To hear GOP candidates for secretary of state talk about elections, voters have nothing to do with them. Jim Marchant, the GOP candidate in Nevada, promised a Trump rally this weekend that if he’s elected, Trump will get Nevada’s electoral votes in 2024. It’s not that simple, of co[...]
Archive for October, 2022
October 9th, 2022 - 9:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Voters, not secretaries of state, elect presidents; but GOP candidates want to change that
October 9th, 2022 - 9:12 pm § in Russia
Putin’s faux outrage
“Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday called the attack that damaged the huge bridge connecting Russia to its annexed territory of Crimea ‘a terrorist act’ masterminded by Ukrainian special services,” Huffington Post reported on October 9, 2022 (read story here). Terror[...]
Who would you vote for?
The kind, friendly pastor? Or the football player who suffered so many concussions he can’t remember how many children he has? For Republican voters, this is easy: The guy with the “R” after his name. It’s about power, not character. Their candidate in this race has none. He&[...]
Should the U.S. divorce Saudi oil?
Democrats are mad as hell, and don’t want to take it anymore. The problem is Saudi Arabia is under new management. King Salman is still alive, but he’s 87, and is comfortably retired. His son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 37, runs the country. And probably will for a long, long time[...]
October 8th, 2022 - 12:00 am § in Politics, Republicans
Could Boebert lose her seat?
She’s already lost her restaurant (see story here). Now a new poll shows her seat in Congress may be in jeopardy, too. A month from the election, Raw Story trumpets (here) that she’s “dangerously close to being upset by a little-known Democratic rival, as a new poll from Keating Re[...]
October 7th, 2022 - 8:11 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Consequences
“A right-wing organization that calls the perpetrators of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol ‘political prisoners’ is trying to find jobs for the insurrectionists,” Raw Story reported (here) on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. “So far, around 870 people have been arrested[...]
October 7th, 2022 - 7:38 pm § in Politics, Republicans
What if they held a MAGA rally and no one came?
They’d have to find someone to blame, of course. Two weeks ago, MAGA organizers held a rally at the U.S. Capitol grounds to show support for Jan. 6 rioters, but only a few dozen people showed up. They were characters like the Proud Boy who said he can’t see treating people like “vi[...]
Racist threatens Amazon driver
A Jersey Shore man followed an Amazon delivery truck into a cul-de-sac, blocked it with his car, then approached the driver and asked him “why he was in his neighborhood.” Um, delivering packages? Doing his job? Feeding his family? “His” neighborhood? John Vincentini, 62, the[...]
October 6th, 2022 - 11:55 pm § in Donald Trump
Why Trump can’t say his dog did it
After speculating on Anderson Cooper’s show (in video below) that Trump might be indicted, retired Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe said Trump is digging himself in deeper when he says, “I want my documents back,” then “brags about having taken them himself,” then &[...]
Boebert allegations resurface
By any measure, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is a buffoon. But is she a former prostitute who had two abortions? Back in June 2022, I introduced her to this blog’s readers as a showboater who “rode her fame as a pistol-packing restaurant owner in Rifle, Colorado, to Congress, where her sp[...]