Joe Biden
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Celebrating America: Let’s Talk About the 2021 Inauguration Celebration, Shall We?
I know what the headline says, but we’re not actually gonna talk about the inauguration today—at least not the formalities of it. Why? Because by most accounts, it was a regular degular ceremony and went off without a hitch. I’m sorry—what was that? Oh, it wasn’t a regular degular ceremony? Because everyone was donning masks…
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What Do Trump’s COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan and Bigfoot Have in Common? They Both Don’t Exist
In what appears to be chapter 7 of the ways in which Trump screwed over America, new President Joe Biden learned that he won’t be inheriting a coronavirus vaccine distribution plan from the former administration because there isn’t one. That’s right, the president of people who refused to wear masks and thusly continued to aid…
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Biden Is Already Draining the Swamp, Fires 3 of Trump’s Worst Appointees
One of former President Shitbag Von Nunu’s best traits was that he was notoriously bad at the mundane shit. Instead of hiring people who were qualified in their respective fields, Von Nunu placed an emphasis on loyalty over everything. In turn, he put people who didn’t know what the fuck they were doing into powerful…
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Amanda Gorman Stuns With Powerful Inaugural Poem, ‘The Hill We Climb’
Much of Wednesday’s inauguration ceremony for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris felt like a balm to a wounded nation’s soul, especially 22-year-old Amanda Gorman’s beautiful recitation of the inauguration poem, “The Hill We Climb.” Gorman, who was named the country’s first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017 and is the youngest person…
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The Return to Boredom America Deserves
The past four years of Trump’s presidency have been like living with a drug addict who is deep in their addiction. Anyone who has endured this unfortunate cohabitation knows that each day brings with it a certain unsteadiness that creates its own kind of frantic normalcy. It’s toxic and exhausting and if you stay in…
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For Her Historic Inauguration Event Wardrobe, Kamala Harris Has Chosen African American Designers
When Kamala Devi Harris is sworn in as the first female, Black and South Asian vice president on Wednesday morning, she will do so on a Bible owned by late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, under the undoubtedly smiling eyes of the first Latina on the Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Harris will also bring…
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GTFOH Trump Watch: And Just Like That, the Devil Is Gone
If you have a moment to take, take it. We survived. We survived the racism, the xenophobia, the disrespect, the insensitivity, the negative rhetoric, the divisiveness, the homophobia. We survived beyond the wall, the migrant children in cages, the good people on both sides, the chaos, the blatant cheating on America with Russia, the mayonnaise-slathered…
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Kamala Harris May Reshape How People View the Vice Presidency Forever
“The symbolism alone of having a Black woman vice president and going around the world—representing the Red, White, and Blue—I think it’s really going to, again, reinvigorate the world toward American values.” —Ravi Perry Ph.D., Chair of Political Science, Howard University text The day many thought would never arrive is finally here: Donald Trump’s presidency…
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Around a Dozen National Guard Members Removed From Inauguration Security Team, Including 2 for Ties to Far-Right Militia Groups [Updated]
On Monday, The Root reported that the FBI screened around 25,000 members of the U.S. Army National Guard to make sure a second attack on the U.S. Capitol wasn’t being planned for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration by insiders tasked with securing Capitol grounds. It was an unusual screening of an unusually large Inauguration Day security…
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FBI to Screen Around 25,000 National Guard Members Fearing Possible Insider Attack on Inauguration Day
We’re just two days away from the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Some Americans are excited, some are still mourning the about-damn-timely demise of Donald Trump’s presidency and others are pretty indifferent about the whole thing as a lifetime of witnessing America being America has left them cynical AF. Meanwhile, the FBI and U.S. defense…