Politics
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#RepublicansSoWhite: Why Black Voters Don't Mess With the GOP
One of the favorite assertions of Candace Owens, Kanye West and black people who will happily let white people touch their hair, is that negroes have been bamboozled by the Democratic Party. They often ask why the Democratic Party tends to get the black vote by default. With a false sense of superiority bestowed upon…
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Trump's Still Big Mad That Fox News, His Personal YouTube Channel, Had a Bernie Sanders Town Hall
President Donald Trump doesn’t like that his favorite news drama network, Fox News, decided to have Killer Mike’s best friend, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), on for a televised town hall that included Sanders’ supporters. It was Trump’s second time tweeting angrily about Sanders’ Fox News town hall. Earlier he posted: “We”? Really? Trump speaks French…
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Why Is Ivanka Trump Visiting the Ivory Coast and, More Importantly, Why Is She Dancing?
Ivanka Trump isn’t the first lady. In fact, she’s merely the daughter of the president, and though he makes really weird and inappropriate comments about her, she’s not the first lady. Ivanka has an office in the West Wing. She also accompanies her father to very important meetings with world leaders. She’s got top-secret security…
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Attention Black People: It’s Your Fault Should Donald Trump Get Re-Elected in 2020
I have made an amazing discovery over the course of 2019 that has never occurred to me despite voting in elections for years. I am the most powerful person in the American electorate. Me, only me. Or at least I think so. I come to this conclusion after months and months on Twitter and other…
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'Stacey Abrams Won That Election': Eric Holder Stays Ready to Scrap Against Anti-Democratic Principles
Eric Holder has been one of the most consistent Democratic operatives in the last two decades. And by operative, we don’t mean the stereotypical, smarmy, back-of-the-room dealmaker and fixer (see Donald Trump’s inner circle), we mean repping Democratic principles and getting in the mix when those principles are threatened, most notably as the first African-American…
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Just Like Herpes, He's Back: Accused Child Molester Roy Moore Is Leading GOP Candidate to Challenge Doug Jones for Senate Seat
Alabama Republicans insist there’s nothing wrong, that Roy Moore is just a cold sore. But just when you think he’s been defeated, here he comes out of nowhere to fuck up your day. In a new poll, accused child molester and former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is somehow, some way leading the…
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Hollywood's Biggest Names Are Lining Up to Throw Their Support Behind Kamala Harris
Thus far, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has raised $13.2 million—the second largest haul of any presidential candidate. But while a majority of that money has come from contributions of less than $100, Hollywood appears to have a love affair with the former California Attorney General too. The Los Angeles Times reports that luminaries such…
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Trump Tweets He Will Award Tiger Woods Presidential Medal of Freedom
Just one day after winning his fifth Masters Tournament championship in one of the greatest comebacks in golf history, Tiger Woods is set to receive another rare honor: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And unlike other pro athletes who’ve turned down the, er, opportunity to be feted by the current occupant of the Oval Office…
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Stacey Abrams Says There Was ‘Incompetence’ in Media Coverage of Her Campaign, Will Announce Her Future Political Plans in the Coming Weeks
Former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams sat down with The Root to reflect on her 2018 campaign for the governor’s mansion in Georgia and whether or not the country is ready for a black woman to be president. She also discussed the media’s treatment of her during her run for governor and some of the racist…