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J.D. Vance ‘Couch’ Story Finally Makes Appearance on Fox
The embarrassing gossip that Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance had sex with a couch was alluded to in passing on Fox News Friday night for the first time, making for a bit of an amusing—if not awkward—moment on the right-wing channel.Vance’s rollout as Donald Trump’s running mate has been largely viewed as less than ideal, thanks in part to his controversial comments about women and voting. In addition, scores of memes have imagined Vance’s relationship with furniture, as a result of a joke post on X from July 15 which claimed to quote Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, but was...
Reality Star Who Ate Rare Bird Claims He’s Just the Fall Guy
The reality TV show contestant who killed and ate a rare bird while filming in New Zealand claimed that other contestants were “involved” in the scandal that got him booted from the competition.“Other teams were aware and were present and involved in this whole thing,” 26-year-old Spencer ‘Corry’ Jones, who appeared in the U.S. survival competition Race to Survive: New Zealand, told RealityTea in an interview published July 9—a day after the episode in which Jones was disqualified aired.Jones, a river guide based in Wyoming, received an official warning from New Zealand’s Department of Conservation for hunting down a weka...
Prince William Dumps Queen Camilla’s Sister From Royal Payroll
Prince William has reportedly fired Queen Camilla’s sister, Annabel Elliot, from the royal payroll after over two decades of service. The Prince of Wales recently took over the Duke of Cornwall title from his father, King Charles—which includes overseeing the Duchy of Cornwall estate estimated to be worth over $1 billion. As reported by The Telegraph, one of William’s first official directives as Duke of the estate was to remove Elliot, who has served as the estate’s chief designer since being hired by King Charles in 2005. Elliot received payments “in the normal course of business” to maintain rental properties, a plant nursery and Duchy offices. However, The Telegraph reported that Elliot was not paid for her services last year. A source close to William told the UK-based news outlet that her removal was “no reflection on her work.” Another source added that Elliot’s role simply had been eliminated and her “work across the estate is considered complete and the current staff have learned sufficiently from her.”
Ben Shapiro Bets Donald Trump Regrets Picking J.D. Vance
In the wake of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ record-breaking fundraising numbers, Ben Shapiro has an answer for anyone wondering if Donald Trump would pick J.D. Vance as his running mate again: “I doubt it.”“I think he probably would have picked somebody like Glenn Youngkin from Virginia in an attempt to broaden out his base,” Shapiro said on the latest episode of his self-titled show, according to Media Matters. “Instead, he went with J.D. Vance feeling, because he was right that at the time, he had a very solid advantage in the race against Joe Biden.”Shapiro was referring to President...
Scaramucci Names Vance as His Successor for ‘Worst Donald Trump Hire’
Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Director of Communications for Donald Trump, took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to thank J. D. Vance for “knocking” him out of “the position of the worst Donald Trump hire.” Scaramucci’s tenure at the Trump White House lasted 10 days, during which he called former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus a “paranoid schizophrenic.” After getting the boot, he became a public critic of the former president and supported President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. Like Vance, Scaramucci voiced concerns about Trump leading up to the 2016 elections, with the former comms director calling him a “hack politician” in 2015.I just want to personally thank @JDVance for knocking me out of the position of the worst Donald Trump hire. I didn’t think it would happen but here we are and I am grateful. 🙏— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 26, 2024 Read more at The Daily Beast.
FBI Says Trump Was Struck by Bullet or Its Fragment—as He Crows
The FBI has confirmed former President Donald Trump was indeed shot by a bullet, ending speculation about what exactly bloodied Trump’s ear.The FBI told The Daily Beast in an emailed statement that, “What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle.” The statement was originally reported by Fox News.The controversy began on Wednesday when FBI director Christopher Wray told Congress that, “There is some question about whether or not it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.” Wray testified: “So, it is conceivable,...
