From Cake Breaks to Cowardice: Masculinity Crisis Tied to Charlotte Train Tragedy

The feminization of men that society has praised is the common denominator of every issue the U.S. currently faces.

The Daily Signal’s Tony Kinnett, host of the nationally syndicated “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” joined “Timcast IRL,” a podcast hosted by political commentator Tim Pool, on Tuesday, where Kinnett discussed both the rural and urban parts of society’s need and desire for strong, dutiful fathers.    

“From the rural conservative … What we see in common with a lot of the urban Right all comes down to the revivification of the traditional man—masculinity,” Kinnett said. “They’ve seen the effect of fatherlessness across every community in this country.”

During the podcast, the group discussed the weak father at a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game who took from his son the ball he had just given him and gave it to an older angry woman who was demanding the ball after it had landed near her. 

“I can’t imagine as a father. … He took the ball from his kid’s hands. He gave it to her,” Kinnett said.  

They also discussed the recent murder of the young Ukrainian woman, Iryna Zarutska, on the Charlotte train system, where no one made an effort to help her.

“I completely throw all of the blame on all of the individuals on that car who watched. No one goes to her at all,” Kinnett said. “I guarantee if you do a little NBC poll that said, ‘How many of you would help someone if there was a fire?’ They’d think they’re all heroes.”

Kinnett also slammed the Charlotte City Council’s tone deaf response to the murder. The members paused their discussion of the murder by literally taking “a little cake break.” 

“They come back and address the murder for like two minutes, and then about 20 minutes later, they start having conversations about, ‘Well, what in the future can we do to equitize the safety standard?’” Kinnett said. 

Kinnett offered some hope, however, as he predicted “the traditional man” will return in the next 30 years and will “be a core part of the Right.”

“That’s why [Vice President JD] Vance and [President Donald] Trump, urban and rural Right, are so alike in their family-oriented policy prescriptions,” Kinnett said.