Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH), depicted at left, is a Yale-educated lawyer and published writer who’s very good at manipulating the English language to make it look like he’s not lying when he is. Campaigning for Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday, October 12, 2024, Vance called Biden’s inaug[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Immigrants’
GOP rep is criticized for spreading lies about FEMA relief funds
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) has a track record as a conspiracy theorist. Now, she’s falsely asserting that FEMA relief funds were “redirected” to illegal immigrants (read story here). Rep. Cammack (photo, left) is an election denier who voted against certifying Biden’s 2020 elect[...]
Arrest made in Springfield, Ohio, goose killing
Well, if they weren’t eating pet dogs and cats, then they’re killing ducks and geese. That was the charge leveled by Republicans against Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian immigrants, who are in the U.S. legally on work visas. A cat did go missing. It turned up alive in its owner’s [...]
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[...]
When politicians go from contentious to vile
In a democracy, politicians reflect the thinking and attitudes of their constituents, or they wouldn’t be elected. And American politics have always been rowdy, often racist, and sometimes borderline violent. But at the end of the day, a congressman can choose to stay within civilized bounds, [...]
Vance blames his kid for the plague
J. D. Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, wants to compel America’s women to be housewives and produce children (so America’s businesses can fill jobs without immigrants), but he despises his own kids. It was already reported that when Trump called Vance to offer him the veep nominat[...]
Pet lost and found
The now-infamous false rumor, amplified by Trump and J. D. Vance, that Haitian immigrant workers in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing and eating people’s pets originated from a police report about a missing cat. Anna Kilgore (photo below), the Springfield woman who reported the missing cat, fou[...]
August 31st, 2024 - 5:58 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump’s predictions if he loses
Here’s what will happen if Trump loses the 2024 election, according to him: “The quality of life is going to collapse” There will be a “bloodbath for the country” There will be a 1929-style stock market crash Christians will have to vote again (which is bad) Everyone wi[...]
July 10th, 2024 - 6:49 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Do illegals vote?
No, illegals don’t vote, except in tiny numbers. Few things about U.S. elections are more true than this statement: Non-citizens can’t and don’t vote in federal and state elections. Voting by illegals is extremely rare and never affects election results. We’re talking about s[...]
May 8th, 2024 - 8:12 pm § in Politics, Republicans
MAGA Mike in hot pursuit of phantom voting fraud!
There’s no evidence illegals vote, but GOP Speaker “MAGA Mike” Johnson (photo, left) doesn’t need any evidence. He knows it “intuitively.” (Read story here.) His press conference on the Capitol steps on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, was as clownish as the movie scene be[...]