Tag Archives: assholery

The Huffington Post reports: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made a big production on Tuesday about how wrong it is that children’s books promoting anti-racism are being taught at a private school in Washington, D.C., where Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is a board member. “Antiracist Baby” is now Amazon’s No. 1 bestselling children’s book under the category of “difficult …

Bloomberg News reports: Republican Senator Lindsey Graham accused Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson of being lenient in sentencing defendants in child pornography cases and for a second day used the Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing to air complaints about the treatment of past GOP judicial nominees. In one of the sharpest exchanges yet during the hearings, Graham on Wednesday raised …

The Daily Beast reports: Charlie Kirk was suspended by Twitter on Tuesday for an attack on U.S. assistant secretary for health Rachel Levine, in which he repeatedly misgendered and deadnamed her. The Turning Point USA founder tweeted on March 15 that Levine, a trans woman who transitioned in 2011, spent “54 years as a man” while deadnaming her. “He ‘transitioned’ …

Charlotte’s CW affiliate reports: A local shelter dog is looking for a soft landing after being dumped by his owners for being “gay.” A Stanly County Animal Shelter Facebook post says the dog’s owners surrendered him to the shelter after he humped another male dog. Fezco, the shelter says, is about four to five years old and weighs about 50 …

Los Angeles’s ABC News affiliate reports: An Eastvale mother is furious after discovering a video showing her daughter’s preschool teacher leading a political chant in which the 4 and 5-year-old students were calling for President Joe Biden to leave office. “I was just in shock,” said Christina McFadden, who told Eyewitness News the video was posted on a school messaging …

Florida Politics reports: Hackers on Saturday hijacked the campaign Twitter account of Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried. The verified account, seized in a phishing attack, is now on the fritz. Hackers are posting a string of tweets promoting the sale of non-fungible tokens — or NFTs. They’ve also rebranded the profile, leaving no trace of Fried other than the original …

The Daily Beast reports: Joe Biden doesn’t get Kyrsten Sinema and she doesn’t get him back. That appears to be the major takeaway from a new book billed as the first major account of the Biden administration.  Snippets from This Will Not Pass, from New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, include that the Democratic Arizona senator was …

The Birmingham News reports: Alabama, in a sudden reversal, will allow an Oneonta man to keep his personalized license plate that slams President Joe Biden. The state even apologized for its original effort to take back the plate. Nathan Kirk, owner of Blount County Tactical gun store, personalized his license plate with the acronym LGBFJB, a reference to the political …

Britain’s The Metro reports: Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak wore the national ‘Z’ war symbol during a medal ceremony alongside Ukrainian athlete Illia Kovtun. Kuliak, 20, won bronze on the parallel bars at the 2022 Doha World Cup, while Ukraine’s Kovtun ended up with the gold medal. But during his routine and on the podium, Kuliak taped a white letter ‘Z’ …

Media Matters has the transcript: We’ve been taken by surprise by the whole thing. We’re not the only ones who were, but we are willing to admit it. The only thing more embarrassing than being wrong in your estimates is pretending that you weren’t. So why didn’t we see this coming, this total loss of control? Well, because we assumed …

Florida Politics reports: On Thursday night, Gov. Ron DeSantis said his scolding of kids for wearing masks at a press conference this week was really in their interest. “None of the adults were wearing masks, and it seemed to me someone told those kids they had to do it,” contended DeSantis. “I didn’t want them to be thinking they were …

“I don’t think this going to work out for him the way that he wanted to, and you know, when you see people who are willing to fight, it’s inspiring to see these people just grab rifles who are civilians and going out there and fighting to ward off the Russian army. “A lot of other places around the world, …

Tampa’s ABC News affiliate reports: Governor Ron DeSantis was at the University of South Florida Wednesday to talk about cybersecurity, but before that he made some comments to students there about masks. “You do not have to wear those masks.. please take them off,” the governor said. “Honestly it’s not doing anything. We need to stop with this theater. If …

The Boarding Group reports: A woman was arrested at the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport on Friday at gate C55, where a Delta Airlines flight destined for Columbia, South Carolina, was set to depart. At one point, according to the man recording the video, she is alleged to have called a security guard the n-word. The man recording the video …

The Daily Mail reports: Republican Sen. Ted Cruz called White House press secretary Jen Psaki “Peppermint Patty,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rides a “broom” and got the Conservative Political Action Conference crowd to boo Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and chant ‘Let’s Go Brandon.’ “Justin Trudeau,” he said, as the crowd chimed in with loud boos. “Let’s pause for …

“No one has done more personally to degrade American womanhood than Sandy Cortez has. She is living proof that 60 years of feminist liberation did not work. “Sandy Cortez is not empowered. She’s neurotic and silly. She’s far more frivolous than any 1950s housewife ever was. June Cleaver was a more serious person. At least she made dinner. “There is …

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk—the world’s wealthiest man and oldest teenage boy—is showing his ass on Twitter again. Musk posted a meme that unfavorably compared Canada’s democratically elected prime minister Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler to make some deeply confused point about the anti-vaccine-mandate trucker protests and cryptocurrency. Musk’s post was in reply to a report about Canada ordering …

The Hill reports: A Republican candidate running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania is planning to run a campaign ad featuring chants of “Let’s go Brandon” during the Super Bowl on Sunday. The ad from candidate David McCormick features text highlighting issues that have hindered the Biden administration including the U.S. military exit from Afghanistan and rising inflation against an audio …

Media Matters has the transcript: It’s all about affordable housing. If you Google stuff on homelessness, that’s the number one hit, it’s about affordable housing. That is a lie. It has no effect on the transient population. If you do not contribute to society through work, the only affordable housing has to be free. It doesn’t matter if it’s $300 …

“The president of the United States made a bold announcement today. He couldn’t crush COVID, so he is going to cure cancer instead. “What many of you don’t know is that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is a modern day Renaissance man. He cut his teeth riding Amtrak all those years, where he was able to read the paper while drinking …