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Thu Jul 20, 2023, 05:10 PM Jul 2023

Top 10 Conservative Idiots #15-1: The Real Housewives Of The Third Reich Edition


Top 10 Conservative Idiots #15-1: The Real Housewives Of The Third Reich Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Yoooooooooooooooo! What’s up, Santa Ana? How you guys doing? You doing fucking good? Great! We are back! We are baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! We are back! And man does it feel good! We are tanned, we are rested, we are ready to go! And with the WGA writer’s strike that seems to be never ending, we’re the only game in town right now! Don’t worry, we will get to that in a minute. But for now I do want to address the future of the Top 10. Yes, we have had a lot of inquiries. Yes, we contemplated this season being the final season. But here’s the truth of the matter is that we don’t know. This could be the final season. But then so could next year. Our plan is to stay on past the 2024 election. There’s also circumstances that could arise that could prevent us from doing that. There’s a lot of uncertainty right now. One thing is for certain though is that right now, we need some comedy. Some jokes, some laughs. Some good tunes. Because I don’t know if you’ve seen the news lately but there’s a lot of really frightening shit going on right now. And in the absence of the WGA writer’s strike, and in the absence of our favorite talk shows like John Oliver, Bill Maher, and Stephen Colbert, we need some humor to lighten the mood around here, don’t you think? I think my audience here at the Constellation Room can agree with me! I think my audience at home can agree with me! I can hear you through your monitors! OK that’s enough of the intro. We have a lot of idiocy to get to. But first, Christopher Titus is back and he discusses where humanity is in 2023, and long story short, we’re fucked:



So where do we begin for this first Top 10 of season 15? Well, as usual, whenever the Top 10 is off on an extended break, we like to play Catch Up On Stuff We Missed. And man did we miss a hell of a lot of stuff while we were gone! So much that it’s taking up the first three entries this week! The first entry is going to the Qongress because whew, we’re only 6 months in and it’s going to be the longest two years ever, isn’t it? Fuck you Fox News! In the second slot this week is the Qongress (2)! Yes, this Congress, which is dominated by right wing conspiracy theory nutjobs, is getting weirder and dumber by the day, and let’s face it, we’re an election away from the House turning into the House Of Representin’ from the movie Idiocracy. In the number 3 slot, speaking of apes flinging their feces, is that guy who we inexplicably used to call president (3) and man is he out there and flinging some serious shit! In the number 4 slot this week, is a group that I’m sure you’ve heard plenty about lately called Moms For Liberty (4) and they’re every bit as evil, horrible, and awful as you would expect from the MAGA crowd! In the number 5 slot this week, we have to talk about the seemingly never ending and incredibly awful WGA Writer’s Strike (5). Don’t get too attached to any TV shows right now, because they aren’t coming back any time soon. Pay your employees, you deadbeat CEOs! In the number 6 slot this week is of course our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in “Holy Shit” (6) and this week, our resident pastor has finally had enough. He thinks it’s way past time to tax the churches and before anyone asks, we’ll gladly pay our share too! In the number 7 slot this week, we’re profiling Steve Bannon presidential campaign plant and notorious anti-vaxxer extremist Robert F Kennedy Jr (7) in a new This Fucking Guy. Come on, Cheryl Hines, ditch that zero already! In the number 8 slot this week is our weekly venture into the seemingly never-ending world of online tin foil hat nuttery in Conspiracy Corner (8), and this week, you may have heard about a bag of cocaine being found at the White House, which Fox News *DESPERATELY* tried to pin on Hunter Biden, and failed miserably. The lesson is: never try. In the number 9 (NEIN!!) slot this week is a new I Need A Drink (9) and this week, it’s a battle of social media titans as Twitter’s Elon Musk wants to fight Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and it’s every bit as ridiculous as you think it could be, and then some! Finally this week, it’s time to debut our brand new docuseries to coincide with our 4 city Florida tour, What’s Up With Florida? (10) and for part 1 of our 7 part series, we’re going to bring you some insane tales of Florida Man, to you know, set up the kind of mood we’re going for! And to close things out, we’ve got some live music from the legendary Tears For Fears! Don’t miss their show at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 2nd! Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!

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[font size="8"]Catch Up On Stuff We Missed Pt 1: SCOTUS Legalizes Discrimination
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As usual, whenever the Top 10 is on an extended break, we like to play catch up on stuff we missed, and holy shit, did we miss a lot of stuff while we were gone. And just like last year, when we missed the historic and absolutely fucking evil overturning of Roe V. Wade by the MAGA SCOTUS, we missed an absolute whopper of a decision while we were gone this time. The case was Creative LLC Vs Elenis, a case that basically decided whether or not a graphic designer would be in her legal rights to not provide services to a gay couple who wanted to have a website designed for their upcoming wedding. Well, as you can imagine, the hard right Fox News Q MAGA SCOTUS voted a not surprising at all majority 6 – 3 in favor of the website designer. Which basically means that religious based discrimination is now legal in this country. Now before you boo, I just want you to know that this whole thing stinks and we can’t quite put our finger on it.

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday, June 30, in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, provides a way for those who want to discriminate to ignore federal and state laws prohibiting discrimination. At first glance, the ruling may seem narrow, but in actuality the implications are enormous.

As Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent, this was the “first time in its history” that the Supreme Court granted “a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class.”

Colorado law, like California law, prohibits business establishments from discriminating based on race, sex, religion or sexual orientation. Lorie Smith has a website design business. She wants to expand it to design websites for weddings, but says that it would violate her religious beliefs to require that she do so for same-sex weddings. She claimed that Colorado’s anti-discrimination law would violate the First Amendment. The federal district court and the federal court of appeals ruled against her, stressing Colorado’s compelling interest in stopping discrimination based on sexual orientation.

But the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled in her favor. In an opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court held that applying the anti-discrimination law to her would violate her First Amendment right to freedom of speech. The court said forcing her to design websites for same-sex weddings would be unconstitutional compelled speech.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-supreme-court-created-first-130000104.html




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! This is really, truly beyond fucked up on multiple levels. The MAGA Supreme Court has basically opened the door for businesses to declare open season on customers that they don’t like. We’re in uncharted territory here. Not only that, they ended affirmative action. The MAGA republicans are drunk with power and absolutely out of control. It’s scary to think how destructive of a path they are taking this country on. This is a perfect example, though, of elections having consequences. This country didn’t have to be this way. No, people vote based on what Fox News and fucking idiots on social media tell them to.

President Joe Biden on Thursday blasted the Supreme Court ruling setting new limits on affirmative action as a "severe disappointment," saying, "we cannot let this decision be the last word."

"The court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions and I strongly, strongly disagree with the court's decision," Biden said, adding that "the court has once again walked away from decades of precedent."

Saying "affirmative action is so misunderstood," Biden said, "I believe our colleges are stronger when they are racially diverse. Our nation is stronger because we use -- but because we are tapping into the full range of talent in this nation. I also believe that while talent, creativity and hard work are everywhere across this country, not equal opportunity, it is not everywhere across this country," he said.

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"The truth is, we all know it, discrimination still exists in America," he said. "Discrimination still exists in America. Discrimination still exists in America," he repeated. "Today's decision doesn't change that. We cannot let the decision be a permanent setback for the country."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-supreme-court-affirmative-action-decision-word/story?id=100491437




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Fuck you Supreme Court. Fuck you Amy Comey Barrett. Fuck you Samuel Alito. Fuck you Neil Gorsuch. Fuck you Brett Kavanaugh. Fuck you John Roberts. And an especially full hearty fuck you to Clarence Thomas. May you all rot in the fieriest pit in hell. Thank you Santa Ana! But remember when I said that this whole thing with the SCOTUS ruling on discrimination stinks? Well guess what? It may have all been completely fabricated. That’s right – bullshit can now make its’ way to the highest court in the land. And if you think I’m kidding well I can absolutely assure that I’m not. And this is a comedy show, by the way!

Puzzlingly, before she actually filed the first suit in 2016, Smith had apparently never designed a wedding website. Even weirder: She had never apparently been asked to provide services to a same-sex couple up to that point either.

Enter supposed couple “Stewart and Mike,” who apparently submitted a request to Smith for her services one day after she filed her case in Colorado’s U.S district court in 2016. Stewart apparently wanted to plan some design work for his wedding with Mike “early next year.”

But after The New Republic reached out to Stewart directly—his contact information was readily accessible in court documents—the story fell apart: He said he had never submitted the form; he said TNR’s call was “the very first time I’ve heard of it.”

