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  • GTFOH Trump Watch: You Better Go Look at That Border Wall While You Can

    The wall that no one wanted has become a metaphor for Trump’s time in office: an unfinished, expensive waste of time and energy that will be forgotten as soon as he leaves office. On Tuesday, the president of people who shop at Big Lots will travel to Alamo, Texas, to gaze at his failure one…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 12, 2021
  • Pay Me What You Owe Me: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Reintroduces Reparations Bill

    “Is the stimmy a form of reparations?” my 1-year-old daughter asked me the other day. I looked at her puzzled, and then asked where she’d heard such big words. She replied that her daycare is near: I kid. My daughter doesn’t go to daycare with COVID-19 running unchecked in these MAGA streets. I live near…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 8, 2021
  • Nancy Pelosi Contacts Top General About Keeping ‘Unhinged’ President Away From the Nuclear Codes

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reached out to a top general to find out about adding extra steps to stop “unhinged” President Trump from using the nuclear codes. According to the New York Post, Pelosi called Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley about the madman in the White House and what he’s capable of…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 8, 2021
  • GTFOH Trump Watch: Look Straight Into the Camera and Pretend to Love America

    After some 60 failed court attempts to overturn the election and a failed coup, the president of people who still believe that the election was rigged has finally acknowledged electoral defeat. It only took two months, Rudy Giuliani’s human dookie face to begin melting, a whole lot of shouting from the Trump brood and an…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    January 8, 2021
  • Trump Banned From Social Media Site He Rarely Uses

    The president of people who raided Congress like Walmart was having a sale on those singing fish plaques, has been banned from Facebook until he is out of office, which is the equivalent of Sonic fast food establishment banning me from eating there when I’ve never seen a goddamn Sonic in my life. Despite Facebook…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    January 7, 2021
  • GTFOH Trump Watch: The Boredom of White-on-White Violence

    GTFOH Trump Watch: The Boredom of White-on-White Violence

    I must say that when I heard that terrorists were coming to town to march for their leader I was excited. Not because I wanted these clowns in the city that raised me, but I thought a front-row seat to some good ol fashioned white-on-white violence would be entertaining. I know. Call me what you…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    January 7, 2021
  • 5 Black People That Would’ve Been a Better Choice for Attorney General Than Merrick ‘Milquetoast’ Garland

    5 Black People That Would’ve Been a Better Choice for Attorney General Than Merrick ‘Milquetoast’ Garland

    Merrick Garland wasn’t supposed to be eligible to become attorney general because he was supposed to be a Supreme Court Justice. But then Mitch McConnell stepped up and never gave Garland a chance to have a confirmation hearing and thus Trump stacked the court. But that was years ago, back when we could go outside…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 7, 2021
  • Chuck Schumer to Mitch McConnell: I Thought a Broke Senate Majority Leader Said Something

    On Wednesday, when it appeared that Mitch “Turtleneck” McConnell was on the verge of no longer being the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer reportedly grabbed the Kentucky senator by his flabby neck skin and told him, “Look at me! I’m the captain now.” Schumer then asked McConnell “Why did the turtle cross the road?” When…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    January 6, 2021
  • Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Electoral College Certification in Congress Today

    Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Electoral College Certification in Congress Today

    The first thing to know about Wednesday’s Electoral College certification in Congress is that they do a rack of shit with our votes that I never knew happened because before Trump everyone else accepted defeat. Leave it to a failed real estate tycoon to become America’s first presidential squatter forcing us to learn all this…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    January 6, 2021
  • Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley Wants Desperately to Be Important

    Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is doing what the kids call clout chasing. For months now, he’s been trying to earn the president’s approval in the hopes of possibly someday, if the winds and Satan allow, upending South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham as Trump’s personal bedwarmer running for president. So for some time now, Hawley has been…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    January 5, 2021
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