‘Conservative-coded’: Is ‘White Lotus’ secretly anti-woke?
After years of mainstream television poking fun of conservatives and Christianity, it appears that with the election of President Donald Trump — that trend may be changing.
“The White Lotus,” a popular HBO show, stunned viewers when a scene between three of the main characters — who are well-off women — took a turn for the conservative and seemed to poke fun at liberal bias.
“I didn’t know you went to church,” one of the women said to her friend Kate, played by actress Leslie Bibb, asking if her church was full of “Bible thumpers.”
“The people are more conservative than, like, L.A. people,” Kate replied.
“Is that weird for you?” her friend asked, adding, “If I was just around a bunch of Texans who voted for Trump, I guess I’d just feel a little alienated.”
The conversation got even more awkward when Kate explained that she herself is an “independent,” married to a Republican, and when she was asked if she voted for Trump, she smirked before saying, “Are we really going to talk about Trump tonight?”
Her friends looked on in horror.
“I think that that is probably an accurate representation because a lot of people moved from California to Austin, their husbands were already conservative, but especially after everything in 2020, they started going to church,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” comments.
“They started seeing, ‘Oh, these Trump supporters, they’re not these deranged neanderthals that the media tells me they are,’” she continues, “And then they get this kind of reaction from some of their friends who have been distanced from them.”
According to Bibb, the episode was actually written in 2022, before the season was originally set to be filmed in January 2023. The show was put on hold due to the SAG strike.
“Now that the episode dropped after the 2024 election, it takes on a new significance,” Bibb said in an interview, adding, “Everything feels so divisive, yet we’re not. I mean, they’re all sort of passionate women, and have all these feelings with all these different stances.”
“Oh, this is conservative-coded,” Stuckey laughs. “To say that there are all different kinds of women with all different kinds of stances, it’s only conservatives who talk like that, especially when you’re in Hollywood.”
“It also just seems a part of this cultural shift that it’s kind of OK to not depict Trump supporters as stupid and ugly all the time,” she adds.
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Civilizational collapse: Less than 15% of 30-year-olds are married homeowners
Americans used to settle down and start families in their 20s, but according to a chart that went viral all over social media this past weekend, that’s not even happening once they hit 30.
The chart revealed a steep drop-off from 1990, where it sat around 45%, plummeting to under 15% in 2025.
“This is a loss. ... This is like how ‘WALL-E’ happens. No exaggeration. This is the death of a culture. This is without spiritual revival. You cannot materialistically return from this,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace says, horrified.
“If you’re the Chicoms, you don’t need to risk a nuclear war. Just wait this thing out, man,” he adds.
And Deace has a few theories as to why there has been such a significant decline in married homeowners by the age of 30.
“This is unrecoverable. Percentage of 30-year-olds who are both married and homeowners in the last 75 years. You won’t dig out of that. And there’s all kinds of reasons. There’s economic reasons that are very valid. Cultural reasons that are very valid. Familial reasons — where are the dads that modeled this? Very valid,” Deace says.
“Legacy gone, responsibility gone, the family unit gone. If that is not fixed or course-corrected, I’m just going to tell you right now, your kids and grandkids — and I’m talking about my own — they’re going to live in a communist country and/or need to know Arabic. You are not going to Netflix-and-chill your way past that,” he continues.
“So that graphic right there, my friends,” he adds, “is where the rubber hits the road.”
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