The one thing that drives Donald Trump completely batshit (besides Hillary Clinton's emails) is not being popular. He lost the popular vote by the largest margin ever, he can't get anyone to play his upcoming inauguration, the "dress stores" in D.C. are not sold out, and now it comes out that there are hundreds more requests for bus parking permits for the Women's March scheduled for the day after Donald Trump's inauguration than there are for the inauguration itself.
Trump even lies about DC dress shops being sold out of inaugural gowns. No lie is too big or too small for this man. https://t.co/rYGnqeKasP
According to Fox News, the District Department of Transportation has received 393 bus permit applications to park at RFK Stadium on January, 20. Meanwhile, the company handling permit requests for the Women's March, Events, DC, has received 1,200 RFK (which has a capacity of 1,300) permit requests for the following day.
It's pretty clear who the "loser" is in this situation.
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According to legal documents filed in the custody battle with his ex-wife Paula Patton, singer Robin Thicke has been accused of child abuse.
The papers, which Page Six says were seen by TMZ, allege that the couple's 6-year-old son, Julian, told teachers that Robin Thicke "spanked" and "punched" him on several occasions, and that the school reported the child's comments to Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services earlier this month.
Paula Patton allegedly stopped Thicke from seeing their son and told him, "Julian is scared of you." TMZ also claims that Patton filed an emergency restraining order that only allowed Thicke to see Julian during daytime supervised visits.
Robin Thicke pushed back against the accusations of child abuse, saying that he and Paula Patton agreed on punishment for their son that was "consistent with the law."
“On a very rare occasion and only as a last resort, I will use light spanking, but it is consistent with the law – open hand on the butt. This is the type of discipline to which Paula and I agreed during our marriage,” Thicke said. “I have never exceeded age-appropriate discipline, and thus never been an issue, nor has it been raised by Paula previously.”
Thicke claims that Patton's allegations against him were in retaliation for not being invited to his father Alan Thicke's funeral last month.
Lipstick saleswoman Kylie Jenner is known for changing up her look pretty frequently, and she just debuted a much shorter, much blonder bob hairdo on her Instagram on Thursday night.
Of course, there is a very, very good chance that Kylie's new short platinum blonde locks are thanks to a wig. The 19-year-old reality star has a pretty impressive wig collection (according to Allure, she has an entire damn closet devoted to her faux hair pieces), and does credit her new style to her go-to wig man, Tokyo Stylez.
A video posted by Touched By Tokyo - Hairstylist (@tokyostylez) on
In the past, Kylie has donned blue, green, pink, red, black, navy, brown and blonde locks. Forget Keeping up with the Kardashians, we need a show called "Keeping up with Kylie's Hairstyles."
If Pennridge High School in Perkasie, Pennsylvania has 32 good teachers, but one who includes a math problem about an eight-year-old girl being sexually assaulted, what percentage of Pennridge staff is good?
KYW-TV reports that a recent homework assignment gratuitously evoked sexual abuse for the sake of algebra.
The question asks, “Angelou was sexually abused by her mother’s ___ at age 8, which shaped her career choices and motivation for writing.” The students then had to do some calculations to find out if it was by Angelou's mother's boyfriend, brother or father.
The Pennridge school district says that the problem wasn't written by a teacher but “downloaded from a website that allows teachers around the world to share educational resources,” adding that, no, sexual assault algebra is not part of their approved curriculum.
Please, let's just stick to word problems about fruit and trains.
In the wake of unsubstantiated allegations that Donald Trump engaged in lurid urine play with prostitutes in Russia. The President-elect has vociferously denied the claims, which were published by BuzzFeed despite that blog's admission that they were unverifiable. But a 15-year-old clip from one of Trump's many appearance on The Howard Stern Show, resurfaced by Death and Taxes, certainly makes it seems more credible. And gross.
"I don't know anything."
In the 2001 segment, Stern is refereeing a pissing contest between then-citizen Trump and gossip reporter A.J. Benza, who had a feud over a shared ex. Trump was gleefully bragging that he had stolen Benza's girl when the reporter shot back with accusations that Trump "bangs Russian people." Here's a transcript provided by Death and Taxes.
Trump: I assume A.J.’s clean. I hope he’s clean.
Benza: Meanwhile, he bangs Russian people…
Stern: Russian people?
Trump: Who are you talking about, Russian people, A.J.? I don’t know anything.
Benza: He used to call me when I was a columnist and say, “I was just in Russia, the girls have no morals, you gotta get out there.” [Trump’s] out of his mind.
Here's the clip, if you're still skeptical (despite this kind of language being entirely in character). Skip to 4:20 to hear what's printed above.
