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Archive for May, 2024
Compare Biden and Trump Memorial Day speeches
A transcript of Biden’s speech at Arlington National Cemetery isn’t available yet, but Reuters reported (here) that he spoke of the sacrifices of America’s fallen military personnel. Next week he’ll travel to Normandy, where he’s “expected to give a major speech a[...]
Rightwing politics and facts don’t mix well
Oil and water don’t mix. Neither do foxes and chickens. Or rightwing politics and facts. Lying is so endemic on the political right that you take it for granted what rightwingers say won’t pass a fact-check or truth-check. Trump’s lies are legion; Washington Post “fact-checke[...]
How secession could work
GOP firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene says, “We need a national divorce,” and while her idea of splitting up red and blue states won’t work, it’s not worth another civil war to keep Republicans in the Union. The divorce part is easy; we’re already divorced. Republicans a[...]
May 27th, 2024 - 3:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Few takers for “Ashli Babbitt Hero March”
The annual “Ashli Babbitt Freedom March,” first held in 2023, is a new Memorial Day tradition in the nation’s capital. Last year the turnout was about a dozen people, judging from counting the noses in the video here. It’s not easy to find out how many people turned out today[...]
May 27th, 2024 - 4:30 am § in Donald Trump
Some idiot posted on “X” (Twitter) …
… this. To wit, “The family that gave up everything to save America. [flag emoji] Thank you!” (See story here) They’re not exactly the Sullivan brothers. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 27th, 2024 - 1:44 am § in Misc.
Cop guns down deaf and blind dog
His name was Teddy, a Shih Tzu, deaf and blind. He escaped his kennel, and a neighbor who saw him wandering called the police because the small Missouri town doesn’t have an animal control officer. The cop spent all of three minutes trying to lasso Teddy with one of those poles that animal con[...]
May 26th, 2024 - 6:34 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump
Thank you for your service, sergeant
This Memorial Day, let us take time to honor the fallen and all who served. Thank you, Sgt. Nicholas Ranstad, for your service, including a combat tour in Afghanistan. As a disabled veteran, he had so many problems with V.A. health care, he now chooses private health care over free V.A. health care.[...]
How to sink your own ship
First you point out that you did write a letter to the Transportation Secretary requesting funding for a bridge in your district (page 1 here, page 2 here). Then you remind everybody you voted against the bill containing that funding (more details here). And then you’re an ingrate. Retu[...]
May 26th, 2024 - 4:25 pm § in Law and Courts
Be careful how you lie
Negative stereotyping is as old as humanity. It probably went on in paleolithic caves. We have a caveman demographic in our society today, too, and it’s as busy as ever fabricating lies about tribes living a spear’s throw away. For example, lies about drag performers. They can say pretty[...]