“It looks like Smith and her attorneys have, perhaps unwittingly, invented a gay couple in need of a wedding website in a case in which they argue that same-sex marriages are ‘false,’” TNR’s Melissa Gira Grant writes.
https://newrepublic.com/post/173675/supreme-court-just-used-fake-case-make-easier-discriminate-gay-people




Yeah this whole thing really sucks. Oh and it gets worse, my friends! This is one of those stories that we always say is like peeling an onion. The more layers you peel back on the subject, the more it stinks, and the more likely you are to cry as a result. Well, guess what? The woman at the center of this disgusting ruling wants people to be nice to her! Well boo fucking hoo. You made this a national issue, you live with the consequences. People are tired of the religious Fox News MAGA Taliban ruling our lives, and we have to stop them now. But please go eat the steamiest bag of shit. And that’s about the nicest thing I can say.

Meanwhile, Smith, who owns 303 Creative, a design company based in Denver, Colorado, has not gotten any actual requests to make a gay website. She just doesn’t want to have to in case anyone asks. It turns out that the gay wedding work request her lawsuit originally cited was found to be fake.

And Smith, who has clearly gone very far out of her way to push a lawsuit over a hypothetical situation all the way to the Supreme Court in order to separate herself from that which she deems unholy (and probably mostly to get attention), is ironically very critical of the people who send her “hateful” and “intolerant” messages online. Like girl, can you look at yourself and your own actions for a second?

Smith has a section on her website about the lawsuit where she writes, “I am very sorry that some people are so intolerant of my beliefs – beliefs shared by many Jews, Muslims, Christians, and nonreligious people in this country and the throughout the world. As you know, I try to treat everyone with respect and I wish they would do the same.” And I would like to know how going to court to strip millions of people of their basic rights is treating everyone with respect?! Make it make sense, Lorie!

“To those who have filled my inbox with vile, hate-filled messages,” she also writes, on her lawsuit page, “If we disagree, we should be able to do so civilly. That is the mark of a healthy and free society. And while I think people should always strive to treat each other with politeness and consideration and speak in ways reflecting that…” And I’m at a loss. Politeness and consideration are two terms that just don’t jibe with your lawsuit that will probably become the precedent for stripping away anti-discrimination laws for all sorts of protected groups of people.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woman-who-got-supreme-court-to-discriminate-against-lgbtq-couples-want-people-to-be-nicer-to-her/ar-AA1dgDmu






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[font size="8"]Catch Up On Stuff We Missed Pt. 2: Qongress Insanity
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This is one thing that we missed that absolutely requires its’ own entry. Hell, I could dedicate an entire Top 10 just to these two dipshit MAGA losers. Congress. The reason why we can’t have nice things, since about 1980. So as long as I have been alive. Well, the MAGA Congress, or as I’ve been referring to them, the Qongress, has reached a new low. Well, considering that the bar is currently lower than the bottom of the Marianus Trench (for those of you unfamiliar with geography, that’s pretty fucking low), that’s going to be a hard bar to raise. At this point, I’ve really got to wonder how other countries are perceiving the US. Even the UK, with as batshit crazy as Downing Street has become, has to be thinking “those motherfuckers are crazy”. I am saying in my best British accent. But really, the Qongress is an absolute low point in this country. And unless we start getting people out of the Infowars and Fox News disinformation sewer, it’s going to get worse. But really it can’t get any more embarrassing than this right now.

Once, people came to Congress for entertainment. The visitors’ gallery on Capitol Hill was a hot ticket for those looking to watch human drama and political chaos. To be fair, entertainment options were more limited in the era before Netflix or Xbox or even C-Span. In recent decades, such trips have become the civic-education equivalent of eating broccoli — a staple of tour groups visiting Washington but not something people did for fun. Over the past two days, though, all that has changed. Congress is amusing again as the nation’s attention is focused on the floor of the House of Representatives. C-Span’s presumably sky-high ratings haven’t been released yet but are the subject of much speculation on Twitter (and CNN). Who needs sports or sitcoms when you can watch Kevin McCarthy step on the same rake time and time again? Seven times so far and counting.

But the entertainment factor doesn’t come only from the ongoing debacle around the 2023 Speaker’s election as a rump group of Republicans refuses to back McCarthy on ballot after ballot. It’s that this ongoing search has transformed the chamber at a structural level into something far more lawless and freewheeling.

The United States House of Representatives is currently not governed by anybody or by any set of rules. No one has been sworn in because there is no Speaker, and therefore everyone on the floor is still a member-elect. There is technically still no Congress at all and therefore no rules for it to obey. In the interim, members can do what they want. They can commit minor acts of rebellion like wearing hats on the floor or even accusing their colleagues of drinking inside the legislative chamber, like Florida Republican representative Kat Cammack did when giving yet another nominating speech for McCarthy on Wednesday. Her claim that Democrats were enjoying popcorn and booze while watching the Republican infighting brought outraged howls that she had uttered unparliamentary language and that her “words be taken down” for violating congressional decorum. After all, it is against the rules for members to cast “personal aspersions” against one another on the floor. But nothing happened. If there is no Congress, how could there be congressional decorum?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/republican-speaker-fight-makes-for-c-span-gone-wild.html




Oh and it gets worse, my friends! No matter how embarrassing you think this Qongress is, it’s way worse than you could ever think possible. Way, way, way, way worse. Whatever sane members of the GOP are left (yes, we know that ship sailed years ago), they are being replaced with hardline MAGA ass kissers and boot lickers. Like the way they ousted Liz Cheney for Harriet Hagemen, seen here looking like the evil, yet misunderstood, librarian in a middle school kids’ movie. Or maybe your flavor of social media troll is more like Ana Paulina Luna, or Clay Higgens, or Ronny Jackson. Or Paul Gosar. Yes, these are all elected Congress officials. Unfortunately. But it’s gonna get worse.

House GOP colleagues of Representatives Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene have spoken out about the pair's apparent feud, with at least one predicting that it could lead to a "fistfight" between the two.

Once considered allies in the House GOP's further-right caucus, Boebert, the two-term congresswoman from Colorado, and Greene, the two-term congresswoman from Georgia, have seemingly been engaged in a feud since finding themselves on opposing sides of the intra-party fight over electing Kevin McCarthy as House speaker.

Last month, Greene reportedly called Boebert a "little b***h" on the House floor over public comments made about her. The Georgia representative also accused Boebert of copying articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden that she previously filed. The Colorado representative reportedly countered that accusation, insisting that she had not read Greene's articles of impeachment.
https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-marjorie-taylor-greene-could-get-fistfight-gop-rep-1813475




Seriously, don’t you see the irony here? That movie wasn’t supposed to be a documentary. We’re literally a hair away from Congress turning into the House Of Representin’. Scary to think that’s actually a possibility now. Am I watching Congress or an episode of the Jerry Springer Show? Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! But yeah this is getting absolutely embarrassing. Not just for me, but for the entire country damn it. We’ve got to get these Q nuts out of Congress. We’re seeing what an utter embarrassment they are. It’s only a matter of time before they start dropkicking each other live on CSPAN.

Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert reportedly accused fellow conservative Marjorie Taylor Greene of accidentally spitting on her lip after Ms Greene called her a “little b****” on the House floor and accused her of copying her articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.

Responding to the comments by Ms Greene, Ms Boebert told CNN, “I’m not in middle school”.

Ms Greene said that during the confrontation, Ms Boebert accused Ms Greene of accidentally spitting on her lip, according to Semafor. At the end of the conversation, Ms Greene said she told Ms Boebert, “You need to shut up because the only person that’s recognised to speak right now is Luna” in reference to Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida who was speaking on the House floor.

C-SPAN cameras captured the two MAGA Republicans having what appeared to be a heated conversation on Wednesday evening after Ms Boebert laid the groundwork to force a procedural vote on her impeachment articles in the coming days.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-b2361947.html




Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooly shit. We didn’t make that up! That really was captured live on CSPAN for the whole world to see. This is one of those times where it really sucks living in the internet era. Just how did it get this way? That’s one of those questions that we can’t answer. I’d personally guess that 40 years of Rush Limbaugh and reality television did the trick. The thing is they’re both attempting to be Trump’s vice presidential nominee, and they desperately want it, and the desperation is starting to reek for both of them. Hopefully it’s only a matter of time before these losers get voted out of office. Or at the very least, an appearance on MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch.

