Take that, miscreant. a katz / Shutterstock.com He’s not even president yet, but Donald Trump is already making himself quite a pest to foreign leaders. According to various international politicians, the campaign has been nagging them with requests for money. This is annoying, to be sure. It is also against the law. No response from […]
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Republican Cakesniffer Likes Donald Trump, Won’t Say Why
You know he’s done when a toothpick comes out clean. Albert H. Teich / Shutterstock.com Here we have Republican cakeboi Tom Cotton, struggling to avoid a question about Donald Trump like a teenager who was just woken from a nap by his algebra teacher. Senator Cotton was booked on Meet the Press this weekend, and […]
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Facing A Re-Election Fight, Steve Novick Is Taking A Pay Raise for the First Time
City Commissioner Steve Novick Portland Bureau of Transportation It’s the first day of the city’s fiscal year, and Commissioner Steve Novick is getting a fat raise. After passing up three years worth of cost of living adjustments (COLAs) to his salary while his colleagues enjoyed them, Novick this year has finally elected to accept his […]
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Democrats Unearth New Trump Institute Scandal
The Unicode Consortium does not approve. a katz / Shutterstock.com When a bunch of gullible marks came to Donald Trump, desperate to learn how he got so rich, the answer they were hoping for was probably not “by swindling chumps like you.” You are probably already familiar with Trump University, the weird not-a-university that is […]
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No, Saudi Arabia Isn’t Paying Hillary Clinton To Kill Gays
“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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Watch Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren Campaign Together in Ohio Today
I could watch these two onstage together forever. Hillary Clinton Speeches & Events This rally just happened, and I haven’t had a chance to watch the whole video yet, so let’s watch together.
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Bernie Sanders Will “In All Likelihood” Vote for Hillary Clinton
Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com Speaking to CNN’s Chris Cuomo this morning, Bernie Sanders said his vote will in “all likelihood” go to Clinton in November. Sanders stopped short of a full-on endorsement of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, and, despite his equivocal phrasing, he said he wouldn’t vote […]
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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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Portland Will Vote on a Pot Sales Tax in November. Here Are the Details.
Add a pot sales tax to all the other taxes you’re juggling these days, Portland. The Portland City Council voted this afternoon to refer a 3 percent sales tax on recreational marijuana sales within city limits to the November ballot. That same ballot looks like it’ll also contain a $250 million local bond measure aimed […]
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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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Bernie Sanders Is Still Running for President
Still in it. Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com Though he said the word “ending” nearly a dozen times, Senator Sanders did not end his campaign for the presidency during a special announcement to supporters on Thursday evening. But sitting alone in what looked like a closet covered in Bernie-themed wallpaper, he did say several things that […]