Kamala Harris’s proposal to tax wealthy people’s unrealized capital gains is a bad idea, but not for the reasons claimed on social media. First, definitions. I’ll use an illustration. Let’s say you buy 100 shares of Stock A for $60 a share and sell it for $75 a share. Your pr[...]
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GOP rep is criticized for spreading lies about FEMA relief funds
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) has a track record as a conspiracy theorist. Now, she’s falsely asserting that FEMA relief funds were “redirected” to illegal immigrants (read story here). Rep. Cammack (photo, left) is an election denier who voted against certifying Biden’s 2020 elect[...]
Trump rally crowd boos soldier over base name
Disrespecting our military personnel and veterans has been a Trump hallmark. That hasn’t changed and isn’t going to. At a townhall-style campaign event in North Carolina on Friday, October 4, 2024, Trump “chuckled” as his crowd booed an active-duty soldier. The soldier’[...]
October 4th, 2024 - 2:13 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP candidate claims America was a “bad guy” in WW2
Royce White’s specialty is basketball, not history, and it shows in his public comments. White (profile here) is a non-serious candidate in Minnesota’s 2024 U.S. Senate election. He’s a throwaway candidate, i.e. a placeholder on the ballot for a hopeless race shunned by career poli[...]
Arrest made in Springfield, Ohio, goose killing
Well, if they weren’t eating pet dogs and cats, then they’re killing ducks and geese. That was the charge leveled by Republicans against Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian immigrants, who are in the U.S. legally on work visas. A cat did go missing. It turned up alive in its owner’s [...]
What’s wrong with Republican voters?
Trump’s attempts “to unravel American democracy” might not prevent his return to power. That’s because “while he horrifies many Americans, his conduct after the last election is not seen as disqualifying by millions of others,” CNN says (read article here). The articl[...]
Look, a reasonable Republican!
They’re rare these days, but they still exist. Christina Loren works for RSBN, a rightwing media company (details here). At a Trump rally in Saginaw, Michigan, she interviewed a flag shop owner. She told the man, who was wearing a Trump hat, he’s “selling something that we can all[...]
Prominent Nevada MAGA politician convicted of stealing charity funds
Michele Fiore (photo, left; profile here), 54, a former Nevada state representative and failed candidate for state treasurer, was convicted on federal wire fraud charges on October 3, 2024, and could spend years in prison (read story here). Fiore, a controversial figure in Nevada politics, got in tr[...]
Rogue county clerk gets 9 years
Tina Peters (photo, left), a Colorado county clerk who fought the law and lost, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison. Peters, formerly the elected Mesa County clerk, is a vocal Trump supporter and outspoken promoter of false election conspiracy theories. She was indicted for official misconduct a[...]
The short unhappy life and tragic death of Dr. Tammy Towers Parry
Tammy Towers Parry, M.D., 57, was a graduate of the University of Washington Medical School. A comment on HorsesAss.org on October 2, 2024, summarizes her life and death as follows: “Following her job loss she burned through all her savings buying TRUMP cowboy hats, gold hightop sneakers, and [...]