Politics
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Our President Just Tweeted a Photo of Himself Wearing a Hillbilly Onesie and We’re Probably All Going to Die
The Donald J. Trump parody Twitter account is hilarious. Today, out of nowhere, it posted this uproarious tweet before the actual president’s signing of a farm bill. The Root staff writer Michael Harriot: That isn’t a parody account, Stephen. Me: Wait, what are you saying? MH: I’m saying that the president tweeted that from his…
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Did Fox and Friends Force Trump to Shut Down the Government If He Doesn’t Get His Border Wall?
While the Senate was busy passing a bill to keep the government open, Fox and Friends were busy calling out the president for caving to Congress for agreeing to sign a bill that didn’t include his “boarder” wall. “This is going to be a problem for Republicans,” guest host Jebidiah Bila said. “I think a…
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Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Cleared To Oversee Russia Investigation: Report
We are entering really dangerous territory as Justice Department ethics officials have consulted with Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker — you know the man that Trump handed the job as America’s top cop; the man who didn’t have to be confirmed or questioned by a congressional panel; the man who has gone on national TV…
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Betsy DeVos Thinks Teachers Should Carry Guns Even Though She Has No Idea What That Means
Because the entire Trump administration is really just one big unending Steven Seagal movie, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has given a slow Birdman hand rub to teachers being armed despite opposition from people who are actually knowledgeable about two things that DeVos seemingly knows nothing about: educating students, and guns. Let’s be clear, Trump threw…
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First Step Is One of the Biggest Criminal Justice Reforms in Decades. But How Great Will Its Effect Be?
On Tuesday night, a Republican-dominated Senate passed First Step, paving the way for the criminal justice reform bill to clear the House and be signed into law by Donald Trump. The bipartisan bill, which was overwhelmingly passed in an 87-12 vote, is widely considered to the most substantial legislation affecting the federal prison system in…
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Michigan Mayor Claims Recording of Him Using F-Word is Fake… Again
After an audio recording surfaced of a Michigan city’s mayor using a derogatory term for homosexuals, the official has denied that the voice on the recording is his, failing to explain why tapes keep popping up of him using racist and homophobic slurs. Jim Fouts, mayor of Warren, Mi., and survivor of two zombie apocalypses,…
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Something Mysterious Is Happening With Michael Cohen But No One Knows Because It's Locked in a Vault
Where is Geraldo Rivera when you need him to get to the bottom of some secret vault shit?! On Wednesday, someone filed a document with something about a criminal case involving President Trump’s former lawyer and forever duffel bag carrier, Michael Cohen. And no one knows who filed it or what it says because it’s…
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The Strange Story of Trump's Sham Foundation and a Signed Tim Tebow Helmet, Explained
President Trump is closing his personal money-laundering operation charity that used donations as if they were the president’s personal money while doing little if anything to actually help anyone other than the president. What’s baffling is that in 2016, shortly before Russia would hand Big Kompromat the election, Trump claimed that he was going to…
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Rudy Giuliani Claimed Trump Tower Moscow Wasn't a Thing. Then CNN Showed Up With Receipts
The president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is having a full-on showdown with the bizarro emperor of America to see who’s better at lying to the American public about everything. The funny thing is, both of them use the same deranged method of acting like everything is nothing. At this point, if both Trump and Giuliani were…
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Advertisers Are Leaving Tucker Carlson After Finally Realizing He Is Who He's Always Been
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson just proved that even a Fox News host can never go full racist, unless he’s Sean Hannity. Advertisers are reportedly dropping from Carlson’s primetime program Tucker Carlson Tonight after he claimed on his show, on Thursday, that immigrants make America “poorer and dirtier and more divided.” According to The Hollywood Reporter,…