Nobody cares what Hitler’s followers’ grievances were, or whether they were legitimate; history only remembers his crimes, and that his supporters made them possible. Fast forward to January 2021, the day after Trump incited a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to foil his[...]
Archive for January, 2021
January 7th, 2021 - 11:30 pm § in America, Donald Trump
This is how history will remember Trump’s supporters
Compilation of Capitol Riot Stories
Collected from The-Ave.US front page: Feeble Defender: Rush Limbaugh Praises Mob, Compares Riot To Lexington And Concord — story here Casualty List: Capitol Police Officer Dies From Riot Injuries — story here Four Rioters Died; Shot, Trampled, Heart Attack, Stroke — story here W[...]
Should Congress sanction members who challenged electoral votes?
“Dozens of Republican lawmakers are facing harsh condemnation after going forward with challenging the Electoral College results,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Thursday, January 7, 2021 (read story here). “Throughout the certification process, which was delayed six[...]
Capitol rioter killed by police had a rap sheet; 3 other deaths reported
Ashli Babbitt, of Ocean Beach, California, was killed by Capitol police on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, while rioting at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Babbitt was a dodgy character with several arrests, a restraining order, and at least one civil suit, but no conviction of a serious c[...]
January 5th, 2021 - 11:08 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Sky begins raining consequences for Trump lawyers
Cleta Mitchell, who was on Trump’s infamous call to Georgia election officials, has parted company with her law firm (story here). Attorneys representing Detroit have “asked a federal judge to refer Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and the rest of Team Kraken for disbarment proceedings” (st[...]
“Corporate America should drop the GOP,” says business writer
Rick Newman of Yahoo Finance writes: “Imagine buying a stock, then learning the seller changed his mind and canceled the transaction, without consequence. “Imagine running a storefront with a landlord who raised the rent whenever he felt like it, regardless of what the lease stipulated. [...]
January 4th, 2021 - 5:34 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
GOP whiner about taping Trump’s criminal conduct says “I wasn’t raised that way”
David Perdue, who by the grace of Georgia’s voters hopefully will not be a U.S. senator after tomorrow, said he’s “disgusted” that a Georgia election official recorded President Trump committing a crime (election fraud, no less!), and says he “wasn’t raised that way.” (Read story here.[...]
Is Trump a criminal, stupid, or insane?
“As word spread Sunday of President Trump’s astonishing phone conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger the day before, there was widespread speculation that the president had committed one or more crimes in his effort to overturn the results of the election in Georgia,[...]
Chuck Todd shreds Ron Johnson (video)
This lizard represents Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate. Watch him get shot down. From NBC’s Meet the Press, January 3, 2021. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
January 3rd, 2021 - 6:50 pm § in Misc.
Copyrights expire on Fitzgerald, Hemingway works
Literary works are protected by U.S. copyright laws for up to 95 years, which means anything written before 1926 is in the public domain. Well-known works entering the public domain on January 1, 2021, include F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, and so[...]