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December 23rd, 2024 - 5:22 pm § in Donald Trump, News Media, Politics

The White House isn’t their house

“Far-right commentator and ally of Donald Trump, Hugh Hewitt, is telling the incoming administration that they should bar all media from the White House except Fox News,” Raw Story reported on Monday, December 23, 2024 (read story here). Hewitt (photo, left) says Peter Doocy, FoxR[...]

December 22nd, 2024 - 5:05 pm § in Democrats, Politics, Republicans

Joe Manchin unfairly criticizes the Democratic Party

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (photo, left), 77, who didn’t run for re-election in 2024 and would’ve lost if he did, torched the Democratic Party in a CNN interview on Sunday, December 22, 2024 (read story here). Manchin, who spent his career as a Democrat, re-registered as an independe[...]

December 21st, 2024 - 11:09 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Lara Trump won’t be a senator

Marco Rubio (R-FL; photo, left) is leaving the U.S. senate to become Trump 2.0’s secretary of state. I don’t want to dwell too much on Rubio, because this posting is about Lara Trump, but that doesn’t strike me as a great career move. At age 51, Rubio is young enough to run for pre[...]

December 19th, 2024 - 10:40 pm § in Politics, Republicans

Elon Musk won’t be House speaker (video)

That’s Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s idea (see story here). Won’t happen, folks. Why would Musk want the job? He has companies to run. And he doesn’t have the patience for it; he’s used to giving orders, and that’s not what a speaker does; as this article says, &#[...]

December 19th, 2024 - 1:24 pm § in America, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Can Musk be president and speaker at the same time?

The U.S. is heading toward one-man rule, but not by who you assume. It’s becoming clear the White House will be a “Weekend at Bernie’s” affair, whereby staffers prop up a physically and mentally defunct Trump, but Elon Musk wields power behind on the throne. Musk isn’t [...]

December 19th, 2024 - 1:48 am § in Misc., Politics, Science

Why smart people are dumber (video)

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December 18th, 2024 - 11:36 pm § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Politics

Meet Trump’s DNI nominee (video)

Is this who should be Director of National Intelligence? I don’t think so. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

December 18th, 2024 - 9:23 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

Who paid for Trump’s 2024 campaign?

A handful of billionaire families did. The day before the election, MSNBC reported (here), “The top seven donors and their families, including Timothy Mellon, Elon Musk and Miriam Adelson, have donated $818 million almost entirely to help Trump. Without this support, Trump’s cash-strapped[...]

December 18th, 2024 - 5:59 pm § in Politics, Republicans

Texas governor and Musk caught lying about D.C. stadium

“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott applauded Elon Musk’s commitment to stopping … the federal government from funding … a new football stadium” in Washington D.C.  in the omnibus spending deal the House just passed to avert a government shutdown a week before Christmas. “Go[...]

December 17th, 2024 - 9:47 pm § in America, Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Republicans

Kamala Harris won’t be president

Kamala Harris will never be president. I’m not saying she won’t run; but if she does, she won’t be elected. The 2024 election proved it. Sure, she was dealt a tough hand to play, and played it better than anyone had a right to expect. She was a last-minute nominee, saddled with Bid[...]