While touring Hurricane Helene-ravaged areas of Georgia on Monday, Trump “repeatedly spread falsehoods … about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster,” the Associated Press reported on September 30, 2024 (read story here). Of c[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2024 Election’
September 29th, 2024 - 2:01 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Should there be a minimum emotional age for presidents?
The Constitution prescribes a minimum physical age, and Republicans seem to want a maximum age, so why not an emotional age citeria, too? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
J. D. Vance’s jaw-dropping speaking engagement
“J. D. Vance will speak at an event on Saturday hosted by the self-styled prophet and political extremist Lance Wallnau, who has claimed Kamala Harris practices witchcraft and has written that the US is headed toward bloody internal conflict,” the Guardian reported on Friday, September 27, 2024[...]
Why political lies matter
You can’t solve our country’s problems if you don’t have rational policies. Here are two CNN headlines and stories posted on Friday, September 27, 2024 (here), as the 2024 campaign enters a climactic phase: Trump campaign highlights stories of those killed by undocumented immigrant[...]
Why you won’t know who won Pennsylvania on election night
Pennsylvania, unlike other states, doesn’t begin counting their mail ballots until election night. It’s a slow process. Signatures have to be matched, envelopes opened, and ballots removed and fed into the scanning machines. There are millions of these ballots, it’s done by hand, and it takes [...]
About “little” jobs …
During an interview on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, Kamala Harris repeated that she worked at a McDonald’s in college. The interviewer then asked Harris about “little” and “big” jobs, but Harris cut in and said, “There’s no such thing as a little job.̶[...]
Trump declares Ukraine “can’t be rebuilt”
“Those cities are gone, they’re gone, and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refused to make a deal, Zelensky,” Trump declared on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 (read story here), as he campaigns against the U.S. helping Ukraine defend itself. He assumes Putin is willing t[...]
September 23rd, 2024 - 12:16 am § in Politics, Republicans
Vance even lies about eggs
J. D. Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, made a campaign video at a Pennsylvania supermarket this weekend. In it, he blasted Kamala Harris for $4.00-a-dozen eggs. Just one little problem: The shelf tags behind him. See tweet below and story here. By now, every voter paying attention to news fee[...]
September 22nd, 2024 - 10:52 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump unfurls his Jewish scapegoat freak flag
— “Donald Trump is now saying the ‘Jewish people’ will be to blame if he loses this election.” Read story here Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Cabinet chatter begins
Harris “would likely keep some Biden officials,” and likely would have a “diverse” cabinet (see story here). Here are some educated guesses: Secretary of State: Blinken doesn’t want to stay; he could be replaced by the CIA director or Delaware Sen. Chris Coons or Connec[...]