Wednesday July 17 Daily Links

WEDNESDAY 7.17


NEWS STORIES

 



Iran Plotted a Hit on Donald Trump

The United States obtained intelligence about an Iranian plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump in recent weeks.

Hey you missed. Stop making excuses.

Read more at CNBC


Rudy Fall Down

Is he old? Is he drunk? Or drunk and old.

https://x.com/wutangkids/status/1813321971238949207?s=46&t=MVfOvZ4TflNCSkmkrcmY7g


Elon Musk Leaving Cali

Mr. X says he’s done with California, and the reason he’s leaving is a new Cali law that protects the privacy of kids who identify themselves as transgender in schools. “This is the final straw,” Musk wrote on X, adding, “Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.” Musk added in a follow up post, “And 𝕏 HQ will move to Austin” from its longtime hometown of San Francisco.

Work it out at home, bro.

Read more at mediaite


Matt Gaetz Trolling

Matt decided to feel the unity, taunting Kevin McCarthy during the RNC.

Matt Gaetz has such a punchable face but then again so does the other guy.



SPORTS



Mongolias Has Been Crowned the Winner of the 2024 Summer Olympics

Well not really, especially since the games have not yet begun. But Team Mongolia’s uniform reveal has everyone so excited, they’ve been declared the winner by the internet.

Yep. The winner of everything but the events.

Read more at CNN


Skip Bayless Leaving Undisputed?

The recent revamp of Undisputed hasn’t helped shit, so now Skip Bayless is out, and will film his last episode later this summer.

Maybe he’ll be hired at Club Shay Shay.

Read more at awful announcing.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Coast Guard Rescues Dave Portnoy

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy took his boat out off the coast of Nantucket and shit went drastically wrong. The engines died leaving him with no power, no radio, no anchor, no nothing. He was rescued by the Coast Guard, and he chronicalled his experience in a video on TikTok.

Okay but why does he look like he’d been shipwrecked for a month?

Read more at boston.


Twisters Director Says Movies Should Not Have a Message

“I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like (it) is putting forward any message,” he told CNN. “I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.”

Here’s a message. Your movie stinks.

Read more at gamespot.


Tom Cruise KO ed Rob Lowe

Lowe says when they were filming The Outsiders, he and Tom would jog and box and horse around together. One day when they were sparring and he thought he got a good shot at Tom, he found himself waking up on the ground, coming to after Cruise rung his bell.

So Tom hits girls…

Read more at TMZ


Tim Robbins Slams Comparing Trump Assassination Attempt To Bob Roberts

Some who believe in conspiracies think that the attempt to assassinate Trump was not unlike the plot of the movie Bob Roberts, and Tim Robbins is pretty upset about that. “To anyone drawing a parallel between my film Bob Roberts and the attempted assassination of Trump, let’s be clear. What happened yesterday was a real attempt on a presidential candidate’s life. Those that are denying the assassination attempt was real are truly in a deranged mindset. A human being was shot yesterday. Another killed. They may not be human beings that you agree with politically but for shame folks. Get over your blind hatred of these people. They are fellow Americans. This collective hatred is killing our souls and consuming whatever is left of our humanity.”

Tim, how many people even saw Bob Roberts?

Read more at deadline.


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