Politics
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Auntie Maxine Ain’t Scared of No Damn Pipe Bomb
From day one, Rep. Maxine Waters of (D-Calif.) has made it abundantly clear that the president of the United States was a vile man who couldn’t be trusted and that she had no intention of trying to work with him. In fact, while the rest of her constituents were busy trying to walk the fine…
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Trump Is Sending 800 Troops to Stop the Migrant Caravan and It Has Nothing to Do With the Midterms
Donald Trump, the Asshole-in-Chief and the supervillain of Americans who don’t recognize that he’s evil, has not only declared that a caravan of migrants are going to pillage white communities, steal white babies and drink all the artisanal beer they can find, but now he’s sending 800 troops to meet them at the border because…
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Tomi Lahren Can’t Fill a Room, The Root Hates Black Men, and Other Things I Learned at Politicon 2018
Genre conventions are all the rage in America. There is Walker Stalker Con for he Walking Dead, IDCon for true-crime Discovery Channel shows, and new comic book conventions pop up every weekend. Fan conventions are like clothing lines for celebritie —everybody thinks they’re a good idea and half of them don’t work (for every Rihanna…
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It's Complicated: Why Some Afro-Brazilians Are Willing to Vote for a Racist Presidential Candidate Who's Calling for More Police Violence
Last week, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s white, hard-right presidential candidate, received an unexpected American endorsement. “He sounds like us,” said David Duke, an unabashed white supremacist and former Grand Duke Wizard of the Louisiana Ku Klux Klan. “He is a total European descendant, he looks like any white man in the U.S., in Portugal, Spain, or…
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The Governor’s Debate Between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp Is Everything That’s Wrong with Georgia Politics
Tuesday night was supposed to be fire. In the 24 hours before the first Georgia governor’s debate between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp the national press started dropping bombs like Outkast. First, Richard Fausset of the New York Times posted a story about Stacey Abrams attending the burning of the old Confederate Georgia…
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Republicans Control the Poorest States, Democrats Control States With Highest Earners: Report
As if we didn’t know already, it turns out that Republicans might keep people poor. A new report reveals that almost all of the states where people earn the least are controlled by Republicans, while the states where people make the most money are almost exclusively led by Democratic politicians. USA Today recently ranked the…
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The Most Pathetically Racist Robocall You've Ever Heard Against Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew Gillum
Ok, racists listen up. It’s 2018. If you’re going to be racist, please step your insult game up. Most of the kids born in the 1980s don’t have a clue who the hell Stepin Fetchit was or know that Kingfish was one of the stars of the wildly popular Amos & Andy. If you’re still…