Politics
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Will Whoever Left Their Crazy Racist Uncle in the White House, Come Get Him. He’s Tweeting Again
The president of people who believe that ketchup is spicy knows that barring Russian interference, a Twitter hack or some other form of espionage, his best chance to stay in the White House is to use Twitter to create fear and pandemonium, so he is doing just that. Around noon Wednesday, before the president punched…
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Pro-Virus Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Overrides Local Mask Orders, Hopes Trump Swipes Right on Him
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is not only a thief, but he’s also a pro-virus idiot who has given in to the politicization of masks—literally the smallest thing we can do to try and keep the virus from spreading—and has overridden local municipalities across the state that wanted to make mask mandatory. Yes, Brian Kemp,…
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In the Midwest, a Candidate Makes Her Case for Voting Down the Ballot
When you think about Missouri, you think of Middle America, a section of the country that lacks national media exposure—a red state that a lot of folks don’t believe can be flipped. Consequently, we dismiss a lot of the upstarts who could generate the traction of an Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Phyllis…
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Trump Administration Is Now Ordering Hospitals to Send COVID-19 Data to Washington and Not the CDC. We Finna Die
President Trump, arguably the worst president in American history, is continuing his presidential practice of being messy AF as he’s now ordering that hospitals not to send their COVID-19 information to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but instead, to send it right to the White House, where the official shredder of documents that…
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Mike Pence: We Don’t Want CDC Guidelines Determining When We Open Schools. (This Is Not an Onion Headline)
There are times when the news is so outrageous it almost seems satirical and then there is the Trump administration, which has skirted the line between truth and fiction so much that there is no line anymore. On Tuesday, the vice president, who may or may not be a sexless robot or a piece of…
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Trump Just All Lives Matter’d All Over Himself and Ben Carson’s Going to Have to Clean This Up
President Trump is orange. He is also a white nationalist and a white supremacist and a white man and a white unscented dryer sheet. He is the most orange white power activist in American history. During an interview with CBS News’ Catherine Herridge, the president fixed his anus-shaped mouth to “All Lives Matter” as he’s…
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Tucker Carlson Continues to Have Trouble With Honesty and Then Says He’s Going on Vacation, Which Is Probably a Lie
Imagine being so racist and sexist that you find a job that literally allows you to be racist and sexist and that still isn’t enough. So you use a fake name to be even more sexist and racist online. That was Blake Neff. This is Blake Neff: Neff was the chief writer for Tucker Carlson…
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Watch: Brave Soul Interrupts Dumbass Florida Governor Who Just Stands There Like an Idiot
On Monday, a man—who can’t possibly live in Florida—interrupted a press conference by Gov. Ron DeSantis (who looks exactly how you’d think a Florida governor would look) to tell the inept governor that his handling of COVID-19 throughout his state has been a joke and that he’s willing to call in the fire department to…
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Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Sen. Jennifer McClellan Joins The Root on Instagram Live
Virginia State Sen. Jennifer McClellan is entering Virginia’s gubernatorial race as her state and the rest of the country endures uprisings stemming from the police killings of Black men and women and a pandemic that has killed more than 130,00 people in the United States. In Richmond, her state’s capital, Black residents made up more…
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How U.S. Senate Candidate Mike Espy Plans to Win in Mississippi
Mike Espy is ready to win this time. That’s the main thing he wants you to know about why his 2020 U.S. Senate race out of Mississippi will be different from his last go-around in 2018. He said that when he threw his hat into the special election that year to replace outgoing-Senator Thad Cochran,…