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October 8th, 2024 - 12:53 am § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Politics

Trump sees Democrats in the mirror

When Trump looks into a mirror, he often sees Democrats. Four weeks before the 2024 election, he’s gone on a lying binge. His lies aren’t a bit creative; they’re his own biography. After one devastating hurricane, with another on the way, he’s falsely claiming Biden is divert[...]

October 7th, 2024 - 5:55 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Politics, Racism, Republicans

Is Tim Walz a liar?

J. D. Vance (image at left), Trump’s 2024 running mate, is a prodigious liar. The most egregious of Vance’s lies is “telling stories” about Haitian immigrants that are untrue, racist, and caused bomb threats and school closures. But Vance also drastically flip-flopped on Trum[...]

October 6th, 2024 - 4:49 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

GOP blowhard absurdly blames Democrats for political violence

It’s a talking point in a campaign season, and an empty one. Most of the political violence is coming from Republicans: The Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, threats against judges and election workers, talk of “civil war,” and the attempts to assassinate Trump. (Both would-be assassins[...]

October 6th, 2024 - 2:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

What’s behind Melania Trump’s support for abortion?

It “could have the effect of softening her husband’s image on abortion, something [he’s] sought to do as the issue has emerged as a potential game changer in the presidential race.” Therefore, reasonable people can be skeptical of her sincerity and see it as a gambit to help her [...]

October 5th, 2024 - 1:52 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Racism, Republicans

GOP rep is criticized for spreading lies about FEMA relief funds

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) has a track record as a conspiracy theorist. Now, she’s falsely asserting that FEMA relief funds were “redirected” to illegal immigrants (read story here). Rep. Cammack (photo, left) is an election denier who voted against certifying Biden’s 2020 elect[...]

October 4th, 2024 - 10:13 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Trump rally crowd boos soldier over base name

Disrespecting our military personnel and veterans has been a Trump hallmark. That hasn’t changed and isn’t going to. At a townhall-style campaign event in North Carolina on Friday, October 4, 2024, Trump “chuckled” as his crowd booed an active-duty soldier. The soldier’[...]

October 4th, 2024 - 12:15 am § in Donald Trump, Politics, Racism, Republicans

Arrest made in Springfield, Ohio, goose killing

Well, if they weren’t eating pet dogs and cats, then they’re killing ducks and geese. That was the charge leveled by Republicans against Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian immigrants, who are in the U.S. legally on work visas. A cat did go missing. It turned up alive in its owner’s [...]

October 3rd, 2024 - 11:31 pm § in America, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

What’s wrong with Republican voters?

Trump’s attempts “to unravel American democracy” might not prevent his return to power. That’s because “while he horrifies many Americans, his conduct after the last election is not seen as disqualifying by millions of others,” CNN says (read article here). The articl[...]

October 2nd, 2024 - 8:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

The short unhappy life and tragic death of Dr. Tammy Towers Parry

Tammy Towers Parry, M.D., 57, was a graduate of the University of Washington Medical School. A comment on HorsesAss.org on October 2, 2024, summarizes her life and death as follows: “Following her job loss she burned through all her savings buying TRUMP cowboy hats, gold hightop sneakers, and [...]

October 1st, 2024 - 4:19 am § in Donald Trump, Health, Politics, Republicans

Why Vance is an enemy of people with pre-existing health conditions

With Obamacare, you know what you’re getting. Trump plans to replace it with an ill-defined “concept.” Prior to Obamacare, the attitude of Republicans was that health care was a luxury of the well-off; tens of millions of Americans couldn’t afford, or couldn’t get, heal[...]