Politics
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Watch: Ocasio-Cortez's Beautiful Takedown of CEO Charging Nearly $2,000 for HIV Drug That Costs $8 in Australia
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was last seen sitting on her dragon inside King’s Landing. It was a moment of reflection. She could fly back to her home because her work was done, thusly letting CEO fuckbois live, or she could flame their asses up. Ocasio-Cortez then clicked her heels and got her fire-breathing monster back…
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Sooooo Many White Guys
I could be talking about the New England Patriots or the Trump administration or even the Phoebe Robinson Podcast but no, when I’m talking about soooo many white guys, I mean the recent crop of Democrats running for the 2020 nomination. We started with a black man, three white women, Asians and a Latino man…
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Senate OKs Trump’s Latest Federal Judge Pick Despite Dem Fears About Where She Stands on Brown and Roe
The Senate Thursday confirmed Wendy Vitter, Donald Trump’s nominee to sit on the federal bench in New Orleans, despite strong objections from Democrats about her stance on Roe and Brown, respectively, the nation’s landmark pro-choice and school desegregation laws. By a virtual party-line vote of 52-45 (with just one Republican, Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins, joining…
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Trump's Immigration Proposal, Much Like His Administration, Is Garbage
On Thursday, President Trump is set to unveil a new immigration plan created by his listless son-in-law Jared Kushner—who once auctioned his position in the White House to international investors for green cards—that will lean more toward what migrants will bring to the country, like “genius” Melania Trump, while moving away from immigration based on…
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Televangelist Jim Bakker Is Hawking a $45 Trump Prayer Coin, Calls It 'Point of Contact' With God
In the continuous effort by the right to bring God down to Trump’s level, televangelist Jim Bakker is selling a $45 gold-plated Trump coin that he calls a “point of contact” with God, showing President Trump alongside Biblical King Cyrus. According to the New York Daily News, the coin that can’t be used to purchase…
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s Father Just Blew $91 Million on a Stainless Steel Rabbit That Doesn’t Even Vibrate
Now we know Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin gets his balling from his father. It was just last year that Mnuchin was under fire for spending $1 million in taxpayers’ money because he couldn’t dare sit his ass on a commercial flight, instead taking a military jet all around the country. Well, his dad just blew…
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Joe Biden Downplays Infamous 1994 Crime Bill, But Kamala Harris Isn't Here For It
Sen. Kamala Harris is not feeling Joe Biden’s claim that the infamous 1994 crime bill—which he was instrumental in creating in order to thwart “predators in our streets” who were “beyond the pale”—did not lead to mass incarceration in the U.S. Per NBC News, his exact quote on Tuesday was: “Folks, let’s get something straight,…
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Popular Move: Maine Senate Passes Bill to Give All of State’s Electoral Votes to the Winner of the Popular Vote in 2020
There’s a movement afoot in some quarters to get rid of the Electoral College, the institution that really elects the president of the United States. More often than not, the winner of the popular vote also wins enough electoral votes to gain the Oval Office. But in just the last 20 years, the Electoral College…
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Kamala Harris Says If She’s Elected President, She Will Ban AR-15-Style Guns, the Weapon of Choice in Mass Shootings
On Wednesday, presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced that should she be elected president, she’ll get right down to business when it comes to addressing AR-15s—the weapon of choice in mass shootings. CNN reports that during a campaign stop in New Hampshire, the former California attorney general revealed that she’ll use her executive authority to ban…