I’m posting this video because I think it has lessons for both sides. For Republicans, reclaim your party from Trump and go back to what you were before MAGA, so your own voters can vote for you. For Democrats, listen to these centered voters describe a Democrat they could vote for. The 2024 e[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2024 Election’
October 25th, 2024 - 8:14 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP rep wants North Carolina’s legislature to commandeer electoral votes
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD; photo, left), who chairs the rightwing House Freedom Caucus, suggested 12 days before the election “that legislators in the battleground state of North Carolina could allocate their state’s electoral votes to Trump before votes are counted” (read story here). The b[...]
October 24th, 2024 - 1:53 pm § in Politics
Election hanky-panky begins
Ballots are going out to voters across America, and reports of incidents have begun trickling in. In Colorado “at least a dozen” ballots were stolen from the mail, filled out, and returned. The signatures didn’t match, so the voters were contacted, who reported they never received [...]
October 23rd, 2024 - 11:26 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Do unicorns vote?
“Suppose you are chatting with your neighbor when, out of the blue, they mention their deep and abiding concern that unicorns are being killed by unscrupulous hunters. You can argue with them that unicorns aren’t real, or you could switch to talking about the weather.” Well, yes, u[...]
October 23rd, 2024 - 6:44 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump wanted “the kind of generals Hitler had”
While president, Trump said, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had, people who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.” The Trump campaign denies it, but there were witnesses, Trump’s former chief of staff, People magazine reported (here). I believe the witnesses, not Trump a[...]
Who will be president if Trump wins?
It’s not a trick question. “Anyone who’s paying attention has noticed that Donald Trump isn’t doing so well. … He is sometimes unable to answer a basic question,” Salon says here. The implications are obvious: CNN‘s Leigh McGowan suggested the Trump campaign[...]
Trump kisses a woman not his wife (video)
The smooch comes at the end of the video. See story and photo here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
James Carville: “The Constitution is on the ballot”
James Carville, 80, Bill Clinton’s former campaign manager, and now an aging political pundit on the Democratic side of things, has been predicting Kamala Harris will win the 2024 election. Nobody knows; polls suggest it could go either way, and Carville admits he “could be wrong.”[...]
October 22nd, 2024 - 2:29 pm § in Politics
Yard sign thieves
This incident in Springfield, Missouri, involved theft of Harris-Walz yard signs (a longer video is here). Trump signs are being stolen, too (see, e.g., video here); people on both sides are doing it. It shouldn’t happen. Legally, yard signs are private property, and taking them is a crime. It[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Dueling billboards
Original version erected above a Texas gun shop: Version 2.0, erected with help from shop owner’s friends: Version 3.0, after Democrats responded: Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]