Chuck Todd Is a Halfwit Clown

By Lainey Bobainey | Pajiba Love | June 19, 2019 |

A House panel held a hearing today, Juneteenth, to discuss reparations. Ta-Nehisi Coates had things. to. say. - (TMS)

Best Chris (Hemsworth) is very funny! OtherLainey wonders who would be Funniest Chris, though. I still say Hemsworth. - (Lainey)

Adele looks flippin’ fantastic, but that’s not the main thing. The main thing is that she got to see THE SPICE GIRLS and she clearly enjoyed the crap out of herself! - (Celebitchy)

Tony Robbins has always creeped me out and now every new detail that comes out about him and the way he treats his “followers” makes me wonder how he’s managed to hide in plain sight for so long. - (Dlisted)

Two years ago, Brian wrote about Ebony not paying their freelance writers and now Ebony Magazine has allegedly fired its entire online editorial staff, without paying them what they’re owed. - (The Root)

There was a viral garlic peeling “hack” going around the other day and turns out, it doesn’t really work. Womp womp! - (Lifehacker)

It’s the 50th anniversary of the moon landing! What better way to celebrate than with Oreos in a glow-in-the-dark package? - (IB)

The pass rate for women is higher than for men for the first time in seven years on a medical school entrance exam in Tokyo - WooHoo! What’s that? After they stopped rigging “[…]exam scores for more than a decade to favour male candidates, citing concerns that women who went on to become doctors would leave the profession to have children.” Fucking hell. - (The Guardian)

Since I work from home, I practically live in jammypants and a t-shirt. Cute summer pajamas? YES PLEASE! - (GFY)

A Norwegian island wants to just do away with time. Just get rid of it. I don’t know how this would work out for school, appointments, making plans, etc., but sure, why not? - (Gizmodo)

“I’ve had it with these emmereffing ANTS on this emmereffing plane!” No, it’s not a new Samuel L. Jackson sequel, it’s a United Airlines flight. - (Refinery 29)

We have not weighed in on AOC’s concentration camp remarks, because I think you all probably know where we stand. Chuck Todd did weigh in, however, and Chuck Todd is a moron.

Ocasio-Cortez's comparison of ICE detentions to concentration camps did border detainees "a tremendous disservice" #MTPDaily

"She said she didn't use those words lightly," Chuck Todd said. "Well, neither did I." pic.twitter.com/5CIOfWn7BQ
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) June 19, 2019

I am curious at what point the situation becomes sufficiently "shameful" that Chuck Todd will allow us to use the term "concentration camp." Is it based on the number of people there? Number of deaths? Length of average detention? The conditions? Degree of access to courts?
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) June 19, 2019

This makes no sense - in one breath, Chuck Todd concedes that @AOC herself says she wasn’t referring to Nazi death camps, but in the next breath he condemns her for invoking “Nazi concentration camps” - which she didn’t. As he himself conceded only seconds earlier. Sigh. https://t.co/fkuC9uuvsn
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) June 19, 2019

I’m really bothered by this story. I mean, the first part is obvious: Giving meth to a squirrel is bad. But the part that’s bothering me is: They let the squirrel go free - with no meth or any idea what a squirrel rapidly detoxing from meth goes through or does! - (HuffPo)

This inspired a good half-hour of conversation in our Slack today:

My mother-in-law wore a wedding dress to my wedding. So, yeah, top that one, Twitter. #weddingfail @jimmyfallon pic.twitter.com/IjqvnXT6Ps
— Amy Pennza (@AmyPennza) June 19, 2019

NewlyWest found every part of Sara Ackerman’s The Island Of Sweet Pies and Soldiers beautiful. Set in Hawaii during WWII, the book is part mystery, part romance, and part family drama. "By the end, I was so engrossed that it was a bit of a mourning when I had read the last page." What was the last book you were sad to finish? (Cannonball Read 11)

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