One of the emerging themes of the 2022 elections is that the GOP is still Trump’s party, as shown by the many primary victories of candidates he endorsed. Two of those candidates are Kari Lake, running for Arizona governor, and Blake Masters, running for John McCain’s Arizona Senate seat[...]
Archive for August, 2022
August 19th, 2022 - 6:44 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Don’t expect a draft dodger to know what a soldier’s oath means
Everyone serving in the U.S. military swears an oath as follows. Enlisted men: “I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and th[...]
August 19th, 2022 - 2:26 pm § in Politics
Why you look at images before posting them
A Republican group in Alabama is “super sorry” they copied a GOP elephant logo from the internet and posted it on their Facebook page without looking at it first. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
August 19th, 2022 - 2:10 pm § in Politics
You can’t judge a candidate by his Bible quotes
Joshua Schopp (photo, left), 20, is a Republican school board candidate in Central, Louisiana, a Baton Rouge suburb. Living in Washington state, I don’t see much logic in electing 20-year-olds to school boards, but maybe in Louisiana they already have kids in school by then. In any case, Schop[...]
Kayleigh McEnany says something intelligent, but still has blind spots
The first time I saw Kayleigh McEnany on TV, she impressed me as a twit, and my opinion of her hasn’t changed much. She currently works as a Fox News propagandist, which is an appropriate placement for her. She doesn’t belong in respectable journalism. Even though I pronounce her name &#[...]
August 18th, 2022 - 11:36 pm § in Donald Trump
Is it “politics” for a psychiatrist to call a politician dangerous?
Prof. Bandy X. Lee, M.D., is a brilliant Yale-educated psychiatrist who wrote a “comprehensive textbook on violence.” According to Wikipedia, Dr. Lee (photo, left) “studied the anthropology of violence in East Africa as a fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health and co-aut[...]
August 18th, 2022 - 6:43 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
If you feel today’s GOP is dangerous, you’re not alone
It’s obvious the Republican Party has become dangerous; and saying so isn’t inflated partisan rhetoric, it’s merely recognizing what’s plain to see. The party is led by an unscrupulous demagogue who lies and incites violence; its lesser elected officials endorse his lies, and[...]
August 18th, 2022 - 5:54 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Battlefield report: How’s the war against robocallers going?
Robocalls are hard to stop, for a variety of reasons. There are many operators, some overseas beyond reach of America’s law enforcement; they’re nimble at going around or keeping ahead of technological and other obstacles thrown in their way; and the phone industry is highly fragmented, [...]
Florida voting police nab 20 vote thieves!
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’s new “Office of Election Crimes and Security” has identified 20 cases of suspected voting fraud since going into business on July 1, The Hill reported on Wednesday, August 18, 2022 (read story here). All of the cases are from Palm Beach, Broward, and [...]
Book banners step on rake
Across the country, Republicans are banning books from public schools. It’s no different in Keller, Texas, where Christian nationalists recently won control of the school board. Ignoring previous work by a district committee, they concocted a policy that any resident of the school district or [...]