All posts tagged "Maga Meltdown"

A Wall Street Journal social media video sparked a MAGA meltdown after it asked why young men are leaving the workforce.

A video by Mary Julia Koch, the Wall Street Journal's associate editor of its Free Expression newsletter, highlighted how women hold more payrolled jobs than men. Koch cited how male-dominated industries like manufacturing and construction have switched to automation and offshoring and noted that more men are staying at home.

"But we can fix this," Koch suggested. "We can encourage more men to enter education, health care, and administration, just as women were encouraged to pursue careers in STEM."...

MAGA is having another meltdown over a Hollywood casting choice, this time concerning an adaptation of a classic cartoon.

The latest meltdown is sparked by news that Abbott Elementary creator and star Quinta Brunson will star as Betty Boop in a live-action film, according to reporting by the Daily Beast.

MAGA accounts called it "race swapping," though Brunson's defenders noted her resemblance to Betty Boop, the iconic, big-eyed cartoon character from the early 20th century. ...

MAGA adherents, including those in the White House, had a full-blown meltdown over a CNN report on an app called ICEBlock that tracks the activity of Department of Homeland Security officers targeting undocumented migrants for deportation.

CNN's Clare Duffy reported Monday that the tech developer "wants it to be an early-warning system about the location of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. He says he does not want people interfering with those officers' activity, but he does want people to avoid them altogether, if they want."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt learned about the report at Monday's press briefing...