Politics
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Puerto Rico Governor Threatens to Punch Trump in the Mouth. San Juan Mayor Says No He Won't Because He's a Coward
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is doing what the kids call “keyboard thugging” or maybe it’s “pump faking” but either way, he’s tough-talking the president of the United States from a safe distance and the mayor of San Juan says it’s because history is going to remember him as a coward. President Trump and the…
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Auntie Maxine Bids Impeachment Efforts Adieu, Shifts Priority to 'Getting That Report'
I’d be lying if I said I saw this coming, but now Auntie Maxine herself says not to hold your breath waiting for an impeachment of alleged president Donald Trump. “[Impeachment has] never been discussed as a strategy for this caucus. It’s only a few of us,” she told Politico. “I think we do nothing…
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Donald Trump Decides Cutting Funding to the Special Olympics Isn’t Such a Good Idea After All
After he let his education secretary get flamed by every single person on the planet with compassion in their heart, y’all little “president” has decided to dial back his decision to cut funding for the Special Olympics from the federal budget. As the Washington Post reports, Donald Trump made the decision after he let Betsy…
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Florida Mayor and Former FSU Wide Receiver Wayne Messam Announces 2020 Bid
As Mayor of Miramar, Fla., and a former football player for Florida State University, Wayne Messam, a 44-year-old business owner, is used to achieving success at a high level. After announcing his bid for the presidency Thursday, Messam believes he has a real shot at continuing his habit of success. A small-business owner for 20…
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Trump Hyped His Wealth to Get Bankers and Investors to Lend Him Money—And He Might've Committed Fraud: Report
The Grand Wizard of the White House is much like the Wizard of Oz; just a little orange colored man behind a financial curtain of falsities. According to The Washington Post, Trump created a document of lies he titled “Statements of Financial Condition” that he used to borrow money. The problem with this series of…
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Grand Theft Airport: Republicans Are Trying to Snatch the Busiest Airport in America From Black Leadership
I love a good heist movie—Now You See Me, Dead Presidents, all of those Oceans movies. I can even enjoy really terrible heist movies like Widows and Takers. The key to a good heist story is the thieves have to kind of be the good guys and the crime has to make some kind of…
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Watch: Rep. Juandalynn Givan Is My Adopted Auntie and the Clapback Hero Black America Needs
Despite what you may believe, trust me, you have never truly seen a black person let go. Sometimes, when we are beset on all sides by whiteness, drowning in the filthy American cesspool contaminated by lynching blood, face spit and white tears, all a black person can do is hold on. Hold on. The way…
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Trump Wants FBI and the DOJ to Review Jussie Smollett Case Because He's Only President to Rich White Criminals
President Trump has added his voice to the dissenters of those unhappy with the recent dropping of all charges in Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s alleged “MAGA country” beating. In an early morning tweet on Thursday, the president said that the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice would review the case, calling it “outrageous” and…
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Prominent South Carolina Democrats Co-Sign Kamala Harris
Five distinguished South Carolina Democrats, including one of its longest-serving black lawmakers, are throwing their support behind the presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris—providing an early push to the former state attorney general in a critical early-voting state. According to the Associated Press, the list includes a trio of black legislators: State Sen. Darrell Jackson…
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Trump Is Considering Going to the White House Correspondents' Dinner After Having the Best Week Ever
President Trump is having his best week ever as president. First, special counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into whether there was collusion with Russia to gift wrap the 2016 presidential election—the investigation that has hovered over Trump’s presidency like a black cloud—has in Trump’s words “exonerated him.” Trump’s cries that the investigation was a “witch hunt”…