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6. Partisan Politics: Governor LeRage has prioritized partisan interests over the common good, leading to a divisive political climate and gridlock in government. Collaboration and compromise have been sorely lacking during his tenure.
A Glen Burnie man was charged with a felony Sunday after authorities reviewed a TikTok video “clearly” showing him burning the words “TRUMP” and “USA” onto the road outside his home, according to the Maryland Judiciary. An investigator with the Anne Arundel County Fire Marshal Division wrote in charging documents that Craig Philip McQuin used an illegal flamethrower to spell out the two words. Maryland law considers flamethrowers “destructive devices,” akin to a bomb, and bans their possession and use in the state. A summons for McQuin, 35, to appear before a judge was issued Sunday, though a date was not specified in the court record. As of Monday morning, it had not yet been served. Attempts to contact McQuin using a phone number listed in public records were unsuccessful. Fire investigators responded Nov. 15 to a vandalism complaint in the Creekside Village community. According to charging documents, the burn marks were in the middle of the road, making the affected area “noticeably darker.” Authorities described the marks as between 15 and 20 feet in length and approximately 5 feet in width, according to charging documents. A police officer at the scene learned the incident had been captured on video and uploaded the online video after speaking with the community’s homeowner association, investigators said. After identifying McQuin as the property owner, fire officials watched the TikTok published on his wife’s account. Unlike her other social media pages, McQuin’s wife’s TikTok account does not focus on politics, but is largely dedicated to two pigs she cares for. One photo carousel, however, shows a wooden structure being built outside the White House. “Things are about to get spooky...Hang them all!” she posted on Halloween. As of Monday, the flamethrower video could no longer be seen on the wife’s TikTok page. It also did not appear on a Truth Social account with the same username. Related Articles Truth Social was launched in 2022 by President Donald Trump after Facebook and Twitter banned him in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. When Twitter, which now operates as X, was bought by Elon Musk, Trump’s account was reinstated. Facebook similarly ended its ban last year. Authorities wrote in charging documents that the flamethrower McQuin used can be purchased in every state except for Maryland. According to the manufacturer’s website, though the device used in Glen Burnie was a “long range torch,” capable of pushing fire 25 feet, flamethrowers are “outright prohibited” in Maryland. McQuin was charged with a felony for possession of a destructive device, court records show, and also two misdemeanors: second-degree malicious burning, and malicious destruction of property valued at $1,000 or higher. According to charging documents, road repairs ost $5,500. The maximum penalty for the felony is 25 years in prison, according to . The alleged vandalism was investigated 10 days after the 2024 election, in which Trump became the second politician in American history to be elected to two nonconsecutive presidential terms. Though 63% of Maryland voters supported Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate in the November election, approximately 55% of Anne Arundel County voters backed her, according to the state Board of Elections. More than 41% of county voters voted for Trump, a nearly identical figure to 2020, when Trump, then the incumbent, lost to Joe Biden.
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Last month, in the wake of Donald Trump 's comeback victory and amid a broader shift in the culture , a video taken in Fort Collins, Colorado went viral. The clip shows a woman approaching a group of college students to inform them that their "service dog" was not allowed in the park where they were hiking. "I live right up there. I come here three times a week," the unidentified woman says before the dog-walker retorts, "Ok so, do you own this park?" One video of the interaction, with the caption "We don't hate Karens enough," has more than 23 million views. If you're familiar with the term "Karen," you know that people love to hate them. But after the Fort Collins video started circulating on social media, that's not what happened. Instead of railing against the "Karen" in question, people stood up for her. We don’t hate Karens enough. Watch as one tries to lecture and stop a person with a service dog from enjoying a walk in Fort Collins. pic.twitter.com/F5oeJLktyy One user on X, who proclaimed to live in Fort Collins, said there were enough dog-friendly trails for the group to not have taken their pet into the park in question. Another said the interaction was " actually the furthest thing from a Karen I've seen ." A third argued that it showed why "society needs the right Karens," while another said "Karens" have been wrongly derided and were in fact "the sentinels of civilization, the enforcer of the rules that keep nice things nice." "There's a vibe shift happening with Karens," one post read . "People are realizing that high trust societies are built by the people willing to look a little prudish in order to enforce rules and norms." Over the last decade, the idea of "canceling" someone—boycotting them over offensive or behavior deemed, by someone, to be problematic—has become commonplace. In that cultural moment, the term "Karen" came about to describe, in derogatory terms, a middle-aged white woman who is caught acting entitled, like she "wants to speak to the manager." In a way, "Karen" exists to be canceled; to be caught using her whiteness and womanhood to direct the wrath of the establishment — be it the police or a restaurant manager — against some innocent citizen who perhaps crossed an imaginary line of social decorum. At least that's what the term was meant to suggest when it first became popular in Black culture. These days, society throws the "Karen" label at "any white woman who dares speak against [someone] or condemns them," Ernest Owens, journalist and author of "The Case for Cancel Culture," told Newsweek . "That's not what a 'Karen' is." "Black people know that 'Karen' is a white woman who is intentionally, deliberately using law enforcement to enact fear and terror on said Black person for reasons that are unfair and unnecessary," Owens, who is Black, added. The Dunkin Karen When Jennifer Couture's life was turned upside down over an altercation at a Dunkin' Donuts in Fort Myers, Florida, several of those elements were missing: the woman she confronted was white, the threat of calling police did not come from Couture, who says to this day she wasn't the one who instigated the confrontation. But after a clip of the altercation was shared to a social media page dedicated to "cancel culture" content, Couture