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Following the controversy surrounding President Trump's supreme court pick Brett Kavanaugh over the past few weeks with three women coming forward to claim that the judge sexually assaulted them in the 1980's, it quickly developed into a extremely hyper-partisan issue with those on the left choosing to support the women's claims and those on the right dismissing the allegations as politically motivated. Now in steps a Republican Senate nominee from Mississippi, Chris McDaniel, who when interviewed by Bryan Fischer, a man who has claimed that the Holocaust was caused by homosexuals and that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian, on Fischer's Focal Point  radio show stated that " these allegations 99% of the time are just absolutely fabricated ", where McDaniel got that number from is truly anyone's guess. McDaniel continued: "We have a system where Judge Kavanaugh is obviously well suited for, and they're going to drag something up even theoretically,...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has her critics, me included, due to her perceived ineptitude in leading the Democratic Party to electoral success and often receiving criticism for claiming that any negative attention she gets is somehow misogynist and sexist - sometimes it is - but it has become her go to excuse to avoid any real discussion about the future of the Democratic Party. One group decided to harass Pelosi at a campaign stop and laughably label her a communist, screaming "f**king communist" at her as she entered the building and took to banging on the door as security held them back. Remember, this is the exact same group of people who whine about the lack of civility in current political discourse. Mob rushes Nancy Pelosi on her way into a campaign stop calling her a "F**king communist!" Security had to hold back the anti-communism protesters as a frightened Pelosi was rushed into a doorway. Mob chanted "Communism sucks!" while...

With days to go until the September 13th Democratic Gubernatorial Primary between Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon, the Cuomo campaign has been accused of dirty, tacky politics. A recent campaign mailer was sent out to voters which smeared Nixon as being "silent on the rise of anti-Semitism". The mailer attempted to smear Nixon by suggesting that she supports Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), a global campaign aiming to boycott Israel until they are complying with international law. One small problem here is that Cynthia Nixon doesn't support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Another way in which this ridiculous campaign mailer lied about Nixon is that it suggests that she opposes government funding of yeshivas, which are private religious schools mainly attended by New York's orthodox Jewish population. She has never said this. This is an extremely underhanded tactic that is falsely used to turn members of the Jewish community against a progressive ...

The Democratic Party have seemingly decided against being the party of the average, everyday American and have instead chosen to represent the fossil fuel industry in a shocking turn of events. Just kidding, this is exactly who the Democratic Party are and have been for a long time. Way, way back in June 2018, The Hill  reported   that Democrats would no longer accept donations from fossil fuel companies. The motion was introduced by Christine Pelosi, a member of the Democratic National Committee and daughter of House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), this was a proposal that would galvanise both progressives and environmental advocates. The proposal went after fossil fuel corporations, stating: "Fossil fuel corporations are drowning our democracy in a tidal wave of dark oily money; they have deceived the public about the impact of climate change, fought the growth of clean renewable energy and corrupted our political system." DNC Chairman Tom Perez stated that th...

Hillary Clinton supporters have a new theory as to who put Donald Trump in the White House: Hillary Clinton herself. These are the very same people that have spent the last two years blaming Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Russia, sexism, and non-voters for their loss but have now flipped and claim that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats knew what they were doing all along and that purposefully losing the 2016 election was a part of an extravagant scheme. The reasoning they have for their theory is that Hillary was "weirdly quiet" and that it's all "a plan to get citizens engaged in politics" and personally I have no idea how they've come to this conclusion because everything Hillary and her election operatives have done since the 2016 election is blame voters and has appeared on plenty of UK and US talk shows such as The Graham Norton Show, Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The View, to name just a few. There...

According to the  US National Debt Clock , a website which tracks the real-time total of many governmental figures ranging from the US National Debt/Deficit, how many Americans currently use Food Stamps or the current amount of people who are currently unemployed in the US - which currently sits at 12,420,110 people or 3.7% of the population. Even since writing that paragraph and taking the time to make a cup of tea, an additional $7M has already been added to the US Federal Budget Deficit that is pictured above, which shows just how quickly it is increasing. Given the Republican Party's stern opposition to any federal spending because we "have to cut the deficit and pay down the debt", which is exactly what any sane governmental official should look to do during their time in office, but also provide an increase in the quality of life for each and every American citizen. The Republican Party are however extremely hypocritical when it comes to government spending an...

Whether you believe Donald Trump managed to elevate himself into the Oval Office using Russian hacking efforts - which is actually the making of awful internet memes to 'sway' voters - and evading the eyes of the numerous American intelligence agencies and managed to remain in office for nearly half of his first term or not, why on earth would you vote to give an "illegitimate president" an increased military budget? The legislation, which is called H.R 5515 or the  John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019  was sent to President Trump's desk after a 87-10 vote, with many Democrats voting in favour of the legislation. Democrats make plenty of noise about resisting Donald Trump, opposing the "manchurian candidate" and impeaching him from office.. and then turn around and vote in favour of gifting Trump the third largest military budget in US history, being beaten only by the 1940's WWII-era Defense Budget and $721B ...