Politics
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Trump’s Former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and His Precious White Lungs Released From Prison
Coronavirus is running rampant in prisons, so America is doing everything it can to make sure Trump’s accomplices are released because they can’t run the risk of fucking up their precious white lungs. According to the Washington Post, Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is no longer in prison and has been relegated to house…
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Trump Is So Obsessed With Being Loved That He’s Willing to Steal Praise He Didn’t Earn
I think it was his mother. It had to be. Someone in Trump’s family had to help make him this way. His father left him a fortune. So it had to be his mother. Maybe she didn’t hug him enough. Maybe she just got tired of his lies. Maybe she couldn’t stand him melting his…
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Dr. Fauci Doesn’t Go Tekashi 6ix9ine on Trump, But He Does Warn That Reopening the Country Too Soon Could Be Disastrous
While many of us tuned into the Senate hearing to watch Dr. Anthony Fauci go full Denzel at the end of Training Day and threaten to put cases on all you motherfuckers (fine, maybe I was the only one who was hoping that Dr. Fauci would go full Tekashi 6ix9ine and snitch on everyone in…
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How Machiavelli Mitch McConnell Got Kicked Out of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Everyone knows Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello but no one knows the story of Machiavelli Mitch McConnell. The short version goes like this: Machiavelli Mitch wouldn’t wear his mask because he didn’t believe that he could catch the coronavirus. He also refused to change his name to a renaissance artist because he was all pissed…
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Trump Believes Giving Black Voters Access to Voting Is Stealing the Election
President Trump doesn’t want people to mail in votes and he doesn’t want a Los Angeles suburb with a large black population’s votes to count. I’m starting to think that the president of the United States doesn’t want black people to vote in the upcoming election. It’s almost as if he’s a dishonest racist who…
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Trump Throws Racist Jab at Reporter, Then Throws a Temper Tantrum and Storms Out of Press Conference
The president wants to be celebrated for victories only he can see. To hear him tell it, the United States has defeated the coronavirus and everyone should already be back at work. The truth is that the United States has become the epicenter of how not to handle an infectious disease. The president also loves…
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Joe Biden Surrogates, Aides Say Kamala Harris Tops List of Potential Running Mates
Everything is coming up Kamala. According to people familiar with Joe Biden’s campaign—and the ongoing process to select a running mate—the California senator is emerging as an early frontrunner to accompany Biden at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket this year. “Biden aides, surrogates and major donors see her as the best fit at…
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The Root Is Going Live on Instagram With Politicians to Discuss the 2020 Elections and COVID-19
Most of America’s 2020 political press corps is braving COVID-19 inside of their homes, so we aren’t reporting the on-the-ground coverage we’d ordinarily be giving you. But that isn’t stopping The Root from bringing you regular 2020 coverage and interviews with elected officials at every level of government. For the past two weeks, The Root…
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Obama Owns a Penthouse Loft in Trump’s Head as President Spends Mother’s Day Tweeting About Barack
Can you imagine being so amazing that years after you’ve left a job that you were completely over, your successor continues to bring up your name and does so even on Mother’s Day?! On Sunday, the president of people who buy large trampolines to place outside of their doublewides, spent part of his Sunday coming…
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As Media Focuses on Black Lives, Activists Call Attention to Nina Pop, the 5th Trans Woman of Color to Be Killed in the Last Month
As tributes poured in last weekend for Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old unarmed black man whose Feb. 23 killing made international headlines when cellphone footage of his death was released last week, racial and trans justice advocates sought space to lift up the name of Nina Pop, a 28-year-old trans woman who was found stabbed to…