America needs a Commander in Chief who understands that the correct length of a necktie is long enough to tap you right on your taint. Crush Rush / Shutterstock.com “I have so many women that really want to have protection, and they like me for that reason,” Trump said yesterday at diner. What are you […]
Election 2016
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Bernie Sanders Allies Criticize His Campaign’s Failures, Including a Lack of Early Outreach to Black Voters
Eli Sanders
Didn’t focus on reaching out to black voters until way too late in the game. Crush Rush / Shutterstock.com This New York Times article exploring the failures of the Bernie Sanders campaign groups them into three major areas: 1) A failure to take his own campaign seriously early on. 2) A failure to directly point […]
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Homosexual Sympathizers Infiltrate GOP Platform Committee; Republicans & Queers Equally Aghast
Here’s Phyllis Schlafly endorsing Donald Trump, so you know she’s definitely got her wits about her. R. Gino Santa Maria / Shutterstock.com As if Republicans don’t have enough to fight about already, a bunch of rich gays/allies are poking their rainbow noses into the party platform, trying to get the party to be ever-so-slightly less […]
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A New Poll Suggests Ted Wheeler’s Winning. Jules Bailey’s Campaign Doesn’t Buy It
Kenneth Huey If you haven’t heard, we’ve got our first snapshot of how Portland voters might be feeling in advance of the May 17 primary, and it suggests Ted Wheeler’s leading by a lot in the race for mayor. Wheeler’s top competitor? He’s suggesting there’s nothing to it. The SurveyUSA poll of 576 likely voters, […]
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Required Viewing: Rachel Maddow on Donald Trump, the GOP, Abortion, and the Media’s Big Blind Spot
Thanks to Donald “The Woman Must Be Punished” Trump’s abortion “gaffe,” Ted Cruz’s position on abortion—ban all abortions, without exception, lock up doctors, force rape victims to give birth to their rapists’ babies, treat miscarriages like potential crime scenes—now looks moderate. Watch.
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Bernie or Hillary or Both
Matt already wrote up Susan Sarandon’s comments on All In with Chris Hayes on Tuesday night. Sarandon is a celebrity Sanders supporter and she’s campaigned for him all across the country. Hayes asked Sarandon the question everyone is asking Sanders supporters these days (the same question, in the interests of fairness and math, that everyone […]
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Hillary Clinton Has Yet to Land the Coveted Susan Sarandon Endorsement
Dammit, Janet. a katz / Shutterstock.com Hey, look, I get it. Sometimes it’s hard to make up your mind about who to vote for, so you turn to people you trust for their guidance. And we all have different standards for deciding whom we should trust, so some of us turn to business leaders; some […]
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Photos from the Bernie Sanders Rally in Portland
All photos by James Rexroad.Click on an image to see a larger version. Eleven thousand Portlanders, Bernie Sanders, and one small bird dropped by the Moda Center today. This is what it looked like. Lots more photos after the jump!
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Here’s A Video of Friday’s Bernie Sanders Rally in Portland
Sometimes the sound cuts out—supposedly when music is playing, due to copyright issues. But if you weren’t able to make it over to the Moda Center, here’s the Bernie rally:
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Some of the Fun You Missed Out On By Not Waiting In Line To See Bernie Sanders
If you, like a quarter of the city, didn’t call off work and jam down to the Moda Center before 7 am this morning, you missed out on a lot of standing. By the time I got to the Rose Quaerter at roughly 9 am, there was a massive ouroboros of a line snaking its […]
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Advisors are Basically From Another Planet
Imagine what Leni Riefenstahl could have done with this. a katz / Shutterstock.com There are some real wackos giving Donald Trump advice on foreign policy. Shocking, I know. Trump revealed a few of his advisors’ names this week, and they’re wackos—or, at least, we THINK they’re wackos. It’s hard to be sure. Mostly everyone’s just […]
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A Dock Decision Approaches! And The Gas Tax Has Powerful Friends!
Dock decision! Gas tax love!