Politics
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Congressman Opposes Background Checks Because, What if His Friends Want to Borrow His Gun?
Instead of using logic, reason or his sworn duty to protect his constituents from being shot in the Doritos section of their local Walmart, a U.S. Congressman came up with a particularly personal reason for opposing universal background checks on firearm purchases: Apparently, people borrow guns from their friends and neighbors. On Wednesday, Rep. Dan…
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Donald Trump, the President of the United States of America, Was Also Accused of Rape 3 Months Ago
There should be a word to describe the thing that happens when you have a new favorite word for a month or so and you become so enamored with it that you inject it into as many conversations as you can. For instance, right now that word for me is zeitgeist. I’ve always had a…
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Refuses to Step Down Over Blackface Scandal
Another day, another politician who refuses to atone for their racist past. Last week, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey became front-page news when audio from a 1967 radio interview resurfaced. In the interview, Ben LaRavia, her fiancé at the time, recalled Ivey performing in “blue coveralls” with “black paint all over her face” in her starring…
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Who Is Responsible for Donald Trump’s Hurricane Coloring Book? An Investigation
One of the consequences of electing a deceitful, dimwitted white supremacist to serve at the helm of a deceitful, dimwitted, white supremacist country, is that it sometimes becomes difficult to ascertain why certain things happen. Is Donald Trump spending billions of dollars on a wall because he’s so racist that he thinks those who wish…
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Rep. Steve King: 'I Smacked My Lips' After Drinking Water From Detention Center Toilet
Nothing will have you praying for the rapture to hurry up and get her ass over here than hearing Iowa congressman Steve King speak. On Wednesday, the politician who wondered why being called a “white nationalist” was a bad thing told a town hall about a recent visit to a migrant detention camp. Specifically, King…
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Kamala Harris Proposes Spending $10 Trillion (Yes, That’s Trillion With a ‘T’) to Fight Climate Change
A problem of global proportion perhaps demands a solution of similar dimensions, and on Wednesday, Democratic presidential hopeful and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris proposed a $10 trillion plan to combat global warming, aka climate change. The California senator announced her plan Wednesday ahead of a CNN-sponsored Democratic candidates’ forum on ways to protect the environment,…
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Isaiah Washington Leaves the Democratic Party. No One Cares
Noted thespian, Obama critic and advocate for deregulating murder, Isaiah Washington sent progressive political supporters into a state of not-giving-a-fuck today when he told a Fox News wrestler that he was leaving the Democratic Party. On Wednesday’s episode of Nuff Said, which airs on Fox News’ online version of the ghetto, Fox Nation, the fourth most-famous…
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Ari Lennox Not-So-Cordially Invites Homophobes and Transphobes to 'Unfollow and Unsubscribe'
If you can glean one thing from singer Ari Lennox’s presence, it’s that she doesn’t suffer fools. This aspect of her personality shines through in her songs, as well as her occasional Instagram livestreams and her tweets. Over the weekend, Lennox ruffled some drab and dour hate-dusted feathers when she, without reservation or apology, declared…
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Whoopi Goldberg Blasts Calls to Out Hollywood’s Trump Supporters
You may not like Donald Trump and his many minions supporters, but “you don’t have the right” to invade their privacy by outing them on public forums. That was Whoopi Goldberg’s take on The View Tuesday when she blasted calls to out Hollywood attendees to an upcoming Trump fundraiser. The brouhaha began over the Labor…
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Your Little 'President' Is an Idiot Who Lacks Self-Awareness
This is your regular reminder that your “president” is a complete and total idiot. In fact, he is a complete and total idiot who lacks self-awareness, and never was that more apparent than after his feeble little “clapback” at London Mayor Sadiq Khan Tuesday morning. In case you missed it, during an interview with Politico’s…