Tag Archives: Idiocracy

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 …

“College doesn’t look like it’s fun anymore. I mean, have you seen how miserable and how miserable-looking a lot of the students are? “They’re deliberately like ugly-fying themselves. You see them on TikTok. They’re out of shape, they’re asexual. They’re rejecting the truth in beauty. “They all look like rejects from a loony bin. I’d steer clear of college, too.” …

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 …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump told the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) Hispanic Leadership Conference in Miami, Florida on Wednesday a pollster once told him he could defeat George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on the same ticket. Trump, not known for his modesty, made the off claim during a free-wielding speech in which he falsely claimed former presidents like …

Waco’s CBS affiliate reports: A Central Texas mother is warning parents about “Hocus Pocus 2,” the sequel to the cult Disney favorite released this past week on the company’s new Disney+ streaming service. “A worst case scenario is: you unleash hell on your kids and in your home,” said Jamie Gooch, “The whole movie is based on witches harvesting children …

Mediaite reports: Jesse Watters said Democrats have refused to secure the country’s southern border, as the party needs “servants” to work menial jobs. The Fox News host opened his show Tuesday by claiming the continuing influx of migrants from Mexico, Central and South America into the country is intentional. “The illegals are viewed as servants by the Democrats. They’re opening …

The Wall Street Journal reports: When world chess champion Magnus Carlsen last month suggested that American grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann was a cheater, the 19-year-old Niemann launched an impassioned defense. Niemann said he had cheated, but only at two points in his life, describing them as youthful indiscretions committed when he was 12 and 16 years old. Now, however, an …

Media Matters has the transcript: So this whole thing about climate change, hurricanes, when they come out and say, see, there’s a hurricane, climate change, see, it’s bad. It’s a bad hurricane. It would be less bad but for climate change, and you got to vote for us. You got to give us the money. You got to give us …

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 …

Bloomberg News reports: Elon Musk is proposing to buy Twitter Inc. for the original offer price of $54.20 a share. Musk made the proposal in a letter to Twitter, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information. Shares in Twitter climbed as much as 18% on the news, after trading was briefly …

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 …

“You saw what happened in Cuba, I mean, the entire island is completely out of power. And it gives you — you know, you feel terrible for people in Puerto Rico who were just hit, in Cuba who were just hit. Thank God we have better infrastructure in our country. We’ve put a lot of investment into making sure that …

The Tallahassee Democrat reports: Gadsden County religious leaders are demanding a local commissioner and Gov. Ron DeSantis “come forward” to address allegations that the commissioner resigned last Friday after a photo surfaced purportedly showing him wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood at what could have been a Halloween party years earlier. Jeffery Moore, a Havana resident and former …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home in a truck driven by his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, to avoid being served a subpoena Monday, according to an affidavit filed in federal court. Ernesto Martin Herrera, a process server, was attempting to serve the state’s top attorney with a subpoena for a federal court hearing …

“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 …

Reuters reports: Michael Avenatti, the brash celebrity lawyer who rose to fame taking on Donald Trump before a slew of criminal charges destroyed his legal career, was ordered on Friday to pay $148,750 in restitution to his best-known client, porn actress Stormy Daniels. Avenatti, 51, was convicted by a Manhattan federal jury in February of wire fraud and aggravated identity …

The Huffington Post reports: House Republican leaders on Friday unveiled their “Commitment to America” agenda for 2023 ― and with it, an inspirational video full of scenes presented as exceptional imagery of America that were actually stock footage from Russia and Ukraine. The GOP’s video, “The Preamble to the Commitment to America,” opens with a narrator highlighting aspects of what …

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 …

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 …