Senator Elizabeth Warren stopped by The Late Show to discuss the state of politics in American and took the opportunity to talk about the importance of gun control and Donald Trump‘s recent vice presidential pick J.D. Vance. Warren told host Stephen Colbert. She said believes the Republican Party should embrace …
Read More »Move Over 'Unity,' Hello '1776'
Following Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the former president and other conservative leaders have been tirelessly spinning the press and the public that the core message of the final four months of Trump’s 2024 campaign is now “unity” and “peace.” But by the time the ongoing Republican National Convention …
Read More »J.D. Vance Endorsed a National Abortion Ban in the Grossest Way Possible
In 2022, then-Senate candidate J.D. Vance sat down with Aimee Terese — a pundit and podcaster little known to the American public, but prominent in the sloppy trenches of hyper-online digital reactionaries — and removed his filter. “I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally,” Vance said in the …
Read More »Trump's RNC Revels in Graphic Demonization of Migrants
The message from the second night of the Republican National Convention was clear — and brutal: Elect Donald Trump this November or the United States will be overrun with brown people and drugs that will kill you, your family, and everyone you care about. The GOP trotted out an array …
Read More »Jon Stewart on the RNC: 'Unity in the Streets, Divisive in the Sheets'
Jon Stewart took to the Daily Show news desk on Tuesday to roast hypocritical calls for unity at the Republican National Convention following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump last weekend. The host rolled clips of Republicans emphasizing the need to stop the “vitriol and hatred” and turn the “temperature …
Read More »Trump Site Launches Limited-Edition Assassination Attempt Sneakers
GetTrumpSneakers.com, a website owned by Donald Trump, is the go-to retailer to secure a pair of high-top sneakers printed with an image from the recent assassination attempt against the former president. The limited-edition 5,000-quantity run are going for $299 and have already sold out in a number of sizes. The …
Read More »Trump's Plan to End Taxes on Tips Isn't Fooling Labor Leaders
Last month, former President Donald Trump made a shiny promise to voters in Las Vegas, Nevada, home of one of the nation’s most prominent concentrations of service industry workers. He said he would eliminate taxes on tips. “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be …
Read More »Trump Bashes Vaccines, Recounts Rally Shooting in Leaked Call With RFK Jr.
Children can be a blessing, bringing joy and wonder to the lives of their parents — they can also leak your private phone calls with the former president and cause you embarrassment on the national stage. It’s a mixed bag. While Robert Kennedy III might be too old for his …
Read More »Judge Cannon's Decision Is a Glimpse of a Terrifying MAGA Future
Sandwiched in between an assassination attempt and a VP pick, District Judge Aileen Cannon issued one of the worst, most nakedly political judicial decisions in decades, dismissing the classified documents case against Donald Trump in a flat rejection of decades of precedent. Cannon’s decision is a sneak preview of what’s …
Read More »Trump Planning Another Huge Tax Cut for His Donors
During his presidency, Donald Trump slashed the corporate tax rate from 28 percent to 21 percent. If he’s elected again this year, Trump intends to further cut the corporate tax rate to 15 percent, according to new reporting in Bloomberg. The 2017 Trump tax law is already an epic financial …
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