Salon: MAGA psychosexual weirdness

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https://www.salon.com/2026/01/05/minnesota-day-care-hoax-is-fueled-by-maga-psychosexual-weirdness/

Minnesota day care hoax is fueled by MAGA psychosexual weirdness

The racism underlying MAGA's latest obsession is intertwined with misogyny


Nick Shirley really wants the world to know that he’s never had sex. The YouTuber who moved from “prank” videos to the more lucrative world of creating MAGA disinformation apparently believes that sexual inexperience is an armor against accusations that he’s a liar. “I’m a virgin. I don’t have sex with random girls. You’re not gonna catch me on those sexual allegation charges,” he rambled on “PBD Podcast,” insisting that he is “religious” and doesn’t “have any vices.”

It was an odd rant, and not just because he conflated consensual hook-ups with rape.


Shirley stands accused of lying for racist reasons, so his “but I’m a virgin” defense is irrational — at least on the surface.

But it makes more sense, in a psychosexual way, in light of the right’s long-standing fear and loathing of day cares.
The scandal Shirley is exploiting isn’t really about day cares.
If Shirley was only interested in building his hoax on that existing and very real case, he could have targeted anti-hunger charities for his fake sting. Instead, he went after day cares, which are only sites that were supposed to get assistance from the fraudsters but never received it.

These businesses were picked almost certainly because Shirley and his colleagues have tapped into the long-standing tendency of paranoid reactionaries to make day cares the subject of conspiracy theories. Along with birth control and abortion — whose providers are also smeared constantly with right-wing lies — day care is loathed on the right for allowing women to work instead of being financially dependent on a husband.

White women are implicitly accused of using immigrant labor as a cheat to avoid their god-given duty to quit work to stay home and raise babies.

Vice President JD Vance has been especially loud with his belief that day care is pushing women away from their supposedly inherent desire to be housewives.

[Anonymous]

Those people are freaks.

[Anonymous]

“White male dominance, people like Shirley believe, can be restored by adhering to strict sexual and social mores prescribed by right-wing Christianity. Abstaining from sex until marriage is part of a larger program meant to produce male-dominated marriages, where wives are too busy with large broods of white children to hold jobs. Attacking Black immigrants at a day care center has powerful symbolic resonance; it’s seen as an important front in a war both to make America whiter and to restore white women to a submissive role in the home.“

As usual, it’s fear of women and insecurity over their tiny white wieners.

[Anonymous]

It's all about control of women.

[Anonymous]

Conservatives want to destroy daycares in America. They want to silence women and make them stay home. Christian men declared war on women.

[Anonymous]

Trump supporters seem to be very focused on sex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump supporters seem to be very focused on sex.

+ a billion.

MAGAs believe there are only two genders! Which is hateful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Conservatives want to destroy daycares in America. They want to silence women and make them stay home. Christian men declared war on women.

+1 and they want child brides. MO is already changing it's laws. Tennessee is considering. Idaho, Oklahoma, Florida heading there next.... no age of consent.

[Anonymous]

It’s the new comet ping pong

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's all about control of women.

True. In trump’s plan 2025 there is a section about how they are going to cancel the creditcards of every women, and woman wont be allowed to own property anymore!

Accurate.

Women who voted for Trump and never read Project 2025 are idiots.

Women who voted for Trump and never once listened to a podcast of the Heritage Foundations plans are just stupid. UGH

If Republicans win seats in 2026 Game over for women in this country. Welcome to a even worse handmaids tale.

Don't tell me I am exaggerating listen when they spew!!

[Anonymous]

Come on down MAGA women explain why people like Ericka Kirk are your idols when they are literally going to destroy everything you currently have like credit cards, owning property, jobs, dd will be raped by old white men as children, Maternity homes will open again, all while Ericka makes millions lying to your sorry dead brain cells.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those people are freaks.

Agree.

What is especially freaky is the MAGA refusal to accept the fact of gender fluidity and the existence of 72 known genders.

Are you kidding me? MAGA is OBSESSED with gender fluidity and gender roles and transgender people. They never shut up about it. Move on weirdos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump supporters seem to be very focused on sex.

They are very focused on obtaining non-consensual sex.

They hate people having consensual sex.

[Anonymous]

I’m a right-leaning independent. Reading articles like this is, to me, like visiting an alternate reality. This was an interesting story about surprising and widespread fraud. That’s it. You don’t need to torture the story till it spits out some parable about race or sexuality (the latter critique being one that I can’t even follow). Just chill.

[Anonymous]

MAGAs are so sexually weird and stupid they can’t even comprehend why feminine hygiene dispensing machines really need to be installed in the boy’s school bathrooms.