Archetypal goobers on fyre
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MAGA is grifts upon grifts inside a web of ineptitude:
LAST WEEK, THE CAREER OF CONSERVATIVE journalist Myles Morell hit a new peak.
As a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation, he had just scored what counts as a scoop in that world: He caught an irritated Rep. Ilhan Omar on video telling him to “fuck off.”
Then, this Wednesday, Morell walked into work and was swiftly fired.
The abrupt change in fortunes came thanks to an “official” celebration of the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term, one that was supposed to feature Republican members of Congress and even the president himself. The bash was a massive bust.
Instead of hosting GOP royalty, the event generated two police reports from ticket buyers. One man who was asked to help set up the event compared it to the disastrous Fyre Festival, and at least one embarrassing video of a man breakdancing with a puppet ricocheted across the Internet.
What was advertised as a star-studded gala at the Trumpified Kennedy Center turned out to be a way-way-off-list ice cream social in Arlington:
Problems multiplied from there. McMillan acknowledged that she asked attendees with comped tickets to bring bottles of alcohol to fill out the bar even though the website promised “premium drinks.”
Morell himself asked the husband of a photographer who had been hired to shoot the event to bring some alcohol himself. According to Instagram direct messages viewed by The Bulwark, the man then warned Morell to call off the party before a Fyre Festival–style debacle ensued.
“You’re charging big money for this thing and people won’t be getting what they paid for,” the man wrote, according to those messages.
Later, when the photographer, whose identity is being kept anonymous to protect her future business prospects, realized she wouldn’t be paid to shoot the party, she canceled. The Instagram account under Morell’s name subsequently sent a message to the photographer with the line “fuck you whore.” Both Morell and McMillan deny that Morell sent the message, but they won’t say who did.
Despite all the red flags, Morell and McMillan went ahead with the party in Arlington. No members of Congress showed up. Neither did Trump. An attendee who spent “hundreds of dollars” on her ticket filed a police report, and complained to the Washington Examiner that the event was a “grift” and “illegal.” Another ticket-buyer has also filed a report, according to Hurtt.
Video of the event showed a sparsely attended dancefloor, with a puppeteer lying down and breakdancing with a pink pussyhat-wearing puppet. Hurtt’s Arlington GOP posted the video online, describing it as a “textbook grifter operation.”
In an interview, Hurtt added that Morell represented an “archetypal goober.”
I’m also reminded of the conference that PUMA dead-enders held near Dulles Airport in 2008, although this is even more pathetic.