From Raw Story (read article here): “Here’s what appears to have happened, and we’re going to bullet point this so it’s easy to follow. The ballots were discarded by a temporary, or ‘contract’ worker assigned to sort the mail who appears to have been following direction. The [...]
Archive for September, 2020
September 26th, 2020 - 6:06 pm § in Misc.
Own goal: A GOP lawsuit invalidated those 9 Pennsylvania military ballots
Proud Boys Portland rally fizzles in the rain
A Proud Boys rally held in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, September 26, 2020, attracted “numbers far below what they’d projected, and then began to disperse after less than two hours,” Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) reported (here). The group expected 20,000 but only 200 showed u[...]
The most admired man isn’t Trump
YouGov, a British market research and data analytics company, conducts annual polls to find out who people around the world admire the most, and that person is not Donald Trump. What a shock. Actually, not. In fact, even Putin ranks higher than he does. In the male category, the top dog, in the #1 [...]
September 26th, 2020 - 12:41 pm § in Law and Courts
Amy Comey Barrett is too radical for the Supreme Court
She believes: Guns: Not letting convicted felons have guns is unconstitutional. Immigrants: Making green card holders ineligible for permanent status if they apply for any type of public assistance is “reasonable.” She wrote: Abortion: A dissent objecting to a previous decision on an i[...]
Law and order comes to Portland
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is sending state troopers to Portland and creating a unified command structure among the various state and local law enforcement agencies who will be policing a Proud Boys demonstration on Saturday, September 26, 2020, at which thousands of armed rightwing vigilantes may show [...]
September 26th, 2020 - 2:15 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Is Trump backing down on peaceful transition?
Hard to say. The Daily Mail, a rightwing U.K.-based tabloid, says, “The president was forced to affirm there would be a peaceful transition of power if Joe Biden wins in November after refusing to answer a direct question on the matter earlier this week during a White House press conference[...]
September 26th, 2020 - 2:12 am § in Racism
Gun collection
This is what police took from white supremacist Christopher Straub, who wounded a deputy before being killed in a shootout in Templeton, California, on Thursday, September 24, 2020. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
September 25th, 2020 - 8:21 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Those 9 ballots in Pennsylvania explained
Evidence of election workers discarding Trump votes? Nope. From a comment on HorsesAss.org: “Friday, 9/25/20 at 4:38 pm “Cliff’s 1: They were not “tossed”. “Cliffs Notes 2: Way back during their primary PA elections discovered that the return envelopes for overseas ballot[...]
September 25th, 2020 - 7:53 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Wall Street isn’t investing in Trump
This article is news with liberal commentary. Wall Street isn’t particularly fond of Biden, even less so his policy proposals, which include higher corporate taxes, “Yet professionals on Wall Street are shunning Trump and funneling staggering amounts of money to his opponent,” CNN [...]
September 25th, 2020 - 7:20 pm § in Misc.
Judge fires Trump’s Bureau of Land Management arsonist
This article contains news and liberal commentary. William Pendley, Trump’s acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, is so anti-environment the Montana Wilderness Association described as “an arsonist in charge of a fire department” (read it here). Trump never submitted Pe[...]