Tag Archives: assholery

Mediaite reports: Senator Ted Cruz shared a video of himself saying “Let’s go Brandon” on Twitter Sunday evening, which unto of itself would not be necessarily newsworthy. The fact that the phrase has become a euphemism for “F*ck Joe Biden” in conservative circles, and that he is well aware of its political meaning, suggests that the Texas Senator is not …

“Last night on this show we made a brief, offhand joke about the Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and this morning we discovered our error. “It turns out that Buttigieg is not a dwarfish fraud whose utter mediocrity indicts the class that produced him. No, not at all. “Pete Buttigieg was once the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. So understandably, …

“Pete Buttigieg has been on leave from his job since August after adopting a child – paternity leave, they call it – trying to figure out how to breastfeed. No word on how that went. But now he’s back in office as the Transportation Secretary and he’s deeply amused, he says, to see that dozens of container ships can’t get …

Mediaite reports: Fox News is drawing a great deal of blowback for a misleading headline about Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) not paying property taxes. On Sunday, Fox published an online piece entitled “Democrat Tammy Duckworth hasn’t paid property tax on her Illinois home since 2015, report says.” Fox’s headline blatantly suggests that Duckworth is freeloading off of her state. Between …

Mediaite reports: Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused President Joe Biden of being “biased” against his company because it wasn’t invited to a recent White House event on the production of electric vehicles. “Didn’t mention Tesla once,” Musk said, “and [he] praised GM and Ford for leading the EV revolution. Doesn’t it sound maybe a little biased or something? It’s not …

“Being the leader of the free world has to be the most demanding job in the whole world and he simply does not have the mental or physical stamina to do this job. That is why his handlers and his wife, who by the way look increasingly like Visiting Angels, have to schedule in these senior breaks for him so …

CNBC reports: After SpaceX completed a historic, private spaceflight on Saturday, CEO Elon Musk took a pot shot at President Joe Biden who had yet to remark on the company’s and the civilian flight crew’s accomplishments. One of Musk’s 60 million followers on the social networking platform Twitter asked him, “The President of the United States has refused to even …

Dallas’s CBS News affiliate reports: It was last week when Natalie Wester and her husband went to Hang Time, a bar and restaurant in Rowlett, with a few friends. Something they say they don’t do often as new parents. “If you’ve ever been new parents, having those couple of hours out like once or twice a month is so important …

The Daily Dot reports: It took less than a week for the internet to track down “Coughing Karen,” a woman seen in a recent viral video following and coughing on a mother and daughter in Lincoln, Nebraska. The woman, once identified, was let go from her job. Within days of the video going viral, internet sleuths had identified the woman …

The Independent reports: Alarming footage shows a group of adults heckle a Tennessee high school student for advocating face masks. The young boy emotionally tells the school board about how his grandmother, who was a former teacher, died from Covid due to the school not employing mandatory face masks. The student is rudely interrupted by heckling adults who shout “shut …

CTV News reports: A disgruntled customer at a Dairy Queen in Port Alberni, B.C., took out his frustration over being told to wear a mask by relieving himself in front of staff at the counter. The incident was captured on camera and appears to show the man urinating on the counter following an altercation with restaurant employees. In the video, …

Newsweek reports: A viral video shows a man going on a violent, racist rampage in Miami International Airport on Friday night, hurling obscenities and stanchions. In the minute-long clip, posted to Twitter by user @ONLYinDADE on Saturday, the unmasked man is seen in a heated confrontation with an airport worker at a gate, while other passengers appear to be waiting …

The Detroit Metro Times reports: Paul Marcum, who witnesses say flashed a Nazi salute and chanted “Heil Hitler” at a raucous Birmingham Board of Education meeting last week, has lost his job as a tennis instructor at the Sports Club of West Bloomfield. Police are investigating Marcum after witnesses said he flashed the Nazi salute and repeated “Heil Hitler” Wednesday …

“What is the actual support for the ideas? Not do you like Trump or Biden? But, for example, do you think men can get pregnant? Or do you think some races are morally superior to other races? Like the core ideas of the Democratic Party. How many Americans actually believe that stuff, would you guess? [snip] Well, I’m a pretty …

Fort Myers’ ABC News affiliate reports: The woman caught on camera yelling racist insults at a mother and kids is no longer employed by the Collier County School District. According to CCPS’ staff email directory, Patricia Schmidt was an Exceptional Student Education (ESE) Specialist at Lely Elementary School, but she has since been fired, a spokesperson for CCPS confirmed. “Are …

Heavy.com reports: Ryan Bartels is a Virginia man who has been accused on social media of being the anti-masker who yelled “1776!” at a woman on a New York City subway on August 15, 2021, in a now-viral video. The incident occurred on the Q subway train in New York City. Officials with the NYPD and the MTA have not …

Media Matters has the transcript: LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): What if we just cut off the unemployment? Hunger is a pretty powerful thing. I don’t mean physical hunger, because people who truly are in need need help, but people who can work but refuse to work. JON TAFFER: I have friends in the military who trains military dogs Laura, and they …

NPR reports: A passenger aboard a Frontier Airlines flight has been charged with three counts of battery. The passenger is accused of inappropriately touching two female flight attendants and punching a male attendant on Saturday. The flight crew then restrained the unruly passenger and used tape to ensure he stayed seated for the remainder of the flight. While traveling from …

“Today the secretary of defense appeared in public wearing this costume. That’s Mr. Lloyd Austin, ladies and gentlemen, the man in charge of our weapons systems. “What’s he got on there? Is that a welder’s mask? Is it a dental visor? Has Lloyd Austin been cleaning teeth this morning? Nope. Looks like Lloyd Austin is just terrified of COVID. “Well …

The Insider reports: At the hearing, Aquilino Gonell — a former Iraq war veteran — had said in a tearful speech that “on January 6th for the first time, I was more afraid to work at the Capitol than my entire deployment to Iraq.” Carlson responded, saying: “Actually what happened on January 6, according to the video we do have, …