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  • Omarosa Claims White House Staff Joked About Removing Trump From Office So Much They Had A Hashtag  

    Omarosa Manigault Newman, who once worked in the White House under the official title of mixologist of the crew, is back on her mixtape grind and while she didn’t drop another secretly recorded gem, she’s been speculating on who wrote the hit New York Times op-ed and confirming that many White House staffers actually considered…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    September 10, 2018
  • NFL Players Have Stopped Kneeling Because That's What Black America Wants

    Sunday marked the official beginning of racist plantation NFL owners touting how well they can get their black players to abandon their community and “toe the line,” more commonly called “professional football.” While the season actually began with the Thursday night flagfest debacle between the Atlanta Falcons and the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday marked the first…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    September 10, 2018
  • No More Sneak Dissing: Wakandan President Barack Obama Calls Trump Out By Name

    For the first time since leaving office, former president of the United States and current president of Wakanda, Barack Obama, has publicly called the devil by his birth name. According to HuffPost, the moment happened during a speech by the former (and my only) president at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Friday. Obama…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    September 7, 2018
  • Trump Wants Department of Justice to Investigate Who Wrote New York Times Op-Ed   

    Because President Donald Trump doesn’t know how any of this works, he still believes that the Department of Justice is his personal militia who exist merely to handle cases he deems worthy. On Friday, the president called for the U.S. Justice Department to get to the bottom of the great White House mystery of who…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    September 7, 2018
  • Watch: Trump Sounds Drunk or White-Supremacist-Wasted as He Slurs His Words, Again 

    Donald Trump has a full set of fake teeth … or at least fake uppers. It’s either that or the president of people who throw iron horseshoes at each other is proof that you can get drunk off Diet Coke because once again he struggled to get his words out. During a rally in Montana,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    September 7, 2018
  • A Completely Insane but Very Possible Conspiracy Theory That Ben Carson Authored the NYT Op-Ed

    The last time we heard anything about the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Secretary Ben Carson, he was trying to get some blinged-out furniture for his office. It wasn’t on some Paul Manafort ostrich skin-level shit, but Ben was definitely trying to hype his office on some Diddy-esque executive swag. Why is that important?…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    September 6, 2018
  • Brett ‘B-Killa’ Kavanaugh Claims He Grew Up Around Guns, Drug and Gang Violence

    Anyone who knows me knows that I’m boycotting the NFL for the third year. In the absence of gridiron battles, I’ve taken to Senate hearings to pass time. On Brett Kavanaugh’s second day of grilling by the Congressional panel for his nomination to the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh dropped the most laughable line of his life.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    September 6, 2018
  • Donald Trump Jr. Used His Father's Face to Make His Own Nike Ad

    Donald Trump Jr., a.k.a. Whose mans is this? a.k.a. Not-Ivanka, a.k.a. Vanessa Trump’s baby daddy, claims to have fixed the controversial Nike ad by adding his father’s flaccid face. “Not-Ivanka” posted his version of the Nike ad to his Instagram page on Wednesday. Since the debut of Nike’s Colin Kaepernick ad for the 30th anniversary…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    September 6, 2018
  • Trump Claimed He Never Used The Word ‘Retarded.’ Video Proves That Is a Lie

    President Trump is the worst kind of liar. He’s reckless with a bad memory who doesn’t even try to recall whether he’s lying or not. He lies just to lie and then when he could tell the truth, he just lies some more. In Fear, the forthcoming Bob Woodward book, the author reports that the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    September 6, 2018
  • Watch Alex Jones And Sen. Marco Rubio Almost Get Into A Fight

    In what might be the weirdest dustup of 2018, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Tex.) and resident nutjob Alex Jones (W-hite) engaged in a full-on “Hold me back” moment that included name-calling and vague threats of violence. According to the USA Today, Rubio was outside of a hearing on social media when Jones decided he was going…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    September 5, 2018
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