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Sarah Cooper Best-selling author and viral Tik-Tok star Sarah Cooper, known for her lip-sync impressions of President Donald Trump, has scored her first comedy special on Netflix. Cooper posted her first video, How to Medical, on April 23, and it's racked up more than 21 million views across several social media platforms. The video features Cooper's classic lip-sync impersonation of the president, during which she mocks an infamous Trump briefing, during which he suggests UV light and disinfectant as a cure for the coronavirus. New York Times reporter Dave Itzkoff shared the Netflix announcement on Twitter, which said in part, the special will be "full of vignettes dealing with issues of politics, race, gender, calss, and other light subjects.
"Sarah will be joined by a fantastic array of special guests who will participate in short interviews, sketches, and more shenanigans," the press release reads.
"The special, Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine, will deal with “issues of politics, race, gender, class, and other light subjects,” according to Netflix’s statement, and will include a variety of interviews and sketches with special guests.
The special is set to premiere this fall and will be directed by Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne and executive produced by Maya Rudolph, Danielle Renfrew Behrens, and Lyonne. Chris Burns of AGI Entertainment and Dan Powell of Irony Point will also serve as executive producers.
The meteoric rise of the talented comic, from TikTok to Twitter to The Tonight Show and now to her own Netflix special, is a definite media win. 6.5.0 |
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Brian Kilmeade The co-owner of Atilis Gym in New Jersey, which had its license revoked after defying a coronavirus pandemic order to stay closed, claimed on Fox News Thursday that the government is intentionally keeping gyms closed so it can stop people from building their immune systems and “mandate a peak and a spike in Covid cases in the Fall.”
Does that conspiracy theory sound crazy to you? Not to mention irresponsible?
Well it apparently did not sound like that to Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade. Speaking with Frank Trumbetti, co-owner of the gym that has repeatedly defied restrictions, Kilmeade asked what the rationale is for gyms being closed by the government. "How dare they do this to small business owners across the country? What is the logic?"
“I have no idea what stats they’re looking at," said Trumbetti. "But I sincerely think that they actually are looking to make sure that they can mandate a peak and a spike in Covid cases in the Fall, so they can shut everything down again. That is my honest belief.” "If they open up gyms they know that everybody’s going to go to them, they’re going to get healthy, they’re going to feel better, they’re going to build their immune system, and they’re going to have less of a spike in the Fall, and I truly believe that that’s what this is all about," he said.
"This is inexcusable," said Kilmeade. Not about the disinformation the two gym owners shared or their wild conspiracy theory that the government is trying to keep people sick in order to increase the pandemic so they can justify more lockdowns, not that. Kilmeade was saying that restrictions on gyms are inexcusable.
So was this interview, Brian. 6.5.0 |
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| | Trump vs The Mail President Donald Trump appeared to admit on Thursday that he’s withholding funds from the post office in an effort to limit mail-in voting for the 2020 election.
During an interview on Fox Business, host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump what Democrats are pushing in the coronavirus stimulus package that was causing the negotiations to be held up
“They want 3-and-a-half billion dollars for the mail-in votes. Universal mail-in ballots, 3-and-a-half… They want $25 billion — billion — for the post office. Now, they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots," he said.
"They want mail-in voting and they want money for the post office? This is one of the sticking points that’s holding back stimulus for Americans during this coronavirus?” said Bartiromo with a "wow" for emphasis.
Trump answered in part that "they want $25 billion for the post office because the post office is going to have to go to town to get these ridiculous ballots in," but you really have to see the whole thing. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold was among MANY who responded on Thursday, when he blasted Trump's threats of defunding the U.S. Postal Service to defeat mail-in voting initiatives. “This is voter suppression, plain and simple,” Griswold said.
Democratic opponent and former Vice President Joe Biden slammed Trump over it. “Pure Trump,” said Biden. “He doesn’t want an election." Meanwhile, in Rhode Island court, the GOP effort to block mail-in voting was rejected.
