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Rex Huppke

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Trump picks Dr. Oz? Hey, who needs job qualifications!

Great news for Americans who hate science and morals and have always wanted a job they’re in no way qualified to get. Thanks to President-elect...

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Trump is going to do all the absurd things he said he'd do. Who knew!

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on a minute. President-elect Donald Trump has started appointing screwballs for important government positions, making plans...

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Gaetz for AG? Sure. GOP should give Trump whatever he wants.

In a potential blow to the “Donald Trump is NOT a fascist!” crowd, the president-elect has made a fascist-adjacent demand: He wants to install...

15.11.2024 70

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Opinion: The angry bear wants to eat me. What else is there to understand?

So, I’m standing in the forest and there’s this bear barreling toward me and I’m pretty sure it wants to eat my face. Clearly, the most...

14.11.2024 50

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Opinion: Trump isn't president yet. You can ignore him for now.

Almost a week out from Donald Trump’s commanding presidential victory, I have a suggestion for Democrats, anti-MAGA conservatives and others on my...

12.11.2024 70

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Opinion: Harris lost. I assume Democrats just forgot to cheat, right?

You want to know how badly the Democrats screwed up the presidential election? So badly they forgot to cheat. I had it on very good authority – from...

08.11.2024 30

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Opinion: Harris concedes? What happened to denying election results?

With grace and humility, Vice President Kamala Harris stood before the American people Wednesday and acknowledged that she lost the 2024 presidential...

07.11.2024 50

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Opinion: No winner yet, but Trump's showing proves America is lost

Good morning, and welcome to hell, or as it’s known in modern-day America, “the day after Election Day.” We still don’t know who won, largely...

06.11.2024 40

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Opinion: Voters reelect Trump, a totem of the worst in all of us

I never want to hear the words “America is better than this” again. I never want to be told about America’s better angels. I want honesty. I...

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Opinion: Harris is an easy choice over Trump. He will do literal harm.

I’m voting, proudly and loudly, for Vice President Kamala Harris, and the simplest reason is this: As president, Donald Trump will harm people I...

04.11.2024 7

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Opinion: Time change gives Trump 60 bonus minutes to lie to us. Ugh.

The end of daylight saving time is perfect this year, because it gives GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his surrogates an extra hour to lie...

03.11.2024 20

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Opinion: I met a child ruined by Trump's migrant cruelty. Never again.

One of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ campaign slogans is a simple: We’re not going back. That can mean many things to different...

01.11.2024 50

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Opinion: Difference between Harris, Trump? One thinks we're 'garbage.'

Let's see if we can detect the subtle difference in our two presidential candidate’s closing messages. Vice President Kamala Harris, before tens of...

31.10.2024 10

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Opinion: Trump's racist rally shows voters what Republicans want

At Donald Trump’s racist, hate-filled Madison Square Garden rally this weekend, the Republican Party got a look at rock bottom, and American voters...

28.10.2024 5

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Opinion: More Republicans than I can list support Harris, fear Trump

Conservatives and independents shouldn’t pay much mind to liberals like me who fear what might happen if Donald Trump becomes the next president. We...

25.10.2024 3

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Opinion: Trump says 'Hitler did some good things.' And GOP just shrugs?

Republicans and conservative commentators spent Wednesday responding to shocking revelations by The Atlantic that Donald Trump, while president, said...

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Opinion: Stop lying. Harris has better economic plan than Trump.

This may come as a shock to some, but Donald Trump is not an economic genius. He’s a full-of-it fabulist who somehow branded himself a master of the...

22.10.2024 30

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Opinion: Trump's bizarre, vulgar weekend isn't helping age concerns

Donald Trump started the weekend bizarrely telling a rally crowd that late golf great Arnold Palmer had a large penis, and ended it pretending to be a...

22.10.2024 100

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Opinion: Trump could lose to Harris. His voters aren't ready for that.

Despite all the faux clairvoyance of pollsters and political pundits and the endless babble from social media Nostradamuses, there isn’t a soul in...

20.10.2024 10

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Opinion: Lyin' Vance loves Trump more than the truth. It's pathetic.

18.10.2024 4

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Opinion: Trump ally goes full-bigot with homophobic attack on Buttigieg

It seems Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is required to have at least one despicable moment per day, and Thursday was no different. Staunch...

18.10.2024 70

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Opinion: Harris calls out Bret Baier in hostile Fox News interview

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris went into America’s Den of Misinformation – Fox News – for a Wednesday night interview that...

17.10.2024 200

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Opinion: An abortion ban killed her. Now Trump's mocking her family.

Correction & clarification: A prior version of this column misspelled the name of Fox News host Harris Faulkner. The death of Amber Thurman, a...

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Opinion: Trump's version of America is a racist, fearmongering lie

Great news, fellow Americans! Donald Trump is going to save us from the racist dystopia he has completely fabricated! It’s clear that in the closing...

15.10.2024 20

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Opinion: Trump needs female voters. Calling Harris 'dumb' should do it!

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has the utmost respect for women. For proof, go back to earlier this week when he referred to the six female...

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Opinion: Trump's Helene lies delay recovery. Expect more after Milton.

