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Posts Tagged ‘2024 Elections’
May 16th, 2024 - 2:28 am § in Politics, Republicans
Washington GOPer calls democracy “bad idea” (video)
Money can’t buy love or elections
Money can’t buy love, and sometimes not elections, either. Increasingly, Congress is a preserve of the very rich, with more candidates self-funding campaigns (see story here). Retail liquor magnate David Trone is an example of the breed. When Trone ran in Maryland for a House seat in 2016, he spe[...]
How’s this campaign slogan?
BLOCKHEAD FOR GOVERNOR VICE PRESIDENT Hey that wasn’t my idea. To skip the partisan stuff, I’m gonna pretend I’m a campaign consultant who’ll work for a candidate of any party. (“Gun for hire” doesn’t work well in this context, for reasons you’ll soon [...]
May 3rd, 2024 - 7:36 pm § in Politics, Republicans
A man of the people
If you live in Ohio, Bernie Moreno (photo, right; bio here) wants to be your U.S. senator. The former car dealer certainly understands the working man’s problems; after all, he’s been sued by his employees for discrimination and wage theft. If you really want to protect your home, you sh[...]
Kristi Noem’s dead dog
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is campaigning to be Trump’s 2024 running mate. When she revealed she shot her dog “Cricket” (photo, left; story here) because of behavior problems, her intent was to present herself as someone who can “make tough decisions.” The dog’s offe[...]
Fresh off the debt fight, the GOP wants new tax cuts
Within days after the debt ceiling deal was struck, Republicans appeared to renege by indicating they will seek deeper spending cuts in budget negotiations; and now, on top of that, they’re also “pushing deep tax cuts for companies and the affluent,” ABC News reported on Monday, Ju[...]
May 25th, 2023 - 11:45 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Theocrat bows out of Senate race, thank God
I don’t think he’d be elected, but I don’t want to gamble. Doug Mastriano, a retired military officer whose grasp of government is less than a competent 9th grader’s, has bowed out of Pennsylvania’s 2024 U.S. Senate contest (see story here). Mastriano (bio here) is a th[...]
GOP candidate: Civil rights gains “took away freedom”
“North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state’s first Black lieutenant governor and the GOP front-runner for the 2024 gubernatorial race, repeatedly lambasted the ‘so-called’ 1960s Civil Rights Movement, lamenting that ‘so many freedoms were lost during the civil rights[...]
May 4th, 2023 - 9:42 pm § in Politics, Republicans
The candidates GOP voters vote for
Well, you already know quite a bit about that: They voted for Trump, Doug Mastriano, Kari Lake, and Herschel Walker, among others. Republican voters don’t seem to care how dishonest, corrupt, or vile their party’s candidates are. Mark Robinson (photo, left) is another name you may be hea[...]
March 15th, 2023 - 5:11 pm § in America, Biden, Donald Trump, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Republicans, Russia, Schools & Colleges
Foreign policy …
… is the most important task a president does. It’s literally about war and peace. But this poses a conundrum, because presidential campaigns are waged and won or lost on domestic issues; politics is very much a “what will you do for me” affair. (The softer and more polite wa[...]