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September 19th, 2024 - 1:13 pm § in Politics, Republicans
2024’s worst GOP candidate just got even worse
Mark Robinson (photo, left) wasn’t going to win the 2024 election for North Carolina governor anyway. He was under 40% in many recent polls. Now, his fellow Republicans are calling on him to drop out, and the Trump campaign has told him he’s not welcome at their rallies. This comes on th[...]
Why some conservatives want Trump to lose
Trump and his MAGA crowds have dragged the once-reputable GOP into a cesspool of lying, corruption, immorality, racism, bigotry, and political violence. That’s more than reason enough to ring the fire bells, but it also isn’t conservatism. Christian Schneider probably speaks for many tra[...]
Who’s most to blame for divisive political rhetoric?
This Newsweek article (read it here) is titled, “Has 2024 Campaign Rhetoric Gone Too Far? Analysts Weigh In.” Let’s start with what people agree on: “Polling suggests that most Americans agree that the country is too divided by politics. An Ipsos survey … found that 81 [...]
Trump a “normal” candidate? Who is he kidding?
Brad Todd (photo, left) is a GOP strategist and political commentator who describes himself as “a refugee from journalism” (read his profile here). Todd wants Democrats to “back off” from “apocalyptic rhetoric” that electing Trump would end democracy. He “co[...]
Pet lost and found
The now-infamous false rumor, amplified by Trump and J. D. Vance, that Haitian immigrant workers in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing and eating people’s pets originated from a police report about a missing cat. Anna Kilgore (photo below), the Springfield woman who reported the missing cat, fou[...]
Trump assassination attempt 2.0
America has always been a violent country. Several presidents, candidates, and leading public figures have been assassinated, with attempts made on others including FDR and Reagan. What happened to Trump isn’t a historical outlier. It shouldn’t be this way. Political violence is bad for [...]
J. D. Vance doesn’t care he provoked school bomb threats
J. D. Vance (photo, left) just keeps getting more odious. The man who wants to replace America’s democratic elites with an unelected conservative ruling elite that would impose unpopular policies on the American people (see story here) is unapologetic for the mayhem he unleashed on Springfield[...]
Trump judge suggests National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional
Federal judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee frequently in the news because of his partisan rulings, upon issuing a temporary injunction against the NLRB, said an employer accused of union-busting was “likely to prevail” in arguing the federal agency’s structure is unconstitutiona[...]
GOP sheriff asks public to report Harris supporters
An Ohio sheriff’s social media page is instructing residents “to keep a list of homes displaying campaign signs” supporting Kamala Harris, the Guardian reported on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 (read story here). In the post, Sheriff Bruce D Zuchowski (photo, left) referred to Harris[...]