25 Political Karens Who Need To Sit Down Somewhere

25 Political Karens Who Need To Sit Down Somewhere

Trump's indictment may have placed his foolishness in the lime light but Clarence Thomas has his own track record of mess.

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Updated as of 8/16/2023 at 7:00 a.m. ET 

As we’ve seen, Karens are one of the most popular forms of entertainment on social media. They throw tantrums, they lie and they blow the most simple situations out of proportion because of their ignorance and entitlement.

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However, these people don’t exist only in our local Starbucks. They are also in our government and PLENTY of them are running for president in 2024.

Take Sen. Tim Scott for instance, going on live television and with his entire chest, suggesting systemic racism is not a prevalent factor in American life and believing his “talent and grit” alone got him through to the life he has. Just weeks ago, Gov. Ron DeSantis expressed he believed there were benefits to Black people being enslaved, whipped and tortured - for the sake of saving white parents from feeling guilty about racism.

If these political officials weren’t wearing a suit, hidden away in their offices, they would have most likely been caught on TikTok making a ruckus in your neighborhood. Smirk as you may, but these Karens are dangerously divisive and gaining power by the day.

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That Florida Man Gov. Ron DeSantis

That Florida Man Gov. Ron DeSantis




GENEVA, UNITED STATES - 2022/08/24: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to supporters at a campaign stop on the Keep Florida Free Tour at the Horsepower Ranch in Geneva. DeSantis faces former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for the general election for Florida Governor in November.
GENEVA, UNITED STATES - 2022/08/24: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to supporters at a campaign stop on the Keep Florida Free Tour at the Horsepower Ranch in Geneva. DeSantis faces former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for the general election for Florida Governor in November.
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Gov. DeSantis has successfully projected his homophobic and racist views onto legislation that has caused ripples across the nation but more intensely, in the area of education. He has endorsed laws that basically put Florida in a time warp where LGBT individuals are shamed and talking about racism is taboo. Ultimately, he wants to protect white people from feeling guilty after learning the history of how we got to this new norm.

By doing so, he’s admitted that he indeed feels guilty so, he’s taking it out on the education system. He even went as far to suggest slavery was beneficial for Black people and authorized the state’s Education Department to ban lessons of slavery’s history in curriculum. Mr. Anti-Woke needs to have several seats.

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Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson

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The conservative commentator who made a career out of being a loud and proud bigot and arguing with people on television was ousted from his pulpit at FOX News amidst their lawsuit. Well, technically he agreed to leave but who’s to say folks ain’t want him there anymore? At the time of his departure, he was sued by his booking producer for sexism and harassment. Because he thinks he’s that special, he released a biography detailing his life all the way up to his conspiracy-spewing career landing embarrassingly low numbers of sales, per The Daily Beast.

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Justice Clarence Thomas

Justice Clarence Thomas




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The Supreme Court Justice is one of those behind the scenes Karens that pops out every once in a while. He may not be as loud and obnoxious as the others but he gets caught by the press for other things. Way back in the day, he was accused of sexually assaulting Anita Hill and played victim following her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, calling the hearing a “high-tech lynching.”

Recently, he got exposed for accepting gifts from GOP megadonors, per ProPublica. While donning the robe and gavel, he supported every ruling against abortion rights, LGBT rights, wiping student loan debt and even served as a key figure in seeking the overturning of the 2020 election. His ethics are questionable but his motives seem evident.

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Salty Chris Christie

Salty Chris Christie

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This man single handedly caused a traffic jam on the George Washington bridge while governor in 2013, all because he had beef with a mayor who declined to endorse him for reelection, per CNN. If that isn’t Karen behavior, I don’t know what is.

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The 2024 presidential election isn’t the first time he tried to run for president. Though, after getting booted from Trump’s transition team, he’s taken all his Karen energy toward tarnishing Trump’s name.

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Josh Hawley

Josh Hawley

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The lipless, Missouri Senator was rebuked by his own colleagues, orchestrated an Electoral College challenge behind Trump’s whines about the election being stolen from him, per AP. That one argument was not only a reflection of the nation tension about “stolen votes” but the meeting was interrupted by a group of Jan 6. rioters who wouldn’t have even made it to the floor if Hawley would have just kept his mouth shut.

