Instagram was flooded with pictures and videos of the models alongside sports cars, on the runway posing in front of cargo planes and in front of hot rods parked inside a hangar.

At Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s air show just outside of Tacoma, Washington, this past weekend, onlookers and families saw tactical military jets, high-performance sports cars and risqué models dancing on stage in skintight red, white and blue bikinis, part of what organizers described as a “way to thank the Puget Sound community.”

  • Madison_rogue@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “This is not anti-trans; this is not homophobic,” Alford said. “If this were females in an oversexualized arena performing like this, I would be against it as well…”

    Austin Higginbotham, a spokesman for Alford, did not return a request for comment asking whether the Missouri Republican condemned the risqué models present at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord air show.

    Did not return a request for comment…because oversexualized women is okay, and his stance was entirely political theater to rationalize his bigotry.