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  • Trump Wants a ‘Bill of Love’ to Protect DACA Recipients, but Only if He Gets His Dumbass Border Wall

    Someone must have taken the old president’s brain out and replaced it with a pot roast because in a magical switch that can only be explained by science and a full-on lobotomy, the president has promised 25 lawmakers that if they can bring him a bill that will extend protections to 800,000 immigrants’ children, he…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 9, 2018
  • ‘Wet Dream Team’ Featuring Players ‘Knee-Grow’ and ‘Coon’ Suspended From Youth Basketball League

    Someone at an Ohio middle school recreational basketball league thought it would be funny to give the team a sexually suggestive name with thinly veiled racial slurs on the backs of the kids’ jerseys, and now the team has been suspended for the rest of the season. Tony Rue attended a game at West Clermont…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 9, 2018
  • White House on ‘Sloppy Steve’ Bannon: ‘New Phone, Who Dis?’

    Who the hell is Hogan Gidley? Turns out he’s the deputy White House press secretary who was talking mad smack about former White House strategist “Sloppy Steve” Bannon. “I don’t believe there is any way back for Mr. Bannon at this point,” Gidley told reporters aboard Air Force One, Yahoo! Finance reports. Just a few…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 9, 2018
  • Well, What Do You Know? Looks Like NFL Player Richie Incognito May Still Be a Racist

    I don’t know how you undo racism, but I don’t know if having a come-to-Jesus moment only after being called out for saying really racist things to a teammate is enough to cure someone. But to hear defensive end Yannick Ngakoue tell it, offensive lineman Richie Incognito may still be suffering from racism. You remember…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 8, 2018
  • Oprah Is Not America’s Mammy; Please Don’t Ask Her to Clean Up This White President’s Mess

    On Sunday, in her best presidentially coiffed hair and geek-chic specs, Oprah Winfrey delivered the speech at the Golden Globes as she took home the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. While her speech touched on historical racism and sexism, which are woven into the fabric of Hollywood’s ethos, her speech transcended the moment,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 8, 2018
  • The President Is Going to Be an Even Lazier Thot in 2018

    If you think President Donald Trump didn’t do shit in 2017, well, he really isn’t going to do shit in 2018, as reports are surfacing that the man with the little hands but the giant nuclear button, who may or may not be able to read, will be starting his workday later so that he…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 8, 2018
  • Stephen Miller Showed His Whole Ass During CNN Interview, Then Had to Be Escorted Out by Security: Report

    White House policy adviser Stephen Miller has been trash most of his life. In high school, Miller ran for student government as an outspoken conservative who prided himself as someone “who will say and do things that no one else in their right mind will say or do.” He also campaigned that he couldn’t be…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 8, 2018
  • Former President Barack Obama Will Be 1st Guest on David Letterman’s New Netflix Show  

    David Letterman has a six-episode series coming to Netflix, and his first guest will be our president for life—the man, the myth, the legend: former President Barack Obama. According to the Daily Beast, this will be the first talk show appearance for the last decent president America will ever have since he turned over the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 5, 2018
  • Now, This Is Creepy: New Book Claims That Donald Trump’s Circle Sees Ivanka as His Wife and Hope Hicks as His Daughter

    Look, I know that we’ve all cringed over the inappropriate relationship that President Donald Trump has with his daughter Ivanka. There was that one time when 16-year-old Ivanka was co-hosting the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, and Trump asked the then-Miss Universe: “Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?” Then there was the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 5, 2018
  • Trump Urged Lawyer to Persuade Jeff Sessions Not to Recuse Himself in Russia Probe: Report 

    Why was it so important to President Donald Trump to have Attorney General Jeff Sessions oversee the Russia investigation? It couldn’t possibly be because the president of the United States and the overlord of Russia are secretly play cousins who spend the night over each other’s house and make forts out of bedsheets in the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 5, 2018
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