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[...]
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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 [...]
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[...]
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[...]