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Archive for September, 2020

September 5th, 2020 - 2:15 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

“Trump Boat Parade” springs leaks

“Several boats sank during a Trump Boat Parade on Lake Travis in Texas where crowds had gathered to show support for President Donald Trump’s re-election,” NBC News reported Saturday, September 5, 2020. Marine patrol units from the sheriff’s department responded to “mul[...]

September 5th, 2020 - 1:36 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Racism

Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s cautionary tale ahead of the 2020 presidential election

by Mark Krasovic, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Rutgers University Newark  8/10/2020 That November, voters in several cities saw posters at polling places printed in bright red letters. “WARNING,” they read. “This area is being patrolled by the National Ballot Security[...]

September 5th, 2020 - 2:51 am § in America, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Politics

The wisdom of Smedley D. Butler

by Mark Adams “It has been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits. That is how the 21,000 billionaires and mi[...]

September 5th, 2020 - 1:55 am § in Donald Trump, Politics

Trump belittles Gen. Kelly (video)

Watch a draft dodger disparage a 4-star general (read details of his career here) in video below. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

September 4th, 2020 - 10:03 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics

FBI busts 2 armed militia thugs at Kenosha motel

Two violent members of a Missouri militia group with criminal records were arrested by FBI agents at a Kenosha motel on Thursday, September 3, 2020, after Iowa police received a tip they going to Kenosha to “loot and possibly pick people off.” They apparently were present for Trump̵[...]

September 4th, 2020 - 8:55 pm § in Misc.

The Portland shooter and victim: Two of a kind, both equally dead

Compiled from news sources with commentary. Updated 9/5/20. For weeks, rightwing and leftist agitators clashed in Portland, Oregon, then the inevitable happened: Someone got killed. Two men, both vigilantes “providing security” for demonstrators, but from opposing camps and radically dif[...]

September 4th, 2020 - 5:12 pm § in Misc.

Another car assault against peaceful BLM protesters

This article is news with liberal commentary. A car plowed through a peaceful BLM march in New York’s Time Square on Thursday, September 3, 2020. Police said the driver was earlier seen with counterprotesters wearing a “MAGA” hat, NBC News reported. There should be an arrest soon, [...]

September 4th, 2020 - 4:36 pm § in Donald Trump

Disparaging remarks story grows legs; the end for Trump?

Trump referred to Americans killed in combat as “losers” and suckers” Multiple Sources, Including Fox, Confirm Details; Condemnations Pour In VP Biden: “Sick, deplorable, un-American” Sen. Tammy Duckworth: “Appalled” Retired General: “No patriot”[...]

September 4th, 2020 - 4:31 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

Postal police block a Democratic congresswoman from seeing unprocessed mail

Postal police blocked a Democrat om the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating Trump’s postmaster for slowing mail ahead of the election, from two Florida mail sorting facilities where employees say mail sits in bins. The congresswoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, wanted to inspe[...]

September 4th, 2020 - 4:24 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Russia

“Will Trump Exile In Russia?”

Today’s featured YouTube rant: Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]