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Trump Gives Karoline Leavitt the Weirdest Compliment Imaginable
“We’re in a country where a friend of mine is a very powerful leader, and my friend of mine is right here,” Trump said. “The reason I call him the general is because he’s both, and he’s good at both, he’s done a fantastic job.” “They have very little crime, because they don’t play games,…
Read MoreWould CBS News Have Run This Story a Week Ago?
“We’re in a country where a friend of mine is a very powerful leader, and my friend of mine is right here,” Trump said. “The reason I call him the general is because he’s both, and he’s good at both, he’s done a fantastic job.” “They have very little crime, because they don’t play games,…
Read MoreTrump Cabinet Secretary Thinks Peaceful Protesters Are Terrorists
“We’re in a country where a friend of mine is a very powerful leader, and my friend of mine is right here,” Trump said. “The reason I call him the general is because he’s both, and he’s good at both, he’s done a fantastic job.” “They have very little crime, because they don’t play games,…
Read MoreYou Won’t Believe How Trump Just Described Watergate
Watergate, and Nixon’s forced resignation in the face of certain impeachment, resulted in the end of his political career. But in the last several months, Trump has taken some concrete steps to rewrite his own impeachment history. Trump is the only U.S. president to be impeached twice, in 2019 and 2021. In August, the Smithsonian…
Read MoreEverybody Around Trump Hates the Unhinged Laura Loomer. Except Trump.
Loomer’s audacity and attention seeking were always aspects of her personality. She grew up in Arizona, in what she described, in a memoir, as a climate of fear and violence in her home. “The truth is, at a very young age, I learned that most people can’t relate to the horror show that was my…
Read MoreWhy It’s Pointless for Democrats to Negotiate a Shutdown Deal
Or … almost? As it turns out, Democrats are planning to take on the GOP—in a few weeks, anyway. “House Democrats are plotting to turn the August recess into the opening salvo of the midterms, including through town halls and organizing programs,” reports Politico, as the party is experiencing “renewed bravado after months in the…
Read MoreMAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
The point is not that there are zero examples of leftist protesters getting violent—as the Times notes, a handful of leftists are getting prosecuted for just that. Rather, it’s that none of this remotely matches what Trump and MAGA are conjuring into being. The word “provocateur” doesn’t do justice to any of this—and we don’t…
Read MoreVideo: The N.B.A. Returns to China After Six Years
new video loaded: The N.B.A. Returns to China After Six Years transcript Back transcript The N.B.A. Returns to China After Six Years The N.B.A, returns to China this week, after a hiatus sparked by a controversial 2019 tweet. In Macau, New York Times business reporter Tania Ganguli reveals the behind-the-scenes stakeholders who orchestrated the league’s…
Read MoreSurprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism
Try as he might, Vivek Ramaswamy will never be fully accepted by MAGAworld. The Ohio gubernatorial candidate and former DOGE co-chief came face-to-face with the racism rampant amongst American conservative youth culture Tuesday when he headlined a Turning Point USA event in Montana. Speaking at Montana State University, Ramaswamy fielded disturbing questions about how he…
Read MoreWhy Trump Will Never Win a Nobel Peace Prize
Much of Trump’s diplomatic work suggests that he is both incompetent and a loser, however. He is fond of claiming that he has stopped seven wars and ended conflicts that had been ongoing for “decades”—like one between Azerbaijan and Armenia (which he almost always confuses with Albania). For the most part, though, Trump’s work has…
Read MoreStephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers
Vought, as anticipated, is now using the government shutdown to cull the federal workforce, fulfilling Trump’s recent vow to cut “vast numbers of people out,” as well as slash programs that he says Democrats “like.” An unnamed White House official told MSNBC’s Vaughn Hillyard, “We expect thousands of people to unfortunately be laid off due…
Read MoreRepublican Rep Claims Everyone at “No Kings” Protest Is a Terrorist
GOP congressional leaders on Friday smeared an upcoming anti-Trump protest in Washington, D.C., in the most hysterical, demonizing terms. After House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise referred to the peaceful “No Kings” protest planned for October 18 as a “Hate America rally,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer went one step further,…
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