Tag Archives: Idiocracy

FL Seafood Chain: The Bible Tells Us To Boycott Bud

From the Facebook page of Grills Seafood: Dear Customers and Employees of Grills, Please forgive me for not responding sooner to these allegations (post below) as I was unavailable till now to do so. This was posted on a personal FB account that has since been deleted but continues to be recycled by outlets with differing views than ours. I …

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FL Restaurant Chain Tosses Out “Faggot Beer” Bud Light

The Space Coast Rocket reports: Several social media post appeared yesterday from local patrons who went to Grills Seafood at the Cape Canaveral and Melbourne locations. The post all shared the same theme; being refused to be served Bud Light. The decision seemed to be sudden and immediate as one diner described being served Bud Light at the beginning of …

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FL Bill Would Create Drop Boxes For Unwanted Babies

The Orlando Sentinel reports: In the medieval ages, mothers would emerge under the cover of night, head to the church, and place their unwanted newborns in turntables embedded in the walls, where, on the other side, a nun would take them. A version of the practice may soon return in Florida. A bill passed unanimously in the House and advancing …

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Philly Thieves Steal $100,000 In US Mint’s New Dimes

Philadelphia’s CBS affiliate reports: Police are investigating a case of dimes and dash. They say a trailer containing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of dimes was broken into overnight inside a Walmart parking lot in the 4300 block of Byberry Road in Northeast Philadelphia. According to police, the truck had about $750,000 in dimes in it. Investigators believe at …

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GOP Rep Face-Plants In Bud Light Boycott Attempt

The Houston Chronicle reports: Houston-area Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) joined in on the wave of backlash to the commercial with an Instagram post over the weekend. In a video published to the platform on Sunday, Crenshaw vows to throw out all the Bud Light in his fridge—only to find it stuffed with Karbach. “Saw Bud Light’s stupid ad campaign,” Crenshaw …

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Musk Paints Over “W” In Twitter Headquarters Sign

The Daily Beast reports: Twitter CEO Elon Musk has apparently gone to new lengths in his childish joke to have his multibillion-dollar social media company renamed “Titter.” Last week, images were posted on social media showing the sign on the company’s San Francisco office with the “w” covered up. On Sunday night, Musk said he was forced to uncover the …

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Chaos At UK Musical Over Singing Audience Members

The BBC reports: Singer Melody Thornton has apologised after rowdy audience members halted a performance of The Bodyguard musical. The ex-Pussycat Dolls star was unable to complete the show’s final song due to the disruption at Manchester’s Palace Theatre on Friday. Speaking on Instagram, Thornton said she “fought really hard” to finish the show, but it had not been possible. …

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ND Senate Votes To Increase Their Meal Allowances After Voting Against Free Lunches For Poor Students

InForum reports: Ten days after narrowly defeating a bill to provide free school lunches to low-income K-12 students, the North Dakota Senate approved legislation to increase the amount of money lawmakers and other state employees receive in meal reimbursements. A leading Republican senator says employee meal compensation rates and free school lunch programs aren’t related issues, but top Democrats see …

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Newsmax Host: Trump Looked “Even More Presidential” While Being Arrested, “We’re Talking Eye Of The Tiger”

“President Donald Trump — this was technically in police custody today, going from processing into the arraignment. And somehow he looks even more presidential. “I’m serious. I mean, we’re talking eye of the tiger. This is why so many people are drawn to him, he fights. And, by the way, this is all nonsense. I’ve seen the indictment and it’s …

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Trump’s $36 Fake Mugshot T-Shirt Shows Him As 6’5″

Axios reports: The Trump campaign is capitalizing on the former president’s arrest Tuesday. An email from Trump’s 2024 campaign was sent advertising a t-shirt with a fake mug shot of former President Trump, with the phrase “NOT GUILTY” below it. The shirt is free with a $47 contribution to the campaign. The shirt can also be purchased for $36 from …

