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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #5-21: Wheel Of Corruption & The Half Blood Prince Pt. 2 Edition
Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Whats up Phoenix? Hey you guys are the last stop on our US tour this year. Ah, now dont be sad! we will be back soon. And yes there are liberals in Phoenix, I know a few of them! I know this is Sheriff Joe country. Whew, man, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, because shit got real dark real quick. So lets talk about something fun, like how Axl Rose put on the Guns N Roses show of a lifetime despite the fact that he was violently ill. So they were in Abu Dhabi doing a show, and came out and told the crowd that he wasnt feeling great. But they went on to play a whopping 20 songs. I dont care who you are or where you come from but thats pretty damned impressive if you ask me! So naturally they were getting a lot of crap from the local radio stations but really, who cares? Dave Grohl played 10 songs after he crashed to the floor and broke his leg! Thats true dedication. And as to whether or not theyre going to let something like a little vomit ruin the end of their tour? GNR said hell no! They plan to power through the next few months and finish out the tour as scheduled. I have to say GNR has my newfound respect, and I still love that Axl Rose continues to troll Trump over Trumps use of Sweet Child O Mine at his rallies. If you dont follow Axl on Twitter, you definitely should! OK thats enough of the intro, we got a lot of idiocy to get to, but first for John Olivers season finale, we have to play his story on the rise of authoritarianism around the globe, and if youre not alarmed by this, you should be:
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Holy shit, where do we begin this week? Hey everybody, the Wheel Of Corruption is back! And, to start with, we got to talk about the guy who we currently call president, Donald J. Trump (1) and his iron fist policy at the US Mexican border, and yeah, that is the stuff of pure fucking evil. In the second slot this week is also Donald Trump (2) and he's setting a rather dangerous and almost certainly evil precedent by putting the interests of Saudi Arabia and that insane $110 billion arms deal above the interests of American citizens. Yes, this is a bad deal with a dirty dealer and very evil. And speaking of evil, for the third slot this week, we got to talk about the Proud Boys (3). So after the brew ha ha in Brooklyn, Gavin McInnes quit the group and its an absurdly stupid tale of the possible demise of everyones favorite Trump loving hate group. In the fourth slot, were all gonna die!!!! Well not really but this extremely alarming new study on climate change (4) is going to be presenting some grim news that might have the potential to kill us all. In the fifth slot this week is of course our weekly investigative piece Top 10 Investigates (5) and this week, were going to take a look at a chicken pox outbreak in an ant-vaccination stronghold in North Carolina, and more importantly, where is the bullshit coming from? At number 6 is our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in Holy Shit (6) and this week our resident pastor is going to ask the question Is CNN Satanic?? Well the answer is in no way shocking if you know religious Trump supporters at all! For the seventh slot, weve got one of our favorite features Beating A Dead Horse (7) and its back for the 3rd week in a row. So did you see the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade this year? If so you might have seen two women kissing, and well, the religious right is having NONE of that. Yeah, give it a rest! For the 8th slot this week weve got a brand new feature for you, and its simply called NO!!!!. Did you hear about the high school seniors in Baraboo, Wisconsin who made a Nazi salute for a yearbook photo? NO!!!! Or simply NEIN!!!! And speaking of the ninth slot (NEIN!!!!), weve got a new, Thanksgiving edition of People Are Dumb (9), because even during the holidays, stupid doesnt take one! Finally this week weve got a brand new installment of our ongoing series that explains how government works to your Trump loving friends and relatives, Deep State Diaries (10) is going to take a look at the US Census Bureau! Controversy alert! And to cap it off, weve got some live music for you from Linkin Parks own Mike Shinoda! Enjoy! And as always dont forget the key!
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Hey everyone say it with me: Its time for the WHEEL OF CORRUPTION! YAY!!!!!
Of course you know the rules by now I spin the wheel and we have to talk about whatever it lands on. Of course if it lands on the guacamole option, you know that it costs $1.50 extra. So heres what is on the wheel this week:
- Guns
- Abortion
- Crime
- Racism
- Poverty
- Election Theft
- Buy A Vowel
- Clip Without Context
- Greed
- Sexism
- Spying
- Food
- Elections
- Donald Trump
- Clip Without Context
- Chance
- 5,000
- Bankrupt
- No
- Community Chest
- Donald Trump
- A Random Tweet
- Something Random In The News
- Merica!
- Golf
- 10,000
- Guacamole
- Holy Shit
- Beating A Dead Horse
- This Fucking Guy
- How Is This Still A Thing?
- Harry Potter
- 15,000
- People Are Dumb
- I Need A Drink
- Infowars
- T-Shirt Cannon
- Lightning Round
- Bonus Spin
Lets get this going! Spin that shit! Come on, no whammy, no whammy, no whammy stop!!! And its a random tweet!
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1064965785397993473
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm post apocalypse Thanksgiving dinner in a bucket! That just looks so appetizing doesnt it? Just look at the green bean casserole, that looks like vomit doesnt it? Spin it again! Donald Trump! So yeah, the caravan finally hit the Mexican border, and as you can imagine it was a complete shit show. Rather than being met with open arms and doing what it says on the bottom of the Statue of Liberty, instead, Trump raised his middle finger high in the air and lobbied teargas at the people who wanted in, because, illegal immigrant hysteria.
Trump -- speaking at a roundtable event in Biloxi, Mississippi -- described what he called "grabbers" -- migrants who grab children and "think they'll have a certain status by having a child." He alluded to the people with children in the group as possibly not being their parents.
"In some cases, you know, they're not the parents," the President said. "These are people, they call 'em grabbers. They grab a child because they think they'll have a certain status by having a child. You know, you have certain advantages in terms of our crazy laws that, frankly, Congress should be changing."
When asked for evidence of his claim by reporters, Trump demurred.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/politics/trump-grabbers-southern-border-migrants/index.html
Really? Thats a thing? I mean seriously how deluded do you have to be to even suggest such a thing? Oh wait, he was at a rally for Cindy Hyde-Smith, a racist who keeps losing her sponsors, because shes such a racist. OK, moving on. But really, the immigration debate has gone completely off the rails and now these are the kinds of things were forced to deal with. But one thing the border isnt? its not Trumps personal plaything!
And it wouldnt have happened if President Donald Trump hadnt done everything he could to create a crisis at the border.
He began concocting the humanitarian nightmare that now exists from the very beginning of his campaign, falsely claiming that the southern border was begin overrun by migrants.
Truth is lost in immigration debate
The truth is that the number of border crossers apprehended by border patrol officers in 2017 was the lowest since the early 1970s.
Trump also knows or should know that the migrants in the caravan from Central America are fleeing from some of the worst situations on the planet.
As Democratic Sen. Sen. Amy Klobuchar said over the weekend, the Trump administration should have been working with these Central American countries a long time ago to curb mass flight from violence and poverty.
Instead, Trump makes continuous threats and tries to rewrite the federal statute for asylum seekers without involving Congress.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2018/11/26/migrant-caravan-border-tear-gas-donald-trump/2112338002/
Yeah so that did happen. And not only that, Trump continues to pour gasoline on the fire, because hey, thats exactly what he does. I mean the Statue Of Liberty does not read Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, and go fuck yourselves!. No, it doesnt! And not only that, Trump is going full Nazi and threatening to close the border!
The border checkpoint was closed to all traffic by 11:40 a.m. local time as migrants protested in an effort to plead the U.S to move faster in processing asylum requests, according to The Associated Press.
Lanes have reopened as of 5:15 p.m. local time.
Here are the latest updates:
Update 6:50 a.m. EST Nov. 26: President Donald Trump took to Twitter early Monday, threatening to permanently close the border to prevent migrants from coming into the country.
Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries, Trump tweeted. Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A. We will close the Border permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL!
https://www.ajc.com/news/national/border-checkpoint-closed-migrants-march-toward/w0y1NYaBPVrFFMqxCprlBP/
Wow, even Im out on this one. So president man baby continues to use the border as his personal play toy and is using it to get his bullshit wall, which isnt going to stop shit. I mean really if you build a 50 foot wall, someone is going to build a 60 foot ladder. Just ask Berlin how well that went. Thank you audience! But this might be the most insane justification of these war crimes being committed at the border:
Images of fleeing women and children, like the one captured in the tweet below, were widely shared, drawing condemnation from those calling it inhumane, an abomination and antithetical to America.
CBP said several migrants threw projectiles at the agents in San Diego. Border Patrol agents deployed tear gas to dispel the group because of the risk to agents safety. Several agents were hit by the projectiles.
On Fox & Friends, host Ainsley Earhardt had a different message. If you dont want a speeding ticket, dont speed, she said.
Besides, pepper spray is no big deal, according to former U.S. Border Patrol deputy chief Ron Colburn, who explained to the Fox hosts early Monday how it could be used as a topping on a favorite Mexican dish:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fox-news-guest-pepper-spray-used-on-migrants-could-be-served-on-nachos-2018-11-26
Oh yeah you can use military grade pepper spray as a taco topping! It goes great with Sriracha! But really guys, grow the fuck up. Oh wait, you dont. And of course President Man Baby doubles down on the crimes he committed this week:
Critics denounced the border agents action as overkill, but Trump kept to a hard line.
They were being rushed by some very tough people and they used tear gas, Trump said Monday of the previous days encounter. Heres the bottom line: Nobody is coming into our country unless they come in legally.
The showdown at the San Diego-Tijuana border crossing has thrown into sharp relief two competing narratives about the caravan of migrants hoping to apply for asylum but stuck on the Mexican sider. Trump portrays them as a threat to U.S. national security, intent on exploiting Americas asylum law, but others insist he is exaggerating to stoke fears and achieve his political goals.
http://time.com/5464165/donald-trump-defends-tear-gas-migrant-caravan/
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Lets give the wheel a good strong spin shall we? And it lands on wait for it oh hey its a clip without context!
Someones not getting any! Uh so how do you explain the hot lesbians, Dave? Yeah theres a hole in your theory there. Spin it again! Donald Trump. So in the last week, Trump has put that insane arms deal with Saudi Arabia at the forefront of his Saudi Arabia First policy. Hey you know what? Lets make Saudi Arabia Great Again! Riyadh first! And so on. Trump is really trying hard to bury the murder of Jamal Khashoogi, but really that is one thing that will come back to bite him in the ass hard when the dems take over the House in October.
From the outset of the Trump presidency, the pattern has been clear: Trump, contradicting both U.S. interests and values, feels more comfortable with strongmen and authoritarians than with Americas traditional democratic allies. Its no surprise hes courted Saudi King Salman and coddled the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS).
All administrations deal with strongmen and none have elevated human rights to the key organizing principle in U.S. foreign policy. But this administration has nearly emptied Americas foreign policy of moral or ethical values and provided a green light to every authoritarian to repress or kill journalists without consequence, certainly from Washington. And Trump described Saudi Arabia as a spectacular ally, even though the CIA has concluded MBS ordered Khashoggis murder.
In Trumps universe, if he thinks something, it must be true. In reality, his faith in Saudi Arabia is built on, well, sand. While it plays a role in counter-terrorism cooperation and maintaining the flow of oil, Trump has greatly exaggerated its importance.
No matter how much he believes the Saudis will shove the administrations yet-to-be-revealed peace plan down the Palestinians throats, spend $450 billion in the U.S. to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, do Americas bidding on oil pricing policy, and be the linchpin for putting Iran back in its box, it is all magical thinking just like his beliefs that Mexico will pay for his beautiful wall, trade wars are easy to win, the Russians didnt interfere in our presidential election because Putin strongly denied it, and MBS didnt order the killing of Khashoggi because he was very strong in denying it several times.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/11/27/jamal-khashoggi-murder-mbs-donald-trump-american-values-interests-column/2116372002/
Make Saudi Arabia Great Again! Make Saudi Arabia Great Again! Make Saudi Arabia Great Again! Ooh, man that was a nice little chant we had going there! But yeah that seemed to be the general consensus here. So why wont Trump sanction these murderous scumbags? Instead, he wants to give them more weapons, because, deal!
The U.S. government insinuated a relationship between al-Qaida and Saddam Husseins regime in Iraq as part of its justification for invading that country in 2003 (none of the hijackers were Iraqis, and al-Qaida was among Husseins most implacable enemies).
But Saudi Arabia got a free pass, as did the United Arab Emirates, from which two of the hijackers came.
Why? Oil, money, and U.S. foreign policy.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE control a great deal of the worlds oil, and can threaten to disrupt international oil markets (and international life in general) any time they dont get their way.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are also the top two buyers of U.S. weapons.
Finally, Saudi Arabia and the UAE support the U.S. agenda of isolating Iran and frustrating its regimes regional ambitions, and allow the U.S. military to operate bases on their territory pursuant to that agenda.
https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/two-numbers-explain-why-trump-won-t-sanction-saudi-arabia-1.23922067
Woohoo!!! World war III is a coming, yo! But really this is a classic damned if you do, damned if you dont scenario. But of course Der Trumpenfuror doesnt see it that way. Hell do it both ways if it means pissing off the other side.
Despite offering public condemnations over Mr. Khashoggis death and distancing themselves from the kingdom by pulling out of a major investment conference, many executives appeared to expect that business would quickly, if not quietly, return to normal.
Keep in mind, it is a big country, Larry Fink, the BlackRock chief executive, said early this month. There are many fine people in country, like there are many fine people in every country. These things are not black and white, and theyre very complex.
But things have changed drastically since then. President Trump has offered a vociferous defense of the kingdom and, by extension, its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and dismissed a report from his own intelligence officers that concluded the prince had ordered the murder.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/business/dealbook/saudi-arabia-sanctions-trump.html
So if youre keeping score at home, state sanctioned murder, egregious misuse of the military, and violence against journalists are apparently all OK now by their standards. How did we get in this mess in the first place and how are we going to get out of it? Well, deal!
Some 100 Egyptian journalists also issued a statement condemning the visit of bin Salman to Cairo, where he was received Monday with all the requisite flourishes.
These protests were joined by human rights groups in both countries, while the social networks in Egypt, where he landed on Monday, and Tunisia and Algeria, where bin Salman is also expected to visit, were roiling against the visit of the holder of the saw, as one tweet called him, and not just because of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Algerian government on Monday was the only Arab government to issue a statement condemning the murder 53 days after it occurred but hastened to add that it accepted the Saudi version of events and respects that countrys judicial system.
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-how-mohammad-bin-salman-put-his-kingdom-in-debt-to-trump-and-netanyahu-1.6695165
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Lets give the wheel a good strong spin shall we? And it lands on wait for it Woohoo! I win 5,000 of something. Not sure what it is but its 5,000 of something! Spin it again! And it lands on Racism. I am loving watching the Proud Boys implode arent you? Well after their latest Rumble In The Bronx (see: Idiots #5-17 ), apologies to Jackie Chan, it seems that Paypal is doing the thing that they did to Infowars and revoked their privileges, and it seems that Gavin McInnes is ready to jump ship and wash his hands clean of the group. Heres more.
The move came two days after the Guardian exclusively revealed that the FBI had categorized the Proud Boys as an extremist group with ties to white nationalism, in a briefing to Washington state law enforcement.
In a sometimes rambling video, McInnes referenced the Guardian story and the prosecution of seven group members over a street brawl in New York city in October, as he offered reasons for resigning from the group.
As of today I am officially disassociating myself from the Proud Boys, he began.
Referencing the New York group as the NYC Nine, McInnes said: I am told by my legal team and law enforcement that this gesture could help alleviate their sentencing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/proud-boys-founder-gavin-mcinnes-quits-far-right-group
Really? New York Nine? Thats the worst mafia name ever! I mean if you guys are going to be classified as an extremist group by the FBI you should come up with something more threatening! Like Killer Cult or Fight Club, oh wait, that ones already taken. But you know the song Saturday Nights All Right For Fighting, but if youre the Proud Boys you might be seeing the inside of a jail cell relatively soon.
Over the course of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Proud Boys were revealed as an extremist group in the eyes of the FBI; saw their leader, Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, publicly bail on them; added two of their members to a growing list of defendants in a rioting case in New York City; and named a new leader in Jason Lee Van Dyke, their lawyer who himself is a serial harasser and racist criminal. (A representative for Vice Media reached out to HuffPost after publication to note that McInnes left the company 10 years ago.)
Todays Proud Boys are not the same as yesterdays Proud Boys, who just last month bragged that they had the support of police after beating protesters in the streets of New York City and Portland, Oregon.
These Proud Boys are being proudly thrown under the bus by their misogynistic and destructive founder. Immediately after that weekend of coastal violence in October, McInnes said publicly that he was arranging for the surrender of the members involved. Eight of them now face charges of assault and rioting in New York City.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-proud-boys-are-imploding_us_5bfc16dde4b0eb6d9311e26d
Oh sure, its all fun and games until someone gets slapped with an assault charge! Maybe thats why Gavin is bailing on the group? Well, like all horrible things, the Proud Boys started after Trumps inauguration with the intent of owning the snowflakes. But hey, they had their fun and they beat the shit out of some Antifa noobs. But meet the new leader of the Proud Boys, who promises to take the group in a much cleaner direction!
But not everyone in the Proud Boys is on board with the rules. One prominent member from the groups militant wing who wants to take the group in a more racist direction claims hes really the one in chargeand that he wont let a few losers who think they own the Proud Boys take over.
Vice magazine co-founder McInnes launched the Proud Boys in 2016, claiming that the group would be a contemporary version of mens clubs like the Elks, but devoted to the West. Like other mens clubs, the Proud Boys came with a complicated, bizarre hierarchy that required members to submit to a number of rules, including a beat-in hazing ritual where members have to call out the names of cereal brands while theyre punched.
But the Proud Boys quickly attracted more controversy than an ordinary drinking group, especially after members began fighting with left-wing anti-fascist activists at pro-Trump rallies. McInnes insisted his group wasnt racist, but Proud Boys kept appearing with racist figures or using the group as a gateway to white supremacist activism.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-proud-boy-rules-less-fighting-less-wanking
Excuse me a minute but yeah I think a Proud Boys rally is kind of like that. After all there is heavy drinking involved, and Ive always seemed to think that they and Antifa must have synced up drinking schedules or something. But you know, theyre your average fun loving white supremacists, now with less fighting!
The non-profit watchdog group, Property of the People, also uncovered a bombshell report about the Proud Boys. It says the FBI considers the far-right organization to be extremist with links to white nationalism.
Jason L. Van Dyke, a Proud Boys spokesperson who's also worked as a lawyer for the group, adamantly claimed they're not racist before a KATU reporter asked him about a racist tweet.
https://katu.com/news/local/proud-boys-respond-to-report-saying-fbi-calls-group-extremist-linked-to-white-nationalism
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Spin it!!!! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy stop! No, a whammy!!!!
Spin it again! And it lands on the environment! Hey, everyone guess what? Were all gonna die! Yeah woooooooooooooooooo!!!! Woooooooooo. Woo. Woo. So how are we gonna die this week? Its not in a nuclear holocaust yet, but it is instead going to be from extremely toxic pollution and a 3 degree change in the climate! It will kill us all eventually. We think. But of course the powers that be simply dont give a shit. And I mean they really dont give a shit! Take a look at what our so called leader is trying to do with the report this week.
Why, you ask?
"I don't believe it," Trump told reporters on Monday, adding that he had read "some" of the report.
On one level, this shouldn't be surprising. Trump's views on climate change at this point are very, very well established.
Just over eight years ago, he tweeted this: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." In 2014, he penned this tweet: "It's late in July and it is really cold outside in New York. Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING??? We need some fast! It's now CLIMATE CHANGE."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/26/politics/donald-trump-climate-change/index.html
Yeah so were all gonna die! Not from a nuclear holocaust, but the Trump administration is working hard to making Black Lungs Great Again! you know guys, theres a reason why its called Black Lung. And no, its
The reports authors, who represent numerous federal agencies, say they are more certain than ever that climate change poses a severe threat to Americans' health and pocketbooks, as well as to the countrys infrastructure and natural resources. And while it avoids policy recommendations, the reports sense of urgency and alarm stands in stark contrast to the lack of any apparent plan from President Trump to tackle the problems, which, according to the government he runs, are increasingly dire.
The congressionally mandated document the first of its kind issued during the Trump administration details how climate-fueled disasters and other types of worrisome changes are becoming more commonplace throughout the country and how much worse they could become in the absence of efforts to combat global warming.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/11/23/major-trump-administration-climate-report-says-damages-are-intensifying-across-country/?utm_term=.0cf049c07695
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If you thought the 2018 hurricanes and fires were bad, wait until you see the 2019 hurricanes and wildfires! Hey I dont remember there being a triple digit storm category! And if the fires and hurricanes are going to destroy your house, guess what? Theyre also going to destroy your wallet! So you might want to hang on to your cash now, ladies and gentlemen!
The report, which was mandated by Congress and made public by the White House, is notable not only for the precision of its calculations and bluntness of its conclusions, but also because its findings are directly at odds with President Trumps agenda of environmental deregulation, which he asserts will spur economic growth.
Mr. Trump has taken aggressive steps to allow more planet-warming pollution from vehicle tailpipes and power plant smokestacks, and has vowed to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, under which nearly every country in the world pledged to cut carbon emissions. Just this week, he mocked the science of climate change because of a cold snap in the Northeast, tweeting, Whatever happened to Global Warming?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/climate/us-climate-report.html
Yeah probably. So this is going to destroy your home and possibly your wallet, and your investments and anything else you might hold dear. I mean shit, this news is so devastating that the entire world might be turning upside down. Hey, Al Gore warned us! He warned us! So, with that, get ready to say hello to the Great Brown North!
Previously, scientists had found that increasing summer warmth in the Arctic was encouraging vegetation to grow, turning areas green.
"Despite the scale of Arctic browning, until now we knew very little about its impacts on ecosystem carbon balance; the balance between carbon uptake by vegetation and its release from vegetation and soils," said Rachael Treharne, a PhD student at the University of Sheffield.
The study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, assessed the impacts of Arctic browning driven by extreme climatic events.
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/environment/extreme-weather-conditions-turning-arctic-brown-may-impact-climate-change-study-3223711.html
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Lets spin the wheel shall we? Come on wheel goes round, wheel goes round, wheel goes round and it lands on another Clip Without Context!
Ah yes, I believe this is known as the classic Im Rubber Youre Glue defense. Famously used in the case of Doo Doo Head V. Poo Poo Head. Spin it again! Its time to investigate beyond the headlines. This is Top 10 Investigates!
Theres many things that you could possibly die from during your lifespan, and theres many things happening now that could signal the end on a mass scale. Those things include the possibility of a nuclear holocaust and polluting on a catastrophic scale. But theres one thing that you could possibly die from that you might not expect deadly diseases that were supposedly eradicated decades ago. With the rise of anti-vaccination crusaders thats a very real possibility.
On Friday 36 students at Asheville Waldorf School were diagnosed with the disease, the Asheville Citizen-Times newspaper reported.
The school has one of the state's highest rates of religious exemption, allowing students to skip vaccination.
US health officials say vaccinating is far safer than getting chickenpox.
"This is the biggest chickenpox outbreak state health officials are aware of since the vaccine became available," a North Carolina Department of Health spokesman told the BBC in an emailed statement.
Out of the Waldorf School's 152 students, 110 have not received the vaccine for the varicella virus, known to most as chickenpox, the Citizen-Times found.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46267038
So how did this happen? How did we get to this point? Well theres many theories but one theory seems to stem from religion and the fact that many religious people are adopting the idea that not vaccinating your kids means you wont get autism. But they dont know that. In fact nobody does. But the last thing anyone wants is small pox, chicken pox, polio or anything of the sort.
Ive had parents tell me they use it because there is no way for the state to decline it, said Sen. Jeff Tarte, a Republican from Mecklenburg County. In 2015, he introduced a bill that would have eliminated the religious exemption for all children except those who are homeschooled. He and his co-sponsors dropped the bill within two weeks because of opposition from those who say the government should not force anyone to be injected with anything.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article188633004.html
No one is forcing you to do anything. But wouldnt you rather sleep easier at night knowing that youre not going to get deadly diseases? Wow, that is an astonishing level of stupid. So this is the biggest outbreak of the deadly disease known as chicken pox that hasnt been seen in 20 years.
The Ashville Waldorf primary school in Asheville, North Carolina, reported 36 cases of chickenpox this month.
Out of the schools 152 students, 110 have not received vaccinations, according to the Citizen-Times newspaper.
The school boasts one of the highest vaccination exemption rates in the state, with families citing religious beliefs as the main reason for eschewing the preventative measure.
This is the worst outbreak since a vaccine for the contagious disease - which once affected 90 per cent of Americans - became available 20 years ago.
The school said in a statement: "Asheville Waldorf School is committed to protecting the health and safety of our community."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chickenpox-asheville-north-carolina-anti-vaccination-school-children-disease-contagious-a8641666.html
Apparently youre not doing a very good job of it. So why did this community earn such a badge of dishonor? What could be the cause of 110 out of 156 kids not being properly vaccinated? Well the answer may shock you. Those anti vaccination messages youre getting on your social media feeds? Guess where those might be coming from? Well, the answer is in no, way, shape, or form shocking.
A study published in the American Journal of Public Health showed that Russian bots and trolls seem to be quite active in sending both anti-vaccination and pro-vaccination messages through Twitter. A team researchers from George Washington University (David A. Broniatowski PhD, SiHua Qi SM, and Lulwah AlKulaib SM), the University of Maryland (Sandra C. Quinn PhD and Amelia M. Jamison MAA, MPH), and Johns Hopkins University (Tao Chen PhD, Adrian Benton MS, , and Mark Dredze PhD) collected tweets from July 2014 through September 2017 and reviewed over 250 vaccination-related tweets sent by accounts connected to the Internet Research Agency. The Internet research Agency ain't just about research because it is backed by the Russian government and been indicted by a U.S. grand jury for attempting to meddle with the 2016 U.S. elections. My fellow Forbes contributor Arlene Weintraub covered this study nicely so you can read her article for more details.
So why would Russian bots and trolls send both anti-vaccination and pro-vaccination messages? Because they are indecisive, wishy-washy, or wondering to bot or not to bot? Nah, there's a good chance that they realize that our country is susceptible to being influenced, being divided, and overlooking established science. Routine childhood vaccination was a settled issue two decades ago. Vaccines have been among the greatest of public health triumphs. Without vaccines, many people would not be surviving long enough to get on Twitter or Facebook. Vaccines helped effectively eliminate measles from the U.S. back in 2000.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2018/08/25/that-anti-vaccination-message-may-be-from-a-russian-bot-or-troll/#7eca9946ff77
Yup, its Russia again. Which makes us wonder whether or not Russia should just be banned from the internet they offer nothing but bad ideas. Thats it for Top 10 Investigates. Good day.
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Oh yeah because an extinction level event is just so damn funny isnt it? Well spin it again! Oh hey its time for Holy Shit! Gather around, my fair brothers and sisters of Phoenix, its time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate! For the Holy Church of the Top 10 has convened and its our weekly duty to remind you why the holiest among us are also the most full of:
My fair congregation! You know in my quest to understand supporters of the Dark One, whose name shall not be spoken in my church, I came upon a stark realization. And that is that they have a warped view of what is satanic or not. Because the man who they put on a pedestal as a shining example of GAWD himself is actually a DAYMON!!! And apparently there are organizations with views that one might call satanic.
CNN is consumed with the spirit of rebellion and sedition, which is witchcraft, Wiles said on his TruNews program on Friday. Lets not make any mistake about identifying what this is.
And the source of witchcraft is the mouth of hell itself, agreed co-host Doc Burkhart.
This is a fight for survival and he has got to resist them, Wiles added. Mr. Trump needs to publicly state that he is calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to defend him. That is my prayer, that is my hope, that I hear Donald J. Trump publicly say, I am calling on the name of Jesus Christ to fight my battles. My enemies are too great and too big and only God can help me.'
Trump is not fighting flesh and blood, Wiles warned, but rather demonic powers.
If they win, he continued, there will be no freedom in this country, perhaps for centuries. That is what this fight is all about, the elimination of freedom. Because it is a thoroughly corrupt, evil, wicked regime. They kill babies. They promote homosexuality. They promote sorcery and witchcraft. Theyre evil. Theyre wicked. Their wickedness is beyond our comprehension. Thats what were up against and thats whats trying to destroy President Trump. And if they succeed, the rest of us are going to be devoured by them. That is a fact.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-wiles-cnn-is-demonic-and-seeks-to-destroy-freedom-consumed-with-witchcraft/
No, Rick, that is not a fact, that is well, its whatever the opposite of a fact is! So apparently CNN is something that someone might call Satanic. But no! Let me show you what real SATANISM is, ladies and gentlemen! But yes these people really do think that CNN is the spawn of the devil himself!!!
Turner, who once called Christianity a religion for losers, has reportedly softened his view in recent years, but Jackson still refuses to trust anything that CNN reports because he believes that the network is in league with Satan.
CNN was founded by a renowned, convinced, convicted atheist, Jackson said. That spirit, that anti-Christ anointing is still on that thing, which is why their lead anchor is how he is. I dont need to go any further than that, but hes a confused young man and its because that spirit of atheism and anti-God and anti-Christian mindset just permeates that thing. So theyre not going to get anything right because when youre that offsee, I really believe thiswhen youre off spiritually like that, its very hard to get anything else right.
Likewise, Jackson went on to say that he would refuse to be operated on by a surgeon who is an atheist.
Im serious, he said. I dont care how good he is supposed to be because I believe when youre that off about the fundamental nature of life, I cant trust you with anything else. Thats it. Sorry. I cant trust you with anything else because, to me, you are in league with the spirit of Satan. Why would I want to entrust my life to you and give the devil a shot at me? No, thank you.
The same principle applies to CNN, Jackson said. When the root is poison, guess what? The fruit is poison.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/e-w-jackson-doesnt-believe-cnn-because-the-network-is-in-league-with-satan/
Yes, the DAYMON hellfire is everywhere and the scourge of the wrath of GAWD shall not go unnoticed, can I get an amen!!! For it says in our good book judge not lest ye be judged, does it not? And I can prove it, I have it right here. But thats not real SATANISM. Nothing is, at least how they are describing it! Heres some real Satanism at work!
The Satanic Temple organization claimed Netflix and Warner Bros. had copied the image of Baphomet -- a winged, half-man, half-goat figure that has been worshiped by various occult groups -- in its program "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina."
A reproduction of the figure appeared in four episodes of the show without the group's permission, the group claimed.
But the group's leader said the suit has now been settled, and that "the unique elements of the Satanic Temple's Baphomet statue" will be acknowledged in the credits of the show's episodes.
"The Satanic Temple is pleased to announce that the lawsuit it recently filed against Warner Bros. and Netflix has been amicably settled," Lucien Greaves wrote in a statement.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/22/entertainment/satanic-temple-netflix-lawsuit-scli-intl/index.html
So the DEVIL is all around us, as you can clearly see! If not in our news networks then its in our network shows! I mean its all well and good but what does the Church Of Satan really think?
The Satanic Temple filed a lawsuit against Netflix and Warner Bros. last week, alleging the statue of the Dark Lord in Sabrina's Academy of Unseen Arts infringes on the copyright of the organization's own statue of Baphomet. However, the Satanic Temple shouldn't be confused with the Church of Satan, which doesn't have a beef with the new Netflix series.
In a statement, the Church of Satan distanced itself from the Satanic Temple, which it says is known for "childish PR stunts" that "are not in anyway representative of the apolitical, individualistic and atheistic religion of Satanism."
The Church previously assessed FX's American Horror Story: Apocalypse and Sabrina, and noted, "Our members are watching these as many are horror fans and, as might be expected, some enjoy them and others find them not to their tastesmileage varies amongst our folks who care enough to view it. We arent a collective, but a varied cabal of individuals, so to each his own!"
https://www.cbr.com/church-satan-netflix-sabrina-statement/
Yes, because apparently the devil works more among us than GAWD and JAYSUS do! Now in the Good Book does it not say that the dark one shall appear as creature of light? Yes, yes, it does I have it right here in front of me, sir! I mean even the church of SATAN says that DEMONIC forces are far more at work than an organization reporting on the news!
The symbols found in the warren of tunnels under Fort Austin in Plymouth are linked to Satanism, Church of Satan high priest Peter Gilmore said.
But he dismissed them as the work of teenagers "to upset the people who discover them" and said Satanists would have their "own home ritual spaces".
Police said the site was dangerous and the council pledged to block it up.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-46017331
There you have it folks, the DEVIL may not be working in CNN but he is definitely working in our media and our graffiti! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! Thats it this week for:
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Lets spin the wheel shall we? Wheel goes round, and it lands on what? Bankrupt? NO!!!!!
Spin it again. Oh hey its time for Beating A Dead Horse!
You know there are guarantees in America. Like you can guarantee that Trump is going to wake up, that is, assuming he sleeps at all, thinking how can I be a dick today?. You can also count on the internet outrage machine to crank it up way past 11 any time theres a homosexual kiss on TV. And by outrage machine, I mean conservative Christian snowflakes who call themselves family organizations can really turn on the tears. So after the kiss seen round America between two lesbian lovers on national TV, guess how they reacted? Well very predictably as you might imagine!
ForAmerica ― whose mission is to reinvigorate the public with the principles of American exceptionalism: freedom, prosperity and virtue accused Macys and NBC of blindsiding parents Thursday by airing the kiss between actresses Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla during a rendition of musical The Prom.
The group also accused the network and department store of trying to push their agenda on little kids.
In response, many tweeters noted that love is love and not a political agenda. It was a family program. Not all families look the same. Its good that all children see that, wrote one. Love is a family program, added another.
Others claimed the innocence of American children had been more likely taken by the countrys gun violence epidemic and mass shootings:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/conservative-group-gets-shredded-over-macys-same-sex-kiss-criticism_us_5bf7f08ee4b0eb6d930dc92c
You know what? Lets throw that twee t up there for a minute.
https://twitter.com/ForAmerica/status/1065623392072675328
Yeah well hey, if these childrens parents had Fox News on this weekend, they probably also saw their fellow children get tear gas lobbied at them by a government whos declared them second class citizens simply because theyre not from around here! Which is more horrifying? Thank you audience! But the details are even more horrifying! Who is the group behind the outrage? Why its ForAmerica a Christian conservative group dedicated to fighting those godless heathens on the left!
ForAmerica is a conservative organization founded in 2010 that decries the rise of the radical Left and aims to use social media and pop culture to capture the publics imagination and educat[e] a new generation of conservatives. Thursday morning, their account tweeted a still from the Macys Parade of two women kissing along with their horror at the sight:
Actresses Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla were performing a number from the musical The Prom when the kiss destroyer of innocence, ender of childhoods was aired on NBC.
It would appear that ForAmericas efforts to educate the masses via social media are, thus far, unsuccessful: They were swiftly ratiod. Over 4,000 people responded to the post, mocking the group for their outrage over a very PG expression of same-sex love.
https://thinkprogress.org/macys-parade-features-its-first-same-sex-kiss-conservative-group-is-appalled-3d833fbdc11b/
Yeah even if the plan is horrifying, like two actresses getting a PG kiss on the lips. And if you want to see the negative reviews for such an event, look no further than what the twitter reviews are saying. They hate us, they really hate us!
Why do these networks feel the need to make sure they show their support for the gay community, one Twitter user asked. Not something kids need to see.
You really think a dance routine ending with a lesbian kiss is appropriate FOR A THANKSGIVING PARADE? another user asked. Thanks for all the unexpected, uncomfortable, INAPPROPRIATE conversations that now have to take place w kids before anyone can eat.
NBC and Macys should be ashamed at this years broadcast, another user said. Stunning[.] Children and families were watching this. No business on TV.
Perhaps next yr, Macys [will] celebrate diversity by saluting gender fluid couples or polyamorous relationships, another user observed.
It is terribly sad, another user said. We cant even turn on an iconic piece of Americana any more without having our children have this shoved down our throats.
My still fairly young children were all very excited to watch the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade, anther user opined. We turned it on and within a few seconds the camera focused in on a prominent lesbian kiss in one of the dance numbers. My daughters face fell.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/11/23/lesbian-kiss-shown-nationwide-during-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-performance-draws-cheers-jeers
Oh boo fucking hoo! And hey, the 1950s called, they want their talking point back. You know what? Lets show the clip!
Think of those poor people crossing the border who literally have nothing, and youre outraged by that? Turn your damn TV off and get outside once in a while and go see how the real world works! And anyone else really surprised that they are calling for a boycott? If youre keeping score at home, thats #320 for Trump fans, and maybe one or two for us!
Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla, lead actors in Broadway The Prom musical, made Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade history on Thursday by sharing its first same-sex kiss, broadcast to millions of viewers across the U.S..
Writes Harvey, writing on the right-wing rag Lifesite: This agenda is like an airborne infection thats suddenly everywhere. From LGBT affirming church youth groups, to gay-affirming anti-bullying school lessons, to rainbow pride apparel sold at Target and Walmart during the spring and summer, to the obligatory pro-homosexual article in the daily newspaper, to disturbed transvestites reading to preschoolers in libraries. It seems to be critically important to stick it to our children, all in the name of phony tolerance and acceptance, embracing sins leading to personal disaster, societal destruction and spiritual death
She adds: God never makes any human to engage in what He has called an abomination, and always shows a way out for those who seek His loving, merciful transformation from lives of sin to lives of sanity and virtue. His design for human sexuality and marriage is beautiful and should be celebrated as a tremendous blessing on Thanksgiving. But instead, even this traditional icon of Americana, the Macys Thanksgiving Parade, is being co-opted by whitewashed depravity .I am grieved for America and all the lost people, especially the young. I mourn the simple sweetness of mom/dad families and uncomplicated friendships, of holidays that cultivated wholesome childhood unmarred by the shadow of hateful, sexual fascism. Despite the victory that is in Jesus Christ and our ultimate destiny, before that glorious appearing, the night is coming.
http://www.towleroad.com/2018/11/boycott-macys/
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[font size="8"]NO!!!!!
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Lets spin the wheel shall we? Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy stop! Chance!
Hey all right, my luck is starting to turn! Spin it again! And it lands on NO!!!!. Thats right its time for our new segment:
Thats right NO! Just fucking no! So America, dont be fucking Nazis! And dont be fucking Nazis, either! In an era that we live in where hate crimes, white supremacy, and dare I say it neo Nazism are on the rise not only in America, but around the globe, is this incident something that we really need right now? Im of course referring to that disgusting story out of Babaroo, Wisconsin where the senior class, in whats being called a yearbook prank, threw up a good old fashioned Nazi salute. Yeah some casual in your face racism, that's real fucking funny guys! So in short NO!!!!!, or should I say NEIN!!!!!
In the photo, more than 50 boys from Baraboo, Wis., pose on outdoor steps. The vast majority are shown hoisting their right arms stiff and straight into the air, fingers pointed out, as Nazis did in Adolf Hitlers Germany. One boy in the front row has his arms down but his right hand is forming the okay sign, a symbol adopted by the white power movement.
The photo was posted Sunday on Twitter by an account called @GoBaraboo, with the caption, We even got the black kid to throw it up #BarabooProud. That account has since been made private.
Lori M. Mueller, the Baraboo School District superintendent, wrote to parents Monday, saying the photo was taken last spring. She said it was not taken on school property or at a school-sponsored event, but others in the community said the photos were associated with the schools junior prom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/apparent-nazi-salute-at-prom-investigated-by-wisconsin-school-district/2018/11/12/6b6d0fa6-e691-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?utm_term=.3413141d37ac
Yes, NO!!!! I mean dont be fucking Nazis. Nazism isnt funny, it never was, nor will it ever be. And can we assume that these dudes will vote for Trump at some point? I mean we already know where they stand on the issues. Now heres where it gets weird, and why wouldnt it?
Administrator Lori Mueller of the Baraboo School District has said she is investigating the photo and will take appropriate action, but repeated efforts to speak with her a day after the photo was publicized Monday were not successful.
Regardless of any discipline from Baraboo High School, about 100 miles northwest of Milwaukee, the image could have far-reaching consequences for the young men pictured there, according to a university administrator.
"This could very well have an impact on their ability to get into college," said Stefanie Niles, vice president for enrollment and communications at Ohio Wesleyan University and president of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/11/14/nazi-salute-fallout-baraboo-high-school-boys-wisconsin/1997185002/
Yeah no shit! I know I wouldnt want a fucking Nazi sitting next to me while Im taking multi variable calculus! So really, dont be Nazis, I cannot stress that enough. I mean if you want to see a real Nazi at work, just check out what Tomi Lahren said over the weekend:
Lahren made her comment on Twitter in a quote-tweet responding to actress Alyssa Milanos expletive-laden message to President Donald Trump after he said Mexico would be smart to hinder migrant caravans before they amassed at the countries' shared border.
Bum-rushing the border is a CHOICE and has consequences. Watching the USA FINALLY defend our borders was the HIGHLIGHT of my Thanksgiving weekend, Lahren tweeted in response to Milano.
Lahren, a major proponent of Trump and his strict immigration policies, was praising the work of U.S. border agents on Sunday when they fired tear gas at migrants protesting at the border in Tijuana. Some of the protestors also reportedly tried to enter the country illegally, sparking the use of the tear gas, according to the Associated Press. Mexicos Interior Ministry said roughly 500 of the migrants attempted to violently cross the border.
https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-tomi-lahren-migrants-tear-gas-thanksgiving-1231582
Yeah thats going full Nazi! I mean if the highlight of your Thanksgiving is that you got to see innocent mothers and children being gassed for wanting to live, youre a psychopath! These are human beings escaping persecution and murderous regimes were talking about here, and youre making them out to be dangerous criminals. Thats going full Hitler. But what you might not be aware of is that free speech does protect these guys. And no woman would do something that stupid, unless said woman happens to be Tomi Lahren.
The superintendent, Lori Mueller of the Baraboo School District, said in the letter that the district was not in a position to punish the students for their actions because of their First Amendment rights.
As previously stated, we cannot know the intentions in the hearts of those who were involved, Ms. Mueller wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Baraboo News Republic.
The district investigated the episode for about 10 days with help from the police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/us/baraboo-wisconsin-nazi-salute-photo.html
And by the way in case youre wondering what the schools official stance on this is, they plan to increase education and awareness about what Hitler did in order to prevent future incidents like this. Hey! Youre a school! You should have been educating kids about Hitler in the first place! Maybe sit all the kids in that class except for that one dude who thought that maybe this wasnt a good idea!
Baraboo Superintendent Lori Mueller said in a letter to parents Wednesday that the district is in the planning stages with civic, community and faith leaders to host the program. Mueller says details will be "shared as soon as possible."
Mueller says, "We are so sorry that the actions of some of our students so understandably and deeply hurt people around the world."
The photo of about 60 boys was taken outside the Sauk County Courthouse in Baraboo last spring. About two-thirds of the boys have their right arms raised in what appears to be a Nazi salute.
The parent who took the photo says he was simply asking the teens to wave goodbye to their parents before they headed to prom.
http://www.startribune.com/wisconsin-school-district-plans-program-on-nazi-salute-image/500538401/
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[font size="8"]People Are Dumb
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Lets spin it to win it! And it lands on no whammy no whammy no whammy stop!!!! Oh hey its a clip without context!
I think even somewhere Jesus is going Youre doing this wrong, Lance! Spin it again! Oh hey its time for People Are Dumb!
Oh man there was a lot of dumb over the holiday weekend. And there was a lot of dumb particularly in our favorite state. Yes, you know that state the state that elected Ron DeSantis governor. So I want to start with this story out of Polk County, Florida. Heres . heres my whole thing. If you are buying meth, and why wouldnt you? It is Florida. And you want to know if your meth is legitimate or not, maybe dont ask your doctor about quality control.
Barbara Ray, 73, of Polk County, told the staff at the doctor's office that she had been taking meth for about a month, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. She said she brought the drugs with her so that she and "her meth" could be tested to make sure all was well.
The Sheriff's Office was called and a deputy responded to the office. The deputy tested the drugs and found it was in fact methamphetamine.
Ray was arrested on November 5. She was charged with 2 counts of Possession of Methamphetamine, and 2 counts of Possession of Narcotic Paraphernalia. She was booked into the Polk County Jail on Monday, November 5, 2018 and released on Wednesday, November 7, 2018.
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-polk/florida-woman-brings-meth-to-doctor-s-office-to-have-it-tested-admits-to-using-for-a-month
Next up I want to bring you this cringe worthy story out of Heilongjiang, China. OK, if you want to yeah cue the parental discretion warning, thank you sound effects guy! So heres the thing youre not Johnny Mnemonic. You dont have a USB port anywhere on you. And you especially dont have one in your male organ area. Just aah!!!!!!!!
The 13-year-old from Chinas Heilongjiang province was taken to a hospital last month, according to Singapores Strait Times, presumably because he couldnt pull the cable out. How? Why? I have questions!
Apparently, the teenager cut off one side of the USB connecter before inserting it into his urethra, thank god. It measured 10 centimeters-long, and had reached his bladder, causing blood to appear in his urine, doctors said.
The Times reports that he did it all out of curiosity.
From the X-ray, we can see a dead knot hence he could not pull it out himself, Dr. Xu Liyan told local Heilongjiang Metropolis Channel.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzyabe/teenage-boy-inserts-usb-cable-into-penis-a-cautionary-tale
OK now that we got that out of the way, while were on the other side of the world, apparently Russias Troll Army has been listening to too many American conspiracy theories lately, and theyre going back to investigate whether or not the moon landing was real. Yes, 1982 called, they want their conspiracy theory back!
Dmitry Rogozin responded to a question about whether Nasas Apollo programme actually put men on the moon back in the 1960s and 1970s during a conversation with the president of Moldova, Igor Dodon.
He appeared to be joking, as he smirked and shrugged while answering. But conspiracies surrounding Nasas moon missions are common in Russia.
In a video of their interaction, posted to his 815,000 Twitter followers, Mr Rogozin says: We have set this objective to fly and verify whether theyve been there or not.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/science/russia-space-agency-nasa-us-moon-landing-mission-a8650056.html%3famp
Thankfully it wasnt like that! Finally this week for People Are Dumb, we go to this story out of Germany. Hey look, everyone knows how awesome it is to finally land your drivers license. But that feeling can literally disappear in an instant as this kid proved in the Märkischer Kreis region of Germany.
The 18-year-old driver lost his license after 49 minutes.
Some things hold for eternity ... some not even an hour, German police said in statement on Tuesday.
Police clocked him at 95 km/h (59 mph) in a 50 km/h (31 mph) zone, in the Märkischer Kreis region of central north Germany.
The teen, who had been driving with four friends, was seemingly celebrating his successful driving test.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-news-german-teen-loses-driving-license-after-minutes-20181121-story.html
Yes, shit just got real all right! Thats it this week for:
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[font size="8"]Deep State Diaries Episode 21: The United States Census Bureau
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Lets spin the wheel one final time this week. And it lands on t-shirt cannon! Everyone will be getting our new Top 10 Dems Take The House shirt! Yeah look at that! Spin it again! Oh hey its time for Deep State Diaries! Hit it!
Its time for episode 21 of Deep State Diaries. Yes were touring the many, many branches and services that make up the United States government. Everything from the FBI to the IRS to the Pentagon to the CIA to the DPW to the DVA to parks and recreation and all branches and services in between. Of course if youre here you probably already know more about our government and how it works than your average Fox News loving Trump supporter does. So thats what this segment is going to address. We are going to do a deep dive into all that makes the United States the United States. Because we here at the Top 10 love to educate as well as entertain. Because we care.
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So every 10 years the United States takes part in whats called a census. That census answers a lot of questions about the population of the United States. And the agency that monitors this census is called the United States Census Bureau. And theyve been in the news a lot lately because were two years out from the 2020 census and that is going to be very interesting to see what the end results of this questionnaire are. So why have they been in the news lately?
The nonpartisan Pew Research Center said 10.7 million immigrants lacked legal status in 2016, down from 11 million a year earlier and from a peak of 12.2 million in 2007 before the U.S. economy slumped.
It is the lowest number since 2004, the report said.
The decline stems largely from a drop in the number of Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to 5.5 million in 2016 from nearly 7 million in 2007. Some returned to their country to reunite with family, while others were deported.
https://www.wdam.com/2018/11/27/report-fewer-immigrants-us-without-legal-status/
Yeah sure, facts dont matter to him! I mean who are we kidding? So why the need for something like this to come along every 10 years? Well theres a huge story on it that is making everyone really questioning our choices so far as a country.
The judge hearing the case in federal court in New York promised a quick ruling.
Eighteen U.S. states, 15 cities and a slew of civil rights groups sued the administration over the plan, arguing it was intended to frighten immigrants into abstaining from the count, costing immigrant communities political representation and billions in federal aid.
Ross, a Republican, has said that citizenship data from the next census is needed to enforce federal laws against voter discrimination.
https://wsau.com/news/articles/2018/nov/27/quick-ruling-expected-as-us-census-trial-wraps-up/
No, no, no we dont. Calm down there, chief. Did you see the previous article? Yeah so theres been a huge decline in Mexican immigration and why should they come here if the message theyre getting told is get the fuck out?
Avoiding an undercount is paramount for myriad reasons, according to Phillip Supino, a long-range planner with the city of Aspens Community Development Department who has been leading the initiative.
The decennial census is the fundamental federal exercise, he said, with hundreds of billions of dollars allocated each year for infrastructure and essential services based on the demographic data it produces. The reapportionment of congressional and statehouse seats, which also happens every 10 years, is based on the census, meaning that a democracy that is truly representative of the population it serves is on the line.
https://www.aspendailynews.com/news/governments-collaborating-on-complete-count-in-upcoming-u-s-census/article_2aa20964-ec76-11e8-bd77-5b69937fd37c.html
Yeah probably. I mean accurate, schmacurate. Whats to stop this administration from fucking with the numbers and saying that everyone is white and religious? Oh wait, lets not give them any ideas! But where else are you going to learn crazy stats about Americans like this?
That is higher than the national average 16.3 percent to 13.7 and ranks No. 10 among the states. One of the reasons for that is religious: the high number of Utahns who move to serve missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
That is a cultural imperative that is not present in other places and helps make Utahns among the nations most frequent movers, said Pam Perlich, director of demographic research at the University of Utahs Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2018/11/27/utahns-move-more-than/
Ah, I love The Book Of Mormon. Or what about this?
The following facts from the U.S. Census Bureau are made possible by the invaluable responses to the U.S. Census Bureaus surveys, according to a Census Bureau news release.
"We appreciate the publics cooperation as we continuously measure Americas people, places and economy," the release stated.
https://www.newsandtribune.com/news/the-business-of-boos-census-bureau-provides-halloween-facts/article_09468e5c-dd35-11e8-b07b-37f13356acc1.html
But nah, in this increasingly white supremacist climate, this is the most alarming news of all! The horror, the horror I tell you!
The presentation of the data disturbed Kenneth Prewitt, a former Census Bureau director, who saw it while looking through a government report. The graphic made demographic change look like a zero-sum game that white Americans were losing, he thought, and could provoke a political backlash.
So after the reports release three years ago, he organized a meeting with Katherine Wallman, at the time the chief statistician for the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/us/white-americans-minority-population.html
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Top 10 Conservative Idiots Best Of #6: Thanksgiving Edition
Top 10 Conservative Idiots Best Of #6: Thanksgiving Edition
Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! As you know by now this week is Thanksgiving, so naturally were off and going to be running another Best Of Edition. So while youre enjoying Turkey Day and drinking large quantities of conservative tears in your cheaply imported coffee mugs, enjoy this best of the Top 10. For all the great stuff that weve been up to here and theres things that slipped through the cracks. So for those of you who regularly follow the Top 10 through the year you know weve been touring a lot this year going to cities and meeting awesome liberals in all of these cities. As far as the tour goes, weve only got a few weeks left in the crazy year that is 2018 and weve still got to hit Arizona, Denver, and do a couple of home shows before going to our big London show on December 12th at the 99 Club in Leicester Square. That said, we recently announced a wave of 2019 tour dates and heres where we are tentatively headed but things can be subject to change at any minute. So here is the schedule so far:
1/3/19 Dark (Best Of) New Years
1/9/19 Portland, OR McMenamins Bagdad Theater (Season Premiere)
1/16/19 Seattle, WA - Comedy Underground (rescheduled from 9/5)
1/24/19 Las Vegas, NV Jokesters Fremont St.
1/30/19 Salt Lake City, UT Wiseguys
2/6/19 Anaheim, CA Podfest LA @ Anaheim Convention Center
2/13/19 Oxnard, CA Levity Live (Valentines Day Special!)
2/20/19 - Ontario, CA - Ontario Improv
2/27/19 Hollywood, CA UCB Theater Franklin St
3/6/19 Hollywood, CA UCB Theater Franklin St(Stupidest State Contest Selection Sunday)
3/13/19 - Hollywood, CA UCB Theater Franklin St. (Stupidest State Round 1 Match 1)
3/20/19 Atlanta, GA Punchline Comedy Club (Stupidest State Round 1 Match 2)
3/27/19 Tampa, FL Tampa Improv (Stupidest State Round 1 Match 3)
4/3/19 Washington, DC DC Improv (Stupidest State Round 1 Match 4)
4/10/19 New York City, NY Grammercy Theater (Stupidest State Round 2 Match 1)
4/17/19 Dark (Best Of - Spring Break / Easter)
4/24/19 Denver, CO Colorado Podcast Festival (Stupidest State Round 2 Match 2)
5/1/19 San Diego, CA American Comedy Co. (Stupidest State Round 2 Match 3)
5/8/19 Missoula, MT Big Sky Brewery (Stupidest State Round 2 Match 4)
5/15/19 Long Beach, CA Laugh Factory (Stupidest State Final Four)
5/22/19 Hollywood, CA UCB Theater Franklin St (Stupidest State Finals / Season Finale)
OK thats enough of the intro, we have a lot of idiocy to get to. But first we have to play the Bill Maher new rule where he compares Trump to the Old Testament god:
So where do we begin for this best of edition? In the first slot, from Idiots #5-8, we take a look at the conspiracy theory known as Q-Anon since it has become a mainstream fixture at Trump rallies across the country, even though we all know its grade A bullshit. In the second slot, from Idiots #5-6, Dennis Rodman gets a rare +1 for his next visit to North Korea and he wants to bring none other than Trumps BFF Kanye West, and we explore the possibilities of a Harold And Kumar style adventure. In the 3rd slot, from Idiots #5-19, we delve into the epically failed plot to take down Mueller by a fake intelligence agency spearheaded by Trump superfans Jacob Wohl and Jack Berman, and it has all the makings of a good Wes Anderson flick or a terrible Coen Bros one. In the fourth slot, from Idiots #5-12, Stormy Daniels has officially ruined the collective childhood of 90s kids everywhere. Yeah, take that what you will! At number 5, from Idiots #5-11, our weekly investigative piece Top 10 Investigates takes a look at a growing feud between Tesla founder Elon Musk and the heroic deep sea divers who rescued those kids from that cave in Thailand. And at number 6, in our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in Holy Shit, from Idiots #5-14, our resident pastor is going to take a look at an insane new documentary from Liberty University called The Trump Prophecy starring crackpot Mark Taylor. Taking the 7th slot, from Idiots #5-13, its almost October, which prompts Explaining Jokes To Idiots takes a look at sexy Halloween costumes! Do we really need the sexy whatever? Find out! Taking the 8th slot, from Idiots #5-9, This Fucking Guy takes a look at dueling Christian conspiracy theorists Lance Wallnau and Rick Wiles. At number 9 (NEIN!!!) from Idiots #5-16 is I Need A Drink and we need a few drinks to tell you about Kanye Wests epic cyber security fail and how were not at all surprised that his passcode is 00000. Finally this week, from Idiots #5-10, Deep State Diaries is going to take a look at the government institution that everyone loves to hate, the Department Of Motor Vehicles, and we encourage you to do your best impression of Patty & Selma here. And were going to close with that time we had AWOLNATION on from Idiots #5-6. Enjoy! And as always dont forget the key!
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From Idiots #5-8
Hey everybody! Its time for the WHEEL OF CORRUPTION! YAY!!!!!
Of course you know the rules by now I spin the wheel and we have to talk about whatever it lands on. Of course if it lands on the guacamole option, you know that it costs $1.50 extra. So heres what is on the wheel this week:
- Guns
- Abortion
- Crime
- Poverty
- Sex
- Chance
- 5,000
- Infowars
- Nazis
- Go Directly To Jail
- Buy A Vowel
- The Trumper Games
- Lawsuits
- Whammy
- Donald Trump
- People Are Dumb
- Merica!
- How Is This Still A Thing?
- A Random Tweet
- 10,000
- Community Chest
- Talk Shows
- Clip Without Context
- Something Random In The News
- Fox News
- Top 10 Investigates
- Polls
- Chance
- Nukes
- Civility
- Intermission
- Deep State Diaries
- 15,000
- Bankrupt
- Morally Bankrupt
- Golf
- The GOP
- Butter Beer
- Community Chest
- Florida (Obviously)
- This Fucking Guy
- Beating A Dead Horse
- Holy Shit
- Guacamole ($1.50 Extra)
- Harry Potter
- T-Shirt Cannon
- ? (Mystery Item)
- I Need A Drink
- Lightning Round
- Bonus Spin
Lets get this going! Spin that shit! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy stop! Clip without context!
Sure, go after the underground pedophiles, but what about the above ground ones, Mark? Like you know those in your own party! If youre going to get serious about this, get fucking serious! Spin it again! And it lands on sex! So we got to talk about it, its the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Its of course the conspiracy theory known as Qanon. Weve brought up Q before but this week it finally came out of the conspiracy theory closet and hit the mainstream media big time.
If you're lucky, before last week you had only ever heard of QAnon from some of Roseanne Barr's less racist tweets. Because it was possible to live your life completely unaware of the new, dumb conspiracy theory taking off online until it finally spilled over into the real world thanks to Donald Trump. Recently, people who buy into QAnon have been visibly showing up at Trump rallies and campaign events, wearing T-shirts and signs to show that they're in the know and they support a president who is supposed to be secretly fighting an international ring of billionaire pedophiles.
But if you're one of those lucky people who doesn't spend lurking on or reading about the seedier parts of the Internet, QAnon is likely a big mystery for you. None of us want to have to know about this thing. But since it's spilling into the real world now, here are some of the basics about this convoluted and elaborate conspiracy.
What exactly does "QAnon" mean?
The whole thing started on 4chan. An anonymous user going by "Q," a reference to the highest level of security clearance, began posting in October of last year. According to Q, who claims to be one or more people high in the Trump administration, all past presidents have been involved in shadowy criminal dealings centered mostly on an international pedophile ring and a global sex trade of child slaves. Featuring prominently in this are the usual boogeyman: Barack Obama, the Clintons, George Soros, the whole gang.
Is that not Pizzagate?
It sounds a lot like it, doesn't it? Think Pizzagate but bigger, more complicated, and dumber. In fact, this is a pretty boiled down explanation considering how complex and grandiose the whole conspiracy is.
https://www.gq.com/story/what-the-hell-is-qanon
And yes if you do believe in the Qanon conspiracy theory, I have a bag of magic beans to sell you for $9.99, what do they do? Theyre magic! So heres a good question how did the republicans get to be the party of batshit crazy, off the wall conspiracy theories?
Its hard to do justice to the intricate madness of what QAnon is about in a concise manner, but Ill let Molly Roberts give it a shot:
The simplest description of the plot line goes something like this: President Trump isnt under investigation; he is only pretending to be, as part of a countercoup to restore power to the people after more than a century of governmental control by a globalist cabal. Also, there are pedophiles.
A figure named Q, who supposedly possesses Q-level security clearance, disperses crumbs that bakers bring together to create a dough of synthesized information. (This is not how baking works, but that seems the least of our worries.) Because Q is the 17th letter in the alphabet and 17 is also a number Trump has said a few times, among other clearly-not-coincidences, he is the real deal, not an Internet troll engaged in an elaborate example of live-action role-play.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/06/why-the-gop-is-so-easily-infiltrated-by-bonkers-conspiracy-theorists/?utm_term=.fc5cac586357
And you should always listen to Dave Grohl too, for he is wise in the ways of the world! But this might be my favorite story related to Qanon, and who better to explain a batshit crazy conspiracy theory than batshit crazy conspiracy theorists? I mean if you thought the previous people were too stupid to insult, I give you Liz Crokin:
QAnon is an anonymous figure at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory known as The Storm that alleges that high-ranking members of the Trump administration have been using the 8Chan forum board to drop hints revealing that Robert Mullers special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election is really cover for a secret operation to take down a global network of satanic pedophile cannibals. Proponents of this conspiracy theory have increasingly been making their presence known at Trump rallies.
In a video posted by Moonstone on Sunday, Crokin explained her theory that JFK Jr. has been running the QAnon account all along, insisting that any mockery she receives, or attacks she endures, for promoting her absurd ideas is proof that she is right.
Crokin asserted that when she first heard the theory of JFK Jr. being behind the QAnon account, it immediately resonated with me, I got goosebumps everywhere. Im a very intuitive person and usually when that happens, thats confirmation that there is truth to it.
Q at one point said, Youre not going to believe who you are talking to here,' Crokin said. When Q wrote that, I thought its going to be someone thats so crazy that even people that are woke and know whats going on are going to be like, Oh my lord, this is insane John F. Kennedy Jr., that would be shocking because we all think hes dead.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/liz-crokin-john-f-kennedy-jr-faked-his-death-and-is-now-qanon/
That is a good point sir! I mean really you cant get much more stupid than that! And not only is it underground pedophiles, its also satanic pedophiles too. I mean not unlike Kevin Spacey. Hey o!!!!!!!!!!!!! And by the way, you might be asking yourself Who Is Q?. Well now we have a face the pedo patrol has got right on the case! I give you *drum roll* this guy!
For those who have managed to remain blissfully unaware, QAnon is a far-reaching, multi-faceted conspiracy that claimsamong other thingsthat President Trump and Robert Mueller are actually working together to take down a massive pedophile ring run by Hollywood celebrities and major Democratic Party players. Deep state secrets are leaked to supporters courtesy of an anonymous message board user named Q. Relying on cryptic information from an anonymous source has primed QAnon followers to believe pretty much anything from anyone, including Vanderpump Rules actor Isaac Kappy, who appeared on Infowars recently to accuse Tom Hanks and Seth Green of being secret Illuminati pedophiles.
https://news.avclub.com/the-hot-new-face-of-qanon-is-some-fucking-guy-from-vand-1828132542
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From Idiots #5-6
OK so youre Dennis Rodman and you and everyones favorite, loveable mass murdering dictator Kim Jong Un are like this, and he finally gives you that +1 invite that youve been clamoring for, for many years now, who do you bring along? Well, Mr. Rodman has one person in particular that hed like to bring along on his next diplomatic mission.
Now, in a new interview, Rodman thanked the rapper and said that he planned to invite West to North Korea, where the former NBA star has struck up an unlikely friendship with the hermit states dictator, Kim Jong-un. Kanye, hes doing amazing work around the world so I respect him too, Rodman told Us Weekly. So hopefully one day well get together and collaborate on certain things. Guess what, Ill take Kanye West to North Korea with me.
Rodman continued, suggesting the rapper might be inspired to record an album by the experience. Matter of fact, Im going to invite him next time I go to North Korea. If the doors open in September, I will invite Kanye West with me to go to North Korea with me If he wants to make an album about that, hell be there for like six to seven days, and hell see whats going on. Now, go make a song about this. So here you go.
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/dennis-rodman-kanye-north-korea-album/
I'm not sure if I should be thrilled that Dennis and Kanye are having a bromance, or if I can't wait for the movie Dennis & Kanye Go To Pyongyang Palace? Thank you Kansas City! But theres more to this three-way bromance and it doesnt involve Kim Jong Un.
Rodman tells The Blast that he met Kanye at the March for Our Lives rally in DC a few months ago. The two stars took a pic together, and after the rally, The Worm said he wanted to send Yeezy a personalized and signed jersey, being that he was a big fan.
Rodman, of course, famously played for the Bulls during their heyday and, West was raised in Chi-town.
Rodman tells The Blast that he met Kanye at the March for Our Lives rally in DC a few months ago. The two stars took a pic together, and after the rally, The Worm said he wanted to send Yeezy a personalized and signed jersey, being that he was a big fan.
Rodman, of course, famously played for the Bulls during their heyday and, West was raised in Chi-town.
Dennis Rodman Kanye West
A source tells us that Rodman always respected West for being a free spirit, like himself, and remembered when the rapper dyed his hair blonde a few years back like Rodman did back in the mid 90s.
https://theblast.com/dennis-rodman-kanye-west-jersey-chicago-bulls/
Wait, whoa whoa whoa. Back up! Beep beep! Didnt Kanye recently come out as a hardcore Trump supporter (see Top 10 #4-16 )a few months ago? What was he doing at the March For Our Lives? This is something that Trump supporters wouldnt touch with a 10 foot pole. Come on, Kanye, if youre going to be overtly political, at least be consistent with your beliefs! So Mr. Rodmans politics havent exactly won him a lot of fans lately.
The ex-basketball star and reality TV personality struggled through most of his time on Saturday during the taping of the roast in Hollywood.
It got particularly tense when Rodman made a joke about the North Korean leader and his pal, Kim Jong-un.
Trying to give Willis a hard time about some of his movie choices, Rodman said, "You keep making these bomb movies like Kim, but at least he is smart enough not to release his."
That did not go over well and elicited boos.
Rodman struggled in general and apologized a number of times to the audience and guests onstage as he flubbed his lines.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dennis-rodman-booed-at-bruce-willis-roast-1127188
No Im pretty sure theyre booing you. But heres the other weird thing so Rodman wants to bring everyones favorite fun loving dictator to the US to watch a Knicks game of all things!
The NBA Hall of Famer tells the Daily News that if Kim visits the United States, he hopes to bring the North Korean dictator to see the Knicks and meet their leader.
The first thing he wants to do is go to a Knicks game he wants to go to Madison Square Garden, according to Rodman.
Now the lead adviser of Business Development for anytickets.com, The Worm is in charge of coordinating VIP outings for the lifestyle brand. Hes confident he can make it happen.
If you want to go to a Knicks game and meet Dolan, you can go meet him, Rodman said of his plan to broker a summit.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ny-ent-dennis-rodman-james-dolan-kim-jung-un-20180626-story.html#
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[font size="8"]Surefire Intelligence
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From: [link: | Idiots #5-19]
Unless youve been living under a rock, you know that there was a plot by two rabid Trump fans Jacob Wohl and Jack Berkman to take down Robert Mueller. And it involved using the #MeToo movement as a weapon. Well, it turned out to be quite the colossal fail. Which is a huge step up from the epic fail and the more you dig into this story the weirder it gets. And I mean thats an understatement. This story was MADE for the Top 10. Lets dig into it.
The pair held their show in a Holiday Inn just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The premise of this press conference was to present a credible witness who would accuse Robert Mueller of sexual assault. But any credibility Burkman and Wohl had hoped for was gone before they ever walked into the Rosslyn-area hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
They were scooped on their own story by the Atlantic when the outlet reported that Burkman was behind a scheme to pay women to falsify allegations against Mueller. We even knew the dollar amount that Burkman was offering $20,000.
Wohl was implicated when it was revealed that he was behind the company, Surefire Intelligence, that had published the official-looking documents outlining the allegations. Surefires LinkedIn pages also featured photos of stock models. The profile for an employee in Tel Aviv used a photo of actor Christoph Waltz. The phone numbers listed on Surefires website were registered to Wohls mothers name.
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/jacob-wohl-surefire-intelligence-press-conference/
To which Im sure that even Hans Landa right now is going WTF! So lets break it down. Its almost like a Wes Anderson movie. Yeah can we get some music? And I need a guy who kind of sounds like Alec Baldwin. So theyve got quirky characters, a two tone color scheme, and a plot that went horribly, horribly wrong. 20 year old stock broker wunderkind Jacob Wohl who got banned from the practice due to shady business dealings, ran an equally shady intelligence firm out of his moms basement and ran offices he didnt have using employees he didnt hire. Sounds legit. In the grand scheme of Trump fans I'm not sure who the bigger buffoon is - Jacob Wohl and Surefire Intelligence or Alex Jones?
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1058442443677450241
No, it's definitely Alex Jones. At least it's a step up from yelling at a pile of poop! But really not that big of a step. But Wohl definitely stepped in some shit. What else could go wrong?
The claims, while flimsy at best, were used to allege a double-standard between their client and Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party when they were in high school, in order to prove that mainstream press is doing the bidding of Mueller.
Wohl is a 20-year-old disgraced former hedge fund manager who earned a lifetime ban on futures trading and has since turned himself into a Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist online. Wohl emerged from pro-Trump conspiracy circles online to join Burkman, a longtime conservative con-man with a show on Newsmax TV, to put forward claims to the press that Mueller brutally raped a woman in New York City in 2010. The claims were published by The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing clickbait website with a large online presence, where Wohl was cited as a contributor as recently as six days ago.
Mueller has referred the apparent smear scheme to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When Wohl and Burkman were asked by someone who did not identify themselves at the back of the room whether they were ready to go to prison, the pair responded, No.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/fly-unzipped-jack-burkman-and-jacob-wohl-make-laughable-smear-claims-against-mueller/
They gave a press conference with their fly down! Holy fucking god, even the best comedy writers in the world couldnt make this stuff up! So for the movie Im thinking that Taron Egerton would be great for Wohl, and maybe Jonah Hill for Berkman. Call me, casting directors! So how did they get caught? Well, it turns out that they used a picture of actor Christoph Waltz for one of their employees. It gets better and better!
The whispers that allegations would enter the mainstream turned into shouts, as Burkman posted a video teasing a Thursday press conference where he would reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert Muellers sex assault victims. That press conference did take place today, but no accuser came forward.
So, what part does Surefire Intelligence play in all of this? On Oct. 30, the same day the rumors started swirling, Wohl said that several media sources told him the story would break.
Also on the same day, the accusations were published on the right-wing fringe site Gateway Pundit and it was revealed that this private investigation firm, Surefire Intelligence, was investigating claims of sexual assault. The Surefire Intelligence Twitter account, which was created in April 2018, also had something to say on social media in response to a flurry of press inquiries.
But in the weeks leading up to that, Surefire Intelligence was already on the radars of various media members, its been reported. It didnt take long for media members to dig deeper and out Surefire Intelligence as Wohls operation, despite his initial denial of involvement.
I dont have any involvement in any investigations of any kind. Im not quite that cool, he said even thought Burkman had already admitted Wohls involvement elsewhere.
Not only was it discovered that an email address with Wohls name on it (jacob.wohl@nexmanagement.com )was linked to the domain registration of Surefire Intelligence, profiles for purported employees of the firm were transparently fictitious. Managing partner Matthew Cohens profile featured a picture that was quickly found to be a photo of Wohl.
Most comically, reverse image searches revealed that other profiles contained photos that were just edited images of famous people, Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli and Hollywood star Christoph Waltz included.
Aric Toler wrote the most comprehensive story on how Surefire Intelligence was traced to Wohl.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-hilariously-simple-way-surefire-intelligence-was-outed-as-jacob-wohls-operation/
You tell em, Master Yoda! Really, if youre setting up a sting operation, maybe dont use your real name or e-mail address? Im just speculating! But really this is just a colossal fail on every level. And in case youre wondering just how shady Surefire Intelligence is, just take a look at what they did to this woman who was looking for her stolen truck.
Adams, a 35-year-old Washington state native, had hired the private investigations firm to recover damages for a truck she says was stolen. She had found Surefire through postings on Craigslist, where it billed its impressive roster of former Israeli intelligence agents and other experts in financial and criminal investigations. Its website appeared to be legitimate, and Adams even found a pair of glowing writeups about the company on the publishing platform Medium. She eventually ponied up $1,200 for Surefires services.
Adams had spoken with the firms ostensible managing partner, Matthew Cohen, last Friday, and he was optimistic about recovering tens of thousands of dollars from the man whom Adams accused of stealing her Hummer. They were scheduled for an in-person meeting in Portland, Oregon, near her home in southern Washington, on Tuesday.
Then the whole thing blew up. Cohen, it turns out, doesnt actually exist. His real name is Jacob Wohl, and hes a pro-Trump twitter troll and former teenage hedge fund manager with the dubious distinction of being the youngest person ever to earn a lifetime trading ban from the National Futures Association.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohls-fake-pi-firm-ghosted-on-a-destitute-woman-looking-for-her-stolen-truck
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From: Idiots #5-12
So yeah if you woke up yesterday and turned on your phone and saw Twitter, you might have seen Mario Kart trending. You remember the game if youre a 90s kid like I am. Its the game where your goal was to drive as fast as possible to lap your opponent and if you didnt, just even screwing around on the game was fun. In fact heres a scene of the game being played.
Now heres where it gets disturbing. It of course involves Stormy Daniels and Trump, because, why wouldnt it? And Stormy makes a particularly disturbing revelation that makes us never want to play Mario Kart ever again.
It all began with an appearance by adult film actress Stormy Daniels on The View to promote her upcoming tell-all book Full Disclosure. Daniels became a national name following a federal investigation into claims that she had an affair with President Donald Trump, and that his lawyer, Michael Cohen, had violated campaign finance laws by paying Daniels $130,000 in hush money in order to keep the story quiet leading up the 2016 election. Trump initially denied advance knowledge of Cohen's payment to Daniels - although a conversation recorded without his consent by Cohen would later prove otherwise - and says the affair didn't happen. Daniels contends that the affair did happen, and is currently suing Trump for defamation of character after he called her a liar.
Huffington Post reported on Daniels' interview, and the resulting turmoil online after she compared a portion of President Trump's anatomy to the mushroom character in Mario Kart. The site also re-posted the colorful responses of many other Twitter users, and their horrified reactions after they discovered why Toad and Mario Kart were trending topics. Making this all the more darkly comedic was the amusing response from Nintendo Life's Twitter account, which can be viewed below.
https://screenrant.com/trump-toad-mario-kart-meme/
Yes, no indeed! But come on, Nintendos lovable mascot doesnt deserve this! I mean what did Toad do to deserve that comparison? All he does is travel the Mushroom Kingdom and give you things. Come on, Stormy. Seriously, dont mess with the Toad Brigade!
This story begins with the Guardian publishing excerpts from porn actress and director Stormy Danielss forthcoming tell-all book, Full Disclosure, about her alleged past affair with Donald Trump. The book apparently contains a graphic description of a sexual encounter with Trump, including a detailed description of the presidents penis.
Im about to quote it. Youve been warned.
It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool, Daniels writes. I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart.
Though the book also contains mentions of Danielss impression that Trump never wanted to be president, and of her $130,000 hush agreement, its the description of Trumps genitalia that has dominated the discussion around the excerpts.
For those of you who have never touched a Nintendo console in your life, Toad is indeed a little mushroom man, whose mushroom cap (ugh) was confirmed to be part of his head and not just a hat by Super Mario Odyssey producer Yoshiaki Koizumi earlier this year.
And while hes a bit gormless, Toad doesnt deserve to be a part of this discourse: He is a perfectly fine playable character in Mario Kart, he runs Mario Party, and he generally tries to help out in every other Mario franchise game, going all the way back to 1985s Super Mario Bros.
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/18/17874168/toad-stormy-daniels-trump-mario-kart
Thanks Stormy, while were all rooting for you to take down this horrible regime currently occupying the White House, you forever ruined one of our favorite video games. I cant even think about Mario now without picturing Toad looking like a penis. And I was playing Mario Odyssey last night. So if youre playing Mario Kart, who should you pick now that Toad has been ruined forever?
This stunning revelation has been devastating for Toad fans, including our very own Kevin Nguyen:
Toad has long been an ideal selection in Mario Kart, since he's both adorable and speedy as hell. Do not despair, though. We've compiled a brief collection of suitable replacement characters to choose from if the phallic imagery Toad now inspires has you questioning your Mario Kart-playing experience/entire childhood. (To be clear, this isn't a boycott of Toad. It's an exercise in self care.)
Princess Peach
She's one of the few characters who's appeared in every iteration of Mario Kart, and many of the other mainstays either don't have similar driver characteristics to Toad, or have disqualifying mustaches. Her Mario Kart Wiki page notes that her "performance is notably on par with Toad." That's more than enough empirical evidence from a trusted source to make the switch. Another worthy reason: In Super Smash Bros, Peach has long been using Toad as a shield/attack counter, so clearly she realized a while ago that he's expendable. That foresight deserves to be rewarded.
https://www.gq.com/story/poor-toad
Yeah next time you play Mario Kart, choose Princess Peach before someone else does! After all, she floats in the air! Assuming that giant hoop skirt doesnt get in the way! But really this is one of those things thats better left where we dont want to know why its trending. Excuse me, I need to go take a cold shower after reading this.
A copy of the book, Full Disclosure, was obtained by the Guardian. In it, Daniels describes her mounting disbelief as Trump began to win primary contests in 2016 for the Republican presidential nomination. Former castmates whom she had not heard from in years, but who had heard her story about sleeping with Trump in 2006, would call her up to marvel at the news.
It will never happen, I would say, Daniels writes. He doesnt even want to be president.
But as Trump kept winning, she writes, she began to think she might be in danger. The story she had to tell about Trump seemed more sensitive the more he won. And she had already been threatened once, years earlier, and warned never to tell the story about Trump, she has claimed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/18/stormy-daniels-tell-all-book-on-trump-salacious-detail-and-claims-of-cheating
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[font size="8"]Top 10 Investigates: Elon Musk Vs Cave Rescuers
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From: Idiots #5-11
San Jose its time to investigate beyond the headlines. This is Top 10 Investigates!
In 2018 we have had a lot of crazy incidents but none was more horrifying than when a group of children and adults were trapped in a cave in Thailand. While the group was rescued without incident, it drew people from all over the world who offered to help. Everyone from the US Marine Corps to the Tesla Motor Corporation offered to help rescue the trapped. Unfortunately its the latter that is still causing problems over why his solution wasnt the chosen one, even though it could have spelled a potential disaster:
Vernon Unsworth told The Times the billionaires allegations he had a child bride and had moved to an area notorious for child sex trafficking were 100 per cent untrue and very hurtful.
The financial broker from St Albans, Hertfordshire, is preparing to start legal action imminently against the tycoon.
He is considering using the courts in Thailand, which could lead to Mr Musk receiving a jail sentence. Libel can be a criminal offence in the country and can result in a lengthy prison term.
Mr Unsworth is also considering defamation proceedings in London and the United
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-cave-diver-vernon-unsworth-to-sue-elon-musk-after-new-rant-5jndzmjhs
Yes this is 2018 here, Elon, this is when things like Pizzagate and Qanon have hit the spotlight and got child rape and pedophilia in the news. By calling this man a pedophile, you are downplaying the horrible nature of these crimes. But he wont shut up about this and in fact is doubling down:
The embattled Tesla CEO faced widespread backlash in July when he first called the diver Vernon Unsworth a pedo in a tweet an unfounded claim against a man who was part of the international team that freed 12 young footballers and their coach from the Tham Luang cave complex. Musk, who had unsuccessfully attempted to assist the rescue mission, eventually apologized to Unsworth.
On Tuesday, however, BuzzFeed published two new emails from Musk, in which he called a journalist who has written about the dispute a fucking asshole and he launched new extraordinary claims against Unsworth, without providing documentation to support the allegations.
Musk called Unsworth a single white guy from England whos been traveling to or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years, alleging that he had moved to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time. He asserted that the city was renowned for child sex-trafficking.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/04/elon-musk-claims-diver-in-thai-cave-rescue-is-child-rapist-without-evidence
Yes, this whole story is a giant pile of suck. Does Elon *WANT* to get sued? And in case you are wondering what Elon Musk is smoking, well, he must be either smoking some really good shit, or some really horrible shit.
It wouldn't be the first time that investors were rattled by Musk's unconventional ways, sending stocks haywire.
Musk, 47, appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience on Thursday night. Over 2 1/2 hours, Musk discussed technology, unsheathed a sword and accepted what Rogan, a stand-up comedian, described as marijuana inside of tobacco.
"You probably can't because of stockholders, right?" Rogan said.
"I mean it's legal, right?" Musk said before smoking the joint. They were sitting inside a studio in California, where medical and recreational marijuana use is indeed legal.
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/08/645845232/tesla-stock-dropped-as-elon-musk-apparently-smoked-up
Apparently, he did want to get high, and he got high on the Joe Rogan show. Which means he must have been smoking something when he launched those attacks against Mr. Unsworth. By the way he must have been violating his own companys code of ethics, right?
CNBC reported the Tesla CEO's public puffing could hurt his professional career.
"Tesla also asks that you do your part by following safety and health rules and practices and reporting (either openly or confidentially) accidents or any unsafe equipment, behavior (such as use of illegal drugs) or conditions to your manager, supervisor, Human Resources or the Legal Department," the company's code of business conduct and ethics states. "Violence and threatening behavior are not permitted, and under no circumstances should you bring a weapon to work. Employees should report to work without being under the influence of illegal drugs or alcohol. The use of illegal drugs in the workplace will not be tolerated."
In California, where the podcast was filmed, recreational marijuana use is legal. However, recreational use across the U.S. is illegal. CNBC pointed out people could argue Musk was "under the influence" while at work because he was representing the company in the interview.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/09/07/elon-musk-puffs-on-weed-in-podcast-interview-amid-feud-with-cave-diver-workers-concerns.html
So Elon might want to calm down after this latest string of incidents because not only is he costing Tesla money, he could forever jeopardize the future of Space X, and eventually any further space exploration:
The incident, which occurred during a live broadcast of a podcast recording with the comedian Joe Rogan, has already caused Tesla stocks to plummet in the latest in a spate of recent events that have raised questions about Musks health and his ability to lead his multiple companies. But Musks latest escapade could have effects beyond the bottom line.
SpaceX, another Musk project, has access to privileged informationsuch as where U.S. government satellites arein its capacity as a federal contractor, and the Air Force is now faced with the question of what to do about Musks public smoking of marijuana, which is legal in California but not federallyand particularly not for people in the military or who have security clearance. Initial reports indicated the Air Force had opened an investigation into Musk, but an Air Force official later told The Verge that the military still wasnt sure how to handle the situation.
http://fortune.com/2018/09/10/musk-weed-marijuana-air-force-spacex/
There you have it, its almost as if Mr. Musk wants to get sued for his insane antics. This has been it for Top 10 Investigates. Good day.
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[font size="8"]Holy Shit
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From: Idiots #5-14
Gather around, my fair brothers and sisters, its time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate! For the Holy Church of the Top 10 has convened and its our weekly duty to remind you why the holiest among us are also the most full of:
My friends, my fair congregation! Remember in that movie The Dark Knight when Batman only had one rule and that he would never break it for anybody? Well tonight I am actually going to break my one rule. And that rule is that I never mention the unholy, ungodly Dark One by name in my church! But when theres a movie being made about unforeseen prophecies surrounding the Dark One, as told by a crackpot, I feel that I must break character!
Taylor says he also was being visited by demons, angels, even God. And on that sleepless morning, God gave him a surprising prophecy: The Spirit of God says Ive chosen this man Donald Trump for such a time as this.
The Trump Prophecy, a movie showing here and in 1,200 theaters nationwide Tuesday and Thursday, claims Gods intervention decided the 2016 election, not Hillary hatred, white anger, Russian interference or low voter turnout.
Producer Rick Eldridge says his movie has a clear purpose: Our end goal is to get people in theaters and see a film that will reignite patriotism and call people to pray for our country and leadership.
https://gazette.com/life/the-trump-prophecy-movie-claims-god-chose-u-s-president/article_a0f9dc14-ba84-11e8-b6ad-77b01ad16d11.html
No, Rick, your end goal is to preach to the choir of supporters of the unholy dark one that their batshit crazy theories are justified! And that Dark Ones name? Donald J. Trump. There, I said it! And you know this movie is a direct violation of IRS tax exempt rules. And also apparently it violates Facebook advertising policies!
The film, scheduled for a fall theatrical release, is about Taylors life and 2011 prediction that Trump would ascend to the White House. A joint effort of the Liberty University School of Cinematic Arts and filmmaker Rick Eldridge, The Trump Prophecy was shot in the Lynchburg area with much of the cast and crew comprised of LU students. It now is in post-production.
The Trump Prophecy, previously known by its working title Commander, is scheduled for release on Oct. 2 and 4. Nearly 60 LU cinematic arts students were involved in the production.
In all, he claimed Facebook disapproved approximately 40 different ads for the film.
The issue dates back to at least June 14 when it was first noted by the films Facebook page.
It seems that Facebook has now began censoring our page. For a movie??? Because the word TRUMP, Facebook has decided to disapprove any ads that we are placing and capping our exposure. Do they feel threatened in some way? reads the post on The Trump Prophecy page, which Eldridge and the Reelworks Studios advertising team manage.
https://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/lu-film-the-trump-prophecy-runs-afoul-of-facebook-ad/article_68550eb3-51bb-5293-bf38-bb723a12c48a.html
Because nothing is worse than a bunch of falsehood nonsense told by a crackpot is there? And you guys are mad when you violated Facebooks rules are you? Well, you have nobody to blame but yourself, for the good LAWRD sayeth man must not blame others for his own musings. Yes it says so in my good book here. So was this election GAWDs plan? Or was it not???
Forget Hillary hatred, white anger, Russian interference or voter turnout. Trumps victory was Gods will, said Taylor. Taylor said he knows this because God told him so.
In 2011, while watching an interview with Trump on TV, Taylor says he heard a voice saying, The Spirit of God says Ive chosen this man, Donald Trump, for such a time as this.
And the Almighty is just getting started, said Taylor, a former firefighter who has published 23 prophetic words, many about Trumps presidency.
The presidential prediction is detailed in The Trump Prophecy, a new film produced with the help of faculty and students at Liberty University some of whom later rejected its message that will be shown in some 1,200 theaters on Oct. 2 and 4.
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2018/09/25/new-trump-prophecy-film/
Now I do love that one! So is GAWD just getting started? Or do we need to remind you of the kind of crackpot that Mark Taylor is? And yes, he is a crackpot ladies and gentlemen of my fair congregation, because this is the kind of nonsense you can expect from Mr. Taylor!
This has everything to do with military tribunals, them being charged with treason, and them going to prison for the rest of their lives and some being executed, he said.
Taylor claimed that God recently delivered a huge prophetic sign of this plan when a horse named after Obama had to be euthanized at the World Equestrian Games in North Carolina last month.
Gods been speaking a lot to me through racehorses, he said. The racehorse named Barack Obama was euthanized. That is probably the biggest prophetic sign that you could have of God saying this man is going to go down. Period. Thats the bottom line. You can get mad at me all you want to, but Gods the messenger here, he is the one sending the message. People dont think that this stuff is real or its going to happen. Its going to happen.
This is real, Taylor insisted. Justice is not coming, its here, period, and it is taking place on the earth. This whole thing with Kavanaugh is trying to stop the military tribunals This is all about rounding these people up, charging them with treason, and they know that, basically, their head is going to be in a noose, literally.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/god-has-been-using-racehorses-to-speak-to-mark-taylor-about-plans-to-execute-democrats/
Really? This bullshit is still a thing? Thats why you are going to get your asses handed to you in November, and yes, I realized I just violated the IRS rules there! But then again, so did Liberty University, and they should pay dearly for this! But then again, Mark also claims that GAWD confirmed his SCOTUS prophecy with a train horn. Can you spell crackpot?
After Taylor recounted his claims that God told him that Trump will get to replace a total of five Supreme Court justices after one dies, one retires, and three are removed from the Court due to scandal, he explained how God confirmed this prophecy to him during the funeral service for the late Antonin Scalia.
If you go back to Antonin Scalias funeral, when they were carrying his body up the steps Taylor said, there were two signs that were given by God that [the confirmation of Merrick Garland] was not going to happen. We had about an eight month window there where they could have put another justice in and the entire country was in a full-blown panic at that point and thats when I came out with the prophecy that the Lord said, No, it will not happen, this is being reserved for Donald Trump.'
The two signs that were given, he continued, there was a reverence there, it was very quiet and there was a siren in the background at the bottom of the steps. Well, when they got to the top of the steps, the siren fades away and all of a sudden you hear this enormous train horn and what the Lord was saying was, Dont fear America, help is on the waythe sirenthis is being reserved for my anointed, Trumpfrom the Trump train.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mark-taylor-god-confirmed-my-scotus-prophecy-with-a-train-horn/
Yes, Mark, even JAYSUS thinks youre doing it wrong!! For your crackpot theories about the Dark One are just that crackpot theories! There you go, mass has ended, may you go in peace! Thats it this week for:
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[font size="8"]Explaining Jokes To Idiots: Sexy Handmaids Tale
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From: Idiots #5-13
Lets spin it to win it shall we? And It lands on wait for it Clip without context!
Damn that freedom! Damn your so called constitution with their laws and checks and balances. Damn it to hell, I say! Spin it again! And its time for Explaining Jokes To Idiots!
Yes its the segment where we in the comedy profession have to explain jokes to idiots that they missed, because theyre idiots. Case in point: Halloween is a time for humor and practical jokes. And of course for hot women to make any Halloween costume look hot. Yes its the time of year when we take a look at Halloween costumes, mainly womens, and we ask ourselves is it really necessary to have the sexy (insert costume here)?. The answer always is yes, but this year one costume in particular seems to be drawing the ire of the PC police.
Online retailer Yandy listed a "Brave Red Maiden" Halloween costume for nearly $65, referencing the garb women forced into surrogacy wear in Hulu's series "The Handmaid's Tale." The provocative rendition includes a red cape, mini dress and white bonnet.
"An upsetting dystopian future has emerged where women no longer have a say," the description reads. "However, we say be bold and speak your mind in this exclusive Brave Red Maiden costume."
The Halloween costume instantly sparked outraged across social media.
One Twitter user shared a screenshot of the costume and asked "why," sarcastically adding "nothing like a sexy rape victim for Halloween fun."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/09/20/sexy-handmaids-tale-halloween-costume-sparks-outrage/1375851002/
So heres the thing does this encapsulate the Handmaids Tale or does it miss the point of the series entirely? Everyone knows that the key to comedy is timing, and this was extremely well timed with everyone making references to the novel and series during the SCOTUS debates. But this is proof that you can make anything sexy! Like the New York Times anonymous op ed!
The $49.95 costume features disguise glasses with an attached nose and mustache, and a bodycon mini-dress with newspaper designs and a big red question mark.
The costume was discovered after Yandy removed a "Sexy Handmaid's Tale" look from the site.
The lingerie company that was criticized for selling a "Sexy Handmaid's Tale" costume is now offering a "Sexy Op-Ed Anonymous Costume," referring to the explosive New York Times column written by an unknown Trump administration staffer.
The costume, which Yandy is selling for $49.95, features disguise glasses with an attached nose and mustache, and a bodycon mini-dress with newspaper patterns and a big red question mark.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/the-lingerie-company-that-had-to-remove-a-sexy-handmaids-tale-costume-is-now-selling-a-sexy-op-ed-anonymous-halloween-look/ar-AAAAozZ?li=BBnbcA0
OK maybe you cant make that sexy. But come on its not like were living in Saudi Arabia, where the sexiest thing they can show is bare toenails, and Im sure theres a fetish website for that. Hey, I know what time I live in! Let sexy costumes be sexy costumes! I would like to think were all adults here but then again Im reminded of who our president is. Thank you audience! And this is also not the first extremely poor taste Halloween costume that Yandy has put out.
Lingerie brand Yandy, which also sells Halloween costumes, has 43 outfits categorized on its website under sexy Native American and sexy Indian costumes. People on Twitter urged the brand this week to stop selling the costumes, calling them disgusting, racist, and highly offensive.
These calls came less than a week after Yandy announced that it was pulling the sexy Handmaids Tale costume complete with the infamous red cape and white bonnet from its site following similar backlash online. The company said in a statement that its corporate ideology is rooted in female empowerment, and gender empowerment overall.
Twitter users were quick to point out that Yandy removed a costume depicting fictional characters while continuing to sell cultural costumes that have been repeatedly criticized. Yandy has not publicly responded to the #CancelYandy hashtag, and the lingerie brand did not immediately respond to Yahoos request for comment. As of Monday morning, the costumes were still for sale online.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/cancelyandy-tweets-call-sexy-native-american-halloween-costumes-141909663.html
Sure you do Herbert. See, Yandy isnt out to care about whatever cause you have, even though their executives have admitted that yes, some of their costumes are in extremely poor taste. Theyre just like any corporation out to make the most profit they can doing what they do best. But thats the whole point of Halloween! And the more horrible taste you have, the more likely you are to win that $500 costume contest! Which is why Im inviting Yandy to sponsor my big Halloween costume bash in Nashville on October 31st at Zanies. Tickets still available and dress up is encouraged! So come on, Yandy! My contact information is at the very end of this thing! You know that you want to! Thank you audience, Ill take that! And besides if you really want to scare someone this year, Ive got the perfect costume for you!
The Womens Ghosted Costume is available through retailer Party City in the US. It's a white hooded polyester dress with a jagged hemline meant to evoke the look of a retro bed-sheet ghost outfit. The front is emblazoned with message bubbles of unanswered texts, including "???" and "R U OK!?"
"Eager texters will know not to bother you in this Ghosted Costume," the description reads.
There are at least a couple of weird things about this costume, even when you look past the debatable "sexy" Halloween trend. For starters, it's only geared toward women, which leaves us to wonder why men are being left out. Ghosting can go both ways.
https://www.cnet.com/news/this-ghosted-texting-halloween-costume-is-truly-haunting/
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[font size="8"]This Fucking Guy: Lance Wallnau & Rick Wiles
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From: Idiots #5-9
Its time for:
So ultra far right insane propaganda and conspiracy theories have been creeping up and popping up in literally every aspect of our lives now. Thats just the culture we live in. But theres not one but two guys who are smoking the bad Covfefe 24 hours a day. Ill start with this fucking guy Lance Wallnau. And this fucking guy is certifiably batshit crazy, he cooks up more insane right wing theories than Alex Jones ever would or could! Like heres a perfect example:
Im just fed up with the fact that believers have to operate like the Jewish people did, he said. They all knew Jesus was the Messiah but nobody actually identified with him for fear of being put out of the synagogue. I mean, Donald Trump is that for me; youve got 50 million people that voted for him and you wouldnt know where they are.
Wallnau lamented that too many people are afraid of upsetting the moronic elites who are progressively antagonistic to Donald Trump to admit that they support the president, but predicted that millions of these voters will turn out in the midterms to support Republicans, resulting in the first election where the 30 or so seats that are supposed to be lost dont get lost.
In Hollywood and in the entertainment circles, conservatives and Christians cannot openly acknowledge their values and beliefs for fear of being put out of the synagogue, Wallnau said. How is this not like Israel at the time when Jesus was here? Its exactly like that.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lance-wallnau-people-afraid-to-support-trump-are-exactly-like-jews-afraid-to-admit-jesus-was-the-messiah/
There you have it he literally just compared Trump supporters to Jews in the holocaust. And hey when racist shitbags start getting executed in the streets, then you can have a reason to complain. Until then, shut the fuck up! Thank you Detroit! Lance is so off the wall batshit crazy that he actually thought that Unite The Right II the neo Nazi rally in DC last week was a false flag!
These are paid actors, Wallnau said. The gift that the left wants is white supremacists and to link it with conservatives because there are no conservative white supremacists. Thats all a fiction.
If you really want to take down Donald Trump, to destroy what Gods doing in America, keep dividing people with hate, divide them with race, try to get Trump painted as a racist when hes not, Wallnau added, theyre gonna come back at him with racism.
Wallnau insisted that Jason Kessler, the organizer of the Unite The Right rallies, is really a socialist/Marxist tool of the Obama administration to organize opposition to Trump.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lance-wallnau-unite-the-right-was-a-left-wing-false-flag/
Really? The Nazis were paid actors? So whos paying them? Oh wait, dont tell me! It was that dirty George Soros! I hear he has deep pockets. And his insurance benefits are pretty good too. As if fucking with people like Lance Wallnau wasnt enough, theres this fucking guy, Rick Wiles. Maybe Lance and Rick can cohost a show together Batshit Crazy and Batshit Crazier! Oh wait, he doesnt like conspiracy theorists. Except when he is one.
One would think that someone holding such views would be a fan of another equally unhinged right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, but apparently that is not the case, as Wiles used his TruNews television program on Tuesday to insist that every Christian should disavow Alex Jones because he is mentally unstable and/or demon-possessed.
Wiles was alarmed by a video of Jones going off on a snarling rant against CNNs Brian Stelter earlier this year and warned that Jones is either demon-possessed or else a deep state plant designed to give the government justification to strip conservatives of their First and Second Amendment rights by making them all look insane.
You need to be shocked by what this guy is saying and doing, Wiles said. Every Christian should disavow Alex Jones. You should disavow him until he repents and, quite frankly, until he is delivered.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-wiles-every-christian-should-disavow-alex-jones/
Yeah probably. So Rick Wiles is a conspiracy theorist who doesnt like conspiracy theorists. Is that the 2018 version of Dadaism? Just crazy against crazy? But apparently its all a big lie according to Rick. Its all the deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep state folks!
Rachel Maddow recently delivered a secret signal to leftist activists to storm the White House and decapitate President Trump and his family;
Liberal activists will begin killing Republicans before the midterm elections in preparation for civil war;
The government is creating soulless super soldiers and flesh-eating robots;
The Las Vegas massacre was carried out by a gay/lesbian Nazi regime;
A secret government goon squad is beating up politicians, murdered the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and is carrying out mass shootings in order to justify implementing gun control.
Wiles also repeatedly asserted that Barack Obama was literally a demon (and likely the Antichrist) who intended to seize the homes of conservatives and give them to immigrants, intentionally unleash the Ebola virus on the nation in order to round up conservatives, and would permanently seize power in 2016.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/its-a-big-lie-rick-wiles-says-qanon-is-a-deep-state-misinformation-campaign/
There you have it, thats Lance Wallnau and Rick Wiles. This weeks:
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[font size="8"]I Need A Drink
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From: Idiots #5-16
Hey Boston, Im in one of the biggest drinking cities in America, I really need a drink!
So of course you know the idea behind this segment is that we have a few drinks and talk about anything in the news as long as it doesnt relate to politics. But this week were actually going to break our rule and talk about something in politics. While I generally dont mix booze and politics I do mix booze and fails. So tell me bartender, what goes well with a story about Kanye? Really? Theres a beer called Stable Genius? Why didnt I think of that? Ah Ill just have my usual Jack Daniels mixed with Jack Daniels. So Im sure by now you heard that Kanye West was meeting with Trump last week and somebody may have discovered that his passcode is 000000. Even Saturday Night Live made fun of it:
Excuse me a minute Yeah that happened. So theres of course more to this story than you might think:
West revealed the password as part of a stream of consciousness speech to the president, which saw him break off on a tangent to show off a GIF of what West referred to as the iPlane 1, a hydrogen-powered concept aircraft that he felt our President should be flying in. (Trump: Can we get rid of Air Force One? No?)
Despite using an iPhone X or XS which both support Face ID, therefore negating the need for a typed-in password West chose to unlock his phone manually. (Whether Face ID failed, was disabled, or is simply not fast enough for West is unclear.) Apple doesnt recommend that users set such a simple password on its iOS devices. If you attempt to change your password to something like 000000 or 123456, a notification will pop up, suggesting that the combination can be easily guessed and recommending that you choose something else.
Despite using an iPhone X or XS which both support Face ID, therefore negating the need for a typed-in password West chose to unlock his phone manually. (Whether Face ID failed, was disabled, or is simply not fast enough for West is unclear.) Apple doesnt recommend that users set such a simple password on its iOS devices. If you attempt to change your password to something like 000000 or 123456, a notification will pop up, suggesting that the combination can be easily guessed and recommending that you choose something else.
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/10/11/17964848/kanye-west-iphone-passcode-trump-iplane-apple-meeting
Come on, Kanye! Youve got an iPhone X! You can unlock the phone with your face, and the fact that Kanye doesnt do that already to me is beyond baffling. You know that Kim somewhere has her phone setup to unlock by selfie. Of course its a bad idea to use 000000. You might as well have a sign on your back that says hack me!
We know this because the Chicago rapper visited the Oval Office on Thursday to discuss topics ranging from prison reform to job opportunities for ex-cons. At one point in the meeting, Kanye wanted to show the president something on his phone, and proceeded to unlock it on live television. In short order, the whole world had an opportunity to grasp just how much Yes commitment to cybersecurity leaves to be desired.
All of this could have been easily avoided if he had used FaceID to unlock his phone. But, it seems that he either didnt activate the facial recognition feature introduced with the iPhone X or it simply didnt work.
The musicians ensuing rant left the President speechless as well as many onlookers, making Kanyes dumb-ass password the photo-ops main takeaway. One viral tweet amassed more than 39,000 likes, 12,000 retweets, and almost 800 replies at the time of this writing.
https://www.inverse.com/article/49813-kanye-west-password-is-terrible
Come on Kanye, youre one of the most famous people in the world. Like I said you might as well invite people to hack you. Im sure Trump somewhere is going Come on, my iPhone passcode is 123456, no one can hack me!. Of course you can. In fact its probably illegal.
West, a man who has referred to himself on a number of occasions as "Steve Jobs," a man who expresses unreserved admiration for Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, uses 000000 as the passcode for his iPhone. He is one of the biggest celebrities in the world. The contents of his phone are probably more valuable than Elon Musk's current net worth. How could he have such bad security?!
He'll probably change it now, but it was still hilarious. Do you think the passcode is performance art? Has Kanye heard of two-factor authentication? Will that cousin who stole his laptop come back for the iPhone?
Jobs is turning in his grave.
http://www.papermag.com/kanye-west-passcode-2611721610.html
Does anyone get the irony of this? The guy who travels with a 50 person entourage for security purposes obviously doesnt give a shit about cyber security! So go on, if someone is dumb enough to give their passcode is 000000, dont be surprised when you get hacked! And I guess Kim isnt too concerned either!
Despite the backlash, CNN says that Kim Kardashian West is "not embarrassed" by Kanye's behavior, contrary to previous reports. "Kim is incredibly supportive," a source said, adding that West's mind "moves at lightning speed" and suggested the forum for the White House meeting wasn't the best representation of West's "genius."
Leading up to Kanye's White House appearance, Kardashian told Extra that she excited for it. "I always say he isn't the best communicator, but he has the best heart," Kardashian said. "I know what he wants to accomplish... and I can't wait to see that happen."
Shortly after Kanye's surprise post-show rant on SNL, the rapper deactivated his social media accounts. But he made his return to Twitter yesterday for a lengthy discussion on mind control.
https://www.elle.com/culture/a23763905/kim-kardashian-not-embarrassed-kanye-west-report/
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[font size="8"]Deep State Diaries Episode 10: The DMV
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From: Idiots #5-10
Its time for episode 10 of Deep State Diaries. Yes were touring the 24 branches and services that make up the United States government. Everything from the FBI to the IRS to the Pentagon to the CIA to the DPW to the DVA to parks and recreation and all branches and services in between. Of course if youre here you probably already know more about our government and how it works than your average Fox News loving Trump supporter does. So thats what this segment is going to address. We are going to do a deep dive into all that makes the United States the United States. Because we here at the Top 10 love to educate as well as entertain. Because we care.
[font size="6"]The Department Of Motor Vehicles[/font]
Our next foray into the Deep State centers around the one branch of the government everyone loves to hate because its such a bureaucracy. Thats the Department of Motor Vehicles. The DMVs overall attention to bureaucratic tendencies has become a running joke on TV shows including the Simpsons and Futurama which took the DMVs concept to new heights with the Central Bureaucracy. So why does this organization get such a bad rap? Why do people hate it so much? Well theres plenty of reasons for that, and none of them are really good. Especially if youre trying to get a new license, and there happens to be some janky computer software installed.
On Monday, ITD announced yet another breakdown of the system had shut down drivers license services across the state. The problem, the agency said, was on the software vendors side and also affected other states that vendor serves.
At 7:25 a.m. Tuesday, the state agency said on Twitter that the system was back up. But by noon, ITD reversed course and told all sheriff-run DMV offices to close their doors while troubleshooting continues, according to a news release.
The Ada County Sheriffs Office had already sent its DMV staff home by 11 a.m. due to continued problems.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/article217422665.html
So thats just one state! Maybe its a department glitch? Maybe its a network glitch? Maybe its something with the system? Well no, try all of the above! The DMV is one of the jankier operations in our government and it definitely needs some improvement.
The office, on the third floor of DMV headquarters on New Bern Avenue in Raleigh, has been used for years to test new equipment and procedures and to train workers. But starting in January, DMV invited employees at several state agencies to visit the office to get a REAL ID, a new type of drivers license that satisfies federal identification standards that will take effect in 2020.
The existence of the state license office was first reported by WBTV in Charlotte, which referred to it as a secret drivers license office used by select state employees. DMV Commissioner Torre Jessup bristled at that characterization, saying emails inviting people to use the office were sent to all employees of nine state departments, including Transportation, Public Safety, Agriculture and Consumer Services and Natural and Cultural Resources.
Its not secret. We sent out an email with the invitation, Jessup said in an interview Tuesday. This is just one part of the entire outreach for us to get people in to get their REAL IDs.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article217456955.html
Now heres the real reason that people hate the DMV the lines. Which is absolutely fucking ironic when you think about it since we live in an era where people will wait *DAYS* in line for expensive shit like phones and shoes, but they cant be bothered to wait 2 hours in line to get their fucking drivers license renewed! Thank you Minneapolis!
The DMV in the high desert town of Needles has some of the shortest lines in the state, KABC reported. When a news crew arrived at 10:30 a.m. Monday, there were only two people waiting in line.
"It's really nice. Not like back at home in L.A. County," one customer said to KABC.
Although the DMV's long lines are infamous, the situation worsened when the DMV started processing information for Californias REAL ID. The modified license will be required for travel in some states and access to secure federal facilities after October 1, 2020.
A spokesperson for the DMV said the agency is monitoring wait times at all 172 field offices across the state.
https://www.10news.com/news/californians-willing-to-travel-for-shorter-dmv-waits
Well at least they gave Otto a shot. But really this just dumbfounds me. People will travel so they dont have to wait in line, but will gladly give up days to get a new iPhone! The hypocrisy is completely mind boggling! In fact theres literally people who will wait in line for you! Just . Ahhh!!!!!
Part of the problem is due to a new type of drivers license that started being offered in January. Back in 2005, Congress passed the REAL ID Act, which established federal security standards for government-issued identification. People who want to board airline flights, visit military bases or enter federal buildings using a drivers license after Oct. 1, 2020 must have REAL ID-compliant identification. Due to these increased security standards, REAL ID must be obtained in person at the local DMV office. The influx of people applying for a REAL ID-compliant license is making already-long wait times even worse.
At the Departments request, last year the Legislature appropriated it an extra $70 million to minimize wait times for its customers in anticipation of the additional workload caused by REAL ID. This money was specifically allocated to open 60 DMV field offices on Saturdays starting in January. However, I was shocked to recently discover that it wasnt until Aug. 4th that all 60 field offices were finally open on Saturdays.
http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/20180826/committee-rejects-auditing-dmvs-excessive-wait-times
But theres currently no plans to implement a fast lane at the DMV yet. So dont go thinking that your time waiting in line is going to be cut short. Thats wishful thinking. There wont be a VIP or early entry line at least any time soon.
Director Jean Shiomoto says recent changes have shaved time off the average wait.
KCAL9s Laurie Perez spoke with the director in Granada Hills Saturday while she toured the local DMV office.
Liz and Levi Deras knew spending Saturday morning at the DMV wasnt going to be fun.
I came here like around 8:30 and its 9:54, so an hour and a half, said Liz.
Many drivers said theyve noticed longer wait times.
Im beyond frustrated right now, says Alicia Moran.
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/08/25/lines-at-the-dmv-not-exactly-the-fast-lane-just-yet/
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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #5-20: Diary Of A Wimpy Trump: Old School Edition
Top 10 Conservative Idiots #5-20: Diary Of A Wimpy Trump: Old School Edition
Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Sign up today for the new Top 10 Rewards Signature Visa Card! We have rates as low as 5.9% APR with bonus frequent flyer miles for 24 months! Whats up Denver? Ah, its good to be back. I do love this city lots of great beer and food. And Denver is a beer town too. Man you guys are drunk too! And hey were in the mile high city so drinking one beer feels like youre drinking 5 beers. Not to mention you guys have some great drunk food. I can guarantee that if I lived here Id probably weigh over 500 pounds. Just saying. So do we have time for the thing? So something very sad happened as we were putting together this weeks Top 10 the man, the myth, the legend that is the great Stan Lee has passed away. Fuck!!! Man, that just sucks because we wouldnt have the awesome Marvel Cinematic Universe without him, nor would we have one of my favorites Deadpool. But really you got to give it up for Stan at 95 he was still appearing in Ant Man & The Wasp which is a great addition to the MCU if you havent seen it yet. But really you could go through any number of the great movies and characters that hes created like Iron Man, Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, the X-Men really all of the Avengers. And it really sucks what happened to him at the end of his life, all of the embezzlement and fraud in his name. However were not really going to talk about that, Id rather celebrate the mans life. And well do so by showing a clip from one of my favorite flicks of the last couple of years, Thor: Ragnarok:
And you know what? Throughout this whole edition today well use this time to pay tribute to Stan Lee, the Top 10 way! OK enough of the intro, we have a lot of idiocy to get to. But first John Oliver is back and he shows that Trump hasnt exactly lived up to his promise of draining the swamp:
Taking the first slot this week of course is our now former Attorney General Jeff Sessions (1) and another Trump firing means its time for another installment of the Trumper Games! Wooo! And if you think thats bad, wait until you meet his replacement - Matt Whittaker (2)! Think Sessions was bad? You aint seen nothing yet! At the third slot this week, is of course our current president Donald J. Trump (3) and we have to talk about his visit to France, and once again, like a kid getting sent to the principals office, he of course has to meet with his boss, Vladimir Putin. In the slot #4 is the NRA (4). Sigh, another week, another mass shooting. This one hits way too close to home though at Thousand Oaks, California. But did you know that the NRA is escalating its war on the Center For Disease Control? Yeah that is happening and the NRA vs Doctors is absolutely insane. Taking the 5th slot is our weekly investigative piece Top 10 Investigates, and this week, were going to look at a controversial proposal that passed in California last week what exactly is Prop 8 and how will it affect you? Well, we will find out. For the sixth slot this week is of course our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in Holy Shit, and this week, our resident pastor usually doesnt kick people when theyre down, but we have to gloat at the fact that embattled Kentucky clerk Kim Davis lost! Ha ha! For the seventh slot this week, Beating A Dead Horse (7) is back for the 3rd week in a row! This week were going to talk about something that is absolutely infuriating Christian conservatives drag queen story hour. Is it really a bad thing? We shall find out!For the 8th slot this week, weve got a brand new installment of People Who Somehow Got Elected and this week its Floridas new governor Ron DeSantis (8) how did this guy get elected? Well Florida is a bit racist if you cant tell. At number 9 (NEIN!!!) this week is an all new People Are Dumb, because of course People Are Dumb! Finally this week weve got a brand new edition of our ongoing series that explains how government works to conspiracy theorists, Deep State Diaries, and this week were going to explore planes and specifically the group that monitors them, the FAA! Plus weve got a great musical guest for you Colorados own Nataniel Raetliff & The Night Sweats are going to be stopping by! Really buy their new album Tearing At The Seams or youre no friend of the show. Enjoy! And as always dont forget the key!
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[font size="8"]Jeff Sessions
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Happy Trumper Games! Hey everyone! Im baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ooh, it has been way too long, my pretties! Of course every day in this administration seems like its an eternity doesnt it? Oh, strap in because if you thought the first two years were completely insane, wait until you see the next two! For the president has declared himself to be judge, jury and executioner. The last time we were here, Tribute Hayley from the 5th district has resigned. This week, the President simply removed Tribute Sessions from the 2nd district. You know, dont ask me how the districts work because even I dont know. Well, anyway here is the latest!
Sessions told the president in a one-page letter that he was submitting his resignation at your request.
Trump announced in a tweet that he was naming Sessions chief of staff Matthew Whitaker, a former United States attorney from Iowa, as acting attorney general. Whitaker has criticized special counsel Robert Muellers investigation into potential coordination between the presidents Republican campaign and Russia.
The resignation was the culmination of a toxic relationship that frayed just weeks into the attorney generals tumultuous tenure, when he stepped aside from the Mueller investigation.
http://time.com/5448197/jeff-sessions-resigns/
Oh thats fierce, honey! Work it! And damn it, Charlie! Why must you bring me the cheap champagne? I want the good stuff! What? Management says that we cant afford the good stuff? Very well then! But this is a huge upset for the Trumper Games. Tribute Sessions was very heavily favored above the rest, but that doesnt stop the president from pulling a dick move and forcing Tribute Sessions to resign, because in the Trumper Games, anything can happen at any minute!
On Wednesday a day after the midterm elections, with several races still too close to call the president forced the resignation of his attorney general, Jeff Sessions. The New York Times quickly published a 1,300-word story, the first version of which had been written in July of 2017.
That was after President Trump lashed out at Mr. Sessions in an interview. And for the past 16 months, Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent, has been updating the story, and waiting.
Every time something happened in the news that made us wonder if Sessions was about to resign or be fired, we would update it and make sure it was ready to go, Mr. Baker said.
It was a type of article known in the newsroom as an H.F.O. Hold for Orders written and edited in anticipation of news that hasnt happened yet. H.F.O.s are planned for scheduled events, like elections and inaugurations, but also the less predictable, the seemingly possible, and the inevitable. Their execution is essential procedure in daily journalism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/reader-center/hfo-breaking-news-hold-for-orders.html
Dont forget the crazy straw, Charlie! Yes, the president may be an abusive jackass and the textbook definition of a horrible boss but that doesnt stop him from simply thinking that he is above the law and can do whatever he pleases!
We are pleased to announce that Matthew Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, will become our new Acting Attorney General of the United States. He will serve our Country well, the president tweeted.
We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service, and wish him well! A permanent replacement will be nominated at a later date.
https://www.kplctv.com/2018/11/07/jeff-sessions-resigns-attorney-general/
Yes that is true! And in case you were wondering if the firing of Tribute Sessions had any effects on any kind of market, well this one, I can assure you, is for real! Yes, Tribute Sessions had a real problem with legalized pot, and was planning to escalate the war against it. But consider this a bonus as Tribute Sessions is eliminated!
CNBC reports that cannabis companies Canopy Growth, Aurora Cannabis, and Cronos Group all jumped up between 8 and 9 percent to close the day high. Canadian company Tilray shot up 30 percent. Data reporter Christopher Ingraham showed how the marijuana market as a whole surged (Trump announced Sessions' resignation at 2:44 p.m.):
Cannabis stocks weren't hurt by the midterm elections either, when Michigan voted to legalize recreational weed, and Utah and Missouri passed medical marijuana measures. Michigan itself adds millions of more potential weed buyers to the states, and for the first time makes a weed haven in the Midwest.
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/money/a24846802/marijuana-stocks-jump-jeff-sessions-michigan/
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So Jeff Sessions is out as Attorney General. And if you thought he was bad, just wait until you meet his replacement, Matt Whittaker! Whew, yeah that is all I have to say, whew. This man is absolutely fucking scary. And heres the really fucked up thing about this appointment Trump claims he doesnt remember the guy! Or does he? Well I dont think even hes sure who he knows or who he doesnt know and Im not surprised in the least either.
I dont know Matt Whitaker, Mr. Trump told reporters as he left Washington for a weekend trip to Paris. But the president stressed that he did know Mr. Whitakers reputation well, calling him a very respected man.
The faint presidential praise came just two days after Mr. Trump unceremoniously dumped Mr. Sessions, putting Mr. Whitaker in charge of the Justice Department and the special counsels investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Since then, criticism has mounted about Mr. Whitakers lack of credentials to be the nations top law enforcement official, along with allegations that he has conflicts of interest that should keep him from overseeing the Russia inquiry.
I am not aware of any precedent for appointment of an official who has not been confirmed by the Senate to serve as acting attorney general, Mr. Schumer wrote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/us/politics/matthew-whitaker-donald-trump.html
Yeah thats probably about the exact reaction wed expect from Trump at this point. So what makes Whitaker so qualified to be the new acting Attorney General? Well, he kisses Trumps ass, and thats about all you need to know. Oh, and he has also had some incredibly shady business dealings in the past.
Whitaker, a former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, took the job, dividing his time between Des Moines, where he was a partner in one of the leading Republican law firms in the state, and this new group, named Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, in Washington. Its fundraising was mysterious almost all of its money came from Donors Trust, an organization set up to shield conservative donors identities when they gave to a network of right-wing political organizations. Whitaker, according to tax documents, was paid more than $400,000 for his work for the group in 2016.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/matthew-whitaker-ran-a-chop-shop-of-fake-ethics-complaints.html
Yeah probably. For those of you keeping score at home Whitaker ran a shady corporation that got busted by the SEC for fraud. Check. Mysterious and untraceable fundraising. Check. Oh and hes also a loyalist. Check mate! And in case youre wondering Whitaker is the perfect guy to obstruct the Mueller investigation, which is what he was hired to do.
In a letter to Lee Lofthus, the assistant attorney general for administration, Democrats highlighted Whitaker's past comments criticizing the Mueller probe and what they called a "troubling" conflict of interest as evidence that he should have no role overseeing the investigation.
"There are serious ethical considerations that require Mr. Whitakers immediate recusal from any involvement with the Special Counsel investigation of the Russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election," the Democrats wrote.
Before Whitaker joined the Justice Department as former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' chief of staff in late 2017, he was a conservative legal commentator and wrote an opinion piece for CNN titled "Mueller's investigation into Trump is going too far."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/top-democrats-say-matt-whitaker-must-offer-immediate-recusal-mueller-n934921
Exactly, sir. But really, ethics? Who needs them? I mean really have you been living in the last two years? I ask because I really want to know! This is the Donald J. Trump administration were talking about here. Laws. Facts. Ethics. Reason. Conscious. Thinking. I mean who needs to do all that hard thinking if you can have Fox News do it for you? But the firing of Jeff Sessions puts this administration in some very uncharted territory .
Top Democrats have written to the chief ethics officer of the justice department, asking for an official opinion on whether Whitaker, who has denied Russian interference in the 2016 election and described a strategy for derailing Mueller, should recuse himself from the Russia inquiry.
Whitaker will be the first witness summoned by the House judiciary committee when Democrats take charge in January, the incoming chairman, Jerry Nadler, said, calling Whitaker a complete political lackey and a real threat to the integrity of that investigation.
Donald Trump fired the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, on Wednesday and appointed Whitaker, a former US attorney from Iowa and Sessionss chief of staff, to be acting attorney general a move Democrats called illegal.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/11/trump-matthew-whitaker-robert-mueller-democrats-constitutional-crisis
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Why did the guy who we currently call president Donald J. Trump, or as John Oliver called him Donald T. Rump go to France this week? Was it to honor our World War I veterans on the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI? No. was it to strengthen diplomatic ties between the US and France? No. Why he got sent to the principals office again. Think of this as the 4th installment of Diary Of A Wimpy Trump. Lets call this one Diary Of A Wimpy Trump: Old School. So the Trip to France was essentially one disaster after another.
"When the helicopter couldnt fly to the first cemetery in France because of almost zero visibility, I suggested driving," Trump tweeted. "Secret Service said NO, too far from airport & big Paris shutdown."
Trump took heat back home after the White House announced it had canceled a trip to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial near Paris "due to scheduling and logistical difficulties caused by the weather," including rain and fog.
By the way, when the helicopter couldnt fly to the first cemetery in France because of almost zero visibility, I suggested driving. Secret Service said NO, too far from airport & big Paris shutdown. Speech next day at American Cemetary in pouring rain! Little reported-Fake News!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2018
The statement said nothing about a possible motorcade. Trump, who traveled to Paris for a series of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, spent Saturday afternoon out of the public eye.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/13/donald-trump-secret-service-cemetery-trip-france/1986252002/
Of course it was fake news. Everything is fake news isnt it? Of course Trump likes to rub salt in the wound, because, why not? Thats what a good psychopath does, dont you know .
The US presidents Tuesday morning tweet exacerbates his standoff with Macron following his visit to Paris over the weekend that was marred by his controversial behavior. In the tweet Trump repeated his accusation that Macron had called for a European army as protection against the US an apparent misreading of Macrons earlier comments.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1062311785787744256
The biting words represent an escalation of the attack Trump made on Friday in which he said Macron had been very insulting by suggesting Europe needed its own army to protect itself against the US, China and Russia. Trump appeared to be conflating, however, Macrons desire to strengthen Europes military forces an ambition Trump himself has demanded as he seeks to reduce US contributions to Nato and comments made by the French president in a radio interview about the threat of cyber-hacking from other countries including the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/13/trump-macron-eu-army-german-second-world-war
He can sever 200 years of diplomatic relations in a single tweet! Hes super troll! Oh by the way in case youre wondering this is the point in the movie where the kid gets sent to the principals office, and well, that went well.
For Donald Trump, that was a bridge too far. The trip to France got off to a bad start and kept getting worse. He landed with a tweet, directed against his host, Emmanuel Macron, and based on a mangling in the US press of something the French president had said, to make it sound like he wanted a European army to fend off the US, as well as China and Russia.
It was not what Macron said, but Trump fulminated anyway. Very insulting, he declared.
In a way, the US president had come to France by mistake. He had announced the trip in August after he declared that Washingtons municipal leaders wanted to over-charge for the military parade he had demanded.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/11/thumbs-up-from-putin-as-trump-rains-on-armistice-parade
I guess in this case you could say that Trump *LITERALLY* rained on Frances Armistice Day parade which is meant to be a solemn vigil, and leave it to Trump to turn it into a shit show. But even one of Trumps favorite punching bags, Chuck Schumer took issue with the visit turning into a shit show:
Actually, sir, you know what he's really afraid of? Having to do any actual work. The man can barely close an umbrella, what makes you think he's going to do anything presidential? Because lets face it, he doesnt care about anything else at this point, other than ratings and crowd sizes. Fuck it. Fuck it all, I say!
"Today at lunch, the President sat with President Macron, Chancellor Merkel, and President Putin, and many other world leaders," Sanders told reporters traveling with the President. "The leaders discussed a variety of issues, including the INF (nuclear treaty), Syria, trade, the situation in Saudi Arabia, sanctions, Afghanistan, China and North Korea."
Sanders said, "They had very good and productive discussions during the two-hour lunch," which was held at the official residence of the French President.
Russian state news agencies reported a brief exchange between Trump and Putin at Sunday's armistice centenary ceremonies in Paris.
RIA Novosti reported Putin as replying in the affirmative when asked if he was able to talk with Trump in a meeting at the Élysée Palace with other foreign leaders.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/11/politics/white-house-trump-putin-macron-merkel/index.html
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So we had another mass shooting last week. And this one hit way too close to home as it happened at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, that was hosting a College Country Night, and its seriously horrible what happened. Now if youre the NRA, how do you spin this story? Well, a group of doctors conducting into research for gun control got their arguments shut down by the NRA, because in their eyes, guns are more important than people.
Doctors started a hashtag group #ThisisOurLane to argue for action to reduce gun violence. It quickly filled up with comments from medical professionals and supporters pointing out the effects gun violence has on them and their patients. Emergency professionals also often posted pictures of their bloody scrubs, or puddles of blood on emergency room floors -- the result of treating gunshot victims.
Doctors and medical officials have increasingly taken on gun violence as a public health issue. Last month, the American College of Physicians issued new guidelines for doctors to follow in helping protect patients from firearms dangers, and published several reports on gun violence in its flagship publication, the Annals of Internal Medicine.
We need to ask our patients about firearms, counsel them on safe firearm behaviors, and take further action when an imminent hazard is present, Dr. Garen Wintemute, of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California Davis Medical Center, wrote in one editorial in the magazine.
On Wednesday, the NRA took issue with the ACP, which represents more than 150,000 internal medicine specialists. Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane, the group tweeted.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/nra-opens-social-media-war-doctors-over-firearms-n934056
Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! So the underlying message that Im getting is that the NRA is basically telling doctors to go fuck themselves and the people who treat gunshot victims dont know anything about guns. So that happened. Oh and theyre further rubbing salt in the wound.
One gunshot suicide and two other autopsies, probably natural.
Not a busy day, by any means. It was part of a perfectly ordinary week working as a forensic pathologist in Oakland, California. A couple of days earlier, I had pulled out two 9mm bullets from the body of a middle-aged man. The previous week, it was a 30-something, shot in the back.
Right after I got off the phone, I saw a tweet from the National Rifle Association telling doctors to stay in their lane their response to the American College of Physicians updated gun safety guidelines. That was just hours before a man with a handgun and a high-capacity magazine shot dead 12 people in a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, and less than two weeks after a man with an assault rifle shot dead 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. Angered, I fired back a response, shut off my phone, and began my day.
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/11/12/18087262/doctors-guns-thousand-oaks-nra
Damn right! I mean is it any wonder that the evil fucking organization known as the NRA got their ass handed to them in the last election? That was sweet! In case you dont know what I am talking about this is what happened.
"We were across the map," he said. "It wasn't a niche local issue. We were on the offensive in blue, red and purple states."
Spending to support candidates backing tougher gun control surged this year, even as campaign spending by the NRA declined. The Giffords PAC spent nearly $5 million. Everytown for Gun Safety, a group founded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, pledged $30 million for this year's elections and continued to put new money into competitive races in the final days.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/09/gun-control-is-winning-issue-in-midterms-as-advocates-gain-in-house-defy-nra.html
And by the way, if youre wondering about that NRA A rating from your local congressman, its about to become as toxic as being endorsed by big tobacco used to be.
Auroras experience with mass gun violence stretches back to 1993, when a former employee entered a Chuck E. Cheeses and killed four people. The district has more registered Democrats than Republicans, and by presidential election results, it is slightly bluer than the nation as a whole.
Yet four successive Democrats have failed to unseat Representative Mike Coffman, a Republican with consistent A ratings from the National Rifle Association and more campaign contributions from the group than any other member of Colorados congressional delegation.
This year, however, Jason Crow an Army veteran who wants to ban assault weapons, restrict high-capacity magazines and expand background checks appears poised to defeat Mr. Coffman. A New York Times/Siena College poll last month showed Mr. Crow leading by nine points. [Read more about that poll here.] Mr. Crow has also raised some $1.6 million more than Mr. Coffman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/gun-control-candidates-election.html
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Hey Denver its time to investigate beyond the headlines! This is Top 10 Investigates.
Californias proposition system always gains national attention during any given election year, and they are always a mixed bag. But this election season one proposition has stood out above all the rest, and that is Proposition 8. Prop 8 was supposed to regulate the dialysis industry. So proposition 8 would have put a cap on profits from the Dialysis industry an industry that very badly needs to be regulated, but voters have rejected that proposition.
The union-backed measure broke campaign spending records and sparked fierce debate, with both sides vehemently arguing their position was the one that would protect the 80,000 kidney disease patients in California who rely on life-saving dialysis treatment every month. But Prop. 8 was trailing by a double-digit margin Tuesday night, as opponents cheered its defeat.
Prop. 8 would have harmed vulnerable dialysis patients by restricting access to life-saving dialysis treatments. Thankfully voters made the smart, compassionate decision to reject it, Dr. Theodore Mazer, former president of the California Medical Association, wrote in a news release.
Prop. 8 would have forced dialysis clinics to refund revenue exceeding more than 115 percent of the cost of caring for patients. Refunds of up to $100,000 would have gone to insurance providers and patients who pay out of pocket.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/06/early-election-results-voters-reject-prop-8-cap-on-dialysis-profits/
Kidney health is nothing to joke about, and apparently voters in California sided with the ads put on by dialysis companies like Davita and voted to basically give them unlimited amounts of money and they dont need to be as regulated as they were before. So theyre saying regulation is bad. Heres what it could have done.
Its a tricky procedure and right now its at the center of a heated political battle between labor unions and dialysis companies.
Californians will vote in November on Proposition 8, which would regulate dialysis clinic spending. Its a move that could either improve patient conditions or degrade them, depending on who you ask.
So far, its the most expensive proposition on the ballot, with supporters putting in $20 million and opponents fighting back with $99 million as of October 11.
https://www.ijpr.org/post/why-proposition-8-one-most-contentious-and-confusing-california-ballot-measures#stream/0
More please. So just how much money did the dialysis companies raise to defeat this measure? Well the numbers are absolutely astonishing, and the ads ran practically non stop. But really how did proposition 8 get started? It was pretty much a dispute between one of the largest labor unions for dialysis clinics and Davita an evil corporation.
Prop. 8 has to do with dialysis and how dialysis clinics conduct their business.
One in seven American adults has chronic kidney disease. In California, 66,000 people have conditions so severe that they require dialysis at least three times a week. Its a life-saving treatment.
This is a dialysis machine and this is the dialyzer, explained Violette McClain, a local dialysis nurse who is against on Prop. 8. So this is basically like an artificial kidney and this is what our patients depend on to filter their blood, remove the toxins, remove the fluid.
Proposition 8 would essentially cap dialysis clinic revenue at 15 percent. It would require clinics to refund their patients or their insurers if their revenue exceeds the 15-percent cap.
https://ksby.com/news/decision-2018/2018/10/23/prop-8-differing-opinions-on-how-dialysis-patients-would-be-affected
So voters overwhelmingly rejected the calls for dialysis clinics to be regulated and instead rewarded evil corporations like Davita for their bad behavior. And in case you were wondering both Davita and their owner Warren Buffet profited handsomely from their reckless spending and horribly worded advertising.
Watch these stock sectors after ballot measures results
Watch these stock sectors after ballot measures results
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DaVita shares soared Wednesday after California voters rejected a ballot measure that would have capped the amount of money dialysis providers in the state can earn on certain patients.
Sixty-one percent of voters said "no" to Proposition 8 in Tuesday's midterms.
Pushed by the Service Employees International Union, the measure would have limited the revenue dialysis providers could earn through rates from privately insured patients to 115 percent of the costs to provide the care. Anything above would be put to dialysis providers, which would be forced to give insurers or patients rebates to make up the difference.
"We are grateful that Californians voted down Proposition 8," DaVita said in a statement Wednesday, "It's disappointing that the SEIU-UHW used the ballot initiative process as leverage in pursuing their own objectives, despite the potential harmful consequences to nearly 70,000 California dialysis patients."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/buffett-owned-davita-jumps-after-voters-reject-cap-on-dialysis-revenue.html
There you have it, we officially live in the Matrix. Thats it for Top 10 Investigates. Good day.
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Gather around, my fair brothers and sisters of Denver, its time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate! For the Holy Church of the Top 10 has convened and its our weekly duty to remind you why the holiest among us are also the most full of:
My fair congregation, we usually dont get news this good around here, but in the wake of last weeks election we must celebrate this one with revels. Im of course talking about the end of the reign of a favored soul of the hardcore Christian right supporters of the Dark One, and Kim Davis. Yes, the Kentucky clerk who refused to do her job and became a hero of Christian bigots everywhere, now, is no mas! And I have to say as a man of GAWD, that one was sweet!
Davis, a Republican, lost to Democratic challenger Elwood Caudill. Caudill got 4,210 votes, or 54.1 percent, and Davis got 3,566, or 45.9 percent.
Davis received a lot of national attention in 2015 when, after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, citing her religious objections. After she was jailed for defying courts and refusing to do her job, some evangelicals, including Republican Mike Huckabee, rallied behind her. But ultimately, Davis agreed to let her deputies issue marriage licenses and was released from jail.
As Will Wright explained for the Lexington Herald Leader, Caudill previously lost by just 23 votes in the Republican primary for the seat in 2014. But he changed parties in 2015. Caudill then went on to beat David Ermold, one of the gay men Davis denied a marriage license, in the Democratic primary this year.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/11/7/18072228/midterm-election-results-kentucky-clerk-kim-davis
Ooh that felt good! Now usually we dont kick people when they are down here in my church, but considering that Sister Kim made an entire career out of doing exactly that, exceptions must be made, and we will adhere to that! So what is Sister Kim planning on doing after being fired? Well, this was totally not unexpected.
Davis rose to fame in 2015 when she refused to give a marriage license to a gay couple citing her religious beliefs after the Supreme Court legalized marriage equality in every state. She then said that she would give no one a marriage license, so that she would treat everyone equally.
A judge told that she had to issue marriage licenses, and she spent several nights in jail for contempt of court when she refused to follow the judges order.
Last week, Davis lost her reelection campaign for County Clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/11/now-kim-davis-fired-voters-shes-going-become-preacher/
I think even somewhere the good LAWRD JAYSUS is saying do not want. I mean really how can someone whos been divorced 4 times somehow be a champion of marriage? It seems to me that would be a bit hypocritical wouldnt it? And JAYSUS hated the hypocrites! Can I get an amen?? By the way if youre wondering why Davis lost, well, heres a bit of insider info for you:
House, who grew up in Laurel and Leslie counties and now teaches at Berea College, has focused much of his fiction on portraying Appalachia as a complicated place that defies stereotypes. He is executive producer of Hillbilly, an award-winning new documentary film by directors Ashley York and Sally Rubin, that seeks to show the new diversity of voices emerging from the region.
It is ironic that Davis, the symbol, would have come out of Morehead, House said. But, he said, much of the region remains hostile to gay people. He points to the regions strong support for President Donald Trumps anti-diversity agenda.
Its a constant heartache that I cant live in Eastern Kentucky as a gay man, he said. The voters keep telling me they dont want us.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article221304285.html
You know heres the thing at my church you can come and worship freely as you please! There are no judgements here, other than from the almighty himself! And hes cool with whatever you are cool with, it says so in the Good Book! But what I dont want is Christian bigots forcing their own interpretation of the law on me! Thank you! But apparently Sister Kim still wants a piece of that sweet sweet spotlight!
However, it was one Republican incumbents loss in a closely-watched race in Kentucky that set the Internet ablaze. Im talking, of course, about Kim Davis, who came up about 700 votes shy of her Democratic opponent, Elwood Caudill, Jr., in her re-election bid to the Rowan County Clerks Office.
Following her loss, national media outlets from the New York Times to the Advocate ran clickbait-worthy headlines, and incendiary status updates spread across social media like wildfire. In the midst of all the righteous schadenfreude over Ms. Davis fate well deserved as it was one person was conspicuously missing from the national conversation: David Ermold.
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Then, just as quickly as the spotlight emerged on the otherwise quiet town of Morehead, Ky., a town of just over 7,000 people, the cameras all but disappeared after the primary, and David Ermold became another name lost in the media frenzy. Hardly anyone outside the state noticed, for example, that Ermold refused to support Caudill, who won the Democratic nomination by over 1,000 votes. If they did notice, no one bothered to dive deeper and ask why. (Ermold did not respond to an email request for an interview for this story, and, as far as I can tell, has avoided most other media outlets since the primary.)
https://www.intomore.com/impact/kim-davis-continues-to-steal-a-spotlight-she-doesnt-deserve
So there you have it, Sister Kim lost her seat to a man who she denied a marriage license to! That is some sweet, sweet karma there! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! Thats it this week for:
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[font size="8"]Beating A Dead Horse: Drag Queen Story Hour
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Lets be honest here everybody loves a good story no matter whos telling it, or who they are telling it to. So why is reading stories to children such a bad thing? Well if youre in the south and your child has stories read to them by drag queens, well, it might be the worst fucking thing in the world, you are disrespecting Jesus, oh my god, are you fucking crazy??? Yeah probably. You know these days the subject of gender fluidity is a very tricky one and children need to be taught to be more accepting, but considering the role models they have at their disposal, is it any wonder why were fucked? Take a look at this story out of Houston, Texas. They say everything is bigger in Texas, especially the assholes!
Drag queen storytimes are endorsed by the American Library Association, and like many libraries across the country the Loussac has hosted several.
Last week Jim Minnery, head of Christian group Alaska Family Action, sent an email to supporters in which he called the storytimes "alarming." The email condemned "using taxpayer funded public libraries to talk with impressionable young children about 'gender fluidity.'" He urged people to contact the library and ask that future events be canceled.
When KTVA asked Minnery for further comment, he responded that he was "too busy" for an interview or statement.
Torgeson said so far she's received 29 negative comments. Most, she said, express concern about normalizing what the senders see as deviant behavior.
https://www.ktva.com/story/39422111/loussac-librarys-drag-queen-storytime-draws-detractors
And really, why the fuck is a family group in Alaska concerned about a childrens story time in Houston, Texas? God forbid that children should be taught about gender identities at a young age, I mean what would Jesus think? Well the thing is Christian conservative assholes are everywhere, and it seems the more devoted they are, the bigger the insufferable asshole they are. And Houston was no the only community where this bullshit happened. Take a look at what happened in Lafayette, Louisiana where this happened.
The room was packed beyond capacity, leaving people to wait in the hallways for their chance to take a seat inside. It was abuzz with chattering long before the meeting started.
Im here to testify to the council that the library is no place to introduce either sexually-oriented material or politics to three-to-six-year-olds, said Gene Mills, president of the Louisiana Family Forum.
Mills is one of many that came in opposition of the event.
Mills, and those of similar opinion, says this is a question of legality, not intolerance.
We filed a federal lawsuit to stop the library from hosting the Drag Queen Story Hour based upon the unconstitutionality of it, said Rich Penkoski, founder and pastor with Warriors for Christ, a controversial Christian group that began as an online ministry through Facebook. The group, which the Christian Broadcasting Network cites as having more than 225,000 followers, has seen trouble in the past with violating Facebooks community standards by promoting hate speech.
https://www.thevermilion.com/news/constitutionality-of-drag-queen-story-time-questioned-lawsuits-filed/article_886ae5b2-d0eb-11e8-8c0e-23bf511299e6.html
Good point! And where in the Constitution does it even remotely say that drag queen story hour is unconstitutional? I dont remember that amendment! And Im not at all surprised that a group called Warriors For Christ got caught violating Facebooks hate speech policy. Not at all! But as crazy as these people are, they managed to get one shut down in Illinois.
They are obscenity, legal obscenity, Johnston declared. That should not be allowed. This is pandering obscenity to minors.
After praising a recent successful effort to shut down a Drag Queen Story Hour in Illinois, Johnston called on right-wing activists to get aggressive and to ready themselves to wage war.
It is past time for us, guys, to get aggressive about protecting our childrens innocence, she said. Conservatives have been playing much too nice with these degenerates. This is war. This is war on our children.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/elizabeth-johnston-conservatives-have-been-playing-much-too-nice-with-these-degenerates/
Hey, you support a guy who literally locked children in cages, you dont get to decide whats good for children or not anymore. Fuck off! And by the way, in case you were wondering, a judge smacked down the Christians claims:
Tex Christopher, a 45-year-old Houston businessman who is one of the people who filed the lawsuit, said he is taking the judges denial in stride and looking forward to making his arguments in court that drag queens and transgender storytellers indoctrinate children to believe in another religion, which he identifies as Secular Humanism.
Im taking a stand for righteousness, Christopher said. Im calling out Mayor Turner.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Judge-rejects-conservative-Christian-group-s-13334135.php
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Politicians at the state, national and local levels who are so toxic that you ever wonder how they were able to get into office, much less stay there. This is:
This week Floridas new governor Ron DeSantis. While many thought that the racial barrier was torn down when Obama was elected president, Ron DeSantis put it back up, put barbed wire and ran an electrical current through the whole thing. So heres the thing with elections American citizens not living in America have the right to vote too, and Gov. DeSantis hasnt exactly realized that.
"When I stepped down from Congress, part of it was I knew I wasn't going to be making the votes while I was campaigning," he told reporters Tuesday. "But even more significant was thinking after the election, you have to put together a government we've been doing this quietly behind the scenes not to be presumptuous, but just because you don't have enough time (after the election)."
Things have changed a bit since then.
DeSantis' margin of victory shrank in the days after Election Day to fall within the 0.5 percentage point gap that triggers a recount by tabulation machines (making the governor's race the third statewide race to fall into a recount, along with U.S. Senate and commissioner of agriculture).
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/11/12/as-recounts-rage-on-ron-desantis-begins-transition-to-power/
Yes that was probably the election that the Florida GOP had on election night. After all, if you want a window into Ron DeSantis racism, you should check out some of his greatest hits.
"How the hell am I supposed to know every single statement somebody makes?" DeSantis said, visibly agitated. "I am not going to bow down to the altar of political correctness."
Gillum took note of DeSantis' answer and recounted an allegory: "My grandmother used to say a hit dog will holler," Gillum said. "And it hollered through this room."
"Mr. DeSantis has spoken, first of all, he's got neo-Nazis helping him out in this state," Gillum said. "He has spoken at racist conferences, he's accepted a contribution, and would not return it, from someone who referred to the former president of the United States as a Muslim 'n----r.'"
https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-gillum-debate-ron-desantis-racists-believe-he-is-racist-2018-10
In case youre wondering just how racist Ron DeSantis is, hes pretty damn racist. So racist that he was a moderator on a racist Facebook group that had a whopping 52 moderators operating at all times because people were apparently posting some pretty horrible things.
DeSantis' membership in the group was first noted by American Ledger, which is run by the liberal group American Bridge.
"It appears @RonDeSantisFL was moderating hate group on FB that regularly attacked on race and attacked Parkland survivors," tweeted Fred Guttenburg, whose daughter, Jaime, was killed in the Parkland shooting, and has since become a prominent gun control advocate. "If true this is bad."
DeSantis denied through a spokesman on Thursday that he ever led the group or even knew he had been added to it. He "immediately" left it when notified of the controversy, the spokesman said.
https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/08/31/did-ron-desantis-moderate-a-far-right-facebook-group/
And by the way whats wrong with Florida? A whole lot if you ask us. While most of the election drowned out Trump with a blue wave, Floridas voters had literally the opposite effect.
After a primary ad in which he built a wall and read The Art of the Deal with his kids, DeSantis was helped by the presidents involvement in the race, even as his Democratic opponent Andrew Gillum took hard lines against Trumps actions at the national level.
With 99% of the votes accounted for, DeSantis was ahead of Gillum by more than 75,000, NBC reported late Tuesday night.
For his part, Gillum, the Tallahassee mayor, presented a platform that was in stark contrast to the Presidents on national policies that governors have little control over. He advocated for Medicare for All before admitting that Florida likely couldnt accomplish a single-payer system on its own, called for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a federal agency, in its current form, and was vocal about the importance of DACA, a federal immigration policy.
http://time.com/5445200/ron-desantis-florida-governors-election-results/
Yes, yes it was. Florida apparently rejected liberal ideas of tolerance and inclusion and instead voted for all the things that Trump stands for. And in case youre wondering if the possible recount will have any effect this, well, this is 2018 where hate reigns supreme.
Amid the violations of law by Broward and Palm Beach County elections officials, the data provides apparent good news for Republicans. First, despite the national media's typical laziness and derelictions, the local press has largely been assiduous and conscientious -- certain framing aside. Second, core concerns raised by leading Republicans (some of which were rhetorically overblown) have been validated by multiple judges. The ineptitude and misconduct has not gone unnoticed. Third, in spite of Democratic lawyers' best efforts, Republican leads in key races are likely insurmountable. National Review's Charles C.W. Cooke has been following this closely, and relayed his analysis over the weekend, with recounts underway:
Based on Cooke's calculations -- which bake in several highly favorable assumptions for Democrats (in some cases, implausibly so) -- both major stateside Republicans are in good shape:
He even runs through a scenario under which Bill Nelson's Broward County "undervote" is deemed attributable to some sort of nefarious problem, under which Democratic attorneys could make (unrealistic) headway. In that unlikely case, DeSantis would nevertheless be fine, but Rick Scott's lead would dwindle down to vulnerable territory -- although he'd still be ahead:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/11/12/analysis-its-almost-certain-that-rick-scott-and-ron-desantis-have-won-in-florida-n2535731
There you have it, Florida is about to go down a very dangerous road, and they often decide our elections. So that makes Ron DeSantis another one of the:
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So of course you know by now that people are people and people are dumb. I want to start with this story out of where else? Florida. Because you know that Americas most penis shaped state always has the craziest news out of it. And I feel like its almost obligatory that news outlets begin their stories with the words Florida Man or Florida Woman . So if youre arrested by the police for anything, maybe dont give them a name that was pulled from a prank phone call.
Asked to identify himself, the defendant responded by stating his name was Ben Dover, Deputy K. Baldwin noted.
The man then gave the cop the middle finger and got in the deputys face as if he was going to hit him. The man then fled on foot, but was apprehended after a short chase.
Dover, as it turned out, was actually Andrew Leighton, a 22-year-old Palm Harbor resident. Seen above, Leighton was charged with two misdemeanors: obstruction by a disguised person and resisting an officer. He was released from the county jail early yesterday morning upon posting $300 bond.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/ben-dover-arrest-490172
Im sure you do, Moe! Next up, were going to the Volunteer State, Tennessee. And this sounds like the perfect scene for a crime-based comedy, and I could totally see Melissa McCarthy in the role. And you know the old saying how does it go? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me you wont get fooled again. Thats right, a former president said that once!
Harley C. Morton, 26, is charged with criminal trespassing, vandalism and disorderly conduct and was nude from the waist down when investigators took her into custody at Cook Out on East Stone Drive, according to Kingsport Police Department records obtained Wednesday by WCYB.
The report said Morton gained access into the ceiling just after 11 p.m. by entering an unauthorized area with stairs that led to the roof then pried open a screen to an air conditioning vent.
A Cook Out employee told an officer that Morton partially fell through a ceiling tile in the kitchen then pulled herself back into the roof area and began running around. Investigators found broken support rails and busted ceiling tile on the floor and then found Morton's wallet and other ID on the roof, the report said.
https://wcyb.com/news/local/naked-kingsport-woman-charged-after-falling-through-ceiling-at-restaurant
Well said! Next up we go to Tennessees neighboring state, Indiana for this one. Heres the thing, if you have a problem with your crack dealers, maybe dont get the police involved. Because it will end badly for both them and you!
Woods told police that he has not paid the duo the $400 he owes for the crack cocaine.
In light of his unpaid narcotics bill, Woods said, his dealers are now threatening to run him out of town, vandalize his car, and shoot him. Additionally, owing to interest, the dealers now contend that they are owed $500, said Woods.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/crack/crack-dealer-complaint-395021
Next up we got to go to the Lone Star state for this one, and you really cant make this stuff up. Really, if youre going to rob a store, maybe dont do it wearing a very easily identifiable Halloween costume:
According to The Smoking Gun, Colleen Dickens, a 30-year-old mother of two, was charged with two felony charges of robbery and evading arrest with a motor vehicle. She's currently being held at the Harris County Jail on a $12,500 bond. It's not clear if she wore the dog head while driving the getaway car, but the original report claims she was wearing it when she emerged from the car after the short chase was over.
Her Pulitzer Prize-worthy mugshot shows a blurry Dickens with a towel held over her mouth by a rubber-glove-wearing corrections officer; according to the report, she was attempting to spit on her jailers. No word on if a rolled-up newspaperor, more humanely, a clickerwas employed by the arresting officers at any point.
http://www.thedrive.com/news/24785/texas-woman-wearing-giant-dog-head-leads-houston-cops-on-car-chase-after-alleged-robbery
I can imagine the corrections officers had a field day with that story! Finally this week Tide laundry detergent. I mean really, did we learn *NOTHING* from the Tide Pod fiasco? Well, wait until you see the latest design that Tide has come up with and I wish I was making this up but I am not:
https://twitter.com/CNNBusiness/status/1061381764650885126
On Friday, Procter & Gamble announced a new package for Tide detergent, designed specifically to make the product easier to ship. It now comes in a box, complete with a sealed bag of soap inside of it and a measuring cup for doing your wash. The version uses 60 percent less plastic than shipping an equivalent 150 ounce bottle of Tide since it doesnt require additional layers of cardboard boxing or bubble wrap, CNN reports. Its lighter and takes up less space in a delivery truck saving P&G money on shipping costs. The new packaging also uses significantly less water. All this is good for the environment. Its good for P&G, which can now sell more detergent at a lower cost. Its good for Amazon, which now also gets to sell more detergent. And also its good for anybody who was missing the Tide Pod meme, because if you looked at this thing and saw anything other than a soapy box of wine please seek medical attention pronto.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/tides-new-packaging-looks-like-boxed-wine.html
So tell me bartender, what should I pair this fine boxed laundry detergent with? A bowl of Tide Pods? I really cant wait until we start seeing the Tide wine challenge coming soon to an emergency room near you! Thats it this week for:
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[font size="8"]Deep State Diaries Episode 20: The FAA
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Its time for episode 20 of Deep State Diaries. Yes were touring the 24 branches and services that make up the United States government. Everything from the FBI to the IRS to the Pentagon to the CIA to the DPW to the DVA to parks and recreation and all branches and services in between. Of course if youre here you probably already know more about our government and how it works than your average Fox News loving Trump supporter does. So thats what this segment is going to address. We are going to do a deep dive into all that makes the United States the United States. Because we here at the Top 10 love to educate as well as entertain. Because we care.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is the board that monitors all of the air traffic coming into and out of the United States, as well as monitor everything about air travel such as our airports, airlines, and even airplanes. Everything from the seats that you sit in on your next flight to the food that passes for airline meals to the amount of airline seat that passes for leg room these days. So what does the FAA actually do? For you conspiracy theorists, no they dont release chemtrails into the atmosphere that turns frogs gay and dries out the forests. Instead they do things like this:
Sen. Charles Schumer says federal officials should be doing more to comply with a law to establish minimum seat size standards for airplanes.
The law, part of a reauthorization bill passed in September, requires the FAA to set the seat-size guidelines. It gives the FAA a year to tackle shrinking seats and give an opportunity for the public to weigh in.
But the New York Democrat says the FAA must move faster. He says the agency hasnt established a plan to rein in shrinking seats. The FAA said it is working to address the provision in the reauthorization bill.
https://www.whec.com/news/schumer-faa-too-slow-tackling-airline-seat-size-concerns/5141892/
And by the way speaking of turbulence, they do run a complaint department where you can actually submit your complaints about anything to do with flights or airports. But they might need to speed that process up a bit.
The Federal Aviation Administration is required to establish minimum seat size criteria under a provision pushed by Schumer this September.
Under that provision, the FAA has a year to tackle the shrinking seat issue, and give notice for the public to voice their opinions on the issue.
But the FAA is not implementing the law Schumer told reporters.
"FAA, do the study. Implement the law and get us back to the days when, even though the seats were tight, you could fit in to them without severe discomfort," he said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-schumer-seat-size-faa-20181111-story.html
So what about when new planes get introduced? Like Boeing is planning to introduce the next version of its venerable 737, called the 737 next. So how does a plane get approved in order to start flying commercial service?
Boeing shares fell 2.1 percent on Tuesday on concerns related to the first crash of the newest version of the planemaker's best-selling jet, in which all 189 people on board were killed when it dived into the sea.
Indonesian investigators said on Monday a system designed to deal with the accident scenario was not described in the flight manual. They called for more training for 737 MAX pilots.
U.S. pilot unions later said they were not aware of the new anti-stall system.
Operating procedures and training for the 737 MAX could also change as the FAA and Boeing learn more from the investigation, the regulator said in a statement.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/14/faa-boeing-study-need-for-737-max-software-changes-after-crash.html
Yeah so maybe dont do that. And really theres nothing to joke about when it comes to planes and commercial travel, though every comedian has their airport chunk. Shit, thats such a cliché anymore that literally anyone can do it. And no, for you Infowars fans out there who may happen to stumble upon this, theres no chemtrails in the air that make you get polio and turn the frogs gay, but the environment definitely needs some cleaning up.
The contract involves the 5,000-acre William J. Hughes Technical Center, which is eight miles northwest of Atlantic City and includes Atlantic City International Airport.
"TRC is proud to be assisting the FAA with this important project to restore and protect the environment in and around the nation's premier air transportation research facility," said Paul Arnold, TRC's vice president of engineering, construction and remediation. "Not only is this work critically important to the FAA, but also Atlantic City area residents, businesses and visitors.
Under the Superfund Architect/Engineer Environmental Services contract, TRC will lead remedial investigation, risk assessment and design work, including innovative in situ technologies and remediation of aviation fuels, pesticides, heavy metals, PCBs, mercury and emerging contaminants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). More than 30 areas of concern with potential or actual environmental impacts have been identified at the site.
https://www.aviationpros.com/news/12436567/trc-wins-36-million-contract-to-oversee-clean-up-of-faa-superfund-site-in-new-jersey
Also if youre going to be doing any funny business in the air, you might want to make sure that you have a permit for that, otherwise the FAA is going to come down on you faster than Trump comes down on a Big Mac.
FAA enforcement was among several issues highlighted during the Aviation Leadership Conference, which also tackled workforce issues, looking at new models of service, and elevating the safety of Part 135 operations. More than 100 registrants attended the event, which also included the participation of National Transportation Safety Board chairman Robert Sumwalt and many other business leaders.
When asked what FAA has been doing about illegal charter operators, Duncan said the agencys approach is to make sure operators have the proper education and understanding regarding how they need to comply. The FAA can approach compliance issues through its non-punitive Compliance Philosophy that establishes compliance actions, rather than enforcement, to address the problems, he added.
https://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/faa-weighs-penalties-for-illegal-charter#
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Overall importance: A
How Things Are Going: C
Likely hood To Survive: B+
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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #5-19: The Blue Wave Begins Edition
Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Whats up Orlando? Yes, we are finally here! I know I joke about all the crazy shit that comes out of Florida but you guys really came through for this one! So I dont know if anyone noticed but we had an election yesterday! But yeah well get to that in a minute but first we got to do a thing, And that is that politics makes for some strange bedfellows doesnt it? And of course by that I mean I dont know if youve been following the Axl Rose vs Trump brew ha ha, but its magical. So Trump has been for some reason playing Sweet Child OMine at his MAGA rallies. But really Id be willing to bet that hes never actually read the lyrics of that song. He also got hit hard by Rhianna. So now I may have to add Appetite For Destruction and Rhiannas Anti album to my playlist, and hey why not? But one of my favorite things is when politicians use campaign songs and then they get called out by the artist as being full of shit. And I mean come on whos more full of shit than Trump is these days? However, yes, this is one of my favorite things ever -w hen candidates use music, and then the artist has a problem with the use of their music. I mean come on conservatives, if you want to use music that speaks to you, use Ted Nugent. With all of the sex crimes happening, Jailbait would make a great anthem! What, too soon? Ill show myself out. OK enough of the intro, we got a lot of idiocy to get to but first Bill Maher explains how important it is to GOTV:
So did everyone vote? Good! Because for the first slot this week were going to devote it to The Election (1) and we will be presenting all of the highs and lows and ups and downs for you including Californias propositions and the DEMS TOOK THE HOUSE!!!! In the second slot this week is Sean Hannity (2) and whew, that guy needs a good punch in the face after what he did on Sunday. For the third slot this week, we have got to discuss the absolutely colossal fail that was Jacob Wohl and Jack Berkman (3) and whew, this has all the makings of a great Wes Anderson flick, or a marginal Coen Bros flick. At number 4 this week is of course Donald Trump (4) and were going to show you his reactions to the campaign as well as dissect his unbelievably insane last minute campaign ad that attempted to blame liberals, ah, fuck it, thats all you need to know. For the fifth slot this week, is of course our weekly investigative piece Top 10 Investigates and this week were going to Wisconsin whats really going on with that much ballyhooed Foxconn deal? Well, we are going to tell you the latest and its not good. In the sixth slot is of course our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in Holy Shit (6) and this week our resident pastor is going to show you some batshit crazy religious right reactions to the election and GAWDs plan for America. At number 7 is one of our favorite segments Beating A Dead Horse (7) so last week we covered how Trump fans love to use false flag conspiracies to describe literally every tragedy that comes along. This week were going to tackle their other favorite bogeyman George Soros. Yes, somehow he folds into the false flag conspiracies. Taking the 8th slot, the WWE (8) is targeting Saudi Arabia hard for a new audience, and after a lot of controversy, were going to ask WWEs Crown Jewel: How Is This Still A Thing?. Taking the 9th slot this week is neither People Are Dumb, or I Need A Drink, but were going to instead debut a brand new segment called Ah, It Aint So Bad! (9) in which we attempt to find the silver lining in a bunch of random news stories. Finally this week weve got the next installment of our ongoing series Deep State Diaries where we are going to take a look at the Department Of Defense! Plus weve got a musical guest I am very excited to have on, the men, the myth, the legend Tenacious D is here! Really buy Post Apocalypto or youre no friend of the show. Enjoy! And as always dont forget the key!
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The blue wave happened everybody! Well, it wasnt a tsunami but we will gladly take what happened last night as a huge win! So the Blue Wave begins. It's going to take more than a few Blue Waves to completely wash the stink of Trump out of the room, though. Meanwhile while we didnt win everything (fuck you Texas!), there were some huge pickups and some major wins for the dems. We wont be able to get to everything this week, we will celebrate what we have so far. So we got to go over the plusses from last night and we wont have time to get to all of them. But what you need to know is that, to quote Walter Sobchak from the Big Lebowski, Trump is in a world of pain. But this might be one of my favorite pieces of news last night:
Kim Davis, the Republican incumbent, was defeated by Democrat Elwood Caudill Jr . in the election for clerk of Rowan County in northeastern Kentucky. Caudill won with 4,210 votes, or 54 percent, to 3,566, or 46 percent, for Davis.
"I believe that as a community we must continue to work together toward a more prosperous and cohesive Rowan County," Caudill said after his win, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Davis became a national figure when she stopped issuing marriage licenses days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry. The ruling overturned same-sex marriage bans nationwide. Davis cited her religious beliefs, saying she was acting under "God's authority." She was released from jail when her staff issued licenses in her absence.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/kentucky-clerk-jailed-over-gay-marriage-licenses-loses-re-election-n933451
That was sweet. And the hits just keep on coming. But one thing I do have to talk about is my home state of California where Dana Rohrabacher (R- Moscow) got his ass handed to him. Thank you Orange County!
As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rohrabacher has advocated for a better relationship with Russian President Vladimir. He has voted with President Trump nearly 84 percent of the time, according to nonpartisan analysis from FiveThirtyEight. He also has been known to back Trump's stance on immigration.
Rouda, a businessman and lawyer promising to protect health care coverage and reduce gun violence, appeared to take the win Wednesday morning after midnight data showed a near tie between the two candidates. Rouda held over 91,000 votes and Rohrabacher had 89,068.
Democrats won the majority in the House of Representatives as midterm election results finalized. This ends unified Republican rule of Washington and opens the possibility that Trump could be investigated when they take power in January. They could demand Trumps tax returns, subpoena his Cabinet members and investigate alleged corruption across the executive branch.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/07/election-results-2018-dana-rohrabacher-harvey-rouda/1917374002/
I should post the 10 hour clip of that, but still HA HA!!! Although we only have limited space here, we do have to talk about Californias propositions. To which yeah fuck you. Californians bought into Davitas propaganda and allowed them to basically run without being checked and will stand to gain unlimited profits from peoples suffering:
The measure sought to cap how much profit healthcare providers can make from the kidney procedure. With more than half of precincts reporting as of 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, 61 percent of voters had said "no" to the measure.
Supporters and opponents of Proposition 8 contributed about $130 million during the 2018 campaign season. The states largest kidney dialysis providers including industry giants Davita Dialysis, Fresenius Medical Care and U.S. Renal Care spent some $99 million collectively to fight the proposition, while supporters, led by the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), contributed in support of the measure.
Dialysis is a procedure that patients without properly functioning kidneys undergo to purify their blood of waste products. The procedure takes three or four hours. Most dialysis patients need the treatment three times per week and find it physically exhausting. Throughout California, roughly 80,000 people receive dialysis at the states 588 clinics each month. Although the procedure is perfomed at homes and in hospitals, most patients in need of dialysis rely on standalone specialty clinics.
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/07/california-election-results-residents-reject-prop-8-dialysis-profits/1917329002/
Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I mean come on, did you not see John Oliver? We will do a deep dive on Prop 8 next week. Those commercials were infuriating. That one guy Whats Prop 8 going to do for me? Yeah, listen here, it will make it so that if you die or something happens to you, your family wont get stuck paying your bills, which now is a very real possibility! Moving on though, there were many highs and lows that we wont be able to get to this week but there is one other take away from this that we need to see the battle lines are drawn!
It wasnt quite the wave that Democrats were hoping for. Even with a 9-point advantage in the popular vote, Republicans fended off the worst-case scenarios in the House and actually improved their majority in the Senate, as Indiana, Missouri and Florida ― states that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 ― sent their Democratic senators packing.
But both parties will still be able to claim victories Tuesday. Democrats picking up the House effectively slows Trumps presidency to a legislative crawl, while Republicans will point to their gains in the Senate to say voters still prefer their stark vision of governance.
In fact, one of the major lessons for Republicans may be that they need to embrace Trumps style even more. A blue wave for Democrats never really materialized because Republicans were able to energize their own voters through a campaign full of racial anxiety and culture war items.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-house-win_us_5be1fc28e4b0e84388909931
Yeah I can imagine that Trump and Pelosi will be meeting in January like that. Although I do want to briefly mention the Georgia governor race whew, this is what some might call a clusterfuck and we will definitely keep an eye on the situation and report back next week, but whew, this is insane. And I dont need to mention that the racist shitbag militia III%ers are planning a violent march in Atlanta if Stacy Abrams wins. Lets just say that the shit is going to hit the fan either way.
Georgia requires a candidate to get at least 50 percent of the vote to win outright, and although Kemp held a several-point lead as of early Wednesday morning, Abrams campaign said it expected the election to head to a runoff ― meaning voters would have to return to the polls on Dec. 4.
There are tens of thousands of absentee ballots around the state, many of them we believe are Abrams voters, said Lauren Groh-Wargo, Abrams campaign manager.
Kemp also expressed confidence in his odds. There are votes left to count, but we have a very strong lead, he said. Folks, make no mistake, the math is on our side to win this election.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stacey-abrams-brian-kemp-georgia-election_us_5be074fbe4b01ffb1d04c527
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Is anyone really surprised that Sean Hannity pulled that movie cliché where the characters say theyre not going to do something only to do it in the next scene? No? Good. So if you need some further explanation, Sean Hannity is shockingly (not) evil. Really, if you were to use a James Bond villain metaphor, think of him as a more evil Elliot Carver from Tomorrow Never Dies, only with way less charisma. Heres what happened.
On Sunday, Trump campaign Chief Operating Officer Michael Glassner announced via statement that Sean Hannity (and Rush Limbaugh) would-be special guests at a rally in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on Monday evening.
Thenhold on, you're totally gonna crack upMonday at 11:02 a.m., Hannity, that smug Lego of a man, tweeted, "In spite of reports, I will be doing a live show from Cape Girardeau and interviewing Trump before the rally. To be clear, I will not be on stage campaigning with the President. I am covering final rally for my show. Something I have done in every election in the past." (The tweet is still up. Wait for itthis will pay off in a second. I can't wait to see your face.)
To The Washington Post, a Fox News spokesperson repeated that Hannity would absolutely not be appearing at the rally with the president, and how even would people have gotten that idea, and just to be safe, they had ordered Hannity return to New York. Are you hanging in with me?
And then! Monday night, (have you guessed yet?) Hannity, an anchor on Fox News, which is purportedlybut not actually a "news network," actually did join Trump on stage, at the Cape Girardeau rally, just like we first thought!
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a24742183/sean-hannity-donald-trump-rally-fox-news/
Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I mean come on do we really need to hear these two kiss each others asses the day before the election? No! And we dont need to be reminded of how much Trump watches TV either. So just how much of a colossal dick move was this? Well, a whole lot, apparently!
Fox News, however, said Tuesday it wasn't pleased with their talents' performances, calling it an "unfortunate distraction."
The Trump campaign had announced beforehand that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would join the president for his last rally as "special guests," but before the rally, Hannity denied he was appearing to campaign for the president.
"In spite of reports, I will be doing a live show from Cape Girardeau and interviewing President Trump before the rally," Hannity tweeted. "To be clear, I will not be on stage campaigning with the President. I am covering final rally for my show. Something I have done in every election in the past."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fox-news-calls-sean-hannitys-appearance-trump-rally/story?id=59002981
Oh come on! Fox News is so deep in Trumps closet that theyre finding Christmas presents to each other, and you know that Hannity whispers sweet nothings in Trumps ear every night! Yeah, just picture that scenario for a minute! And you cant get that image out of your head, can you? Well, this was a colossal fuck up and a total dick move for Hannity and your racist uncles wife, Jeannie Pirro, but really were not at all that shocked. But like a good Trumper, Hannity just calls it fake news.
Trumps campaign had released a statement Sunday billing Hannity as a special guest at the final rally before midterm elections. Soon after, Hannity released a statement on Twitter saying, To be clear, I will not be on stage campaigning with the President. I am covering final rally for my show. Fox News also released a statement stressing that Hannity would only be covering the rally. Fox News Jeanine Pirro, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway also appeared on stage with Trump to show their support.
On Tuesday, Fox News described Hannitys appearance as an unfortunate distraction, and the primetime star tweeted that he was surprised by Trumps request for him to appear on-stage. This was NOT planned, he emphasized, later adding that he was not referring to my journalist colleagues at FOX
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hannity-campaigns-with-trump-at-missouri-rally-after-insisting-he-wouldnt
Seriously? You really expect us to believe that , Hannity? I mean if you believe that Ive got Keurigs, NFL tickets and Taylor Swift merchandise to sell you. Because you guys all burned and destroyed that stuff, because, reasons. Oh and if you want to know the kinds of things they discussed at Trumps latest rally, well, the same shit youd come to expect by now. He actually said the Democrats losing the house would be meaningless. Yeah BOOOOOOOOOOO!! Fuck you. That would be like if the Red Sox won and then started peeing in the Dodgers fans mailboxes. Oh wait, that is something Red Sox fans would actually do.
Election night results showed Republicans retained control of the Senate through 2020, while it appeared all but certain Democrats would take the House.
MOST in the media are absolutely clueless, Hannity wrote on Twitter. Tonight was a massive win 4 DJT & the ppl he campaigned 4- remember btwn the House & Senate Obama lost 69 seats, Clinton lost 60 seats- the democrats winning the house is meaningless.
Trump himself dubbed the night a victory as well.
Tremendous success tonight, the president tweeted. Thank you to all!
https://www.newsweek.com/sean-hannity-says-democrats-winning-house-meaningless-agrees-trump-election-1204874
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Unless youve been living under a rock, you know that there was a plot by two rabid Trump fans Jacob Wohl and Jack Berkman to take down Robert Mueller. And it involved using the #MeToo movement as a weapon. Well, it turned out to be quite the colossal fail. Which is a huge step up from the epic fail and the more you dig into this story the weirder it gets. And I mean thats an understatement. This story was MADE for the Top 10. Lets dig into it.
The pair held their show in a Holiday Inn just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The premise of this press conference was to present a credible witness who would accuse Robert Mueller of sexual assault. But any credibility Burkman and Wohl had hoped for was gone before they ever walked into the Rosslyn-area hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
They were scooped on their own story by the Atlantic when the outlet reported that Burkman was behind a scheme to pay women to falsify allegations against Mueller. We even knew the dollar amount that Burkman was offering $20,000.
Wohl was implicated when it was revealed that he was behind the company, Surefire Intelligence, that had published the official-looking documents outlining the allegations. Surefires LinkedIn pages also featured photos of stock models. The profile for an employee in Tel Aviv used a photo of actor Christoph Waltz. The phone numbers listed on Surefires website were registered to Wohls mothers name.
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/jacob-wohl-surefire-intelligence-press-conference/
To which Im sure that even Hans Landa right now is going WTF! So lets break it down. Its almost like a Wes Anderson movie. Yeah can we get some music? And I need a guy who kind of sounds like Alec Baldwin. So theyve got quirky characters, a two tone color scheme, and a plot that went horribly, horribly wrong. 20 year old stock broker wunderkind Jacob Wohl who got banned from the practice due to shady business dealings, ran an equally shady intelligence firm out of his moms basement and ran offices he didnt have using employees he didnt hire. Sounds legit. In the grand scheme of Trump fans I'm not sure who the bigger buffoon is - Jacob Wohl and Surefire Intelligence or Alex Jones?
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1058442443677450241
No, it's definitely Alex Jones. At least it's a step up from yelling at a pile of poop! But really not that big of a step. But Wohl definitely stepped in some shit. What else could go wrong?
The claims, while flimsy at best, were used to allege a double-standard between their client and Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party when they were in high school, in order to prove that mainstream press is doing the bidding of Mueller.
Wohl is a 20-year-old disgraced former hedge fund manager who earned a lifetime ban on futures trading and has since turned himself into a Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist online. Wohl emerged from pro-Trump conspiracy circles online to join Burkman, a longtime conservative con-man with a show on Newsmax TV, to put forward claims to the press that Mueller brutally raped a woman in New York City in 2010. The claims were published by The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing clickbait website with a large online presence, where Wohl was cited as a contributor as recently as six days ago.
Mueller has referred the apparent smear scheme to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When Wohl and Burkman were asked by someone who did not identify themselves at the back of the room whether they were ready to go to prison, the pair responded, No.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/fly-unzipped-jack-burkman-and-jacob-wohl-make-laughable-smear-claims-against-mueller/
They gave a press conference with their fly down! Holy fucking god, even the best comedy writers in the world couldnt make this stuff up! So for the movie Im thinking that Taron Egerton would be great for Wohl, and maybe Jonah Hill for Berkman. Call me, casting directors! So how did they get caught? Well, it turns out that they used a picture of actor Christoph Waltz for one of their employees. It gets better and better!
The whispers that allegations would enter the mainstream turned into shouts, as Burkman posted a video teasing a Thursday press conference where he would reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert Muellers sex assault victims. That press conference did take place today, but no accuser came forward.
So, what part does Surefire Intelligence play in all of this? On Oct. 30, the same day the rumors started swirling, Wohl said that several media sources told him the story would break.
Also on the same day, the accusations were published on the right-wing fringe site Gateway Pundit and it was revealed that this private investigation firm, Surefire Intelligence, was investigating claims of sexual assault. The Surefire Intelligence Twitter account, which was created in April 2018, also had something to say on social media in response to a flurry of press inquiries.
But in the weeks leading up to that, Surefire Intelligence was already on the radars of various media members, its been reported. It didnt take long for media members to dig deeper and out Surefire Intelligence as Wohls operation, despite his initial denial of involvement.
I dont have any involvement in any investigations of any kind. Im not quite that cool, he said even thought Burkman had already admitted Wohls involvement elsewhere.
Not only was it discovered that an email address with Wohls name on it (jacob.wohl@nexmanagement.com )was linked to the domain registration of Surefire Intelligence, profiles for purported employees of the firm were transparently fictitious. Managing partner Matthew Cohens profile featured a picture that was quickly found to be a photo of Wohl.
Most comically, reverse image searches revealed that other profiles contained photos that were just edited images of famous people, Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli and Hollywood star Christoph Waltz included.
Aric Toler wrote the most comprehensive story on how Surefire Intelligence was traced to Wohl.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-hilariously-simple-way-surefire-intelligence-was-outed-as-jacob-wohls-operation/
You tell em, Master Yoda! Really, if youre setting up a sting operation, maybe dont use your real name or e-mail address? Im just speculating! But really this is just a colossal fail on every level. And in case youre wondering just how shady Surefire Intelligence is, just take a look at what they did to this woman who was looking for her stolen truck.
Adams, a 35-year-old Washington state native, had hired the private investigations firm to recover damages for a truck she says was stolen. She had found Surefire through postings on Craigslist, where it billed its impressive roster of former Israeli intelligence agents and other experts in financial and criminal investigations. Its website appeared to be legitimate, and Adams even found a pair of glowing writeups about the company on the publishing platform Medium. She eventually ponied up $1,200 for Surefires services.
Adams had spoken with the firms ostensible managing partner, Matthew Cohen, last Friday, and he was optimistic about recovering tens of thousands of dollars from the man whom Adams accused of stealing her Hummer. They were scheduled for an in-person meeting in Portland, Oregon, near her home in southern Washington, on Tuesday.
Then the whole thing blew up. Cohen, it turns out, doesnt actually exist. His real name is Jacob Wohl, and hes a pro-Trump twitter troll and former teenage hedge fund manager with the dubious distinction of being the youngest person ever to earn a lifetime trading ban from the National Futures Association.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohls-fake-pi-firm-ghosted-on-a-destitute-woman-looking-for-her-stolen-truck
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Yeah so Trump has been hitting the campaign trail extremely hard in the last 2 weeks, and got to be honest, he looks like hes had no sleep in the last 4. I get the best sleep, OK!. So we got to talk about this extremely horrible ad that he sponsored and produced. But Im not gonna show it. What? No! Seriously, make me! In fact fuck this ad. It may be one of the worst, most insensitive and racist ads in history. It even drew comparisons to the Willie Horton ads from the 80s on Twitter and elsewhere. And I think the networks are agreeing with me.
Upon further review, Fox News pulled the ad yesterday and it will not appear on either Fox News Channel or Fox Business Network, said ad sales president Marianne Gambelli in a statement to Mediaite.
NBC drew outrage after the network aired Trumps ad during Sunday Night Football.
The 30-second spot, a version of which Trump tweeted out last week to much outrage, warned of a 7,000-migrant caravan approaching the U.S. border with Mexico. It also featured Luis Bracamontes, an undocumented immigrant convicted of murdering two sheriffs deputies in 2014, falsely claiming that Democrats let him into our country.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-pulls-trump-caravan-ad-decried-as-racist/
Holy shit! When youre too racist for Fox News, thats pretty fucking racist. So Trumps full on 1488 ad is so horrible that its making people uncomfortable. Is this the October surprise? Maybe! Well guess who else is pulling the ad? Facebook!
The companys decision came after CNN, NBC, and Fox News had all pulled down the ad, which features a convicted cop-killer who was deported multiple times before he shot and killed two California sheriffs deputies, and was released as a video by the Trump campaign last week.
Facebook soon followed suit. This ad violates Facebook's advertising policy against sensational content so we are rejecting it. While the video is allowed to be posted on Facebook, it cannot receive paid distribution, wrote a spokesperson for the company in an emailed statement.
The spokesperson said the ad violated the companys policy against sensational content in advertisements. That policy prohibits shocking, sensational, disrespectful or excessively violent content in paid ads. This includes dehumanizing or denigrating entire groups of people and using frightening and exaggerated rumors of danger..
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-runs-racist-ad-on-facebook-targeting-arizona-and-florida
You said it, Dave! See, conservatives, this is why youre getting kicked off social media sites. Its not some vast conspiracy! Its because youre hateful dicks! How hateful is this ad? Well .
"Democrats let him into the country," the video says in all caps. As he says he wishes he had "killed more" cops, "Democrats let him stay" flashes over the screen. Neither the video nor the president cite any evidence to support the allegation that Democrats let him into the U.S. and let him stay.
Is the accusation accurate?
THE FACTS: No. This is akin to blaming Republicans for criminals who entered the country illegally under Presidents Trump or George W. Bush.
Bracamontes, who is from the Mexican state of Sinaloa, came to the U.S. illegally in June 1996, during Democrat Bill Clinton's administration. He was arrested three months later on drug charges after purchasing crack cocaine from an undercover officer at a Phoenix apartment. According to The Sacramento Bee, after he served his four-month term in then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio's tent city jail, he was handed off to immigration agents and deported in June 1997.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-trump-campaign-video-luis-bracamontes-ad-cop-killer-immigration-fact-check-trump-tweeted/
Gee ya think? Oh and it gets better! Yes, there are people defending this horrid atrocity of an ad! And oh yeah its exactly the people who you would expect. People like RNC chairman Ronna McDaniel.
In speaking with RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel, Tapper pointed out that the ad contained factual inaccuracies insofar as blaming Democrats for the murders. The undocumented immigrant in the video, Luis Bracamontes, was deported from the United States twice, according to The Washington Post. Those deportations were in 1997 and 2001 under one Democratic president, and under one Republican president.
Its factually inaccurate and its racially incendiary, Tapper said of the ad, according to Newsweek. You dont have any issue with that?
McDaniel responded that she had "an issue with our immigration system thats not being fixed. And the Democrats wont work with the president and we have caravans coming."
https://www.bustle.com/p/the-rnc-chair-defended-trumps-campaign-ad-that-links-undocumented-migrants-to-violent-crime-13087726
Yeah obviously! Of course Dump himself had to go throw kerosene on the fire and blow it out of proportion like in Deadpool 2. And I love that Trump is saying he told the truth. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha .
"They gave me a hard time because I put it up on Twitter and they gave a hard time," Trump told a crowd in Huntington, West Virginia. "They said, 'you shouldn't be doing that! That's not nice!'"
"And I say, all I'm doing is just telling the truth, what can I say," he added.
The video, tweeted by Trump on Wednesday afternoon, shows a Hispanic man bragging about killing police officers during a courtroom appearance and says Democrats want to allow more people like him into the country.
Commentators have called the ad racist and likened it to the Willie Horton ad in the 1988 campaign. That ad was backed by supporters of George H.W. Bush's presidential campaign. It depicted Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis as responsible for the rape Horton, a convicted murderer, committed while out of prison while furloughed under a Massachusetts program. The ad was seen as playing into white fear and racist stereotypes of African-Americans.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/02/politics/trump-reaction-racist-ad-wva-rally/index.html
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[font size="8"]Top 10 Investigates: Foxconn WTF?
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Hey Orlando, its time to investigate beyond the headlines. This is Top 10 Investigates!
Last year, speaker of the house Paul Ryan and president Donald Trump made a deal with the state of Wisconsin to bring the extremely controversial electronics conglomerate Foxconn to Ryans home state of Wisconsin. The deal that Trump was touting was not exactly met with a warm welcome, and now things seem to be getting much worse. Apparently the deal has also been about as shady as you can expect, with things like this happening .
And Foxconn founder Terry Gou was there to play on these desires, hoping to get a new American factory on the cheap. The state of Wisconsin agreed to hand over a $4.1 billion subsidy to Foxconn, which will cost Wisconsinites more than a million dollars per job created. And a nonpartisan study shows the state wont see a return on this investment until 2042.
Now two news stories are emerging that show how one of Trumps biggest America First triumphs is mostly benefitting Foxconn. Just one day before the country votes in numerous Congressional elections, a New Yorker piece shed some light on the shady tactics used by the Mt. Pleasants Village Board of Trustees to get the needed land.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90262695/foxconns-wisconsin-factory-is-shrouded-in-questionable-dealings
People generally associate Foxconn with Apple and all the horrors coming out of their Chinese factory in Shenzhen, and you rightfully should be horrified that they want to bring that here to the US. Especially when the deal made to bring Foxconn here was done with a dirty dealer.
The details of the deal were famously written on the back of a napkin when Gou and the Republican governor first met: a $3 billion state subsidy in return for Foxconns $10 billion investment in a Generation 10.5 LCD manufacturing plant that would create 13,000 jobs.
The size of the subsidy was stunning. It was far and away the largest in Wisconsin history and the largest government handout to a foreign company ever given in America. Like most states, Wisconsin had given subsidies to companies in the past, but never higher than $35,000 per job. Foxconns subsidy was $230,000 per job.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18027032/foxconn-wisconsin-plant-jobs-deal-subsidy-governor-scott-walker
Dont worry, we wont. But if you work for Foxconn you should realize that if you do the math, those jobs really dont pay that much and they wont really make a dent in Foxconns profits. Really, thats what happens when you deal with a dirty dealer. But heres where it could quite possibly get ugly not that it hasnt happened already.
The company 2354, +0.15% , the Taiwanese supplier to Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.11% , has been trying to tap Chinese engineers through internal transfers to supplement staffing for the Wisconsin plant, according to people familiar with the matter.
The state pledged $3 billion in tax and other performance-based incentives to help lure Foxconn, and local authorities added $764 million. Foxconn must meet hiring, wage and investment targets by various dates to receive most of those benefits.
The company promised the state it would invest $10 billion and build a 22-million-square-foot liquid-crystal display panel plant, hiring 13,000 employees, primarily factory workers along with some engineers and business support positions.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/foxconn-mulls-tapping-chinese-skilled-workers-for-wisconsin-plant-as-us-job-market-tightens-2018-11-06
So $10 billion to build an LCD manufacturing facility for 13,000 employees, if you do the math, is barely a fraction of the cost of building this thing. And they might not even hire American workers. That makes both Foxconn and Trump dirty dealers. So are they or are they not hiring workers from out of the United States?
We can categorically state that the assertion that we are recruiting Chinese personnel to staff our Wisconsin project is untrue, Foxconn Technology Group told Gizmodo over email. Our recruitment priority remains Wisconsin first and we continue to focus on hiring and training workers from throughout Wisconsin. We will supplement that recruitment from other US locations as required.
But according to the Wall Street Journal, finding skilled labor in the U.S. is difficult today given the countrys low unemployment numbers. And its particularly low in Wisconsin right now, where the unemployment rate sits at just 3 percent, with the nations at an incredibly low 3.7 percent.
https://gizmodo.com/foxconn-denies-report-that-it-will-bring-workers-from-c-1830250003
Of course they did! They wont flat out admit that they are going to hire Chinese workers over American or theyd risk the deal entirely. And it doesnt take the guy who wrote The Art Of The Deal to tell you how bad this idea is, is it? Well
And its true! There is nothing like the literally incredible Foxconn deal in the United States, because the Foxconn dealbrokered by First Son-in-Law Jared Kushnerhas turned out to be less of a jobs boon than an economic nuclear bomb, and not the good kind, either. To put it more elegantly, the Foxconn deal is the ultimate example of Trump promising Americans the world and then handing them a flaming bag of s--t.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/donald-trump-foxconn-scam
Thats it for Top 10 Investigates. Good day.
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Gather around, my fair brothers and sisters of Orlando, its time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate! For the Holy Church of the Top 10 has convened and its our weekly duty to remind you why the holiest among us are also the most full of:
So my fair congregation, who did GAWD vote for in this election? Yeah Im discussing politics in my church, got a problem with that? Because they dont care either, so why should we? See, Ive pointed out how supporters of the Dark One, whose name shall not be named in my church, are coming hard after the Johnson Amendment so they can preach hard right politics and not get caught. Well, I got news for ya that shit will work both ways. See, supporters of the Dark One dont get that the constitution of the United States applies to everybody, not just them, and they are always shocked when they find out how that works. So which side of the coin did GAWD and JAYSUS vote for? It might shock you, but not really.
Tomorrows election boils down to whether or not you support the rape, torture, trafficking, and murdering of children, period, she said. Yes, it literally is that black and white. It is literally that simple.
The Democratic Party is the party of child sex trafficking, Crokin continued. Their policiessanctuary cities, the border wall, the caravan crisis, the refugee crisisthese are all covers, people, to traffic children. Period! Tomorrow boils down to whether you support the trafficking of children or not. Period! I cannot stress this enough.
The members of Congress who are Democrats are tied into child sex trafficking in one way, shape, or form, she added. Whether they are directly trafficking kids themselves and raping kids and torturing kids themselves, or whether they are profiting off of it, or if theyre blackmailed, it doesnt matter. That partys polices encourages and fosters and enables child sex trafficking and many of the Demon-crats are directly running child sex trafficking rings, period.
If you are finding this video and seeing this video right now and you are undecided, there is a reason for that, Crokin said. God is calling you to the polls. And let me tell you, if you are not okay with children being raped, tortured, and trafficked, then you need to vote red all the way down the line. Period!
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/liz-crokin-voting-democrat-is-a-vote-for-the-rape-torture-and-murder-of-children/
Yes, apparently if you vote against the Dark One, you are voting for the torture and murder of children, except those things didnt happen, Liz! But apparently the people who are about to stop that sort of thing are also the people more likely to be DAYMONS!!!! And AYVIL!!!! And LUCIFER!!! Except, well, not really.
This particular election, this cycle, this is the most important one Ive seen since Ive been on the earth, Robertson said. Say what you will about Mr. Donald J. Trump, but I have no argument or no negative things to say about his policies. I think hes been a wonderful president, so far.
I just think we ought to look at both groups, Robertson recommended, citing a passage from the book of Romans. Since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gives them over to a reprobate mind. Theyre full of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. Theyre God-haters, slanders, gossips. Theyre insolent, arrogant, boastful, senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Just look at both groups and say, Are the Republicans more godly than the other party?' he concluded. Ive looked at it and I said, Theres no doubt about it. Theyre at least not anti-God, so I would say everyone go out and vote. I would recommend Republican all the way. Theyre a lot better than the other side.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/duck-dynasty-patriarchs-gotv-message-democrats-are-evil-and-depraved-god-haters/
And that is a good question, JAYSUS! And I especially ask that question in the era of the rule of the Dark One.
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Hey everybody! Its time for another edition of:
If theres one thing conservatives love its a good boogeyman. Last week we talked about how they have beaten to death the false flag conspiracy. This week, were going to talk about their other favorite boogeyman 90 year old Jewish holocaust survivor philanthropist billionaire George Soros. Think of him as the conservative conspiracy theorist equivalent of Kevin Bacon. They can literally tie him to just about anything. Lets see, theres a migrant caravan at the Mexico Guatemalan border that is making its way to the US to seek asylum and a new way of life. I know! They must be getting their funding from George Soros! Democrats are winning elections? It must be George Soros fault! Hey, McDonalds didnt have any chicken nuggets! Oh no, its because George Soros is cutting off chicken supplies! That didnt even take one degree did it? Because its all his fault, damn it! Heres more.
The attempted attack in New York subsequently determined to have been part of a wave of pipe bombs targeting prominent critics of President Trump did not come up. But it was no coincidence that Mr. Soros would be facing intense opposition and threats at the same moment in two countries thousands of miles apart.
On both sides of the Atlantic, a loose network of activists and political figures on the right have spent years seeking to cast Mr. Soros not just as a well-heeled political opponent but also as the personification of all they detest. Employing barely coded anti-Semitism, they have built a warped portrayal of him as the mastermind of a globalist movement, a left-wing radical who would undermine the established order and a proponent of diluting the white, Christian nature of their societies through immigration.
In the process, they have pushed their version of Mr. Soros, 88, from the dark corners of the internet and talk radio to the very center of the political debate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/us/politics/george-soros-bombs-trump.html
Yeah probably! So how did Mr. Soros get to be conservative public enemy number one? Well, like all extremely horrible things, see if you can take a guess as to where these conspiracy theories first originated from? If you guessed that they originated from Russia, you guessed correctly!
If you look closely at how Kremlin disinformation works, you'll notice a recurring theme. Attack your enemy's strong points. Invert them, use them against him through nebulous smear-campaigns. And, sadly, their methods have bled over into American discourse via the extreme right. Hence the Jewish Soros is a hidden Nazi. The Soros that helped salvage Eastern European cultures and customs presents a threat to the same. The Soros whose foundations pushed transparency and anti-corruption everywhere (thus thwarting the Kremlin) gets smeared as a sinister ubiquitous operator, shadowy puppetmaster sans frontier. There's an added vileness implicit here in that the archetype being invoked carries more than a whiff of the Nazi stereotype of Jewry. Preposterously, also, the anti-Western nationalism now burgeoning from the Kremlin southwards paints Soros as the arrowhead of nefarious American power, while America Firsters reject him.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2018/03/01/why-populists-hate-george-soros-and-how-it-started/#21421cee13d0
Yeah probably. But if you want to look at conservative misinformation at its finest, look no further than just about any conspiracy theory involving Soros. I mean if you want to see a conservative talking point grow and multiply and have wings, this is the perfect story for that. It really shows how the conservative disinformation machine at work, look at the migrant story I mentioned earlier.
Three weeks ago, a caravan of Hondurans began walking nearly 2,000 miles to the United States. Their ranks grew as they inched north and, along with them, falsehoods grew, too. But one stands out: a conspiracy theory that liberal billionaire George Soros, a Jewish immigrant, is paying the migrants to make the journey or even orchestrating it.
Members of Congress and the presidents son both repeated it. Conservative celebrities, too.
It also may have resonated in darker places. Cesar Sayoc, the man charged with mailing pipe bombs to Soros and other prominent critics of President Donald Trump, dwelled at length online about conspiracy theories involving the Hungarian-American philanthropist. Robert Bowers, charged with killing 11 people worshiping in a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, used his social media accounts to post extensively about the caravan, including circulating an image of refugees in Guatemala purportedly climbing into a truck with a Star of David on the side.
But it began with a handful of posts in the caravans early days.
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The Soros theory was not new it had made the rounds during previous caravans in the spring and again in August. In fact, one Facebook user posting in October provided as evidence a video of Glenn Beck discussing the spring caravans alleged connections to Soros.
https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-now/how-a-lie-about-george-soros-and-the-migrant-caravan-multiplied-online/465-7559e63d-9f03-4ed9-bfbb-efebbb959317
And by the way if youre wondering where this is leading theres more of a conspiracy against Soros than you might realize. In fact Fox News recently rejected a request from a Soros aide to come on one of their programs and got denied. Dude, its Fox News, what did you expect?
But the head of Soros's philanthropic group said the conservative network won't let him on air to rebut the wild accusations.
Patrick Gaspard, president of Soros's Open Society Foundations, told CNN's Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday that Fox News producers "refuse to have us on."
Fox News did not respond to CNN Business' request for comment about Gaspard's claim.
Conspiracy theories about Soros have spread for years among the far right.
President Donald Trump and his supporters have circulated accusations that Soros, who is Jewish, is assisting a caravan of migrants bound for the United States, which the foundation denies.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/04/media/george-soros-patrick-gaspard-fox-news/index.html
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Its time once again to ask:
This week the WWEs Crown Jewel. How is this still a thing? So the WWE has been expanding into a new audience and it has tapped, for reasons still unclear, Saudi Arabia. Yes, the country where women can be killed for driving and gay people jailed for simply existing, somehow allows sweaty, homo erotic rasslin in its borders. A lot of it has to do with this man Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salome, who looks like a WWE wrestler.
The crown prince's rapid rise to power has opened doors for him to meet with some of the world's most prominent political and business leaders.
But now, the world's attention is directed squarely at the crown prince, known as MBS, and his inner circle for their alleged involvement in the presumed death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post and a critic of the Saudi government, disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on Oct. 2.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/18/meet-saudi-arabias-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman.html
Yes, despite the constant cries to not go into a Saudi Arabian market, the WWE continues to do it anyways. Why? Because they dont care, and thats why. So why are they doing this? Why are they continuing to go through such a controversial market? Well heres more.
This Friday, exactly one month after Khashoggi was killed, WWE will produce their second show in a partnership with the Saudis, WWE Crown Jewel in Riyadh. The first show, Aprils Greatest Royal Rumble in Jeddah, is basically Exhibit A for the backlash against WWE: The event was almost entirely a lengthy propaganda infomercial for the kingdom, pushing local tourism, the claimed social progress of the country under Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, and hostility towards Iran.
WWE is on the verge of bringing in significantly higher profits than ever before when they start their new domestic TV contracts next year, so the Saudi deal wasnt an existential necessity for the company. So while its fairly simple to understand why WWE made a deal with Saudi Arabiasince they were far from the only ones to do soits a little more complicated to understand why the WWE brass would agree to this deal, and all of the geopolitical ramifications that come along with it.
https://www.thenation.com/article/wwe-saudi-arabia-wrestling-propaganda/
So its more about the quest for profit than it is about the quest for human rights. What country in the world doesnt want to see sweaty muscular men pounding each other into submission? After all, were only a few elections away from Rage In The Cage style grudge matches in Congress.
"It's not personal; it's strictly business."
Historically, the world of combat sports promotion hasn't been any different.
When the UFC rewarded Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar with immediate title shots fresh off of failed drug tests and suspensions? It's strictly business.
When the state of Nevada allowed Floyd Mayweather to delay his impending 2012 jail sentence for felony domestic assault by one month in order for the city of Las Vegas to reap the financial benefits of his pay-per-view bout against Miguel Cotto? Again, it's just business.
WWE, which often straddles the line between combat sports and a scripted television drama thanks to its hybrid "sports entertainment" product, is no different. The worldwide pro wrestling leader has been steadily criticized of late for decisions linked to a 10-year "strategic multi-platform partnership" it signed with Saudi Arabia in February that left the company looking anywhere from tone deaf to transparently greedy.
https://www.cbssports.com/wwe/news/by-choosing-to-stay-quiet-on-saudi-arabia-wwe-speaks-volumes-about-its-true-intentions/
When you think about this as a human rights matter, just remember that that guy is our president, and that Vince McMahon is a huge Trump supporter. Remember the infamous orb?
Maybe thats what the orb was prophesizing a relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia brought together through body slamming. Because thats what the whole world wants, apparently. But even in the Trump era, actions do have consequences, as their continued relationship with Saudi Arabia could put the companys PPV hopes in jeopardy.
The Arab state is currently embroiled in an international crisis over the disappearance of Saudi national and United States resident Jamal Khashoggi.
A journalist for the Washington Post, Khashoggi was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week. Turkish authorities have claimed he was murdered by Saudi agents, while Riyadh has denied killing Khashoggi and the kingdom have insisted he left the consulate shortly after he arrived.
WWE is due to return to Saudi Arabia on November 2 for its "Crown Jewel" night of wrestling, but now it is unclear if the event at the King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh will go ahead.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/12/multi-million-dollar-wwe-pay-per-view-deal-in-jeopardy-due-to-saudi-arabia-tensions.html
Yeah so Saudi Arabia could keep the WWE and they will subject themselves to things like that. Thats enough to make you ask the WWEs Crown Jewel:
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So you will notice this week were doing neither People Are Dumb nor are we doing I Need A Drink. Ah, dont be sad! Its time for our new segment:
So heres how this is going to work, Im going to post a few news stories and it doesnt matter what they are or where they are going and we are going to find the silver lining in all of them. Where do we start this segment? OK remember batshit crazy Minnesota politician Michelle Bachmann? Yes shes back in the news because, reasons. And well, her latest reason is so fucking crazy that it is truly beyond description.
Dozens of children in several states have been diagnosed this year with acute flaccid myelitis, a virus that can leave children with muscle weakness or paralysis, and Bachmann declared that it is happening because literally millions of people are coming into the United State illegally. For good measure, she also predicted that members of the Central American caravan that is heading toward the United States may stage an incident involving injured or dead children in order to generate sympathy by demonizing President Trump and the Republicans.
I think, just like in Europe, when that little 3-year-old boy tragically washed up on the shores, he was used as an icon to allow millions of migrants into Europe, Bachmann said. I believe that we should be prepared that some tragic incident could occurit could very well be stagedand theyll use that to try to hang it around President Trumps neck and around the neck of the Republicans to say, Look how cruel these people are, weve got to open our doors to these people. I think that could be very well be what they mean to do.
Today, were dealing with this issue of the strange polio virus thats impacting little children, she added. We have all of these strange diseases that were cured in the United States and theyre here. Why? Because literally millions of people are coming into the United State illegally, they arent vetted, theyre arent checked. The American people are paying the price for that lawlessness.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/michele-bachmann-blames-undocumented-immigrants-for-polio-like-virus-outbreak/
Ah its not so bad, at least it will deflect blame from anti vaccination crusaders when a real polio like vaccine shows up! Yeah lets blow off getting vaccines for polio, what could possibly go wrong? A polio like super virus will show up! Next up travelers from Orlando hey thats the city were in! - to London on British Airways had to endure a grueling 77 hour flight because of mechanical failures and weather problems.
Flight 2036 was scheduled to take off from Orlando International Airport on Thursday evening to Gatwick Airport but was grounded until Friday because of mechanical issues, the airline said.
When it finally got off the ground Friday evening, it was soon diverted to John F. Kennedy International Airport early Saturday morning in New York as a precaution because of a minor technical issue, airline spokeswoman Michele Kropf said Monday in an email.
We appreciate that this was an exhausting and frustrating experience for our customers, and we have apologized for the long delay to their flight, Kropf said.
The airline sent a relief aircraft to JFK Airport, and the weary passengers eventually made it to London on Sunday.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/transportation/os-ne-british-airways-flight-orlando-london-20181105-story.html
Ah its not so bad, where else can you watch such quality flicks as Billionaire Boys Club, Gotti, and Death Of A Nation? Oh wait, that would make me hate travel even more! Well speaking of hating travel, youre going to be doing a lot more driving if you happen to live near a Lowes home improvement store! Since theyre getting ready to close a whole bunch of stores.
Lowe's said Monday that those locations are underperforming and the decision will help the hardware chain focus on its most profitable stores.
"The store closures are a necessary step in our strategic reassessment as we focus on building a stronger business," said CEO Marvin Ellison, in a statement.
Retail stores are struggling to adjust to the rapid rise of online shopping, particularly from Amazon (AMZN). Many successful retailers with big stores have adjusted their business strategies to make better use of their physical spaces. Others, including Sears, Kmart and Toys "R" Us, failed.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/business/lowes-closures/index.html
Ah its not so bad, think of it this way were one step closer to having a giant Costco the size of the state of Kansas. Hey does that mean we can get handys at Starbucks? Oh come on, you know Im asking for a friend! Finally, this week, if youve ever seen the show Better Call Saul, you might be familiar with actor Todd Latourette. But if youre not, you will definitely know him after seeing this story!
In a video interview with Albuquerque's KOB-4 TV, Todd Lawson Latourette, who is bipolar, said he was off his medications and in the midst of a psychotic episode 17 years ago when he cut off his right forearm with a Skilsaw and cauterized it himself.
"I don't want to say the word 'insanity' because the mentally ill we're so far from insane," he said tearfully of his mental state at the time. "We are your brothers, your mothers, your sisters. And we hurt."
Latourette later fashioned his own prosthetic forearm and hand. He also began lying about the cause of his disability, saying he sustained the wound in combat. It worked, he insisted. Casting directors started booking him for roles.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1844593002
Ah, its not so bad! Think of it this way if they ever reboot The Fugitive, they know who to call to play the one armed man! And that is it this week for:
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[font size="8"]Deep State Diaries Episode 19: The Department Of Defense
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Its time for episode 19 of Deep State Diaries. Yes were touring the 24 branches and services that make up the United States government. Everything from the FBI to the IRS to the Pentagon to the CIA to the DPW to the DVA to parks and recreation and all branches and services in between. Of course if youre here you probably already know more about our government and how it works than your average Fox News loving Trump supporter does. So thats what this segment is going to address. We are going to do a deep dive into all that makes the United States the United States. Because we here at the Top 10 love to educate as well as entertain. Because we care.
[font size="6"]The Department Of Defense[/font]
So this week there has been much talk of Trump sending a whopping 5,200 troops to the US Mexico border to defend the US against a migrant caravan heading through Mexico seeking legal asylum in the US, because, reasons. And theres one department that could either stop him or continue to aid his insane quest for domination. And that department is the Department Of Defense, the entity thats in charge of the US military. They oversee things like troop deployment. How does this factor into Trumps insane quest? Well heres more.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a standing room only audience that the two-plus-three strategy gives civilian and military leaders the framework they need to prioritize personnel and resources.
The rise of China and Russia represent the return of great power competition and the American military must respond to this challenge. But the United States still is concerned about North Korea, Iran and violent extremism, he said.
This does not limit officials, he said. The best guess is that these threats are most likely, but there could be other threats that rise and must be addressed.
https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1683762/us-benchmarking-capabilities-against-china-russia-dunford-says/
Yeah lets just hope that guy isnt in charge at the DOD. Although the DOD is actively at work defending this country from threats, lets say that their cyber department needs a massive upgrade. Cyber security is definitely nothing to joke about, especially when this happens.
Spokesperson Lt. Col. Joseph Buccino downplayed the incident saying that only "a very small percentage of the total population" of employees were impacted.
The DoD is a massive organization, however. It's the nation's largest employer with 1.3 million enlisted men and women and another 742,000 civilian employees. The "small percentage" in this case equates to at least 30,000 Americans.
The exact number is not yet known. An anonymous source who spoke to the Associated Press said that the investigation is ongoing and the final figure could climb significantly.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2018/10/14/department-of-defense-data-breach-exposes-30000-employees/#5325a0f41a6b
Ah, I love Zapp Branagin. But really, lets hope that hes not in charge. I cant stress that enough! So how is the DOD fighting back against data breaches? Well theyre encouraging people to hack them. Sure, get a bunch of hackers in a room and theyll eventually hack NORAD, right? I mean whats the worst that could happen?
First launched as a pilot program in 2016 under Secretary Ash Carter, Hack the Pentagon allowed outside cybersecurity professionals to legally attempt to break into its public-facing systems something that the DoD's enemies are trying to do pretty much every day. The trial run was a success, which led to thousands of security vulnerabilities being identified and remedied, according to a DoD press release.
"Finding innovative ways to identify vulnerabilities and strengthen security has never been more important," Chris Lynch, Director of the Defense Digital Service, said in a statement.
"When our adversaries carry out malicious attacks, they don't hold back and aren't afraid to be creative. Expanding our crowdsourced security work allows us to build a deeper bench of tech talent and bring more diverse perspectives to protect and defend our assets. We're excited to see the program continue to grow and deliver value across the department."
https://www.businessinsider.com/department-defense-wants-people-hack-pentagon-2018-10
Hey maybe Zapp Brannagin is in charge! But hes definitely not the person who we need sending to the border to defend our country from migrants fleeing violence because, reasons. Yeah the last thing we need is for Fox News to order Trump to fire on them. But well save that for another edition.
The troops are in addition to the 2,000 National Guard members who have been in place since April. They are being sent days before the midterm elections in response to the caravan of Central American migrants that are slowly making their way to the United States after crossing Mexico's southern border earlier this month.
Make no mistakes, as we sit right here today, we have 800 soldiers that are on their way to Texas right now, said Air Force Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy, the chief of U.S. Northern Command, during a news conference.
OShaughnessy said that new number could change, depending on whether the situation dictates a change in strategy. OShaughnessy foretold of an operation that is likely to be very different from the current National Guard activity, which mainly happens behind the scenes and assists federal Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol agents.
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/29/department-defense-says-its-sending-5200-troops-us-mexico-border/
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Overall importance: A
How Things Are Going: B
Likely hood To Survive: B+
Overall: A-
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Next week were going to the airports as we explore how our air traffic gets monitored as we visit the FAA!
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[font size="8]Tenacious D[/font]
Ladies and gentlemen I am extremely excited to have this next guest on, you know them better as Jack Black and Kyle Gass, their latest album is called Post Apocalypto, you can see them on tour and at the Hollywood Palladium on 12/21! Playing their song called Colors, give it up for the one, the only Tenacious D!
Thank you Orlando! This was a great destination to have my post-election edition! We are off to Denver next!! See you next week!
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I'm not sure who the bigger buffoon is - Jacob Wohl and Surefire Intelligence or Alex Jones?
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1058442443677450241
No, it's definitely Alex Jones. At least it's a step up from yelling at a pile of poop! But really not that big of a step.
*audience laughs and applauds*
This week the Top 10 is live from Orlando! We delve into the election results - will we be popping the champagne or drowning our sorrows in Jack Daniels? Tune in to find out! Also, we delve into the colossal fail that is the Surefire Intelligence scandal, Trump attempts to gut the constitution (again), we ask how the WWE's Saudi Arabian audience is still a thing, and "Beating A Dead Horse" explores Soros Derangement Syndrome. Plus in our weekly investigative piece Top 10 Investigates, we're going to delve into what's going on with that migrant caravan that Trump is so obsessed with? The answer might shock you! And in our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in "Holy Shit", our resident pastor is going to tell you the Christian right's reaction to the election and post some choice quotes. And we're going to debut a new segment - "Ah, It's Not So Bad" in which we attempt to find the silver lining in a bunch of random news items and whether or not they are good or bad. And the next installment of Deep State Diaries is going to delve into the Department Of Defense! All this plus the legendary Tenacious D is going to be stopping by!
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