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      The Name of the Only Republican Possibly Worse Than Donald Trump Is Mitch McConnell

      The Name of the Only Republican Possibly Worse Than Donald Trump Is Mitch McConnell

      Perhaps even more than the morally bankrupt Trump, McConnell is the worst among us

      Ann Mcfeatters
      Aug 11, 2019

      Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell is from Kentucky, but he epitomizes what is wrong with the nation's capital.

      McConnell is a 77-year-old white man who has been running the Senate -- deciding its agenda and what will or will not be voted on by all 100 senators -- longer than any previous Republican in history. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984 and was last re-elected with just over 56% of the vote.

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      The Politics of Petulance, From Donald Trump to Boris Johnson

      The Politics of Petulance, From Donald Trump to Boris Johnson

      Four decades of relentless there-is-no-alternative propaganda has so many people believing that change is impossible, so you might as well stick your middle finger up at the world instead.

      Sarah Jaffe
      Aug 01, 2019

      Donald Trump's campaign is selling drinking straws. Plastic drinking straws, naturally. The campaign has raised nearly half a million from sales of packs of fifteen red straws with "TRUMP" branded on them, as an alternative to "liberal paper straws."

      The premise, of course, is that liberals with their silly ideas about saving the planet and banning plastic straws deserve to be mocked. Paper straws don't work and neither does liberalism. (Who knows what socialist straws might look like?)

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      Joe Biden's Record on Race Is Even Worse Than Kamala Harris Lets On

      Joe Biden's Record on Race Is Even Worse Than Kamala Harris Lets On

      When African-Americans arguably needed his help the most—Biden has repeatedly wielded his power to devastate the black community

      Ryan Cooper
      Jul 02, 2019

      The standout moment in either of the first two Democratic primary debates was unquestionably the showdown between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden over school desegregation. Harris came prepared with her own story being bused to an integrated school as a young girl and attacked Biden over his fond recollections of being friendly with the vicious racist James Eastland.

      Naturally, this has the Biden camp on the defensive. "We can be proud of her nonetheless, but her ambition got it wrong about Joe," former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-Il.) told Politico. But this is an absolute crock -- on the contrary, Harris barely scratched the surface of Biden's awful civil rights record.

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