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Following the rise of popular literacy in the 19th century, in the age of industrialization in Britain, there appeared “penny novellas” that came to be known as the Penny Dreadfuls.
They were called this because of their sensationalistic content – the penny dreadfuls were populated with all manner of highwaymen, libertines, rakes, rogues, profligates, murderers (especially poisoners), as well as according to one source from the time as reported by historian Judith Flanders, “…men with masks and women with daggers…stolen children, withered hags, heartless gamesters, [and] nefarious roués.”
In the spirit of the Penny Dreadful (shocking, lurid, vulgar, sensationalistic) this feed is for reporting on and reacting to the latest outrages by the new order (elected, appointed, and surrogate). We don’t have Dick Turpin the Highwayman, but we do have Kellyanne Conway! Sorry if you feel a bit dirty after reading it. But hey, it only costs a penny!
On March 16, 2017, Mick Mulvaney, Director of the OMB did seek mightily to defend the proposed budget of the POTUS before a gathering of the press.
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Dan Adamini is a former chair of the Marquette County Republicans–a region of America populated by trees, whitetail deer, and a smattering of conservative Christian Caucasians.
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Appearing on AC360 on January 12th 2017, unconscionable hack Jeffrey Lord and Professor and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich did cross swords.
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In December of 2016, billionaire President Elect Donald Trump named billionaire activist shareholder Carl Icahn as special adviser on regulatory policy. ‘Activist shareholder’ is a euphemism for financial parasite.
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The children cried out, as if with one voice, “Please, Sir, tell us the parts about Obama the Saracen king, and about how the brave Paladino blew his horn oliphant, and did vanquish the Saracen’s fearsome wife!”
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As Attorney General, Pruitt sued the EPA on behalf of Oklahoma utilities unwilling to accept regulation of coal-fired power plants. To date, all of Pruitt’s anti-EPA suits have failed.
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In November of 2016 Reverend James Orsen Bakker is inexplicably no longer in prison. He’s back to doing the Lord’s work on television. Or rather, he’s back to doing the Lord’s work on YouTube.
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After searching DC Pizzeria Comet Ping Pong for captive child sex slaves that didn’t exist, and firing his AR-15 in the restaurant, North Carolina man Edgar Maddison Welch admitted that his fake news “intel” was not “one hundred percent.”
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