J. D. Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, is asserting he has a right to “tell stories” about Haitian immigrants. He’s carrying out his party’s campaign strategy, which is what veep candidates typically do. Republicans have made immigrant-bashing a centerpiece of their 20[...]
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Will Stephen Miller be America’s Heydrich?
Stephen Miller (bio here), an immigration hardliner, likely would become immigration czar in a second Trump administration. Trump has promised “the largest mass deportation campaign in US history,” Mother Jones says (read article here); and last weekend, in a Truth Social post (view it [...]
I don’t care that Republicans don’t trust our elections
“A fed-up CNN anchor Anderson Cooper cut off” ex-Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) for defending Trump’s assertion that a fifth of Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots were “fraudulent” in 2020. This is a fable. Mail-in ballots are verified just like polling place ballots. The[...]
Fox host suggests generals would rape Harris in Situation Room
Fox host Jesse Watters “faced calls to resign after stating Harris would be ‘paralyzed’ by generals who ‘would have their way’ with her in the White House Situation Room,” Daily Mail reported on Tuesday, August 28, 2024 (read story here). You can hear Watters, wh[...]
News too dumb to print
The Daily Mail, a U.K.-based tabloid, has been bashing the FBI over the Trump assassination attempt. You may recall that Trump held a rally in an open field, a short-staffed Secret Service detail partnered with local cops to provide protection, and errors by law enforcement allowed the shooter to fi[...]
August 27th, 2024 - 12:46 am § in News Media, Politics
Tomi Lahren is hopeless in debate
Tim Miller is a Republican operative who’s worked for Jon Huntsman, Jeb Bush, and John McCain among others. Like Tomi Lahren, he has a bachelor’s degree in communications (see his bio here); but he’s been around politics longer, and is more experienced, than her. However, that alon[...]
2024’s worst candidate
This isn’t an easy call to make, because there’s so many to choose from, but I’m going with Michele Morrow (photo, left; profile here), who won an upset primary victory in North Carolina’s Superintendent of Public Instruction race. That state’s GOP candidate for governo[...]
Tomi Lahren hasn’t improved over time
Tomi Lahren (photo, left) obtained a journalism degree, then sought work in political commentary, but she’s neither a journalist nor a political commentator. She’s a pretty face with helium between her ears who, these days, gets paid big bucks by Fox to parrot Republican talking points o[...]
Fact-checking the fact-checker
Usually we turn to fact-checkers to help us decide whether we can trust politicians. But sometimes the fact-checker comes under fire. This example, cited by MSNBC here, comes from PolitiFact. The Democrats played a 2016 video clip of Trump saying “there has to be some form of punishment for wo[...]
A brief history of free speech in America
Free speech as we know it occurred late in American history, is fragile, and could go away. For most of American history, unpopular political views could (and did) get dissidents, organizers, publishers, and even artists thrown in prison. The notion of a “free trade in ideas,” which spra[...]