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November 18th, 2020 - 6:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

73% of Republicans think Trump was cheated of victory

A poll conducted for Vox magazine on November 16, 2020, shows that nearly three-quarters of all Republican voters think Biden owes his election victory to voting fraud (read story here). How else to explain Trump’s loss? Well, maybe 79.3 million of us couldn’t bring ourselves to vote for[...]

November 18th, 2020 - 5:59 pm § in Misc.

An owl of a story

A worker found a tiny owl (left) nestled in the branches of a 75-foot Norway spruce that was cut down and hauled 170 miles to the Rockefeller Center Plaza to be a Christmas tree (below), NBC News reported on Wednesday, November 18, 2020. The hungry and thirsty owl, dubbed “Rockefeller,” [...]

November 18th, 2020 - 5:21 pm § in Donald Trump, Hypocrisy, Law and Courts

Jenna Ellis is America’s most subversive lawyer

What Jenna Ellis, Trump’s senior legal adviser and mastermind of efforts to overturn his election loss, said about him a few years ago: “idiot” “boorish and arrogant” “bully” “disgusting” “not a real Christian” “not American” “American fascist” “cannot be trusted�[...]

November 18th, 2020 - 12:24 pm § in Health, Politics

America’s FreeDUMBest states

… are, hands down, the Dakotas — America’s most intransigent mask and social distancing holdouts. (Source of charts here; mask mandate map here.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

November 18th, 2020 - 12:00 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

Trump can’t do arithmetic

What Trump tweeted: “In Detroit, there are FAR MORE VOTES THAN PEOPLE. Nothing can be done to cure that giant scam. I win Michigan! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020″ The data (here): Number of registered voters in Detroit: 504,714 Number of votes cast in Detroit:[...]

November 18th, 2020 - 12:58 am § in Health

Why every state should mandate masks

Read article here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

November 18th, 2020 - 12:50 am § in Donald Trump, Economics, Politics

Trump’s parting gift to the economy

… is an attempt to appoint a crank to the Federal Reserve Board — which, thankfully, seems doomed to fail, thanks to 3 GOP senators with the guts to defy him and vote “no.” A Vox article (here) goes into some detail about why Judy Shelton (photo; read bio here) should not be [...]