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Musk Swaps Twitter Logo For Logo Of Crypto “Meme Coin” Whose Investors Are Suing Him For $258 Billion

Tech Crunch reports: Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence. You can see it for yourself on Twitter.com, where you will be greeted with a pup. The particular dog image — a Shiba Inu — corresponds with the logo of the dogecoin blockchain and cryptocurrency. Normally the swapping …

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Lindseybelle: Trump Should Punch A New York City Cop

The Insider reports: Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says he’s got a plan to keep former President Donald Trump from being prosecuted after being indicted by a grand jury in Manhattan on Thursday — assaulting a police officer and engaging in robbery. “How can President Trump avoid prosecution in New York?,” asked Graham on Twitter. “On the way …

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Ohio High School To Raffle Off AR-15 Assault Rifle

Vice News reports: A high school athletics department in a small town in central Ohio is raffling off powerful firearms—including an AR-15—to raise funds to buy equipment for the track team. The gun raffle, in aid of the Upper Sandusky Rams Track and Field, has been so popular that this week the organizers announced all 500 $10 tickets have been …

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Teen Carjackers Foiled By Manual Transmission [Video]

From Maryland’s Montgomery County police: Detectives from the Montgomery County Department of Police- Major Crimes Division have arrested and charged a 16-year-old juvenile from Rockville and a 17-year-old juvenile from Washington D.C. for a strong-arm carjacking that occurred in Germantown on Saturday, March 25, 2023. On March 25, at approximately 4:36 p.m., 5th District Officers responded to the Sunoco gas …

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GOP Rep: People That Pray “Aren’t Doing Shootings”

The Hill reports: The GOP Tennessee congressman who said nothing will be done to “fix” gun violence following this week’s deadly school shooting in Nashville responded Thursday to the “hatred” he has received over his comments. “I realize their hatred towards me and my beliefs, and that’s fine,” Rep. Tim Burchett said in a Thursday interview on Fox. During his …

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Most Of Twitter’s Paid Users Have Very Few Followers

Mashable reports: Researcher Travis Brown, who has been tracking Twitter Blue subscriptions since January, recently revealed around half of all users subscribed to Twitter Blue have less than 1,000 followers. That’s approximately 220,132 paying subscribers. Furthermore, 78,059 paying Twitter Blue subscribers have less than 100 users following their account. That’s 17.6 percent of all Twitter Blue subscribers. There are 2,270 …

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Huggies Maker Shoots Down Batshit QAnon Claims

Media Matters reports: A QAnon influencer who was reinstated on Twitter by Elon Musk caused a baseless conspiracy theory linking Huggies diapers and pedophilia to gain traction online, forcing the diaper company to publicly rebut it. It is yet another case of Musk’s decision-making with Twitter harming the platform’s user base. The QAnon influencer known online as “Vincent Kennedy” was …

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REPORT: Twitter Secretly Boosts Posts By “VIP Users”

The Insider reports: Twitter is secretly boosting the accounts of 35 VIP users over others, per a new report from Platformer. Managing Editor Zoë Schiffer cited internal documents from Twitter which listed 35 VIP users, who all have their posts monitored and promoted for greater visibility. Schiffer published 14 out of the 35 names on the list, which included NBA …

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Twitter To Remove “Legacy” Blue Checkmarks On 4/1

Ars Technica reports: Four and a half months after the chaotic rollout of paid checkmarks, Elon Musk’s Twitter is following through on a plan to remove verification from individual accounts that don’t pay $8 per month for a Twitter Blue subscription. “Starting April 1, we’ll be winding down our legacy Verification program and accounts that were verified under the previous …

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MTA Seizes 20 Vehicles Owing $600,000 In Evaded Tolls

Via press release from the MTA:  The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) today announced that its Bridge and Tunnel officers stopped and seized 20 vehicles belonging to persistent toll violators at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on Monday, March 20. The scofflaws accounted for nearly $600,000, in unpaid tolls and fees. These efforts go a long way towards securing toll revenue of which …

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