In the final months of an uphill election fight, Donald Trump’s mind is on weed. The president and some of his team, already obsessed with the potential drop-off of various demographic groups that make up his battered coalition, have begun openly worrying that the drive to legalize or decriminalize marijuana might hurt him and fellow Republicans at the ballot box. According to two GOP strategists who’ve independently discussed the topic with Trump this year, the president believes that inclusion of marijuana initiatives on state ballots could supercharge turnout for voters who lean toward Democratic candidates and causes. The president, according to […]
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On Sunday night, the almighty Desus & Mero—two of the funniest late-night hosts who were foolishly shut out of the recent Emmy nominations—roasted the hell out of one of Trump’s more embarrassing fanboys: Charlie Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA. Turning Point USA recently recently made headlines because its other co-founder, Bill Montgomery, died of COVID-19 after the organization pushed a number of conspiracy theories concerning the coronavirus, including that social distancing in churches was a “Democratic plot against Christianity” and that hydroxychloroquine was proven to be “100% effective” in treating the virus (it has proven to be otherwise). But the […]
Of all the reasons Donald Trump has refused to wear a mask in public in the four-plus months since the COVID-19 pandemic began in the U.S., high on the list must be fear of ridicule. That would explain why the few times he has supposedly worn a mask off-camera, he’s bragged about how good he looks and compared himself to the Lone Ranger. On Monday night, his worst nightmare came true. After making his first-ever public appearance in a mask at Walter Reed Hospital over the weekend, Trump was mercilessly mocked Monday night by Late Night host Seth Meyers. “Yesterday, according […]
India 12:24 GMT 15.05.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): The past few weeks have divided locked down idle Indians into gangs of YouTubers and TikTokers. Both of the video platforms are quite popular in India, with over 265 million and 119 million users respectively. However, the latter is more often blamed for “cringeworthy content” that it spills on social media. One of India’s “most popular” YouTubers Ajay Nagar, who also goes by the name of CarryMinati and has over 16 million subscribers, recently uploaded a video of himself roasting TikTok “star” Amir Siddiqui who has 3.4 million followers on the Chinese […]