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  • Which Members of Congress Used Coronavirus Intel to Martha Stewart Their Stocks? Here’s What We Know About #BURRisma

    Which Members of Congress Used Coronavirus Intel to Martha Stewart Their Stocks? Here’s What We Know About #BURRisma

    Here’s how it works. Congress members are a part of a select group of folks who are entitled to privileged information. This information can obviously affect the stock market. Say, for example, you are a senator from North Carolina and let’s say that you’re a Republican and let’s just say, for the sake of conversation,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 20, 2020
  • Can Someone Unzip Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Leather Face Mask So He Can Tell Trump That Governors Aren’t His Enemy?

    During this global pandemic, Trump has displayed the steadfast leadership skills of children once the piñata breaks. He has literally told governors Prince’s lyrics from “Let’s Go Crazy,” in which the Purple One says: Cause in this life Things are much harder than in the afterworld In this life You’re on your own Recently, President…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 20, 2020
  • Secret Recording Shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Warned Rich Donors About Coronavirus Weeks Before Us

    While the president was busy telling America that the coronavirus was well under control, lying about the number of people infected and claiming that health experts’ data on the virus’ death rate was false because of a hunch, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee was warning a small group of rich donors some three…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 19, 2020
  • Who Knew Tulsi Gabbard Was Still Running for President? Well, Those 4 People Are Going to Be Upset to Learn That She’s Dropped Out

    Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Russia’s favorite operative not named Donald Trump, has officially dropped out of the race for Democratic presidential candidate. Gabbard is the woman who calls you three years into your new marriage to tell you that she’s moved on. Gabbard is the woman that wants the McDonald’s manager to explain why she…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 19, 2020
  • President Draft Dodger Calls Himself ‘Wartime President’ Because He’s Really Into Role Play

    The president of the United States—the same man who avoided war by claiming bone spurs and who has never served a day in his life, yet harassed one of the most decorated and beloved senators who was captured and tortured during his time in Vietnam—is now referring to himself as a wartime president. President Trump…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 19, 2020
  • Trump Invokes Defense Production Act, Which Would Force American Industry to Make Medical Supplies

    The world is changing day by day. On Wednesday, Trump invoked something called the Defense Production Act (DPA), which would basically force “American industry to manufacture medical supplies that are in short supply in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.” According to the Hill, hospitals, health workers and emergency personnel may soon be out of…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 18, 2020
  • Eric Reid, Outspoken Veteran and Friend of Colin Kaepernick, Has Been Cut From the Carolina Panthers

    Eric Reid is a man. That’s all he’s been since he walked into the NFL, and if he’s played his last game, he will leave the way that he came in, as a man. Despite the NFL’s best efforts to silence his outspokenness against the treatment of African Americans both on and off the field,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 18, 2020
  • When Tucker Carlson Started Taking Coronavirus Seriously, Guess Who Followed Suit?

    The first case of coronavirus was diagnosed in the U.S. on January 21, but the president knew that this was definitely something to keep an eye on at the end of December 2019. That’s when Wuhan, China, the reported epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, had been investigating an “outbreak of respiratory illness in the central…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 18, 2020
  • RIP to Bernie Sanders’ Chances of Becoming President as Biden Sweeps Tuesday Primaries

    There are people who lose and then there losers. Losers aren’t people who have lost, they are people who perpetually set themselves up for loss. They are people who walk into a situation knowing that there is no way in the world they are going to win and still do it anyway because at this…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 18, 2020
  • Coronavirus Can’t Stop Democracy: Primaries Continue in 3 States Today

    Coronavirus Can’t Stop Democracy: Primaries Continue in 3 States Today

    Voters who own hazmat suits, N95 masks, Lysol spray and brown Listerine will brave the coronavirus to vote in Tuesday’s primary because sometimes democracy is a black mother who doesn’t care how silly you look in dress pants, you are going to church anyway! Sometimes democracy doesn’t care that you don’t like broccoli or that…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 17, 2020
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