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YouTube personality Christian Hull (screen captures)
When I bought this shirt folder I didn’t realise how much joy it was going to bring me! 🥳🤯 pic.twitter.com/IaxwZQ3xvN
— Christian Hull (@christianhull) November 2, 2019
We shall call him #sheldoncooper #jimparsons pic.twitter.com/m6gHO68hL5
— Paul Brown (@paulbrown73au) November 3, 2019
Screen capture from viral video showing a fake Donald Trump violently attacking the media
Mr. Trump stops in the middle of the church, pulls a gun out of his suit jacket pocket and begins a graphic rampage. As the parishioners try to flee, the president fires at them. He shoots Black Lives Matter in the head and also shoots Vice News.
Some of those in the church try to apprehend Mr. Trump. He fends them off and makes his way toward the altar, knocking over several pews. He wrestles a parishioner with a Vice News logo as a face to the ground and then shoots the person at point-blank range. In the background, the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, is seen trying to get away.
From there, Mr. Trump attacks a range of his critics. He strikes the late Arizona senator John McCain in the back of the neck. He hits the television personality Rosie O’Donnell in the face and then stabs her in the head. He strikes Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California. He lights the head of Senator Bernie Sanders, a Democratic presidential rival, on fire.
Also among the Donald’s victims in the video are former President Barack Obama, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC; former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; former President Bill Clinton; the film producer Harvey Weinstein; and Representative Adam B. Schiff. The video concludes with Trump driving a stake into the head of a person with a CNN logo for a face. The Trumpster then turns to view his carnage, smiling.
Although I’m loath to share it, here’s THE video (shown at conference for his supporters at his own resort) depicting Trump shooting his enemies. I only share because folks should see where these people are at these days… pic.twitter.com/pA34lNVxk1
— The Randy Report (@randyslovacek) October 14, 2019
Reports describing a violent video played at a Trump Campaign event in which images of reporters & @JohnMcCain are being slain by Pres Trump violate every norm our society expects from its leaders& the institutions that bare their names. I stand w/ @whca in registering my outrage
— Cindy McCain (@cindymccain) October 14, 2019
The conference organizer said himself that it was played there pic.twitter.com/Z6OisAGutt
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) October 14, 2019
At a conference of Trump supporters, they played a video of our president murdering journalists in a church. Last year, a Trump supporter sent bombs to CNN—and a shooter entered a church yesterday. This video isn’t funny. It will get people killed. https://t.co/XWtq1z38Kc
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) October 14, 2019
The only thing missing from this sickening #TrumpVideo is a voice at the very end saying, “I’m Donald Trump, and I approve this message” — because we all know he does.
— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) October 14, 2019
WHCA Statement on video depicting President Trump murdering journalists. pic.twitter.com/52lHFaQjU2
— WHCA (@whca) October 14, 2019
Re: the video played over the weekend: The @POTUS @realDonaldTrump has not yet seen the video, he will see it shortly, but based upon everything he has heard, he strongly condemns this video.
— Stephanie Grisham (@PressSec) October 14, 2019
UPI reports that the Newman family of Pennsylvania discovered home security camera footage of a bear exploring their porch and ultimately stealing a box of dog food from mail-order company Chewy. After sharing the footage with Chewy, which is operated by PetSmart, the company offered to send a replacement box of dog food.
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| Social media ‘influencer’ Jessy Taylor |
A social media “influencer” named Jessy Taylor posted an emotional, tearful video recently when her Instagram account with 100,000+ followers was accidentally deleted.
Taylor became so upset she admitted to calling 911 and reporting the deletion.
“I called the police actually and told them about this,” the 21-year-old told pop culture site INSIDER. “They said you can’t compare a murder to this, and I was like, no, that’s exactly what it felt like.”
The former stripper contends that “haters” reported her posts as spam which resulted in the removal of her account.
Apparently, in an attempt to gain more followers, she made racist comments on her account.
“That wasn’t from the bottom of my heart,” she explained to INSIDER. “At the time, I didn’t have that many followers, so I thought if I say this, maybe I can get more followers.”
In the video posted by Taylor (which has garnered over 1.1 million views), she makes it clear life without Insta-celebrity can be devastating for some people.
“I’m nothing without my following. I’M NOTHING WITHOUT MY FOLLOWING!” she shrieks.
She goes on to say that she makes all of her income online because she’s not a nine-to-five kind of girl – “THAT IS NOT ME! I am in LA to notbe like that!”
“I am not ‘work’ material – I will never be ‘work’ material!”
Taylor shared with INSIDER that even though she earned over $500,000 in the past few years, “That money does not last.”
“You go to the Gucci store a few times, you pay a couple of months of rent…I’m not rich like I used to be,” she said.
“Before I had 100,000 followers, before I had everything in my life, I was a f*cking loser!”
That said, she does admit her Instagram following did go to her head.
“I turned into a mean person when I had my account,” she told INSIDER. “If people would try it with me, I’d use it to say, ‘You need to understand who the f*ck you’re talking to.'”
After a week of being banished, Instagram did reactivate her account explaining the deletion was “in error.”
Explaining that those fateful seven days really changed her in “the best way,” Taylor says she will “never be the same” thanks to this “blessing in disguise.”
We’re not sure if this is performance art, parody, an attempt to become the new Chris Crocker, or just plain cray cray, but hit the play button and see for yourself.
p.s. if you click over to the YouTube page that hosts the video, the comments are just about what you’d imagine. The clip currently has 19,000 ‘thumbs down’ votes and only 1,000 ‘thumbs up.’
A little viral video action here as these two 17-year-olds try to figure out how to dial a rotary phone.