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Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro

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Ben, with the nonstop Twitter fingers, always has something to say about something which is nine times out of 10 offensive to marginalized communities. He criticized Sen. Bernie Sanders on his Jewish heritage, slammed Disney over a floating rumor about the next ‘Frozen’ movie being LGBT-friendly, called BLM supporters “communists” and supports the ban of trans people being allowed to dress according to the gender they identify as.

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Every unpopular opinion he launches into the Twitterverse gets him dragged and rightfully so.

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Candace Owens

Candace Owens

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One of the top Twitter trolls there is. From fat-shaming Lizzo to complaining about Minnie Mouse wearing pants, the things most people don’t find problems with, she makes a problem out of. Only 1 percent of the time do Black folks agree with her, like when she defended Megan Thee Stallion.

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However, she’s spewed so many lies about slavery, racism or “Black-on-Black crime,” barely a word out of her mouth can be trusted because it’s always to satisfy the ear of a conservative white person.

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Rep. Robert Quattrocchi

Rep. Robert Quattrocchi

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The debates about race and sexuality among lawmakers was bound to get too far once their own hatred finally came to light. Rep. Quattrocchi let his ugly out recently while debating about HB 5763, a bill requiring an equity impact statement on all new legislative proposals, per The Advocate.

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While arguing that the terms of the bill were too broad, he asked if he needed to take into account sexual orientation and how it effects pedophiles. After his colleague responded that 1. pedophilia isn’t a sexual orientation and 2. she was offended, he goes “Oh I didn’t mean to - Are you a pedophile?”

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Rep. Pat Fallon

Rep. Pat Fallon

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After the parents of a Parkland shooting victim disrupted a subcommittee hearing on protecting Second Amendment rights, Fallon thought it clever to mock their behavior.

“Is this an insurrection? So will they be held to the same... I don’t want another January 6.”

Unlike the adult toddlers who were summoned by that Cheeto man to overthrow an election, these parents have a valid reason to be infuriated.

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Rep. Heather Scott

Rep. Heather Scott

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In another attempt to make the most basic thing a political issue, Idaho lawmakers blocked a proposal to supply free menstrual products to public schools, per The Hill. Scott, who has been seen smiling proudly beside a Confederate flag, slammed the idea of providing a cost efficient solution to menstruation a “liberal policy” and said schools are “obsessed with the private parts of children.”

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No... maybe they just want to make their lives a little easier. What do tampons have to do with being liberal?

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Rep. Paul Sherrell

Rep. Paul Sherrell

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In a criminal justice subcommittee meeting, Tennessee Republican Sherrell pitched lynching as a form of execution for death row inmates. “I was just wondering about, could I put an amendment on that that would include hanging by a tree also?” he asked in response to a bill that was reinstating a firing squad as a means of execution. Making a joke about a murderous tool of torture used mainly against Black people may not be the only nasty things he’s said.

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President-Hopeful Nikki Haley

President-Hopeful Nikki Haley

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Ugh! We could be here for hours listing Haley’s Karen moments. Though, most recently she decided to support Gov. Ron DeSantis tirade on sexuality curriculum by suggested the third grader-age limit to learning about sexual orientation was too young. Aside from the anti-LGBT rhetoric, she checks all the boxes of conservative beliefs: slamming Biden for being weak, picking something to blame China for and denying the country’s racist foundation.

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Wannabe Herschel Walker

Wannabe Herschel Walker

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Former NFL star Herschel Walker took a swing at running for Georgia Senate against Sen. Raphael Warnock. Why? No one knows. Frighteningly enough, without any prior political experience, his campaign turned into a success. However, his previous domestic violence/abortion scandals and overall inability to make a cohesive sentence outshined his Trump endorsement and rising popularity as CRT-hating, anti-LGBT, COVID-cure crafting Republican.

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp

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I present, the archenemy to voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams, Gov. Brian Kemp. During their debate in the 2022 rematch, Kemp complained about being interrupted, being accused of interrupting Abrams and touted that Georgia was “one COVID variant away from Abrams wanting the state to go on lockdown.” Though Kemp wasn’t proven to be a campaign conspirator in the gubernatorial race in 2018, he just may be in the 2020 election probe along with his other Trump-loving buddies. Kemp also has taken strong stances against talks of racism in the classroom, banning abortion and signing off on unlicensed, public concealed carry laws.

