He’s only 17 years old, but is an in-your-face kind of teenager. He wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the American flag and Trump raising a middle finger (it might’ve looked something like this). He’d gone to a Harris rally with friends to heckle and antagonize Harris supporters. He w[...]
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How Trump will gut Social Security and Medicare
Republicans have always hated Social Security and Medicare (go here for the history of that). President George W. Bush tried to privatize Social Security, but the more he campaigned for his “reform,” the less public support it had. Other Republican efforts to undermine these popular prog[...]
Their grievances aren’t your problem
Whatever Republicans were in the past, MAGA isn’t about individual freedom, or live and let live. Frank Bruni (photo, left; profile here) is a journalist, book author, and professor. In his latest book, The Age of Grievance, published in April 2024 (get it here), he describes (at pages 17-18) [...]
November 3rd, 2024 - 1:15 am § in Donald Trump
What if Trump keeps his promises?
Some people planning to vote for Trump rationalize by saying, “Oh, he says a lot of things.” But what if he actually does them? Can we trust him not to? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
November 3rd, 2024 - 12:55 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Video: This isn’t what “free and fair” elections look like
This isn’t exactly a campaign ad. It’s a police officer injured defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2024, speaking about that assault on our democracy. It’s a reminder of what electing someone who craves power, and doesn’t respect limits on power, could mean for our country. Ret[...]
What, exactly, is “disqualifying”?
Trump doesn’t like Liz Cheney, or her campaigning for Kamala Harris. A few days before the 2024 election he told an Arizona rally, “She’s a radical war hawk — let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? And let’s see how she feels about it, you kn[...]
Harris is saying all the right things
Kamala Harris’s 2020 campaign fell flat, and political observers criticized her campaigning as inept. She apparently learned from her mistakes, because four years later she’s grown as a campaigner. She ate Trump’s lunch in their debate, she’s campaigned on issues that resonat[...]
October 29th, 2024 - 7:43 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Can “Trump Media” traders do math?
“There are lies, damned lies, and statistics,” the bromide goes. But statistics don’t have to be manipulated to mislead you; all you have to do is misinterpret them. So it is with Trump Media stock, ticker symbol DJT, which has exploded upwards a week before the 2024 election as (a[...]
October 29th, 2024 - 12:21 am § in Donald Trump
We’re entitled to take Trump literally (video nsfw)
(Video not safe for work, due to language) By the way, the Republicans “interpreting” Trump’s words, i.e. telling you he doesn’t really mean what he says, don’t know what’s actually in his mind, and can’t control what he does. Plus, Trump has no sense of hum[...]