We've been talking a lot about how Russia was involved with the 2016 election, but what about how Russia was involved in the Russian election? We don't know about this election's legitimacy, but Vladimir Putin has secured another term as the President of Russia - and these memes are a just a wee bit suspicious.
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It's been just over two weeks since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that killed 17 in Parkland, Florida, and the gun control debate is still raging. Shooter Nikolas Cuz used an AR-15 on his classmates and faculty, a gun that has been used in numerous other mass shootings around the country. His choice of weapon has inspired a push to ban the dangerous gun.
It's not abnormal for AR-15s, in which the AR stands for ArmaLite Rifle, to be confused with assault rifles - but the past few days have been ripe with pro-gun conservatives speaking out to correct the mistakes of "dumb" liberals. Well, the dumb liberals have started to fight back by trolling conservatives like Tomi Lahren relentlessly on Twitter, claiming the "AR" stands for the absurd. The results are pretty glorious.
We hope Bernie hasn't been trying to quit his day job to be an actor. The Vermont Senator was spotted very reluctantly clapping during last night's State of the Union address, and Twitter was VERY quick to meme his unenthusiastic reaction.
The White House's physician Dr. Ronny Jackson announced yesterday that President Trump weighs in at a healthy 239 lbs - but Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn isn't buying it. The Marvel director has offered $100,000 to Donald's charity of choice if he's willing to publicly step on an "accurate scale" accompanied by an impartial physician. That's a lot of guap.
Gunn is far from alone in this cleverly named movement The hashtag, a reference to Trump's obsession with Obama's birth, is quickly gaining traction on Twitter. Many users are joining Gunn and the girther squad in this crusade to discover the President's "true" weight - and why his height seems to keep changing. Do you think the president weights 239 pounds? Hopefully he will respond to Gunn and we will find out.
The President of the United States is the subject of much criticism after making racist remarks at a DACA meeting yesterday. Donald Trump took to Twitter early in the morning to deny the accusations, but just hours later at a press conference Illinois Senator Dick Durbin expressed surprise at the President's denial - and confirmed everything the media has been reporting.
"When the question was raised about Haitians, for example, we have a group that have temporary protected status in the United States because they were the victims of crises and disasters and political upheaval. The largest group is El Salvadoran. The second is Honduran and the third is Haitian, and when I mentioned that fact to him, he said 'Haitians? Do we need more Haitians?' And then he went on and started to describe the immigration from Africa that was being protected in this bipartisan measure. That's where he used these vile and vulgar comments, calling the nations they come from "sh*tholes" -- the exact word used by the president not just once, but repeatedly."
Pretty damning. The hateful words have been met with shock and criticism, with CNN's Don Lemon going as far as to introduce the news by saying that the President is racist. Even the Merriam-Webster dictionary had something to say. Their twitter account announced today that "reprehensible" is the word of the day, a little solidarity with Republican Representative Ileana Little, who condemned the derogatory remarks, saying "the statements of the president are reprehensible, they're racist, they're totally incorrect."
