Idiocracy

Slate reports: For decades, federal law has forbidden gun owners from scratching out the serial numbers that manufacturers are legally required to place on firearms. The reason is obvious: These serial numbers help state and federal law enforcement trace guns that are used in crimes and identify suspected shooters. Indeed, the only apparent reason anyone would remove a serial number …

Media Matters has the transcript: JOE ROGAN (HOST): How did anybody allow it to get this far? Who? Are there no adults in the room? I mean, that’s a big expression, right? TULSI GABBARD (FORMER U.S. REPRESENTATIVE): It is. ROGAN: That was the thing that everyone said we were going to love about the Biden administration. GABBARD: Right. ROGAN: The …

The Huffington Post reports: At a lobster industry rally Wednesday in Portland, a Republican candidate for Maine’s 1st Congressional District compared federal rules aimed at protecting the endangered right whale to sex crimes against children. “NOAA wants to rape you and your family, and they’re saying ‘pick a child,’” said GOP hopeful Ed Thelander, referring to the National Oceanic and …

The Insider reports: A flurry of fake votes threatened to throw the balance of the annual Fat Bear Week competition at the Katmai National Park in Alaska, a tournament where online users get to vote for their favorite beefed-up brown bears as they fatten themselves to survive the harsh winter ahead. Organizers said  that as the competition neared voting for …

Fox News reports: Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced she left the Democratic Party on Tuesday, denouncing the organization as an “elitist cabal.” She went on to call on other moderate Democrats to follow in her footsteps. Gabbard, who retired from the House of Representatives in 2021, attacked the institution in a nearly 30-minute video posted to her YouTube …

The Daily Beast reports: Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann received a particularly thorough security scan ahead of a Thursday tournament after he was accused of cheating in a tournament in St. Louis last month, which some fans wildly speculated was made possible by way of an anal vibrator delivering coded moves. Niemann’s security check at the first day of the U.S. …

Media Matters has the transcript: ADDISON SMITH (OAN HOST): How much more evidence do we need of the Biden family’s corruption before we start charging, before we start having trials against the Bidens? LARRY KLAYMAN (FOUNDER, FREEDOM WATCH): Well actually, we have trials against the Bidens right now. Our citizens grand jury at Freedom Watch has indicted Joe Biden, Hunter …

The Denver Post reports: No, several large Colorado school districts said Tuesday, they are not having issues with students identifying as cats or other animals, as Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl has repeatedly claimed is happening in schools across the state. Ganahl, a University of Colorado regent running to unseat Gov. Jared Polis next month, said in a radio interview …

The New York Post reports: John Schnatter, the founder of Papa John’s Pizza who was forced to step down as CEO after uttering a racial slur during a conference call, was slammed on Tuesday for telling a cable news channel that he had “lost a home” in Florida as a result of Hurricane Ian. Schnatter, whose net worth was pegged …

Via press release from the SEC: The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against Kim Kardashian for touting on social media a crypto asset security offered and sold by EthereumMax without disclosing the payment she received for the promotion. Kardashian agreed to settle the charges, pay $1.26 million in penalties, disgorgement, and interest, and cooperate with the Commission’s ongoing …

The Sharon Herald reports: In a scandal rocking the competitive fishing world, a Hermitage-based angler and his partner are accused of illegally putting weights in the fish they caught Friday during the Lake Erie Walleye Trail Championship event. Chase Cominsky and Jake Runyon, of Cleveland, had been the event’s apparent winners until a tournament official cut open one of the …

“The people who tend to fight wars are typically very patriotic, very male people. Now. I’m sorry to break it to you, but this has been the truth about military warfare for literally all of human history. “And the institution of traditional masculinity has been core to that idea. But we’re a society that doesn’t believe in traditional masculinity. Traditional …

Mediaite reports: Candace Owens is back in the headlines as she alleged businessman Bill Gates is at the helm of yet another conspiracy. During the Thursday edition of The Candace Owens Podcast she referenced an article from Evie Magazine which connected Gates to medical research with modified mosquitos. Owens alleges that Gates could use the manipulated mosquito research to make …

“Richard Nixon won his 1972 reelection campaign in a historic landslide. He carried 49 states, biggest margin ever. “And then within a year, he was disgraced and six months later he was gone because Watergate, which no one can still explain, even to this day. “That was clearly driven by government agencies, including the FBI. So we’re thinking about Richard …

The Texas Tribune reports: It is no longer constitutional to ban people under felony indictment from buying guns, a federal judge in Texas ruled today. U.S. District Judge David Counts, appointed by former President Donald Trump to Texas’ western federal district, found that a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling from June invalidates federal law which prohibits those charged with a …

Florida Politics reports: If credit card companies say they won’t front suspicious firearm purchases, they can just stop doing business in Florida. At least, that’s the message Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis wants the state to send. The Cabinet member said Florida’s government will act against any credit card companies targeting the right to bear arms. “Our rights come from …

Law & Crime reports: Doug Ramsey, the 53-year-old Chief Operating Officer (COO) of El Segundo-based Beyond Meat, was taken into custody at approximately 10:27 p.m. Saturday evening and charged with one count each of third-degree battery and terroristic threatening, records reviewed by Law&Crime show. The incident occurred in a parking garage just outside of Razorback Stadium following the Arizona Razorbacks’ …

The Hill reports: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning young people against engaging in an online trend that challenges people to cook with over-the-counter drugs, saying there are “significant risks” in using these medications incorrectly. At the beginning of this year, the trend took off on social media apps such as TikTok, where users would post videos of …

The Villages News reports: The Villages MAGA Club held a golf cart rally Sunday afternoon. The club, which has split from Villagers for Trump, offered some familiar themes as members showed their support for Gov. Ron DeSantis and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. More than 100 golf carts gathered for the event which traveled from Lake Sumter Landing to Brownwood. Many …

The Independent reports: US chess player Hans Niemann has rejected claims that he used a sex toy to beat Norweigan world champion Magnus Carlsen. The streak of 53 games during which Mr Carlsen, 31, remained unbeaten was ended on 4 September when he was defeated by the 19-year-old US grandmaster in the Sinquefield Cup hosted by the St Louis Chess …