Idiot: Emergency!!!!!!!!!
Less than 24 hours after announcing his intent to declare a national emergency in order to begin construction on a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, President Donald Trump made it official in a wildly incoherent Rose Garden address on Friday.
This All Seems to Be Going Well
Now that President Donald Trump has announced he’ll declare a national emergency to bypass congress and fund a border wall, we’re starting to learn just how badly he’s been handling the mess he created. To put it mildly, he’s fucking it all up.
Cheesy Politician Headed to Cheese State
Beto O’Rourke is going to the University of Wisconsin—Madison on Friday for a brief grip-and-grin with students and faculty.
Trump Ends One Crisis and Starts Another
The White House announced on Thursday that President Donald Trump will sign into law the long sought-after budget deal between congressional Democrats and Republicans, ensuring that the federal government will stay funded and preventing another devastating shutdown. At the same time, Trump announced he would also…
Passed the Barr
After months of existing under the dubious legal purview of a crooked urinal salesman, we finally have an actual, honest-to-god Attorney General: William Barr, who was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday afternoon.
GOOD RIDDANCE
Amazon has officially announced it will no longer pursue plans to build its much-ballyhooed, much-criticized headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
Trump Huddles With Experts Over Shutdown Deal (Just Kidding It's Sean Hannity)
Congressional negotiators have finished hammering out a budget deal to prevent another government shutdown. The deal, among other things, drastically reduces the amount of money President Donald Trump wanted for a border wall, but Trump has reportedly been busy yakking with expert advisers on how he can swallow it…
Ilhan Omar Drags Elliott Abrams to Hell for Being a War Criminal
If you were to distill everything horrible about America’s foreign policy over the past 30 years and give it human form, you’d have Elliott Abrams: A convicted liar and war criminal whose participation in any number of bloody, U.S.-backed coups, insurrections, and massacres would—in a just world—land him a spot at…
WH Communications Director Bill Shine's Wife Goes on Wild Anti-Vaccination Rant
Self-professed “CEO of my home” Darla Shine, wife of White House Communications Director Bill Shine, had a real barn-burner of a take about vaccinations on Wednesday—by which I mean, a take that’s about as valuable to public health as locking people inside an actual barn and setting it on fire.
GOP Congressman Had an Incredibly Racist Book on Display In His Office
The American Federation of Government Employees is officially demanding an apology from U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson, a Republican from Georgia, after an AFGE representative discovered that the congressman’s office showcased an extremely racist book while visiting Ferguson there this week.
Republican Senator Terrified That AOC is Coming to Steal Everyone's Ice Cream
I scream, you scream, we all scream for Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso, who is extremely concerned that the Green New Deal will rob America’s youth of their god-given right to chunk up on ice cream and hamburgers.
Trump Demands Ilhan Omar Resign, Whines About His Wall In Front of the Entire Cabinet
President Donald Trump, a man beloved by neo-Nazis who himself has dabbled in anti-Semitic tropes, demanded that Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar resign following the semi-manufactured uproar over the congresswoman’s recent comments about the Israel lobby’s influence in Washington.
The president is thrilled to announce that, from here on out, the 4th of July “could” become an exciting tradition for America.
Racist Congressman Steve King Would Very Much Like to Be Un-Shunned Please
It hasn’t even been a month since the GOP reluctantly forced Iowa Rep. Steve King out of his committee assignments and sent him wandering into the congressional wastelands, where he busied himself by fundraising off the fact that he’s a racist. But now, King is back and asking ever-so-nicely to be reinstated to the…
Deranged MAGA Fan Attacks BBC Cameraman During Trump's El Paso Rally
Another day, another act of not-so-random violence at one of President Donald Trump’s MAGA rallies.
Kamala Harris Once Supported Handing Over Undocumented Minors to ICE
Presidential candidate and California Sen. Kamala Harris is running to lead a party increasingly intolerant of President Donald Trump’s bigoted anti-immigration policies. But while serving as San Fransisco’s district attorney a decade ago, according to a new investigative report from CNN, Harris actively supported…