The House Freedom Caucus voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the pro-Trump group last month, a member confirmed Thursday, indicating that her fight with Rep. Lauren Boebert was part of the group’s reasoning.

“A vote was taken to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House Freedom Caucus for some of the things she’s done,” said Freedom Caucus board member Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.). When asked if she was formally out, he replied: “As far as I know, that is the way it is.”

It’s the first public confirmation of Greene’s fate within the conservative group. The vote was first reported by POLITICO, though it was unclear at the time whether she had been ejected. It took place less than two days after Greene got into a verbal floor fight with Freedom Caucus member Boebert, during which Greene referred to the Colorado Republican as a “little b---h.” After the exchange was first reported, Greene confirmed the fight and doubled down, adding another pejorative.

The two have clashed repeatedly in the past, but Harris indicated that particular spat had factored into the conservative group’s thinking.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/06/marjorie-taylor-greene-booted-out-of-freedom-caucus-member-says-00104997





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[font size="8"]Catch Up On Stuff We Missed Pt. 3: The Rest
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You know we’ve been gone 8 whole weeks. Which is a long ass time to be gone in a world where the news doesn’t stop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So we’ve got a lot of stuff to catch up on! Whether it is Trump’s latest rally in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, or Marjorie Greene doing, I don’t know, whatever the fuck this is. There’s a lot of different ways we could go about doing this. But the first thing I wanted to touch base with is the censuring of Adam Schiff. Of course you know that we’ve often compared the most hardcore MAGAs to being in a deranged cult. Yes, it was basically the cult telling those who aren’t paying members “do not fuck with us”. And yeah it’s exactly the reason why we don’t get nice things in this country, like 4 weeks of mass transit, or a working rail system. Conservatives definitely ruin everything they touch. And the January 6th committee is absolutely no exception to this rule.

The House of Representatives has voted to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for his past actions while chair of the House Intelligence Committee in leading investigations into then-President Donald Trump.

The vote was entirely along party lines, with the California congressman calling the resolution "false and defamatory." Democrats attempted to kill the bill from advancing but were outvoted.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called Schiff to the well of the chamber as he read the censure resolution out loud. Democratic members shouted loudly as McCarthy began to read the resolution, causing him to stop and start several times.

"I have all night," McCarthy said as he was interrupted by boos from Democratic members.

The resolution claims Schiff misled the American public over the course of congressional investigations into the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia, given that other probes have not found conclusive evidence that Trump colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183564794/schiff-censure-house-republicans




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Boo this Congress! Boo, I say! At that point, Vladimir Putin handed Marjorie Greene a nice sack of money with a giant dollar sign on it. Next up, we got to talk about MLB Pride Night. The one that made the most news of course was the one that happens to be closest to home for me and that’s Dodger Stadium. You may have seen Florida governor Ron DeShithead attempting to say that his bizarre anti-woke crusade caused Dodger Stadium to be empty during the start of the game. Well come on, it’s the Dodgers. Fans don’t show up until the third inning because they’re stuck on the 110 freeway. I know, I live here. it’s not an understatement.

The Los Angeles Dodgers' Pride Night arrived on Friday, with the protester and police presence you would expect after weeks of controversy stirred up around the guests invited to the event.

The Dodgers received criticism from Catholic and conservative figures when they announced they would be giving an award to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of people who dress in drag as nuns who were among the first people to offer support to AIDS patients at a time when such help was severely lacking.

The team reacted to the backlash by uninviting the Sisters from Pride Night, leading to an opposing backlash from its other Pride Night partners. It eventually apologized and re-invited the Sisters, drawing further condemnation from the likes of former vice president Mike Pence and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio.

Many, including the Dodgers' longtime ace Clayton Kershaw, criticized the Sisters for supposedly mocking Catholicism, which includes dressing up as nuns, an act the organization does as a protest against the church's treatment of the LGBTQ+ community.

https://sports.yahoo.com/protesters-shut-down-dodger-stadium-main-gate-on-pride-night-031753499.html




You know I’ll never understand the reverse victimization of the Catholic Church, and I was born Catholic, believe me. But really guys, it’s not the drag queens. It??s you. It’s your hate and ugliness that drives these “protests”, and Fox News amplifies your hatred. Next up, of course you knew that we were going to talk about it. The Ocean Gate disaster. And boy was that a clusterfuck of epic proportions. I was just aching to talk about it because the Top 10 was off that week, but man we definitely would have let Ocean Gate have it. From the janky construction on the sub using materials that NASA wouldn’t touch to the Playstation 3 controller being used to pilot the thing, quite frankly, we’re honestly surprised that this didn’t happen sooner. And now we can say “we told you so!” followed by a very childish “neener neener”.

OceanGate says it's suspending 'all exploration and commercial operations' after the deadly Titanic sub disasterOceanGate said it is suspending "all exploration and commercial operations" on its website just weeks after their Titan submersible catastrophically imploded during a mission to the Titanic shipwreck, killing the company's CEO and four passengers.

It's unclear when OceanGate added the suspension notice — in small, red writing — to the top-left corner of its website's homepage. Insider reported last week that OceanGate was still advertising trips to the Titanic wreckage roughly 12,500 feet deep under the Atlantic Ocean.

As Insider previously reported, the deep-sea adventure company listed two missions scheduled for June 2024 on its website. At the time, the OceanGate website touted that the 2023 mission was underway and future customers should reach out about dates for upcoming expeditions. OceanGate also teased that passengers could be joined by famed French diver Paul Henri Nargeolet, who died on board the Titan submersible earlier this month.

OceanGate's Titan imploded less than two hours after it set out for its mission on June 18. It lost all communications with its mother ship just before the catastrophic event. CEO Stockton Rush was among those killed. US and Canadian officials are now investigating how and why the submersible imploded.

Read more: https://www.insider.com/oceangate-suspending-all-exploration-commercial-operations-titanic-sub-2023-7




Yes, listen to James Cameron, people! He is wise in the ways of the sea! The last thing I wanted to touch on is the hoopla surrounding the MAGA Q Anon movie “Sound Of Freedom”. Don’t worry, next week we’re going to be breaking out the ol’ Top 10 Movie Vault to review this POS. It stars Jim Caviezel, who was on that show Person Of Interest. And if you guessed that that he’s every bit as much of a MAG A Q whackjob who peddles bizarre theories on his social media feeds, you are absolutely correct! What’s even more bizarre is that this movie is the victim of Astro-turfing. Which is the practice of buying up large quantities of seats to inflate the numbers. It’s an evil practice.

The Sound of Freedom, a film based on a former government agent’s pursuit to rescue child sex trafficking victims, is a hit at the box office and a darling among right-wing audiences, but it’s also come under scrutiny for its numerous ties to the QAnon conspiracy.



The Sound of Freedom debuted in theaters July 4 and has collected more than $41 million so far, placing third at the box office last weekend behind bigger-budget films, Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny and Insidious: The Red Door.

The film stars Jim Caviezel as Tim Ballard, a former Homeland Security agent and founder of Operation Underground Railroad, who conducts sting operations to rescue children from sex traffickers.

But OUR was the subject of a Vice investigation that claims the organization has exaggerated its role in sex-trafficking rescues, with multiple law enforcement agencies saying their work with OUR has been “insubstantial.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/07/11/box-office-hit-sound-of-freedom-controversy-including-qanon-ties-and-false-claims-theaters-are-sabotaging-screenings-explained/?sh=72d1f007688c







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Well, the War On Terror has officially failed us. We now have multiple terrorist groups operating on American soil. Whether it’s the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers, they haven’t quite reached Taliban status here yet. One that might is an organization that has emerged within the last year called Moms for Liberty. And if you’ve seen Twitter lately there’s plenty of unflattering nicknames going around for this group – like Klanned Karenhood, or the Minivan Taliban, or Assholes With Casseroles. Our personal favorite is one that we’ve been floating around the Top 10 Home Offices in Santa Ana, California – “The Real Housewives Of The Third Reich”. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! Nice one graphics department! And also multiple copyright violations on top of that. But they’ve been appearing in the news a lot lately, and none of it is what one would call “particularly flattering”. Nope, as you can guess, they are pure evil, and which political party they associate with should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who doesn’t watch Fox News 24 hours a day. But they’re wreaking havoc on our school boards and our children, and it’s really starting to show.

Parents from school districts in Bucks County shared their concerns about Moms for Liberty and the influence they have on their local school boards outside of the Moms for Liberty Conference.