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On school shootings, he signed off on school’s performing drills for armed intruders.

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Sassy Rep. George Santos

Sassy Rep. George Santos

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Santos’ own colleagues have asked him to step down after being exposed for his slew of lies and alleged inability to serve in the House. Apparently, he fabricated his education, work experience and even Jewish heritage while being a whole Catholic and a half. He was also kicked off of GoFundMe for laundering donations for a service dog. Santos is honestly just there as comedic relief (cue the SNL parody) but owns his bulls**t unlike most Republicans.

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Lone Wolf Sen. Tim Scott

Lone Wolf Sen. Tim Scott

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The single Black Republican Senator, Tim Scott, spews most of his trash from the right-panel of Fox News. He’s more lukewarm when it comes to the level of his conservative craziness. Though, claiming Biden supports the “drug of victimhood” and that because he made it out of a low-income single-parent household, single moms will be just fine without the option to abort qualifies him for the list.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham

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One of the main Republican senators that voted against marriage equality was yours truly. Though, lately, he found himself wound up in the Georgia 2020 election investigated spearheaded by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis - which he failed miserably to avoid. I mean, he is a “stop the steal” stan which may explain why he felt so passionately about Trump-endorsed Senate candidate Herschel Walker running for office.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

UNITED STATES - JULY 20: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., leaves the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Wednesday, July 20, 2022.
UNITED STATES - JULY 20: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., leaves the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Wednesday, July 20, 2022.
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She was banned from Twitter was banned for a reason. The QAnon Queen has been famous (and not in a good way) for spewing racist, homophobic, transphobic trash online. Her tweets are polluted with spreading COVID-19 misinformation, boasting about participating in the insurrection and accusing trans people of buying up the tampons. She’s been openly and repeatedly racist while simultaneously insisting the party she belongs to is not. Greene been the model conservative, standing hatefully against anything associated with the Left.

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Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany

Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 07: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room on January 07, 2021 in Washington, DC. McEnany delivered remarks a day after armed protesters breached the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the vote to ratify President-elect Joe Biden’s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 07: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room on January 07, 2021 in Washington, DC. McEnany delivered remarks a day after armed protesters breached the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the vote to ratify President-elect Joe Biden’s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump.
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Sitting on the throne of lies is former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. Listening to her speak was not so much stressful as it was entertaining being that after she would blatantly lie, she would look you in your face from the Fox News camera and say, “I didn’t lie.” She was another coronavirus non believer but instead took her beliefs to the pulpit where she was responsible for informing the nation on the virus. She was so focused on protecting Trump you would’ve thought she got a raise for every time she said “the president has the virus under control.” Well, after 1 million deaths, it doesn’t seem like he did.

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The Cheeto, Trump Himself

The Cheeto, Trump Himself

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 10: Former U.S. President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower to meet with New York Attorney General Letitia James for a civil investigation on August 10, 2022 in New York City.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 10: Former U.S. President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower to meet with New York Attorney General Letitia James for a civil investigation on August 10, 2022 in New York City.
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Undergraduate students could write dissertations on the mess that flew out of this man’s mouth while he was president. More recently, a tantrum about his indictment: “WE JUST CAN’T ALLOW THIS ANYMORE,” he tweeted. “THEY’RE KILLING OUR NATION AS WE SIT BACK & WATCH. WE MUST SAVE AMERICA!PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!”

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Honestly, his whole term was a fever dream. All of his racist rhetoric about people of color not belonging in the country or going back to the “old days” when it was legal to harass Black people in the street inspired American citizens to act on those words. Summer of 2020 was filled with hate spewing from Trump supporters and MAGAts. Thanks to him, a new, violent and even more unbearable group of Karens have been born.

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Former US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

Former US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during the “Getting America’s Children Safely Back to School” event in the State Room of the white House in Washington, DC, on August 12, 2020.
US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during the “Getting America’s Children Safely Back to School” event in the State Room of the white House in Washington, DC, on August 12, 2020.
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Betsy DeVos would be the parent complaining to the school board about mandatory masking and vaccination because “my body my choice.” Not only was she investigated for violating the Hatch Act for inappropriately sliding in a Fox News interview but she also compared slavery to abortion rights. On a more timely note, she and the Department of Education were sued for preventing a law to offer student loan forgiveness and tried to scam former students whose loans were already forgiven.

