Episode 581: Debate Madness

Idiots On Parade, the Too Ugly for TV Podcast

This week, Chris Cyr joins the Idiots.

00:00 Introductions

00:37 The Debate

10:50 The Squad

21:56 Disney

28:13 Corporate Vigilance

31:38 Online Fraud

32:54 Josh Duggar

—Is Rex Huppke the dumbest man on the planet? Maybe.
Rex posted an opinion piece on June 25th, several days before the first presidential debate. His take? Trump was going to chicken out, and not attend.

Well guess what?
That didn’t happen.

Here’s a hot take: instead of posting hot takes, allow events to occur, and then report on them. Isn’t that what the news is supposed to be, a summation of daily happenings?

From that stepping off point—mocking Rex Huppke—the idiots (and Chris) discuss what happened that fateful night. Biden was old and confused; Trump lied every time he opened his mouth.

Which will be more alarming to voters? Lies and incompetence, or a stutter? We’ll find out in November.

—Oh, Jamaal Bowman, we hardly knew ye.

The Squad, the famous group of insane members of Congress who fight for supposed moral justice more than they do the economic benefit of all, lost the fire alarm pulling, shirt waving, insane Jamaal Bowman.

Voters in New York’s 16th District gave George Latimer a shot at the seat, causing AOC to blame $25 million in ad buys, not the fact Bowman probably wasn’t the best fit for the job. Because reality should never pierce the veil of delusion, should it?

(Hint: it was probably his Anti-Semitism and bizarre stance on Israel that lost him the seat.)

—This gets a little messy, but stay with us…

Disney fired actress Gina Carano, because she didn’t align with them politically. And they said so. Publicly. So now Gina is suing Disney for wrongful termination.

Seems pretty cut and dried, right?

Well… Since the God-awful Supreme Court of 2010, which in retrospect might have been somehow better than the compete dumpster fire of a SCOTUS we have today, handed down Citizens United, corporations are people.

Which means Disney has a right to free speech of its own.

But seriously, all they had to do is shut up.

Gina Carano is a block of wood.

Her acting should have spoken for itself here.

—The United States is a sue-happy country. People file lawsuits at the drop of a hat, which is absurd.

So, corporations are fighting back, and one way they’re covering their bases is by warning consumers about items not even in their product.

Why?

Just to be safe.

The FDA, for some reason, has an issue with this.

Look, government… You can’t have it both ways. You don’t get to let swindlers sue anyone, at any time, and not give people a way to guard against that.

Sara Lee and Entenmann’s took a creative approach to warning labels, and the Idiots approve.

—Go big or go home? No! Go small and succeed!

The Idiots often talk about the dumbest people on the planet, those who fall for easily verified online scams to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars…

Well, “Paul Schwartz” of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (not really) is making bank $600 at a time.

He doesn’t string people along, he just takes the cash and runs.

Well done, “Paul.”

(And everyone out there: verify, verify, verify, before giving anyone online any money.)

—Josh Duggar is a horrible human being for many, many reasons. I mean, most of the Duggar family is.

(Thanks, Jim Bob and Michelle. You really put some awful out there into the world.)

But Josh, he’s not just awful, he’s a convicted criminal, and not for something small, like petty theft. Not. Josh was into children. In the worst way.

Well, when you’re a criminal with a healthy ego, everything you do should be a-ok with the world, right?

Criminal conviction because you’re a pervert? Pfft, that’s not fair, I’m Josh Duggar!

So he asked the Supreme Court to overturn (or at least examine) his case.

Hilarious.

Idiots on Parade: we mock the news, so you don’t have to.

Tune in and get your giggle on.

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