I grew up in Florida, and I can tell you hurricanes don’t give a damn about your politics. They’re vicious, destructive, deadly. They’re...

08.10.2024 50

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Opinion: Explosive new Jan. 6 court filing is very mean to Trump

Dear voters who don’t only watch Fox News: We here at the Donald Trump presidential campaign realize some of you may have heard or read about a new...

04.10.2024 100

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Opinion: Fat Bear Week has turned violent. Give them guns!

It was only a matter of time before Fat Bear Week turned violent. The annual online tournament pitting bears who lift heavy forks against their girthy...

03.10.2024 20

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Opinion: Trump upstages VP debate with insult to soldiers, whining

The most important takeaway from the vice presidential debate between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz was this: Lunatic Donald Trump remains...

02.10.2024 50

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Opinion: CBS News won't fact-check VP debate. They're caving to Trump.

Great news for people who enjoy lies: CBS News won’t allow its vice presidential debate moderators to engage in any fact-checking. That is an...

01.10.2024 7

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Opinion: Racist rants? Outrageous scandals? Trump's GOP doesn't care.

The bar for “behavior Trump-supporting Republicans will excuse” is now set so low it’s subterranean. This past week, a Haitian nonprofit...

30.09.2024 7

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Opinion: Harris' economic speech lacked anger and racism. SAD!

Comrade Kamala Harris gave an economic speech in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, and let me tell you, it was light on the two things I demand out of a...

26.09.2024 10

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OPINION: Trump vows to protect women. What could go wrong?

Don’t worry, women of America. Donald Trump is going to protect you at a level never seen before! I know this because the former president said so...

24.09.2024 70

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OPINION: Is Trump's campaign strategy to lose? Seems like it.

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign seems to now be 50% incoherent babbling and 50% profoundly racist lies, a mix that begs the question: Are Trump...

20.09.2024 5

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Trump decries 'rhetoric' while his own lies terrorize Ohio town

Donald Trump wants you to believe “rhetoric” from Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her campaign led to a possible assassination...

16.09.2024 5

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Immigrants eating pets? Tell Trump I have 'proof' Vance ate my cat.

Given all the uproar over GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s baseless, utterly false and profoundly racist claims that Haitian immigrants are...

13.09.2024 40

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Trump fanboy and creep Elon says he'll give Taylor Swift a baby. Ew.

In politics, it's always good to lean hard into a wildly dishonest claim that dehumanizes a whole swath of the population while having one of your top...

12.09.2024 60

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Harris knocked Trump out with one jab. Then he melted down.

And now, a brief message to Republicans in the wake of Tuesday night’s presidential debate: HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAA! Are you freakin’ kidding me? That...

11.09.2024 70

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7 questions debate moderators should ask Trump, but won't

The moderators at Tuesday night’s presidential debate know full well what they’re going to get out of Donald Trump. Asked about an economic plan,...

10.09.2024 10

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Trump's incoherence isn't making headlines? Media didn't give Biden a pass.

To the pundits and the Republicans who relentlessly decried President Joe Biden’s age, “cognitive decline” and “mental acuity” right up to...

09.09.2024 7

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By endorsing Harris, the Cheneys try to save the GOP from Trump

As a liberal in good standing, I never imagined I’d find myself admiring the good sense of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney. But here we...

08.09.2024 7

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Fox News questions Walz's masculinity over ... a straw?

As the presidential elections draws near, I’m happy to see my good friend and fellow manly man Jesse Watters of Fox News holding Democratic vice...

07.09.2024 200

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Vance calls school shootings 'the reality we live in.' What a coward.

In the wake of a deadly Georgia school shooting, JD Vance, the Republican who incorrectly thinks he’s qualified to be vice president of the United...

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Kamala Harris is the worst communist EVER. Just ask Goldman Sachs.

Great news, fellow patriots. I’ve found another thing Democratic presidential nominee "Comrade Kamala Harris" is bad at: Communism. As you’ve...

05.09.2024 200

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Vance is the worst VP candidate ever – and it's not even close

That’s it, folks, I’m calling it: Let it be known, in September of the year 2024, that JD Vance ‒ aka “The Bearded Weird” ‒ is officially...

03.09.2024 80

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Harris' interview is a chance to ask why she can't lie like Trump

So Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris will FINALLY sit down for a televised interview with a mainstream media journalist Thursday night....

29.08.2024 4

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10 VERY reasonable demands Trump should make before debating Harris

GOP presidential nominee and tender little darling Donald Trump has started casting doubt on whether he’ll show up to an agreed-upon Sept. 10 debate...

27.08.2024 7

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Can you believe Trump, Vance and RFK Jr. are now the face of the GOP?

Donald Trump, JD Vance and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walk into the Republican Party and take over. That’s it. That’s the joke. A presidential ticket...

26.08.2024 9

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Harris campaign smartly dismisses Trump's nonsense and media demands

It seems, from the jubilant success of last week’s Democratic National Convention to Donald Trump’s public writhing, that when presidential...

26.08.2024 200

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Harris' DNC ends with glee and balloon drop. Worst 'coup' EVER!

CHICAGO — I guess I didn’t expect a coup to end with a balloon drop. Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s presidential nomination...

23.08.2024 10

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