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  • Here’s Why Colin Kaepernick’s Legal Team Should Subpoena the President in His NFL Collusion Case

    President Donald Trump couldn’t let kneeling players kneel. For Trump, the players protesting the over-policing of black communities became political points for him to hold up as examples of turncoats who don’t honor the American flag. He called them “sons of bitches,” urged NFL owners to fire players who refused to stand for the national…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 7, 2018
  • Trump Embarrasses His Wife With Cheating Scandals but Thinks the Media Treats Her Unfairly

    With a full heart and clear eyes, President Donald Trump tweeted, earnestly, that he’s getting tired of the “vicious” treatment first lady Melania Trump has received behind her weeklong absence from the public eye. “The Fake News Media has been so unfair, and vicious, to my wife and our great First Lady, Melania,” Trump tweeted.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 6, 2018
  • The Patriotic President From Patriotism-ville Doesn’t Know the Words to ‘God Bless America’

    If this were a movie, you would have walked out of the theater by now. On Tuesday, after President Donald Trump disinvited the champion Philadelphia Eagles to the White House and threw an all-wypipo party instead, he was caught mumbling the lyrics to “God Bless America.” Seriously, after all of his patriotic bullshit, not to…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 6, 2018
  • White House Worker Arrested After Secret Service Discovers He’s a Fugitive Wanted for Attempted Murder

    Police arrested a private contractor working at the White House on Tuesday afternoon after the Secret Service discovered that he had an outstanding arrest warrant in Prince George’s County, Md. According to the Washington Post, Martese Edwards, 29, was taken into custody at the checkpoint at the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW; and while…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 6, 2018
  • Aide Who Joked That Sen. John McCain Is ‘Dying Anyway’ No Longer Works at the White House

    Kelly Sadler, the White House aide who made national news when she “joked” that no one in the Trump administration should care what Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) thinks because “he’s dying anyway,” has left the White House. The West Wing aide made the comment to colleagues during a closed-door meeting last month; she was referring…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 6, 2018
  • Trump Believes That Kim and Kanye Are Helping With His Popularity Among African Americans!

    President Donald Trump recently welcomed the vapid mosh pit of black-woman body parts that is Kim Kardashian West to the abhorrent sinkhole, aka the White House, to discuss prison reform—which is funny because they were two knowledgeable people short of an actual discussion about prison reform. Together, the reality stars who have successfully parlayed their…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 5, 2018
  • Black GOP Senate Candidate Believes That Slave Descendants Are Better Off in America

    Bishop E.W. Jackson (pronounced Bishop Ewwwwww) is a black man in Virginia who’s running for the Republican nomination for the Senate. Stop me if you know where this is going. During an interview about his long-shot chance of actually winning a Senate seat in the South as a Republican, Jackson did his best to appease…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 5, 2018
  • Wait, Was That a Melania Trump Look-Alike?

    A woman with the facial structure and permanent scowl worn by first lady Melania Trump made an appearance Monday evening with her husband and legal captor, Donald Trump. The woman who answered to the name Melania was alongside the president during a ceremony to honor Gold Star families. While many, including this writer, believe that…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    June 5, 2018
  • Police Called on Oregon Senator After He’s Barred From Entering Immigration Detention Center

    U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) was hoping to visit with those being held in an immigration detention center in Texas; instead he was barred from entering and had the police called on him, and the whole encounter was recorded and posted to Facebook on Sunday. According to HuffPost: Merkley traveled to the facility in Brownsville,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 4, 2018
  • Bill Clinton Doesn’t Believe He Owes Monica Lewinsky an Apology, and Implies That He’s the Real Victim

    Former President Bill Clinton wants America to know that in spite of the recent #MeToo movement, he doesn’t believe he owes Monica Lewinsky an apology for the reported sexual encounter between the then-44-year-old president and Lewinsky, then a 22-year-old White House intern. Speaking to Today, Clinton defended his decision to remain in office following the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    June 4, 2018
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