According to viewers, J. D. Vance won his debate with Tim Walz, but just barely. In a CBS post-debate poll, 42% said Vance won, 41% said Walz won, and 17% called it a tie. CNN’s poll was equally close: Vance 51%, Walz 49%, with no tie option. (See Vox story here.) In a USA Today […][...]
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Dockworkers’ strike shuts down East and Gulf coast ports
West coast ports remain open, because those dockworkers have a different union and negotiated a new contract a couple years ago. What’s behind the strike? Wages are front and center. West coast longshoremen, under their new contract, will make $60 an hour by 2027; the East and Gulf coast longshore[...]
How rightwing tabloid media misleads and misinforms
If a free press is the cornerstone of democracy, you’d never know it from studying American history. The media in this country has always been partisan, often sensationalized, and shapes public opinion in irresponsible ways. It was even worse in the earliest days of the American republic. But [...]
Why Vance is an enemy of people with pre-existing health conditions
With Obamacare, you know what you’re getting. Trump plans to replace it with an ill-defined “concept.” Prior to Obamacare, the attitude of Republicans was that health care was a luxury of the well-off; tens of millions of Americans couldn’t afford, or couldn’t get, heal[...]
Trading barbs ahead of Walz vs. Vance debate
A day before the 2024 vice presidential debate, CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins moderated a heated exchange between Van Jones, a Democrat, and Lee Zeldin, a Republican, in the video below. Predictably, Zeldin does two things you expect of a Republican: He lies and defends a despicable candidate. Zeldin r[...]
Trump lies about Biden’s hurricane response
While touring Hurricane Helene-ravaged areas of Georgia on Monday, Trump “repeatedly spread falsehoods … about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster,” the Associated Press reported on September 30, 2024 (read story here). Of c[...]
September 29th, 2024 - 2:01 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Should there be a minimum emotional age for presidents?
The Constitution prescribes a minimum physical age, and Republicans seem to want a maximum age, so why not an emotional age citeria, too? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
J. D. Vance’s jaw-dropping speaking engagement
“J. D. Vance will speak at an event on Saturday hosted by the self-styled prophet and political extremist Lance Wallnau, who has claimed Kamala Harris practices witchcraft and has written that the US is headed toward bloody internal conflict,” the Guardian reported on Friday, September 27, 2024[...]
September 27th, 2024 - 8:08 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Bachelor GOP candidate borrows friend’s family for campaign photos
Eugene Vindman, who’s running for Congress in Virginia, has an interesting opponent. Derrick Anderson doesn’t have children, and Republicans think that’s weird, so he borrows a friends’ wife and children for photo ops (see, e.g., photo below). He doesn’t lie by saying they&[...]
Why political lies matter
You can’t solve our country’s problems if you don’t have rational policies. Here are two CNN headlines and stories posted on Friday, September 27, 2024 (here), as the 2024 campaign enters a climactic phase: Trump campaign highlights stories of those killed by undocumented immigrant[...]