Following Florida, Pennsylvania has the second-highest number of Moms for Liberty members and over 20 chapters across the commonwealth. Bucks County has the highest membership in Pennsylvania.

Kate Nazemi and Jane Cramer, parents who live in the Central Bucks and Pennridge school districts, joined other concerned citizens and activists at a banned book giveaway outside the Moms for Liberty Conference.

“In our school district, we’re really seeing several different outside influencers impacting education policy for our kids, and we’re seeing teachers, many parents and students’ needs and wants being pushed aside in favor of partisan policies that don’t reflect the local needs of the community.” said Nazemi.
https://keystonenewsroom.com/story/bucks-county-parents-moms-for-liberty-damaging-our-community-students/




Yeah don’t you see the irony here? This is the same group that is claiming to “protect children” from “pedophiles and groomers”, whatever that is. But in reality, underneath that flashy exterior, they’re doing more long term harm to children than any other invisible boogeymen they can conjure up. This is bad, like really bad. But you know, with all their claims of “freedom” and “liberty”, we have to ask ourselves – what is Moms For Liberty really liberating us from? Independent thought? Because when you’re part of a deranged cult, they don’t like that sort of thing.

The activist group Moms for Liberty has become the loudest voice in the culture wars around education. After forming in 2021, Moms for Liberty spread across the United States, exploiting the Republican-led moral panic over a “woke ideology” that is supposedly sweeping public schools and “indoctrinating” children. At present, the group counts 285 chapters in 45 states.

The organization’s recent national summit in Philadelphia reflected its rising stature. The event was a veritable parade of Republican presidential contenders, each of whom praised the organization as a force remaking the nation. Donald Trump, for instance, lauded the group as “the best thing that’s ever happened to America.”

As the group has grown, so too have its political ambitions. Moms for Liberty places particular emphasis on capturing local school boards to control school policy. More broadly, the group endorses legislation that would limit the topics that can be discussed in the classroom (for instance, Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation), and they promote policies that allow parents to target books for removal from school libraries and classrooms.

The materials challenged by Moms for Liberty reflect the “war on wokeness” announced by conservative figures such as Tucker Carlson and Ron DeSantis. Group members regularly disrupt school board meetings to rail against books that address the nation’s history of racial violence (maligned under the fuzzy category of “critical race theory”). Likewise, the group condemns materials that explore gender identity or advocate for LGBTQ+ acceptance – particularly those that explore transgender identity. Librarians, teachers and parents who defend these materials have been repeatedly harassed by group members as “groomers” or “pedophile sympathizers”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/06/moms-for-liberty-long-history-rightwing-activism




Uh oh… two independent thought alarms in one day! But as you can guess, as this group recruits new members, those of us who haven’t been brainwashed by Rupert Murdoch aren’t having any of it. And yes, this is a group that is not to be normalized. They seek to do irreparable harm to our schools and ultimately the Department Of Education itself. As we have seen with all of the cruel and inhumane anti-trans legislation that’s being passed, it was never about children. That’s just a smoke screen and a scapegoat. The major networks shouldn’t be treating these scumbags as a normal group.

ABC News this week joined other U.S. corporate media outlets in being accused of "normalizing" Moms for Liberty after publishing what one critic called a "puff piece" on the right-wing group that's behind a wave of school book bans and is linked to the neofascist Proud Boys and the Qanon conspiracy theory.

On Saturday, ABC News published an article by Brittany Shepherd titled "Moms for Liberty Are Fired Up in Philadelphia" as the self-described "parental rights" organization held its annual conference in Pennsylvania's largest city, where crowds of protesters turned out to denounce the group's bigotry.

"They call themselves joyful warriors—but this group of conservative moms are mad," Shepherd wrote in her lede.

Author and Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali called the article "shameful."

"Moms for Liberty is linked with the Proud Boys, a chapter quotes Hitler, they are behind book bans, they are funded by right-wing groups and... ABC News calls them 'joyful warriors,'" Ali tweeted. "The whiteness of it all is exhausting."
https://www.alternet.org/moms-for-liberty/




I know, right? If this group comes to your city – just like the Proud Boys, you should know that they are very bad news. If it can happen to my city, it can happen to yours too. The good news though is that people are starting to fight back against this right wing religious terrorist group. I want to state for the record that we here at the Top 10 are vehemently opposed to any book bans of any kind, for any reason and we don’t want our school boards to fall into the wrong hands. Moms For Liberty must be stopped at every single level. The damage they are doing is totally unreal.

In the Marriott in the Center City section of Philadelphia, where Moms for Liberty had booked a room block for its conference, Agenda PAC – the nation’s sole political action committee that uses aggressive paid communications tactics to hold anti-LGBTQ+ politicians and electoral groups accountable – delivered “Please Disturb” door hangers.

Representatives from the group reserved a hotel room in the same building where Moms of Liberty had reserved its rooms, the organization said.

At night, activists wandered the hallways of the property and placed hangers on the exterior of all the doors, videos obtained by The Advocate show.

One door sign read, “AGENDA PAC Welcomes you to the Gayborhood!” with an illustration of two men kissing. “Hate has no place in Philly. Get Moms for Liberty out of our city!”

The other read, “Please disturb. Fascism in progress. Did you know a designated hate group is staying at this hotel?”
https://www.advocate.com/news/moms-for-liberty-agenda-pac





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Remember television shows and movies? From the 1920s – June of 2023? They will be missed. Oh and if you think I’m kidding about this, don’t get attached to any TV programs currently airing, because they ain’t coming back any time soon. So we’ve been gone for 2 months and we missed the start of the Writer’s Guild Of America strike (WGA). But now the Actors’ Guild Of America (AGA) is also joining them now. This could very well mean the end of commercial entertainment as we know it. The cause of the demise of your beloved shows? Corporate greed. And a seemingly never ending supply of it. But the really fucked up thing about this whole exercise is that the CEOs don’t seem to want to cave in, because they might lose a couple of those extra zeroes on their paycheck. Good, because they are a bunch of zeroes. Pay your employees, you deadbeat CEOs! And come on, Bob, your greed is what is tanking the industry, let’s not get these two things confused here!

Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO, called these expectations “just not realistic.” He accused the strikers of “adding to a set of challenges that this business is already facing that is quite frankly very disruptive and dangerous.”

This was a bit rich, coming days after a studio executive told Deadline that their strategy was “to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.”

Eviction is a pretty cruel labor-negotiation strategy.

Hollywood’s CEOs are suffering. Not primarily from labor disputes or industry disruption or public-relations issues, but from vincible ignorance, which seems to be endemic in C-suites of all industries. Under pressure to deliver to Wall Street, too many CEOs have lost the plot of their own movie. They are not running companies to profitably deliver a good product, such as a book or a cup of coffee or, in this case, a movie or TV show. They are running companies to deliver good profit. The quality of their product has ceased to matter.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/hollywoods-cruel-strategy/674730/




Seriously, shut the fuck up! You know what the underlying cause of this strike is? It ain’t AI. It’s you. It’s your CEOs and yes men. It’s remaking the same damn movies we’ve seen a thousand times before while anything actually creative gets shelved. But while streaming services seem to be at the heart of this whole thing – should you really cancel your service? Well, it’s quite a bit complicated and the answers definitely vary depending on who you talk to. One of the underlying factors is that streaming services pay their entities a whopping salary of… pennies on the dollar. Think of it like that Seinfeld episode where Jerry got checks for 12 cents.

Since launching the historic double strike on July 14, members of the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild are no longer writing for or appearing in the binge-friendly movies and TV shows that are the lifeblood for global streaming services like Netflix and Prime Video.

But does that mean that you should also give up your Netflix password as a show of solidarity? That's what a number of strike supporters are suggesting on social media.

Some WGA members are openly encouraging the grassroots boycott as well. Warren Leight — whose list of TV credits include In Treatment and two Law & Order series, Criminal Intent and Special Victims Unit — took to Twitter to suggest that his followers cancel their Netflix accounts. His message was received loud and clear by his former Criminal Intent colleague — and SAG-AFTRA member — Kathryn Erbe, who promptly dropped Netflix from her streaming library.

