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Robert De Niro Testifies Against Former Assistant at Gender Discrimination Trial: ‘All Nonsense’ – Rolling Stone
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- Grumpy Robert De Niro testifies in sensational showdown with ex-assistant who claimed he’s boss from hell: ‘This is nonsense!’ New York Post
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Grumpy Robert De Niro testifies in sensational showdown with ex-assistant who claimed he’s boss from hell: ‘This is nonsense!’ – New York Post
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Bill Gates gets real about climate change: Planting trees is ‘complete nonsense’ but the end of the oil and gas era is finally in sight – Fortune
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Jason Kennedy praises Ashley Graham for handling Hugh Grant’s Oscars ‘nonsense’ – Page Six
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Karine Jean-Pierre torched for ‘word salad’ defending Biden’s border policy: ‘40 seconds of total nonsense’ – Fox News
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Bed Bath & Beyond jumps 50% to lead ‘nonsense’ rally in meme stocks; AMC gains 15%
A “Store Closing” banner on a Bed Bath & Beyond store in Farmingdale, New York, on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
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A group of highly speculative stocks rallied double digits on Wednesday as retail investors pushed meme names up again in the new year following a dismal 2022.
Bed Bath & Beyond rallied a whopping 50% to trigger the trend in morning trading Wednesday. Shares of GameStop, the original star of 2021’s meme stock mania, climbed more than 10%. AMC Entertainment soared 18%.
Meme stocks rallying one more time
| Stock | Short interest % float | Wed. Gain | % off 52W high |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) | 48.9% | 60% | -89% |
| AMC (AMC) | 21% | 15% | -78% |
| GameStop (GME) | 21% | 8% | -62% |
Source: FactSet
The rally in Bed Bath & Beyond was initially triggered by news that it would lay off more employees in an attempt to reduce costs and stay in business.
The home goods retailer told employees that it is eliminating the chief transformation officer role, which is held by Anu Gupta, on the same day it reported disappointing fiscal third-quarter results. Bed Bath & Beyond is approaching a potential bankruptcy, as its sales decline and losses grow.
“We don’t love the strength in nonsense stocks like AMC, CVNA, GME, BBBY, PRTY, etc.,” said Adam Crisafulli, founder of Vital Knowledge. “This just means people are blindly chasing.”
During early 2021, a band of retail traders joined forces on social media to bid up a slew of heavily shorted stocks, creating massive short squeezes that inflicted high pain on short sellers. These meme stocks experienced big pullbacks last year when risk sentiment shifted amid aggressive rate hikes. GameStop fell 50% in 2022, while AMC tumbled 75% and Bed Bath & Beyond plunged 82%.
While the short interest in these names has come down from its peak after the jaw-dropping episode, it still remains much higher than average.
About 48% of Bed Bath & Beyond’s float shares are sold short, compared with an average of 5% short interest in a typical U.S. stock, according to S3 Partners. For GameStop, the short interest stands at 21%, down from more than 100% at the height of the meme stock mania in 2021, according to FactSet. AMC has also 21% of shares sold short.
A short squeeze happens when a stock jumps sharply higher, it forces short sellers to buy back shares in order to limit their losses. The short covering tends to fuel the stock’s rally further.
Kristi Noem spox eviscerated for ‘nonsense attack’ against Ron DeSantis: ‘Absolute clown car performance’
Gov. Kristi Noem’s, R-S.D., chief spokesman set off social media users after he attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ abortion stance while issuing a statement on an unrelated issue.
National Review staff writer Nate Hochman revealed the exchange in a post Thursday, explaining he had reached out to Noem’s team for a comment on alleged connections between South Dakota Republican lawmakers and transgender activist and medical groups. After rejecting “any implication that Governor Noem is overly cozy with” the lobbying groups, chief of communications Ian Fury sent a follow-up email contrasting Noem’s abortion record with DeSantis.
“Governor Noem was the only Governor in America on national television defending the Dobbs decision,” Fury wrote. “Where was Governor DeSantis? Hiding behind a 15-week ban. Does he believe that 14-week-old babies don’t have a right to live?”
Hochman wrote that Fury’s “unprompted diatribe” also included accusing National Review of being “no longer pro-life” because it’s “carrying water for Gov. DeSantis.”
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during the Family Leadership Summit, July 16, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa.
(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
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Hochman recounted the story from his Twitter account.
“Kristi Noem’s chief of communications unloaded on Ron DeSantis yesterday, accusing DeSantis of ‘hiding behind’ the 15-week abortion ban he signed in April — and questioning if DeSantis believed ‘that 14-week-old babies don’t have a right to live,’ Hocman wrote.
