Usually we turn to fact-checkers to help us decide whether we can trust politicians. But sometimes the fact-checker comes under fire. This example, cited by MSNBC here, comes from PolitiFact. The Democrats played a 2016 video clip of Trump saying “there has to be some form of punishment for wo[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2024 Election’
RKF Jr.’s “7 weirdest moments”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a Democrat like Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro is a democrat. In other words … not. No one should be surprised that Maduro is going after opponents after stealing an election. Nor should anyone be surprised that Kennedy is throwing in his lot with Trump. Neither Kenn[...]
Is Kamala Harris leading a movement?
There’s talk in the air of Harris being a “movement” politician (I’ll get into what that is), of being a “hinge of history,” according to a Politico article here. That’s a concept usually associated with the term “transformative leader.” The real[...]
Jobs, jobs, jobs
Trump’s 2024 campaign advisers want him to run on the economy. Good luck with that. He’d rather talk about his personal grievances. But let’s say he does. Bill Clinton, speaking to the 2024 Democratic convention, claimed that since 1989 fifty-one million jobs have been created unde[...]
Stolen valor
Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s running mate, exaggerated his military service by saying he retired as a Command Sergeant Major (CSM), when he only served in that capacity but retired as a Master Sergeant, and carried “weapons of war … in war,” despite never having served in an act[...]
August 19th, 2024 - 3:13 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Attention-seeking Trump posts photoshopped Harris crowd and fake Taylor Swift endorsement
Why wouldn’t a liar who fakes his crowds photoshop Kamala Harris’s crowds? (Read story here.) Trump also posted a fake Taylor Swift endorsement. (See that story here.) New York Times political reporter Maggie Haberman thinks these antics probably are an attempt to “break into the n[...]
August 18th, 2024 - 5:38 pm § in Politics, Republicans
This is weird
From a story here: “Supporters of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign are carrying around bizarre ‘cups’ of running mate JD Vance’s ‘sperm.’ Pictures of attendees at Republican events have seen them carrying plastic cups – or wearing them around their[...]
Vance blows the black farmer vote
J. D. Vance, Trump’s running mate, “said a lot of wild things during his Sunday morning media blitz,” Mother Jones commented here. “But one of his comments … described a federal program that has distributed nearly $2 billion to mostly Black farmers who experienced discr[...]
August 16th, 2024 - 10:58 pm § in Politics
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kamala poster
The creator of Obama’s “Hope” poster drew one for Harris called “Forward.” Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Gratuitous disrespect
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), photo at left, disrupted a CNN panel on Thursday, August 15, 2024, by deliberately mispronouncing Kamala Harris’s name (see story here). She knows better, having come to Congress 3½ years ago from a public relations background (read bio here). She’s just being a [...]