Hitting that "Cancel" button on Netflix or Disney+ might feel like it directly benefits the causes that SAG and WGA are striking over, including the diminished residuals that have accompanied the industry shift to streaming, as well as what they claim is a lack of transparency over viewership data and other information. And Netflix certainly has been at the forefront of those complaints; in fact, the current strike has been openly referred to within Hollywood as "the Netflix strike," and the company's L.A. headquarters have served as the site of some of the biggest WGA rallies.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/should-you-cancel-netflix-hollywood-double-strike-152739912.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAH11nZDp1IA2fu3cstqmr4S27p4KsBorEg3DPP0dXjunwUrcOjvGkQXZaMQvIqRGBr-EN7I8ajQTzLFMu9g_Z_bDxHJqOaIhWVMCHa16fvKO2DH_LIRFNSABe5fPze80-P2MrKoAtI8PKOnXcb8_bdC-6bdMiDqOqJg6PciA3m-Rv




Yup, everything burns – especially money! It’s totally disgusting what is happening. What the CEOs of this country need to realize is that their greed is the reason for a good 90% of the problems that we’re currently facing in this country. But you know here’s the thing, billionaire CEOs of America, you can hurt the little guy all you want like the sadistic psychopaths that you are, but you cannot stop us. And in the end, your never ending greed will ultimately lead to your demise too. So who knows how long this strike is going to go? The answer is, this may be the longest strike ever.

Receiving positive feedback from Wall Street since the WGA went on strike May 2, Warner Bros Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount and others have become determined to “break the WGA,” as one studio exec blatantly put it.

To do so, the studios and the AMPTP believe that by October most writers will be running out of money after five months on the picket lines and no work.

“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”

The studios and streamers’ next think financially strapped writers would go to WGA leadership and demand they restart talks before what could be a very cold Christmas. In that context, the studios and streamers feel they would be in a position to dictate most of the terms of any possible deal.
https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/




Yeah unlike Homer, don’t get attached to any of your favorite shows because they aren’t coming back any time soon. Which really sucks. Because I would love to hear Stephen Colbert’s take on Trump’s latest indictment. Or John Oliver do something outrageous. So what’s the endgame in all of this here, you might ask? Well, I answer you good sir or madam – is that we don’t know. If the CEOs want to hurt our bottom line, it’s ultimately going to hurt their bottom line too. Which means in the future, someone like Bob Iger might actually have to wait in the bankruptcy court line. Oh god, I’m delirious. But nevertheless, one thing is for certain – trickle down economics once again screwed us all!

Fifty days into a strike with no end in sight, about 1,000 Hollywood writers and their supporters marched and rallied in Los Angeles for a new contract with studios that includes payment guarantees and job security.

Speakers at the Writers Guild of America’s WGA Strong March and Rally for a Fair Contract on Wednesday emphasized the broad support for their cause shown by other Hollywood unions — including actors in their own contract negotiations — and labor at large.

“We’re all in it together, we’re all fighting the same fight, for a sustainable job in the face of corporate greed,” Adam Conover, a writer and a member of the guild’s board and its negotiating committee, told a crowd at the end of the march at the La Brea Tar Pits. “We are going to win because they need us. Writers are the ones who stare at a blank page. We are the ones who invent the characters, tell the stories and write the jokes that their audiences love. They’d have nothing without us.”

Talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group representing studios in negotiations, have not resumed since breaking off hours before the writers’ contract expired on May 1. The strike began a day later, with more and more productions shutting down as it has gone on.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/writers-strike-hollywood-march-rally-actors-1e87e496db3581f251ee4ad7664a96b2





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Gather around my fair brothers and sisters! It’s time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate, for the Holy Church Of The Top 10 has convened and it’s time to remind you that the holiest among us are the most full of:



My fair congregation! Please be seated! We are back! And boy does it feel good to be back, everybody doesn’t it? Well, now there’s a touchy subject that we need to discuss this week. We ended last season by telling you about the insane financial problems that the Mormon Church was having, and it appears that they have way too much money (see: Idiots #14-16 ). Look, there comes a time when the 800 pound gorilla in the room needs to be addressed. And I think it’s finally time that we addressed it – churches have way too much fucking money. It’s way past time that they pay taxes on it. I said it. Now look, we’re very pro capitalist here, but even capitalism has its’ limitations. These churches are not doing anything good with their money either. They don’t support the tired or the poor. Instead they support the unholy, ungodly Dark One! I of course speak of a man who is so foul, so depraved, so disgusting that his name dare *NOT* be spoken in my church! I mean how do churches get away with such a blatant display of political behavior? Ours aside, of course!

Former President Donald Trump received a rapturous hero’s welcome Saturday night as he delivered the closing keynote address to a room packed with religious-right activists in Washington, D.C. for the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual Road to Majority conference.

Trump knew his audience. “We are warriors in a righteous crusade to stop the arsonists, atheists, globalists, and the Marxists, and we will restore our republic as one nation under God with liberty and justice for all,” Trump said. As part of his typically long and rambling speech, he denounced his recent indictments, bragged about his administration’s accomplishments–including his Supreme Court justices cementing the right-wing majority to overturn Roe v. Wade—and declared that Democrats have become “monsters.”

Trump thrilled the crowd with promises about what he would do as the 47th president, saying, “When I get back in the Oval Office, I will totally obliterate the Deep State.” And he vowed to push “school choice” plans—which divert public education dollars into private and religious schools and homeschooling—and, oddly, called for public school principals to be chosen by direct election by parents.

Trump’s speech and others at the conference signaled the issues and strategies around which the MAGA movement is mobilizing to try to take power in the 2024 elections: waging war on “wokeness,” demeaning transgender people and calling for institutionalized discrimination against them, mocking corporate support for diversity, equity, and environmental protection, and, in the name of parents’ rights, purging schools and libraries of materials that do not align with MAGA activists’ political and religious worldviews.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/religious-right-activists-cheer-trump-calls-for-spiritual-civil-war-at-road-to-majority-conference/




Oh my GAWD… how do they keep getting away with this stuff? Any party that begins purging educational materials that might encourage independent thought is clearly a sign of a party that is being run by dangerous lunatics! And with the far right having a stranglehold on the current Supreme Court, what’s there to stop them from enacting a full on, government mandated religious agenda? This is exactly why we say churches need to start paying their fair share of taxes. If they want to preach politics, they pay. End of story. Of course this SCOTUS will probably rule with the Christian extremists in the GOP because a few of them are on the bench. Ugh.

Earlier this month, Right Wing Watch reported that religious-right activists are seeking to take advantage of the far-right majority’s control of the Supreme Court to start enacting Christian nationalist policies all across the nation.

Emboldened by recent Supreme Court decisions upholding prayer in schools, crosses erected on public lands, and flying Christian flags on public buildings, right-wing activists intend to “go on offense” by pushing Christian nationalist policies at all levels of government and society.

Among those leading the charge is Kelly Shackelford, president of First Liberty, which was integral to laying the groundwork for the right’s spate of Supreme Court victories. During a recent appearance on an Intercessors For America broadcast, Shackelford announced that his organization has launched a Restoring Faith In America campaign to mobilize far-right Christians to rush into the spaces opened by these court rulings and “occupy it”

“Everywhere that crosses went down, they go back up,” Shackelford declared. “Everywhere the 10 Commandments was taken into the closet, it comes back out. Everywhere that prayer was taken out, it goes back in. Everything has changed.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/christian-nationalists-launch-major-push-to-take-advantage-of-the-far-right-supreme-court/




You know, I think it’s way past time that we started asking this question – what the absolute hell are they talking about? Where has prayer or the Bible been taken out of society? Stop with the “woe is me, I’m the victim” complex already. Maybe that’s why they love and worship the Unholy Dark One, because he is the face of the white Christian persecution complex! And in case you were wondering, the official position here at the Holy Church Of The Top 10 is that we are vehemently 100% opposed to book bans and Moms For Liberty, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise! They do not support GAWD or JAYSUS! And again, another reason why churches need to pay taxes!

When the National Association of Christian Lawmakers held its annual conference at Liberty University earlier this month, members of the organization held a “para-legislative session” at which state legislators and religious-right activists proposed and discussed various resolutions and proposed pieces of sample legislation.

Among those participating in this session was Arkansas state Sen. Dan Sullivan, who pledged to use the next state legislative session to strip funding for any library in the state that is affiliated with the American Library Association.

Sullivan has been seeking to cut library funding for a while, and while he has not succeeded in doing so yet, he was still quite pleased with a law that was recently signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders that allows for the removal of books and the possible prosecution of librarians for “disseminating a writing, film, slide, drawing, or other visual reproduction that is claimed to be obscene.”

