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MAGA Influencer Rages At 'CrossFit Bimbo' MTG For Refusing To Back Down On Epstein Files Release
Oct 27, 2025
The Republican Party finds itself taking sides over the release of the Epstein files, with the sides publicly attacking each other and observers predicting an implosion is imminent.
Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender previously convicted in Florida for sex crimes against a minor, was investigated, indicted, and arrested by MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's FBI and Department of Justice in July of 2019.
All of the evidence gathered against Epstein, a longtime close friend of Trump, would have become part of the official court records if he hadn't died in the custody of Trump's DOJ in August of 2019. His death was ruled a suicide by a Trump DOJ official.
The files were then sealed until 2024 due to pending civil cases filed against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. But during his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump made the Epstein files a focus of public attention, claiming repeatedly that he would release them if elected.
Once Trump was sworn into office, no such release of the Epstein files occurred.
Instead Trump has told a series of stories about his longtime close friendship with Epstein and the files used to indict him on two federal felony charges: sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
Public records, photos, videos, birthday messages, previous statements, and current comments poked holes in each of Trump’s stories, leading the Trump administration to course correct over and over.
Republican leadership, like GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson, have bent over backwards to distract from and obstruct the release of the Epstein files by refusing to swear in a new member of Congress to fill a vacant seat and refusing to take a vote on a bill, Epstein Files Transparency Act, to release the files.
In response, the Republican sponsor of the bill, Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie, created a discharge petition to force a vote on his bill, which was co-sponsored by California Democratic Representative Ro Khanna.
The Trump White House implied that any Republicans who signed the discharge petition would be committing a "hostile act." But several House Republicans still signed, including Georgia MAGA Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The perceived betrayal proved too much for Trump acolyte, adviser, and unhinged conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who took to X to air her grievances against the Georgia Republican.
Loomer wrote:
"President Trump doesn’t talk to MTG anymore. White House staff have grown sick of her and her efforts to undermine the administration."
"That’s the truth."
"As an adulteress, [Marjorie Taylor Greene] is used to walking out on the men who she used throughout her life. Her ex husband can confirm. That’s why she’s having a hard time being politically dumped by Trump."
"He dropped her worthless a** when he finally realized how dumb that CrossFit bimbo truly is. He told her he won’t endorse her for Senate because she can’t win."
"I just hope she’s as miserable as she looks. Truly!"
@LauraLoomer/X
But Loomer isn't the only one firing shots.
In a Wednesday interview on The Tucker Carlson Show, the titular host asked Greene:
"How does Laura Loomer get to be a Pentagon adviser, but you get primaried [by the Republican Party]? What is that?"
Greene responded:
"I don't know. I've never understood why anyone takes her seriously."
"This is a woman who can't even legally buy a gun because she had such serious mental problems."
Greene also took aim at her own party and Trump, saying:
"Right now, Tucker, a lot of people are happy about the government shutdown, but I really have no respect for the House not being in session. And I have no respect for Speaker Johnson not calling us back to Washington because we should be passing bills."
" Food prices are high. Rent is high. Home prices are ridiculously high. Cars are high. Auto insurance, home insurance, health insurance is insane. Energy prices are high."
It looked like MTG won this round in the comments on Loomer's post.
The Epstein files have created a schism in the MAGAsphere that Trump’s constitutional and human rights violations apparently could not.
The MAGA minions are splitting over who wants to protect sexual predators who targeted children and who doesn't.
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Young Girl's School Presentation About Her 'Hero' Charlie Kirk Has People Sounding Off
Oct 27, 2025
MAGA X user @sola_chad sparked a heated debate after sharing footage of his daughter's school presentation about an "inspiring hero"—none other than the late far-right activist Charlie Kirk.
Kirk was assassinated last month while speaking at a university in Utah; the suspect was caught after a two-day manhunt and has since been charged. The Trump administration has used Kirk's death as an opportunity to crack down on free speech rights and to target and blame leftists for Kirk's murder, even though the shooter is aligned with the far-right.
