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Trump Failed, 180,000+ Died': Protests Surround White House as President Delivers Lie-Filled RNC Nomination Speech "This is the most important election in history. And you are the most dangerous president in the history of our country. That's why you're going to lose," said Sen. Bernie Sanders during Trump's remarks. Demonstrators gather across from the White House as President Donald Trump accepts the Republican nomination on August 27, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AFP via Getty Images) Closing out a GOP convention that featured  rampant law-breaking ,  fascistic hysteria , and cynical  distortions  of the current administration's record, President Donald Trump delivered more of the same Thursday night as he formally accepted the Republican Party's presidential nomination while protesters rallied near the White House blasting music and spotlighting Trump's deadly failure to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. The sound of demonstrat...

 Ching Shih: Meet the Most Successful Female Pirate Captain Ever You can forget about Blackbeard. You can forget about Captain Jack Sparrow. You can forget about every other famous pirate  ever , actually, because the most successful pirate captain of all time was a 22-year-old Chinese woman named Ching Shih. Never heard of her? Let’s fix that! Ching Shih was born into poverty in the Chinese city of Canton in 1785 and became a prostitute to survive — but in a twisted kind of Cinderella story, all that changed when she married the infamous pirate captain Zheng Yi, leader of the notorious Red Flag Fleet. After Zheng Yi’s untimely death by tsunami in 1807, his ambitious young wife managed to succeed him on the pirate throne, taking over the entire enterprise herself. With Ching Shih in charge, the Red Flag Fleet soon grew to control every major Chinese pirate organization, at its peak in command of 1,800 ships and 80,000 pirates. As a female captain, she made herself twice as fea...