While this clip certainly doesn't prove that any of the recent allegations about the President-elect are true, it does indicate that he may have deeper, and shadier, ties to Russia than he likes to admit.
A style of combat boot called the Polar Fox is being recalled due to what a spokesperson for the City of Industry company that makes them is calling a "design flaw." Sure, that's one way of putting it, if by "design flaw" you mean "grip soles that leave behind a swastika patterned footprint."
The "design flaw" became apparent on January 10, when a surprised Redditor posted a picture of the imprint his new work boots made. Along with the picture, he posted the text, "There was an angle I didn't get to see when ordering my new work boots…"
It being Reddit and all, the picture launched a thousand Nazi jokes (no, there's nothing funny about Nazis, but that doesn't mean you can't still make a pun or two). Lots of people took to Amazon to leave joke reviews for the boots, and they were featured on a neo-Nazi website called The Daily Stormer.
Nazi-tested, Hitler-approved!
The author of that article wrote, “I sincerely don’t believe this was an accident. You’d have to know what mark that pattern would leave."
It should also be pointed out that the name of the boot, Polar Fox, is basically the same as Artic Fox (which translates to Polarfuchs in German), a WWII military operation wherein German and Finnish soldiers took the city of Salla, Finland, from the Soviet Union.
Amazon has since pulled the boots from their site, and along with the recall, Conal International Trading apologized to "anyone who was offended by an imprint one of our boots left behind.” On Thursday they said,
This was in no way intentional. It was an obvious mistake made by our manufacturers in China. We never intended to have any swastikas design on our shoes. We are recalling all shoes immediately. We will not be selling any of our boots with the misprint to anyone. We would never create a design to promote hate. We don’t promote hate at our company.
In an email to Daily Mail, the company's e-commerce manager said, "That was totally something that wasn't intentional or anything like that. It's something that we're going to pull off the shelves obviously...It was obviously a design flaw."
He added that they would be speaking to the design team about how the swastikas ended up on the shoe. Daily Mail asked if it could have been related to the original meaning of the swastika, a symbol that represents well-being or good fortune in the Hindu and Buddhist religion. The manager, Anthony Nguyen, said, "Obviously that's something we have ask the designers. That symbol existed before the swastika in Buddhism."
It did, and that's why the Nazis co-opted it. Either way, companies would be well-advised to not put swastikas on their shoes, whether they mean "well-being" or "white power." Come on.
"Why would you repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement," asked Jeans. Paul responded by saying, "Oh, we wouldn't do that. We want to replace it with something better."
Senate Republicans already approved a budget resolution that instructs several congressional committees to write legislation to repeal Obamacare . The House is expected to come to the same conclusion on Friday.
"I want to thank President Obama from the bottom of my heart because I would be dead if it weren't for him," added the cancer survivor.
The GOP has already started taking the first steps toward dismantling the Affordable Care Act, but still have not made any announcements with what they plan to replace it with, potentially leaving millions uninsured overnight.
British television network Sky Arts has made the decision not to air a controversial episode of its show Urban Myths that featured white actor Joseph Fiennes playing legendary singer Michael Jackson, who was black.
Sky Arts right now.
The network announced its decision to cancel the episode in a series of Tweets on Friday.
"We have taken the decision not to air 'Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon,' a 30-minute episode from the Sky Arts Urban Myths Series," the network wrote. “This decision was taken in light of the concerns expressed by Michael Jackson’s immediate family. We set out to take a light-hearted look at reportedly true events & never intended to cause any offense. Joseph Fiennes fully supports our decision.”
The decision comes just one day after the episode's trailer sparked outrage among fans. It even prompted Michael Jackson's 18-year-old daughter Paris to speak out on Twitter, saying she was "so incredibly offended by" the portrayal.
@TheMJCast i'm so incredibly offended by it, as i'm sure plenty of people are as well, and it honestly makes me want to vomit.
@TheMJCast it angers me to see how obviously intentional it was for them to be this insulting, not just towards my father, but my godmother liz as well
@TheMJCast where is the respect? they worked through blood sweat and tears for ages to create such profound and remarkable legacies. shameful portrayal
Paris' cousin Taj, who is the son of Michael Jackson's brother Tito, also commented on the casting of Joseph Fiennes to portray his uncle, accusing the network of "blatant disrespect."
Watch out for black cats and hockey mask-wearing psychos carrying machetes, because it's Friday the 13th 2017. Y'know, that day of the year where everyone blames all the dumb crap they do on superstitious bad luck?
Chances are you'll make it through the day without any unusual misfortune falling upon you. If you're still a little freaked out though, just take comfort in the internet's tradition of trotting out Jason Vorhees images from the 80s and turning them into funny memes. For example...
