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Extra Extra: The Comic That Foresaw Trump

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David Colon

Published Dec 18, 2016

Modified Dec 18, 2016

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• If he's indeed fired by the Bills, Rex Ryan will just need to be fired by the Giants to complete the New York football trifecta.
• New Yorkers changed their names to bunch of wacky things this year.
• Did this autocratic populist comic book character from the 70s drawn by Jack Kirby foresee the rise of Donald Trump? Maybe!
• The Hoboken Chief of Police livetweeted everything he saw during SantaCon in Hoboken.
• Despite that extremely real and probably devastating boycott from the alt-right, Rogue One made even more money than Disney thought it would its opening weekend.
• In normal American news from the normal year of 2016, a white nationalist website is individually targeting Jews for harassment in the town where Richard Spencer lives.
• Having previously vanquished Four Loko, Chuck Schumer is eyeing an e-cigarette recall.
• A woman arrested for cocaine possession in Park Slope told her arresting officer "I bet you voted for Trump," and to be totally honest I would take that bet.
• The House GOP closed the investigation into Flint's water supply by throwing up their hands and saying "Actually, everyone messed up."
• And finally, let's watch some brutal NBA blocks and listen to Nelly:

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