Politics
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James Comey’s Memos: Putin Told Trump That Russia Had Some of the ‘Most Beautiful Hookers in the World’
Because the news cycle never stops with the Trump administration, former FBI Director James Comey’s memos detailing conversations he had with the president were handed over to Congress on Thursday. As news sites are still combing through Comey’s notes, the most damning and arguably believable news to hit the interwebs is that Comey wrote that…
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Former Playboy Playmate Is Free to Talk About Her Affair With the President; This Should Be Good
Former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal has reached a settlement with American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, and this only matters for one reason: McDougal can now speak freely about her alleged affair with President Donald Trump. Is this messy? Of course it is. But most important, the story of McDougal’s reportedly monthslong…
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Trump’s Personal Fixer Michael Cohen Is Going to Flip Like a Gymnast and Sing Like 1985 Prince
In an article in Vanity Fair, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, proclaimed, “I’m the guy who would take a bullet for the president.” Well, Mikey boy, it looks like now might be the time to take that bullet. It looks as if Mikey is pulling out his best Matrix-style moves as several…
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Trump Tweet About Immigrant ‘Breeding’ Invokes White Supremacist Rhetoric
I’m beginning to think Donald Trump has a punch card where he gets a stamp toward his white supremacist membership every time he makes an outwardly racist statement. I have always believed that 74 percent of the “alt-right’s” ire is rooted in their obsession with brown people’s penises. Their fear of black phallus causes them…
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Bernie Sanders Agrees With Cardi B’s Money Moves
The people’s champ, Sen. Bernie Sanders, isn’t a stranger to rap; he’s name-checked Jay-Z and kicks it with Run the Jewels rapper-turned-unlikely National Rifle Association pitchman Killer Mike. And now the liberal politician has retweeted the empress of now and snatcher of hip-hop fitteds: Cardi B. Sanders endorsed Cardi B’s statement about former President Franklin…
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Wait, CIA Director Mike Pompeo Met With Kim Jong Un?
In between the Russia scandal, the wayward tweets and the plethora of lawyers turning down the president’s promposals, CIA Director Mike Pompeo dipped out to visit North Korean leader and resident nut job Kim Jong Un. Oh, and you want to know how all of America found out? Twitter. Early Wednesday morning, President LittleFingers unlocked…
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Eric Holder Talks Like He’s Running for President
Eric Holder didn’t announce his candidacy for president in 2020 this morning, and he didn’t need to. His words at the National Action Network Convention in New York City pretty much suggest that he likely will. The former U.S. attorney general had the audience captivated on Wednesday before he stepped to the podium to say…
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12 Lawyers and Counting Have Passed on Working for Toxic Trump
President Donald Trump is toxic; he knows it, the world knows it. But it must be really bad when the president of the United States is so radioactive that 12 lawyers and counting have passed on representing him in the special counsel investigation. According to CNN, lawyer Steven Molo, a former prosecutor who specializes in…
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#NetNeutrality: Mignon Clyburn, Biggest Defender of Open Internet, Stepping Down From FCC
Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission who was one of only two people to vote in favor of keeping the rules of net neutrality in place, announced Tuesday that she would be stepping down from her position. Clyburn made her announcement at an FCC meeting, Politico reports, and she will leave her…
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Donald Trump Hates Jeff Sessions So Much, He Is Now in Support of Legalized Marijuana
Donald Trump hates Jeff Sessions with a passion. Sessions thought he was going to be a Trump guy, coming out all early in support of Trump for president. He thought he was in for sure when Trump put him up for the U.S. attorney general job. He was probably like, “I’m in there!” Poor, stupid…