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CNN’s White House reporter Kaitlan Collins was caught removing her mask and violating social distancing policies when she thought the cameras were off after the May 15th press briefing.

Unfortunately for Collins, cameras were still rolling.

The press conference concluded with WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany saying, “I like your pink blazer Kaitlin.”

You then see Collins, unaware a camera was still rolling, take off her mask before violating social distancing rules.

 

The video was first surfaced by pro-Trump Twitter account “Power Tie.”

The mask is for show? https://t.co/XnRLiEJ1L5

— Power Tie (@realPowerTie) May 15, 2020

Collins’ violation of social distancing rules is problematic, as the White House Correspondents Association previously threatened to remove OANN reporter Chanel Rion from the press briefing rotation for violating social distancing rules.

As Axios and other outlets reported:

WHCA ousts OANN after reporter violates social distancing rules

The White House Correspondents Association on Wednesday voted to remove One America News Network from the press briefing rotation after one of the outlet’s reporters broke social-distancing guidelines amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Neither CNN nor Collins has commented about her violation of social distancing rules.

Jon Karl, who as head of the WHCA took action against Rion, has also not commented on Collins’ violation of social distancing rules.

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Who are the worst people on the Internet and what motivates them? Why are they all men? Female filmmaker Alex Moyer shows us these troubled souls in TFW NO GF.

For those who don’t live online, TFW is a meme for how your face would look if you had no girlfriend. You’d feel sad, lonely, isolated. Some of these types begin hating women, whom they call “Stacey,” based on their sense that women should give them more attention. Yet contrary to fake news myths, trolls aren’t misogynists as much as outright misanthropic humanity haters. Mass shooter Elliot Rodger, in his angry diatribe on life, expressed more hatred for men.

Rodger killed 4 men and 2 women. The media spun it has a misogynistic hate crime, because no one cares when men die.

The frustrating part of TFW NO GF was the subjects able-bodiedness. These aren’t men born with crippling disabilities, as reformed 8Chan founder Fredrick Brennan was born with. At least Hotwheels had an excuse for his rage, and yet Brennan lived as if he had no excuses. Brennan has recently found Jesus and is devoting himself to Christianity.

None of the men even had severe acne. One guy was on the shorter side, big deal.

There’s just nothing inherently defective about them, and If anything, they were good raw material for a bodybuilding program.

In TFW NO GF, relatively tall white men with good bone structure sit around crying about how hard life is. Maybe hit the gym, read some books, do some basic self-improvement. It’s not easy to “make it” these days, but it’s the greatest time in the history of the world to be alive. Years ago these guys would have been drafted into the army and forced to shoot at people in the jungles of Vietnam, developing lifelong PTSD. A lack of direction from society is a blessing compared to the historical treatment of men.

Moyer took a motherly approach with her subjects, and maybe that’s part of what got these men into trouble in the first place – too much mothering. A mother’s unconditional love is beautiful when tempered with masculine discipline. On its own, too much love makes you soft and entitled.

In a meta way, Moyer relates to her subjects post-production.

TFW NO GF was set for SXSW film circuit. Media tour. All the good shit. Coronavirus hits. DREAMS CRUSHED.

But at least Moyer took action in her own life, dared to dream, and created a noteworthy project.

The vibe of lost dreams is seen throughout the film, as men with nothing wrong with them fritter away their lives trolling on the Internet, smoking cigarettes, and getting fat.

Or maybe these young men never learned to dream or to strive. The novel Fight Club hit in 1996. What’s changed?

• “I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we’ve been all raised by television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won’t and we’re slowly learning that fact. and we’re very very pissed off.”

If words are violence, then 4Chan and Twitter are the modern day Fight Club.

They’d be better off finding a gym and library.

Did I like the film?

Yes, it was engaging, entertaining, and well-shot. It had an indie feel which brings a welcome relief to the trend of overproduction.

You can watch TFW NO GF here.

Hoaxed was the #1 selling documentary in the world, which means I can now lay claim to being a film producer in addition to having written a best-selling mindset book. Some may call this bravado but the record speaks for itself. Best-selling filmmaker. Best-selling author. Forced open the Jeffrey Epstein case. Made a member of Congress resign.

My life is a highlight reel. 99% of filmmakers will never have a top film. 99% of authors will never have a best-selling book. 99% of reporters will never force a member of Congress to resign. I’ve done all of that and more. Stuff I won’t even write because it would be more unbelievable than what I just wrote.

You can do it all, too.

There is a way to win at life.

A formula.

Most won’t follow it, and this message isn’t for them.

People will cry or whine about me “bragging: or try to bring me down.

I don’t care.

I don’t even enable comments here.

I went from a fat kid with asthma in a home with a bipolar mom to where I am now.

From not being able to take a trip more than an hour away from my house (because the care might break down) to traveling the world.

And I didn’t have me as a mentor.

Some of my guys, like Nestor, are doing more at 29 than I am at 42.

For years guys have wanted me to start a private group.

I never did because it’s hard to teach what I know.

