Politics
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The Real Coronavirus Hoax: Republicans Are Using COVID-19 to Make the Black Vote Disappear
There is a common tool used by every sophisticated thief, magician and con man. A bank robber might pull a fire alarm across town or call in a fake robbery as “smoke” for a heist, while flim-flam artists use a variety of misdirection gimmicks called “bells.” Some of the most elaborate magic tricks depend on…
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Former Republican Justin Amash Is Considering Whether He Wants to Ruin Everything
There were three ways to a Trump victory in November: A global pandemic that forces everyone in the house; a refusal to fund the Postal Service, which will surely affect mail-in voting; and a third-party candidate who surely has no chance at winning but will fuck up the election. The first one is life. The…
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Tarana Burke, Stacey Abrams, Weigh In on Sexual Assault Allegations Against Joe Biden
This week, new reporting about Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who accused former Vice President Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s, forced the Biden campaign, its surrogates and its supporters to once again confront the polarizing allegations. Among them was former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who is considered a potential…
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Vice President Mike Pence Is a Crash Test Dummy for Trump
Remember way back to 2017 when Vice President Mike Pence attended a football game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers just so he could walk out when players kneeled for the National Anthem? Pence would later tweet: “I left today’s Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that…
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Tupac Shakur Tells Kentucky Governor 'I Ain't Mad at Cha' After Being Accused of Unemployment Prank
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear held a news conference Monday night and had an ace up his sleeve: He was going to talk about people filing for unemployment benefits using fake names, and he had a name that everyone knew was faker than the Trump presidency. “We had somebody apply for unemployment for Tupac Shakur here…
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Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Tells Anti-Stay-at-Home Protesters to Dress Like Healthcare Workers
I’m not sure if being an asshole crosses party lines, but man, there sure are a lot of assholes in the Republican Party. Like Dr. Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of the round table of assholes more commonly called the Arizona Republican Party, who recently encouraged stay-at-home protesters to wear scrubs and masks to look like…
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When the Music Stops: Famed Tap Dancers Diamond and Silk Cut From Fox News
Diamond and Silk learned the harsh lesson of steppinfetchery: No matter how hard you dance, at some point, they will tire of your act and you will find that there is no one left to dance for. On Monday, Fox News, the Alex Jones of network news, severed ties with the blackface duo, whose schtick…
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Trump Suggested Mainlining Disinfectants, So Some People Did. Now He’s Not Taking Any Responsibility for It
On Monday, after being a total diva with a coronavirus press conference—first, it was on, then it was off, then it was on again—the president was asked whether he took any responsibility for people using disinfectants improperly after he suggested that it could aid in treating the coronavirus, and you can already guess his answer.…
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Looks Like Hope Hicks Has Replaced Ivanka as the Trump Whisperer
A 31-year-old white woman with no credentials other than being a 31-year-old white woman—which is the equivalent of being a 24-year-old black woman with a Ph.D. who discovered real-life vibranium—is now the person who Trump’s turning to during the coronavirus to help with his rebrand because nothing says “I’m fucking this up” like a rebrand…