Why Karoline Leavitt is so annoying

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Few voices in the MAGA-sphere make me want to flip the channel more than Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Only the grating voice of Donald Trump himself can make me dive faster for the remote as I promise myself that I'll read the transcript later, because it's my job as a journalist to know today's official White House lies. I love being on Greg Sargent's New Republic podcast, but I often have to steel myself because I know what clip he'll play for me: Leavitt scolding reporters like she's the uber-Karen, dressing down a waitress for putting three ice cubes in her tea instead of the requested two.

Judging by social media, my irrepressible loathing of Leavitt's smug visage and pompous voice makes me typical of my demographic: progressive, college-educated women between the ages of 25 and 65. Among this set on Instagram and TikTok, making fun of Leavitt is a popular sport. I would like to report that her critics take the high road of focusing on her job as spokesperson for a wannabe dictator, but mostly it's just about how weird and annoying she is. She's mocked for having one mode: perpetual tight-lipped outrage, as if she wants to call management on literally every person she meets.

Women enjoy insulting Leavitt, who is only 27, for marrying a wealthy man who is more than twice her age and with whom, she admits, she has almost nothing in common. When she posted a picture with her husband and baby, she got flooded with sarcastic comments like "Look at the baby with his grandpa" and "gold digger." She's also frequently called stupid or clueless.

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All this is almost certainly by design. As journalist Moira Donegan noted on the "Daily Blast," MAGA is a "political movement that has the ethos of internet trolls" dominated by "the desire to provoke and upset the imagined audience of liberals." Leavitt's official job is to speak for the president. Her actual job, however, is to keep the mostly male MAGA base invigorated by demonstrating the White House's powers at annoying the women they resent. Trump may be jacking up inflation and joining Israel in a doomed war with Iran, but hey, at least she makes the feminists mad. If MAGA men squint hard enough, they can even pretend that all the online mockery of Leavitt is "just jealousy."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-karoline-leavitt-annoying-100006748.html

[delisen]

1. Vance and others are a lot more annoying and much more powerful.

J D Vance would walk right over Leavitt on his way to kill me and my family. Leavitt is a at most a sideshow.

I am not making any sense out of the tired Karen theme here.

I see Leavitt as a scared rabbit who wants to serve powerful men in order to feather her own nest.

[yorkster]

2. Like Trump, Leavitt is agorant - ignorant and arrogant.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. I'm tempted to say "arrorant", but that sounds more like "errorant" -- which would also be appropriate. nt

[Dulcinea]

3. I can't stand this smug, arrogant, smarmy little (expletive deleted)

She gets off on being snide to people who are a lot more intelligent & classy than she is. She's a two-bit Mean Girl who has never mentally left high school. Run along, little girl. Go back to your sugar daddy.

[Onthefly]

4. Consider leave it to Leavitt is only 27 years old. Soulless.

[crud]

5. A little insecure about

the fullness of her upper lip, as evidenced by creating a new lip line with lipstick. I see silicon injections in her future.

Apologies if this is petty and offensive. Not judging, just an observation, like the cross she wears indicating that she is exploiting her christian faith to claim she has a soul.