Kirk was a white supremacist and extremist who the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of the leading civil rights organizations in the country known for tracking hate groups, said led an organization—Turning Point USA—that serves as a “case study in the hard right."
But @sola_chad was the beaming parent, writing on X that their child "had to do a presentation on an inspiring hero … she chose none other than Charlie Kirk!!"
An accompanying video shows the girl reading aloud text projected on the screen, at one point saying:
"As Charlie mobilized conservatives around the country, he faced numerous threats in recent years. ... How did Charlie overcome threats, persevere, and continue to be determined?"
"Charlie received many of the threats toward him and his family. He overcame it by trusting in God to keep him safe. He knew he would get threats but he couldn't do anything about it. It was a part of the job."
"Charlie knew God was with him and would protect him. He overcame adversity, persevered, and was determined to change and help people."
You can see the video below.
Those are flattering words for a guy who the presentation claims dedicated his life "to change and help people."
Kirk once said that the U.S. "made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s," contending that the legislation, which outlawed job discrimination and racial segregation in public places, schools and federally assisted programs, “created a beast” by prioritizing equality of outcomes over equality of opportunity, actions he claimed contributed to higher crime.
He also regularly attacked the LGBTQ+ community—he was again linking transgender people to mass shootings at the time he was killed—and previously claimed that widespread gun-related deaths are okay in the interest of preserving the Second Amendment.
And who could forget that just a couple of weeks before his death, Kirk, a well-known sexist and misogynist, urged singer Taylor Swift to "submit" to her soon-to-be-husband and "reject" feminism?
@sola_chad's fellow conservatives were pretty thrilled about the whole thing.
Others were alarmed and suggested the girl had been coerced into giving the presentation so her father could enjoy social media clout.
@sola_chad later said that "Hateful rabid leftists are crashing out in the comments."
Typical.
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MAGA Actor Rob Schneider Gets Blunt Fact-Check After Making Bonkers Claim About Children's Hospitals
Oct 27, 2025
Actor Rob Schneider was bluntly fact-checked after making the bizarre claim that children's hospitals did not exist when he was a child himself, suggesting that kids "weren't sick" back then.
That claim is par for the course from Schneider, a prominent anti-vaxxer who once campaigned against a bill in California requiring parents to get a doctor's signature if they choose not to vaccinate their children and was dropped from a State Farm ad campaign after claiming, among other things, that vaccines are "against the Nuremberg laws."
He published the following odd post on X:
"FYI… There were NO Children’s Hospitals when I was a kid. Because kids weren’t sick."
You can see his post below.
Schneider couldn't be more wrong and a Community Note beneath his post points out his "claim is false."
The first children’s hospital in the United States opened in Philadelphia in 1855 and by 1895, there were 26 such hospitals nationwide, according to an academic paper titled “A History of Academic Medical Centers and Children's Hospital Designations in the United States.”
While the Hôpital des Enfants Malades in Paris began treating sick children in 1815, the paper notes that in the U.S., “the designation of the first children’s hospital is variously attributed to either the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1855 or the New York Nursery and Child’s Hospital (later merging with Babies Hospital) in 1854.”
Notably, these early institutions were “predominantly charitable” and founded by “socially conscious citizens” alongside physicians to care for poor orphans.
Their popularity quickly spread. “By 1895 there were 26 freestanding children’s hospitals in the United States,” the paper said, and “by 1900, inpatient pediatric facilities were common in most urban hospitals.”
The paper added that by the 1930s, academic centers had begun developing into “roughly the shape and scope of modern institutions today,” often using “the concept of a children’s hospital within the outer walls of a larger hospital.”
Schneider was born in 1963 so... you do the math.
He was swiftly called out.
Schneider has gone on record before to say he is willing to "lose it all" for his MAGA beliefs and once said he's long past caring about his career and instead cares about "my children and the country they're going to live in."
Yeah, we can see that.
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The Most Unfair Things People Have Seen In Relationships Due To Gender Roles
Oct 27, 2025
Let's face it: not all relationships are created equal, and the roles that people play in their relationships are not created equal, either.
