Politics
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The ‘Why Are We Doing This and Not Passing a Stimulus Package?’ Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing for Amy Coney Barrett Began on Monday
Why? Why are they doing this? Why are they doing this right now? Why are they trying to act like this isn’t hypocritical? Why is this woman wearing a mask today but didn’t have one on during the superspreader soiree at the White House? So many questions and no answers, but I was happy…
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This Has to be the Most Bizarre Trump Story of All Time
I still can’t believe that this story is true even from this Washington Football Team-ass administration, but apparently, Trump wanted to pull a stunt so outrageous that even his New York Jets-ass administration was like “Nah, Slim. You bugging the fuck out.” President COVID-45 reportedly pitched this idea while COVID-19 was running through his body…
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Trump: Racists Call It Columbus Day, So I’m Calling It Columbus Day!
Christopher Columbus is considered a hero of racists, and rightfully so. He was an inept sailor who stumbled upon an inhabited land, claimed it as his own and then had the police, who traveled with him, kill everyone who lived there over small infractions including jogging, jaywalking and sleeping, and those they couldn’t kill, they…
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Trump Delivers Campaign Speech From the White House to a Crowd of 'Blexit' Supporters Paid for by Candace Owen
The President has returned to his campaigning activities despite his coronavirus diagnosis, delivering a speech from the White House on Saturday in which he called on the surprising number of Black and Latino people in attendance to vote Democrats “into oblivion.” At the event, billed by the White House as a protest for law and…
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What is Lindsay Graham Hiding? S.C. Senator Refuses to Test for COVID-19 Ahead of Debate With Challenger Jamie Harrison, Raising Suspicions
If you were browsing Twitter on Friday, you may have noticed that #LindsayGrahamHasCOVID was trending. But you’d be wrong to assume that means we know anything definitively about the Republican senator’s health status as it pertains to coronavirus. The hashtag itself was prompted by the fact that earlier that day, Graham outright refused to undergo…
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Maya Wiley Announces Run for NYC Mayor, Shades Bill de Blasio's Tragic Run for the White House: 'You Will Never Have to Wonder Whether I'm in Iowa'
Maya Wiley, civil rights activist and attorney, has made her candidacy official, announcing it Thursday with a play on a frozen video call that she’s officially running for mayor of New York City. Wiley came out swinging against her former boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio (Wiley worked as de Blasio’s counsel for two years), telling…
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Raphael Warnock Could Very Well Be the Next U.S. Senator From Georgia. But When?
Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s death has given Donald Trump and the GOP another opportunity to stack the court with another conservative who could threaten to reverse Roe vs. Wade, undo the Affordable Care Act and many more progressive pieces of Democratic legislation. Technically, Republicans have enough votes to ram the confirmation through because they control the…
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Trump Implies That He Could’ve Gotten COVID-19 From Gold Star Families
President Donald Trump has consistently proven one thing since taking over the White House: He will do and say anything to save his own untanned ass. On Thursday, the president of people who are standing down and standing by implied that he could’ve caught COVID-19 from Gold Star families that he met in the White…
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An Exclusive Interview With the Fly Who Crashed the Vice Presidential Debate
Perhaps the star of Wednesday night’s debate between vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Vice President Mike Pence was the housefly who managed to evade security and land on Pence’s head. While other outlets interviewed Pence and Harris, The Root managed to score an exclusive interview with the show-stealing housefly. The Root: Hi,…