“A Republican congresswoman who supports QAnon had her account locked by Twitter this week after she live-tweeted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s location during last week’s deadly Capitol Hill insurrection,” Crooks and Liars reported on Thursday, January 14, 2021 . “Rep. [...]
Archive for January, 2021
Support your local police?
From CNN, Thursday, January 14, 2021: “As DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone lay on the ground at the US Capitol building, stunned and injured, he knew a group of rioters were stripping him of his gear. They grabbed spare ammunition, ripped the police radio off his chest a[...]
Death of Capitol rioter busted up a threesome
The MAGA terrorist shot dead by Capitol Police last Wednesday and her husband were members of a “throuple,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail claims. I’m posting this story in keeping with The-Ave.US‘s new editorial ambition of seeking to acquire a reputation as a trashy supe[...]
January 14th, 2021 - 4:33 pm § in Politics
How Trump changed the GOP, in pictures
Republicans used to look like this: Now they look like this: The way things are going, we’ll all be Democrats. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Trumper claims he beat cop because “I thought he was Antifa”
Peter Francis Stager of Arkansas faces criminal charges “for allegedly beating a Metropolitan Police officer who was guarding an entrance of the U.S. Capitol,” the Daily Beast reported on Thursday, January 14, 2021. Read story here. “Prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that [...]
January 14th, 2021 - 1:31 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Data show police 3X as likely to use force on “leftist” protesters
Just about everyone suspects there’s a strong rightwing bias in U.S. policing, manifesting itself in police violence against peaceful demonstrators against racism and police brutality, with coddling of violent rightwing extremists. Now, hard data bears that out. “In the past 10 months, U[...]
January 14th, 2021 - 12:46 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Rioter who threw fire extinguisher is caught, but he’s not the cop killer
The FBI has arrested a man seen in widely-circulated video (below) hurling a fire extinguisher at a group of Capitol Police officers during the Capitol insurrection, but authorities ruled him out as a suspect in the death of a Capitol Police officer beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. Differen[...]
Wishlist for new administration and Congress
This is, of course, an incomplete list (in no particular order) and represents what immediately comes to my mind. Rejoin the Paris Climate Accords. Reinstate the Iran nuclear agreement; it’s not a panacea, but it’s better than nothing. Repair and strengthen relationships with our longsta[...]
January 13th, 2021 - 5:11 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Some (bad) arguments for not impeaching Trump
The following is extracted from an op-ed titled “Impeachment is not the answer” by newly-elected Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI, photo left, bio here) published in The Hill (here) on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, about an hour after the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Trump for[...]
January 13th, 2021 - 2:36 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Mentally ill female killer executed
Convicted killer Lisa Montgomery, 52, lost her spirited battle to survive the Trump administration. She was executed Wednesday morning, January 13, 2021, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to reinstate a lower court’s stay of execution that had been overturned by a federal appeals court. Rea[...]