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A 'Confederacy of Whiteness': Virginia Military Institute's Uncivil War Against Its Black Students
When Vice President Mike Pence visited the Virginia Military Institute, the Black students disappeared. That is not a metaphor. Everyone loves a good metaphor. But Mike Pence is not the personification of VMI’s racism, and there are much better ways to compare 181-year old VMI—the oldest state-supported military college in the U.S.—with the 244-year-old country…
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Trump Claims Kamala Harris Is ‘Dream Opponent.’ Wait Till She Destroys Sexless Robot Mike Pence
On Wednesday, President Trump was doing it again, and by again, I mean he was acting as if a tornado of an opponent who is looking to bring his house down was fitting right into his plans. The president of people who enjoy Barstool Sports claimed that California Sen. Kamala Harris, she of the sisterhood of…
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CDC Removes Then Restores COVID-19 Hospitalization Data to Its Website
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently removed data on hospital capacity for medical facilities across the country from its website. Since COVID-19 hospitalizations have often been used to speculate on how well the health care system can handle the coronavirus outbreak, a lot of people expressed their displeasure over the data being…
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Mike Pence: We Don’t Want CDC Guidelines Determining When We Open Schools. (This Is Not an Onion Headline)
There are times when the news is so outrageous it almost seems satirical and then there is the Trump administration, which has skirted the line between truth and fiction so much that there is no line anymore. On Tuesday, the vice president, who may or may not be a sexless robot or a piece of…
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The White House Is a Coronavirus Petri Dish, Yet Mike Pence Still Won’t Wear a Mask
In the horror movie that has become the Trump administration, the president and Vice President Mike Pence are the jocks who believe there is nothing to be afraid of and walk into the haunted house to show everyone how crazy they’re being, never to be heard from again. The White House has literally become America’s…
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Turns Out That Mike Pence Hot Mic Empty Box Moment Was Just a Joke [Corrected]
Correction: Tuesday, May 8, 2020, 4:58 p.m. EDT: The last time I snitched I was 12. Me and another kid had gotten caught shooting BB guns in the woods and the apartment rental office where I lived found out and threatened to kick us out. They thought the guns were real. My dad walked me…
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One of Trump’s Personal Valets Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Either President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are the outbreak monkeys destined to infect the entire White House with the coronavirus since they insist on not following any of the orders that the rest of the country must follow, or they’ve moved one step closer to contracting the virus, as one of the president’s…
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Vice President's Staff Threaten Retaliation Against Reporter for Tweeting About Pence’s Mask Off Antics
Vice President Pence’s office isn’t a fan of the truth, or at least the truth being leaked over Twitter, so now they’re threatening retaliation against a reporter who tweeted that Pence’s people told journalists to wear a mask during a recent visit to the Mayo Clinic, even though the vice president was going full mask…
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Vice President Mike Pence Is a Crash Test Dummy for Trump
Remember way back to 2017 when Vice President Mike Pence attended a football game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers just so he could walk out when players kneeled for the National Anthem? Pence would later tweet: “I left today’s Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that…
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How Old Were You When You First Realized That White Supremacy Is a Death Cult?
I was 37. I wish I could say this realization came sooner. That’s an embarrassingly late age. But I also used to think The Weeknd was a group, so I’m a slow learner sometimes.