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Trump's Vicious Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric A Sign He Is Deeply Worried About Midterms
With the polls confirming that the GOP is almost certainly about to lose the House come November 6th, president Trump is trying every strategy he can think of to motivate his base. Predictably, this largely consists of vicious anti-immigrant rhetoric he knows his racist ...read more
Sorry Trumpers, It Turns Out Elizabeth Warren Really Is Part Native American
So we have to actually do this. Elizabeth Warren, or "Pocahontas" as president Trump derisively likes to call her, is in fact part Native American as her DNA test results show. Senator Warren made the results of her DNA test public today, which shows “strong evidence’’ that she ...read more
The American Shithole
There is a country that ranks 31st globally in life expectancy even though its healthcare costs per capita are by far the highest. This country has one of the lowest voter participation rates in the free world. It loses over a thousand people every week to misuse of ...read more
Hey Trump, What Exactly Qualifies As a Sh*thole Country, Anyway?
by Kate Harveston Just when you thought… ok well let's be honest, no one is surprised that Donald Trump just called several countries "shitholes" in a private meeting with several members of Congress. It's about as surprising as the fact that our Twitter-happy president took to ...read more
No Donald, Your Approval Ratings With Black Americans Hasn't "Doubled". It Has Halved.
For reasons best known to himself, Donald Trump decided to post an easily disprovable lie on Twitter today that his approval rating with black Americans has doubled: Of course it hasn't doubled -- to the contrary, Trump's approval rating among black Americans has more than ...read more
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Says Trump Can't Be Racist Because He Had a TV Show
Calling Trump a racist for disparaging African and black nations as "shitholes" is, according to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, "outrageous". Why, you might ask? Because Donald Trump had a television show for 10 years, so by definition cannot be a racist. “I think that is an ...read more
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President Trump Is A Racist, But Does It Matter Anymore?
President Trump is a racist. At this point, there's really no reasonable way to deny it. Ever since Trump, along with his Dad, evicted people of color from their homes then decided it was his duty to persecute the "Central Park Five" for crimes they didn't commit, we've witnessed ...read more
Yes, Donald Trump Just Confirmed He is a White Supremacist
United States exists as a country due to the genocide of Native Americans and the theft of their land. It was built off of the labor of enslaved Africans who were never compensated for their appalling treatment or their centuries of free work. America is also a nation of ...read more
Steven Bannon Attempts a 'Sick Burn' on Eminem, Fails Miserably
By now, you've probably heard Eminem's ruthless takedown of Donald Trump in a remarkably powerful hip hop video released before BET's Hip Hop awards. In it, the Detroit based rapper slammed Trump for his anti-immigrant rhetoric, blasted him for his ties to racists, and drew a ...read more
Prominent Jewish Americans Give their Soul to Work for Racist Donald Trump
Along with many other black writers across the country, I have made former presidential candidate and now HUD Secretary Ben Carson the object of my disappointment in aligning himself with Donald Trump. Carson has been rightfully skewered for his ignorant political views and ...read more
Trump Pardoned Joe Arpaio Because F*ck Black People, and F*ck Immigrants
If you thought Donald Trump couldn't sink any lower after his atrocious response to the racist terrorism in Charlottesville earlier this month, think again. In a despicable move designed to appeal to his racist base, Trump pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. ...read more
How to be Nice to Nazis
Apparently it was our lack of hospitality that caused all the death and injury in Charlottesville. As progressives, we need to take this to heart and promise to do better in the future. After all, the Nazis and a motley crew of their KKK, alt-right, and skinhead friends are ...read more
Trump Unhinged: Some Fascists at Charlottesville Were "Very Fine People"
Just when it seemed like Donald Trump was capable of passing the lowest bar ever, when he finally said "racism is evil" yesterday after three days of refusing to acknowledge that the events in Charlottesville were caused by white nationalist neo-Nazis, he did a press conference ...read more
Report: Trump Voters Hate Hillary So Much They Don't Care if He Cheated to Win the Election
In a truly disturbing report released this week in the Guardian, a worrying number of Trump supporters revealed a hatred for Hillary Clinton that runs so deep they were unconcerned as to whether Donald Trump cheated to win the election in 2016. The report, based on a Trump ...read more
Donald Trump Still Insists the "Central Park Five" are Guilty, Despite Their Exoneration
Before he began his shameful race for the presidency, even before he started his racist campaign to delegitimize Barack Obama by calling into question his American citizenship, there was one low-light from Donald Trump's past that clued everyone in to the kind of reprehensible ...read more
Trump's Immigration Speech Once Again Exposed a Massive Loophole in the System: Populist Maniacs Can Easily Get This Far, and It's Terrifying
After watching Donald Trump yelling at the world Wednesday night, I'm more discouraged than ever about the current state of the American political process. How could this have possibly gone so far? Are we really this vulnerable to the whimsy of necrotic populism? Sadly, we are ...read more
You'll Never Guess Whose Immigration Policy Donald Trump Just Pledged to Continue
As near as we can tell, Donald Trump's campaign platform is basically three things: 1) extreme vetting of Muslim immigrants, 2) building a wall and deporting 12 million Mexicans, and 3) solving crime on day one. None of this is at all achievable, but up until this week, he's ...read more
Trump's Outreach to African-Americans Is Actually a Dog-Whistle to His White Nationalist Base
If Donald Trump is legitimately attempting to reach out to African-American voters, he's doing a horrible job of it, which comes as no surprise. At rallies in North Carolina and Michigan late last week, Trump outlined a series of talking points, recited from dreaded teleprompters ...read more
Trump Thinks You're the Real Racist For Accusing Trump of Racism
When I compared Donald Trump to Francis Buxton, Pee-wee Herman's entitled man-child nemesis in Pee-wee's Big Adventure, I didn't think he'd so quickly vindicate my observation by engaging in an "I know you are but what am I?" counterattack. But he did, and it's obvious to ...read more
UPDATED with Chicago Riots: Trump's Feckless Mob Assaults More Protesters in Missouri and Chicago
UPDATE: Chaos has erupted in Chicago, both inside and outside the Trump rally there. LIVE stream immediately below, followed by two previously recorded clips. When leaders behave irresponsibly, their followers aren't too far behind. In the case of Donald Trump, his behavior on ...read more