became known as "Florida Karen" and "Dunkin' Donuts Karen." Jennifer Couture is gonna catch some charges "I made a mistake getting out of my car that day, and my reaction. I made a bad choice that day," Couture told Newsweek . "A moment where you're so mad and so angry, where you're looking your worst and acting your worst, caught in a video—it definitely changes the perception that people have had of you forever." "Am I offended that I was called a 'Karen'? Yeah, I am because I don't think I'm a 'Karen,'" she said. "Being labeled a 'Karen,' it affects your image, it affects your self esteem." The video taken in January 2022 shows Couture approaching the driver of a vehicle with her finger pointed, telling the woman in the car, "You need to f------ relax with your little attitude" before trying to grab the driver's phone and getting back into her car. The woman follows Couture and shouts that she's just been assaulted, which prompts Couture to get back out of her Mercedes SUV. The two engage in a heated, expletive-filled exchange before Couture gets back in her car. The woman continues to scream at Couture's car until she backs up and the girl is heard saying, "Hit me. Can someone call the cops?" Couture said the video did not capture what happened before the altercation. She said the woman had driven dangerously into the parking lot of the Dunkin' and almost T-boned her, nearly causing an accident. She said the woman immediately began honking the horn and threatening her with violence, saying things like "I'm going to beat your a--" and calling Couture a "rich c---." "Long story short, we had words. I said some embarrassing things... Sometimes we just break, and I just felt so broken and frustrated," Couture said, adding that at the time of the incident her sister had just recently had a stroke and her daughter, who was in the car during the confrontation, was being severely bullied at school. "There's no excuse for why I acted that way. I acted that way, and I can't take it back. That's something I have to live with forever, but it trickled into piece of our lives you would never imagine," she said. The clip of the brief altercation went viral thanks to the influencer Danesh Norvishan, who specializes in elevating instances of public shaming. After Norvishan doxxed Courture by posted the video to his popular TikTok account along with her personal information — including contact details and the name of her employer — she said her family was flooded with harassing calls and messages to the point where she hired private security, pulled her daughter out of school and, for the first time in her life, considered suicide. Couture is but one of many "Karens" that have gone viral. There was the " Kroger Karen" who blocked a Black woman's car in a supermarket parking lot, the "San Fransisco Karen" who called the police on a man who was stenciling " Black Lives Matter " on his own property. And of course the most famous of all, the "Central Park Karen," who threatened a Black man out birdwatching after he asked her to follow park rules and leash her dog. In the "Central Park Karen" video, which went viral at the height of the Covid lockdowns and in the immediate wake of the killing of George Floyd , the woman, whose name is Amy Cooper, is seen calling 911 and telling the dispatcher: "there's an African American man threatening my life." Two days after the video went viral, Cooper's employer fired her. The Vibe Shift Comes for Karen Would any of that have happened today? While Cooper declined Newsweek 's interview request, Couture said she does not think so. "If what I went through were to happen today, I do not think that I would be sitting where I am right now," she said. "I don't think it would have the same backlash now, as it did in 2022. I think there's more awareness and I think people are not as afraid to stand up or to speak their mind," she added. "Anybody who tried to defend me online, [Danesh, the TikToker who doxxed her] would have his followers go after them, and they would get canceled... As of three or four months ago, I have noticed the landscape change on social media. People are starting to defend others." In response to the viral from Fort Collins, the conservative commentator Matt Walsh argued that society doesn't appreciate 'Karens' "enough" for stopping people from thinking that they can "do whatever the hell they want and break any rule they want" and being "the only ones with the guts to call these a--holes out to their faces." Evan Nierman, founder of the PR firm Red Banyan and author of "The Cancel Culture Curse," said while the woman in the Fort Collins video threatened to report the group with the dog, "she was not overly aggressive, did not raise her voice, and in my view did little to warrant criticism or being disparaged as a Karen." "The woman in the video appeared to have a sensible reason for objecting to the presence of the dog, since pets may have been banned because of their interference with local wildlife," Nierman told Newsweek . He added that the response to the Fort Collins incident represents a wider cultural shift where "many Americans are tired of their fellow citizens being doxxed, harassed and publicly shamed by proponents of cancel culture." "Our society is becoming less tolerant of those who make it their mission to target other people by posting videos of them designed to spark outrage and prompt online bullying," Nierman said. "In addition to being fundamentally un-American, cancel culture seeks to reduce a person's personality and worth to a short video devoid of context." Owens, who argues in his book that cancel culture can be an effective tool for activism and change, said the situation in Fort Collins was not a "Karen" situation, but "a situation of a Good Samaritan who is basically calling out something they see is wrong with the intention of trying to do what is right." Owens said the popularity of the term "Karen" has watered down what the term is meant to suggest and turned the topic into a subject of debate when the definition is so clear-cut to him. There is "a specific unique experience experienced by Black people in exchanges with white women in particular. That's a unique experience, but what happens in pop culture is that when things get viral, people hijack them." "Right wing conservatives said, 'We're going to take this term and we're going to reappropriate it to make it fit our thoughts.' What they did was [turn] any woman that is telling them what to do—then they're a 'Karen.' They made it more sexist. They took the race out of it," Owens said. Comparing it to the way he's heard people use "lynching" as slang, Owens said that he hopes people will stop using the word "Karen" so casually because of the "level of weight" that the term now carries. "Use a better term," he said. "Why can't we just say Negative Nancy? Or Debbie Downer? We've been using that forever and I feel like in many cases, and in that video, the woman is more of a Negative Nancy than a 'Karen.'"MLB NOTES