Remember 2019, when Trump was impeached for extorting Ukraine, and virtually every Republican defended him? Or that Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort (photo, left; profile here), now a disbarred lawyer and pardoned felon, was on the payroll of Putin’s Ukrainian frontman? (If you do[...]
Archive for the ‘Hypocrisy’ Category
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, war profiteer
Sure is, and she would know. On Feb. 22, the day before this tweet, she bought Lockheed Martin stock (story here), which is up roughly $65 a share since then. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
It looks like Trump’s chief of staff committed voting fraud
Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, voted by absentee ballot in the 2020 election. This is where he was registered to vote. He and his wife have never owned it. She rented it — apparently several years earlier — but the owner at the time says she stayed only one or two nights and[...]
Red states are eroding civil liberties
Republicans say they’re for “freedom.” They’re not, except for gun owners and people behaving badly. “States where the GOP controls both the governorship and state legislature are moving in unprecedented numbers to restrict abortion, limit access to voting, ban [...]
Spending taxes in the abortion fight is a one-way street
Abortion opponents are adamant they don’t want their taxes helping to pay for abortions. That’s behind the Hyde Amendment (details here), which prohibits using federal funds to pay for most abortions (some states, including Washington, allow abortions to be paid for by Medicaid from the [...]
Don’t hold your breath for him to be president someday
The Los Angeles Rams won a berth in Super Bowl LVI on Sunday, January 30, 2022. (The game will be played in California on Sunday, February 13, 2022.) Standing around after their playoff victory, chewing the fat and mugging for cameras, were Gov. Gavin Newsom, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, San Francisco [...]
Silly tweet
Rep. Jim Banks (bio here), a Republican from Indiana, tweeted: Since you asked, uh, yeah … This is all too typical of the blinders Republicans wear to Trump’s bad behavior. They’re not electable until they stop fawning over Trump and kissing his butt (but foolish people will elect [...]
What’s next, funerals for fingernail clippings?
“It brings me no joy to sue one of our own cities,” Delaware’s attorney general said when she took legal action today against the city council of Seaford, a town of fewer than 8,000 people, for enacting an ordinance that requires “anyone who has an abortion or experiences a miscarria[...]
The dumbest anti-vax argument
A federal judge shot down Oklahoma GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt’s attempt to enjoin the Pentagon from imposing its vaccine mandate on his state’s National Guard troops. The judge ruled the Defense Department’s vaccination protocols “must and do” apply not just to active duty pe[...]
Forcing kids to be born into poverty
The worst states for children are those with the most restrictive abortion laws, CNN says (story here). Most of the 21 states with anti-abortion laws waiting for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade “fall into the bottom half of state rankings on a wide array of measures tracking the well[...]