Céline Dion Stuns at Bonkers Olympics Opening Ceremony
A great Olympics Opening Ceremony should be a profound, stirring celebration of a country’s history and culture. It should also be absolutely batshit. On those metrics, I would consider Friday’s kickoff to the Paris games a rousing success.The spectacle was, from my perspective, very French: I didn’t understand most of what was going on, but kept being aggressively told it was all very cool and so I convinced myself that I loved it. And then there was the Céline Dion of it all. (Not French, but can speak it!)I could never have—even on my most potent cocktail of melatonin, weed...
Donald Trump Planning ‘Big and Beautiful Rally’ at Shooting Spot
Former President Donald Trump has announced that he will be returning to where he was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, for a “BIG AND BEAUTIFUL RALLY.” Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform, in his usual all caps style, and teased “WHAT A DAY IT WILL BE.” According to Trump’s post, he is planning for the rally redux to be an event “HONORING THE SOUL OF OUR BELOVED FIREFIGHTING HERO, COREY, AND THOSE BRAVE PATRIOTS INJURED TWO WEEKS AGO.” He did not share an exact date for rally, but he encouraged his followers to “STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS,” adding, “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!” The former president was recently spotted without a bandage on his ear that he had been sporting since the shooting on July 13. FBI investigators have also reportedly taken an interest in interviewing Trump to determine if he had been actually hit by a bullet or a piece of shrapnel. Read it at Truth SocialRead more at The Daily Beast.
J.D. Vance Said QAnon Shaman Would Be a ‘Fun Guy to Have a Beer With’
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) told an audience during a 2023 event that he would like to have a beer with Jan. 6 rioter Jacob Chansley, also known as the QAnon Shaman.“This guy who was sentenced to four years in prison for literally walking around in the Capitol,” Vance said of Chansley in the video, reported by The Washington Post and Mediaite. The clip was taken “at an unspecified event in 2023 ,” according to Mediaite. “We were taught it was a crazy guy with, like, the bullhorns, you know what I’m talking about? He looked like he’d be a fun...
The ‘Childless Cat Lady’ Power List
Don’t fuck with cats, and certainly don’t fuck with “childless cat ladies.” It’s a truth Republican vice presidential candidate J. D. Vance has been learning the hard way in recent days, after comments he made during a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson resurfaced online.In the interview, he described Democratic politicians and leaders as “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made...the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children.”Vance has since received criticism from all over: from Jennifer Aniston to Gabby Giffords, as well as cat...
Donald Trump Seen in Public Without Ear Bandage
Donald Trump ditched his ear bandage for his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday. The former president’s right ear returned to public life after being injured during the assassination attempt on the former president on July 13.The former president’s large bandage became an impromptu fashion statement during the Republican National Convention with some attendees donning DIY wound dressings. Following the convention, Trump swapped out his bulky white gauze for a thin nude bandage.Photos from Trump’s sit down with Netanyahu appear to show the former president’s ear intact without major scabbing or scarring. In one image, the former...
J.D. Vance Stands by ‘Childless Cat Ladies’ Comment With Megyn Kelly
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) doubled down on his “childless cat ladies” rant during a Friday appearance on the Megyn Kelly Show.In a clip posted by the KamalaHQ X account, Vance tells Kelly “obviously it was a sarcastic comment,” referring to his “childless cat ladies” comment, adding “people are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance, and the substance of what I said, Megyn—I’m sorry, it is true.”The same audio does not appear anywhere in the full interview posted to Megyn Kelly’s YouTube channel. However, Kelly and Vance do reiterate many of Vance’s grievances against “anti-child” Democrats.“Trump’s...
Goldman Sachs CEO Flies to Olympics Games After Staff Ban
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon is under fire for jetting off to the Paris Olympics to wine and dine with the wealthy after effectively banning his rank and file from doing the same. Solomon hopped off the company’s private jet in France on Thursday, and his schedule includes events with French President Emmanuel Macron, Louis Vuitton CEO Bernard Arnault, and Tesla founder Elon Musk. Solomon told his employees that they couldn’t head to Paris without approval from the company’s bookkeepers back in April, drawing complaints about a double standard. The investment firm cited fears that the foot soldiers may exploit...
