Posts by Shopie Claire
Trump Is a Hot Mess—and He’s Cooking His Party
Allen is an unusual would-be assassin. There’s nothing about him that reminds me of any number of mass shooters of recent vintage. There’s no air of glory-seeking; no meme-sludge in his rhetoric. In his manifesto, he spends quite a bit of time apologizing to various people in his life for betraying their trust and takes…
Read MoreWelcomeFest’s Moderate Politics Are Stuck in the Past
Still asked to define what centrism is, most of the speakers could only really define themselves by what they were not. It’s not their fault. Centrism, in reality, is almost always defined by where it lies on the spectrum between two extremes: Its politics are almost monomaniacally focused on arguing that those who stand apart…
Read MoreWhite House Flips Out Over Newest Video of Trump Asleep in a Meeting
President Trump’s “Great American State Fair” has grown even bleaker, as supporters will be getting a rally and listening to “Ave Maria” rather than Martina McBride—or any of the other artists who pulled out of the festival. “On Wednesday, June 24th, at 7 P.M., in magnificent Washington, D.C., now totally beautified, and one of the…
Read MoreTrump Mental State in More Doubt as Damning New Video Flummoxes Rubio
As Secretary of State Marco Rubio testified before a House committee on Wednesday, Representative Ted Lieu questioned him at length about Donald Trump’s mental decline. It was an extraordinary moment. Lieu repeatedly confronted Rubio with damning video of Trump falling asleep and spewing word salad, cornering Rubio into lying about what we can all see…
Read MoreEverybody Hates Bill Pulte
These escapades may have given Pulte “deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America,” but nobody would accuse Pulte, even on his own corrupt terms, of managing them particularly well. Further investigation established that criminal charges against Cook, Schiff, and James would never stick. Meanwhile, it came out that four members of Trump’s own…
Read More60 Minutes Star Accuses CBS Chief Bari Weiss of “Murdering” the Show
The fight inside 60 Minutes is tearing CBS News’s venerated broadcast to shreds. A staff editorial meeting reportedly flew off the rails Monday morning when longtime host Scott Pelley tore into Bari Weiss’s new pick to run the news magazine as its new executive producer: Nick Bilton, a former Vanity Fair writer with next to…
Read MoreHow Trump Made Penn Quake in Its Boots
“Even the Middle East?” Troutt Powell asked him. “Yes,” Trodden responded, before carefully adding, “It depends how you talk about it.” Troutt Powell said that afterward Trodden came up to her, and she said, “Mark, that’s crazy!” Via email, I asked Dean Trodden to explain what he meant by “it depends how you talk about…
Read MoreJudge Orders Trump to Take His Freaking Name off the Kennedy Center
The main card will pit Justin Gaethje against Ilia Topuria for the lightweight title, and Alex Pereira against Ciryl Gane for the interim heavyweight title. UFC’s parent company, TKO Holdings, has promised that the entire event—which is expected to cost around $60 million—will be funded entirely by the sports organization and come at no cost…
Read MoreWhen Peter Thiel and Don Jr. Lose, It’s a Great Week for Humanity
“Like most bad ideas,” wrote Mitchell Duran for Yahoo Finance, “Enhanced Games was born from a mix of grievance and the belief that, with the right amount of tech, financing, and new-age, untested science, any human being can transcend any and all natural limitations.” Tech and money sure do make a lot of damn winners…
Read MorePhoto Exposes Treasury Secretary’s Desperation to Keep Trump Calm
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was focused on one predominant message during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting: resilience, resilience, resilience. At least, that’s what his notes let on. Evan Vucci, a senior photojournalist for Reuters, snagged a shot of Bessent’s writing pad, capturing several words the treasury secretary had scrawled in front of him. “Resilience,” Bessent wrote, with…
Read MoreTrump Admits More White South African Refugees in Made-Up “Emergency”
President Trump is raising the U.S. refugee admission limit by 10,000 people—but only for white South Africans. A signed presidential determination from May 21 obtained by Reuters declared that the U.S. will be giving white South Africans, who are mostly still benefiting from the afterlife of the apartheid system, special treatment so that they can…
Read MoreCan Marriage Survive the Manosphere?
If a marriage is no longer enjoyable, what reason is there to remain committed, especially when unmarried life can be pretty fun, too? Coontz is cognizant of the economic obstacles that put marriage out of reach. Like the card-carrying socialist she once was, she calls for affordable childcare, paid leave, and other programs that would…
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