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  • Trump Wants FBI and the DOJ to Review Jussie Smollett Case Because He's Only President to Rich White Criminals

    President Trump has added his voice to the dissenters of those unhappy with the recent dropping of all charges in Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s alleged “MAGA country” beating. In an early morning tweet on Thursday, the president said that the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice would review the case, calling it “outrageous” and…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 28, 2019
  • Trump Is Considering Going to the White House Correspondents' Dinner After Having the Best Week Ever

    President Trump is having his best week ever as president. First, special counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into whether there was collusion with Russia to gift wrap the 2016 presidential election—the investigation that has hovered over Trump’s presidency like a black cloud—has in Trump’s words “exonerated him.” Trump’s cries that the investigation was a “witch hunt”…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 27, 2019
  • Hey, Joe Biden Black Women Aren't Your Hood Ornament. Stacey Abrams Shuts Down VP Rumors: 'You Don’t Run for Second Place'

    I hate taking a victory lap all over your face, but I tired to tell y’all that old ass Joe Biden, who shouldn’t even be running for the damn phone, may have hit his head when it was reported that former President Obama’s BFF was mulling over choosing Stacey Abrams as his vice presidential running…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 27, 2019
  • Betsy DeVos Is Now the 2nd Worst Person in the Trump Administration After Defending Nearly $18 Million In Cuts to Special Olympics

    Education Secretary Betsy DeVos may have just edged out the Devil’s mouthpiece press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and is closing in on Trump for “Most hated member of this entire vomit-inducing administration” after defending budget cuts to….wait for it… the Special Olympics. You have to be pretty dam low to cut funding to the Special…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 27, 2019
  • Watch: Pennsylvania Lawmaker Weaponizes Jesus During the Whitest Prayer Before State’s First Muslim Woman Swears In

    Despite the fact that the Bible describes him as having “skin liken unto the color of Bronze” and “hair liken unto lamb’s wool,” America loves itself some Seasonless Jesus. When he’s not preoccupied with being “the reason for the season” every Christmas morning, you might spot him at your friendly neighborhood house of worship extolling…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 27, 2019
  • How Special Counsel Robert Mueller Threw the Alley-Oop That Led to America Getting Dunked On

    Special Counsel Robert Mueller was at a briefing with the Justice Department when he revealed something that no one on his team, no one overseeing his work, no one, literally, no one saw coming. That after two years of investigating whether there had been collusion by Trump’s campaign with Russia to help steal the 2016…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 26, 2019
  • Trump Shut Down the Government for 57 Miles of Border Fencing. Here Are 10 Things He Could've Done With That $1 Billion

    In a recent disclosure, the Pentagon says it is ready to give up $1 billion to build 57 miles of fencing along the southern border to stop the influx of Mexican Transformers wearing missile helmets and armed with bags of Oxycontin hidden in Ugg boots to entice white women. Yes, you read that correctly: $1,000,000,000…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 26, 2019
  • Court Will Consider If the Troller-in-Chief Can Use His Twitter Block Button

    President Trump is the embodiment of all right wing trolls. He dishes it out, but he can’t take it. On Tuesday, federal judges will consider whether the king of making up nicknames for his adversaries and then bashing them on Twitter can block folks who hate him and his presidency. According to The Washington Post,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 26, 2019
  • How Robert ‘Ferris’ Mueller Screwed Us All: Trump’s Going to Ride This ‘No Collusion With Russia’ Report Into His 2020 Campaign 

    We don’t know what’s in the actual report! That’s the lie I keep telling myself; that the world doesn’t know what’s actually in the million-page report that Special Counsel Robert Mueller handed over to Attorney General William Barr, the man most likely to play Steve Bannon in the off-Broadway musical, You Fucked Us In The…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    March 25, 2019
  • Michael Avenatti Charged With Extortion Against Nike: Report

    I assure you that I never talk like this but, “Ohhhhhh, bitch!” On Monday, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office charged attorney Michael Avenatti with trying to extort more than $20 million from Nike “by threatening to issue damaging allegations against the company unless it paid his client millions,” The Washington Post reports. According to the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    March 25, 2019
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