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Freaky Friday 1 — Here’s Looking at You, Cupcake…
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As a one-time member of Substack and Instagram, I keep getting these “For You” pop-up notifications in my iPad and iPhone. This one’s been a frequent interrupter of late. I call her “The ‘A’ Cup Brain.” This woke me early this morning with an audible alarm the most recent unwanted IOS update had reset from off to on. Thought I’d share…
Punditress Genius with Subtitles
Look at me. Are you looking at me? Don’t I look beautiful and smart and in charge? Watch me really get into it now. Don’t worry if it takes me a bit to get down to brass tacks, as it were, because you have to remember there are members of our audience who have to buy you first before they believe you. Why I am careful to demonstrate that I am a poised, articulate, and confident woman they can trust. You’ll see when I get even deeper into it.
You wouldn’t believe the kind of response I get from these podcasts… I get notifications that dozens,
even hundreds, of new commentators are now following me at Threads and Substack and TikTok. Some
of them are asking to meet me in person, if you can believe it, and want to know what I like doing best in my off hours. Many of them are not even women but other genders, and they send me charming photos of themselves or their most evocative avatars. How many pundits do you know of who can use the term ‘evocative avatars’ in a sentence? I certainly haven’t met many white men who could do that. Could Trump do it? Don’t make me laugh.
See how in-depth I’m getting on this exposè of Trump’s authoritarian schtick? How come nobody else
can see it this clearly? Do you like my hair and my outfit? I have to admit I just love looking at my own podcasts. I don’t think of it as vanity. More like art appreciation. But it’s also professionally important I know George Stephanopoulos personally, and he has more than once glanced upward toward my eyes. And I saw that Scott Pelley from CBS at a party once and he told me I had the best complexion of any journalist there. People ask why an art history major knows enough about Constitutional law to be an expert on free speech, and I ask them if they ever had tea discussing the First Amendment with Ruth Baader-Ginsburg in her wheelchair. They never have a comeback for that one.
Just in case you were too distracted by the simple pleasure of looking at me to get all of the brilliant
points I made here, let me summarize… This Trump guy has to go. Everything he does is wrong, illegal, undemocratic, borderline fascist, anti-LGBTQ, and illegal. Come back next time I post for more incredibly intuitional commentary…
So who is this fascinating person who calls herself S.E. Cupp, really?
From her Wiki Page (not updated since she was reduced to doing a solo podcast):
<<SARAH ELIZABETH CUPP was born in Oceanside, California. While growing up, she lived in Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the Academy of Notre Dame. From age six until her late teens, she studied ballet. While attending ballet school, she suffered from eating disorders and experienced a relapse during her college years. In 2000, Cupp graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history. While attending Cornell, she worked for The Cornell Daily Sun. In 2010, she earned a Master of Arts degree from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University with a concentration in religious studies.
After graduating from Cornell, Cupp worked for an online magazine and a public relations company. She was also a contributor to Politico.com's The Arena and has been a frequent guest on all three major cable news channels – CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.
Throughout her career, Cupp has described herself as a "mainstream conservative" and a supporter of "limited government, self-reliance, self-empowerment, lower taxes".
Although an atheist herself, on July 5, 2012, Cupp said on The Cycle that she "would never vote for an atheist president". When asked to explain, Cupp said she felt that a president must not represent only 10 to 15 percent of the American populace and that faith served as a "check" on presidential power.
In March 2013, Cupp pulled out of a CPAC appearance because of its stances on homosexuality and gay marriage, saying she "became increasingly uncomfortable [aligning] with an event, a great event in many ways, that had nonetheless attempted to marginalize a significant group of conservatives working on our behalf."
Cupp personally opposes abortion, but believes it should be legal and opposed the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Cupp was strongly critical of Donald Trump's presidency, saying "I don't know these Republicans [that support Trump]. This isn't what drew me to this party."[18] She voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election.>>
Like a lot of her sistren in the politic biz, she started out Republican, then snapped at some point and went crazy in print and on teevee. Ann Coulter (another Cornellian), Nicolle Wallace, Megyn Kelly, Ana Navarro, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, et al. After a while you don’t know what they really stand for because the only common denominator in their public personas is the need for attention, which could be why the GOP is the launching pad, a place where men still hold doors for women and spend more than the necessary amount of time looking at you in that new skirt. After achieving some celebrity, it gets easier to grab attention by jumping on every issue-of-the-day bandwagon and just make sure your skirts are short enough to keep all men looking. By these criteria, S. E, Cupp is pretty much on point in the stupid girl sweepstakes.
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