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November 3rd, 2024 - 12:55 am § in Donald Trump, Politics

Video: This isn’t what “free and fair” elections look like

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[...]

October 17th, 2024 - 12:18 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans

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[...]

October 13th, 2024 - 3:03 pm § in Biden, Politics, Republicans

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[...]

October 3rd, 2024 - 2:10 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans

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[...]

October 2nd, 2024 - 8:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

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 [...]

September 23rd, 2024 - 7:05 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans

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[...]

September 23rd, 2024 - 6:09 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

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[...]

September 10th, 2024 - 1:31 am § in News Media, Politics, Republicans

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[...]

September 8th, 2024 - 2:51 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

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[...]

September 3rd, 2024 - 12:12 am § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans

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, [...]