Tag Archives: assholery

Changing America reports: Amazon has removed a children’s picture book comparing being transgender to pretending to be a walrus from a list of LGBTQ+ books. The book, “Johnny the Walrus,” is written by the conservative writer and media personality Matt Walsh, who earlier this year said doctors who perform gender-affirming surgeries for trans youths are “plastic surgeons basically acting like …

Norfolk’s CBS News affiliate reports: A boat that was awarded first place in the annual Yorktown Lighted Boat Parade has now been disqualified after many expressed concerns over its messaging. The boat reportedly had a lighted sign stating, “FJB”– a phrase that stands for “F – Joe Biden” and “Let’s Go Brandon,” which references those who do not support the …

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk built his electric car company, Tesla, around the promise that it represented the future of driving — a phrase emblazoned on the automaker’s website. Much of that promise was centered on Autopilot. Over and over, Mr. Musk declared that truly autonomous driving was nearly at hand — the day when a Tesla could …

Forbes reports: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) tweeted a Christmas photo of his family Saturday in which they’re all holding guns and smiling in front of a Christmas tree, with the caption: “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo,” days after a mass shooting at a Michigan high school sparked renewed calls for gun control measures. In the photo, Massie appears …

“The headline here is that CNN’s media critic dismissed – blithely dismissed – his little non-white servant because she didn’t obey and that was quote ‘very, very sad.’ “Well, how sad? How sad was he, exactly? Did he pay for health insurance until she finds a new job? What is she going to eat and how will she pay her …

The Boarding Group reports: “Are you recording me? Do you have permission to record me?” asks the woman carrying a Trump flag at the Phoenix airport. She then smacks the phone from the hand of the woman recording her only to be promptly arrested by local authorities. Literally seconds after this occurs, local police enter the frame. The male police …

This blew up on social media ten days ago and it’s not clear why it took so long for the arrest to take place. Law & Crime reports: A Texas woman was arrested Wednesday after she was allegedly caught on camera throwing a profanity-laden tirade in a restaurant that ended with her throwing a cup of soup in the face …

Fox News reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a package of anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate bills into law Thursday in Brandon, Florida – a thinly veiled jab at President Biden. In a rebuke to the White House, the legislative package will prevent workers from being required to get vaccinated. Employers will be required to allow exemptions including, but …

The Verge reports: Is it fair that the democracy I live in might have some demands of me? How can I prove that I’m super edgy and totally unfazed by the prospect of paying more tax? These are the questions apparently motivating Elon Musk, who replied to a tweet from Wyden by asking why the senator looks like he’s just …

Media Matters has the transcript: We have two sets of rules, one for illegal aliens who come into this country, and we don’t know about them, and two, the rest of us law abiding American citizens who follow the laws and pay our taxes. That’s right. We’re the ones, you know, the “racists,” as the media call us. All the …

The Times of San Diego reports: Comedian Jason Robo on Wednesday apparently lost his 5-year-old radio gig in Humboldt County a day after his crude rant against three county supervisors and racist attack on the county’s public health officer. Meanwhile, Robo is facing a possible defamation suit by the owner of Roma Mia restaurant in the Gaslamp District. Restaurateur Sergio …

The Rochester First reports: A former Rochester radio host is under investigation after boasting on social media that she used a fake vaccination card to gain entry into Sunday’s Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins game at Highmark Stadium. The Bills require all fans ages 12 and older to provide proof of vaccination to be permitted entry to games, with Sunday’s …

The Independent reports: Senator Tom Cotton hit out at the head of the teachers’ union, calling her a “joke” and accusing her of knowing nothing about teaching children because she has none of her own. The Arkansas lawmaker was speaking on Fox News when he made the incendiary remark in reference to Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of …

The Washington Post reports: Southwest Airlines is conducting an internal investigation after one of its pilots reportedly said a phrase used in right-wing circles as a stand-in for swearing at President Biden over the plane’s public address system — apologizing to customers and insisting it does not condone employees sharing personal political opinions while on the job. The airline faced …

The Associated Press reports: South Carolina Republican Jeff Duncan wore a “Let’s Go Brandon” face mask at the Capitol last week. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz posed with a “Let’s Go Brandon” sign at the World Series. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s press secretary retweeted a photo of the phrase on a construction sign in Virginia. The line has become conservative code for …

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Laura Ingraham opened her show Friday night saying that liberals are trying to undermine nuclear families by “feminizing” and weakening men. “Where have all the men gone?” she asked. “Today the radical left has one goal in mind,” Ingraham continued. “It’s to destroy the underpinnings of the nuclear family by targeting the distinct parental roles that …

From Ron DeSantis’s Make America Florida PAC: The Marxist Leftists and their Soros Backed Globalist allies hate the Constitution and us. As “Let’s Go Brandon!” chants echo from every corner of the country, they know they are losing control. The Puppet in Chief can not hide behind his Ice Cream much longer, so his handlers are panicking! In dark rooms …

The Daily Beast reports: J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy and Republican Senate candidate currently running to replace Rob Portman, thoroughly embarrassed himself on Twitter Friday morning when he used to tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins to bootlick former President Donald Trump. The implication was that America “needs” to hear Trump’s unvarnished thoughts about his comedy nemesis accidentally killing …

“Behind the heavily guarded walls of the White House, everyone has gone crazy. Just this week the Biden administration declared that a biological man who wears a dress is now a female admiral. “And then they sent that brave four-star female admiral out to deliver a speech that read like something out of a D-Day documentary. “Come on. They’re daring …

“Wonderful to see Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media. Hope that happens to me someday. “He was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he …