Author: Jimmy Cooper
Teenage Chili’s employee assaulted for enforcing mask regulations
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / August 14, 2020In what’s becoming a sad sign of the times, a teenage hostess at a Baton Rouge Chili’s was attacked by a group of more than eleven women for enforcing mask regulations. Assaulting an employee enforcing mask regulations is now a felony in Illinois, following a spate of viral videos and news stories of such assaults. …
Read MoreFederal agents leave Seattle
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / July 30, 2020Federal agents have left Seattle after facing pressure from local and state officials, who fear increasing violence akin to what is happening in Portland. Unsurprisingly, the presence of violent, untrained federal troops in Portland, Oregon is leading to more protests and more police brutality. Although Trump claims he wants to stop the unrest in Portland, city …
Read MoreHead of NYPD union flashes QANON mug in Fox News interview
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / July 20, 2020Ed Mullins, the head of the New York city police department union recently gave an interview on Fox News via Zoom. Just behind Mullins’s shoulder sat a QAnon mug. If you haven’t heard of QAnon, perhaps you’re lucky. It’s a conspiracy theory born on 4Chan, and named after a user who claims to be an …
Read MoreWhile India banned Chinese-owned TikTok, Anonymous hacked it
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / July 3, 2020If you’ve been on any form of social media in the last six months or so, you’ve seen a TikTok video––they’re obvious because of the huge, annoying TikTok watermark. And as common as TikTok videos are on, say, Instagram, the TikTok platform itself is a million times more productive. But what the millions of users don’t realize …
Read MoreWill Trump drop out if his poll numbers keep dropping?
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / June 29, 2020Trump is in trouble, and he’s starting to flounder. It’s so noticeable that people are starting worry about how he might react if his poll numbers keep dropping. Some critics thing Trump is preemptively blaming foreign countries for his 2020 loss. He’s also going nuts about voting by mail, because he says it will lead to fraud, but really …
Read MoreAnti-Trump ads are ramping up
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / June 25, 2020Are you ready to witness an advertising assassination? The latest anti-Trump ads, one sponsored by the Lincoln Project and the other by a group called the Midas Touch, are nothing short of brutal. Both go after Trump’s claim that he was going to slow down COVID testing to lower the numbers in the U.S., playing …
Read MoreRemember that whole COVID thing? It’s still really bad
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / June 23, 2020Remember a few months ago when everyone was freaked out about COVID? And then it seemed just to disappear? Here’s the thing––it didn’t disappear. In fact, it’s worse now than ever. This weekend witnessed the largest single-day increase in COVID ever. Hundreds of workers at an Arkansas Tyson plant have COVID, which will undoubtedly impact …
Read MoreTwitter CEO donates $3m to Know Your Rights Camp, LA defunds police
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / June 5, 2020The protests are working. There are results in both the non-profit sector and the government, but these results come with complications. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has donated three million dollars Colin Kaepernick’s organization Know Your Rights Camp. The move is probably not only a result of Dorsey’s good nature, but also a dig at Trump, …
Read MoreTrump’s response to the George Floyd killing was disastrous
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / June 1, 2020Donald Trump has just surrendered the 2020 election to Joe Biden with his absolutely botched, and potentially harmful, response to the killing of George Floyd. Even the polls are showing Joe Biden with a 10-point lead over Trump in the 2020 race for the White House. What has made Trump’s response so bad? Without focusing …
Read MoreFlorida man, initially skeptical of COVID, winds up in ICU
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / May 17, 2020A Florida man who called COVID “hysteria” wound up in the ICU with COVID. Though cynics may tempted to revel in the schadenfreude , this situation will likely be repeated many more times in the coming months, and it will be everybody’s problem. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Trump only cares about being reelected in …
Read MoreA top Lindsey Graham donor now backing Democrat candidate
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / April 30, 2020A top donor for Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has switched his allegiance and will now support Democratic candidate Jamie Harrison. The times, they may be a-changin’. According to a recent survey, 51% of respondents did not approve of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Only 43% said they approved. This represents a 22 point drop …
Read MoreTrump is paying his sons’ lovers with campaign funds
Posted by Jimmy Cooper / April 19, 2020President Trump sent a series of tweets urging citizens to violate Democratic governors’ stay-at-home orders. Jay Inslee has called the tweets “unhinged” and “illegal,” since they’re calling for domestic insurrection. What we wonder is this: is Trump actually trying to encourage insurrection, or is he doing so to obscure something else––something like corruption? Like the …
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