Kevin Bumstead shared this clip on his Facebook which shows his son Jake and nephew Kyle accepting a challenge to successfully dial a number on the phone within four minutes.
Bumstead brought the vintage phone out during the family’s holiday gathering and asked several teams to figure out the antique.
From The Chicago Tribune:
Three relatives in their early 20s quickly figured it out, as did a team of a 14- and 12-year-old girls because they had rotary phone toys when they were younger, Fox reported.
Hilarity ensued when Bumstead’s son, Jake, and nephew, Kyle, attempted the challenge.
They struggled to understand that in order to make a call on a rotary phone, one must first lift the receiver and get a dial tone.
“Wait a minute, are we supposed to pick up the phone and then do it?” one of the boys asked about two and a half minutes into the video.
It’s hilarious that the boys don’t even understand the idea of a dial tone.
“What does a zero sound like?”
Watch them figure it out below.
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| Colin O’Leary as ‘Liza Minnelli’ in Act II O’Leary Car Ride: Showtunes 2019′ |
Colin O’Leary, whose home video featuring him lip-syncing to hits from Broadway musicals went viral last year, has shared what he’s calling “Act Two” of his hilarious compilation of car rides with his perpetually unimpressed mom, Carol.
Watch below as the karaoke car rides get even more impressive in terms of costumes and set design as he mimes along to hits from Annie, Gypsy, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Newsies, and many many more!
God bless his mom, Carol, for keeping a straight face.
Pay attention and see if you know what musicals each ‘performance’ is gleaned from.
And if you missed ‘Act One’ – click here to see the original that started it all.
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Whoaaaaa!
Talk about spine-tingling.
Florida-based Chris Gursky, an auto-parts manager and photographer, shares his near-death experience hang gliding in Switzerland as the pilot took off without ensuring Gurdsky was properly tethered to the glider.
The incident, captured in crystal-clear video, is really something.
In posting the video to YouTube, Gursky writes, “My first time hang gliding turned into a near death experience as my safety harness was never hooked to the glider. For 2 minutes 14 seconds I had to hang on for my life! The landing was a rough one, but I lived to tell the story.”
Watch below.
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| Robert Ortiz (via PIX11 News) |
Last week, I reported on a racist tirade by a gay New Yorker aimed at his Lyft driver.
Robert Ortiz, a gay Trump-supporter, saw his 16 minute racist rant go viral after he called Brooklyn Lyft driver Shawn Pepas Lettman the n-word because Lettman wouldn’t play the music Ortiz wanted to hear.
In the video, Ortiz is seen calling the police and announcing he won’t leave the car until he receives a refund for his $8.01 ride.
Ortiz’s new internet fame led to his dismissal from his job at a local health care clinic.
Now, he’s speaking to the local press saying he’s not a racist and he was just really, really drunk when he went off on Lettman.
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“At the end of the day, my actions were unjustifiable,” Ortiz tells PIX11 News. “There’s nothing that I can say behind that to say ‘But this.’ I was drinking. A lot of the stuff that I said I didn’t even remember until the next day.”
“That’s not how I was raised to treat people.,” he continues. “I grew up in the projects, so I just wanna make sure that people understand that I’m not racist – I’m Puerto Rican, I’m from the Bronx, I’m gay.”
But he does still believe he and his friends were “treated differently” by Lettman.
“Like, we know discrimination, you smell it in the air,” he says. “You just know when someone’s uncomfortable with you.”
Ortiz says that since the video went viral he’s received countless threats and hate messages.
At this point Ortiz says he wants to move on from the sad debacle. “I just want to go on with my life. I’m not racist, my actions were completely wrong. I wouldn’t want anyone to speak to the way that I spoke to him.”
He concludes with a straight up apology: “The only thing that I can say is that I’m sorry.”
Watch the report from PIX11 News below.
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| Dog’s grab and run of his owner’s GoPro has gone viral |
Folks are totes loving on this dog that apparently grabbed his owner’s GoPro camera and went running.
The dog’s eyes are the best part, but his starts and stops are funny, too.
The original video appears to have been posted on reddit here.
This is pretty much an awesome ad for GoPro, don’t you think? Watch below.
I could watch this dog steal a GoPro all day, tell you what. pic.twitter.com/v0nxYNlglh— pastordan (@pastordan) July 29, 2018
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| Dr. Rich Constantine of Greenville, SC |
South Carolina dentist Dr. Rich Constantine has gone viral thanks to his “Shiggy” dance video to Drake’s “In My Feelings.”
Posted last Thursday on Facebook, the viral video of the sexy doc has racked up almost 50 million views in only three days and been shared almost 600,000 times.
Check it out:
The challenge began after Instagram comedian TheShiggyShow put together the dance steps and folks started posting videos doing the dance.
Speaking to Good Morning America today, Constantine shared his amazement at the widespread audience the video has gotten.
“It was surreal! I’ve never seen anything like that before. I’ve maybe gotten a couple thousand views before at best. That’s it. Never expected anything like this,” Constantine told GMA. “I thought a few people in Greenville, South Carolina, might see it, and a few of my friends and family members. But I had no idea that it would get legs like it did and take off.”
The comments on the viral video have been wild as well. One commenter wrote, “Annnnnnnd he has the smooth “dap” when he walks?!?!? Jesus be a moving van, take the wheel and drive FAST ’cause I’m headed to Greenville, SC!!”
The dentist’s staff had been urging the self-proclaimed Drake fan to take part in the dance challenge, but he was a bit too shy initially.
Constantine says he changed his mind in an effort to show his fun side.
Acknowledging visits to the dentist aren’t always something folks look forward to, Constantine shared, “We like to do fun things at the office to keep the atmosphere light and to make patients smile.”
Trust and believe, Dr. Constantine, you made us smile.