But wait, there's more
As Trump railed against the Green New Deal in the interview, he turned his focus toward his Democratic opponents and said “Sleepy Joe buys into it. He buys it into like — oh, great. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.” After that, Trump went after Harris for her confrontational approach with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, calling her a "mad woman."
He then called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “stone-cold crazy” and said that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is “not even a smart person.”
And even more...
At one point, Trump and Bartiromo together careened into a wild, eight minute shared diatribe over the “treason” they say has been committed against him.
Bartiromo gushed about how much Trump has gotten done "even in the face of all this," and listed various political challenges and investigations that have taken place during his time in office. “What was most difficult and most surprising for you in this last three-and-a-half years?” she said. From there, Trump went off against the “phony, fake impeachment” before bragging about his performance and saying “Ronald Reagan couldn’t get it done.” “There was still a coup against you,” Bartiromo interjected. “There was still a coup against you is my point. Yes, the journalist called it a coup and then together they vented at length and with vigor.
AOC Challenges Trump to Transcript Fight
Ocasio-Cortez responded by issuing a challenge to President Trump after he attacked her intelligence during that wild interview with Bartiromo.
She challenged him to bet his college transcripts against her own
We're so shocked right now
The QAnon-supporting Republican in Georgia who was praised and congratulated by Trump this week is also a 9/11 Truther, it turns out.
‘Dystopian’ A Florida sheriff is making national headlines and facing huge backlash for not just criticizing face masks, but banning them for his deputies and staff — as well as visitors to the sheriff’s offices — on the same day that Covid-19 deaths in his county hit an all-time high.
Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods, the top cop in the north central Florida county, issued his prohibition in response to a local ordinance mandating masks that was passed by the Ocala City Council last week.
Whose banana, though?
Rudy Giuliani, who very publicly urged the Trump administration’s Justice Department to probe corruption claims against Joe Biden, went on Fox News Wednesday night to ominously warn that if a Biden–Harris administration pursued a criminal prosecution of Donald Trump if he lost in November, the United States would have sunk to the level of a “banana republic.”
Trump vs Morning Joe
Thursday morning Trump attacked cable news hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, as well as CNN’s morning anchors, in a tweet that ended with an odd thanks to himself — in the third person — for the success of Fox & Friends. Already in the heat for calling Kamala Harris "nasty", Trump went for broke calling Brzezinski a "ditzy airhead."
Undeterred, Morning Mika fired back full blast.
Seriously? AGAIN??
Newsweek magazine faced a blizzard of criticism over a column that questioned Senator Kamala Harris’ eligibility for the vice presidency, in what many saw as an echo of the racist “birther” campaign against former President Barack Obama.
And then when they tried to fix it they made it worse, because d'uh. 6.5.0 |
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🎤 In Their Words: “Media seems to be obsessed with this idea of everybody marching to the same beat,” says Will Cain — a man who definitely does not march to the same beat. Anybody who has seen Cain go toe-to-toe with Stephen A. Smith on ESPN’s First Take over the past few years knows that Cain thrives off taking the contrarian position. That’s a trait he’s planning on bringing to Fox & Friends Weekend — where, starting on Saturday, he will serve as co-host alongside Jedediah Bila and Pete Hegseth. As someone who ho says he did not vote for Trump in 2016, he could be out of step with his new colleagues, or audience, on at least some points. But he is undaunted, as he tells Mediaite's Joe DePaolo in this exclusive Q&A... |
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| Late Night Hits Harris Nomination Response
Late-night hosts Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert went after Trump, the GOP, and Fox News over their their responses to Biden selecting Kamala Harris as his running mate.
“He also shouldn’t be surprised that past enemies can become your friends. I mean, look who he has been working with,” said Trevor Noah, mocking the GOP highlighting Harris' previous criticism of Biden “Ted Cruz, who called him a pathological liar and a narcissist. Lindsey Graham, who said he was a bigot and a nut job who was destroying the Republican Party. Marco Rubio, who called him a con artist and said he had a small d*ck. And, of course, Jared Kushner, who selfishly married the love of Trump’s life.”
Colbert's Trump even brought up Poca-Harris |
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