Little noticed, amid the election brouhaha, is that something extraordinary is happening in baseball this season. The hapless (and helpless) Chicago White Sox are on track to become the most losing team in Major League Baseball history, bar none. The standings speak for themselves. As of July 31, 20[...]
Archive for July, 2024
You are what you eat
Trump is taking heat for this remark to black journalists: “I have known her a long time, indirectly, not directly very much. And she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I did not know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn B[...]
Is this now Harris’s race to lose?
I don’t like predicting elections, and won’t try, because elections are unpredictable. So I won’t answer that question. Making news is a Bloomberg poll released Tuesday, July 30, 2024, showing Harris has pulled ahead of Trump in all seven battleground states (see story here). But p[...]
July 31st, 2024 - 2:09 am § in Politics, Republicans
Vance fails to explain how he’ll solve the migrant and drug problems
J. D. Vance hopes to be vice president in a second Trump administration. In an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 (details here), he said he wants a role in solving the border and drug crises. How does he plan to solve them? On the border, he said “I’d basically do the [&helli[...]
Trump refuses to clarify voting remark
Here’s what Trump told a Christian group on Friday, July 26, 2024, during an hour-long campaign speech: “We have to win this election, most important election ever. We want a landslide that’s too big to rig. If you want to save America, get your friends, get your family, get everyone y[...]
Vance’s “war against women”
“CHILDLESS CAT LADIES” REMARK WASN’T AN ISOLATED INCIDENT J. D. Vance’s hostility to childless couples and single adults is deeply embedded in his psychology. He has called them “deranged,” “mentally unstable,” “driftless,” and “sociopaths.” Confronted about his remarks, he f[...]
July 30th, 2024 - 10:20 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Fox host says voting for a woman “transitions” men into women
That’s the strangest explanation of transgender biology I’ve ever heard, but Jesse Watters actually said that to his Fox audience. Here’s the video to prove it: Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Texas constable tried to send school librarians to prison for having LGBQT books
Scott London (photo, left) is a small-town constable in Texas with deep ties to extremist politics. London is involved with the “constitutional sheriffs” movement, which falsely argues county sheriffs can “nullify federal laws,” and Oathkeepers, a rightwing militia that playe[...]
Will Republicans force you to have children?
This question should be laughable, but it’s no joke. If the Trump/Vance ticket is elected this November, it’s possible J. D. Vance could become president, either by succession or as Trump’s likely successor. And by now it’s out in the open that Trump’s running mate has [...]