Idiocracy

The Guardian reports: A United Airlines flight heading from Houston to Amsterdam was diverted to Chicago after an unruly business class passenger interrupted the flight, reportedly because his first meal choice was unavailable. The flight took off at 4.20pm local time in Houston on Sunday, and was in Chicago airspace two hours into the flight. Flight tracking website Flightradar24 showed …

Mediaite reports: Transgender Republican Caitlyn Jenner complimented an anti-trans pundit’s “breasts” and asked if he was “transitioning” on Sunday after he accused former President Donald Trump of being “as pro-trans” as President Joe Biden. John Cardillo — a conservative commentator and former Trump supporter who now supports Trump’s rival Ron DeSantis —lashed out at Trump in a Twitter post on …

The Daily Beast reports: Twitter owner Elon Musk abandoned all subtlety Sunday night as his beef with rival billionaire Mark Zuckerberg reached a head, with the Tesla CEO asking for a “literal dick measuring contest” between the tech titans. The awkward request comes after Zuckerberg’s Meta debuted a Twitter clone, called Threads, that puts the original microblogging site in danger …

Politico reports: In a Barbie world, who controls the South China Sea? That’s the question a handful of Republican lawmakers — not to mention much of Southeast Asia — is asking thanks to a background detail in the upcoming “Barbie” movie due out later this month. The detail in question is a dashed line drawn on a map off the …

“You’d want people to kind of know what they were doing. You’d want armed people to be doing it and to do it. But it is amazing that you have all of this concern about liability where it sorts of cuts against the employees. What about the liability for the employees? You’re creating — I think the legal term is …

The Huffington Post reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took his Twitter feed to some low places over the weekend when he was duped by a satire website into sharing literal fake news about country music icon Garth Brooks. Abbott linked to a story about Brooks from a satire website called The Dunning-Kruger Times. If the name alone isn’t enough of …

Reuters reports: Elon Musk said on Saturday he will start training if the mixed martial arts cage fight he has provoked with fellow billionaire media mogul Mark Zuckerberg takes shape. Twitter owner Musk tweeted on Tuesday he was up for a cage match in Las Vegas with Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, who has trained in jiu-jitsu. “I haven’t …

CNBC reports: While a standard UFC pay-per-view costs $80, UFC president Dana White said he would charge $100 for the Musk-Zuckerberg bout. The previous biggest pay-per-view ever was Conor McGrergor-Floyd Mayweather in 2017,  White said, which brought in more than $600 million in revenue. The two executives, who have a history of bad blood, likely aren’t looking to add to …

“As we continue to stand strong against these woke corporations, I am always looking for alternatives that we can support that align with our values. One company that I’m proud to stand behind, and they are proud to stand behind us as well, is PureTalk. “PureTalk is veteran-owned and has a 100% American workforce. They share our values, which is …

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) laid blame Thursday on the U.S. Coast Guard after the armed forces branch said it had found pieces of the lost Titan submersible on the ocean floor. Things might have turned out differently, he said, if leadership “had just acted sooner.” “I have been hearing a lot of concerning things from people, …

More news about bored billionaires. TMZ Sports reports: Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are “absolutely deadly serious” about fighting each other in a UFC Octagon and it would be the biggest fight in the history of the world, so says UFC Prez Dana White. Dana told Harvey and Charles on “TMZ Live” Thursday he’s been talking and texting with Mark …

The Verge reports: After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO shot back by posting a screenshot of Musk’s tweet with the caption “send me location.” I’ve confirmed that Zuckerberg’s post on his Instagram account is, in fact, not a joke, which means the ball is now in Musk’s …

Mediaite reports: It was inevitable that the story of the missing submersible in the North Atlantic would spark conspiracy theories. On Wednesday, as the frantic search continued, Donald Trump Jr. earned the distinction of becoming the first prominent pundit to lean into conspiracy over the vessel. On board are British billionaire Hamish Harding, 59; Pakistani-born billionaire Shahzada Dawood, 48, and …

“Do you worry about that? Because I see that as sort of the the next big fight. Those viruses don’t see any borders and their relatively cheap to do — there’s gain of function. That’s what I worry about more than the big hardware. And we know that the Chinese are developing ethnic bio weapons, bio weapons that are designed …

“WiFi radiation is — does all kinds of bad things, including causing cancer. Yeah, from your cell phone. There’s cell phone tumors, you know that. I’m representing hundreds of people who have cell phone tumors behind the ear. “It’s always on the ear that you favor with your cell phone. We have the science, so if anybody let us in …

Denver’s Fox affiliate reports: Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known widely as “Joe Exotic,” has filed the paperwork to appear on the 2024 Democratic presidential primary ballot in Colorado, according to the former zookeeper. Maldonado is currently serving a 21-year sentence in federal prison after being convicted in a murder-for-hire plot. Because he’s not set to be released until years after the 2024 …

“I think a lot of the problems we see in kids, particularly boys, it’s probably underappreciated on that how much of that is coming from chemical exposures, including a lot of the sexual dysphoria that we’re seeing. I mean, they’re swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals today, and many of those are endocrine disruptors. There’s atrazine throughout our water …

Here’s the transcript via Right Side Broadcasting: VANESSA BROUSSARD: Quieter, a little quieter than what it was earlier. I want to bring in a Trump supporter. She is here supporting the president. And you’ve been to many rallies. So you like to follow him and really show him that you have his back? TRUMP SUPPORTER: I always have his back. …

Chicago’s ABC affiliate reports: A Lake Barrington man with a revoked FOID card shot himself while having a dream that an intruder was breaking into his home, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. Deputies found Mark Dicara, 62, with a wound to his leg, authorities said. Deputies applied a tourniquet to stop the blood loss and he was then …

CNN Business reports: America’s top-selling beer is no longer American. Modelo Especial, the Mexican lager brewed near Mexico City by Constellation Brands, became the top-selling beer in May, overthrowing Bud Light from the top spot it has held for more than two decades. The fall from the top further highlighted how much trouble the Anheuser-Busch brand is in following transgender …