“The libraries are an institution—often like higher ed—that are far left, and they have been a bastion of the left wing,” Sullivan told his fellow NACL members. “They’re the ones holding the drag queen shows. They’re the ones promoting Pride Month. Our county library last year had huge Pride signs and flags and books; this year, they backed that off and had very little because we took their money away.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/arkansas-legislator-vows-to-eliminate-all-the-funding-for-public-libraries-affiliated-with-the-ala/




Probably never! Because that money is being used to bankroll supporters of the Unholy Dark One to places where they don’t belong! And come on, do we really need to tie this insane “anti-woke” rallying cry that the far right has been on the last year and a half to religion? It’s yet another one of the reasons why we can’t have nice things. No we don’t need this crap in the Senate, and we really don’t need this crap polluting the House either. The right wing’s obsession with this stuff is getting weird and insane, and is reaching new levels of ridiculousness every single day! We may have to talk about this in a future sermon!

Sen. Josh Hawley delivered a Christian nationalist rallying cry at the religious-right activist conference Road to Majority on Friday morning, saying the Christian faith had “formed the soul of this country” and denouncing “the new priests of wokery” who he claimed are trying to “impose on us a religion of woke.”

“There is not one square inch of all creation over which Jesus Christ is not Lord,” Hawley said, declaring that “the time for Christians to rise is now.”

Hawley also struck a right-wing populist pose, denouncing corporations that he claimed were pushing “a Marxist agenda” and “religion of woke.”

“Corporations are not people, and there’s no reason why corporate America should control this country,” Hawley said, calling for “woke corporations” to “get out of politics.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/josh-hawley-delivers-christian-nationalist-rallying-cry-against-woke-at-road-to-majority/




I’d personally much rather get Josh Hawley out of politics, then nothing of value would be lost! Ugh, this is going to be a long two years isn’t it? We don’t know how much more of these morons we can possibly take! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! Don’t forget Season 2 Of Holy Shit: The Sunday Sermons premieres Sept.24th! That’s it this week for:




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This week’s This Fucking Guy is presidential candidate, and husband of Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Now you might be thinking “But isn’t he a registered democrat?”, to which I answer you – “Don’t be so certain about that”. The guy is notorious for spouting some absolutely ridiculous anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories. He also is a regular on Steve Bannon’s War Room, and has been spotted making guest appearances on other right wing and far right wing talk shows where he’s free to spew the most off the wall, convoluted and the overall batshit craziest theories that you’ve ever heard. Which is why they call them theories. Well, here’s the thing, we’re not sure if he’s running to actually be president or not. But one thing is for certain – that “D” next to his name is definitely something to laugh at. Because he spews some absolutely batshit crazy stuff. Come on, Cheryl, it’s time to ditch that zero already!

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharing unfounded conspiracies that man-made chemicals in the environment could be making children gay or transgender and causing the feminization of boys and masculinization of girls.

Experts dispute the claims from Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist, and told CNN’s KFile his theories that “sexual identification” and “gender confusion” among children could be from their exposure to “endocrine disruptors” found in the environment are completely unfounded.

“I want to just pursue just one question on these, you know, the other endocrine disruptors because our children now, you know, we’re seeing these impacts that people suspect are very different than in ages past about sexual identification among children and sexual confusion, gender confusion,” Kennedy said on his podcast in June last year. “These kinds of issues that are very, very controversial today.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/politics/robert-kennedy-jr-chemicals-water-children-frogs/index.html




Seriously, what………. And I can’t emphasize this enough…… the fuck??? He went full Alex Jones on that one, and you never, ever go full Alex jones. Oh and it gets worse, so much worse. It’s bad enough that he’s mimicking the Ron DeSantis and Trump playbook of going on Fox News at every single available opportunity, but he also ventures onto Steve Bannon’s War Room – Fox News on bath salts, and Newsmax – Fox News on meth. But it gets worse, my friends, so much worse! Now just wait until you hear about what he said in regards to COVID-19. You remember that disease that shut down the whole world for a year and a half? Well… yeah I have no words. Roll tape.

At an off-the-rails event Tuesday in New York City, notable anti-vaxxer and longshot 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. parroted what has been characterized as a white supremacist COVID-19 conspiracy theory.

“In fact, COVID-19, there’s an argument that it is ethnically targeted,” Kennedy told a room full of press in a video obtained by the New York Post. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and Black people. The people that are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

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In a Twitter post on Saturday, RFK Jr. insisted—despite video evidence—that he “never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.” Rather, he argued that he was simply pointing out that COVID-19 is “least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews,” during a conversation about how “the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-covid-19-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews-and-chinese




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Holy shit, forget Alex Jones, he went full Adolf! And you never, ever go full Adolf! At what point do the Dems admit that his campaign is a sham and kick him and his moron enablers out of the party? We already know that he’s a plant designed to gaslight swing voters. But this fucking guy is so off the rails bonkers batshit crazy that there’s no way this shit should be allowed to continue. In fact his own family members have begun debunking and denouncing these comments because they’re so off the rails crazy. Dude doesn’t need to be president, he needs an intervention.

The founders of the Kennedy Democrats PAC want to make it very clear that they do not endorse Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The statewide political action committee launched in 2019 by Patrick Murphy, a former member of the U.S. House, and former Congressional candidate Scott Wallace, both of Bucks County. Their goal is to deepen the progressive political bench in Pennsylvania, particularly outside of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. But when it comes to the presidential election, don’t let the name fool you.

“We considered changing our name but we decided instead to just make a very explicit statement that we are fully in support of President Biden’s reelection,” Wallace said. “And we disavow anybody else using our organization’s name to oppose President Biden.”

The Kennedy Democrats are not a particularly well-known group, but their eagerness to distance themselves from RFK Jr. illustrates the larger simmering concern setting in with some Democrats as the environmental lawyer and longtime vaccine skeptic has risen in the polls.

RFK Jr. was polling at about 17% with registered Democrats in Pennsylvania last month to Biden’s 71%. Nationally, between 15% and 20% of Democratic voters say they support him. A third Democratic presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson, is polling at about 5% with Pennsylvania Democrats.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/robert-f-kennedy-jr-democratic-primary-pennsylvania-biden-vaccines-20230713.html




Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! This is absolute madness. Here’s the thing, my fellow democrats, is that we can’t keep pretending that this is 2016 anymore. The political innocence of that time period is long gone. The cat has been let out of the proverbial bag. There are enemies everywhere attempting to sway the election to the dark side. We have a year to go to get ready and we can’t let this country fall into the wrong hands. Because if that does, well, let’s just say that the fate of the country, and well, the world is at stake. And guys like this fucking guy, RFK Jr, certainly aren’t helping things. Not in the slightest. And you know your campaign is shit when a literal fart is the smartest thing being said in that room.

Page Six regrets to report that a press dinner to boost Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign devolved into a foul bout of screaming and polemic farting on Tuesday night.

The White House hopeful attended the affair at Tony’s on the Upper East Side, no doubt hoping to impress on the ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth Estate his worthiness to sit at the very same Oval Office desk once occupied by his late uncle.

But a shouting match over climate change broke out between two boisterous old men, sending the evening down an extremely unfortunate path.

The gaseous exchange — to which Page Six bore reluctant witness — began after a guest asked Kennedy, founder of ecological organization Waterkeeper Alliance, about the environment.

https://pagesix.com/2023/07/12/rfk-jr-press-dinner-explodes-in-war-of-words-and-farts/




Yeah so that’s the farting, conspiracy theory mind rotted shill of a joke campaign for president, and professional gaslighter Robert F. Kennedy Jr, this week’s:




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Welcome back to our segment that attempts to explain the unexplainable, Conspiracy Corner! Of course conspiracies exist when people simply don’t want to read the article past the headlines and just flat out make shit up. We of course are coming to you live from our underground doomsday shelter from deep within the New Mexico badlands. Undisclosed location, of course! Let me just adjust my trusty tin foil hat for maximum government interference. Ah, there we go! They are trying to read yours and my thoughts after all! Well, my friends, if you watched Fox News at all the last week (and if you’re here, who am I kidding? There’s a very good chance you didn’t watch Fox News), then you probably heard about the mysterious package found in the White House that Fox News pundits *DESPERATELY* tried to pin on Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden. And well, they failed. And as you can imagine, it’s quite the stuff of pure, unfiltered, insanity. Fox News is desperate to pin anything they can on Biden, and well, let’s just say the desperation reeks.

