On Tuesday, Donald Trump caused controversy with his most recent bout of mouth-diarrhea when he accepted the gift of a Purple Heart from a veteran and said, "I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier." Well, that statement obviously struck a chord with veterans who actually put their lives on the line and earned the Purple Heart, including Congresswoman and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth.
Duckworth lost both of her legs and damaged her right arm when she sustained severe combat injuries in her time as a US Army helicopter pilot during the Iraq War. Her sentiments were echoed by many living veterans and military families of deceased soldiers who were given the Purple Heart on behalf of a family member who paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Today, a Donald Trump supporter handed him a Purple Heart. Trump's flippant and repugnant reply: "I always wanted to get...
Trump was also criticized for not politely refusing the Purple Heart when it was offered to him as a gift, which is customary for American politicians who respect what it takes to earn the medal. But this is what we have now come expect from the man who decides to publicly feud with the parents of a deceased American soldier. Check in with us presumably later today to read about the next wacky thing Trump is saying. This is normal now!
On Tuesday night, daredevil team Ryan and AmberLynn performed a routine live on America's Got Talent that started with Ryan Stock swallowing a curved sword and ended with him being shot in the chest with a flaming arrow by his partner.
No, that was not part of the bit—AmberLynn was actually aiming for a target which Stock was holding in his mouth (and esophagus).
Don't worry, he's fine! Well, fine for someone who just got hit with a flaming arrow. To be fair, the arrow doesn't seem like it pierced him, nor did he catch fire—in his words, "It just caught my shirt."
Here's a longer look at the excruciating moment:
Immediately after the misfire, the camera turned to the judges, who looked, in a word, horrified.
I'm sure it's fine, how much damage can a flaming arrow even do?
One of the judges, Howie Mandel, encouraged Stock to visit the ER but he said he was okay.
We had a serious mishap tonight outage live on @nbcagt. A very unfortunate mechanical failure but I am very fortunate to walk away from it.
Believe it or not, the Internet was not created to give you panic attacks and depression. Sure, it seems that way with the constant terrors, angry political rants, and endless parade of Kardashians, but it's not all bad. Some cute and furry healing is coming your way. Here are 15 adorable Instagram accounts that are like a warm hug for your eyeballs.
WARNING: EXTREME CUTENESS AHEAD!
1. Follow @prissy_pig to see the adventures of the cutest piglet family you ever did see.
Taylor Swift's been pretty quiet lately on social media, perhaps laying low after the whole thing with Kim Kardashian posting a video of her husband Kanye West and Taylor Swift talking about Kanye's song "Famous."
Even Hiddleswift, the relationship monster she and actor Tom Hiddleston had morphed into earlier this summer, seems to be taking a snooze. But on Tuesday, Swift broke radio silence in order to post a video of what really matters: her cat Olivia.
That's a pretty cute standing up move done by a very cute cat, and it was nice of Taylor to share that with her fans. Sometimes cats feel like squirrels, and the world needs to know about it.
Australia's News Nine was going through what might as well have been a live HR demonstration, when sports anchor Tony Jones got his handsiness caught on live TV. The segment was a send off for weather woman Rebecca Judd on her way to maternity leave, and Jones wanted to an intimate farewell. Judd's reflexes were strong as she dodged the kiss, and the lead anchor couldn't help but lose it.
A parent who goes by hatcher1981 on Reddit posted a picture of what they say are their county's list of requirements for kids entering kindergarten. The expectations seems a little high reaching. Specifically one. How might a five-year-old be expected to be able to "identify 30+ letters" when the English language has only 26?
Recite the Gettysburg address? Pose for a drivers license picture? Read War and Peace?
The comments section on the post devolves into an argument over whether "letters" and "characters" are the same thing, which is really not worth reading.
Basically everyone agrees: yep, only 26 letters. But maybe that special kindergartner will be the one who can name the other mysterious four.
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Five months ago, she hinted that she was working on a new body transformation. She's trying to hold a healthy body fat percentage "in order to try for baby," while the rest of us just do it for the love of pizza.
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The #babyprepping worked. Brittany announced via Cosmo that she is in her second trimester, and that her baby hates the gym.
