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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....

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...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says Some Dumb Shit About Colin Kaepernick
It is, let me say here, quite weird to project your own beliefs and aspirations onto an octogenarian Supreme Court justice and expect it to never backfire. But woke Twitter folk hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg, center of a highly marketable personality cult, has some gross things to say about Colin Kaepern...

Please, Invite Us To Your Manipulative Off-The-Record Cocktail Parties
This weekend, The Intercept published leaked documents from the Clinton campaign detailing cozy, lavish “off-the-record” events with top political journalists. This is an outrage. (That we weren’t invited). ...
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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.” ...

The Deadspin Debate And Ongoing Donald Trump National Humiliation Liveblog
Party members are calling on him to drop out, his biggest, craziest supporters have turned their backs on him, and millions of people across the country listened to him boast about grabbing women “by the pussy.” Donald Trump is living in a garish, gold-trimmed hell—and from now until tonight’s debat...

Trump Conspiracy Theorists Are Losing Their Shit<em></em>
It’s not an easy time to be a Trump supporter. After all, the globalists are about to get their way, their once invincible champion has fallen at the hands of Billy Bush, and Truth as they know it as good as dead. The alt-right wingnuts are in panic mode, and the view is phenomenal....

The Washington Post is reporting that NBC News had the recently-leaked footage of Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault four days before the tape was released. But NBC was holding onto the footage while lawyers finished reviewing it—meaning that they were scooped by the Post, who vetted the sto...

Chuck Todd Owns Rudy Giuliani
The Trump campaign pulled its entire team off the Sunday morning talk shows, sending out Rudy Giuliani to speak on behalf of the Republican presidential nominee on all four broadcast networks. His appearance with Chuck Todd on Meet The Press didn’t go so well, as the show’s host confronted the forme...

Why Won't Tic Tac Renounce Donald Trump?
Late Friday afternoon, a collective shudder made its way across the nation as millions of people listened to a 2005 recording of Donald Trump explaining how he liked to grab women “by the pussy.” Since then, dozens of Republican lawmakers have publicly renounced Donald Trump and rescinded their endo...

What Happens If Donald Trump Drops Out Of The Race?
The pussy-grabbing has done what the myriad other examples of misogyny, racism and astounding incompetence could not: ratchet up demand for Donald Trump to bow out of the presidential race....

Donald Trump Issues Statement On "Grab Them By The Pussy" Video
After The Washington Post published a video late Friday afternoon in which Donald Trump brags about his patented sexual assault-based flirting technique, and after Trump was disinvited from an appearance with Paul Ryan, and after numerous Republicans denounced Trump’s remarks (mostly without rescind...

CNN has a detailed account of how the “Grab them by the pussy” tape got leaked. Apparently, an NBC producer recalled the existence of the tape on Monday after Trump made sexist comments on Alicia Machado. Access Hollywood was working on reporting the story out and airing the tape, when David Farenth...

Leaked Emails: Hillary Clinton Gave Paid Speeches To Wall Street Insiders About How Only They Could Fix Wall Street<em></em>
This afternoon, Wikileaks released over 2,000 emails involving Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. (He was the chief of staff for Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and runs the Podesta Group, a ghoulish D.C. lobbying firm.) The most interesting nugget to surface thus far in the emails is ...

Donald Trump On Every Woman's Greatest Ally, Donald Trump
Just over an hour ago, the Washington Post posted a bombshell video that shows Donald Trump talking about women in some of the most profane and repulsive terms we’ve heard yet from the presidential candidate. But don’t believe the explicit facts laid in front of you, says Donald Trump—because there ...

The Collected Wisdom Of Sex Aficionado Billy Bush
Donald Trump claiming that stardom affords him the right to “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything,” is certainly the wildest and lewdest thing caught on tape in a video published by the Washington Post this afternoon. ...

Donald Trump On Getting Women: "Grab Them By The Pussy"
The Washington Post has just published a video of Donald Trump on the set of Days of Our Lives in 2005. In it, Donald J. Trump, the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, is heard describing how he likes to sexually assault women....

Why Is The Ringer Publishing A Jeb Bush Flunky's Craven Bullshit?<em></em>
One of the more annoying side effects of Donald Trump’s rise to the top of the Republican party’s power structure has been watching the conservative politicians and operatives who count themselves among the #NeverTrump brigade scrambling to make sure that the man’s stench doesn’t rub off on them. Th...

Donald Trump's Jobs Plan: Folks, Is It Hot In Here, Or What?
Donald Trump, presidential candidate of the moon, has a plan to put Americans back to work. A simple plan. He explained it all very simply yesterday....

What Is The Point Of Tim Kaine?
A presidential running mate mostly is a warm body. He or she makes appearances at rallies and fundraisers, allowing the candidate to appear at different rallies and fundraisers. Tim Kaine can certainly do that. He is said to be a solid campaigner. He can give a speech and, presumably, shake a donor’...