Idiocracy

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 …

“So I went through the indictment and saw that how many documents, classified documents, did the FBI actually recover? 102. “So everybody, I got a box right here, alright? This is one box. One box, and inside I have 600 pages. That’s 600 pages. From Staples, this is 500, and this, I opened another, this is about a hundred right …

Michael Reagan writes for Newsmax: The Cracker Barrel marketing department had other ideas. It watched the Bud Light transgender debacle and the Target grooming debacle and decided it wanted some of that, too. Cracker Barrel surrendered to the Rainbow Reich without a shot being fired, and has now fully embraced PRIDE month. The celebration of America’s new godless religion of …

Courthouse News reports: A Hawaii resident claiming the state infringed on his right to free speech after recalling a personalized license plate bearing the letters “FCKBLM” asked the Ninth Circuit on Thursday to consider whether license plates are truly representative of government speech or if it becomes messaging merely associated with a private citizen. According to the initial complaint, Edward …

NBC News reports: Con artists have been mining their disappointment over the last presidential election for gold. They’ve been peddling “Trump Bucks,” which are emblazoned with photos of the former president, and advertising them online as a kind of golden ticket that will help propel Trump’s 2024 bid and make the “real patriots” who support him rich when cashed in. …

MSNBC reports: When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy kicked Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell off the House Intelligence Committee in January, the Republican leader said the move was necessary in the interests of “national security.” Even at the time, it was a difficult line to take seriously. In fact, The Washington Post published a detailed report scrutinizing McCarthy’s claims and concluded they …

The New York Daily News reports: A YouTuber and former X Games snowboarder has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge after he intentionally crashed a plane on camera in a bid to up his follower count, prosecutors announced. Trevor Daniel Jacob confessed to authorities that he planned to crash his plane in a video he made. He later …

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: An angry passenger who missed his flight from Las Vegas to Los Angeles phoned in a bomb threat Thursday, triggering a security alert at LAX, authorities said. The JetBlue flight that landed at Los Angeles International Airport around 2 p.m. was held on the tarmac for more than an hour before passengers were allowed to …

“The bedding is temperature-regulated so you sleep just right. It is literally on our bed. We have these sheets, they’re fantastic. They keep just the right temperature. Don’t you hate it when you have a hot bed and you kick a leg out, da da da da? You know, you share a bed with Don Junior, he’s like a big …

The Huffington Post reports: A Republican lawmaker in Minnesota argued that “two ounces” of marijuana was the equivalent of “three joints” during remarks as the Minnesota Senate voted Friday on whether to legalize recreational use of cannabis. State Sen. Warren Limmer criticized a number of portions of the bills. “Now I’ve seen some of the videos of DEA raids, some …