Politics
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Kamala Harris on Potential Presidential Bid in 2020: ‘It’s Going to Be Ugly’
Over the weekend, while speaking at the Know Your Value conference in San Francisco, Senator Kamala Harris stated the obvious with conviction. “Let’s be honest. It’s going to be ugly,” she told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski according to Newsweek. “When you break things, it is painful. And you get cut. And you bleed.” Her comments are…
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Michelle Obama Still Doesn't Want to Be President but That Doesn't Mean We Should Stop Trying
Despite consistently saying that she has no interest in running for president, Michelle Obama has once again confirmed that she doesn’t want to be president. But I, like the rest of us, am not trying to hear that. We need you, Michelle! And while we know that she has no interest in running the country,…
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As Tributes Pour In Honoring George H.W. Bush, Twitter Calls His Legacy Into Question
On Friday night, after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease and other ailments, our 41st president, George H.W. Bush, died in his Houston home. He was 94. As tributes poured in over the weekend, he was celebrated for being “great in his character, leading with decency and integrity” according to House Speaker Paul Ryan. Our…
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Your Politician's Got Tweets? This Black Woman Software Developer's Got Receipts
“African Americans and Hispanics, brown people, we are the driving force on the major social media platforms,” said software developer Diana Eromosele. “Isn’t it high time for us to get behind the wheel and create these applications?” And this black woman in tech is doing just that. Just more than three years ago, Eromosele worked…
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Death Grip: Handshake Between Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and the Russian President, Analyzed
I’ve been black all my life. Therefore when I came out of my mother’s womb, I turned, coughed a bit, smacked the doctor five and pulled him in close for the brother handshake. The doctor, a white man, was confused, and not because a newborn just smacked him five, but because he didn’t understand the…
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The Trump Organization Wanted to Give Trump's Boo Vladimir Putin a $50 Million Penthouse: Report
It looks like The Trump Organization wasn’t just trying to build a mega building in his boo’s native land but the Trump Tower Moscow would’ve included a $50 million penthouse gift to his sidepiece, Russian President Bae-dimir Putin. Felix Sater, a real estate developer with ties to the Russian government, told the New York Daily…
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A Little Bit of Justice: GOP's Lone Black Senator Does the Right Thing, Opposes Controversial Trump Pick
I still don’t get why it took so long or why he seemed to struggle with what should have been a simple decision—if justice, not politics, was the goal—but Tim Scott, a U.S. senator from South Carolina, has announced he will oppose the nomination of Thomas Farr. That means the Scott I think I know—the…
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Trump Calls Off Meeting With Putin Right After Michael Cohen Agrees To Sing Like Johnny Gill at His Audition for New Edition
President Donald Trump abruptly canceled his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday noting: “Ouuuuu, bitch, they onto us!” Fine, who knows what the hell goes on in that empty pit of shame that sits atop the saggy-skinned movable KFC buckets that make up the president? But two days before he was supposed to sit…
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Trump Fixer Michael Cohen to Cooperate in Mueller Investigation. Too Bad He's Also a Liar
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney, has accepted a plea deal that includes cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation on election interference, collusion and obstruction of justice. However, all of this might not amount to anything because much like his former boss, Cohen’s ass stay lying too. In fact, Cohen “pleaded…
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President Petty Goes Back to Reality Show Roots and Threatens to Release Receipts on Democrats
The president of the United States is threatening to do all kinds of unpresidential shit because he’s the president of the goddamn United States! In an interview with the New York Post, the president of the fucking United States of America just said that if House Democrats use their power to demand to see how…