DDoS- Stupid Awards 2023
Caleb, John, and Laura count down their picks for the top 10 stupidest stories of the year and Caleb reveals the winner of the Stupidest Person of the Year Award!
Sources:
https://news.yahoo.com/lauren-boebert-caught-security-footage-180000531.html
https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-plea-deal-taxes-gun-drugs-690d38f1ffae4dfce2c171d21e7d3594
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/1190327638/white-house-uses-the-term-bidenomics-to-help-sell-the-presidents-economic-agenda
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/28/bidenomics-is-working-the-presidents-plan-grows-the-economy-from-the-middle-out-and-bottom-up-not-the-top-down/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bud-light-dylan-mulvaney-kid-rock-tiktok-backlash-travis-tritt/
https://nypost.com/2023/09/09/bud-light-still-down-30-six-months-after-dylan-mulvaney-partnership/
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-media-tucker-carlson-part-ways
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-rep-bowman-faces-investigation-after-pulling-fire-alarm-capitol-2023-10-01/
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/11/1169191865/biden-ends-covid-national-emergency
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-gavin-newsom-debate-fox-news-sean-hannity-november-30-rcna117228
https://apnews.com/article/trump-desantis-abortion-ban-republican-primary-5bdbba55f9c2f328d49b5fbe9727677e
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/trump-blames-extreme-pro-lifers-for-republican-midterm-defeats/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKdVNa6aTY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CWLjdQRxDg
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DDoS- TikTok Loves Osama Bin Laden
TikTokers discover Osama Bin Laden's letter to America and can't help but praise and admire it because it agrees with their worldview.
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https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ubl2016/english/To%20the%20American%20people.pdf
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-removing-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america-posts-amid-apparent-viral-trend/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220324004821/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/consider-osama-bin-ladens-full-letter-not-tiktok-videos
Palestinian Polls
https://www.awrad.org/files/server/polls/polls2023/Public%20Opinion%20Poll%20-%20Gaza%20War%202023%20-%20Tables%20of%20Results.pdf
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia/
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DDoS- 2021 Stupid Awards
Caleb, Laura, and John discuss the top 5 stupidest stories of the year (as voted on by them) to be included in the Daily Dose of Stupid this year. They also announce the Stupidest Person of the Year, the person who has been featured in the DDoS the most this year.
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DDoS- Jen Psaki Says It's "Unfair and Absurd" That Companies Increase Prices Because of Higher Taxes
President Biden's Press Secretary Jen Psaki says the administration believes it is "unfair and absurd" that companies would raise prices as a result of tax hikes. Caleb explains some basic economics in response.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiH2ipjtVxw
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-public-thinks-the-average-company-makes-a-36-profit-margin-which-is-about-5x-too-high-part-ii/
https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/business/how-much-is-walmart-worth/
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DDoS- The National Archives Wants to Add Trigger Warnings to the Declaration and Constitution
The National Archives building has a "Race Task Force" that recommends that the rotunda, where the original Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are enshrined, should be "re-imagined" and should include trigger warnings and interpretive dance because the room is currently racist.
Sources:
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/ruffdrft.html
Koukl, Gregory. “Tactics.” Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009. 179
Miller, Dave. “Essays on God & Government.” Montgomery, AL: Apologetics Press, 2017.
Hall, Mark David. “Did America Have A Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth.” Nashville, TN: Nelson Books, 2019.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/national-archives-rotunda-structural-racism
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DDoS- Media Freaks Out Over Alabama's Puberty Blocker Ban
Both national and Alabama media outlets subtly try to skew their language in a way that implies the trans side of the debate over the new Alabama bill is right.
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DDoS- Biden Says No Rights are "Absolute" When Introducing Gun Control
President Joe Biden introduces new gun control policies by saying he will not curtail anyone's 2nd Amendment rights, but even if he did, that would be fine because "no amendment to the constitution is absolute." Then goes on to get all his facts wrong on both firearms and constitutional law.
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