Doomscrolling With Carter Wrenn

 

Carter Wrenn

It's not often that I would be quoting a conservative legend, but Carter Wrenn's piece "Strange Times" contains valuable reporting:

The other day I went to a news website, read down the page, here’s what I saw:

Hunter Biden saying, “F— George Clooney.”

Trump suing the Wall Street Journal for $20 billion – that’s billion with a ‘b.’

Afraid of losing control of Congress, Republicans are redrawing congressional districts in Texas – so they will elect 5 more Republicans.

Not sure of our steadfastness as allies anymore, our old friends in Britain, France, and Germany are heading down a new road – so they can protect themselves, without us. For example, Germany’s rebuilding its army. Lord knows where that leads.

Congress passed a law making it illegal for American tech companies to support TikTok. But the Attorney General, Pam Bondi’s, telling American businesses they can ignore the law. Because Trump doesn’t like it.

Secretary Scott Bessent’s telling us tariffs aren’t taxes. Secretary Howard Lutnik’s telling us tariffs aren’t paid out of people’s pockets. That’s sketchy. At best.

Popular podcaster Candace Owens, a huge social media star with millions of followers, said on her podcast that French President Macron’s wife, Brigitte, is a man. Macron asked her to stop. Owens claimed his wife’s a man again. And again. Now we’ve got the president of France suing an American podcaster.

And a fake video showing Barack Obama getting arrested, handcuffed by three FBI agents is all over the internet.

My own doomscrolling this morning produces a rival compilation of just how bad off we are right now:

Hegseth’s office exodus hides the real problem: It’s him

“Vote blue no matter who,” unless it’s Mamdani?

Florida is the laboratory for MAGA — and American autocracy

Ghislaine Maxwell moved to minimum-security Texas prison camp

Smithsonian erases Trump’s impeachments from history museum exhibit

“It was frightening”: Federal judges speak out on vicious threats from MAGA fans

Trump, unraveling, digs himself in deeper with Epstein

Leavitt: It’s time Trump won a Nobel Peace Prize