“Bipartisan efforts are the key to successful voting rights reform,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) said on Sunday, March 28, 2021. He appeared to be recounting past history, when Republicans were less overtly racist, and weren’t systematically engaging in voter suppression, as they are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
Strip Capitol rioters of veterans benefits?
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ; photo, left), a USMC veteran and member of the House Veterans Affairs committee, says veterans and service members who assaulted the Capitol on January 6, 2021, should be “stripped of all benefits.” About 1 of every 8 of the Capitol rioters, or nearly 2,000 of t[...]
Trump lawyer’s libel defense: “I tell such big whoppers no reasonable person would believe me”
Sidney Powell, a Trump campaign lawyer, is being sued by a voting machine company for defamation. After Trump lost, Powell (photo, left) claimed Dominion Voting systems’s voting machines stole the election for Biden. The election wasn’t stolen, there’s no evidence backing up her cl[...]
Don’t shop here, please
An Ohio coffee shop owner doesn’t want Democrats or gays in his shop. Adam Newbold (photo, left), who owns C4 Coffee in Lisbon, Ohio, where the paper drinking straw was invented in 1888, says, “If you voted for Joe Biden, don’t buy our coffee, it’s not for you. If you believe there was [...]
2020 U.S. House elections: Where red and blue seats are
This map, of course, doesn’t tell you where the voters are. Some districts are nearly evenly split. It only tells you where the majorities are. (Source: Wikipedia) (Click on map to enlarge) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 18th, 2021 - 3:01 pm § in Politics
The GOP should win this election despite its hypocrisy
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell complained Thursday that House Democrats are “trying to overturn a state-certified election,” The Hill reported on March 18, 2021 (read story here). It’s sorta true. But it’s a House matter, it’s constitutional, and has precedents (594 [...]
Florida business owner arrested for Capitol Riot fire extinguisher assault
Robert Scott Palmer, 53 (photos), who owns and manages a cleaning and restoration business in Clearwater, Florida, has been arrested for his actions in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. He now faces multiple charges (read story here). Palmer allegedly went to [...]
Yes, GOP voting laws are racist
“Stacey Abrams’ stark warning about Georgia’s new election bill being racist is shining a spotlight on a nationwide battle … as Republicans around the country try to suppress voting rights,” CNN said on Sunday, March 14, 2021. (Read story here.) You̵[...]
Video: What Trump’s election lies and the Capitol riot are really about
More than anything, they’re about dishonoring these men and everything they fought for. This is just an old Budweiser ad, but it captures the real America. Trump and the Capitol insurrectionists could hardly be more distant from it. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
March 10th, 2021 - 2:39 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
PHOTOGRAPHY: Refugees
Members of Congress and staff, in fear of their lives, hide from a Trump-inspired lynch mob in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page [...]