Thanks to our friend and well-respected reporter Emma Vigeland for joining the pod this week to tackle the profoundly depressing treatment of women in MAGA circles. From Lauren Southern’s rape allegation against Andrew Tate to a shocking comment from Pete Hegseth about taking the vote away from women, we’ve got a serious, exhaustive, and highly important conversation for you this week. Watch below:

The cruel and exploitative culture that supports tradwife content on social media and promotes the lifestyle to right-wing women (and, frankly, all women) has, as we remark, turned back the clock on women’s rights and trapped women in violent and abusive situations. In our conversation, we cover the rape allegation made by former right-wing content creator Lauren Southern against major right-winger Andrew Tate. We take a look at the larger phenomenon of celebrating Christian, right-wing, and tradwife culture within right-wing circles, a confluence that ultimately seeks to remove women from social life and force them into emotional and physical submission to their male partners, upon whom they are totally reliant. Part of Tate’s disgusting attitude toward and treatment of women is his understanding of them as property rather than people, like (as we point out) a crypto coin or a gig economy. Evolving from the twentieth-century patriarchal practice of trapping women in marriages are new phenomena of exploiting and violating women, and Andrew Tate is just one example — a very powerful example.

With the help of Dr. Tarek Loubani, we also cover the gross undercount of fatalities among Palestinians under the current genocide perpetuated against them by Israel. It’s been politically expedient for the West to deny brutality and slaughter in Gaza, continue military and financial ties to Israel, and cover up the greatest human rights abuse of this century. For a long time, info from the Ministry of Health has been rejected outright because it is run by Hamas — which governs the Gaza Strip. It’s totally clear that the numbers we’ve been fed by sources outside of and hostile to Palestine are obscuring the true death toll. Dr. Loubani’s insight brings the true and devastating situation to light.

Thanks for joining us for Episode 239 of KK&F. This episode will be available as a podcast on major streaming platforms tomorrow night.