Politics
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Can Someone Get Ben Carson to Explain to Trump that Chinatown and China Aren’t The Same Thing?
I know it doesn’t look like Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, is a really smart man, but I assure you that before falling into the sunken place, he was one the world’s most beloved neurosurgeons. He may have been the world’s only neurosurgeon. Seriously name another neurosurgeon without Googling. So I know…
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Are Both Full of Shit
For some reason—maybe it’s proximity to the president, maybe it’s because Trump’s sons have been such a disappointment, maybe it’s because Trump just wants to see them win—both Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have been forced down America’s throats. Think of them as America’s own bizarro version of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle if Prince…
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Trump Made Another Empty Threat. Something About Adjourning Congress, but Here’s Why He Can’t Do That Either
Trump does this thing when he’s losing, and the move isn’t sophisticated or even nuanced. Trump literally finds something else to complain about and it doesn’t even have to be a legitimate grievance; it just has to be something else. Anything else. So after getting laughed at and smacked around by America’s governors when Trump…
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IG Honey Steve Mnuchin Believes $1,200 Stimulus Check Should Last Americans 10 Weeks
Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin’s wife Buffy, (OK, I don’t know her name but Buffy seems fitting for this post. Fine, her name is Louise Linton,) once flossed so hard on Instagram, she literally hashtagged all of her wildly expensive wears after a day trip with her man. “Great #daytrip to #Kentucky! #nicest #people #beautiful…
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Kamala vs. the Coronavirus
Kamala Harris knows how to fight. When The Root solicited the California senator (for now…hint, hint) for our series on how the novel strain of the coronavirus could impact the not-so-novel strain of white supremacy that has infected this nation for centuries, she didn’t bother discussing how American ingenuity could defeat the deadly disease. Unlike…
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Kentucky Republicans Override Gov. Andy Beshear's Veto of New Voter ID Laws
Are Republicans still even bothering to try to hide the fact that they just don’t want people voting? While the nation is in the midst of fighting a global pandemic, legislators in Republican-controlled Kentucky thought it was a good time to push new voter ID laws by citing the potential for rampant voter fraud—a thing…
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Trump Authorized the Governors to Do What They Were Going to Do Anyway. Here Are Some Other Things He ‘Authorized’
On Monday, the Pied Piper of the Coronavirus claimed that he had “total authority” over all of the land. As Republicans raised their chalices to the Dollar Tree dictator masquerading as president, anyone in America with a double-digit number of teeth and the ability to read without moving their mouth looked at each other like,…
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Now This Asshole Wants His Name on the Stimulus Checks Because He Loves Himself and You Should, Too
It’s one thing to do something nice; it’s another thing to do something nice and then demand that you be acknowledged. But it’s a whole other thing to be the president of the people and send them the most minimal bailout you possibly can during a global pandemic and then hold that desperately needed money…
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Watch: Trump Blows His Toupee Because He Doesn’t Like Answering Questions During Press Briefings That He Continues to Host
Donald Trump is such a camera hog that he does his own press briefings. It’s a moment for the narcissist-in-chief to preen like a peacock. What he can’t stand is anyone who questions the image he wants projected to the people. You know who else is like this? Every dictator who has ever dictated. Unfortunately…
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Cardi B Interviewed Bernie Sanders via Instagram Live. That's It, That's the Headline.
Cardi B has been open about her interest in politics for quite some time, famously commenting on Donald Trump’s 2019 government shutdown due to his incessant whining about building a border wall between the United States and Mexico. (“I really feel bad for these people that gotta go to fucking work to not get motherfucking…