This Week In Fuckery:
It’s that time again! Welcome to the recap of fuckery for the week of September 28th - October 4th. Let’s get started!
- Business owner Robert Sullivan thought it was a great idea to put up a sign of Elizabeth Warren wearing a headdress and war paint reading “Elizabeth Warren is a joke. Princess Little Big Liar.” outside his business.
- Debbie Riddle, Texas State Rep, Tells College Student To Move To Afghanistan In Long Ranting Argument
- Samuel L. Jackson was in one of the best political ads ever! Here’s how some people on twitter responded to it. Spoiler Alert! It wasn’t good.
- A Virginia man allegedly killed himself and his family in part because he was upset by the thought of President Barack Obama being re-elected.
- There’s a new pseudo-documentary making the rounds that alleges that President Obama’s father isn’t his real father and basically calls his mother a whore.
- 200 FDNY firefighters rallied outside a Brooklyn courthouse in protest of a ruling that said they had to hire more people of color. The fire department in question is 90% white but the city isn’t. All of the people who showed up in protest were white.
- Todd Akin: Accuses Providers of “Giving Abortions to Women Who Are Not Actually Pregnant. No, you didn’t read that wrong. No, it’s not from The Onion.
- Republican Candidate for Congress, Brad Staats, posted a picture of his gun on Facebook and said “Welcome to Tennessee, Mr. Obama.”
- Balloons filled with bleach were thrown at PoC students at the University of Texas at Austin. A march was held in protest.
- New York Times public editor, Margaret Sullivan, says that readers won’t benefit if the stop calling undocumented immigrants “Illegal.” Linguists responded by saying the term was neither accurate nor neutral.
- Ann Coulter claimed that First Lady Michelle Obama wanted to “go home with Mitt” after the debate.
- A SDSU student found racist graffiti in his dorm’s bathroom.
- Kreayshawn set the record for the lowest selling debut from a major record label.
- Vigilanties in Marseille, France burnt a Roma camp.
