Nancy Pelosi, 82, intends to run for reelection, and will keep her position as House Speaker “at least” through the midterm elections and perhaps beyond, CNN reported on Sunday, December 12, 2021 (read story here). Pelosi has been effective at unifying her squabbling cauc[...]
Archive for December, 2021
What happens when Democrats behave like Republicans
California’s Democratic governor has “directed his staff to collaborate with the legislature and attorney general to draft a bill” to offer cash bounties to citizen legal vigilantes who sue “anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or part[...]
U. of Florida was pressured to destroy Covid-19 data
GOP “reopen” governor’s reign of fear: Faculty Senate report slams political interference; MIAMI HERALD says “fear of upsetting state officials is pervasive among faculty” Download Faculty Senate report here Read Miami Herald story here – Florida Gov. Ron D[...]
Can someone explain anti-vaxxers?
Nick Rolovich gave up a $3 million-a-year coaching job in order to remain unvaccinated. By then, he was the only major college football coach who wasn’t vaccinated. Sure, he’s suing the college and may eventually get a settlement, but at best that’s a gamble (see article here), and[...]
GOP senators were briefed on Jan. 4 about plans to overturn election
The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has learned that GOP senators were briefed 2 days earlier on White House plans to overturn the election by declaring a national emergency, the Guardian reported on Saturday, December 11, 2021 (story here). That information is in a PowerPoi[...]
Where is this deathly ill GOP state senator?
Washington state senator Doug Erickson is MIA. Erickson was last reported to have been medevacked from El Salvador to Florida for Covid-19 treatment. That was three weeks ago. Not a word about him since. At the time, he was seeking Regeneron, a last-ditch drug therapy used to save critically ill Cov[...]
December 11th, 2021 - 1:27 am § in Misc.
Kiss off, Bibi!
When Netanyahu congratulated Biden, Trump snarled “f*** you!” IF YOU DON’T SAY THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN, YOU’RE PERSONA NON GRATA IN TRUMP WORLD. Story here. Quote of the Day “Trump is working to make a belief that the 2020 election was stolen a central piece of the Republican Party platfor[...]
December 10th, 2021 - 9:05 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Did Trump’s pal Kanye West try to extort a false confession from an innocent election worker?
Trump is not a graceful loser. Lose he did. Voters in states with a majority of electoral votes decided a single term was enough. Since then, Trump and his allies have falsely claimed the election was stolen and peddled absurd conspiracy theories. In their relentless hunt for scapegoats and bogeymen[...]
Brian Williams signs off from MSNBC (video)
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Christmas Karens (video)
Jimmy Kimmel’s adaptation of Christmas carols to the times we live in. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]