"I started smelling everyone and everything in the gym. I never knew how badly these people really smelled," Brittany says, adding that her nausea gave way to workout-prohibitive morning sickness.
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After a month of staying in bed, the baby is now on board, and Brittany says she will only quit lifting once the baby bump gets in the way.
"It takes time to get used to seeing a bump where a six pack has always been, but I don't want to get caught up in how much weight I am gaining. I want to let my doctor keep track of my medical stats, and I'll keep track of how I feel. And no matter how much weight I gain, I know this body is not permanent."
Bodies aren't permanent, but babies definitely are. Check out Cosmo to see pics of Brittany's baby bump, and a sonogram that proves she didn't just have an extra large whey-protein shake.
Soon, this scary era of American history will inevitably turn into an Oscarbait film (directed by Oliver Stone or Steven Spielberg). Twitter, always ahead of the game, has a sneak preview of what it will look like.
In a recent interview with Latina magazine, Eva Mendes explained why she and Ryan Gosling decided to have their daughters share a name. The latest addition to their family is named Amada Lee, and her one-year-old sister is named Esmeralda Amada. Amada is Mendes' grandmother’s name, and translates to "beloved." She explained that it was their favorite when naming the new bundle of joy:
We had a few names picked out for our new baby, and when she was born, we didn’t feel like those names were her. We came up with a few more, even that morning, and tried them out. We were like,'What about Viviana?' But we just kept going back to Amada.
Thinking about naming their beloved "Beloved."
Mendes explained that siblings sharing a name is in tried and "true Latin fashion," saying, "We reuse names all the time. I used to know five sisters that were all Maria del Carmen, Maria Elena, Maria Liliana."
In a segment for The Tonight Show, Jimmy Phallon Fallon and Jonah Hill sat down together to learn how to learn how to draw. The two practiced still life and portraiture, but you probably clicked on this to see the two stars draw some peen, so let's just cut to the chase. They drew some peen. Check it out.
Okay, can we talk about Patrick for a minute? Patrick is not actually Jonah's father (good job committing to the joke though, Jonah) so who is this bearded mystery man? What is his story? How the hell did he find himself standing naked on national TV? And how does he do such a spectacular job of keeping a straight face this entire time?
America's Next Top Figure Model.
The two do a pretty decent job seeing that they are not the type of artists who draw, but Jonah is not as good at drawing dicks IRL as his character is in Superbad. Not by a long shot.
The2011 Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trumpwas one of the all-time greats in the genre. It was an epic verbal beating, from Anthony Jeselnik's takedown of his business acumen ("Donald, you've got a great sense of humor. You've been so happy to embarrass yourself on Saturday Night Live and the casino business,") and his gross relationship with Ivanka ("The Donald and I have a lot in common: We both live in New York, we both play golf, we both fantasize about his daughter," joked Jeff Ross).
Here's a sizzle reel, that is cathartic to watch. As Snoop Dogg (Snoop Dogg?!) says, "He wants to run for president and move into the White House. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time you pushed a black family out of their home."
Aaron Lee, who has written for every Comedy Central Roast since Pam Anderson's turn in 2005 (with a brief hiatus during Charlie Sheen's), shared some intel about what joke topics were "too far" for The Donald.
"Each year, the 'roastee' has certain topics they declare off-limits," Lee writes on the List App. "It's always interesting to learn what is 'sacred' for a celebrity."
Here's what was allowed and not allowed:
ALLOWED: Jokes about Trump's hair ALLOWED: Jokes about Trump's wife Melania (and his two previous marriages) ALLOWED: Jokes about Trump having sex with models ALLOWED: Jokes about the failure of Trump Steaks, Trump Water, Trump Cologne, and other Trump products ALLOWED: Jokes about Trump's failed casinos ALLOWED: Jokes about how Trump only became successful thanks to his wealthy father ALLOWED: Jokes about Trump's weight ALLOWED: Jokes about Trump being attracted to his daughter Ivanka NOT ALLOWED: Any joke that suggests Trump is not actually as wealthy as he claims to be.
Hmmm...Interesting.
