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Just Like Herpes, He's Back: Accused Child Molester Roy Moore Is Leading GOP Candidate to Challenge Doug Jones for Senate Seat
Alabama Republicans insist there’s nothing wrong, that Roy Moore is just a cold sore. But just when you think he’s been defeated, here he comes out of nowhere to fuck up your day. In a new poll, accused child molester and former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is somehow, some way leading the…
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Exclusive: Sen. Cory Booker Introduces Senate Bill to Study Reparations
Presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) told The Root in an exclusive, hour-long interview at his home in Newark, N.J., that he unequivocally supports reparations for black people and that he is introducing a Senate version of the House bill on Monday that will form a commission to study reparations. Booker’s bill, Commission…
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Donald Trump Vetoes Resolution Against Stupidity
President Donald Trump has issued the first veto of his presidency on Friday, striking down a bipartisan resolution against his emergency declaration calling for a slat-fence to protect the country from the lowest influx ever of people who commit very few crimes and smuggle very few drugs. “Today I am vetoing this resolution. Congress has…
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Trump Ready to Issue First Veto As New Budget Calls for Budget Cuts
They grow up so fast. One day, your new President is on the job for the first day. Wobbly and uncertain, you watched as he moved around Capitol Hill aimlessly, like a deer in headlights after a daring escape from the Doritos compound. He stumbled through his first top-level hires, invented a word, and gave…
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Claire McCaskill Hates on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez From Outside Congress Because She Can’t Even Get In
In a move that definitely does not make her an abject motherfucking hater, now-former Sen. Claire McCaskill has shared that she’s “confused” about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being “the thing.” According to CNN, in a thinly veiled attempt to give Ocasio-Cortez “advice” during an exit interview—a classic inroad to being a shady asshole—McCaskill (D-Mo.) stated that…
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It Should Be Easy For Only Black Republican in Senate to Vote Against Nominee Who Helped Craft Strategies That Hurt Black Voters
This should not have been a close call for Tim Scott, the black Republican representing South Carolina in the U.S. Senate, the first black man to be elected to such a seat from a Deep South state since Reconstruction, the black man who took to the Senate floor a few years ago to speak passionately…
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Mississippi Senate Candidate Tells Black People to 'Stop Begging' For Scraps
The black-hating, neo-Confederate Republican called “Roy Moore Lite” seeking to become the next Senator from the State of Mississippi visited MSNBC on Friday and in just under 2 minutes, managed to defend the Confederate flag, explain how rap music turns black people into murderers and told African Americans why they should be tired of begging…
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GOP Favorite and Congressional Confirmation 'Sherpa' Jon Kyl to Replace Sen. John McCain: Report
Sadly, Arizona Sen. John McCain’s death couldn’t come at a better time for the GOP as Jon Kyl, one of the most beloved Republicans, will take over his seat until at least the end of the year. According to AZ Central, “Kyl, who served alongside McCain during his 18 years in the U.S. Senate,” could…
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Trump Effect: Spokesman for GOP Senate Hopeful Called Memphis, New Orleans and Baltimore 'Shitholes'
Remember when Donald Trump referred to black countries as “shitholes” and then tried to lie and say he didn’t say it and then Omarosa got kicked out of the White House and confirmed that he said it? Well, it looks like the deplorable GOP leaf doesn’t fall far from the decrepit GOP tree as a…
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Mark Zuckerberg Is a Grown-Ass (White) Man, so Stop Talking About Him Like He’s a Kid
Admittedly, when juxtaposed against the assemblage of 934-year-old white men who make up the Senate, Mark Zuckerberg’s relative youth is conspicuous, as it would also be if he were in a room with a troop of vampires, or perhaps the exhumed and propped-up bodies of Genghis Khan and—I don’t know—a fucking velociraptor. “Wow,” I would…