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  • All Your Faves Are Problematic: Tiger Woods Wants People to Respect the Office of the President

    Apparently, one of the perks of becoming president of the United States is that you get to play golf with Tiger Woods and Donald Trump is the fourth president to hit the fairways with Woods. The two have played twice since Russia stole the election from Hillary Clinton and gave the White House to their…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 27, 2018
  • President Petty Responds to Pushback: White House Brings Flag Back to Half-Staff After John McCain's Death [Update]

    The president of people who still eat at Waffle House continued his petty-ass ways after the White House returned the flag back to full-staff less than two days after Sen. John McCain died. ABC News captured the moment that White House workers returned the flag to full-staff. The news station notes that it is tradition…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 27, 2018
  • Top Trump Official Granted Immunity: This Is the ‘Ultimate Nightmare Scenario for Trump’

    And the deplorable cookie continues to crumble, as the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization has been given immunity for information into hush money payments made to two former Playboy Playmates who claim to have had affairs with the president of people who eat roadkill. According to the Wall Street Journal, Allen Weisselberg was…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 24, 2018
  • Arizona Sen. John McCain to Stop Cancer Treatment

    It has been a long and valiant fight but on Friday, Arizona Sen. John McCain’s family announced that one of the most popular Republicans to speak out against the current president’s authoritarian regime will discontinue his brain cancer treatment. “The progress of the disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict,” McCain’s family said…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 24, 2018
  • President Trump and Jeff Sessions Continue Their Reality Show Reunion Brawl on Twitter

    This week’s version of The Real Husbands of the White House aired a very special episode when the public break up between Nicki Minaj and Safaree President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions continued on social media. On Thursday, the president of people who find pleasure in watching monster trucks smash regular cars made an…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 24, 2018
  • Trump Insults Attorney General Jeff Sessions and King Keebler Fights Back

    The love affair between Attorney General Jeff “Kindergarten King Keebler” Sessions and President Vladimir TrumPutin could be titled, “When Being Racist Isn’t Enough.” Trump believed fool-heartedly that because he and Sessions shared a disdain for all things non-white, that the attorney general would protect the president from obvious issues that he knew or even suspected…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    August 23, 2018
  • Flint Still Doesn’t Have Clean Drinking Water but Trump Is Tweeting About White South African Farmers

    As it stands Flint, Mich., still doesn’t have clean drinking water and Puerto Rico is still recovering from Hurricane Maria’s aftermath. But President Trump, in a late-night tweetstorm, decided to run down the rabbit hole that seems to be the latest white nationalist conspiracy theory, specifically, that white South African farmers are being murdered for…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 23, 2018
  • Trump’s Fox News Interview Sounds a Lot Like a Criminal Trying to Convince His Cellmate He’s Innocent

    On the heels of Trump’s former campaign manager and personal lawyer heading to the pokey, the president of people who stuff chew in their jaws and spit the brown residue into water bottles, made an appearance on his personal YouTube channel Fox News in which he proudly claimed that he’d give himself an A-plus for…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 23, 2018
  • ‘The Ultimate Clap Back’ Does It for the Culture

    MaryMartha E. Ford-Dieng’s eyes light up, and I turn to find the source of their delight. “Watch this, this is my favorite thing—seeing a black woman find it,” she says. “She’s thinking to herself, ‘Wait, is this what I think it is?’” We’re on the balcony level at the second annual Play NYC games convention,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 23, 2018
  • Senate Candidate Beto O’Rourke Defends NFL Players Right to Kneel: ‘I Can Think of Nothing More American’

    During a campaign appearance last week, Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who’s battling incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, a.k.a. grownup Eddie Munster, for the U.S. Senate, answered a question about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem and if it was disrespectful. “My short answer is no, I don’t think it’s disrespectful,” O’Rourke said in a video…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    August 22, 2018
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