You wouldn’t think so, and Democratic strategists didn’t believe it, until they saw some shocking polling results. There are a million more registered Republicans than Democrats in the Sunshine State, where about 11 million people voted in 2020. They’ve elected a radically rightwin[...]
October 8th, 2024 - 1:51 pm § in Misc.
When you feed raccoons
Forest critters like free handouts as much as any street pandhandler does. A woman living in woods near Poulsbo, Washington, had to call the cops because masked intruders blocked her from getting into her home. “Kevin McCarty, a spokesperson for the Kitsap County Sheriff, said the woman called[...]
October 8th, 2024 - 1:45 am § in Politics, Republicans
First voting fraud of 2024 found!
After former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI; photo, left; bio here) retired from Congress, he bought a $1.6 million home in Coral Gables, Florida, claimed a “homestead” tax exemption on it, and registered to vote there. Then Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) decided to retire, too, and Rogers decided [...]
Trump sees Democrats in the mirror
When Trump looks into a mirror, he often sees Democrats. Four weeks before the 2024 election, he’s gone on a lying binge. His lies aren’t a bit creative; they’re his own biography. After one devastating hurricane, with another on the way, he’s falsely claiming Biden is divert[...]
Is Tim Walz a liar?
J. D. Vance (image at left), Trump’s 2024 running mate, is a prodigious liar. The most egregious of Vance’s lies is “telling stories” about Haitian immigrants that are untrue, racist, and caused bomb threats and school closures. But Vance also drastically flip-flopped on Trum[...]
October 6th, 2024 - 11:33 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Elon Musk’s mother urges GOPers to “vote 10 times”
Maye Musk (photo, left), Elon’s mother, is a Trumper like her son. She also thinks Republicans committing voting fraud is perfectly okay. “You don’t have to register to vote,” she said. “On Election Day, have 10 fake names, go to 10 polling booths and vote 10 times. That’s 100 votes, and[...]
GOP blowhard absurdly blames Democrats for political violence
It’s a talking point in a campaign season, and an empty one. Most of the political violence is coming from Republicans: The Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, threats against judges and election workers, talk of “civil war,” and the attempts to assassinate Trump. (Both would-be assassins[...]
Will there be surprises in Senate races?
As of October 2024, Democrats have a 51-49 edge in the U.S. Senate, counting the 4 nominally “independent” senators who caucus with them. They are Joe Manchin (WV), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), Bernie Sanders (VT), and Angus King (ME), of whom Sanders and King are reliable Democratic votes, and [...]
What’s behind Melania Trump’s support for abortion?
It “could have the effect of softening her husband’s image on abortion, something [he’s] sought to do as the issue has emerged as a potential game changer in the presidential race.” Therefore, reasonable people can be skeptical of her sincerity and see it as a gambit to help her [...]
Harris’s “billionaire tax” spawns rightwing lies on social media
Kamala Harris’s proposal to tax wealthy people’s unrealized capital gains is a bad idea, but not for the reasons claimed on social media. First, definitions. I’ll use an illustration. Let’s say you buy 100 shares of Stock A for $60 a share and sell it for $75 a share. Your pr[...]