Politics
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Kim Jong Un Is Showing Us That Trump Is the Real Crazy Man
With each advancement that North Korea makes in its nuclear-weapons program, Donald Trump responds with predictable petulance. He warned that North Korea would face “fire and fury like the world has never seen” after learning it had produced a miniaturized warhead that can fit inside its missiles. In the past, U.S. leaders usually exercised calm…
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How Russia Used Racism to Hack White Voters
It’s easy to blame Russian President Vladimir Putin and the various intelligence agencies he oversees for the political discord hemorrhaging Washington, D.C., and the rest of the country. The intelligence community determined (pdf) in January that the Kremlin deployed a bevy of tactics to sway public opinion in favor of Donald Trump. Recent reports found…
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From Ben Carson to Donald Trump: Politicians and Their Imaginary Friends
Editor’s note: We revised this post after Sen. Cory Booker’s representatives contacted us to say that T-Bone is a real person. Donald Trump has an imaginary friend named Jim. Ben Carson not only invented a fake friend, but then he stabbed his fake friend in an argument. In this new millennium, it’s become the way…
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Y’all’s President Has Turned the White House Into The Real Housewives of White Supremacy
I’m beginning to think y’all’s president is a fake-ass Mona Scott-Young. Well, Mona Scott-Young if Mona Scott-Young were a 71-year-old white man with the intellectual curiosity of Cujo (after Cujo was shot dead), and the emotional intelligence of a raging teenager who just gulped the last bottle of Four Loko in North America. Yes, that’s…
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Dun Dun Dun! Grand Jury Impaneled by Special Counsel in Russia Investigation
Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed to oversee the investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, has impaneled a grand jury in Washington, D.C., a clear indication that the investigation may, in fact, be yielding fruit and is moving full speed ahead. The Wall Street Journal reports that the grand jury began…
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The Liar-in-Chief Stay Lyin’
Years ago, when dinosaurs roamed free and I was in high school, there was a girl that lied so much, my friends and I jokingly began calling her “Hovercraft.” The joke was, because she lied so much, it was conceivable that she would come to school one day saying that she’d just arrived on a…
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Trump Asked Mexican President to Stop Saying He Wouldn’t Pay for the Wall so He Could Keep Lying About Mexico Paying for the Wall
President Shitty von Douche Face campaigned on a wall. He didn’t literally stand on a wall while campaigning, but he claimed that if he was elected, real Americans (read: white Americans) could sleep safe at night because the “bad hombres” would be behind the wall, and the most glorious part of all was that Mexico…
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Are We Returning to Jim Crow?
When Donald Trump campaigned on the slogan “Make America great again,” many of us saw it for what it was: coded language for taking the mask—or the hood, as it were—off of white supremacy. Since his inauguration, Trump, and those in his administration, have shown that they mean to make good on their promise to…
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Finally, a White House Press Conference Went Completely Off the Rails, and It Should’ve Happened Long Ago
The press does not work for the White House. While they are invited to be members of the White House press corps, their job is to challenge the White House when things sound batshit crazy. While news outlets have been ambitious in working behind the scenes to debunk many of the asinine comments coming from…
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Senate Confirms New FBI Director Christopher Wray
Christopher Wray, a former high-ranking official in former President George W. Bush’s Justice Department, was confirmed by the Senate Tuesday and will step into a new role as director of the FBI. Wray will replace James Comey, who was fired by Donald Trump in May in the middle of the investigation into Russia’s involvement in…