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Prior to President Trump’s Tulsa rally, health experts articulated their concerns about the large gathering, which they said could possibly become a “super spreader” event. Now, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has contracted COVID-19 and subsequently been hospitalized in Atlanta, less than two weeks after attending the rally, CNN reports. “On Monday, June 29, Herman […]
The political rhetoric coming from President Donald Trump seems to create an environment where hatred and bigotry can thrive. Unfortunately, the President doesn’t actively combat this notion. In fact, he promotes it. On Sunday morning, President Trump quoted tweeted a protest happening in Florida‘s Sumter County retirement community, The Villages. In the video, Democratic senior citizens were holding signs […]
The exhaustingly long history of art-averse political figures missing the point of musical expression entirely continues in 2020 with the Trump campaign’s use of the Panic! at the Disco hit “High Hopes.” In case you missed it, and hopefully you did, the Trump team used the 2018 Pray for the Wicked single at a recent gathering of dumbfucks […]
As if a global pandemic and the persistence of racist ideologies masquerading as policing and/or “heritage” weren’t enough, 2020 is also bringing us another presidential election. If you’re unfortunate enough to also remember how everything ultimately shook down for the United States back in 2016, then you need no reminder of what’s at stake as Americans once […]
Trump, whose followers swallow whole whatever falls out of his mouth without bothering to contextualize it on their own, touted “the AIDS vaccine” on Tuesday despite no such thing actually existing. The Rose Garden ramblings were part of a string of words Trump offered regarding a cop reform executive order that stops far short of anything […]
Wanda Sykes has finally responded to actor Scott Baio, who tried to bait the comedian last week following her continued support of Joe Biden despite his controversial remark on the Breakfast Club. “Oh! Hey Chachi. Apologies, I didn’t see you. I’ll keep it short. Joe Biden didn’t say, ‘Then you ain’t an ape,’” Sykes tweeted, slicing […]
Democratic Pennsylvania state legislators are claiming that Republicans kept the coronavirus diagnosis of a GOP colleague a secret from them. The Washington Post reports that Republican state Rep. Andrew Lewis confirmed on Wednesday that he tested positive for the virus on May 20, and Democrats claim he interacted with colleagues who didn’t know he might be sick. Lewis […]
Protesters decided to end a gathering outside the Governor’s Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky by hanging an effigy of Gov. Andy Beshear from a tree, CNN reports. Per Facebook, the protest was a Patriot Day Rally to exercise Second Amendment rights. Gerry Seavo James, a freelance journalist who was on the scene to document the rally, told CNN that toward the end of the […]
Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren said that compliance to stay-at-home orders is “starting to look a whole lot like willful slavery” in a tweet that has since been deleted. Lahren posted a series of tweets expressing her support toward the minuscule anti-lockdown demonstrations that have cropped up in states like Michigan, Ohio, and North Carolina, among others. […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has perhaps put the U.S. on track for one of the deadliest weeks in its history. This according to U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who made the grave announcement on Sunday, saying this week will be the “hardest and the saddest” for “most Americans’ lives.” He also likened the coming days to Pearl Harbor […]
