“Oh, brother.” Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com Okay, so I posted this video on Monday about how Donald Trump has a pretty lousy record when it comes to LGBTs. And inevitably, the comment section developed some cesspools about how Hillary is even worse. If we could, I’d like for all of us rational people to take […]
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Donald Trump’s no Friend to Gays, and his Advisors are Even Worse
This could easily be a shot from the end of The Shining. Gino Santa Maria / Shutterstock.com If you have your finger anywhere near the pulse of animated GIF culture lately, you’ve probably scrolled through at least a few responses to Donald Trump’s “ask the gays.” It all began after Trump decided to use the […]
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Reaction to Supreme Court Abortion Ruling: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh
Can you believe this guy failed to convince them? Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com Holy Toledo, how about this Supreme Court ruling on the Texas abortion ban? The law was a super-thinly veiled attempt to prevent women from obtaining reproductive medical services, and now its days are numbered. As you might imagine, politicians and activists […]
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Donald Trump Campaigns in the Swing State of Scotland
This boy is a bottom. Ewais / Shutterstock.com Donald Trump has concluded a week of weird speeches and rallies by telling his supporters, “meep meep,” and then then disappearing in a cloud of dust with a Donald-Trump-shaped hole left in a nearby wall, pointing in the direction of Scotland. Yes, Scotland, that’s where the Trump […]
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Trump’s Latest Speech is the World’s Worst All-Company Meeting
Donald Trump’s penis addresses a crowd in Sacramento. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com Donald Trump talks about running the country like a businessman as if that’s a good thing, but this morning he summoned the country to listen to him talk like a nationwide all-company meeting. And who doesn’t love those? There’s no better way to […]
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Wall Street Weighing President Trump vs. Vice President Warren
Imagine if Hillary just turned to this random woman and was like “YOU! You are to be my Vice President. Guards, seize her.” Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com Now I don’t know Hillary Clinton personally, but I get the impression that she’s a lady who knows how to call a bluff. And it would be the […]
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Congress is Still Doing as Little as They Can on Gun Violence
Here we are again. Leonard Zhukovsky / Shutterstock.com One of my friends who’s mid-transition wrote a Facebook post a few days ago about how it was harder for her to get on hormone therapy than it would be to get a gun. It’s infuriating and exasperating and mind-boggling, but we seem to have more respect […]
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Can Bernie and Hillary Beat Donald Together?
“How am I still here?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republicans-join-obama-in-condemning-trumps-words/2016/06/14/fb1619c0-325e-11e6-95c0-2a6873031302_story.html It won’t be long now. Bernie and Hillary held a summit on Tuesday, after which they released nearly-identical statements about working together. Bernie has a big announcement planned for tomorrow. Here at last comes that unifying pivot, with the Democratic Party preshow concluding and the main event about begin. […]
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Today’s the Day that Decides Bernie’s Next Move
Wait, has Bernie been a secret Conehead this whole time? Sheila Fitzgerald / Shutterstock.com Some failed presidential candidates fade mercifully away, like Michele Bachmann. Others periodically flounder back into the spotlight, like Bob Dole doing Viagra commercials. Others do whatever it is Chris Christie is doing: henchman nonsense like fetching Donald Trump’s McDonalds order. (Maybe […]
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The Orlando Shooting Proves Everyone Was Right About Everything
Here we are again. a katz / Shutterstock.com We’re all processing Orlando in our own ways, and nobody’s feelings can be deemed more or less legitimate than anyone else’s. I woke up this morning to an endless scroll of Facebook posts about vigils all over the country. Some posts were serious, some less so. Someone […]
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Republicans: We Have More Important Things to Worry About than President of the United States
Not going away, no matter how long you hold your eyes shut. mikeledray / Shutterstock.com Here’s a fun fact about the American democracy experiment: Did you know there are actually THREE branches of government? It’s true! First, there’s Congress, which represents meticulously engineered map-squiggles. Then there’s The Supreme Court, an eight-judge panel that is no […]
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Hillary’s Foreign Policy Speech was an ad for President Trump
“I demand to be taken seriously.” jctabb / Shutterstock.com So maybe you watched Hillary’s foreign policy speech yesterday (or maybe you just read Dan’s play-by-play). It was pretty great! With tough language and highly confident delivery, it was a perfect demonstration of why Hillary would be a great president. Unfortunately, it was also a perfect […]