Sometimes, that fact can be attributed to an inconsiderate or bad partner, or even just tough life situations, but often, it's because of people putting too much weight on gender role expectations.
Already cringing, Redditor nealie_20 asked:
"What's the most unfair thing you've seen in a relationship due to gender roles?"
Bonding With The Baby
"The one that haunts me a little was a young mum who posted in a Facebook group asking how to encourage her boyfriend to hold their baby. Baby was 10 months old, and he had never once held her because, 'that's your job.'"
- emohelelwhy
"My dad once admitted to me that he basically never held my brother or me when we were babies."
- monaforever
"It's just so crazy to me. My mum and dad had fairly traditional gender roles in that he worked, she took care of us and worked part-time when we were older, etc, but my dad was always very involved with us at any age. And he was only 18 when I was born!"
- emohelelwhy
Men Making The Decisions
"My daughter has a peanut allergy, so my wife was trying to get her an accommodation at school, and they were ignoring, delaying, and generally d**king her around."
"So I took a day off work to go handle it. They were all, 'Yes, Mr. Dragons. Right away Mr. Dragons.'"
"My wife is still p**sed about it 20 years later."
"I kinda joked it off, you know, 'What do you give an angry gorilla? Whatever the f**k it wants.'"
" So now she'll tell me to, 'Go use that Gorilla privilege.'"
- Taograons
"Ugg, can confirm. This happened to my best friend just this year."
"Her son's/my honorary nephew's school psychologist had concerns about his ADHD medication and how he was behaving in school and was interested in having him receive a secondary evaluation from a school-affiliated psychiatrist to discuss options. Okay, fine, let's go."
"Why did weeks go by of my friend communicating with this school psychologist without so much as a referral for her son to go to this school-affiliated psychiatrist? Because the person above the psychologist needed to refer him and was effectively refusing to return my friend's calls, emails, and internal school board messages."
"I finally told her, 'You know how much I'm going to hate saying this, but... Have you tried having your husband call instead?'"
"She screamed, '[MY HUSBAND] SAID THE SAME THING THIS MORNING.' [expletives, expletives, expletives] 'Fine, fine, I'll call the school psychologist, put my husband on, and see what happens.'"
"Why THE EVER LIVING FORK did she call the school psychologist that day, and the person above her immediately accepted a transferred call from A MAN, and in full knowledge of everything my friend and the school psychologist had already discussed, said, effectively, 'Oh yes, I'm well aware, let's get that referral for you,' put the referral in, and my nephew was able to see that school-affiliated psychiatrist less than a month later?"
"(And yes, his doctor and the school psychiatrist have since collaborated, and with an improved diet, adjusted dosage on his medicine, and a very well-loved fidget toy that he uses to get through some of his lessons, my nephew's now at the top of his game.)"
- TheBookishAndTheBard
Double The Workload, Not Double The Fun
"My parents. Both of them had full-time corporate careers, brought in equal amounts of money."
"My mom was the one doing all the cooking, cleaning, organizing, housekeeping, and taking care of my youngest sister."
"We children mowed the lawn, did laundry, and washed the dishes once we were old enough."
"My dad? He claimed he was doing so much for the home, and all he did was drive the car to maintenance a couple of times per year and switch the lightbulbs."
"Even when my mom was on business trips, her responsibilities were assigned to me, the oldest daughter, including cooking and picking up my sister from daycare when I was barely a teenager myself, rather than to my brother, who is seven years older than me and even LIKED cooking and taking care of my sister."
"Needless to say, to him, 'The divorce came out of nowhere,' while my siblings and I were always wondering why it didn’t happen sooner."
- oceanpalaces
"This was my parents' dynamic, too. Both had full-time jobs, but my mom also had all the housework and childcare. I used to argue with her about it as a kid, but she's too entrenched in religious gender roles to get it. Couldn't be me."
- Realistic_spite2775
Not A Normal Weekend
"I know a woman who had super busy weekends, because that is normally when she’d clean, do laundry, buy groceries, etc."