Trump was happy to throw his children under the bus, and to have his incestuous fantasies of his daughter Ivanka exposed, but put a harsh moratorium on anything suggesting that he might not be a billionaire. After all, that's his brand. (Indeed, he sued a biographer for libel for suggesting he was only worth $150-250 million. Trump was forced to show his tax returns in court. The findings were sealed. Trump lost.)
Jeselnik, one of Trump's Roasters, told the late, great Joan Rivers in 2013, “Donald Trump’s rule was, don’t say I have less money than I say I do. Make fun of my kids, do whatever you want, just don’t say I don’t have that much money.”
There must be some element of truth to it if Trump decisively vetoed any joke that would even dare to hint at his possible poorness. Trump is the first presidential candidate in history who refuses to release his tax returns, perhaps out of fear of what we might see behind the curtain.
Whether it's the fact that he's not a billionaire...
In Trump's defense, if you weren't even close to being a billionaire but said that you were - you wouldn't show your tax returns either.
Dr. Sandra "Pimple Popper" Lee had a new patient who was bedeviled by a series of small growths on her ribcage and upper stomach. Neither she nor Dr. Lee were exactly sure what they were, so they went to the microscope to find out! If you're a 'popaholic,' you've probably been wondering "what's next? I've seen blackheads, I've seen whiteheads, I've seen cysts, I've even seen giant poppable lumps." Well, my gross friends, here's your answer: SCIENCE!
(There are several types of pops in this. It begins with a punch-and-snip before moving on to a few clean pops and one struggler.)
They were vellus hair cysts all along! Vellus hairs are the light, tiny hairs that grow all over your body, but sometimes they get ingrown and keep growing and become a cyst! Yay science!
Having a kid with your sibling is a pretty weird, socially frowned-upon thing to do except in a few scenarios. Like this one: Samuel Leighton-Dore, 24, is a gay man who plans to use IVF treatment, and some help from his sister's eggs, to have a kid who is a genetic combo of him and his partner.
"The only possible chance my partner and I have of waving our respective biological flags in our future kid's DNA is if my sister donates an egg for my partner's sperm," he writes in a post for parenting blog Mamamia. "No, she won't be carrying the baby—just offering up the bun for another yet-to-be-determined woman's oven."
He says he and his partner are not looking to start a family in the near future, but they're planning ahead. He already asked his sister, "while we were both a little drunk at a family function," he writes. And says she "squealed in delight at the prospect."
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The headline of the blog post is: "I’m going to have a baby with my sister, and we couldn’t be more excited." This might explain why people have "gone cray" over this story which, as it turns out, is not a twisted soap opera but instead a sweet story about a guy with a very nice sister. Oh, well.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump's presidential campaign sent out an email titled "URGENT PIVOT" to GOP allies on Capitol Hill, instructing them to defend his heavily criticized attacks on the parents of slain Army Captain Humayun Khan. The memo urged supporters to use talking points emphasizing Trump's commitment to ending "radical Islamic terror," and to shift the conversation away from his most confrontational comments about the Khan family. Here is the Trump campaign's suggestion for an appropriate answer:
Mr. Trump was asked about Mr. Khan’s comments during the DNC, and he replied that he wished him well. Many in the media reported falsely that Trump had compared his sacrifices to Mr. Khan’s son which is completely false and the transcripts show that to be true.
Here is that transcript from when Trump was asked about Capt. Khan's father's comment, "You have sacrificed nothing and no one":
Who wrote that? Did Hillary's script writers write it? I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I've had tremendous success. I think I've done a lot.
The Trump campaign memo also called on the GOP to shift all discussions to blaming President Obama and Sec. Clinton for inciting "Russian aggression." It's unclear exactly what that means. Did Obama and Clinton force Russia to hack the Democratic National Committee? Did Obama and Clinton force Russia to annex Crimea and invade eastern Ukraine while posing as revolutionaries? Intrude into Turkish airspace? Maybe Obama traveled back in time to make Russia invade Georgia in 2008, explaining why Trump's spokesperson blamed Obama for Capt. Khan's death in 2004? Whatever, it was Obama's fault.
Everyone should take a moment, though, to be impressed that the Trump campaign actually planned talking points, and didn't just send out the words "yuge" and "wall" in 200-point gold font.
