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  • Trump Suggested Swallowing Light Bulbs and Shooting Up Disinfectant to Kill the Coronavirus. We Finna Die

    I don’t know what former President Barack Obama did to y’all—and by y’all, I’m referring specifically to the 53 percent of white women who voted against their own self-interest to elect a shit heel for president—but we now have a man in office who suggested swallowing light bulbs and shooting up disinfectant. On Thursday, during…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 24, 2020
  • No Mitch-Assness: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Continues to be a ‘Mitch,’ and This Time, Andrew Cuomo Dunks on Him

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is not just a human bobblehead doll. Currently, he’s leading Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz in the hotly contested GOP punchable face list, so it’s only right that on Wednesday, the Republican senator came out of his turtle-faced mouth to suggest that those states that have been hit the hardest…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 23, 2020
  • Trump Lies, Science Doesn't. So Scientists Aren’t Faring Well With This Administration

    Trump Lies, Science Doesn't. So Scientists Aren’t Faring Well With This Administration

    I’m currently dating Tracee Ellis Ross. That is a lie. Anyone who knows me knows that she and I broke up a while ago. Whatever. I didn’t like seafood and she wouldn’t hear of it. My dating Tracee Ellis Ross is a lie, but in Trump’s world, there are a few unsophisticated ways that I…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 23, 2020
  • Twitter Fingers: President Troll Face Just Tweeted That He Wants Iranian Gunboats ‘Shot Down’ for Trolling

    President 6ix9ine is about to get us into a shitload of shit during a global pandemic when no one can safely leave the goddamn house without a full-on gas mask. On Wednesday, for some reason—and that reason is probably that the “wartime president” is losing the silent war against the coronavirus—the president instructed the U.S.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 22, 2020
  • Trump and Fox News Now Acting Like They Weren’t Out Here Pushing ‘Game-Changer’ Drug to Beat Coronavirus

    It only took a few weeks and some light testing for President Trump and Fox News to back up after openly promoting and pushing an anti-malaria drug to beat COVID-19 like America had suddenly become Hamsterdam. Once touted by Trump as a “game-changer,” the president has gone full Mariah Carey “I don’t know her” meme…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 22, 2020
  • Black Georgia Democrat Who Endorsed Trump Has Blexited the Building: ‘Turn the Lights Off, I Have Left the Plantation’

    Georgia Rep. Vernon Jones, the Kanye West of Candace Owenses, has resigned by announcing that he won’t be seeking reelection just a week after endorsing President Donald Trump. “Turn the lights off, I have left the plantation,” Jones said in a statement, AJC reports. “Someone else can occupy that suite. Therefore, I intend not to…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 22, 2020
  • Remember the Malaria Drug Trump Was Pushing to Treat Coronavirus? Well a VA Study Shows It’s Really Good…For Malaria

    Remember when Trump came out and used the same one-liner to encourage black people to vote for him (“What do you have to lose?”) as the mantra to try hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug, to treat the coronavirus? Well, two things were discovered in a large analysis of its use in veterans hospitals across America. The…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 21, 2020
  • Trump Says He Will Suspend Immigration Into the United States. Now If He Could Only Get Someone to Write the Executive Order

    Trump is a victim of poor performance. According to several Russian prostitutes whom I didn’t speak with but will speak for, the president tends to jump the gun. On Tuesday, Trump’s minions—also known as his administration—were hurrying to get together an executive order after Trump late-night tweeted to Vladimir Putin “Hey, big head. You up?”…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 21, 2020
  • When Did White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor Become a Necklace? Because She Stays on Trump’s Neck

    When Did White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor Become a Necklace? Because She Stays on Trump’s Neck

    If you were to ask PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor to send you her location, you would get a ping that shows the White House and a response that says, “She’s on the president’s neck.” On Monday, during a Trump rally disguised as a coronavirus press briefing, the president tried to run one…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 21, 2020
  • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Doesn’t Wait on Trump, Orders 500,000 Coronavirus Test Kits From South Korea

    Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Doesn’t Wait on Trump, Orders 500,000 Coronavirus Test Kits From South Korea

    What do you do if you are a governor, and the president of the United States is a liar and keeps claiming that he’s given enough testing kits to states for the coronavirus? Well, you can go on national TV and say that the president is lying, which some governors have. Or, if you are…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    April 20, 2020
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