Politics
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Betsy DeVos Becomes the Face of Clownery After Trainwreck 60 Minutes Interview
God bless 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl, the reporter who had to squint to properly process the unmitigated idiocy dribbling from Betsy DeVos’ mouth during an interview with the secretary of education Sunday night. DeVos smiled and gave glib and at times false statements during the segment. At one point DeVos said, “We should be investing in…
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Trump Goes Full ‘MAGA’: Calls Maxine Waters ‘Low IQ,’ Shades Oprah, Suggests Killing Drug Dealers and More
At a Moon Township, Pa., rally Saturday, Donald Trump dropped any sense of decorum and presidential behavior in an extended rant against anything black, brown or logical, fulfilling predictions that he plans to go full “MAGA” to distract from the increasing coverage of the Mueller investigation, his legislative failures, the National Rifle Association’s wholesale buyout…
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Trump Appointees Are Out Here Living Their Very Best ‘It Ain’t Tricking if You Got It’ Lifestyles
Just a week after the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it would be canceling a $31,000 order for a new dining set to decorate Secretary Ben Carson’s office, the Department of the Interior confirmed that it will be spending more than four times that amount to make repairs to the office of…
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Tucker Carlson and Chill: White Conservatives in DC Can’t Get a Date, but the Black Ones Are Doing Fine
Apparently it’s really hard for the khaki-pants-wearing, tiki-torch-carrying, Trump-loving crowd to find dates in Washington, D.C. At least that’s the conclusion of “Why It’s Hard for Conservatives to Date in D.C. Right Now,” a piece in The Washingtonian magazine that’s become all the talk in Washington circles this week. Or at least some Washington circles. Conservatives…
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If Trump Is Meeting With North Korean President Kim Jong Un, Then Dennis Rodman Needs to Be There
You know what’s more bizarre then two hot-headed world leaders getting together in a room to talk peace? Dennis Rodman. Rodman—the tattooed, onetime drug addict-and-onetime basketball player-turned-reformed drug addict, whose temperament can best be described as a faulty shredded trip wire on its last thread—has the distinguished privilege of being one of the few men…
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Stacey Dash Refuses to Judge the One Group of People You Should Definitely Be Judging
Just hours after Stacey Dash formally announced that she would run for Congress, the actress, former Fox News pundit and current Miss Sunken Place pageant queen made it clear that she’s “not here to judge” neo-Nazis. In an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday, the New York Daily News reports, host Ari Melber asked Dash if…
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A Word About Louis Farrakhan and Tamika Mallory
Women’s March Co-President Tamika Mallory’s public image has been taking a drumming all week since news broke of her attendance at the Nation of Islam’s annual Saviour’s Day, during which Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a speech with anti-Semitic commentary. The speech was delivered at the end of February, but Twitter went ablaze last weekend after…
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A Condom With a Hole In it, and 9 Other Things I Trust More Than Trump
At the White House press briefing on Wednesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was discussing the departure of top Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn. He is just the latest member of Donald Trump’s administration to say, “You know what? I’m out of here” and quit his job. A member of the press asked Sanders about the high…
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Rafael ‘Ted’ Cruz Had the Nerve to Make Fun of Democratic Opponent Robert ‘Beto’ O’Rourke’s Name
Sen. Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz (R-Texas), who just so happens to look like a grown-up Eddie Munster, had the audacity to make fun of his Democratic rival Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke—who won the Democratic primary Tuesday night and will be running against Cruz for the Senate—because he uses a nickname. On Tuesday, Rafael’s campaign released…