You want to get where I am? Learn to suffer. Walk into fights you shouldn’t get into. Ignore the fake alpha male bullshit you see online from guys who pretended to make it, but wouldn’t get noticed in any room they walked into.

That message doesn’t translate well….

Meet Mike Bolen.

Mike started coming down to our cigar nights and we hit it off right away.

He “gets it.” Doesn’t f*ck around, doesn’t lie about money and all of this other stuff.

Being online as long as I have, you just get burned out.

By the fakers, the frauds, the fricking time wasters.

Mike is a successful real estate developer.

He’s done deals for 20-30 years.

Commercial.

Residential.

Rental.

AirBnb.

He’s done all of that and more.

As well as owning a vineyard.

He’s opening up a group.

Message him here at this link.

DO NOT message me.

I know how the questions go….

“Is this group right for me?”

“How does this group compare to so-and-so’s?”

If you want to learn more about the group, send a message here (click this link).

“What is Mike Bolen’s deal?”

His group will be real-estate focused.

Buying properties.

Finding properties.

Financing properties.

And other real state stuff.

Find out more here:

In less than 3 hours I'm kicking off my real estate group

The group will change lives and be fun, otherwise I wouldn't bother.

DM me "FREEDOM" to get in pic.twitter.com/44wM3hMoOa

— Mike Bolen | Real Estate Investor (@mikebolen) April 27, 2020

 

 

 

Hoaxed Movie was the 3rd best-selling independent film last week according to the official tally posted today by the Associated Press.

iTunes Store/App Store/Apple Books charts for week ending April 19th

iTunes Movies US Charts – Independent:

1. Uncut Gems

2. Napoleon Dynamite

*** 3. Hoaxed ***

4. I Still Believe

5. Sea Fever (2019)

6. Call Me By Your Name

7. Vivarium

8. Extra Ordinary

9. Endings, Beginnings

10. The Fittest

Hoaxed movie was a top 10 best selling independent film according to the Associate Press last week, which released the results here:

iTunes Movies US Charts – Independent:

1. Uncut Gems

…

8. Hoaxed

Hoaxed is currently the second best selling documentary in iTunes history, trailing the beloved and widely popular FREE SOLO.

Hoaxed is now the second best selling documentary of all time. pic.twitter.com/8CJpWmIwcA

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 16, 2020

Where to Watch Hoaxed Movie

iTunes here

Vimeo here

YouTube here

VuDu here

DVDS are available here.

 

 

Our third was unplanned. Our timeline of properly-spaced out pregnancies had been changed. We made a video of Shauna finding out she was pregnant, and looked forward to joking with our child about how unexpected this was.

Test results back. Turner Syndrome, which meant our third would be a girl, although the test we used had a high rate of false positives because it’s done early in the pregnancy. Further testing showed our third wouldn’t make it into this world at all. “No heartbeat,” Shauna was told in a moment that will be one beyond my comprehension. “However sad you are, it’ 100 times worse for her,” a friend who has been through this told me.

There’s a certain stigma attached to miscarriages. Researched showed us it was common. There are probably a bunch of our friends who went through it without telling us. Like mental illness, it’s a subject you’re not supposed to talk openly about. Maybe because death is uncomfortable. What can you say to a friend who lost a pregnancy? Words fail, although some thoughtful friends sent flowers.

“It’s OK to be sad, just don’t start drinking,” is what I tell my clients. Men especially avoid processing trauma, and the truth is we can’t afford to sit around on a couch talking about our childhood. We must move forward, but not yet. Today I’m sitting in a room following my own advice. It’s OK to feel sad, at least for a little while….

There was an obituary that a political reporter posted about her father, and I was going to quote it here because it moved me in ways writing rarely does, and it made me want to be a better father. I now see she deleted it. Writing about others, even taking shots at powerful people who may make your life difficult, is a rush. Writing about your own life requires you to rip open your own wounds and then be called “self-indulgent” by the mob. The crowd wants you to fight other people. Put on a show. No one wants to see the struggle you face internally, because that may shine a mirror on their own vulnerabilities. What might they find if they looked away from the spectacle and focused within….

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body,” is a quote from Elizabeth Stone you roll your eyes at before you have your first child. Oh come on, there are billions of us alive today, and over 50 billion people have lived. There is no miracle of child birth, it can’t feel like that. I believed every word of that rebuttal. Then it happened to me.

Life happens to everyone, and it’s a miracle when you experience it. Death happens to everyone, and that makes it no less of a tragedy when you feel it.

Loss has a way of bringing focus. I was concerned about the stresses a third would bring, and began doing calculations on how we would handle the additional workload. Cyra is older and headstrong. Would Rumi feel like a neglected middle child, as she’d be 20 months when the third (we hadn’t decided on a name) arrived? With Shauna’s parents nearby, we’ve had all of the benefits of parenthood without the usual downsides of struggling to find childcare. A third would have been a lot of work. My international trips would be delayed. Some projects would be moved around for lack of time. “Two kids in diapers, what a mess,” is where my mind was. Such petty, trivial, selfish nonsense. That’s how it feels now.

I’m sitting here wishing we had received this incredible gift of chaos.