Remember a few years back when boobs were declared over? The data points supporting this claim were tenuous but nonetheless of some note. There was the fact that, since at least , the breastaurant chain Hooters has experienced a steady spate of location closures. In recent months, it seems that that moment has finally arrived, and the so-called swell in mammary status has had a lot to do with the rise of the TV and movie star Sydney Sweeney, whose ample bosom has attracted seemingly endless media attention.
Keep it in your pants, losers. Looking at what looking at breasts means, though, is still important. Sanchez, who is fifty-five but has seemingly enjoyed access to the kinds of dermatological and cosmetic interventions that can keep women of her class looking much younger, tighter, and sleeker, arrived at the Capitol Rotunda wearing a white formfitting Alexander McQueen suit over what appeared to be a revealing white lace bustier.
And, with her brusqueness, Megyn Kelly, too, fell in line. At long last, we were back: women once again equalled boobs, men once again equalled hard-ons, order was being restored, decline was being averted, God bless America. Has an old Soviet mystery finally been solved? How the Unabomber avoided the death penalty.
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