Politics
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New Mexico Governor Orders National Guard Troops Back from Border
The jig is hurtling toward the sun. Deriding the “charade of border fear-mongering by Donald Trump, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the majority of National Guard troops deployed at the state’s southern border to withdraw. “I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the Southern border,” Lujan…
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Black Trump Supporters Call Democrats Dressed in All White the Ku Klux Klan: 'The Only Thing…Missing Tonight Is the Matching Hood'
Remember Katrina Pierson? Don’t worry if you don’t as only close friends and family actually remember Katrina Pierson. And she’s alive. But way back in 2015 when Trump was just a washed-up reality TV persona trying to become a washed-up reality TV president, Pierson was Trump’s favorite mouthpiece who was on all the talk shows. If…
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Is Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Investigation Coming to a Close?
The first reports from several news outlets noted that special counsel Robert Mueller’s latest probe filling may possibly bring more indictments. And then news broke that a prosecutor working with the investigation had left Mueller’s team and returned to the Justice Department, possibly pointing to the hunt for Russian collusion coming to an end. So…
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Nancy Pelosi: House Speaker or Congressional Gangster?
Can we just go ahead and admit that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is officially the Suge Knight of Capitol Hill? Don’t bother arguing with me. You know it’s true. If you watched last night’s State of the Union address, you saw the Congressional OG show up with her gang in tow, wearing their colors and…
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Va. Attorney General Admits to Wearing Blackface to Perform Kurtis Blow Rap
I don’t know what’s more puzzling—that Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) once dressed in blackface in college and admitted it, or that Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring listened to Kurtis Blow and knew the lyrics of one of his songs enough to actually perform it in said blackface. It seems that after Virginia Gov.…
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Trump Eerily Silent After SOTU Speech and I Have a Lot of Questions
Where is President HooHoo Von Swizzledick? It’s been 13 hours since the president delivered his long-ass, shoutout speech, in which he begged up Navy veterans, a child cancer patient, himself and his wife, Melania—who came to the State of the Union in a separate car because even she’s hate riding with his ass—and the president…
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There's No Use in Taking Trump's State of the Union Seriously
Everything is worse in the wake of Trump’s latest State of the Union Address. I once dated a functioning alcoholic. What began as a functioning facade gave way to wobbly excuses, thinly-veiled threats and destructive behavior. At first, the tearful apologies came so infrequently that each felt like a breakthrough of some sort, new ground…
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A Live Translation of Trump's State of the Union Address
Good evening and welcome. Tonight, The Root’s Senior Editor Stephen A. Crockett Jr., Staff Writer Michael Harriot and Staff Writer Monique Judge will be live blogging Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. And by live blogging, we mean providing you with an understandable translation free of Adderall snorts and pompous bragging about everything and…
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Maxine Waters Calls Donald Trump a 'Bluffer' Ahead of the State of the Union Address
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters has never bitten her tongue when it comes to expressing her disdain for Donald Trump, the white-supremacist-in-chief. During an interview with The Root, Rep. Waters told us how to push back against Trump’s bully tactics, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership and how she feels empowered by the new crop of black…
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Hey, Bernie Sanders Can You STFU After the SOTU and Let Stacey Abrams Shine?
I thought after the “Bernie Bros.” reportedly ditched their liberal persona and voted for Donald Trump in an effort to “bern” Hillary Clinton that everyone had learned their lesson and informally agreed to play nice. As it stands, we’ve got an orange demigod in the White House who needs to be sent packing in 2020.…