A preliminary field test on a white substance found in the White House has reportedly come up positive for cocaine, law enforcement authorities said, and the US Secret Service was investigating on Tuesday how it came to be at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The presence of the substance – which has been sent out for further testing – came to light late on Monday when a firefighter with the Washington DC fire department’s hazardous materials team radioed: “We have a yellow bar saying cocaine hydrochloride,” the Washington Post first reported.

A Secret Service spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, told the Post that the discovery led to an elevated security alert and a brief evacuation of the executive mansion after it was found during a routine inspection.

Initial reports indicated the substance was discovered in a reference library. The Associated Press, citing two officials who were unauthorized to speak about the investigation, later on Tuesday reported that the white powder was found “in an area accessible to tour groups, not in any particular West Wing office”.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/04/cocaine-reportedly-found-in-white-house-as-secret-service-opens-investigation



Yeah so that happened. But I guess the biggest question we have is, well, why? And the second is why did the right wing get so crazy over this incident? Well, we answer that with another question, why does the right wing get so angry over every single thing that happens? That’s what happens when you live in a continuously operating 24/7 echo chamber that’s designed to spew hate and lies on a seemingly never-ending cycle. But alas, this whole incident has reached completely ridiculous proportions with the House Oversight committee – currently being led by a group of insane conspiracy theorists – to you know, just ask questions. That’s what they want you to think!

Washington — The Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee will assess the security practices at the White House and is seeking information from the head of the U.S. Secret Service after a small bag of cocaine was discovered near a lobby in the West Wing over the weekend.

Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the Oversight panel, is sending a letter to U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Friday to request more information about the incident and a staff-level briefing on the matter by July 14.

"The presence of illegal drugs in the White House is unacceptable and a shameful moment in the White House's history," Comer wrote to Cheatle.

The Oversight chairman said that the "alarming" incident requires the committee to examine the security practices at the White House and "determine whose failures led to an evacuation of the building and finding of the illegal substance."

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/comer-seeks-information-secret-cocaine-120625369.html




Yeah probably! I’ll tell you who is one tin foil hat away from a rubber room is that guy who we inexplicably used to call president, because he ruins everything. Yes, he has to make everything about him, and Fox News happily goes along with it. Which is why he spends most of his time on his social media hidey hole attacking Fox News at every possible opportunity. But he won’t pass up the next chance to be interviewed on a Fox News program. It’s an addictive cycle, people! Of course he’d solve it in 5 minutes. Please excuse my editorial laugh here. Ha ha ha.

Former President Trump criticized the Secret Service Thursday for ending its investigation into the cocaine discovered at the White House, suggesting it shows a “two tier level of justice.”

“Despite all of the cameras pointing directly at the ‘scene of the crime,’ and the greatest forensics anywhere in the World, they just can’t figure it out? They know the answer, and so does everyone else!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

The Secret Service in a briefing with lawmakers Thursday said the probe into the cocaine found at the White House will officially end Friday, after authorities failed to identify a suspect.

“In the meantime, they continue to target and investigate me, for years, in what has been called the greatest Witch Hunt of all time,” the former president wrote in response, adding that it shows a “Two Tier Level of Justice.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4096434-trump-criticizes-end-of-white-house-cocaine-probe/


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Somehow that’s not enough tin foil! But alas, despite the constant, never ending right wing hysteria over the mysterious package, it turned out to be, survey says – a giant nothingburger. And what the fuck do they want from us? No answer will be satisfactory for them other than "arrest Hunter Biden now" and last time I checked, Hunter Biden isn't an elected official, nor does he even work for the White House! So Trump and Fox News can go shut the fuck up and stop whining about it! Thank you audience! The Bidens, including Hunter, weren’t even in the White House that week, they were in Delaware at Camp David, so Fox News can go shove their rampant hysteria where the sun don’t shine. So what the right wing was pointing out to be the smoking gun of Hunter’s drug abuse turned out to be absolutely nothing. In the words of the late, great Gene Wilder – “You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!”.

The mystery of who brought cocaine into the White House remains unsolved. The Secret Service investigation has concluded with no usable forensic or video evidence identifying the person responsible, three Secret Service officials familiar with the investigation tell NBC News.

The small plastic baggie with a powdered substance — which was found in a storage cubby at the White House on a Sunday evening earlier this month — was subjected to advanced testing and examined at two federal labs but no usable fingerprints or DNA were detected, the officials said.

The Secret Service received results Wednesday from tests conducted by the FBI, “which did not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons,” the Secret Service said in a statement Thursday. Security camera video was also reviewed, but "[t]here was no surveillance video footage that produced investigative leads," the agency said.

Without that kind of physical evidence, the investigation has run out of road. "The investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered," Secret Service officials conceded.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/secret-service-briefs-house-oversight-members-cocaine-found-white-hous-rcna94045





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Hey everybody! I don’t know about you, but I could really use a drink!



So you know that the idea behind this segment is that we have some drinks and while we are drinking, we talk about anything in the news as long as it doesn’t relate to politics. And I need something on ice because it is hot as shit outside! Does anyone know? Does shit really get hot? Let us know in the comments! Even our sober brothers and sisters – we got you covered! Grab a glass of your favorite coffee or energy drink and get wired with us! OK this week, we have to talk about the ongoing penis measuring contest, er, boxing match, er, dick fight between two social media titans. In this corner, he’s the CEO of Twitter, Space X, Starlink, Tesla, and a whole slew of other companies, Elon Musk! And in this corner, he’s the CEO of Meta Corporation which owns Facebook, Instagram, Metaverse, Snapchat, What’s App, and the newly launched Threads app, Mark Zuckerberg! So what’s a good drink for this matchup? Uh yeah no thanks, I will stick to my usual Jack Daniels mixed with Jack Daniels. Well, so this week, Mark Zuckerberg launched the Threads app, and Elon Musk isn’t having any of it. And the fight between these two internet billionaire tycoons has reached absolutely ridiculous proportions. Here’s more!

Billionaire tech executives Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk first suggested last month they’d be interested in clashing in a UFC-style cage fight—a seemingly absurd idea that’s largely been laughed off as meaningless banter—but escalating tensions between the two and photos of them training with some of the world’s top fighters has signaled a billionaire brawl could actually become a reality.

The idea of a cage match was first posed by Musk over Twitter, where the Tesla CEO responded to a thread about Instagram’s then-upcoming rival app Threads, saying, “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.”

Zuckerberg responded the next day with an Instagram story showing a screenshot of Musk’s tweet captioned “send me location”—a reference to a famous line from former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.

A Meta spokesperson confirmed with The Verge that Zuckerberg was being serious in his response to Musk, saying the Meta CEO’s post spoke for itself.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2023/07/12/zuckerberg-vs-musk-everything-we-know-about-the-possible-cage-fight/?sh=71224bdd2cc8




Yeah that’s the stuff! Fight! Fight! Fight! This is exactly the kind of news article that makes us go “you know what? Fuck this shit.”. That’s why we need several drinks to get through this one. I mean come on, does anyone really want to see a boxing match between these two? It would be like seeing Trump and Vince McMahon in a WWE cage match. Oh wait, that already happened. But come on, two billionaires who have enough money to tank half the countries in the world getting into a steel toed WWE cage match with each other? Is that really where we’re at in 2023? Yeah that’s a good one! Just let them work it out!!

The rumored fight between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Elon Musk seemed to gain steam on Monday after a claim by retired UFC fighter Chael Sonnen, but it quickly went up in smoke.

During an appearance on The MMA Hour, Sonnen told MMA journalist Ariel Helwani that Zuckerberg contacted him personally and "has told me that he has agreed to fight Elon Musk at UFC 300 and it was a very big deal." He went even further, saying, "That just happened. [My producer] Ethan is my witness, my son, Thero, my dog, Duke. This is a shoot."

However, a spokesperson for the Meta CEO told TMZ Sports, "I have confirmed with Mark that he did not call Chael Sonnen."

What initially looked like meaningless banter between two tech moguls has become the talk of the combat sports world, as UFC president Dana White said Zuckerberg and Musk are serious about fighting one another and he's working to put it together. White said on The Pat McAfee Show on Friday that he believes a fight between the two of them would be "the biggest fight in the history of the world."
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10080732-mark-zuckerberg-denies-telling-chael-sonnen-hed-fight-elon-musk-at-ufc-300




Yeah that blender isn’t big enough. I mean come on, first off that’s the worst “choose your fighter” screen I’ve ever seen. But it looks like Zuck is actually taking this fight seriously by doing some real world fight training. And I guess Elon, who’s pasty and flabby, isn’t really doing anything to prepare for this because it’s all a joke. He might be wishing that he has Homer Simpson syndrome. But is the fight going to happen or isn’t it? Well if the two billionaires ever do decide to duke it out in public, there’s going to be some serious red tape that they’ll have to go through. But here’s where it gets weird. And you knew it was going to. Apparently Elon doesn’t plan to fight at all. He plans to send his doppleganger! Yes, you heard that right!

