Politics
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It’s Official: The Tax-Scam Bill to Ruin the Poor and Middle Class Is Now the Law
The president’s push to hand the top 1 percent their Christmas bonus is official: Donald Trump has signed the tax-scam bill into law, because we all knew he wasn’t going to wait until January to sign this crap. The $1.5 trillion rewrite of the tax code is now the law of the land as the…
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#BlackWomenDemand: What We Insist the Democratic Party Does for Us
Black women have done a lot of heavy lifting in the past year. This comes as a surprise to no one, because black women in America have been doing heavy lifting since we were brought here. It’s more significant at this particular point in time because of the political climate in which we exist. As…
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The President Believes That He ‘Repealed’ Obamacare. He Didn’t, but Don’t Tell Him That
Turns out that nestled inside that handout to the rich known as the tax bill was a sleeping hand grenade that the president believes effectively blew up the remaining parts of Obamacare as we know it. And you know how we know this? Because the president couldn’t contain his excitement to gloat over the fact…
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Exclusive: God Responds to Ben Carson’s Weird Prayer Thanking the Lord for Trump and the Tax Bill
Before a Wednesday Cabinet meeting, the Grinch Who Stole the Middle Class’s Christmas informed the members of the press that they should stay for a few minutes to join Snow White Supremacist and the Seven Demons in prayer. Led by the successful surgeon, failed dick-stabber, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, the…
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The Christmas Gift You Didn’t Want: Deplorable Bill for the Top 1 Percent Passes Deplorable Congress
In what is probably the least shocking news coming out of the Trump White House and the deplorable Republican Congress, the tax bill that will help no one but Congress members and those in the top 1 percent has been approved resoundingly by both chambers of Congress with no Democratic support. Days before Christmas, Republican…
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Locked Out: Black Mayor Boycotts City Council in Camilla, Ga., After They Refuse to Give Him Office Keys
Some parts of the country make you feel like Eyes on the Prize never went to commercial break. Some stories are so racist and over the top, you figure even Attorney General Jeff Sessions might give them a side eye. That looks to be the case in Camilla, Ga., a town so segregated, the cemetery…
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Everything You Need to Know About the GOP’s Tax Heist but Were Afraid to Ask
Congress is poised to pass a piece of legislation that will amount to a $1.5 trillion tax hike for Americans who don’t have trust funds, silver spoons or monocles. No one knows what is in the final bill because Republicans have added more changes than Kim Kardashian’s plastic surgeon, but luckily The Root always has…
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WTF Is This Weird-Ass Video That Paul Ryan Posted?
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan wants to prove that he didn’t just become a horrible person overnight; rather, he was born a horrible person who has consistently pushed for cuts in programs for the poor to feed the rich by posting a weird press-clipping video of him being a shit heel since 1998. On…
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Should We Delight in Omarosa’s Demise?
As soon as news spread that the Black Wicked Witch of the White House had been thrown out of the official presidential residence like she was Jazzy Jeff in a lost episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the melanated part of the country burst into a giggling fit not seen since we did the…
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Omarosa: ‘Donald Trump Is Racial, but He Is Not a Racist’
After being ousted from her job as communications director in the Office of Public Liaison at the White House, Omarosa Manigault Newman still wants to stand behind the man who has had the opportunity to fire her not once, not twice, not thrice, but four times in the last 15 years. Omarosa claims in a…