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June 14th, 2024 - 9:35 pm § in Hypocrisy, Republicans

GOP candidate’s abortion hypocrisy

Republicans claimed there was voting fraud, so I looked for voting fraud, and found it here (Colorado GOP chairman convicted of voting his ex-wife’s ballot), here (Republican lawyer urged Florida residents to vote in George election), here (3 Pennsylvania Trump supporters charged with voting f[...]

June 16th, 2023 - 7:10 pm § in Hypocrisy, News Media, Republicans

Fox talking head’s stunning flag hypocrisy

This is Pride Week, and the Biden White House is flying a Pride flag. When I read this, I knew Republicans would be triggered. Boy, ever! A Fox banshee shrieked (here), “It is a flagrant violation of U.S. Flag code 7 E, to have the US flag not at a higher point and centered”! Harry […][...]

October 5th, 2022 - 7:57 pm § in Hypocrisy, Politics, Republicans

Yawn, another GOP candidate is a lying hypocrite

This has become routine. I expect GOP candidates to be liars and hypocrites. (See, e.g., “pro-life” Herschel Walker, a GOP Senate candidate in Georgia, paying for his girlfriend’s abortion and lying about it.) Today I’m going to make an example of Mark Finchem, the QAnon-link[...]

September 13th, 2022 - 2:08 pm § in Biden, Business, China, Hypocrisy, Politics

If you’re gonna be a hypocrite, you might as well get rich from it

Republicans are notorious for hypocrisy, but Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) takes it to a higher level. Higher income level, that is. Johnson (photo, left) was owner and CEO of Pacur, a Wisconsin plastics manufacturer that made him a wealthy man. As the Guardian notes (here), Johnson is “a vocal crit[...]

August 5th, 2022 - 10:18 pm § in Hypocrisy, Law and Courts, Politics

Ron DeSantis’s hypocrisy

Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis (photo, left), who wants to be president, suspended Tampa’s twice-elected Democratic prosecutor on Thursday, August 4, 2022, “for pledging not to enforce the state’s new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender-affirming treatments for minorsR[...]

June 30th, 2022 - 3:47 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics

Biden’s hypocritical new stance on filibuster

Biden, who has opposed changing the Senate filibuster rule, is now calling for a “carveout” to pass federal abortion rights (see story here). But he still hasn’t endorsed carveouts for anything else, beyond the existing exceptions for spending bills and judicial nominees. Look, abo[...]

May 14th, 2022 - 2:36 pm § in Hypocrisy, Law and Courts, Politics

Clarence Thomas’s supreme hypocrisy

From Huffington Post, May 14, 2022 (see story here): “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas clutched his pearls on Friday as he regarded Americans so distraught over the prospect of losing human rights in their country that some showed up at justices’ Washington-area homes to address the peo[...]

April 30th, 2022 - 11:55 am § in Biden, Hypocrisy, Politics

Tucker Carlson’s incredible hypocrisy

He claims Biden will send “men with guns” if you say the wrong things. Read story here.     Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

March 21st, 2022 - 7:44 pm § in Hypocrisy, Politics

Hawley’s hypocrisy

Eric Greitens (photo, left; profile here), a former governor of Missouri who was forced to resign in disgrace, is trying for a comeback in the 2022 Missouri GOP Senate primary. It doesn’t help that he’s an accused wife-beater, too, and also allegedly smacked the kids around, too (read st[...]

March 9th, 2022 - 5:47 pm § in Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Politics, Russia

Trump’s Russian oil hypocrisy

“We should not be buying Russian energy,” Trump told a Conservative Political Action Conference audience last month. He added, “No president was ever as tough on Russia as I was.” (Cue laughter sound track.) This was “part of an extended effort to rewrite his Vladimir Putin-friendly p[...]