Politics
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Trump Gon’ Make Us Lose Our Minds
Maybe The Root is insane. Maybe all the newspapers, cable news shows and pundits that evenhandedly cover Donald Trump, constantly offering him the benefit of the doubt, are doing it right and we are doing it wrong. Perhaps we are the crazy ones for calling out the salmon-colored, sandpaper-faced president every time he sends a…
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Van Jones Is Way Too Kind to That Demagogue and Those Deplorables
For some time now, Van Jones has offered a bevy of political musings that might prompt more sensible, less forgiving souls to barf in a bag or bang their head against a wall, but it seems only now that are some catching on. Recently, the CNN political commentator managed to piss off quite a few…
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President TrumPutin Lied on Obama, so Why Isn’t Anyone Saying It?
On March 4, when the president of these United States hopped on Twitter and tweeted a series of tweets claiming that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped his home in New York City’s Trump Tower when he was running for president, the media was in shock. Shortly after the claim, and because TrumPutin is too…
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Why Won’t Y’all’s Punk-Ass President Stop Campaigning? Have We Not Suffered Enough?
On Wednesday morning, y’all’s punk-ass president began his day the way he so often does: by ruining everyone’s morning with deranged tweets reeking of stupidity, paranoia and various strains of bullshit. First he took shots at Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston—whom he claims no one has ever heard of, even though Tropicana Jong-il…
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3 Reasons I Believe TrumPutin Released His Own Taxes, and 1 Reason I Don’t
When Rachel Maddow tweeted that she had Vladimir TrumPutin’s tax return, it was as if Beyoncé and Frank Ocean had made a duets album that leaked at midnight. We all rushed to see what the hell she’d found. But in the end it was less Blond Lemonade and more Geraldo, his dumb-ass mustache and Al…
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All Health Care Is Obamacare
Despite our reasoning skills, development of complex languages and cross-cultural ability to learn the Electric Slide, humans are basically animals, and all animals share fundamental traits. Take dogs, for instance: I have an enormous, bumbling, spoiled brat of a Great Dane named Omar. When Omar was a small puppy, he would bounce to his food…
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Rep. Steve King Is Starting to Sound Like a Damn Nazi
It’s becoming very difficult to report on Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa because half the time, I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about. On Sunday he tweeted, “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” What the hell does that even mean? Looking at King’s sketchy-ass past, one can assume that…
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Why Can’t We Cover Trump’s Twitter Fingers and His Presidency?
President Vladimir TrumPutin has been a busy man since taking office. Mostly he’s been busy hiding his taxes from the American public, and hiding his relationship with Russian operatives. He’s surely spent time keeping the video of paid Russian thots R. Kelly-ing all over a hotel room out of the hands of the public, and…
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What Trump’s Tweets Teach Us About Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and Emmett Till
Explaining racism is hard. When you’re illustrating the complexities of racial prejudice in America, it is difficult to bridge the gap between understanding and skepticism in a populace pretending to listen with its arms folded, ready to dismiss any reasonable, salient point that demonstrates the existence of privilege and bigotry. Sometimes it’s not that people…
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We Read All 123 Pages of Trumpcare; Here’s What You Need to Know
While Donald Trump presides over this poorly produced reality show that we call a presidency, we must admit that it has been extraordinarily entertaining so far. Although the thrilling tales about the administration’s secret Russian rendezvous and Trump’s paranoid schizophrenic late-night tweets about dead people voting and phone tapping keep us glued to our favorite…