Wildfires tore through eastern Washington, a heavily-Republican area, in the fall of 2020. Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, requested $37 million of FEMA disaster funds for those communities. Trump blocked it, because Inslee had criticized his handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Washington eventually got t[...]
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Trump in a nursing home (video)
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a frequent target of rightwing haters (because of his prominence on the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 insurrection), is running for re-election in California, and his campaign decided to poke fun at Trump with this ad. Sure, it’s a partisan spoof. Whet[...]
Will Hunter Biden be pardoned?
As the Biden administration winds down, many people will start wondering if the president’s son, convicted of multiple felonies, will escape prison time by being let off the hook. Not necessarily by who you think, though. Biden has publicly said he won’t pardon his son (see story here). [...]
October 23rd, 2024 - 6:44 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump wanted “the kind of generals Hitler had”
While president, Trump said, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had, people who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.” The Trump campaign denies it, but there were witnesses, Trump’s former chief of staff, People magazine reported (here). I believe the witnesses, not Trump a[...]
Who will be president if Trump wins?
It’s not a trick question. “Anyone who’s paying attention has noticed that Donald Trump isn’t doing so well. … He is sometimes unable to answer a basic question,” Salon says here. The implications are obvious: CNN‘s Leigh McGowan suggested the Trump campaign[...]
Trump kisses a woman not his wife (video)
The smooch comes at the end of the video. See story and photo here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
James Carville: “The Constitution is on the ballot”
James Carville, 80, Bill Clinton’s former campaign manager, and now an aging political pundit on the Democratic side of things, has been predicting Kamala Harris will win the 2024 election. Nobody knows; polls suggest it could go either way, and Carville admits he “could be wrong.”[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 8:04 pm § in America, Biden, Christianity, Democrats, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Racism, Republicans, Schools & Colleges
The tides of political change
Tides flow and ebb, and so does America’s political center. From 1980 to 2005, the progressive left “was mostly irrelevant to national politics,” a Vox article says (here). “The Cold War was over, and capitalism reigned ascendant.” The parties shifted — the GOP to[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 3:29 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Is Trump’s latest slander of the Central Park Five actionable?
Trump once wanted these five black men dead, even though the courts adjudged them innocent of the crime he still blames on them. The five men (pictured below), known as the Central Park Five, spent years in prison for a crime they officially didn’t commit. They’ve been fully exonerated, [...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Trump raised flag at Iwo Jima!
Trump has a vivid imagination (see story here), and so does the artist who painted the picture below. In real life, he’s a draft dodger who called World War 2 heroes “suckers and losers.” Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]