Twitter users piled on Hochman’s account of these comments, criticizing Fury’s attacks while speculating on Noem’s 2024 presidential aspirations.
American Commitment president Phil Kerpen tweeted, “15 weeks is politically sustainable. This is a nonsense attack.”
“Absolute clown car performance by @IanTFury. Why is @govkristinoem’s team so wildly insecure?” Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer asked.
National Review editor Philip Klein wrote, “Lost in the Trump v DeSantis focus of 2024 has been the open hostility that Kristi Noem’s team has had toward DeSantis. @njhochman contacted Noem’s spox about an unrelated story and he just unloaded on DeSantis’s record on abortion.”
“Someone is desperate and scared that her 2024 chances are evaporating already,” historian Varad Metha joked.
Both Kristi Noem and Ron DeSantis were seen as potential 2024 presidential candidates in a CPAC straw poll in 2021.
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Independent Women’s Forum senior policy analyst Inez Stepman commented, “The most transparent deflection I’ve maybe ever seen from a Gov’s press shop. ‘What comment do you have, we are reporting on your obvious corruption and capitulation to woke business interests’ ‘RON DESANTIS HATES BABIES’ Shame on everyone involved in this.”
“In 2024 news…” NBC News political reporter Allan Smith tweeted.
N.H. GOV. SUNUNU TARGETS ‘WOKE POLICY’ BUT CRITICIZES FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS’ CULTURE WAR TACTICS
The dispute later continued as Fury responded to the National Review report with a lengthy Twitter thread, reiterating his attacks against DeSantis and claiming Hochman “long ago outed himself as someone with an unhealthy bias against @KristiNoem. When his narrative is proven false, he doesn’t let facts get in the way of his efforts to take her down. Here are a few of the most egregious errors in his most recent reporting.”
“My comments to Nate regarding his motivations have gotten some attention. I’ll be more blunt here. Nate is a shill for Gov. DeSantis. He attacks Gov. Noem using the once-proud masthead of National Review because he sees her as a threat. Here are my comments to Nate,” Fury wrote in his eleventh of 12 tweets.
“Respectfully, I don’t think anyone sees Kristi Noem as a serious threat to DeSantis anymore,” Hochman responded. “Pretty much every single claim in Ian’s thread is false, but the weirdest one of all is his doubling-down on the idea that my criticisms of Noem are equivalent to ‘shilling’ for DeSantis—a politician that I never mentioned in either the piece itself or my correspondence with Ian.
“The basis of the claim, as best as I can understand it, is that I’ve written nice things about DeSantis before. The problem is, I’ve written nice things about a lot of different politicians that I generally like. I’m not sure how one gets from point A to point B here.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the crowd after being sworn in to begin his second term during an inauguration ceremony outside the Old Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, in Tallahassee, Fla.
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DeSantis originally signed a bill restricting abortion access after 15 weeks in April, months prior to the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in June. The bill resembled the 2018 Mississippi law that led to the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that was part of the Supreme Court decision.
In straw polls at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2021, both DeSantis and Noem were seen as potential 2024 presidential candidates, behind former President Donald Trump. After eliminating Trump as an option, DeSantis led the poll at 43% while Noem trailed behind at 11%.
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In December, DeSantis overtook Trump in a poll of GOP presidential primary voters by the Wall Street Journal.
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s docuseries seen as ‘fluff and nonsense’ within ‘palace walls’: royal expert
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s docuseries, “Harry & Meghan,” has viewers talking. And, according to one royal expert, it’s not in a good way.
Neil Sean was a guest on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” Friday and said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix show has been perceived as “fluff and nonsense” to people in the U.K., and those “particularly within palace walls.”
MacCallum shared a clip of Harry in the series claiming his brother, Prince William, screamed and shouted at him when Harry decided to step away from royal duties in 2020 and move to California with Meghan Markle.
“It’s seen over here, and particularly within palace walls, as just fluff and nonsense,” Sean said. “The bigger problem, Martha, is this: The continuation of the tissue of lies that, of course, Meghan [Markle] and Harry have presented about staff working within the palace. That’s the bigger problem.”
PRINCE WILLIAM, KATE CONDUCT BUSINESS AS USUAL AS PRINCE HARRY, MEGHAN MARKLE CONTINUE WITH BOMBSHELL CLAIMS
Neil Sean was a guest on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” Friday, and he shared that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix show has been perceived as “fluff and nonsense” to people in the U.K. and those “particularly within palace walls.”
(Mike Coppola)
Sean mentioned the moment of Harry flashing his phone to the screen, alleging an aggressive text message from William.
“Really, there’s no recollection of that particular text from William to Harry,” Sean said. “So what was on it? And why didn’t you show it to the camera? Is it really true is a question that a lot of people are asking over here.”