French Officials: Cyberattack During Olympics Is Inevitable
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal told reporters on Thursday that a cyberattack on the Paris Olympic Games is an inevitability. “The key is to limit their impact,” Attal told Reuters. Fears of a massive DDoS attack or other possible cyberattack among French authorities were heightened following an attack on French websites by a Russian hacking group on June 23. The People’s Cyber Army took down the websites for Grand Palais art museum in Paris and the Festival La Rochelle Cinéma, according to Telegram communications from the group captured by Cyble. The group teaches users how to launch a DDoS attack, or a distributed denial-of-service attack, which involves sending thousands of gigabytes of data to a network every second to shut it down. During the Tokyo Olympics, hackers launched 450 million attacks, according to Axios. The fear among French authorities is that an attack will shut down ticketing systems, preventing attendees from entering the events. “The recognition of how important the availability of these services is, that’s what makes it an enticing attack surface,” Hardik Modi, vice president of engineering at the cybersecurity firm, Netscout, told Axios. Read it at ReutersRead more at The Daily Beast.
Divers Discover Lost Ship Full of Champagne and Porcelain
Polish divers have unearthed ship wreckage chock-full of porcelain, champagne and other rare wares possibly dating back to the mid-19th century. “There was so much of it that it was hard to estimate the amounts,” said Tomasz Stachura, the diver who led the Baltictech diving team that made the discovery. Stachura told The Sun that the team “saw more than 100 bottles of champagne and baskets of mineral water in clay bottles.” The clay mineral water bottles were confirmed to have been produced by Selters, a German mineral water company that still operates today. The champagne bottles were marked with...
Sen. Mark Kelly Is Rocketing His Veepstakes Campaign Into High Gear
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly is ratcheting up his bid to be wing man to newly crowned Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.And the former astronaut and Navy veteran’s military and scientific bonafides just landed him a shiny new endorsement from the 314 Action Fund, a grassroots organization that elects STEM professionals who want to tackle climate change and health care.“He uses facts, science, and data to make informed public policy decisions,” Shaughnessy Naughton, the president of 314 Action Fund, said. “He can simultaneously energize the base, win swing voters, and profoundly impact this race and we are proud to stand with...
Alex Jones Claims Video ‘No Doubt’ Proves President Biden Is Clone
Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones is convinced a video proves with “no doubt” that President Joe Biden has been replaced by someone—or something— much taller. Jones retweeted a video on X Friday morning that appeared to be taken at the White House on the day of Biden’s “pass the torch” speech. However, Jones claimed the president smiling and waving in the clip, with First Lady Jill standing nearby, was “not the real Joe Biden.”“Clearly different,” wrote Jones, adding, “The legs are 6 to 8 inches longer.” Jones was seemingly responding to X user @BGatesIsaPyscho, who posted the same clip and...
Video of Francis Ford Coppola Kissing Extra on ‘Megalopolis’ Set Revealed
“Sorry, if I come up to you and kiss you,” director Francis Ford Coppola boomed into a microphone on the set of his new film Megalopolis, according to an unnamed source who was there. “Just know it’s solely for my pleasure.”On Friday, Variety published two exclusive video clips leaked from the set of that much-maligned epic that show the 85-year-old filmmaker walking up to a scantily clad background actor and kissing her on the mouth. The Guardian previously reported witnesses who saw Coppola act in this inappropriate way during the film’s nightclub scene and quoted him as saying he was...
Vance’s Sister Hits Back at Jennifer Aniston Over ‘Cat Ladies’ Outrage
J.D. Vance’s sister has come to the defense of the GOP vice presidential candidate after he was criticized by actress Jennifer Aniston for a past remark that America was run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies.”Lindsay Lewis Ratliff, 44, said in a statement released by his campaign that her brother “was raised by some of the strongest women I know and went on to marry an incredibly strong woman in Usha.”Married with three children, Ratliff added: “J.D. is a testament to the women in his life, and the attacks from the media and Democrats that assume anything otherwise is...
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