"Then she’d head to her boyfriend’s house and clean and do laundry."
"Then she'd do the same at her boyfriend's parents' house."
"Every. Single. Week."
- Hofeizai88
"I was going to say that is a normal weekend, but then I read the part where she does it for her boyfriend's house too. And then the part where she does housework for his parents? WTF?"
- WatcherOfStarryAbyss
You Cook, I Clean
"When I used to go to Thanksgiving at my maternal grandparents' house, all the men would end up getting drunk in the living room while the women cleaned up after dinner. Thankfully, I am no longer invited."
- diet-smoke
"The worst part is that I’m going to assume the women did all the cooking, too?"
"Sure, we could argue that if one group cooked, then the other should clean, but let’s be real here..."
- AddLuke
"When I was a kid, the only time my brother was expected to help clean up after dinner was when we had guests for holidays or whatever."
"But, every single family holiday, he would 'have to go to the bathroom' immediately after dinner for about 30 minutes, so by the time he came back, everything was done."
"Enter me, who had to pick up the slack. My parents never seemed to notice or care that he did this."
- monaforever
Financial Abuse
"My mom and my ex-stepdad. My mom got pregnant and married him when I was 15. He lived 2 hours away and told her to quit her job and move there, and he would take care of everything as the 'provider.' I stayed in my hometown with my dad because I was in a competitive school that I had to apply to."
"My stepdad was supposed to take care of the finances, but cut my mom off completely and wouldn’t even give her gas money to visit me. According to my stepdad, my dad should have been paying for everything and driving me to a town two hours away so I could visit my mom."
"He expected my mom to do all the cooking and cleaning with a high-risk pregnancy, AND expected my mom to get a job. He didn’t believe her when she said no one would hire a pregnant woman, and he said, 'Deliver pizzas if you have to,' when she was a 40-year-old pregnant woman. When she was home, he would get mad if he came home and she wasn’t perfectly put together with hair and makeup."
"When my brother was born, she went back to work immediately, and surprise, surprise, she worked 40 hours a week, and he expected her to do all the housework, cleaning, childcare, etc., AND to give all her money to him."
"I visited maybe two to three days a month, and he treated me (a girl) like a maid and to clean up things that I wasn’t even there to dirty up. I remember one time I made food and put water in the pan to soak, and he put it in my bed because he was so p**sed the kitchen had one dirty pan."
"My brother is now a teenager. Do you think he has chores? No. Absolutely none. His dad has hired a maid to clean."
- youre-the-judge
Mental Gymnastics
"I know a guy who dragged his wife and kid across the country because he was training to be a fighter pilot."
"He got really close, too; he was actually flying fighter jets and was only a few more months of training. Then the pandemic hit, and he refused to get vaccinated, and the air force bounced him."
"Now, I don’t care your opinion on the pandemic or the vaccine, but to make your wife quit her career (as an engineer, by the way!) and leave her family to follow YOUR dream only to, voluntarily, bail on that dream moments before it’s realized is extremely unfair, selfish, and generally s**tty."
- DoritosLocosCannoli
Everyone's Work
"I watched a friend work her way to a high-ranking lawyer position, only to come home to a filthy house that SHE was expected to clean entirely on her own, on top of being the primary caregiver to her children."
"She worked late into the night, studying, reviewing cases, cleaning, and rising early to care for her children... just so her partner could play video games in another room."
"He worked half the hours she did, and for much less pay, but refused to do 'women's work.'"
- Automatic-Mess-2203
"May this love never find me."
- IndianLawStudent
"Fortunately, my friend's story has a happy ending."
"She remained a lawyer and she packed her bags and moved to a hotel for a while, and she left him with the kids during that time."
"After that, they started talking and working through it when he realized what he'd really put on her plate."
"Turns out, his traditional mother was in his ear about his wife not Playing Her Role Properly in the Home."
"Now they get along fine and share the load properly. She just needed a break and for him to realize that he wasn't valuing or respecting her. And they don't speak to his mother anymore, either, LOL."
