The Karen in Chief
The United States feels like a nation of Karens these days, so its only appropriate that the president would be the Karen in chief.
A Karen, if youve somehow missed the memo, is the type of person who demands to see the manager or calls the cops, like the dog owner who summoned the NYPD to Central Park after an African American man asked her to leash her dog. As my colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany writes, Theyre obsessed with banal consumer trends and their personal appearance, and typically criminally misguided, usually loudly and with extreme confidence.
The term is most commonly applied to middle-aged womenbut why abide by that sexist standard? A man can easily be a Karen, as Donald Trump is proving this week. When Trump gets sufficiently angry about anyone who dares criticize him, he is quick to work the referees, attempting to use the force of the law to bully the critics into submission and to try to intimidate would-be critics from opening their mouths. Thats what Trump is doing in resurfacing old and spurious accusations of murder against the TV host Joe Scarborough, and in preparing an executive order to punish social-media companies after Twitter dared to fact-check his words.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/trump-social-media-scarborough/612193/
CurtEastPoint
(18,644 posts)Alacritous Crier
(3,816 posts)underpants
(182,803 posts)hurple
(1,306 posts)Should be a Beverly.
Some of you might get that...
Kahuna
(27,311 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)We're better than that, aren't we?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13501125
lame54
(35,290 posts)I'm not feeling bad for 2 months of Karen
I'm sure John feels the same way
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)I'm not sure I follow? I'm certainly not trying to make a dispute--just curious. I'm wondering whether "Jane Doe" might be more apt? I personally have no skin in this at all.
A man's name would be just as appropriate. . . .