Tag Archives: Idiocracy

The Wall Street Journal reports: Anheuser-Busch InBev said it had placed on leave two executives who oversaw a Bud Light collaboration with a transgender activist. Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Light’s vice president of marketing, had come under fire from some customers and media outlets over the company’s decision to send a personalized Bud Light can to transgender activist and influencer Dylan …

Springfield’s CBS affiliate reports: Republic Police Department officers were called to a Price Cutter to respond to a call about a robbery in which a man held an employee at gunpoint so that he would be served meat. Larry Gene Gay, 70, of Springfield, is charged with one felony count of unlawful use of a weapon and a felony count …

The Hill reports: New York officials and government offices faced a slew of fake accounts impersonating its official City of New York account, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D). One of the parody accounts impersonating Hochul claimed that she is running as a Republican for the governor’s race, while numerous accounts impersonating …

The Guardian reports: An attempt to repeal a Michigan law that punishes unmarried couples who live together is being thwarted by Republicans in the state legislature. The law, which dates to 1931, targets “any man or woman, not being married to each other, who lewdly and lasciviously associates and cohabits together”. It is rarely enforced but violations carry a penalty …

“It’s not that we don’t love [LGBTQ people]. It’s not that we don’t like them. But if you’re going to be part of the Republican Party, you have to support the platform, and the rules and bylaws 100%, not just 80%. “If I made brownies, and I said, ‘Well, these are 80% brownies and 20% poop’, you would not eat …

The Daily Dot reports: A right-wing influencer appears to be having trouble finding a brewery willing to craft his anti-woke beer. The brew was launched in response to Bud Light offering a commemorative can to a transgender influencer. Seth Weathers decided to solve their woke beer woes by selling a brew that doesn’t stand for LGBTQ equality in the slightest: …

The Verge reports: Elon Musk is finally confiscating your blue checkmark. Well, that’s unless you pay the ransom for “Twitter Blue” — a toll booth designed to ignore people’s contributions to the platform except for the fact that they are all equally paying customers. Business and government organizations can still apply for verified status, but let’s be real: all of …

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: Good morning, Florida! Early Thursday morning, Florida residents were awoken by a loud alert on their phones. Across the state, Floridians’ phones sounded off around 4:45 a.m. The loud sound, which is usually associated with an Amber Alert or severe weather, woke millions. When residents looked at their phones, the screen read: “TEST – This is …

Loudwire reports: The country music star Brantley Gilbert showed his disdain for the beer Bud Light during a concert in Alabama on Saturday (April 15). The country singer did so during a cover of a Queen song, apparently unaware of the irony. Gilbert — the star himself doesn’t drink — made the onstage statement against Bud Light, violently throwing a …

Dennis Prager, whose PragerU YouTube channel has over three million subscribers, wants you to know that slavery wasn’t so bad in the United States: It’s a very distressing thing what is being done here. The hatred of America and of capitalism is what animates the entire slave narrative in your kid’s college. Yes, Corey glossed over that the US ended …

Forbes reports: The man seen in a viral video destroying cases of beer at a Walmart in Topeka, Kansas has been charged with felony battery, assault and exposing his genitals in public, according to Topeka Police. “Officers learned that an adult male, identified as Dustin D. Cain, 44, of Topeka, was in the store throwing things at people,” Topeka Police …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): I mean the urge to have sex and to procreate is, after breathing and eating, the most basic urge. How has it been subverted? ELON MUSK (GUEST): Well it’s just, in the past we could rely upon, you know, simple limbic system rewards in order to procreate. But once you have birth …

“We have food critics that criticize restaurants, consumer reports that criticizes products, auto critics that criticize automobiles, and conservative Americans have just wrapped up a week of nuking a beer company, but you can’t criticize a voting machine company or you’ll get sued for millions and millions of dollars.” – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, in a post made to Truth …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …