CNN)In the midst of an aggressive course of treatment for coronavirus, President Donald Trump left the hospital with his security detail Sunday so he could ride in an SUV past supporters cheering him on outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Americans are dying alone in their hospital rooms because family can’t have contact but Trump can demand a driver and security detail for a little propaganda ride. Sickening. — Allison Winn Scotch (@aswinn) October 4, 2020 Trump just put his security detail & others at risk so he could take a car ride to bask in the adoration of the Proud Boys […]
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CEO Brian Armstrong’s letter has not just the crypto world but the larger world of tech and business talking about the role of corporations in society. Monday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong published the innocuously titled “Coinbase Is a Mission-Driven Company.” While the post talked a lot about Coinbase’s core mission, its real goal seemed to be to make clear Coinbase would not be engaging with any other social or political issues beyond that, and to the extent employees wanted to do so they needed to do it on their own time. The reactions were intense, immediate and in many instances, totally opposite. In […]
A prominent British university is fire-fighting toxic allegations of misogyny, assault, and snobbery Wednesday after a group of male students in a “lads chat” on WhatsApp joked about an alleged competition among “posh lads competing on fucking the poorest girl.” The group at tony Durham University also joked about the “most cost effective way” of getting women drunk to take advantage of them sexually, and are also alleged to have made a number of racist comments. The university told The Daily Beast that it would investigate the allegations, and could revoke admission offers or expel the students involved if the comments, […]
After meeting the family of an African American man from Kenosha, Wisconsin, recently shot by police, Joe Biden stirred up a genuine storm, with netizens accusing him of anything from rewriting history like “Marxists did” to suffering memory lapses. Joe Biden has made a bizarre claim saying during a speech in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that the light bulb was invented by a black man rather than “a white guy named Edison”. The Democratic presidential hopeful made the claim when he addressed local community leaders after meeting with the family of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black American who was shot seven times in front […]
On Thursday, Biden held a community meeting in the small city of Kenosha in Wisconsin, where riots have been taking place since Jacob Blake Jr was shot by police. Democratic candidate Joe Biden attempted a joke when speaking about his corporate tax plan if elected president. “I’m not gonna lay it out for you. I won’t now because they’ll shoot me”, he said . Social media users turned to comment on the video, mostly distressed or angry. Netizens thought it was cynical to joke about being shot in a city where a shooting occurred just weeks ago. Netizens were also confused […]
The meme wars between the Trump and Biden campaigns about who is fit to be commander-in-chief took another turn Friday evening when President Trump trolled the Democrats by pretending to lose his balance climbing up the stairs to the stage at his airport hangar rally in Manchester, New Hampshire. Trump hit the top of the stairs and exaggerated losing his balance as he stepped on the walkway to the stage. He told the crowd, “They put in a floor like an ice skating rink.” Joe Biden recently released an ad mocking Trump for his careful walk down a ramp after he […]
Former policeman and Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino discussed former Obama Vice President Joe Biden and this past week’s DNC on his successful podcast. This past week Bongino disclosed some insider information on the relationship between Obama and Biden. Dan Bongino, the brash and bright FOX News analyst, released some (insider) information this past week on his podcast related to the relationship between former President Barack Obama and his Vice President Joe Biden. Bongino shares at the 6:15 mark in the video below: Let me tell you a little secret. Obama can’t stand Biden. I’m not going to tell you how […]
The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin was shredded online for quipping that it was time for a “bunker inspection” after the Secret Service rushed the president out of a press briefing, seemingly elated that he might be in danger. Following President Trump’s abrupt evacuation from a White House presser on Monday, the Post’s self-ordained “conservative” columnist casually tweeted “Bunker inspection time?” While the brief scare was later said to be triggered by an armed suspect near the White House, who was shot by Secret Service agents, Rubin’s tweet was inundated with a flood of criticism, many seeing it as a highly inappropriate […]
It was supposed to be a fun activity. On July 18, Ellen Weatherford, co-host of the Just The Zoo of Us podcast, tweeted out a simple question:“What is the most overhyped animal?” The post made the rounds of the loose community of researchers, zookeepers, and wilderness enthusiasts that makes up Science Twitter, a community whose passion often manifests as friendly smack-talk. Answers flowed in: blue whales, lions, penguins. A grand time was had by all. Until a day later, when Michael Eisen, editor of eLife—a well-regarded open access scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences—made a joke about a humble […]
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk disavowed his older socialist beliefs and went full Communism-hater on Twitter, after denouncing the satirical outlet The Onion over an ‘eat the rich’ joke. Just two years ago, Musk had described himself as “actually a socialist” and advocated for the “greatest good for all.” On Monday, however, he tweeted describing the founder of Communism Karl Marx as a “Hungry Santa” and his seminal work Das Kapital as “Gib me dat for free.” What had the fifth-richest person in the world so triggered seems to have been a tweet from The Onion, showing him alongside Amazon’s […]
Monica Lewinksy was an intern at the White House from 1995-1996. During this time she had an affair with President Bill Clinton which later led to his impeachment. Lewinsky, who is now an activist and TED talk speaker, has spoken about how she was demonised and bullied during the scandal. Anti-bullying activist and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky went viral on Twitter after making light of her affair with former US President Bill Clinton. On Friday an “I have a joke” trend started on Twitter, with users making jokes about their professions. One user tweeted, “I have a Charles Manson […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107980/28/1079802846_0:-1:1764:992_1200x675_80_0_0_e5e813e10e13563d3410f6e418781e92.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202007051079802836-mini-aoc-rips-twitter-with-kanye-west-is-where-barack-obama-was-born-joke/ A tweet from a young AOС impersonator followed American hip-hop star Kanye West’s announcement earlier in the week that he was entering the race for the US presidency, gaining a quick endorsement from SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. A young girl named Ava Martinez, who is impersonating Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and is thus known as ‘Mini AOC’, joked on her Twitter account that she thought “Kanye West is where Barack Obama was born”. She apparently referred to the conspiracy theory supported by US President Donald Trump who claimed that former US President Barack Obama […]
A Black Lives Matter TikTok video by Harvard Senior Claira Janover in which she threatens to stab and watch bleed out “the next person who has the sheer nerve, the sheer entitled caucasity to say ‘all lives matter’” went viral Tuesday in spite of a disclaimer Janover posted under the video stating “for legal reasons this is a joke”. The video was copied over to Twitter by a critic. In the video Janover says: TRENDING: HUGE: Per His Lawyer — General Flynn Was Targeted Because “He Knew About the Billions Brennan and Company Were Running Off the Books” “The next person […]
Just hours after addressing his past blackface and racial slur sins, YouTuber Shane Dawson found himself in deeper trouble after a video went viral showing him pretending to masturbate to a poster of 11yo Willow Smith. The scandalous video shows Dawson, a YouTuber with over 20 million subscribers, standing in front of an old Disney poster of young Willow, huffing and puffing, apparently pretending to masturbate while saying, “whip your hair back and forth,” in reference to the girl’s song. It was not immediately clear when exactly the video was recorded or who dug it up and shared it, but the clip […]
Conservative Kansas State student Jaden McNeil has been the target of countless death threats and attempts to get him expelled from his college over a joke that he made about George Floyd earlier this week — and now Twitter has suspended his account for it. McNeil is an America First conservative who has become quite popular for his gaming live-streams on DLive. In a tweet, he jokingly congratulated George Floyd on “being drug free for an entire month!” A once common quip that has been made in various forms about many drug addicted celebrities who have passed away, notably including Whitney […]
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is famous for her tyrannical rule, her blind ambition, her audacious behavior and her ignorance. In March crazed Democrat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer prohibited big box retailers from in-person sale of seeds because according to her, plant seeds were non-essential. Whitmer also called on Home Depot and Lowes to close off certain sections like flooring, garden centers and plant nurseries. The tyrannical governor of Michigan also barred grocery stores and brick-and-mortar retailers from selling vegetable seeds because she could. TRENDING: Video of Biden Looking Very Frail at Veterans Memorial Sparks Concerns Over His Health .@GovWhitmer has banned […]
India 16:15 GMT 20.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107936/60/1079366097_47:0:1312:712_1200x675_80_0_0_601250fb0bbd79ec41bea7872b280bc4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202005201079364922-the-joke-didnt-fly-indian-skipper-gets-trolled-over-his-dinosaur-mimicking-video/ New Delhi (Sputnik): As one of most celebrated couples of India, cricketer Virat Kohli and actress Anushka Shankar, enjoy a huge fandom, which runs into the millions, on social media platforms across India. A quirky video of Indian batsman Virat Kohli mimicking a dinosaur has left Netizens laughing out loud. Tweeples are finding the video so amusing that #Dinosaur has started trending on Twitter. The caption of the video shared by Anushka on Instagram and Twitter read, “I spotted…. a dinosaur on the loose!” A section of cricket […]
Society 14:24 GMT 19.05.2020(updated 14:27 GMT 19.05.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107020/28/1070202833_0:157:1264:868_1200x675_80_0_0_4291e58e0c35db3fa8e781750d5a5039.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202005191079354342-its-just-a-joke-holocaust-tattoos-video-goes-viral-on-tiktok-polarizes-public/ The author of the video reportedly argued that some Jewish people have actually found a “funny side” to his creation. A video involving a joke about ID tattoos that were used in Nazi concentration camps during WWII has attracted quite a bit of attention on TikTok, the Algemeiner reports. The video, which the newspaper described as “antisemitic”, shows a passenger getting in a cab, with a caption on the screen saying “Jewish guy getting in my taxi” and with the song “No Scrubs” by […]