Politics
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Lord Sayeth: Jeffrey Lord Is a Village Idiot, but That’s Exactly How CNN Likes It
Jeffrey Lord has the distinct honor of being one of the dumbest people on cable news. Considering all of the simpletons currently soiling the media landscape with their stupidity, that’s no easy feat. Last week Lord made headlines for declaring President Sweet Potato Saddam to be the “Martin Luther King Jr. of health care”: What…
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Democrats Use the Force in Ga. Special Election, Strike a Blow Against ‘Darth’ Trump
If you are part of the Resistance to Trump, the Georgia 6th Congressional District’s special election Tuesday has given you something to cheer about. Feel free to read the rest of this article as if it’s the opening crawl of a Star Wars film, laying out how the Rebel Alliance has their first minor victory…
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Racist GOP State Sen. Frank Artiles Calls Black Colleagues ‘N–gers’ and Lived
Updated Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 1:05 p.m. EDT: Artiles claims that he was referring to white colleagues as “niggas” and insists that he’s not racist, Politico reports. Earlier: Another day, another Republican showing out in the name of white supremacy. This time it’s Frank Artiles, a Cuban state senator in Miami serving Florida’s 40th District,…
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Trump Sets Stage for James Bond Villains to Take Over Africa
All James Bond villains are alike. They’re almost always some 50-something smarmy white guy who has some weird personal tick (rubs a cat, has a bloody eyeball, a fetish for blond Aryan men, something) and thinks he’s bigger than the government. The plot almost always revolves around said villain promising something great for the entire…
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Special Elections Prove Democratic Resistance Is Still Weak
I got a lot of conflicting messages about winning and losing as a kid. I remember hearing, “It’s not how you win or lose, it’s how you play the game” from my dad when my eighth-grade youth football team lost Every. Single. Game (we actually didn’t score one point all season). Then, in youth basketball,…
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It’s Time for Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer to Say His Goodbyes
From the time Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer received the position of White House press secretary, I’ve been trying to decide whether he’s an idiot. Sure, taking a position in this bumbling administration requires a certain level of stupidity, but I’m still stuck on whether or not Spicer is an actual idiot. I can’t decipher whether…
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This Secret Form of Voter Suppression Might Be the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time
When federal judge Nelva Gonzales struck down Texas’ discriminatory voter-identification law on Monday, voting rights advocates applauded the ruling as if the minorities barred from casting ballots had won the Super Bowl. Amy Rudd, the attorney who represented the NAACP Texas State Conference and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, said, “We hope today’s decision sends…
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Could Someone Tell Tropicana Jong-il Jr. He Won’t Fare as Well in Politics as His Terrible Father?
Donald Trump Jr. is an asshole. He has the intellectual curiosity of a dead sewer rat, the political sensibilities of a racist Twitter egg and the charm of a spider bite. He comes across as the kind of person Richie Rich punched in eighth grade. The sort of prick who, when hearing “Niggas in Paris”…
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Black Republicans Are Mad at Omarosa, but It’s Not Her Fault They’re Still Foolish Enough to Believe in the GOP
There are many things about Omarosa Manigault that are befuddling. Like, say, why she enters every interview as if she’s Sensational Queen Sherri and everyone else is Miss Elizabeth or Sweet Sapphire. Indeed, very few ordained ministers maneuver like Omarosa, who seemingly resides in a constant state of “Who the fuck want war?” The fact…
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A Conspiracy Theorist’s Guide to the US Attack on Syria
This lying-ass administration will make a conspiracy theorist out of the best of us. Because I don’t believe anything that anyone representing President Vladimir TrumPutin has to say, when word came out that the U.S. had bombed Syria, I was immediately skeptical. Sure, I’d seen the heartbreaking photos of children being killed in a reported…