Tag Archives: Idiocracy

Tulsa’s ABC News affiliate reports: According to the Tulsa Police Department, a man later identified as Randy Cantwell came into a car dealership near 61st and Mingo and asked to look at an Audi in the lot. An employee got the keys and began showing Cantwell the car, but said the car wasn’t ready to be driven. Cantwell said he …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: For weeks, extremist right-wing broadcaster and radical COVID-19 conspiracy theorist Stew Peters has been hyping the release of an “explosive” documentary that he claimed would finally reveal the “truth” behind the COVID-19 pandemic. After some delays, that documentary, called “Watch The Water,” was finally released Monday night. Peters, who regularly hosts far-right activists, …

The Associated Press reports: The University of Southern California is suing two YouTube performers who the school says created panic after barging into classrooms to film prank videos for their channels. Court documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times claim the pair caused “terror and disruption” during three “classroom takeover incidents” in the university’s Mark Taper Hall of Humanities. The …

Mediaite reports: Kid Rock started his concert on Wednesday night with a video greeting from former President Donald Trump saying “all of you in attendance are the true backbone of our great country, hard-working, God-fearing, rock-and-roll patriots.” “I know you’re having a great time at the Kid Rock concert tonight. Quite frankly, he’s amazing,” Trump said to the crowd at …

Mediaite reports: Will Cain suggested that a rise in the percentage of Gen Z who self-identify as LGTBQ+ could be a result of Disney content. While the Fox & Friends host didn’t say it explicitly, his message was clear Friday morning. Disney is making your kids queer. Cain then noted a recent Gallup poll that said one in five Gen …

The Washington Post reports: Twitter plans to host Elon Musk for a question-and-answer session with employees after a week of internal outcries over his appointment to the social network’s board of directors, according to company messages obtained by The Washington Post. The announcement from Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal of the highly unusual internal AMA — which stands for “ask …

“So we pray, father in heaven, we firmly believe that Donald J. Trump is current and true president of the United States. You have raised him up for this season of time to be used and be part of saving this nation. “Bless and protect him and his family from any physical, spiritual attacks and may his voice still the …

TMZ reports: Joe Exotic is explaining why he finally filed for divorce from husband Dillon Passage … he wants to get hitched to a new guy he met behind bars!!! The Netflix star’s lawyer, Autumn Blackledge, tells TMZ Joe’s new love interest is a man named John Graham, and the prison romance is the reason Exotic recently filed divorce docs …

The Washington Post reports: Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok. The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor in major regional news outlets, promoting dubious stories about alleged TikTok trends that actually originated on Facebook, and …

Mediaite reports: President Joe Biden was tragically felled by a slice of pizza topped with jalapeño peppers in Warsaw on Friday, Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt reported on Hannity. Biden ate pizza with soldiers and afterward met with Polish President Andrezj Duda. As Biden spoke, he coughed and took a sip of his drink. He turned to Duda and said, …

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: A Chalfont woman was convicted Friday of sending repeated, harassing text messages to the parents of her daughter’s rivals on a cheerleading squad. Raffaela Spone, 51, was found guilty by a Bucks County jury after about an hour and a half of deliberation. Detectives later traced the messages to Spone’s home through her IP address, and …

The Hill reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence said on Friday that the Trump administration “stood up to Kim Jong Un” and blamed the Biden administration for North Korea’s latest missile test. “The fact that for the first time in more than four years, Kim Jong Un fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that went into space and landed in the …

TMZ reports: The so-called “gay” dog that was given up by its owners over perceived homosexual behavior now has a new home — and that pad is very LGBTQ-friendly – as is his new name! North Carolina’s Steve Nichols tells TMZ he and his longtime partner, John, adopted Fezco Tuesday after hearing the story about him getting abandoned by his …

The Verge reports: Early in March, Facebook users got a mysterious, spam-like email titled “Your account requires advanced security from Facebook Protect” and telling them that they were required to turn on the Facebook Protect feature by a certain date, or they would be locked out of their account. It actually wasn’t spam. In fact, it was real. The first …

Charlotte’s CW affiliate reports: A local shelter dog is looking for a soft landing after being dumped by his owners for being “gay.” A Stanly County Animal Shelter Facebook post says the dog’s owners surrendered him to the shelter after he humped another male dog. Fezco, the shelter says, is about four to five years old and weighs about 50 …

The Miami Herald reports: When Alin Oteanu was told by Spirit workers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport that he would have to pay a fee for an extra bag on his flight, he had another idea, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office. “I will leave it right there, and by the way, it has a bomb in it,” Oteanu said, …

Newsweek reports: A social media personality has gone viral with an over-the-top performance of a rap song calling for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Alex Stein, of Dallas, Texas, can be seen rapping in front of a televised North Texas city council meeting. The songs’ lyrics include, “Put a bullet in Putin’s brain,” and “Vladimir Putin needs to …

Media Matters has the transcript: CANDACE OWENS (HOST): Wow, “genocidal colonization” is interesting. Again, going back to my point about people being stupid, you know – he’s not trying to commit a genocide of the Ukrainians. That obviously makes no sense because there’s very – there is no difference, ethnically, between Ukrainians and Russians, obviously. Ukraine wasn’t a thing until …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump on Monday said he is not using any campaign funding to construct a new plane. In a phone interview, Trump took issue with an article by The Hill over the weekend that cited a fundraising email his political action committee recently sent out. “The story was incorrect,” Trump told The Hill. “I already have …

Chicago’s ABC News affiliate reports: A young mother is dead after her toddler accidentally shot and killed her Saturday in Dolton, according to police. A family’s life was changed in an instant while sitting in a Food-4-Less parking lot. Police said a 3-year-old boy got hold of a gun in the back seat of his parent’s car and began playing …