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Senator Ted Cruz

Senator Ted Cruz

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 6: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) departs the Senate floor following a vote on the Senate floor on Capitol Hill on August 6, 2022 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Senate plans to work through the weekend to vote on amendments to the Inflation Reduction Act, expected to conclude on Sunday, August 7, 2022.
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 6: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) departs the Senate floor following a vote on the Senate floor on Capitol Hill on August 6, 2022 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Senate plans to work through the weekend to vote on amendments to the Inflation Reduction Act, expected to conclude on Sunday, August 7, 2022.
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If it’s not Florida, it’s Texas. Sen. Cruz’s top ten moments most definitely include his list of anti-racist books he surprisingly could quote from and abandoning his own state residents during their snow storm crisis to live his best life in Cancun. Just like most of the other Karens listed, he considered coronavirus information “government propaganda” and believes President Joe Biden is to blame for everything wrong in the country from chicken nugget sauce shortages to probably wind blowing too hard.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 02: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks at a news conference following the weekly Senate Republican Caucus Meeting in the U.S. Capitol Building on August 02, 2022 in Washington, DC. During the news conference the Republican Senators spoke on their dismay with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 02: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks at a news conference following the weekly Senate Republican Caucus Meeting in the U.S. Capitol Building on August 02, 2022 in Washington, DC. During the news conference the Republican Senators spoke on their dismay with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
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Have you ever been in the grocery store minding your own business when a random, old white person just stares at you...bothered by your Black existence? That might’ve been Mr. McConnell. He’s been a ride or die for the Republican Party, standing against critical legislation that could help Black people simply because they were introduced by the party he didn’t like. Though he’s insisted he was for the people back in the day, his efforts against the very civil rights he ‘fought’ for are quite nonexistent now. As if he didn’t attend the March on Washington in 1963, he stands firmly against the teaching of critical race theory or you know, anything beyond a few handpicked MLK quotes.

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Minority Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy

Minority Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 25: U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during his weekly news conference June 25, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. McCarthy discuss various topics including the police reform bill.
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 25: U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during his weekly news conference June 25, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. McCarthy discuss various topics including the police reform bill.
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I don’t know if there’s anyone who defends Trump’s nonsense more than this guy. McCarthy repeatedly turns a blind eye to the actions of his party and insists the Left are “undermining” democracy by trying to hold the former president accountable of his foolishness. In addition, he also supported overturning the election, screaming “fake votes” and “stop the steal” just like the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol. McCarthy spends too much time pointing his finger and the very things he’s guilty of.

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Conservative White House Wannabe’s

Conservative White House Wannabe’s

ESZTERGOM, HUNGARY - AUGUST 07: Tucker Carlson speaks during the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Feszt on August 7, 2021 in Esztergom, Hungary. The multiday political event was organized by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a privately managed foundation that recently received more than $1.7 billion in government money and assets. The leader of its main board, Balazs Orban, who is also a state secretary in the prime minister’s office, said MCC’s priority is promoting “patriotism” among the next generation of Hungary’s leaders.
ESZTERGOM, HUNGARY - AUGUST 07: Tucker Carlson speaks during the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Feszt on August 7, 2021 in Esztergom, Hungary. The multiday political event was organized by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a privately managed foundation that recently received more than $1.7 billion in government money and assets. The leader of its main board, Balazs Orban, who is also a state secretary in the prime minister’s office, said MCC’s priority is promoting “patriotism” among the next generation of Hungary’s leaders.
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We’ll be here all day if I had to list them all out for you. Those paper-lipped folks on Fox News and conservative influencers of Twitter would be the bulk of it. If a Democrat but so blinks the wrong way, these folks are blasting it over the news and social media, crying about the radical left ruining the country. Meanwhile, they support white supremacist ideology and think there’s no big deal.

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For example, a white man staged an arson claiming BLM was to blame. Before finding out he did the damn thing himself, Ben Shapiro went to Laura Ingraham on Fox to label the movement against police brutality being left-wing “violence and cruelty.” They make it their job to turn diamonds out of dust and still end up with Claire’s rhinestones.

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