Politics
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Klobuchar Seeks Black Support in Race to Be Biden's Running Mate; Trump Campaign Sells 'You Ain't Black' Shirts
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is reportedly in the running to be Joe Biden’s choice for vice president candidate, is apparently now trying to shore up her credibility with the black community. According to a new story from the Washington Post, Klobuchar has spent the past few weeks scrambling to repair her image with black…
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We Need to Talk About Joe Biden’s The Breakfast Club Interview
This year’s election is going to be tough and it shouldn’t be, but now I’m fully accepting that America is either voting for a Russian-loving, sun-beaten orange Skittle or a soggy white sock with a black stripe and a Southern old white man blaccent. Let me start this by saying I’m voting for Joe Biden.…
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Donald Trump Is the Most Effective President Ever
Effective: (adj.) successful or achieving the results that you want. text When they retired from the slave trade, Isaac Franklin and John Armfield had amassed a fortune worth billions in today’s dollars by building a business that was essentially the Amazon of slave-selling. They didn’t grow anything, nor did they participate in the transatlantic slave…
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Trump Finally Dons Mask, Completes the Final Stage of Becoming Bane
President Trump is a senior citizen. The coronavirus hates senior citizens. One of the ways to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is to wear a mask. The president refuses to wear a mask—mostly because he’s a maverick, and by maverick, I mean asshole. But on Thursday, when the gray clouds collided and the city…
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Trump Ignores Michigan Attorney General, Refuses to Wear Mask While Touring Ford Plant, and We Know Why He Won’t
The Michigan attorney general doesn’t have time for Trump’s maskless fuckshit and told him that he has a “legal responsibility”—under state law—to wear a mask when he visits a Ford Motor Co. factory Thursday, or he should not come back to visit factories. “I ask that while you are on tour you respect the great…
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Karine Jean-Pierre Hired as Joe Biden Senior Presidential Campaign Adviser
There’s been a lot of speculation as to whether Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will pick a black woman to be his running mate in the upcoming 2020 election. Well, there still aren’t any definitive answers as to who his vice president pick will be, but in the meantime, Biden has chosen another black woman…
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Trump’s Claimed at Least 6 Times That He’s Been Michigan’s ‘Man of the Year.’ There’s Only One Problem: The Award Doesn’t Exist
President Donald Trump is a liar. I can’t stress this fact strongly enough. If you are wondering when the president is lying, just look at his anus-shaped mouth and if it’s moving, well you have your answer. But the president’s current lie—and possibly his longest-running lie—is bizarre even for the president. On Thursday, Trump was…
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Karen From Fox News Comes for Symone Sanders and Instantly Wishes She Didn’t
Every now and then, Fox News likes to play dress up and act like it isn’t the president’s personal YouTube channel. During this time, the right-leaning news station likes to invite guests from the other side of the aisle to come on the air only to try and berate them in front of its audience.…
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Val Demings, Potential Vice President Pick for Joe Biden, Speaks With The Root on Instagram Live [Update: The IG Live Is Canceled]
If former Vice President Joe Biden has any shot at winning in November, he needs black female voters to come through for him as they did during the Democratic primary—and a black woman on his ticket. Of all of the names being considered for his vice president, Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) has become a top…
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When Old Racists Learn How to Use Twitter: Trump Tweet-Threatens to Withhold Funding to Michigan, Nevada Over Mail-in Voting
President Trump is what happens when old racists learn how to use Twitter. First, they figure out that the world can read what they are typing, and then they believe that they are important because they’ve successfully tweeted out something to the world. Over time, they become more relaxed and start to believe the power…