Politics
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Former Trump Aide Sam Nunberg Went Full Kanye During Media Blitz, Called Sarah Huckabee Sanders a ‘Fat Slob’
Monday was just Mondaying along doing its usual Monday stuff, and then former Donald Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg turned to Monday and yelled, “Hold my antidepressants!” Basically, and this is the best way to explain what happened Monday: Nunberg received a subpoena for email records between him and former Trump adviser Roger Stone and…
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Trump’s Lawyer Wasn’t Happy That the President Never Reimbursed Him for Paying Off That Porn Star: Report
Michael Cohen, the Trump lawyer who paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 not to discuss her sordid affair with a human orange mass of mediocrity, reportedly complained to folks that the then-reality TV star never reimbursed him for the hush money he paid. According to the Wall Street Journal, shortly before the president started hanging…
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Trump Is ‘Unstable, Inept, Inexperienced and … Unethical’: Former CIA Director
“Unstable,” “inept,” “inexperienced” and “unethical” are all words that many of us have used in reference to our current sitting president before. They are all considered accurate statements about him, and it is not unusual to hear them bandied about in conversations about him. It is, however, still affirming when we hear those words used…
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Trump’s Random DACA Deadline Is Here, but He’s Too Busy Tweeting About Obama to Care
Way back in September, President Donald Trump set an arbitrary deadline to get the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals bill passed. The bill would grant a means to citizenship to undocumented young people brought to the U.S. as children. The date Trump randomly gave was March 5. In January, Trump refused to sign a bipartisan…
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Trump, the Walking Internet Comments Section, Taps Racist Blogger for Federal Job
William Otis, a former special counsel to President George H.W. Bush and a current professor at Georgetown University Law Center, was nominated by President Donald Trump this week to sit on a federal commission that sets policy on how to punish criminals. It would come as no surprise that Otis is a staunch supporter of…
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Armed Teachers in Classrooms One Step Closer to Being the Law in Florida
As teachers, parents, students and Parkland residents voiced their opposition, Florida lawmakers advanced legislation Tuesday that would create a statewide program to put armed teachers in classrooms. The Miami Herald reports that the state House Appropriations Committee voted to approve a measure that would see teachers trained to carry guns in the classroom under the…
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No Good Deed: Legally Blind White Man Attacks Black Politician for Trying to Help Him
Sometimes it just doesn’t matter how much good you want to do for the world; people are going to hate and fear you anyway. This doesn’t just apply to the X-Men, dentists and high school grammar teachers; it also applies to politicians. While much of the public likes to criticize “Washington” and “the government” for…
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Congratulations, Georgia Has Practically Elected the 1st Black Woman as Governor in America!
I never thought it would happen, but Georgia has virtually become the first state to elect a black woman as governor. It was one thing for Barack Obama to get elected president. He ran for office while America was in ruins after George W. Bush’s ragged economy and costly financial wars. Sarah Palin’s candidacy for…
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Meet the Mayor of Miami Gardens, Fla., One of the Largest Black-Run Cities in the Country
“Every night in my sleep, I need you beside me.” Imagine this line sung in the style of Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” off-key but with the same amount of confidence that Dion’s golden vocals boast. That’s how Miami Gardens, Fla., Mayor Oliver Gilbert started our interview. Clearly, I was in for a…
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Either Melania Trump Is the Slovenian Rain Man or She Finessed Her ‘Einstein Visa’
Until I see Melania Trump do anything other than wave and steal speeches from the most extraordinary first lady ever to grace the White House with her presence, then I have a hard time believing that she can do anything other than look like a vaguely alive corpse. So how in all the heat in…