This isn’t exactly a campaign ad. It’s a police officer injured defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2024, speaking about that assault on our democracy. It’s a reminder of what electing someone who craves power, and doesn’t respect limits on power, could mean for our country. Ret[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
Video: This isn’t what “free and fair” elections look like
Vance embraces Trump’s Big Lie
After dancing around the question at the October 1 debate, and for weeks afterward, J. D. Vance finally answered it. He said: “I think there are serious problems in 2020. So, did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use.” (Read story here.) Vance, in his own word[...]
J. D. Vance’s word games
Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH), depicted at left, is a Yale-educated lawyer and published writer who’s very good at manipulating the English language to make it look like he’s not lying when he is. Campaigning for Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday, October 12, 2024, Vance called Biden’s inaug[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
I don’t care that Republicans don’t trust our elections
“A fed-up CNN anchor Anderson Cooper cut off” ex-Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) for defending Trump’s assertion that a fifth of Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots were “fraudulent” in 2020. This is a fable. Mail-in ballots are verified just like polling place ballots. The[...]
Speaking about “a concern that Americans have” …
Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), passed over by Trump when he chose his 2024 running mate, is defending Trump’s latest election rant. On Saturday, September 7, 2024, Trump posted this on his social media platform: “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of th[...]
Tampering with voting machines costs 3 election deniers $1 million
Two GOP county commissioners and their attorney, who gave outside parties unauthorized access to voting machines, owe the Pennsylvania secretary of state nearly $1 million, CNN reported on Monday, September 2, 2024 (read story here). The attorney and outside parties were connected to Sidney Powell, [...]