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Donald Trump gives his acceptance speech during the final day of the Republican National Convention, July 21, in Cleveland. Mark J. Terrill/AP On Dec. 13, 2000, after perhaps the most hotly contested presidential election in American history (and a Supreme Court decision that divided Americans), Al Gore did one of the most…
Last night at the DNC there was a balloon drop. It is at this point in time we all learned that Bill Clinton fuckin’ LOVES balloons. Twitter: @AllisonRockey 1. Here Bill sees the balloons for the first time: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images 2. They are real, not just something he heard about in a…
For 57 minutes on Thursday night, America saw Hillary Clinton deliver a polished primetime acceptance speech, interrupted only by positive chants from the hall. And for two weeks leading up to those 57 minutes, the most pivotal of the Democratic National Convention, a tightly organized hierarchy of delegates, floor “whips,” floor captains, and regional coordinators…
In a 1997 Howard Stern interview, the future presidential candidate likened sleeping with multiple women to service in the war he repeatedly avoided. Draft-dodger Donald Trump once said that the danger he faced from getting sexually transmitted diseases was his own “personal Vietnam.” In a 1997 interview with shock jock Howard Stern, Trump talked about…
Earlier this year, I met a source in a Washington, D.C., hotel lobby to discuss a financial corruption case they claimed to be familiar with. In the course of our conversation, this person told me that Andrew Cuomo is not actually the governor of New York. What? Come on, that’s crazy. Or…is it? Last year,…
The 73-year-old has said for decades that Bill Clinton raped her. Today, she’s a thorn in the side of progressives, including Hillary Clinton, who say rape victims have the right to be believed — and a gift for Donald Trump. Katie J.M. Baker BuzzFeed News Reporter posted on Aug. 14, 2016, at 7:09 p.m. Tweet…
Image: Getty “By the way, under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States,” said Rudy Giuliani, who served as mayor of New York City on September 11, 2001, at an event with Donald Trump this afternoon. Here’s video of the speech, via…
Those gigantic jackpots set people dreaming. I’m not immune to lottery fever. I hadn’t bought a lottery ticket of any kind for years, until last January, when the Powerball jackpot amounted to nearly $1.6 billion. That was one awesome number. We began talking about it at work. Two colleagues and I split a few tickets….
One person calls the other dumb. The second guy responds by calling the first an “asshole” and a “dumbass with his head up his ass.” The first guy fires back again, accusing his “thin-skinned” antagonist of throwing a “tantrum.” Is this a middle school playground argument? Two drunks yelling at a bar? A YouTube comments…
Recently, the Harvard University Republican Club (of kids) got widespread news coverage for refusing to endorse Donald Trump. Now the Yale Republicans are in a public battle over Trump as well. Hey—fuck off!!! Should we care what a bunch of 20-year-old college Republicans, who are some of the world’s most insufferable pricks, think or do?…