CNN: Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson offered an outta this world solution on Sunday to the planet’s environmental crises. “We do have to inhabit other planets. The future of the human race is space exploration,” Johnson said on ABC’s “This Week.” Johnson was responding to a question about comments he made in 2011 at the […]
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Fuck CNN For Giving Donald Trump Hours of Airtime For His Birther Statement
Nate Gowdy Fuck you, CNN. Every morning, I turn on the cable network to get alternately outraged or bored by the latest campaign machinations, and this morning, I waited with anticipation to see what would happen when Donald Trump addressed the birther controversy. I watched, for one-and-a-half hours, as the talking heads talked about what […]
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Is the Media Fair in Covering this Presidential Race, Wonders Media
Hillary Clinton speaking at a 2013 event held by the Clinton Foundation, which Paul Krugman says has gotten more scrutiny than the Trump Foundation. JStone / Shutterstock.com “I am very scared,” writes Paul Krugman, winner of a Nobel prize in economics, in a brief, salient blog post this morning. He believes media companies are “objectively […]
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Keith Olbermann On Donald Trump: A Demonic Messiah in Oompa Loompa’s Clothing
176 Reasons Donald Trump Shouldn’t Be President—The Closer with @KeithOlbermann, Episode 1 https://t.co/s54r0KpFad— GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) September 13, 2016 In the first installment of “The Closer,” a new online video series for GQ, Olbermann tears through 176 reasons Donald Trump should never be president. Olbermann isn’t to everyone’s taste—as someone in the commenters thread will […]
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Some of Phyllis Schlafly’s Greatest Hits, for People Too Young to Know
Phyllis Schlafly, on death’s doorstep, supporting Trump. Gino Santa Maria / Shutterstock.com • She called public sex education classes ”in-home sales parties for abortion.” • She said, “Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.” • Hated the gays. • Hated “libs.” • Hated gender-nonconformity. […]
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The Clinton Campaign Is Courting the Christian Left, Which Has Really Existed Since Reagan
Remember this Clinton campaign ad from four months ago? Did it have a religious vibe to you? Maybe not overtly, but a New York Times piece from yesterday puts it in fascinating context. Through secular eyes, the advertisement linked Mrs. Clinton to some resolutely uncontroversial concepts — hope, kindness, love, good. In doing so, it […]
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Anthony Weiner Caught Doing What Weiner Does
Everyone’s favorite “disgraced” ex-congressperson Anthony Weiner was caught swapping sexts again. The New York Post has the goods. For the last year and a half Weiner was flirting and swapping sexts with a woman in California—a woman who’s a Trump supporter, as it turns out. She shared the lurid screen grabs with the Murdoch-owned, rightwing […]
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Hey Bernie Bros, “Revolution” Is Not the Best Way to Structure a Political Movement
“My bros. C’mon. Why are you fighting?” Crush Rush / Shutterstock.com If you go to Bernie Sanders’s website right now, it says, in huge letters: “The political revolution continues.” On the page where you can Pledge to Continue the Political Revolution, the first sentence is: “This movement of ours—this political revolution—must continue.” But, uh, revolutions […]
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What’s So Funny About the Naked Trump Statue?
Portrait of a self-portrait with dick pic. RS People in real life and on the internet are going nuts over the nutless statue of Donald Trump, which appeared in a handful of cities all across the U.S. The plaque at the statue’s feet reads, “The Emperor has No Balls” I got excited. I took a […]
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Who’s Leading Jill Stein In Texas Polls? Deez Nuts.
She is also tied with the dead gorilla, Harambe. COURTESY JILL STEIN FOR PRESIDENT The first official presidential debates are coming up on September 26th, which means it’s time for Jill Stein to stand up for Democracy by getting arrested on camera. You can watch video of her arrest at the last cycle’s presidential debates […]
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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 […]
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The POTUS Mix Tape Shows Us the “Real America”
The POTUS mix is available on Spotify, which means none of the artists will be paid much, if at all, but think of the exposure! I have what I feel is a healthy emotional (rather than a political) attachment to our 44th President, Barack Hussein Obama. He dropped his summer playlist on Friday and I […]