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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2024 Election’
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[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 4:34 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
A compendium of political violence, circa 2024
Aside from the two assassination attempts on Trump, the 2024 election season grown seen a bumper crop of politically-motivated assaults, according to Reuters (see story here). A sampling: In the pro-Trump town of Hancock, Upper Michigan, Joshua Kemppainen, a 22-year-old unemployed man, went on a ram[...]
Why nobody listens to Sen. Lindsey Graham
Like many Republican politicians, Graham once condemned Trump, but now is a fawning sycophant. In this media interview, he loses his cool and descends into shouting and silliness. Liz Cheney says “don’t listen to Lindsey Graham,” calling ignoring him “good life advice.”[...]
House speaker deflects on Trump’s genitalia remarks
Trump is losing it, big time. At a rally Saturday, October 19, 2024, he riffed about golfer Arnold Palmer’s junk (see story here). When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) went on a Sunday talk show the next day, he was inevitably asked about it by CNN‘s Jake Tapper (see story here). ̶[...]
Does J. D. Vance realize he’s married with children?
J. D. Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, has provoked a social media storm by how he talks about his own family. A sampling: “In a recent NY Times interview, Vance was asked if his wife, Usha, had converted to Catholicism from her Hindu faith. He explained that she had not, but their fami[...]
Abortion ban exceptions aren’t real
Abortion bans are total, period. Many states that ban abortions offer exceptions for rape or incest. But only on paper; in practice, rape victims can’t get abortions in those states. An advocacy group says rape and incest exceptions “are just marketing” by anti-abortion politician[...]