Donald Trump

17 Nov 2020

We Can’t Go Back to MySpace Because We Suck

It was the year Google bought YouTube, the same year then Vice President Dick Cheney shot a lawyer in the face during a hunting accident, the year Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray. “The Da Vinci Code” and “Cars” were raking it in at the box office and “Borat”

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17 Nov 2020

Two Weeks After Election, Trump Refuses to Concede As Giuliani Takes Madman Routine to Court

Tuesday marks 14 days since the Nov. 3 election when the nation overwhelmingly chose to seat President-Elect Joe Biden, but the reality has failed to set in for ousted President Donald J. Trump and his most ferocious supporters. In a rare moment of blissful silence, Trump hadn’t yet used his

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10 Nov 2020

SCOTUS Hears Arguments in Latest Attempt to Abolish the Affordable Care Act

As more than 238,000 Americans families mourn losses caused by COVID-19, the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday is hearing Republicans argue against the last defense millions have in the fight to stay healthy: the Affordable Care Act.  On the surface, the case is centered around the constitutionality of the individual mandate

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07 Nov 2020

Donald Trump Has Lost The Presidential Election

Multiple news outlets are reporting that President Donald Trump, the bane of this website’s existence for the last five years, has lost the 2020 presidential election. Democtratic nominee Joe Biden was just declared the winner in Pennsylvania, delivering him that state’s 20 Electoral College votes, thereby giving him 20 Electoral College votes

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03 Nov 2020

Election Results Will Come With Drama. Stay Informed and Stay Calm.

According to the Real Clear Politics national average, former Vice President Joe Biden is up by 7.2 points in the national polls as of Tuesday morning, but we became acutely aware in 2016 that polls can’t always, or should seldom be, trusted. Out of caution, neither campaign seems to be

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28 Oct 2020

Trump Campaign Runs Facebook Ads With Wrong Election Day

There’s an old dirty trick in politics where hucksters distribute information communicating the wrong election day to voters. The tactic generally works more effectively when you dupe your opponent’s voters, not your own. But the Donald Trump campaign has been running ads with the wrong election day, according to the

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14 Oct 2020

Trump Falls For ‘Dr. I.P. Freely’ Joke On Bogus COVID-19 Scientist Study

In news that would be funny, if not for the 216,000 dead Americans and more than a million dead from coronavirus worldwide, the Trump administration is touting a “scientific analysis” signed by doctors with very obviously fake names. The New York Times reports that the White House is promoting a

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06 Oct 2020

Thomas, Alito Signal Same-Sex Marriage Rights Could Be Undone

Get ready for the undoing. It was February 12, 2004 in San Francisco when then Mayor Gavin Newsom officiated the country’s first same-sex marriage ceremony, helping legally tie the knot for Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, a couple who’d already been together for 50 years. In the month that followed,

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