When he became president, Obama retained Robert Gates as defense secretary. He was originally appointed by George W. Bush. “Because Gates had already been confirmed,” NBC News say, “he didn’t need to win Senate approval.” Years later, Gates revealed that “he was r[...]
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September 26th, 2024 - 8:25 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Joe Kent is a Proud Boys fanboy
Joe Kent is running for Congress against first-term Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) in Washington’s 3rd district, who beat him in 2022. The contest is a rematch of Perez’s 2022 defeat of Kent by less than 1% of the vote (see results here). The district is nominally Republican, and th[...]
Why you won’t know who won Pennsylvania on election night
Pennsylvania, unlike other states, doesn’t begin counting their mail ballots until election night. It’s a slow process. Signatures have to be matched, envelopes opened, and ballots removed and fed into the scanning machines. There are millions of these ballots, it’s done by hand, and it takes [...]
September 25th, 2024 - 11:32 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Pets are safer with Haitians than Republicans
Contrary to J. D. Vance’s claims lies, no pets in Springfield, Ohio have killed been killed by Haitian immigrants. Can’t say the same for his fellow Republicans: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, by her own admission, blasted her pup to bits in a gravel pit with a shotgun. Project 2025 spo[...]
About “little” jobs …
During an interview on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, Kamala Harris repeated that she worked at a McDonald’s in college. The interviewer then asked Harris about “little” and “big” jobs, but Harris cut in and said, “There’s no such thing as a little job.̶[...]
Trump declares Ukraine “can’t be rebuilt”
“Those cities are gone, they’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelensky,” Trump declared on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 (read story here), as he campaigns against the U.S. helping Ukraine defend itself. He assumes Putin is willing t[...]
When politicians go from contentious to vile
In a democracy, politicians reflect the thinking and attitudes of their constituents, or they wouldn’t be elected. And American politics have always been rowdy, often racist, and sometimes borderline violent. But at the end of the day, a congressman can choose to stay within civilized bounds, [...]
September 25th, 2024 - 1:41 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Wisconsin mayor drags his city into ballot drop box wars
Wisconsin was a pivotal state in the 2020 election, and could be again in 2024. Absentee voting is optional in that state, at the voter’s choice with no reason required. For military personnel, travelers, persons working away from home (e.g., truck drivers and airline crews), the elderly and d[...]
Jury renders verdict in lawsuit against “Trump train” bullies
On Oct. 20, 2020, a Biden-Harris campaign bus traveling to a Texas campaign event was intercepted, boxed in, and aggressively harassed by vehicles flying Trump flags (shown in video below). A nearby police department refused to respond to the bus occupants’ desperate 911 calls; the city of San[...]
GOP’s Nebraska electoral vote grab fails
Maine and Nebraska split their electoral votes, giving each party an extra electoral vote. Typically Democrats get one from red-state Nebraska, and Republicans get one from blue-state Maine. In some 2024 election scenarios, a single electoral vote could decide the election. For example, if Harris wi[...]