No responsible citizen would vote for her, and in a rational society she wouldn’t stand a chance. But Tina Peters, who is under state and federal investigation for election tampering, and last week tried to kick a police officer while being arrested for illegally recording a court proceeding, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2022 Elections’
February 15th, 2022 - 2:31 pm § in Politics
Crazy “Stop the Steal” Trumper under investigation for election tampering now wants to run Colorado’s elections
Arizona GOP candidate’s ad spoofs violence against Democrats
Super Bowl ad depicts GOP “sheriff” shooting Biden, Pelosi, and Sen. Mark Kelly Legitimate political discourse? By the way, this ad is racist, too, unless you think “Crazyface Pelosi” just accidentally sounds like Crazy Horse. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home[...]
Biden’s latest gaffe
“President Biden was caught on a hot mic Monday appearing to call Fox News reporter Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch” in response to a question asked at the start of a White House event on lowering the prices of consumer goods,” AOL News reported on Monday, January 24, 20[...]
What should the Democrats’ midterm strategy be?
As Democrats try to shape a strategy for midterm elections they’re widely expected to lose, they’re debating whether they should talk to voters about the January 6 insurrection or the economy. (Read story here.) The stakes are high. The GOP has been taken over by fanatics who don’t[...]
December 10th, 2021 - 12:37 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Is American democracy doomed?
George Packer (bio here), son of Stanford professors and Yale graduate, and therefore unquestionably an erudite and bright guy, writes in The Atlantic (here): “A year after the insurrection, I’m trying to imagine the death of American democracy.” And make no mistake, it was an insurrec[...]
November 8th, 2021 - 11:21 pm § in Politics
We expect gutless politicians, but this gutless??
Rick Scott of Florida, a former governor and now a U.S. Senator, chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which is responsible for getting Republicans elected to the Senate. He has a mess on his hands in Pennsylvania, where Afghanistan combat veteran and “Outlaw Platoon” co-a[...]
October 18th, 2021 - 5:06 pm § in Politics
“Q” runs for Congress
Ron Watkins (photo, left, complete with cowboy hat), widely believed to be the “Q” behind the QAnon conspiracy-theory movement, announced on Monday, October 18, 2021, that he’s running for an Arizona congressional seat “to fix elections.” Read story here. He didn’[...]
Are Democrats in trouble for 2022 and 2024?
A public opinion firm says it looks that way (read story here). They point to polls showing a drop in public approval of President Biden and the Democrats who control Congress. Biden, for example, has gone from 57% approval and 38% disapproval in May, to 41% approval and 55% disapproval last week. H[...]
July 6th, 2021 - 4:03 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Meet candidate jellyfish
“Hillbilly Elegy” author J. D. Vance (photo) wants to be a Republican U.S. Senator. CNN says it took him “only four days to understand just how much control Donald Trump has over the Republican Party these days.” Vance formally entered the Ohio GOP Senate primary on July 1, a[...]
December 1st, 2020 - 2:53 am § in Politics
Democrats start figuring out why they lost House seats
At the same time, they’re searching for a leader of their 2022 campaign efforts. It’s generally agreed that Democrats misread the electorate. They also “faced a constant volley of false charges coming from the President himself: that Democrats were at the ready to end funding for p[...]