Back in 2018, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen made a fool of notorious Alabama politician Roy Moore. Cohen invited Moore to appear on his TV show. Moore took the bait. He even signed a contract agreeing, buried in so many obfuscating legal phrases, to be made a fool of. “During the segment, Cohen p[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Conspiracy Theories’
Rightwing inciter
One of the zaniest Republicans in Congress, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC, on the right in photo at left, rap sheet here), “who has lied about being accepted to the Naval Academy and about the car crash that partially paralyzed him,” doesn’t like Biden’s idea of knockin[...]
July 9th, 2021 - 8:46 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
The 7-step plan to reinstate Trump
No, it’s not a joke. Yeah, I think they’re serious. Read details here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 7th, 2021 - 9:37 pm § in Politics
QAnon’s strategy to take over schools and local governments
Watch out. Stealth QAnon candidates may be running for your local school board and other local government offices in the immediate future. “[M]any people who spout QAnon’s false claims have hatched a new plan: run for school board or local office, spread the gospel of Q, but don’t call it [...]
Australian scientist who worked at Wuhan debunks conspiracy theory
An Australian scientist who worked at the Wuhan lab in 2019 saw nothing to suggest that’s where Covid-19 came from. Dr. Danielle Anderson (photo, left), a leading expert on bat-borne viruses, says the Wuhan lab is like other such facilities she’s worked in, with even better safety protoc[...]
June 23rd, 2021 - 6:06 pm § in Politics
Michigan GOP concludes Biden won
A GOP-controlled Michigan senate committee wrapped up its investigation of the 2020 election by concluding Biden won the state and the results were fair and accurate, its report issued on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, says. “Sen. Edward McBroom, the Republican chair of the oversight committee, wro[...]
June 19th, 2021 - 8:42 am § in Politics
GOPer compares Arizona “audit” to joining the military
Here’s what Eric Greitens, a Republican running for a Missouri U.S. Senate seat, says about the Arizona GOP’s private, unofficial, dodgy search for “Chinese ballots” and other make-believe discrepancies in Democratic-leaning Maricopa County’s : “I’ll tell yo[...]
June 18th, 2021 - 2:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Trump lawyers face sanctions
“Sidney Powell and other attorneys who defended former President Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election have been summoned for a sanctions hearing in a Michigan federal court,” The Hill reported on Friday, June 18, 2021. “On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Lin[...]
June 15th, 2021 - 4:24 pm § in Politics
Ex-GOP Rep’s bizarre and pathetic “protest”
It seems Dana Rohrabacher was at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Not as a working congressman; he was bounced from the House in the 2018 “blue wave” election. “I marched to protest, and I thought the election was fraudulent and it should be investigated, and I wanted to express tha[...]
June 12th, 2021 - 2:31 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Arizona GOP’s fake election “audit” becomes a tourist attraction
True Believers in Trump’s election lies (irony intended) are flocking to Phoenix to watch the Arizona GOP’s clown show up close and personal. “The hottest new destination for political tourists this summer,” The Hill says (here, irony probably intentional; it’s 115 degr[...]