Nov. 11, 2025

MAGA Dating Meltdown in Washington, and Elon Musk’s ‘Grokipedia’ Tries to Rewrite Reality

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The Washington dating scene is on fire — and not in the fun way. We dig into new reporting on why pro-Trump singles are struggling to find partners in the bluest city in America, where 92% of voters went Democrat and MAGA staffers are now speed-dating each other at partisan mixers because they’re tired of being called fascists on Hinge. You’ll meet the women who moved to D.C. looking for “masculine, faith-driven providers” and instead found overworked political guys who ghost after six weeks because they’re already plotting their next job. And yes, there are now matchmaking events built around “Did you attend January 6th?” as a screening question. Then we look at Elon Musk’s new “Grokipedia,” his AI-run Wikipedia clone that claims to be the unbiased alternative while pushing a right-leaning spin on culture-war topics and playing up Musk as a visionary. Critics — including Wikipedia’s own Jimmy Wales — say it’s sloppy, plagiarized from Wikipedia, and already full of errors. We connect the dots: Trumpworld is trying to build its own government, its own media, and now apparently its own dating pool and its own encyclopedia.

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Calaruga Shark Media from Washington, d C, where Maga singles

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are swiping through dating apps. This is ballot, that's right.

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If you're looking for a date, DC might be the place.

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Let's hit this. I'm Patrick Guttfield, and the Washington Post

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says maga singles are struggling to find love in DC

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and honestly, the dating scene sounds like a disaster wrapped

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in a red hat. So apparently thousands of Trump supporters

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have flooded into Washington, a city where ninety two and

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a half percent of people voted for Kamala Harris, which

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means these conservatives are trying to find romance in the

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most liberal city in America. That's like opening a steakhouse

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in a vegan commune and wondering why nobody's ordering the ribbi.

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There's this woman, Morgan, twenty nine years old, who moved

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to d C in April looking for her perfect conservative man.

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Works for something called the American Principles Project, which is

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a group whose literal mission is to save the family.

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And she's got a whole checklist. He needs to love

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the Lord, go to church, be able to provide and

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protect emotionally and spiritually, and also be fit enough to

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go running with her. Sounds reasonable, right, except she says

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most of the maga men she's meeting are not fit,

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workaholics and not taking finding a wife seriously. She actually

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told a reporter that she expected more masculine men in

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the conservative movement and was disappointed, which is brutal. Imagine

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dedicating your life to conservative politics only to discover the

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dating pool is just a bunch of guys hunched over

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their phones tweeting about regulations. Then there's Taylor, a thirty

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three year old defense contractor who's been on fifty dates

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in six years. Fifty that's not dating, that's field work.

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She avoids Tinder because it's too hookup oriented, and instead

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she asks deep questions like where do you go to

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church and what are you reading? Which is sweet. But

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when Trump won in November, she and her girlfriends got excited, thinking,

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finally a bunch of conservative guys are coming to town.

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Dating's going to be so much easier. Eleven months and

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six or seven dates later, she's like, yeah, that didn't

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work out. Turns out flooding the city with career obsessed

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political operatives who don't plan to stay very long. Doesn't

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exactly create relationship stability. Who could have seen that coming? Now?

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The liberals in DC aren't making this any easier. One

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matchmaker says a liberal guy refused to date anyone who

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drives a Tesla. Another matchmaker had liberal women asking if

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potential matches attended the January sixth insurrection, which, to be fair,

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seems like a pretty reasonable screening question at this point.

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One twenty seven year old Republican staffer said, my partner

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can't think I'm a fascist. That's crazy, which is such

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a low bar for a relationship. I just need someone

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who doesn't think I'm a fascist. That used to be implied.

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So conservatives have basically created their own dating ecosystem. There

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was a pre inauguration party where hundreds of young Trump

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supporters showed up, and according to the organizer, a lot

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of people got lucky that night. People got laid. To me,

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that's a success, which is one way to measure success,

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I suppose. So that's where we are Maga singles in DC,

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swiping through dating apps, going to hodowns, avoiding Tesla drivers,

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and now eyeing the military personnel deployed on American streets

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as potential romantic partners. Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, which

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is basically Wikipedia, but run by AI and with a

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conservative slant, and shockingly, it's already a mess. Here's what happened.

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Elon decided Wikipedia is too biased, so he created his

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own encyclopedia using his grock Eye chatbot. The site looks

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exactly like Wikipedia, same design, same format, except smaller, less

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transparent about where it gets its information, and apparently way

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more interested in telling you how great Elon Musk is.

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The whole thing claims to have eight hundred and eighty

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five thousand articles, which sounds impressive until you realize a

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bunch of them are just copied directly from Wikipedia, word

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for word, which is hilarious because Elon's been publicly trashing

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Wikipedia for years, calling it liberally biased, and now his

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big alternative is allegedly plagiarizing Wikipedia. But here's where it

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gets really telling. Growkipedia's entries have a very specific point

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of view. Their definition of gender focuses entirely on biological sex,

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while wikipedias include social and cultural dimensions. Their page on

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January sixth suggests that democrats in the media exaggerated how

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severe the capital attack was, you know, just casually downplaying

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an insurrection, normal encyclopedia stuff. And then there's the Elon

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Musk page on Grokipedia, which I'm sure he had absolutely

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nothing to do with. It describes his truth oriented approach

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to AI and his long term vision for humanity. The

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thing reads like it was written by Elon's publicist or

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by Elon himself. At three in the morning, after too

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much espresso, Wikipedia co founder Jimmy Wale said AI tools

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aren't good enough to write encyclopedia articles and predicted Grokipedia

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would contain a lot of errors. The future of human knowledge, everyone,

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We're doing great. Even crazier portions of today's show were

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created with the help of AI.