This one fascinates me the more I think about it.
Above is the model at the Official Biden-Harris Campaign Store advertising the Biden-Harris T-shirt. There are three other models to be seen at the home site: a kind of wimpy male-of-indeterminate-color modeling a “Free on Wednesdays” T-shirt (I don’t know what that means), a butch-looking female model who might be a stand-in for Lia Thomas, and a chunky middle-aged bespectacled guy, also of-some-sort-of-color, holding a “Color-Changing Mug.” This is clearly a DEI campaign site: apparently white models need not apply. But the model above is strikingly unattractive as well as sexually ambiguous. Unless the marketing industry no longer operates according to the Cognitive Dissonance Scale, the idea in advertising is still to connect the product with positive images.
Your Ethics Alarms Ethics Quiz of the Day is…
What’s going in here?
I could see the same model being used in a satirical ad put out by the Trump campaign. Is this flagrant virtue signaling? (What’s the virtue?) Pandering to radical feminists? DEI madness? Gross incompetence?
Oh…here are two of the Trump campaign’s models:
Yeccchh.
Ethics Alarms 
“But the model above is strikingly unattractive as well as sexually ambiguous. “
Sorry, that is a liberal female of above-average attractiveness. The left hates beauty. If you look at women who intentionally make themselves look ugly with face tatoos, lots of piercings, unnaturally colored hair, shaved heads, awful-looking hairstyles, it is almost always on the left. They hate beauty.
Hey, one of the Trump models is “of color” (my favorite tortured prepositional phrase ever)! So, that’s okay! As to the Biden model, obviously the unattractive as well as sexually ambiguous vote has been fatally under-quantified by the Republicans. It’s evidently large enough to swing the election.
I ordered the Throwback Kamala Tee for you.
The one with a picture of Willie Brown that says, “She’s with me!” Already have it, Edward.
Looks like Trump may have been shot but just grazed on the ear. It looks like he grabbed at his ear before the secret service took him down. Still waiting for more facts.
Latest is that Trump was hit by glass fragments from the teleprompter that was hit by the bullet.
Latest is also that the shooter is dead, and so is an innocent bystander.
Trump is saying he was actually hit by the bullet. I wonder if Biden will face any repercussions for the “Let’s put a bullseye on Trump” media campaign he just started (not kidding).
The interviews with multiple people who reported the shooter to the police several minutes before the shooting is not encouraging.
What’s going on here? Virtual signaling, plain and simple. The only people who would buy from the Biden campaign site are people who have no problem with those images and use words like “important” to describe them like my sister does.
Arguably, the same could be said of the Trump site models.
Oh, I bet the Trump site just hired a professional modeling agency to create those photos for them. They probably had no real input into the models. The Biden site obviously hand-picked theirs.
I believe “Free on Wednesdays” is a reference to the New York v. Trump trial schedule.
According to the website: “Trump’s acting like he wants to debate the President. We hear he’s free on Wednesdays. Let’s do it!”
The campaign is trying to connect with its perceived base through ridiculous virtue signaling.
Perhaps the former Bud Light Marketing Executive has joined the campaign staff.
“Perhaps the former Bud Light Marketing Executive has joined the campaign staff.”
Heh!
PWS
Well, there’s nothing sexually ambiguous about Trump’s models.
Trump modeling his own brand of suits in the spirit of Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima…
Trump’s website currently has his old quote
“They’re not after me…they’re after you. I’m just in the way”.
Didn’t the Democrats demand Kari Lake stop running because she had some presentation that put some policy in a crosshairs? If they had standards other than double standards, shouldn’t Biden drop out?