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I just want to say—I see you Otto Beatty, Jr. and I salute you. The Beattys are over here like “Oh, you want to just borrow parts of the First Lady’s speech? That’s cool. I drink your milkshake. I drink it right up!” Getty Saul Loeb Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, you’re an American…
Hillary Clinton became the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party last night, the first woman to ever head a major US party’s ticket. Many American newspapers showed a picture of her husband instead. Here’s the Chicago Tribune (all front pages via the Newseum): The Houston Chronicle: The Arkansas Democrat Gazette! Bill Clinton spoke last night, and his speech…
Barrier Status: ‘none’ Not long ago, Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s 2016 Presidential candidate, put a halt to his considerable consumption of marijuana. “The last time I indulged is about two months ago, with some edibles,” Johnson told me in late June, in the lobby of a midtown hotel. Johnson, who was the Republican…
For me you start with a series of highly disturbing and dangerous comments by Trump about Russia and NATO. As I noted a couple weeks ago, our relative peaceful and prosperous world is far from the natural or only possible order of things. Things can get bleak very quickly, especially when you’re stupid. Trump’s comments…
Let Me Remind You Fuckers Who I Am by Hillary Clinton What the fuck is your problem, America?? I’m Hillary goddamn Clinton. I’m a political prodigy, have been since I was 16. I have an insane network of powerful friends. I’m willing to spend the next eight years catching shit on all sides, all so…
No one writes anything on the internet. HTML does not have a tag for bylines. The web’s fundamental technology has tags for six different headers, figure captions, navigation and asides. It does not have a tag for authorship. HTML5, designed for “allowing you to describe more precisely what your content is,” cannot describe who wrote…
The American way of life is under siege by a group of activists who want nothing less than to not be shot. via Most Lives Matter | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube. Source: Most Lives Matter | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube
Here’s a striking fact from Dave Wasserman, a specialist on US House of Representatives races for the Cook Political Report: What if D’s won every place w/ electorate less than 75% white, lost everywhere else? D’s would win 292 EV’s but just 36 Sen/191 House seats. — Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) July 23, 2016 Now this…
My breaking point was a time when I had let the event staff know I was having trouble getting in places and asked them if they could just really make an extra effort for this particular day, because it had been a long week. Like, “Could you please just let folks know that I’m coming…
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