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  • Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer Emerges Long Enough to Mess Up a Tweet and Then Goes Back Into Hiding

    Oh, Sean. Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer. I knew you couldn’t do it. I knew you couldn’t just take your mismatched shoes and your White House bush and leave. I knew you’d be back. Because you love the limelight; you always have. On Tuesday, Spicy Facts took to Twitter to fuck up a seemingly good tweet.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 13, 2018
  • Auntie Maxine Waters Is Not Afraid of Trump; Too Bad She’s Seemingly Alone in Her Fight

    It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find a person with a spine in Congress. Sadly, one of the few true beacons of hope to push back against the oppressive regime that is the Trump administration is a 79-year-old trailblazer and pioneer, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), affectionately known as “Auntie Maxine.” From day one, Auntie Maxine has…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 13, 2018
  • Stacey Dash Better Get a Clue Because It’s Official: Compton, Calif., Mayor Aja Brown Is Running for Congress

    On Thursday, Compton, Calif., Mayor Aja Brow, the superhero foil to right-wing Stacey Dash’s bogus attempt at politics, has made it official: She announced that she is indeed running for Congress. “I’ve served as mayor. I really served as a catalyst for a major turnaround for the community that has historically been underserved and disadvantaged.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 9, 2018
  • Compton, Calif., Mayor Aja Brown May Run for Congress Because Someone Has to Stop Stacey Dash

    Compton, Calif., Mayor Aja Brown is considering throwing her hat into the congressional ring after black apologist and overall deplorable Stacey Dash announced that she would be running for office. According to TMZ, the wildly popular Brown wasn’t considering a run for Congress until word began surfacing that the Clueless star was going to run…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 6, 2018
  • Donald Trump Wants to Kill Major Drug Dealers: Report

    If President Donald Trump had his way, he would “love to have a law” that sentences major drug dealers to death. According to Axios, the president is fascinated by countries like Singapore and the Philippines that don’t seem to have a rapid drug problem because of the death penalty for major offenders. “He says that…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 26, 2018
  • Clarence Thomas Sexual Harassment Accuser Wants Him Impeached

    Angela Wright-Shannon accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in the 1980s, and now, in a scathing op-ed, she’s calling for his impeachment and removal from the bench. Wright-Shannon, a former Charlotte Observer editor, wrote in her HuffPost essay published Monday that she and several other women, including Anita Hill, accused Thomas of…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 20, 2018
  • Jeff Sessions Tells Law Enforcement to Never Forget the ‘Anglo-American Heritage’ of the Sheriff’s Office 

    If Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not a white supremacist, he sure plays one well. In fact, he can’t even do anything without invoking his white heritage all up in the videos and all on the record, dancing (Suge Knight voice). All Sessions had to do was give a speech to sheriffs on Monday in…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 12, 2018
  • Speedskater Shani Davis Throws Shade at the Winter Olympics After Learning He Won’t Be the Flag Bearer

    The Winter Olympics, aka the Privileged Olympics, have barely begun, and the drama is already heating up. Apparently U.S. Olympic speedskater Shani Davis was big mad after learning that he lost the opportunity to rock his Ralph Lauren outfit (because nothing says all-inclusive like suede tasseled Polo gloves that are reselling for thousands of dollars…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 9, 2018
  • Ivanka Trump Tweeted About Black History Month; It Didn’t Go Well

    Ohhh, Ivanka Trump, how I long for the days when you didn’t have a speaking role and were simply a sideshow to your father’s racism, xenophobia and overall heartlessness. I miss the old Ivanka, whose top job was making silly clothing in the fashion business that was gifted to her from her daddy. On Thursday,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    February 2, 2018
  • White House Sends Out State of the ‘Uniom’ Tickets Because No One in This Administration Is at Grade Level

    It’s only President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address, so what could go wrong? Well, the tickets, for one. The bumbling Beverly Hillbillies administration couldn’t even get the damn tickets correct to his inaugural address because I’m convinced that no one in the administration is at grade level. This Toyota Paseo-ass administration sent…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    January 30, 2018
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