- Automatic-Mess-2203
All On Her Shoulders
"My ex only ever changed our daughter's diaper one time and would never be alone with her."
"The one time he did change her diaper was in the hospital, and it was poop, so he refused to ever do it again."
"Because he worked and I was home, he figured it was all on me and refused to help when he was there with us."
- Bodees1979
"Congrats on your breakup and divorce!"
- Japan25
All Caught On Camera, No Less
"Maybe not the most unfair, but certainly the most ridiculous. There's a YouTuber couple, Paul and Morgan, who are Christian fundamentalists and believe a good wife must submit to the husband."
"Paul does not have a job because he is pursuing his dream of becoming a professional pickleball player. He is constantly gone and spends full-time hours playing pickleball ball, 'training,' and going to various spas and facilities to 'recover.' He comes from a well-off family, so his parents finance a large part of his lifestyle. He doesn't bring in any money through pickleball, because he is simply not very good, and it's not exactly a lucrative sport."
"Morgan? Pickleball was her thing. Paul only started after Morgan had already been playing and had been doing pretty well. He decided he wanted to become a professional player, and of course, she had to stay home with the kids while he 'trained' for eight hours a day."
"Morgan was always a significantly better player than Paul, but he claimed it to be his one true passion. She had to stay home with the kids, then couldn't play because she was functioning as a single parent with limited time/energy. Did he have prior experience in pickleball or as a professional athlete? Nope."
"Morgan had a lot of mental health issues and previously had issues with overwhelm/burnout and breakdowns. Did Paul ever take a step back from becoming a professional pickleball player to help with any of the child work or mental load? Nope."
"Morgan then had an aortic dissection, was put on stroke watch, and had to significantly limit herself physically. She was not allowed to pick up her children because the strain alone could kill her."
"How did Paul step up? He didn't. He's the man of the house, and becoming a professional pickleball player was how he was fulfilling his role. He couldn't take time away from pickleball because he's trying to go pro, and pros don't bail on their commitments like that! So what did he do? He left his wife home alone with their young children and went about his life as normal."
"She had to call on neighbours to come lift her child out of the crib for her, because her husband couldn't take time off from 'training.' He left his wife, on stroke watch, home alone with babies, while he knew she could die from just picking them up."
"What if there was an emergency and she died because she had to move the children? That's just God's plan, and God really wants his special boy PicklePaul to go pro."
- notyourbeans
"What the f**k…? Sometimes I read something and I just hope it’s made up or that these people have been staging their life because that’s one of the more f**ked up stories I’ve read in a little while."
- Boo_Rawr
The Boomer Shift
"My friend's parents are Boomer fools."
"In the 2000s, the father earned 50k a year and the mother earned 50k a year. They were both government employees, so their salaries are public information."
"Despite earning the same salary, and working similar jobs, the mother did 100% of childcare, cooking, cleaning, household project management, and staying in contact with relatives."
"Now that they are both retired, the father sits in front of the TV all day. The mother still cooks, cleans, does household project management (budgeting, meal planning, groceries, picks up prescriptions, deals with the bank, pays bills, books doctors' appointments), and stays in contact with relatives."
- PenImpossible874
"Boomer women had it the worst because they were expected to work, but society hadn't progressed enough for the husband to do anything around the house."
- D**n_Dog_Inappropes
"In general, Gen X and Millennial men are only marginally better, having been raised by Boomer men."
"They are 'progressive' not in chores/mental load, but being somewhat more hands-on with kids."
"As a 41-year-old woman, I literally do not know a single married hetero woman who has a spouse that really steps it up. They all have the same story, too. The husbands did great with chores up until their kids came. Then they couldn’t keep up, and to varying degrees, they just sit on the couch and either watch TV or scroll their phone while their wives do all the household management."
- InkedBrush
Husbands, Religion, Or Both?
"This Catholic lady in a group meeting was so sad and unhappy in her marriage."
"She had a ton of kids she didn't want, and clearly she never took care of her body, hair, or anything else."
