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  • Sen. Jeff Flake Just Torched Trump on the Senate Floor, but Does This Really Mean He’s an Ally?

    Before we run to nominate Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) as the designated white man to bring cups, plates, napkins and other nonfood items to the cookout because of the scorched-earth flames he threw on the Senate floor—in which he compared President Donald Trump to Joseph Stalin—let’s be selective about who gets into the collective backyard…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 17, 2018
  • The Girther Movement: Many People Don’t Believe the President Is Only 239 Pounds

    On Tuesday, White House doctor Ronny Jackson, the white doctor with the inherently black name, announced that the president had the hands of a Grecian god and the balls of a Spanish bull. Seriously, Dr. Jackson proclaimed that the only ailment troubling the KFC-fingered president was high cholesterol, and he added that Donald Trump could…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 17, 2018
  • White House Doctor: Trump Is Overweight and Has High Cholesterol, but His Mental Health Is Fine

    White House doctor Ronny Jackson, the white doctor with the inherently black name, conducted the president’s physical late last week, then conducted a full-on question-and-answer period with the press to address how physically fit and awesome the president believes himself to be. After the White House released a statement in which the doctor’s name was…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 16, 2018
  • Watch: Sen. Cory Booker Destroys Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen

    Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) went back into his mayor-of-Newark, N.J., bag to call out Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Tuesday for her inability to remember whether the president had used the word “shitholes” to describe African and Latin American nations. Nielsen, who was in the room during an immigration meeting that included the president…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 16, 2018
  • Steve Bannon Subpoenaed in Russian Investigation, but Will He Snitch?

    Steve “Big Poppa” Bannon, the former chief strategist to the racist in chief who has been in a full-on fuss fight with the man, has been subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller to appear before a grand jury. I’m praying that Bannon walks into the room and asks for a pack of Newports, a bag…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 16, 2018
  • Melania Trump’s MLK Tweet Proves That She Is As Delusional as Her Deplorable Husband

    I’ve always believed that Melania Trump was in an arranged marriage. And by “arranged,” I mean that she arranges times in which she is forced to watch her giant ball of old earwax devour a bucket of Original Recipe. Or arranges public appearances or official cutoff times for the contractual presidential coupling. Melania Trump doesn’t…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 16, 2018
  • Trump’s Lawyer Paid Porn Star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to Keep Quiet About Alleged Encounter With Trump: Report

    Well, what do you know? Turns out that a lawyer for the president of most of the Midwestern states and the part of Alabama that voted for Roy Moore paid a former adult-film star $130,000 for her silence around an alleged sexual encounter she had with Donald Trump in 2006. According to an explosive report…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 12, 2018
  • Trump Blames Obama for Canceled London Visit. Here’s the Real Reason He Backed Out

    President Sissy von AnusMouth is having a bad week. He’s gone from being the most hated man in America to possibly being the most hated man in the world. Not only is he forcing Congress to include his dumbass border wall in all negotiations for possible immigrant reform, but during a Thursday meeting, he went…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 12, 2018
  • Reporter April Ryan Asks Trump: ‘Are You a Racist?’ During MLK Event at White House

    Martin Luther King Jr. Day is around the corner, so you know what that means? Time to rattle Old Ben Carson’s birdcage and see if he has some words he’d like to mumble as the resident black face in Donald Trump’s administration. On Friday the former neurosurgeon, who might want to do some work on…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 12, 2018
  • How Donald Trump Made Don Lemon Look Like Malcolm X

    Did you see it last night on CNN? Don Lemon went full Huey Newton and called a racist a racist! It was glorious, but let’s slow down a bit—Don Lemon’s Afro didn’t grow to Colin Kaepernick levels. In fact, watching the metamorphosis of Lemon from passive Don Lemon to mildly annoyed Don Lemon has been…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 12, 2018
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