“The top Republican in the Pennsylvania state Senate said Monday he would kick off hearings into the results of the 2020 presidential election, the latest Republican-led investigation into an election that President Biden won handily,” The Hill reported on Tuesday, August 24, 2021. Read [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Conspiracy Theories’
August 23rd, 2021 - 1:35 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
August 13 is postponed
PillowGuy Mike Lindell told his credulous followers that Trump would be “reinstated” on August 13. That date came and went. Biden is still president. Trump is a private citizen. How does he explain that? Just a minor technical hitch. Trump will reassume the presidency “before the e[...]
August 13th, 2021 - 7:29 pm § in Politics
Colorado official accused of leaking voting equipment logins to QAnon
A Colorado county clerk accused of leaking voting machine login codes to QAnon could face criminal prosecution. In that state, county clerks run local elections. They’re elected officials, and therefore likely to be partisan. In Mesa County, which borders Nevada, the county clerk is Tina Peter[...]
August 11th, 2021 - 7:14 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Trump-appointed judge greenlights election vendor’s lawsuit against Trump allies
“A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday rejected requests from former Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell [to] dismiss lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems against the three,” The Hill reported on August 11, 2[...]
August 11th, 2021 - 6:25 pm § in Health, Schools & Colleges
Choose Covid-19 advice carefully, and pray school officials do the same
It’s a good idea to choose medical advice as carefully as you would buy a car. This is ought to go without saying. But don’t underestimate the power of human nature; people listen to what they want to hear, and shut out what they don’t want to hear. Dan Stock, M.D. (photo, left), s[...]
August 5th, 2021 - 3:10 pm § in Politics
Republicans and mass delusions
Two-thirds of Republicans — representing about 27% to 29% of the total U.S. population — still cling to a belief that the 2020 election was “stolen,” according to a Yahoo News/You Gov poll published on Thursday, August 5, 2021. See story here. In addition, “Only 15 perc[...]
August 2nd, 2021 - 5:16 pm § in Politics
Letter from Phoenix
Maybe Clint Eastwood could make this into a movie. Read CNN news story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
As Arizona fake “audit” ends, even GOPers criticize it
The circus at an Arizona fairgrounds has ended, but the controversy hasn’t. As this month came to an end “the auditors stopped the counting and returned the ballots,” but a “report” is still weeks or months away, the Associated Press reported on Saturday, July 31, 2021 [...]
Sanctions and accountability are necessary
It takes time for deliberative processes to play out, but signs point to judges cracking down on Trump lawyers who filed baseless lawsuits and lied to courts (read story here), and that’s a good and necessary thing. Rudy Guiliani, Sidney Powell, and Lin Wood, among others, should not come out [...]
July 18th, 2021 - 12:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
GOP “auditor” revives a false assertion about Arizona ballots
Tell people what they want to believe, and they’ll believe it. From day one, the Arizona Senate GOP’s sham “audit” of 2020 Maricopa ballots was always about trying to give legitimacy for false election conspiracy theories. To conduct the “audit,” they passed over [...]