Five Jokes: 8-28-2024
Five Jokes: 8-28-2024
Presidential Microphone Debate, Twitter "Gotcha" Moment Gone Wrong, Florida's Missing LGBTQ Resource Page, Trump's Cemetery Squabble, and A Hawaiian Sword Squad
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Ahead of the presidential debate, the Trump and Harris campaigns are fighting over whether microphones will be muted when a candidate isn’t speaking. Inside sources say they’ll likely settle on the ability to live text the public while the other person is speaking.
In a “gotcha” moment gone wrong, a user on X, formerly Twitter, tried to claim that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was lying about owning a dog named Scout. The user later retracted his claim after getting swept up in an even larger conspiracy due to multiple theories that he’s merely an arrangement of pixels concocted in a Russian computer.
Florida’s state tourism website took down resource pages for L.G.B.T.Q. travelers — instead, directing them to a conversion video of J.D. Vance promoting couches as a safe, Christian alternative.
Two members of Donald Trump's campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation with an official at Arlington National Cemetery, where the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony. Apparently, things began to escalate after one of them shouted, “Over these dead bodies!”
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They promise to use them only in self defense or if anyone asks for assistance in separating a Hawaiian dinner roll.
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