Just remind yourself that tomorrow is Saturday the 14th, which has no significance whatsoever, but at least it's the weekend.
Though she quickly started deleting the aforementioned old tweets, Lahren went on Facebook Live to add context to those dispatches from her old college days, way back in 2012. Unlike her fave man one Donald J. Trump, Lahren doesn't say the world "P*ssy," which is the origin of her hashtag #popthatp.
Posted by Tomi Lahren on Thursday, January 12, 2017
Lahren insisted that her most glaringly hypocritical tweet about having to get a job was not hypocritical, because it referred to a summer job while she worked during the year.
The most interesting thing that the internet dug up about her college days a full three years ago weren't tweets, but videos.
A tweeter named Matt Gehring posted old videos of Lahren appearing on a program during her journalism studies. It turns out she used to be level-headed and reasonable before she got paid to rant and pander to the Pepes.
Thought you saw everything there was online about @TomiLahren and her pandering to an audience? Think again...
Tomi, in college, hosted & served as a panelist on "The Scramble," a show in the journalism program, before she squawked for a living. pic.twitter.com/E5bnOpntUs
In 2017, Tomi calls everyone snowflakes and fragile. But in 2014, Tomi hosted this civil discussion about slurs and their place in society. pic.twitter.com/ed31Be9e5k
Tomi's favorite hobby in 2016 was calling climate change "bad weather." But in 2014, she said it was an agreed-upon scientific consensus. pic.twitter.com/0PkMPVNfMD
Tomi won't mention the words "gun control" without blaming Islam. But she calls it a multi-dimensional issue here, with no mention of Islam. pic.twitter.com/evDEUVbdPc
Sharing your home-cooked meals is a hallmark of social media, but it also carries some risks. Not as many risks as eating raw chicken, but still—it can be embarrassing. Just ask Morgan Jane Gibbs, who celebrated a successful dinner on January 5 by posting a photo of her new creation: medium rare chicken strips.
Just made chicken medium rare chicken strips. They're so good can't believe ive neever tried it like this before. Can't...
Here's a closeup, just in case you managed not to lose your lunch.
nooooooo
Commenters immediately jumped in to try and save her life.
Of course, they were ignoring the fact that this post is almost definitely a joke. How do we know?
Exhibit A: She's not dead. Exhibit B: There's nothing "medium rare" about that chicken. That stuff is straight out of the slaughterhouse. Exhibit C: The following comment, "liked" by Gibbs herself.
“Were you going to sneeze? Is that it?” Ryan asked the teen, making it seem like he didn't know what dabbing is. OK.
We all hoped that this would be the last time we ever had to hear "Paul Ryan" and "dabbing" in the same sentence. But nope, sorry! Last night at a CNN-sponsored Town Hall in DC, Ryan said: "I actually do know what a dab is for the record," adding that the kid "looked like he was sneezing."
Then to really prove to America that he knows what dabbing is, as if anyone cared, he performed the dance move himself:
As a result, Twitter has confirmed, dabbing aka "the dab" is now dead.
From context I assume 'dabbing' is a way to tell a dying person you are taking away their health care w/out having to look them in the face. pic.twitter.com/kGnZtBGsh8
Ever since Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint, many people were saying it was her fault for "flaunting her wealth," and, you know, being Kim Kardashian.
Appearing on The Today Show to talk about her new show Revenge Body, Khloe Kardashian covered everything from enduring eight years of pregnancy rumors, self esteem, and the traumatic event for the family.
When asked if the robbery was "a wake up call" to the family that there are "consequences for living publicly and socially," Khloe shut down that line of thinking.
'No, I don’t believe that because people show their lives more, that they deserve, or should have consequences like getting robbed," she said.
While being a Kardashian comes with side effects—like being perpetually blogged about and racial dysphoria (GIRLS, STOP WITH THE CORNROWS)—nobody "invites" a gun to the head.
Remember when Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth got engaged but then broke up? It was a tough time for all of us. Luckily they got back together, because together they are cute as all get out (separately, too, but even more so together). A perfect example of that sweetness is the birthday message and adorable picture Miley Cyrus posted on Instagram today of Liam Hemsworth and herself in honor of his twenty-seventh birthday.
Happiest birthday EVER to my favorite being EVER EVER EVER! You have been my best friend since the day we met..... I am beyond lucky to share sooooo many animals with you!!! 🐷🦄🐶😻🐣 I love you @liamhemsworth
Hmm, it's true the couple has a lot of animals (due to Cyrus' passion for animals and animal rights), but I'm pretty sure a unicorn is not one of them. But maybe this couple's got some secrets. Either way, happy birthday, Liam Hemsworth!
