She wanted to know, so she asked (see story here); the answers she got are surprising, but really not so surprising. Read some of them below. If Trump really cares about the working class, that’ll put him in conflict a Congress of his own party, whose policies generally hurt or at least don[...]
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November 11th, 2024 - 2:45 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Will women resort to Plan 4B?
Translated from Korean, it means “no dating, no sex, no marriage, no children.” Many American women are enraged at men for re-electing Trump. Guys, better get your blowup dolls before they’re gone! Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Biden’s gift to Trump
When Trump left office in 2021, he bequeathed Biden a nation mired in a deadly pandemic, which he had managed poorly. Biden led America out of it, and to an economic recovery featuring full employment, rising wages, expanded worker rights, and near-normal inflation. Voters punished his stand-in, H[...]
Kari Lake has no future in politics
Kari Lake tried to jump from the news business, where she was a TV anchor, to major political office without any political experience. It didn’t work. What happened was predictable: It was too wide a crevasse. She fell in twice, losing a race for Arizona governor in 2022, and a Senate race in [...]
The influence of money in politics
Elon Musk spent $130 million to help elect Trump, and Tesla stock jumped the day after Trump won, making Elon $25 billion richer on paper. That’s according to Barrons, a weekly investing magazine, which reported those numbers in its November 11, 2024, print edition at page 15. Stock gains asid[...]
The GOP screwed the middle class, so why did Trump win?
I’m not sure I agree with this Mother Jones article’s assessment (read it here) of why Trump won the 2024 election. But it has some interesting statistics. Summary: Wealth inequality has exploded under Republican governance. To wit: “In January 1981, when Reagan took office, the h[...]
Trump’s first retribution target: Jack Smith
The federal criminal cases against Trump will wind down. Not because he’s innocent, but because when a criminal is elected president, national priorities take precedence over justice. Trump has won the prerogative from voters to not be prosecuted for his crimes. Now, his political allies are c[...]
Joe Kent is a serial loser
Joe Kent (photo, left; bio here), is an ex-military guy who tied himself to Trump and far, far-right politics who’s run for Congress twice in a GOP-leaning swing district that includes Vancouver, Washington, across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. Two years ago, in 2022, Kent was slow[...]
Trump’s retribution list
“Donald Trump ran a campaign based on retribution. Now he is perfectly positioned to carry it out,” Politico said (here) the day after the 2024 election. Here’s the “enemies list” compiled by Politico, in case you want to check whether you’re on it: Joe Biden R[...]
November 6th, 2024 - 12:55 pm § in America, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Politics, Republicans
Silver linings in the 2024 elections
Trump’s re-election delivered a shock to Democrats and liberals, but all is not lost. First, however, a couple of preliminary observations. The pollsters were right; the White House race was a 50-50 tie. It really was close; Trump got 50% to 51% in all the battleground states. It was soooo clo[...]