"She was upfront about feeling worn out and used up, and unloved, and she felt it was because of her religion."
"I just stared at her, hoping that she'd break free and have a life at some point."
- Late-Chip-5890
"My mother technically shouldn't exist. She is number five of six. Her mother asked for sterilization after number three, but her doctor refused on the basis of 'morality.' I think about this a lot."
- pigeontheoneandonly
"Emasculated"
"My soon-to-be ex-husband would not 'allow' me to mow the lawn, even though he worked 80 hours a week, and it usually rained on his one day off, so the lawn was a disaster."
"Once I finally got fed up and mowed the lawn, he didn't speak to me for hours, and told our marriage counselor he felt emasculated."
- 37_lucky_ears
Incredibly Incompetent
"An ex-friend of my husband once proudly proclaimed that he had never changed a nappy (diaper for my American friends) on any of his kids."
"I looked over at his partner, and she gave me this weak smile that just broke my heart."
"My husband promptly mocked his friend relentlessly for being so incompetent and lazy that he couldn’t even change his own children."
"Needless to say, they later broke up, and we kept his ex-wife in the divorce and ditched him instead."
- SarNic88
Marriage is supposed to be all about love, respect, and building a life together, two people coming together as a team against all else. But it seems that for some couples, because of gender expectations, they're never able to form that team fully.
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Fox News Gets Blunt Reality Check After Championing 'Big Comeback' Of Hamburger Helper
Oct 24, 2025
Fox News was criticized after it happily reported on the rise of consumers turning to Hamburger Helper for meals even though that's a sign that the economy is in a very bad place.
Hamburger Helper comes in boxed form and consists of a dried carbohydrate (usually pasta or rice) along with a packet of powdered seasonings. The contents are combined with browned ground beef (“hamburger”), and water or milk to create a complete one-dish meal.
It's easy, it's cheap—and it's often favored by those just scraping by. Yet Fox News lauded this development in a segment featuring pundit Kayleigh McEnany.
She said:
"One tried and true brand is making a big comeback as consumers tighten their wallets and here it is—Hamburger Helper. The mix of mac and cheese and ground beef is seeing a surge in sales."
You can hear what she said in the video below.
This "surge in sales" is not good at all.
Roughly 750,000 furloughed federal employees are already feeling the consequences of the ongoing federal government shutdown, facing missed paychecks and tightening budgets. Adding to this, on November 1, millions of low-income Americans could lose access to essential food assistance.
Economists warn that a prolonged shutdown lasting months could drain workers’ savings and weaken consumer spending as more people go without vital government support.
There are also multiple indicators that the U.S. is on the verge of a recession—and the shutdown only raises the probability that the country will experience one.
Payrolls increased by just 22,000 in August, with earlier estimates for July and June revised down by 21,000. That followed meager growth of 73,000 jobs in July, and downward revisions of 258,000 for May and June. Preliminary annual adjustments to federal data also show the economy added 911,000 fewer jobs over the past year than previously reported.
Moreover, long-term unemployment is climbing as well: 1.8 million people have been out of work for more than 27 weeks, accounting for nearly a quarter of all unemployed Americans.
All of this... while President Donald Trump demolishes the East Wing of the White House to make way for a 90,000 square foot ballroom.
People were quick to call this out.
Sales of other budget-friendly staples are climbing—another signal of the economic pressure felt by Americans around the country.
Industry analysts say rice purchases are up 7.5 percent this year, while sales of canned tuna, salmon, sardines, beans, and boxed macaroni and cheese have also surged, according to data from the research firm Circana.
Consumers are trading down in other ways, too. Grocery shoppers are increasingly choosing cheaper store brands, and fast-food chains like McDonald’s are rolling out more value meals. Meanwhile, sales of indulgent items such as ice cream, cookies, and cakes have slipped.
Although inflation has eased sharply from its 2022 peak, grocery prices remain stubbornly high — still 21 percent above where they were four years ago. And in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported fresh price jumps in several key categories, including meats, coffee, and many fruits and vegetables.
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