King Charles III and the royal family, including Prince William and Kate Middleton, have not publicly commented on the docuseries and have been conducting business as usual.
Meghan Markle cries while sitting beside Prince Harry.
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On Thursday, the Princess of Wales hosted her second annual “Royal Carols: Together at Christmas” event.
Middleton and Prince William were joined by their children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, as well as King Charles III and Camilla, queen consort, for the event.
Prince William, Prince of Wales; Princess Charlotte of Wales; Prince George of Wales; and Catherine, Princess of Wales, attend the “Together at Christmas” carol service at Westminster Abbey Dec. 15, 2022, in London.
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry stepped away from royal duties in 2020 and moved to California. They are pictured here with the late Queen Elizabeth II.
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Earlier in the day, Netflix released the second installment of the docuseries “Harry & Meghan,” which focuses on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s exit from royal life, coined “Megxit” by the press.
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In 2020, the couple announced they were stepping back as senior members of the British royal family.
B.J. Novak Shuts Down Bill Maher’s ‘Cancel Culture’ Nonsense
On Friday night, Bill Maher welcomed an unlikely guest to Real Time: B.J. Novak, the Office writer/co-star, bestselling author, and filmmaker.
Novak visited the HBO program to promote his feature directorial debut Vengeance, an indie screwball about an opportunistic New York City journalist/podcaster who ventures to red-state Texas to investigate the death of a former flame. So naturally, Maher tried to engage Novak on a number of hot-button cultural issues regarding the political divide in this country.
Maher kicked things off by asking Novak about “the cognitive dissonance of, I don’t agree with you politically, but I like you personally… how can we do that on a national level en masse?”
“In my opinion, it’s about emotion more than argument, and I think it’s about stopping ourselves from picking at the scab of everything that we disagree on,” Novak calmly explained. “Twitter is a drug for that, and when we’re separate behind screens, we pick the scab, we bite the canker sore of the things we disagree on. And I think if we all try to do that less, and focus on things like comedy, or sports, or art, or whatever, or sitting down over dinner, I think that is a start.”
The audience gave Novak a round of applause, which made Maher awkwardly smirk.
Then, Maher waded into so-called “cancel culture,” which in this case encompassed the notion that Twitter-happy audience members are somehow censoring Hollywood productions and not vice versa.
“Lately we’ve been talking a lot about on this show—we’re gonna talk about it tonight—the freedom in the arts,” offered Maher, before continuing: “You know, you’ve written some episodes of… The Office which they don’t show now. I see Jamie Foxx’s new movie was shelved—I guess he made it a few years ago, but they’re not gonna ever show it. They make less comedies. I mean, you found a way to make a comedy about something, but I’m sure you have to be very careful about a lot of different things. They’re making less because it’s so not worth it to even try. Where are you on that?”
Novak wasn’t so convinced of Maher’s theory. “I think there’s a difference between the gatekeepers and the audience—and I think you see this firsthand as a stand-up. The audiences, I think, are pretty down for everything,” he said. “They’re pretty smart people, and can be trusted a lot more than the gatekeepers sometimes worry. The gatekeepers are worried about the chatter in their own spheres, but I think audiences can be trusted to be pretty smart.”
“But it’s not in the hands of the audience,” shot back Maher.
“That’s what I’m saying,” replied Novak. “I’m saying, I don’t think the problem is that the audiences are too sensitive. I think the problem is that people are worried that other people are too sensitive.”
Maher was speechless.
The Office episode controversy Maher mentioned could use a bit of context. He was referring to an episode of The Office, “Diversity Day,” that Comedy Central decided to omit from an Office marathon on its network. The episode is still available on streaming services and for purchase, so this was clearly a decision made by the gatekeepers and not the audience, as Novak contended.
As for Jamie Foxx’s feature directorial debut All-Star Weekend, which the actor has claimed was shelved indefinitely due to sensitivities over Robert Downey Jr. playing a Mexican in the film, well, the movie was shot all the way back in 2016, and apparently featured Foxx playing a white racist cop and Downey Jr. as a Mexican. The movie was originally scheduled to be released in Feb. 2018, timed to NBA All-Star weekend, but was not completed in time. Its release date was then pushed a year to NBA All-Star weekend 2019 but was still not completed in time. All-Star Weekend’s release was subsequently pushed to late 2019, and then to 2021, but is now apparently on ice. We don’t know whether this has to do with the quality of the film or other factors, but rest assured, it’s the studio’s decision.
An important piece of info that Maher rather conveniently failed to mention regarding All-Star Weekend is that, in addition to its apparent post-production problems, Jeremy Piven has second billing in the film. In late 2017 into early 2018, eight women accused Piven of sexual misconduct.