Posts by Shopie Claire
Everybody Around Trump Hates the Unhinged Laura Loomer. Except Trump.
Loomer’s audacity and attention seeking were always aspects of her personality. She grew up in Arizona, in what she described, in a memoir, as a climate of fear and violence in her home. “The truth is, at a very young age, I learned that most people can’t relate to the horror show that was my…
Read MoreWhy It’s Pointless for Democrats to Negotiate a Shutdown Deal
Or … almost? As it turns out, Democrats are planning to take on the GOP—in a few weeks, anyway. “House Democrats are plotting to turn the August recess into the opening salvo of the midterms, including through town halls and organizing programs,” reports Politico, as the party is experiencing “renewed bravado after months in the…
Read MoreMAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
The point is not that there are zero examples of leftist protesters getting violent—as the Times notes, a handful of leftists are getting prosecuted for just that. Rather, it’s that none of this remotely matches what Trump and MAGA are conjuring into being. The word “provocateur” doesn’t do justice to any of this—and we don’t…
Read MoreVideo: The N.B.A. Returns to China After Six Years
new video loaded: The N.B.A. Returns to China After Six Years transcript Back transcript The N.B.A. Returns to China After Six Years The N.B.A, returns to China this week, after a hiatus sparked by a controversial 2019 tweet. In Macau, New York Times business reporter Tania Ganguli reveals the behind-the-scenes stakeholders who orchestrated the league’s…
Read MoreSurprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism
Try as he might, Vivek Ramaswamy will never be fully accepted by MAGAworld. The Ohio gubernatorial candidate and former DOGE co-chief came face-to-face with the racism rampant amongst American conservative youth culture Tuesday when he headlined a Turning Point USA event in Montana. Speaking at Montana State University, Ramaswamy fielded disturbing questions about how he…
Read MoreWhy Trump Will Never Win a Nobel Peace Prize
Much of Trump’s diplomatic work suggests that he is both incompetent and a loser, however. He is fond of claiming that he has stopped seven wars and ended conflicts that had been ongoing for “decades”—like one between Azerbaijan and Armenia (which he almost always confuses with Albania). For the most part, though, Trump’s work has…
Read MoreStephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers
Vought, as anticipated, is now using the government shutdown to cull the federal workforce, fulfilling Trump’s recent vow to cut “vast numbers of people out,” as well as slash programs that he says Democrats “like.” An unnamed White House official told MSNBC’s Vaughn Hillyard, “We expect thousands of people to unfortunately be laid off due…
Read MoreRepublican Rep Claims Everyone at “No Kings” Protest Is a Terrorist
GOP congressional leaders on Friday smeared an upcoming anti-Trump protest in Washington, D.C., in the most hysterical, demonizing terms. After House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise referred to the peaceful “No Kings” protest planned for October 18 as a “Hate America rally,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer went one step further,…
Read MoreFederal Workers Might Not Know They’ve Been Fired Thanks to Shutdown
Trump has complained for years that his name has not yet been added to the ranks of prize recipients, who span some of the greatest figures of the last century, including Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Theresa, and Malala Yousafzai. Part of the contention could be that four other U.S. presidents have received…
Read MoreMAGA Melts Down Over Trump Giving Qatar a Military Base in U.S.
Trump has complained for years that his name has not yet been added to the ranks of prize recipients, who span some of the greatest figures of the last century, including Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Theresa, and Malala Yousafzai. Part of the contention could be that four other U.S. presidents have received…
Read MoreGOP Candidate: It’s Not Discrimination to Fire Someone for Being Gay
Virginia Republican gubernatorial hopeful Winsome Earle-Sears seems to have a very loose definition of what is and what is not discrimination. Earle-Sears and Democratic nominee Abigail Spanberger got into a back-and-forth exchange about transgender people and bathrooms during the Virginia gubernatorial debate on Thursday, before moving on to Earle-Sears’s record on discrimination. “My opponent was…
Read MoreWhite House Begins Mass Firing of Federal Employees Amid Shutdown War
Russell Vought, the White House budget director, announced that the administration has begun firing federal workers en masse. Vought warned last week that “consequential” layoffs were forthcoming amid the ongoing government shutdown. On Friday, he tweeted, “The RIFs have begun,” referring to “reductions in force.” Vought, as anticipated, is now using the government shutdown to…
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