Tag Archives: Idiocracy

The Tampa Bay Times reports: Pinellas lawyer Ron Smith was a member of ABATE — A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments and American Bikers Aimed Toward Education — which lobbied against the law for years. He represented clients who ran afoul of Florida’s motorcycle requirements in court cases that some say helped overturn Florida’s helmet law. Smith and his girlfriend, Brenda …

NBC News reports: A Georgia man was arrested on weapons charges Wednesday after police said they found two handguns and a shotgun in a van he was driving in Washington, D.C., with plans to “deliver documents” to the Supreme Court. U.S. Capitol Police said they arrested Tony H. Payne, 80, of Tunnel Hill, who faces three charges: unregistered firearm, unregistered …

Mediaite reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence declined to say if he would vote for former President Donald Trump in 2024, should the country’s 45th president run again. One student asked, “Mr. Pence, if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for president in 2024, will you vote for him?” Some in the crowd gasped. The former vice president sat quietly …

The Daily Beast reports: An attempt to make a right-wing superhero movie has ended in disaster, with $1 million missing in China and a participant facing a federal indictment. “I wouldn’t count on us getting the money back,” Theodore Beale, a far-right blogger known as “Vox Day,” admitted to his fans and investors in a video last week. This isn’t …

Billboard Magazine reports: Kanye West sat down for an interview with Piers Morgan on Wednesday (Oct. 19), where the rapper didn’t show any remorse for his string of anti-Semitic comments throughout the past few weeks. When asked if he was “sorry” that he said he was going to go “death con 3” on Jewish people, Ye simply replied, “Absolutely not.” …

CNN reports: U.S. Capitol Police have arrested three people from Georgia on weapons charges after police found them with two firearms, according to a law enforcement source. A suspicious vehicle raised concern among police, and a Capitol Police bomb squad is assessing the vehicle, the source said. Police have closed several roads in the area around the U.S. Supreme Court …

Boston’s NBC affiliate reports: According to the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department, on October 12th at around 9:15 a.m. 55-year-old Rorie Susan Woods of Hadley pulled up to an ongoing eviction on Memory Lane in Longmeadow in a blue Nissan Xterra. Woods left her dog in the car and immediately went to the bee hives being towed by her SUV, and …

Bitcoin News reports: Data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis shows that October is “the biggest month in the biggest year ever for hacking activity.” The firm added that crypto hackers have grossed over $3 billion across 125 hacks so far this year. Chainalysis wrote: “After four hacks yesterday, October is now the biggest month in the biggest year ever for …

“Well, I haven’t really seen the statements he’s made. I did watch the Tucker Carlson interview and he was really nice to me. Beyond anybody, he was. He was great to me. “And he was great, really, to MAGA, to the MAGA movement, which was very impressive. I was, you know, not surprised. I always got along with him. I …

“What I’m doing, I’m calling out the Jewish community as a whole to say, people say to me, ‘Aww… why is Ye upset at everybody?’ “The Jewish people that I’m talking about don’t have to understand, and that is that privilege that I’m not going to allow. “When I wore the White Lives Matter t-shirt, the Jewish underground media mafia …

“Bill Gates has decided that all of us have to eat man-made meat. I want the real thing. I want it to come from the real source. It’s not about the way it tastes. “I mean congratulations for making something that tastes a little bit like the original. I want to eat something that’s real. “That’s the real thing that …

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 …

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 …

Yahoo Sports reports: After Jacob Runyan, 42, of Ashtabula, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, 35, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, were accused of cheating during a fishing tournament on Lake Erie, a Cleveland grand jury indicted them on fifth-degree felony charges of cheating, attempted grand theft and possessing criminal tools. In addition, the two have been served with the first-degree misdemeanor charge of …

“There is demand for things out there so folks can get up and get going and find these jobs and find maybe a raise or two or find another side gig. “I mean, admittedly, you wonder how bad inflation is. Yesterday, yes, I had a nice lunch at Taco Bell, cost me about $28 at Taco Bell for lunch. “People …

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 …

CNN reports: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said he’s been “blown away” by the calls for him to launch a White House bid, but maintained that his focus at the moment is raising his family. “I’m just really grounded and humbled by the interest on both sides. But the No.1 job, and my No. 1 title, that I love right now …

“I been telling this little story about this bull out in the field with six cows, and three of them are pregnant. So, you know he got something goin’ on. “But all he cared about is keep his nose against the fence looking at three other cows that didn’t belong to him. “Now all he had to do is eat …

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 …

Ars Technica reports: Hackers have stolen around $570 million in tokens from Binance, in a rare blow to the world’s biggest crypto exchange and another dent to the troubled digital assets industry struggling to regain trust after a collapse in prices. It comes at a time when digital assets are trying to recover from a credit crisis that wiped nearly …