In less than six months’ time, Donald J. Trump, the racist billionaire, has achieved what six decades of liberal discourse–from Noam Chomsky to Bill Maher–sought and failed to accomplish: he has revealed to the general […]
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What Rapper Should Endorse Hillary Clinton?
Last night, hip hop artist and activist Killer Mike, of the rap collective Run The Jewels, endorsed Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for president at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia. Mike spent five hours with the candidate prior […]
How Italian Is Carly Fiorina, Exactly?
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett Packard CEO who now stands–among her 15 male counterparts–as the lone female in consideration for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, has built an ascendent political career on the pillars of business savvy, […]
Guns Aren’t the Issue. Mental Health is the Issue.*
Just before seven yesterday morning, a former employee of Roanoke, Virginia’s WDBJ news station shot and killed two newscasters, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, with a legally obtained handgun. A third casualty, Vicki Gardner, was […]
50 Simple Ways to Identify a Hillary Clinton Supporter
The prototypical Hillary Clinton supporter is a creature short on distinct physical characteristics but markedly long on quirks of personality. Her amorphous brand of neo-liberalism, essentially a repurposing of Rockefeller Republicanism for the supposedly left-leaning […]
The 2014 BPoFD Fraud of the Year: Honorable Mentions
History has forever been written by the conquerers, and conquerers are nothing if not fraud. When future generations learn of the yearlong nightmare known as 2014, the blighted stretch of space-time will likely seem no less fraught […]
How Should Darren Wilson Spend His Newfound Fortune?
Anyone who believes that the American Dream is dead and buried need look no further than the remarkable story of former police officer Darren Wilson. Get this. Less than six months ago, Officer Wilson was just another […]
BREAKING: Joe Scarborough is a Talking, Human-Shaped Dumpster
Fans of MSNBC political pundit Joe Scarborough, who recently “made waves” with an impassioned tirade about the post-Ferguson demonization of police officers, will be shocked to learn that Mr. Scarborough is actually a talking, human-shaped […]
Katniss Everdeen: Good Marxist?
The history of all heretofore existing Hunger Games is the history of class struggles. In the post-apocalyptic book and film series, an unfettered bourgeois ruling class known as The Capitol subjugates the larger proletariat population of […]
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