Tag Archives: Idiocracy

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 …

The Texas Tribune reports: In a week when parts of the state are getting triple-digit temperatures and weather officials urge Texans to stay cool and hydrated, Gov. Greg Abbott gave final approval to a law that will eliminate local rules mandating water breaks for construction workers. House Bill 2127 was passed by the Texas Legislature during this year’s regular legislative …

Axios reports: In a new bid to steady his rattled company, Anheuser-Busch U.S. CEO Brendan Whitworth vowed to protect the jobs of employees and those of independent wholesalers. Axios has learned that Whitworth plans to go on the road around the U.S. this summer to listen to consumers, in connection with Budweiser’s MLB sponsorship. The company’s summer ad campaign, which …

Florida Politics reports: With a sweep of the Governor’s veto pen, more than $3 million in funding for water handling in Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties went down the drain. The $3.14 million in reductions — all having to do with flood control and drainage — were among the half-billion that Gov. Ron DeSantis excised from the 2023-24 budget …

The Associated Press reports: Ending a walkout that held up key bills for six weeks, Republicans showed up for work in the Oregon Senate on Thursday. The longest walkout in the Oregon Legislature’s history happened despite voters passing a ballot measure in 2022 that disqualifies lawmakers with 10 or more unexcused absences from reelection. “A whole bunch of legislators aren’t …

The Christian Post reports: Chick-fil-A is the latest company in the crosshairs of furious conservatives calling for a boycott of popular companies like Budweiser and Target. However, what makes their allegiance to this network of disingenuous evildoers masquerading as do-gooders is their betrayal of their loyal patrons. Chick-fil-A is a family-owned company, so they’re not beholden to the ESG standards …

The Denver Post reports: A Boulder landlord succeeded in obtaining an order to evict Twitter over unpaid rent, according to recent court documents. A judge for Boulder County’s district court permitted law enforcement to evict the tenant on May 31, directing the tech giant to evacuate its suites at 3401 Bluff St. in Boulder and return them to the owner …

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 …

The Guardian reports: Fox News labelled US president Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator” who attempted to have “his political rival arrested” during a live broadcast of Donald Trump’s post-arraignment speech. The network was the only major cable news network to carry Trump’s Tuesday evening speech live, with CNN and MSNBC choosing not to air the address. Towards the end of …

So this happened amid the chaos outside the courthouse: Fox News claimed that Trump aide Margo Martin a.k.a. Fake Melania was the former first lady during their coverage of Trump’s arraignment. Journalists have had no sighting of Melania Trump in Miami, but Martin remains in Trump’s employ and circle. Martin doesn’t really look like Melania Trump. She doesn’t move like …

“It’s gonna be difficult for those other candidates to sign this letter. The reason it’s gonna be difficult for them is the same reason it’s difficult for me. “The donor class has been calling every Republican candidate and telling us to stay away from this. Not to touch it from a ten-foot pole. Keep your distance away from Trump. That …

“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 …

“The latest disaster has some calling into question Buttigieg’s obsession with equity over actually fixing America’s crumbling infrastructure. The transportation secretary is launching a $1 billion pilot [program] to build racial equity into roads and has spoken in the past about how construction workers are not diverse enough.” – Fox News host Dana Perino, in a discussion by The Five …

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 …

“The orange smog here in New York City. Have you heard about it? Many cities on the East Coast, primarily, have this big blanket of orange smug right over the top of it. “Our woke friends to the north in Canada, their forest fires got out of hand and, well, this is what we’re dealing with. It’s complicating some people’s …

From the far-right Charisma News: As millions across the world await the international release of the upcoming ARPG Diablo IV, few are aware, or care, that with this game comes the promotion of a very real demonic spirit: Lilith. The “night creature” mentioned in Isaiah 34 is also the main antagonist in the upcoming game that paints her as an …

NBC News reports: A crude joke that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., used to mock what he said was then-2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “small hands” will be the centerpiece of a Supreme Court ruling on whether a California lawyer can trademark the phrase “Trump too small.” The court on Monday agreed to consider whether Steve Elster could register the trademark …