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Posted inElection 2016

Watching Hillary Clinton Open that Pickle Jar on Jimmy Kimmel Just Proves (Insert Your Craziest Working Theory)

This is not the funniest thing I have ever seen Hillary Clinton do on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, but it’s the part of the show last night everyone’s talking about: People talking about it include this dude (“There was no safety seal pop during #HillarysPickles”) and that same dude again (“#HillarysPickle, for when Bill can’t keep […]

Posted inGirls Only!

Clinton’s Leadership Team Is Majority Women (Yes!) and House Republicans Want Her Indicted for Perjury (LOL)

“E-mail was not my primary means of communication,” she has testified. “I did not have a computer on my desk.” Nevertheless, House Republicans are dead set on never getting anything done. Kelly O As Business Insider reports, House Republicans are building a case against Hillary Clinton for perjury. Here is the only appropriate reaction to […]

Posted inElection 2016

And Now Here’s the Story of How Donald Trump Tried to Crash Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding

“I’m supposed to be at that wedding, Doug. There’s going to be short ribs.” a katz / Shutterstock.com Chelsea Clinton had a near miss at her 2010 wedding to Marc Mezvinsky, according to an upcoming biography of Bill Clinton. According to a gossipy excerpt in Joe Conason’s Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of […]

Posted inPolitics

Rudy Giuliani Conveniently Forgets the Timing of 9/11

Video of Rudy saying we didn’t “have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attacks in the U.S.” before Obama: pic.twitter.com/3tC1InfZj0— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) August 15, 2016 Rudy Giuliani seemed to have a developed a case of selective memory while introducing Donald Trump and Mike Pence at a rally in Ohio yesterday. In the video above, Giuliani […]

Posted inFashion

Let Us Welcome Our New Hillary Clinton Style Instagram Overlords

Hillary Clinton’s white pantsuit at the Democratic National Convention: a sartorial nod to the Suffragettes? Ali Shaker/VOA via Wikimedia Commons While I am generally not in favor of flagrantly deconstructing female politicians’ hair/makeup/marriages outside of the historical significance of women politicians wearing white, I am 100 percent in favor of a recent social media phenomenon […]

Posted inElection 2016

What Do You Know: Millennial Voters Flocking to Clinton

USA TODAY: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is consolidating the support of the Millennials who fueled Bernie Sanders’ challenge during the primaries, a new USA TODAY/Rock the Vote Poll finds, as Republican Donald Trump heads toward the worst showing among younger voters in modern American history. The survey shows Clinton trouncing Trump 56%-20% among those […]

Posted inElection 2016

This Week’s Letters to the Editor: “Someone Buy Megan a Wonder Woman Outfit and Set Up the Drinks!!!”

RE: “It’s Time to Cheer Up About Hillary Clinton” [Feature, Aug 3], Megan Burbank’s valiant effort to get people excited about voting for Clinton. “If you’re not excited to vote for Hillary Clinton,” Burbank wrote, “go ahead and vote the fuck against Donald Trump. A Trump-Clinton contest presents two distinct results: If Hillary is elected, […]

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