady "dating" app for lonely MAGA men. The marketing for the app is more pathetic than you're imagining. www.salon.com/2024/07/10/t...

Project 2025 leader John McEntee founded an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA menwww.salon.com In Trump world, there's always money to be made by sowing the destruction of American society

Why read past headlines: You're trying to guess what the marketing looks like for The Right Stuff, this dating app. Whatever you're imagining, however, it's much dumber and sadder than that. Easier to click than keep guessing! www.salon.com/2024/07/10/t...

Project 2025 leader John McEntee founded an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA menwww.salon.com In Trump world, there's always money to be made by sowing the destruction of American society

"Even if they achieve half of what they wish, the people behind Project 2025 will leave behind an American populace that is lonelier, more alienated, and angrier." www.salon.com/2024/07/10/t...

Project 2025 leader John McEntee founded an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA menwww.salon.com In Trump world, there's always money to be made by sowing the destruction of American society

"In May, for example, he made a video claiming he gives homeless people fake money, so they'll be arrested if they try to spend it. "One thing this marketing campaign almost certainly is not about: attracting female users to The Right Stuff. " www.salon.com/2024/07/10/t...

Project 2025 leader John McEntee founded an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA menwww.salon.com In Trump world, there's always money to be made by sowing the destruction of American society

"They're doing real damage to the men who follow them by encouraging them to adopt attitudes and behaviors that will make life harder in every arena, from work to romance. " www.salon.com/2024/07/10/t...

Project 2025 leader John McEntee founded an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA menwww.salon.com In Trump world, there's always money to be made by sowing the destruction of American society

maybe removing "shame" and "shaming" from the lexicon was a bad idea? this man (and the rest of them) are just shameless

Oh my gd that is that guy. What a scumbag

the ad i get on your link

I'm sure you know writers don't control what adbots serve. But boy, that those Tshirts are being sold is pretty brutal counterargument to the idea that Biden wasn't damaged in a way he probably can't recover from.

That MAGA dating site must look like this

Give 'er a read. The real story is far, far funnier than a reposted meme.

Good lord the ads are straight up a live action version of one of those “tell me more about Roman statues, anon” chud posts that were going around twitter a couple years ago

Also it’s really funny how conservative women, who have been complaining how hard it is to get a date given their repulsive politics, still won’t touch this site with a 30 foot pole

Just kind of a wild position. 'I want him to be cruel and superior, but not to me, even though the ethos of being right wing encourages him to look down on me'. Or like, any kind of noble, positive trait you can think of in a person? None of that is right wing. Your best hope is that your husband /

/ is a high powered predator destroying other people and develops a submission to you as an exception

I read it, and actually found it to be terrifying. The next step for these lonely, angry men is, of course, guns, which make them feel powerful.

I also find it terrifying but if I don’t laugh, it will destroy me

Yeah, I definitely know the feeling. I'm now trying out "amused detachment" to see if that helps my anxiety.

gonna distribute counterfeit bills for people to pay for the dating site with

Even scarier when I got him mixed up with John McEntire, the dude in Tortoise who produced a Stereolab album. I can't accept a pipeline from 90s indie -> MAGA.

A member of The Rentals is a MAGA state rep in Iowa. I'm not aware of anyone else like this, thankfully www.politico.com/news/magazin...

How Gen X Became the Trumpiest Generationwww.politico.com Alt-rocker Cherie Westrich’s journey may seem unusual, but given the strange political arc of her generation, it might not be.

People LOVEEEEEE to stitch his clips on TikTok to refute him but what if we actually just let him waste away into nothing by starving him of his messaging

Hmm if I was going to harvest a list of emails of conservative chuds for my Project 2025 emails, I would create a shitty dating site to do it

This little hobgoblin keeps showing up on my Tik Tok feed, and it’s like watching a 7th grade boy try to be clever. (Not to smear all 7th grade boys).

Did I miss a first reference to "McEnany" in that piece? The name pops up in the third paragraph but nowhere before that.

I take it the videos are aimed at incels who are looking for that tight-sweater tradwife who wants nothing more than a right-wing version of Wallace Shawn’s character in The Princess Bride.

It would take less time if you read rather ask me rewrite it in mentions.

Apologies - I meant that as a rhetorical question after reading your piece and watching the deeply weird videos, which did not come across. That’s on me.

@erikamagna.com

Oh shit I KNOW about this app (and am genuinely SO MAD) about how good that name is). And THIS is what’s behind it other than Peter Thiel money 🤦🏻‍♀️

Yup. With right wingers it's always the grift.

How low can you go? Well, each day we see new attempts by low-life scoundrels reaching for the bottom of the barrel. You know though, in the MAGA world, this may be credentials for loftier political positions.

And would be high in the running for Chief of Staff or equivalent...

I think “lonely MAGA men” is redundant….

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