It’s former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy’s birthday today! To celebrate, Politico’s Playbook tweeted this fun fact about the man with the worst haircut on earth: He’s a huge idiot who thinks 3 x 0 = 3. Makes sense if you look at his record (and, it cannot be overstated, that hair)! Read more
On Wednesday night, the 2020 presidential race lost its most handsome candidate: my man, Jay Inslee.
It’s glancingly rare that anyone actually on the left gets booked on a cable news show like CNN’s The Lead, but when…
Former paid liar Sean Spicer is going to be on Dancing With the Stars, and a lot of people—including the show’s host…
If you, like me, are excited for the next season of American Crime Story focused on Bill Clinton’s impeachment, you may be saddened to hear Hillary Clinton “is actually not a significant character” on the show, according to an FX exec who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter. The season is slated for a 2020 release. Read more
Rick Perry, as head of the Department of Energy, is tasked with overseeing America’s vast nuclear arsenal, one…
The rule is that once cops use a meme, it’s dead and buried. The police state’s latest casualty: hard seltzer White…
In an interview with Vice News out Tuesday, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid criticized the 2020 field’s support for Medicare for All and sounded like a Republican as he talked about how “decriminalizing border crossings” should be “way down at the bottom of the list” of priorities. Go away again!! Read more
While we here at Splinter would never in our lives endorse criminal conduct, you have to hand it to the former…
After Joe Biden seemed to lose the thread at various points during last month’s debate and then misstepped his way…
My new (miserable) party trick when some blissfully ignorant new person asks me “what I do” is to turn the…
In an unprecedented move, Trump’s U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia attacked local District Attorney Larry Krasner after six officers were wounded in a standoff late yesterday. The U.S. Attorney directly accused Krasner of cultivating a “culture of disrespect” against cops and allowing for the incident to happen, which,… Read more
Last night, a deeply strange thing happened after a Twitter user responded to a fairly innocuous August 1 tweet from…
President Trump tweeted that the suspect in last night’s standoff with police in Philadelphia “looked like he was having a good time after his capture.” He also advocated for a “long sentence” for the man and used the phrase “must get much tougher on street crime.” Everything old is new again. Read more
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally did it—she referred to Mitch McConnell by the worst political nickname running…
Say it with me: Fuck THE Ohio State University, an inferior midwestern state school with an even bigger inferiority complex, which is trying to trademark the extraneous “The” in its name, according to CNN.
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Not much is clear about the circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death except the fact that jail officials fucked up in a huge way. Now, the warden of the New York City jail has been temporarily reassigned and two guards charged with monitoring him have been put on leave, NBC News reported Tuesday. Read more
If you like sports, you probably know Barstool. Even if you don’t, you probably know Barstool as the online home for…
Remember the hogs? The roving band of feral ones threatening the sanity and progeny of some random guy on Twitter…
There are a range of acceptable responses to Jeffrey Epstein’s death, such as grief for his victims and the justice they’ll now never receive and rage at a system that somehow allowed this to happen among them. Bette Midler found a reaction that falls far outside that window: a damn limerick! What a time. Read more