Look Out "Karen" Margaret Is Coming For You
“Don’t be a Karen” leaped into the collective consciousness during that COVID pandemic thingy. COVID-Karens, they were called. It was an unflattering dig at anyone who was hyper-reactive to the alleged ‘experts’ supposed science. Three masks, five shots, where’s your passport, you’re walking down the pasta aisle in the wrong direction, you’re standing too close, I’m going to get a manager .. AHHHHHH!
Karens ratted out neighbors for having too many people over for an outdoor barbeque. The maker help them if they were not also masked and distancing.
Karens tried to get adults sitting alone at outdoor events, far away from other people, arrested or ejected for not wearing a face covering, and school board meetings had more Karens at them than you could shake a stick at.
Male, female, white, brown, tall, short, they came in every variety, and everyone knew one, met one, or was related to a Karen. Some of them were even named Karen though not all Karens were COVID-Karens.
But thanks in part to Karens, the Pandemic left a mark on people, society, and culture, but as the memory fades - even though we should never forget what they did to us and our kids - ‘Karen’ has lingered.
And why not? There’s plenty of room for mildly derogatory language in the culture, especially since Karen is probably a white descendant of colonialist oppressors. Wine, book club, merlot, and… whine. But is Karen’s supremacy in danger? A new white woman's name has entered the octagon to battle it out.
Margaret.
Margaret Brennan has been the face of Face The Nation, the CBS news program that pretends to be an interview, since 2018. Brennan chats it up with national figures, and last week, she had Vice President JD Vance on the program (I’ve never watched a full episode. Life is too short to waste time on such rubbish, but the internet gives us clips).
JD Vance is whip-smart and well-informed, and he proved himself the A-List debater during the 2024 Presidential Campaign. He also doesn’t get flustered and always seems polite, well-mannered, and well-meaning, but he will not brook morons or their dopey notions. During the debate on CBS (I’m referring to the alleged interview by Brennan on Face the Nation), the Network that edited Kamala Harris's 60-minute interview to try and make her look like less of a dunce, Brennan is combative and argumentative. Her job seems less to get JD’s take and more to tell the world hers and why he’s wrong.
Talk about arrogance. Brennan thinks she is more informed than her guest, and that may at times be true, but she is no match for JD. He gives it right back with a side of inconvenient truth.
The subject is vetted or unvetted refugees. Margaret knows they are being vetted, have been, and what’s the big deal? JD Vance says they are not, certainly not all of them. The Biden-Harris administration knew it and lied about doing it, and there’s proof.
Margaret doesn’t seem to care about any opinion but her own, which makes you wonder why she’s hosting an interview program, so JD Vance returns the favor.
‘I don’t really care, Margaret.’
Shawn Farash, over at X, thinks this would make an excellent default comeback to anything stupid any liberal says.
Liberals say lots of stupid things. You can’t stop them, nor should you. It is how we keep winning. But that’s no reason to sit and take the nonsense. Burnish your midwestern manners and say, I don’t really care, Margaret.