It’s a fitting development in a story that’s almost too bizarre to be real – two of the world’s richest men planning to slug it out in a cage match.

The idea of a potential grudge match came about after Mr Musk said on Twitter that he’d be “up for a cage match” after news broke that Mr Zuckerberg was developing a Twitter rival (Threads).

Mr Zuckerberg posted a screenshot of Mr Musk’s tweet, writing underneath it “send me location”.

The Tesla and SpaceX tycoon suggested the Vegas Octagon, and a spokesperson for Mr Zuckerberg refused to rule out the idea that a real fight could take place – although many believe it is still unlikely to actually happen.

In the aftermath of the posts, the Facebook founder posted on social media about his physical prowess, writing on Instagram: “Competed in my first jiu jitsu tournament and won some medals for the Guerrilla Jiu Jitsu team.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-cage-b2375537.html




Yeah that’s the stuff! I mean come on, did you really think this fight was going to happen? You did? I mean come on! No way in hell this fight actually happens. And you think you’re so smart! Well… I’m drunk now! And if Elon thinks he’s got a chance in hell, he’s going to need to do some serious training cramming in order to prepare for this fight. I didn’t know it was possible to gain 55 pounds of muscle mass in 24 hours! Guess those Neraulink implants really do unlock the true potential of human brain activity! In that case then I’m Elvis! But if it does wind up becoming true, you can bet we’ll be ringside with plenty of alcohol! Because… fuck it! Yolo!

People enjoy watching two people fight each other that have no business fighting. That's why Fox had a short-lived hit with Celebrity Boxing where morbid curiosity caused people to tune in to see has-beens and people clinging to the last vestiges of fame beat each other up.

Nobody needs to know if Danny Bonaduce can win a boxing match with Donny Osmond, or whether Todd Bridges might take down Vanilla Ice, but it's a spectacle when sort of famous people need money enough (or the spotlight) enough to take real punches to the famous for a few dollars and a tiny bit of limelight.

Neither Meta Platforms (META) - Get Free Report CEO Mark Zuckerberg nor Tesla CEO (TSLA) - Get Free Report Elon Musk needs money. Both are billionaires who could have the Vanilla Ice's of the world airlifted to their private yacht on a whim. In reality, these two have so much money that they might be able to do that with Elton John, Beyonce, or pretty much any star.

These are men for whom money has largely lost all meaning. Zuckerberg, for his part, has never really seemed to care about fame either. He's not a limelight guy and he rarely speaks in public.
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/ufcs-dana-white-calls-musk-vs-zuckerberg-fight-very-real







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[font size="8"]What’s Up With Florida: Part 1: Meet Florida Man
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Folks, we’ve toured the world. Twice. We’ve toured the inner workings of the government, known to your fellow Q nuts as the “deep state”. We’ve also toured the other half of the country. Now we’re going to tour that most mysterious of states, Florida. Florida is the 27th state of the union, it was admitted to the union in 1819, and was readmitted after the Civil War in 1868. It’s the home of such diverse cities as Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, and Tampa. But the reason we’re doing this segment is that we’re going to find out exactly what makes this state tick, and why it’s such an important asset in every presidential election. This week we’re going to start this 7 part docuseries by introducing you to the “man” (and woman) of it all – Florida Man! You know Florida Man from the thousands of articles you see every year with the title “Florida Man does _____________”. We even count them several times a year in our People Are Dumb segment! Many of the stories in this segment are courtesy of the good folks at R/FloridaMan. Yeah let’s start with this one where a guy says that he’s going to give vasectomies to peacocks. And here we are, wondering why Peacock Vasectomy isn’t the name of a heavy metal band yet.

Shielded by county law for decades, peacocks in Pinecrest, Florida, are no longer off limits to trappers, and (omitted) is eager to get his hands on the birds.

Pinecrest lined up Harris to perform hundreds of rapid peafowl vasectomies after the village secured an exemption this week from Miami-Dade County’s strict rules against trapping the large birds.

Trappers hired by the village will respond to resident requests for peafowl sterilizations, then ship the birds to a Harris facility for vasectomies under sedation before returning the fowl to the neighborhoods where they were taken. The hope is to slow the growth of a population that’s both beloved by some for its plumage and detested by many for its daily habits.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2023/07/19/florida-man-give-vasectomies-peacocks/




No it’s not the NBC logo. My point is that we could literally go through thousands of articles about our subject, Florida Man. Here’s another good one – this story comes out of Seminole County, Florida. So normally a bank story wouldn’t be Florida Man news. But when one guy robs a bank after being arrested just an hour before, for robbing an entirely different bank, that’s when it turns from a normal story into a Florida Man story! Yes, this is the stuff of pure, unaltered insanity that only the Sunshine State can bring us! No other state even remotely comes close!

A Florida man was arrested Thursday for allegedly robbing two banks within two hours in broad daylight, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said.

(omitted) was charged with robbery without a firearm, attempted robbery without a firearm and grand theft, officials said. The 35-year-old is being held at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility with no bond.

The double bank robberies occurred Wednesday afternoon.

The first one happened around 1:15 p.m. at the Seacoast Bank at 2695 W SR-434 in Longwood. The man from Leesburg reportedly passed a note to a bank teller demanding money, implying he had a weapon, officials said. He was unsuccessful in trying to get the cash, however, and fled the scene.
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-man-allegedly-robs-2-banks-in-2-hours-deputies




Yeah that’s almost like a real life Roberto there! You can’t even have a normal barbecue in Florida without it going off the rails. I mean come on, only in the Sunshine State can a barbecue grill be used as a weapon. I bet John Wick never thought of this shit! Oh and by the way for the sake of anonymity, we’re omitting the real names of the people involved in these stories. But the one thing you can’t deny is that they are everywhere. And you almost got to wonder if Florida law enforcement officials collect and trade these stories with their friends, because they are too bizarre to make up.

A Florida man is behind bars after a road rage fit that included intentionally ramming into cars, striking them with a tire iron and even throwing a barbecue at deputies, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.

The incidents occurred Tuesday morning in Cocoa, near the intersection of School Street and Bay Avenue, officials said. (omitted) is in custody and faces several charges, including resisting arrest, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and other charges relating to his alleged road rage fit.

(omitted) reportedly parked his Chevrolet Tahoe in the middle of the street and rammed into cars as they tried to go around him, officials said. That's when Hofmann got out of his car and began to strike passing cars with a tire iron.

He broke the driver's side window of a passing truck and the tire iron got stuck in the glass. Deputies shared a photo of the truck online, where you can see the piece of metal inside the window.
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-man-throws-bbq-grill-at-deputies-strikes-cars-with-tire-iron-in-road-rage-fit-officials




But yes, we could spend all day on Florida Man stories. But we’re bringing you these few because we want to show you the kind of person we’re dealing with here, and Florida has no shortage of Florida Men and Florida Women. Well we’ll leave you with one final insane story for this week – this one comes out of Florida’s largest city, Miami. And if you’re a frequent customer of a store, you might want to not toss a whole bunch of live explosives in said store. Yes, that actually happened. This is just one of the thousands of batshit crazy people who we will encounter as we visit the Sunshine State!

The firework emitted smoke for a few seconds before exploding, police said. Police said the clerk evacuated the store and called 911.

No workers or customers were hurt, police said, but the blast damaged a tile, a refrigerator and food items.

According to an arrest report, the clerk told police that after reviewing surveillance video, he recognized the suspect as “(omitted),” a longtime customer at the store who “has always given him a hard time for an unknown reason.”

Police said they located (omitted) Thursday outside of another food store, less than a block south of City Store 66. They said he later confessed to the crime.

(omitted) was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional on a $10,500 bond on charges of arson, shooting or throwing a deadly missile and criminal mischief.
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/07/14/police-lit-firework-tossed-into-miami-dade-food-store-by-frequent-customer-idd-by-clerk/




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For part 2, we’re going to bring you insane tales of Florida Women! Yes, in the Sunshine State, the ladies are just as crazy as the guys are!



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