Really, she should be kicked out of Congress. (Read story here.) Her constituents had the right to elect her, true enough, but that doesn’t mean Congress has to put up with her. It doesn’t. The Constitution empowers the House of Representives (and Senate, too) to expel its members. This [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Repugnants’
Three Trump stories, one ugly fact
“Dr. Deborah Birx said she saw President Donald Trump presenting graphs about the coronavirus pandemic that she never made and claimed that someone either outside or inside the administration was creating a parallel set of data to show to Trump,” CNN reported on Sunday, January 24, 2021.[...]
“Zip-tie” guy’s arsenal
Recovered from the Nashville home of the man who stalked Capitol lawmakers — and Vice President Pence — with a fistful of ziptie handcuffs while a makeshift gallows, complete with noose, waited outside. Trump didn’t pardon him before leaving office. Story here. Return to The-Ave.US[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: “Betrayal”
From here, “During his rally just prior to the riot, Trump had vowed to march on the Capitol with his supporters, but instead retreated to the White House to watch on TV” to here, “Jacob Anthony Chansley, 33, has claimed through his attorney that he was ‘duped’ by Donal[...]
The fragility of our democracy
This time, we made it. But it was a close call. The Constitution and laws are nothing more than reading material without people who believe in, and uphold, them. And Trump and his followers, who corrupted an entire political party, showed us just how fragile it all is. A recent article in Vox (read [...]
January 20th, 2021 - 7:13 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Where have all the protesters gone?
This was the Inauguration Day protest at the New York state capitol. Mark Leggiero drove 45 minutes to get there, so I hope he fed the pigeons while there. Same story in Sacramento, California — one protester showed up. In New Hampshire, three. Two in Nevada. Same story everywhere else. Read s[...]
The body pile at Fox News
In the aftermath of the collapsed Trump revolution, Fox News has fired at least 17 long-time staffers, including the editor who “correctly called Arizona for Joe Biden long before other networks in a move that infuriated Donald Trump and his supporters,” in what the U.K.-based tabloid Da[...]
– The End –
The final chapter has been written of Trump’s misbegotten legal crusade to overturn the 2020 election (below). Read story here. But it’s not over; still to be determined are the defamation lawsuits and disciplinary actions against Trump’s crackpot legal team. Return to The-Ave.US H[...]
January 19th, 2021 - 6:41 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Mike Pence’s future
Bottom line: He doesn’t have one. “Pence staked his political future on Trump,” CNN says (here), because “he saw a shortcut to the top of the Republican pile if Trump happened to win.” It was a reckless gamble that required Pence to defend Trump “at eve[...]
What Trump will be remembered most for
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