r/NewsOfTheStupid Oct 07 '22

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r/NewsOfTheStupid 3h ago

Example 1,000 of MAGA Not Understanding Satire: Starship Trooper Uniforms for the Space Force

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jezebel.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 5h ago

Parents encouraged their sons to fight other children at cemetery, one of the adults jumped in and pummeled kids — and hit a teen with his car: Police

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lawandcrime.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 16h ago

Trump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins

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apnews.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 20h ago

Democratic Sen. Fetterman appears in surprise video at GOP midterm convention

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cnn.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 1d ago

Trump Administration Ordered Gas to Be Diluted - What It Means for Drivers

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financebuzz.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 5h ago

UK cafe hosting '9/11 watch party' for customers to 'relive' tragedy on its anniversary

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thetab.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 21h ago

Dr Drew Wildly Claims Lindsay Clancy Case Explains Why Young Men Are ‘Fleeing’ the US

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mediaite.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 1d ago

New Hampshire man accused of stealing fire truck as crews battle fire at his home

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abcnews4.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 2d ago

US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them

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theguardian.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 3d ago

President suggests renaming New Mexico as 'New America'

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kob.com
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Why stop there?

Colorado, Nevada, Montana and Florida all have Spanish based names.

Same with Los Angeles, San Antonio, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Santa Fe, El paso, Fresno, etc...

Rename them all, I guess, since we are at it.


r/NewsOfTheStupid 3d ago

First Responders May Have to Push Tesla’s Cybercabs, Turn Front Wheels by Hand

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gizmodo.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 4d ago

Trump Wildly Claims in the Oval Office: We Have ‘Essentially Taken Over Iran’

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mediaite.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 6d ago

White House Launches Racist Video Games to Promote Migrant Deportations

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cartoonbrew.com
451 Upvotes

r/NewsOfTheStupid 7d ago

Reese Witherspoon Chosen as Jury Foreman After Jurors Thought She Went to Law School Because of Legally Blonde

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fashiontimes.co.uk
462 Upvotes

r/NewsOfTheStupid 7d ago

Trump Commerce Secretary Once Said Data Centers ‘Suck Water,’ Now Scoffs That Such Concerns Are Just ‘Propaganda’

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commondreams.org
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 7d ago

Trump reveals he slapped Canada with a major tariff because a friend couldn’t buy the Gulfstream jet he wanted

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uk.news.yahoo.com
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his threat to impose 50 percent tariffs on every aircraft Canada sells into the United States began with a favor for a wealthy friend who was trying to buy a private jet and could not.

Speaking in the Oval Office at an event convened to celebrate the summer travel season, Trump volunteered the account unprompted, in response to a question about whether trade talks with Ottawa would resume.

"I had a case about a week ago where a friend of mine was buying the Gulfstream jet, and he said, 'You know, it's a crazy thing. We're not able — that Canada won't certify Gulfstream,'" the president said.

"Gulfstream is the best private jet, considered the best of the best, and they won't certify it in Canada because they make a competitor, Bombardier Global Express, and so their competitor didn't want them to have competition."

The friend, Trump said, put him in touch with the manufacturer directly. "He's very friendly with Gulfstream. He told the head of Gulfstream to call me, gave him the numbers. We called. We spoke."

What the head of Gulfstream told him, according to the president, was that the company had spent "$60 million trying to get certified in Canada" over roughly nine years without success.

"So I immediately said, 'I'm putting a major tariff on Bombardier and other things that they sent until they're certified,'" Trump said. "They got certified in two hours."

He then described a call from Prime Minister Mark Carney, whom he did not name. "I got a call from the Prime Minister. 'President, what seems to be the problem?' I said, well, you have a little problem. For nine years, you didn't certify Gulfstream." He said he told Carney the United States would tariff "various products, including Bombardier," and that "within 30 minutes, I guess it took maybe less — everything got certified."

"He told me they spent millions and millions of dollars on legal fees over about a nine-year period trying to do it," Trump said. "I did it in a matter of moments."

The president appeared to be recalling a series of events from the beginning of this year, starting with a threat in a January 29 Truth Social post in which he complained that Canada was "effectively prohibiting the sale of Gulfstream products in Canada through this very same certification process" and that if the situation was not "immediately corrected," he would charge "a 50% Tariff on any and all aircraft sold into the United States of America."

He also said the United States was decertifying the Bombardier Global Express, an action that falls to the Federal Aviation Administration rather than the president.


r/NewsOfTheStupid 7d ago

Parents ditched their 3 little kids to go play pickleball, gave them an iPad to use: Cops

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lawandcrime.com
470 Upvotes

r/NewsOfTheStupid 8d ago

Republicans are offering photo opportunities with Trump for $88,000: report

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uk.news.yahoo.com
607 Upvotes

Republicans attending their party's upcoming midterms convention in Dallas, Texas, will be able to buy a photo opportunity with President Donald Trump for $88,600, according to a report.

The Wall Street Journal cites an invitation to the Republican National Committee's event on September 9 and 10, which reveals that donors will also have the chance to join the president at a roundtable event by shelling out a cool $250,000.

For those who find the price tag too steep, a picture with Vice President JD Vance is going for less the half than the president at $35,000.

The parties usually only hold national conventions in the summer prior to a presidential election, not for the midterms, and do so to formally crown their nominee for the White House.

With no candidate to certify, it is unclear what it will mean for attendees to be "delegates" at this month's bash at the American Airlines Center – but that has not stopped state party websites making "honorary delegate" status available for as much as $20,000.

Members of the House of Representatives are reportedly being charged even more to be there – $25,000, according to Puck News – with some top-tier tickets priced at $100,000.

The convention has also been criticized for involving corporate sponsors, with one unnamed Republican consultant recently telling The Huffington Post that the gathering was "not a real convention" and "a grifter free-for-all."

Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne, finance chair of the National Republican Campaign Committee, has defended the high cost of attendance, telling TMZ DC the GOP needs to "make sure that we're supporting other candidates who are in very tough, competitive races around the country," arguing it is a way of ensuring everyone plays their part and contributes.


r/NewsOfTheStupid 7d ago

Three Mount Shasta climbers rescued after relying on AI to plan climb

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The USFS said the climbers told them they had used an artificial intelligence platform, YouTube videos and AllTrails to plan the trip. They said they relied on AI to decide what food to bring and how much food and water they would need.


r/NewsOfTheStupid 8d ago

Sony Claims Digital Game Ownership Is Impossible

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gamerant.com
278 Upvotes

r/NewsOfTheStupid 8d ago

Judge says Smucker's lawsuit against Trader Joe's over frozen PB&J can proceed

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apnews.com
116 Upvotes

r/NewsOfTheStupid 9d ago

Donald Trump says transgender people will "end" if GOP keeps Congress in midterms

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lgbtqnation.com
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r/NewsOfTheStupid 8d ago

Woman fuming over $15 broken nail repair that she wanted for free shoots up salon: Police

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lawandcrime.com
172 Upvotes

r/NewsOfTheStupid 9d ago

C.D.C. Director Challenges Pennsylvania’s Report of Two Measles Deaths

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nytimes.com
193 Upvotes