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Mitt Romney Is America’s Thirstiest Politician
In case you didn’t see the news last week, Mitt Romney has decided that he will run for Senate from the great state of Utah in the 2018 midterms. Under most circumstances, a failed presidential party nominee running for a Senate seat wouldn’t be big news. It’d be the equivalent of LeBron James retiring to…
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Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio Is Proof That Racist White Men Stay Winning
Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff so racist that even when he was threatened with jail for unlawfully targeting and racially profiling Latinos in Arizona, he couldn’t stop and was eventually thrown in jail, is running for the U.S. Senate. That’s because equally deplorable President Donald Trump had him pardoned from prison, and now this…
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Sen. Orrin Hatch Was Voted Into Congress the Same Year Atari 2600 Was Released; Now He’s Finally Set to Retire
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Senate Republican, is finally leaving Congress. He has announced that he won’t be seeking re-election at the end of this year. The 83-year-old Hatch has served since 1977, when the Atari 2600 was released and came with nine games and two joysticks and sold for $199. Hatch has been…
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Disgraced Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio Strongly Considering Senate Run
Now that bigotry and racism is house-sitting 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., it seems fitting that ex-Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio—who was so vile and xenophobic that the courts ordered him to stop targeting Latinos in Arizona, but he refused and was sent to prison until the xenophobe in chief pardoned him—may be running for Congress.…
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With Trump’s Endorsement, the Republican National Committee Is Sending Funds to an Accused Pedophile
Now that the president has come out and given his full endorsement to accused pedophile, and Alabama GOP Senate candidate, Roy Moore, the Republican National Committee is sending funds to help Moore’s campaign efforts in a closely contested race that will be decided next week. “The RNC is the political arm of the president and…
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Donald Trump Would Rather Have Old-Ass Orrin Hatch Run Again Than Have Mitt Romney on the Senate: Report
President Donald Trump would rather have Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who went to elementary school back when children wrote on papyrus using fossil bones, than have former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney take over his seat. According to Politico, Trump is reportedly courting the 83-year-old seven-term senator to run one more time to block Romney,…
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FBI to Senate: We’re Investigating 1,000 White Supremacists. Senate to FBI: That’s All?
In a Senate committee briefing yesterday, the new FBI director told lawmakers that the FBI has about 1,000 open cases involving domestic terrorism, a catchall phrase used by the bureau that includes white supremacist organizations and right-wing terrorists. According to The Hill, Christopher Wray, in his first Senate briefing since becoming the director of the…
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7 Whole Years and Still No Health Care Plan From the GOP
You can do a lot in seven years if you really work at it. The world has seen a seven-year war; cicadas come out of the ground every seven years; Maxwell drops a new album about every seven years. In other words, a lot of global, amazing and world-altering things can be accomplished over seven…
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Former FBI Director Comey Senate Hearing Open Thread
We know you’re watching. Talk about it.
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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”…