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Utah Senator Mitt Romney Is Trying to Put Something on Your CashApp
Republican Mitt Romney better be careful before he starts getting pegged as a socialist. On Monday, the Utah senator called for an economic relief package that would include a $1,000 cash payment to all adult Americans to help aid those who are struggling during the coronavirus pandemic. “The House coronavirus response package contains critical measures…
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Halle Berry Is Related to Sarah Palin But Says Political Pundit, Personality Is ‘Not Invited to the Cookout’
While some of us believe we got Indian in our families, most of surely have fools swinging off the trees. When it comes to Oscar winner Halle Berry, the latter is certainly the case. And she knows it to. The Monsters’ Ball beauty recently threw some shade to her distant relative — Sarah Palin. While…
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Former Pro Football Player and Republican Congressman J.C. Watts Spearheads First Black News Channel, Launching Nationally This Week
Did it really take a former Republican congressman to finally launch the first black news network? Apparently so. He’s a former professional football player, too. If that matters. The groundbreaking Black News Channel — the same one that The Root’s very own Michael Harriot wrote “looks pretty conservative” last year — will finally hit television…
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Carly Fiorina Is Somehow Both for Impeachment AND Re-election
Remember Carly Fiorina? No, she wasn’t the lead of the hit Nickelodeon series iCarly. She was the Republican Presidential candidate who turned into Ted Cruz’s running mate during his campaign’s final Hail Mary. Still nothing? Well, she was interviewed this morning by CNN in what I can only assume was a “Where Are They Now?”…
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Trump Loses His Lone Black Republican Face in the House as Texas Rep. Will Hurd Announces Retirement
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), one of the few dissenting Republican voices against the president and the lone black Republican in the House of Representatives, announced Thursday night that he will not seek reelection in 2020. “I have made the decision to not seek reelection for the 23rd Congressional District of Texas in order to pursue…
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Texas Lawmaker Calls Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller an 'Anal Opening'
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) is an asshole. He’s also part of a group of assholes known as Republicans. This asshole conglomerate supports President Donald Trump. Trump’s mouth is shaped like an anus. Gohmert knows a thing or two about assholes, so when the Texas congressman calls someone like, say, former special counsel Robert Mueller, an…
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Women Could Face Death Penalty for Having an Abortion Under Proposed Texas Law
Texas lawmakers held a hearing this week on a bill that could subject women to the death penalty if they had an abortion. Period, point blank, no exceptions. The legislator behind the bill is Texas state Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a five-times-married Republican out of Arlington who had to be placed under police protection when he…
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GOP Rep. Devin 'Pick Me' Nunes Is Still Searching for Love, Sues Twitter Looking for Attention
The Republican equivalent of a thirst trap has filed a lawsuit. A lawsuit for a member of the Grand Ole Party is like a male IG model posting a shirtless sweatpants photo next to an eggplant or a flat tummy tea fashion nova temptress yoga posing in boy shorts. So when your Republican and Fox…
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Rest in Peace to the Dueling Senate Bills to Reopen the Government, Both of Which Died Quick Deaths
The Senate shot down a GOP- and White House-backed bill that would have given President Trump money for his dumb-ass wall that no one wants and also funded the government. Basically Republicans couldn’t get enough Democrats to back the bill that would have funded the full $5.7 billion needed to run a medieval wall along…