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Screenshot via Fox News. Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s one-time campaign manager and current transition team advisor, has responded to Sen. Harry Reid’s powerful statement against Donald Trump by doing all but legally threatening him. On Fox News Sunday, Conway told Chris Wallace, “I find Harry Reid’s public comments and insults about Donald Trump and other Republicans…
The dangers of unchecked executive power. In December 2007 presidential candidate Barack Obama told The Boston Globe that if he won the 2008 election, he would enter the White House committed to rolling back the sort of overreaching executive power that had characterized the presidency of George W. Bush. “The President is not above the…
Photo via AP This week is bad and this world is increasingly bad, but two spiteful little delights salve our wounds today: Donald Trump is visibly frightened and miserable, and Chris Christie is continuing to be savagely bullied by him, because that is a fitting reward for a man who sucks up to a maniac….
Photo via AP Vice President-elect and the sternest mannequin in a homophobic bargain basement Mike Pence is fighting to keep the contents of his email private. The Indianapolis Star reports that Pence doesn’t want to reveal the contents of an email sent to him by a political ally. It’s almost funny, right? Your eyes are…
Screenshot via CBS It’s a fresh week in the darkest timeline we’re all inhabiting together, and Donald Trump remains both deeply confused and a direct menace to women. In a 60 Minutes interview, he suggested that maybe his Supreme Court nominee will overturn Roe v. Wade: “They’ll have to go to another state.” Overturning Roe…
Photo: AP One of the myriad downsides of electing a president with no government or military experience is the fact that he only has two months to learn how the government and military work. Trump, who met with President Obama on Thursday for a crash course in governing the country, seemed “surprised” by the scope…
Photo Credit: AP Donald Trump does not want to be the president. Donald Trump likes going to rallies. He likes hearing people scream his name in ecstasy while calling for the imprisonment and death of his enemies. He likes going on TV. He likes hearing about how high the ratings were after he goes on…
LGBT people have been freaking out about Donald Trump. Many are hurrying to plan weddings before Inauguration Day, afraid the president-elect will overturn marriage equality immediately. courtenay and I are considering getting married before January and trump tries to take it away. Y’all want an invite, let me know. 🙆🏻 — SuperSarah🏳️🌈 (@its_supersarah) ID: 9970321…
Uber says it has permanently suspended the driver. When Erika Szabo, a video game and anime YouTube personality, ordered an Uber on a Sunday afternoon following a guest appearance at a convention in Toronto, she was looking to get home quickly after a long day and shitty weather. Just as her Uber driver pulled up, however,…
Don’t panic. Or rather, don’t keep panicking for too long. We tend to have a fairly left-leaning readership here at Cracked, just for demographic reasons (lots of college kids and such). So a lot of you reading this are outraged, sad, disgusted, terrified, and/or physically ill right now. Lots of you also use the stuff…