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Please Stay The Fuck Out Of This, Canada
As much of a nightmare as this election season has been, we were at least able to take solace in the fact that we, as a nation, could sink no lower. But even that’s no longer true. Because now, Canada thinks they’re better than us. These are truly our darkest days....
John McCain Promises To Defy The Election Results
While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is going off on paranoid rants about how the media and inner-city voters are trying to steal the election from him, his on-and-off supporter Senator John McCain has already moved on to the larger picture. Today, he pledged to ignore the result of th...
WikiLeaks Emails Show Clinton Aides Cowering In Fear Of Seeming To Care About The Poor
Here is a remarkable bit from the recently WikiLeaked emails of John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. If it doesn’t quite reveal some nefarious master plan for technoligarch world domination, it at least provides an opportunity to goggle at some extremely dumb campaign s...
<i>The Atlantic </i>Gives Ivanka Trump A Safe Space
It’s impossible to read coverage of Donald Trump’s campaign right now without thinking of the 10 women who have (thus far) come forward with sexual assault allegations. It’s impossible not to hear the gruesome comments he allegedly made towards teen and pre-teen girls echoing in the back of your hea...
"Traitors To Trump" Is A Website Created By A Democrat Aiming For "Republican Civil War"
In the wake of Donald Trump being caught bragging to the fourth-most famous Bush in America about the practice of grabbing women by their crotches, you have surely seen lists of Republican lawmakers who have finally abandoned their party’s nominee for president. Those lists have presented the newly...
Mike Pence's Answer To 11-Year-Old Girl With Low Self-Esteem: Bomb ISIS
It would be an understatement to say that Donald Trump has had a bad night, but at this point, that’s most nights. So instead, why don’t we check in and see how our good friend Mike Pence is doing. Mike?...
Curt Schilling Ties Himself In Knots <em></em>Defending Donald Trump's Lust For A Young Girl
Who the hell knows why future Hall of Famer and current meme aficionado Curt Schilling was on Fox Business today, but he was there to defend the reputation of Donald Trump, who once bragged about sexually assaulting women and stands accused of doing just that....
Donald Trump On Woman Who Accused Him Of Sexual Assault: "Look At Her ... I Don't Think So"
Speaking at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida today, Donald Trump went on an extended rant regarding the deluge of sexual assault allegations against him that have been popping up over the past few days. His defense against those of People writer Natasha Stoynoff specifically? Of course he didn’t ...
Trump Spokesperson’s Sexual Assault Defense: Let Me Tell You About Airplanes<em></em>
Katrina Pierson has an obvious rejoinder to Jessica Leeds’s accusation that Donald Trump groped her on a plane in the 1980's: Nobody is talking about the features of the D-9, MD-80, 707, or the L-1011! ...
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So Many More Women Have Accused Donald Trump Of Groping And Harassing Them [Update]
The Trump campaign continues to unravel 27 days before the election. Less than a week after the Washington Post revealed that he and Billy Bush had casually joked about sexually harassing women and “[grabbing] them by the pussy,” several women have come forward, to a variety of news outlets, allegin...
Donald Trump Doesn't Get Why A Little Brain Damage Ever Stopped Anyone<em></em>
At a rally in Florida today, after a woman who had previously passed out regained consciousness, Donald Trump decided to take the opportunity to opine briefly about these so-called “concussions” we keep hearing about. ...
Reporters: It's Time To Burn Donald Trump
Despite what anyone may want to believe, the chances of Donald Trump moving into the White House in January are not trivial. He is still a candidate; he still has ardent supporters; and he still could be our next president. This means that, now more than ever, journalists with relevant information h...
The Trump Campaign Is Ready To Burn This Motherfucker Down<em></em>
My friends, the Trump campaign has decided to go full Jared Leto Joker. It’s all so very deeply ... twisted....
Martin Shkreli Talking Like A Human Being Was The Best Part Of The Alt-Right Art Show
#DaddyWillSaveUs, the pro-Donald Trump art show put on this weekend by Milo Yiannopoulos, Lucian Wintrich, Martin Shkreli, and Gavin McInnes, was pretty anti-climactic. After they had been thrown out of The Boiler gallery in Williamsburg, the bad boys of conservatism went scrambling for another venu...
Crazy Trump Supporter Pushes CNN's Brooke Baldwin To The Edge
We don’t know where CNN keeps finding these wackjobs, but we’re glad they keep putting them on television. Here’s a GOP leader from Kansas named Vicki Sciolaro pushing anchor Brooke Baldwin to a point of no return, with talk of harlots, the “Oral Office,” and dismembered babies, all in an attempt to...
Donald Trump Beat The Press
On Saturday, as Republicans lined up to denounce Donald Trump and the pussy-grabbing candidate brooded in his tower, BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, published a piece arguing that what was unfolding was not just a defeat for Trump’s image, but a victory for the established traditions of journ...
Donald Trump Couldn’t Stop Sniffing ... Again<em></em><em></em>
If you’ll recall, during the last presidential debate, Donald Trump spent a good portion of his mic time sniffing up a storm for, well, indeterminate reasons. And tonight was no different. As he yelled about not saying the thing he said and throwing Hillary into prison, our boy Don was sniffing....
Curt Schilling Makes A Solid Point
Given all we’ve seen tonight, it’s good to see a straight shooter just giving us the true facts....
Trump: "I Don't Like [Autocratic Syrian War Criminal Bashar Al-] Assad At All, But ..."
At the end of a long, rambling answer nominally about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Aleppo, Donald Trump just praised Bashar al-Assad—one of the principal perpetrators of that disaster—for, in his words, “fighting ISIS.” ...