While touring Hurricane Helene-ravaged areas of Georgia on Monday, Trump “repeatedly spread falsehoods … about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster,” the Associated Press reported on September 30, 2024 (read story here). Of c[...]
Archive for September, 2024
September 30th, 2024 - 4:16 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Trump unveils his crime policy
Let cops beat up suspects (read story here). “Donald Trump on Sunday used a speech in key swing state Pennsylvania to urge a ‘violent’ police crackdown on crime …. Recounting isolated — but widely publicized — incidents of thieves staging brazen daylight robberies[...]
September 29th, 2024 - 5:50 pm § in Misc.
Get ready to light 100 candles for Jimmy Carter
When the 39th president turns 100 on Tuesday, now just two days away, his birthday cake will look like a chandelier in a 5-star hotel or a 5-alarm fire. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
September 29th, 2024 - 2:01 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Should there be a minimum emotional age for presidents?
The Constitution prescribes a minimum physical age, and Republicans seem to want a maximum age, so why not an emotional age citeria, too? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
J. D. Vance’s jaw-dropping speaking engagement
“J. D. Vance will speak at an event on Saturday hosted by the self-styled prophet and political extremist Lance Wallnau, who has claimed Kamala Harris practices witchcraft and has written that the US is headed toward bloody internal conflict,” the Guardian reported on Friday, September 27, 2024[...]
Attacking the messenger
The postal carrier was only delivering the mail. So why did Russell Frank Valleau (photo, left), 61, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, chase her with a knife? Because his mail that day included a Kamala Harris flyer. After yelling “derogatory, racist and sexual remarks,” he lunged toward h[...]
September 27th, 2024 - 8:08 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Bachelor GOP candidate borrows friend’s family for campaign photos
Eugene Vindman, who’s running for Congress in Virginia, has an interesting opponent. Derrick Anderson doesn’t have children, and Republicans think that’s weird, so he borrows a friends’ wife and children for photo ops (see, e.g., photo below). He doesn’t lie by saying they&[...]
Why political lies matter
You can’t solve our country’s problems if you don’t have rational policies. Here are two CNN headlines and stories posted on Friday, September 27, 2024 (here), as the 2024 campaign enters a climactic phase: Trump campaign highlights stories of those killed by undocumented immigrant[...]
September 27th, 2024 - 2:11 pm § in Misc.
Republicans grow more extreme on abortion
Despite signs their extreme stances on abortion spell election disaster for them, many Republicans are doubling down. In Texas, a GOP state legislator in a tight re-election race says if his daughter was raped, and wanted an abortion, “I would say no, we’re going to have the baby.” Rea[...]
When partisanship goes too far
When he became president, Obama retained Robert Gates as defense secretary. He was originally appointed by George W. Bush. “Because Gates had already been confirmed,” NBC News say, “he didn’t need to win Senate approval.” Years later, Gates revealed that “he was r[...]