Politics
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Report: White House Lawyers Researching Impeachment
White House lawyers have begun researching impeachment in the unlikely event that Donald Trump is forced to go through proceedings aimed at removing him from office, according to CNN. From CNN: White House counsel’s office have consulted experts in impeachment during the past week and have begun collecting information on how such proceedings would work,…
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Stop Playing: Impeachment Is Not a Black Political Strategy
Since the election of President Donald Trump, black political leaders have seemingly led the charge as public Democratic Party surrogates calling for impeachment. When everyone else couldn’t quite fathom Trump as a real-life Manchurian candidate, the black political and pundit class (to its credit) was already gnawing strong at the Trump-Putin link while vigorously questioning…
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Jeff Sessions’ Senate Replacement Will Probably Be More Racist Than Jeff Sessions
When Donald Trump nominated Jeff Sessions—the love child of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Keebler elf—as attorney general of the United States, it was a bittersweet moment. On one hand, the Vulcan-eared bigot who once, according to sworn testimony, called a white civil rights attorney a “disgrace to his race” and the NAACP an “un-American”…
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The Root Presents On the Run: 2017 Campaign Edition
Tired of punching at the sky, yelling at the television and unfriending folks from high school because of politics? Of course you are! The current administration’s steady commitment to incompetence, corruption and white nationalists has gotten the American people, especially African Americans, riled up in ways not seen since Chaka Khan performed at the Republican…
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Y’all’s President Is a Lazier Thot Than I Thought
While I knew y’all’s president was one vacationing-ass bitch, I had no idea how much of a lazy thot he truly was. Among the ever-increasing number of frightening things the Washington Post is reporting this week about President Saddle Tan Nixon, I can’t shake his apparent attitude about exercise. In the book Trump Revealed, it…
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If This Latest Russia Report Doesn’t Get Trump Impeached, I Don’t Know What Will
I don’t have to comb through years of President TrumPutin’s taxes or real estate dealings to point out collusion between the worst president in American history and Mother Russia, aka our play cousin. Let’s just look at the past week. On May 9, unbeknownst to members of his own team, Trump fired FBI Director James…
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The Troubling History of ‘the Most Racist Politician in America’
He goes by many names. The director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project refers to him as “the king of voter suppression.” Kansas’ state Senate minority leader called him “the most racist politician in America today.” Until the newly written Muslim ban goes into effect, he still holds the title of “architect…
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Where Can Jeff Sessions Go? To Hell. When Can He Go? Now
During the confirmation hearings for Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, racist sum’bitch, his Republican colleagues went classic Americana on us as they quite theatrically conveyed their collective belief that the real burden of racism isn’t racism itself, but merely being accused of racism. There was Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who told committee members during opening remarks,…
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Jeff ‘Gollum’ Sessions Emerges From Middle Earth to Renew the War on Drugs
In a harsh reversal from the Eric Holder-led Justice Department, civil liberties advocates, science and logic, Jeff Sessions has directed federal prosecutors across the country to charge drug suspects with the most serious charges legally possible. Sessions, the love child of the Travelocity traveling gnome and the yellow Teletubby, issued a two-page memo that outlined…