When someone mentions witness tampering, I think of Mafia hoods bribing or threatening witnesses, or, in Russia, Putin’s goons killing them and dumping their bodies in the river that flowing through Moscow. It looks like Trump’s gang has joined the party. Cassidy Hutchinson, who testifie[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Repugnants’
Greene wants U.S. out of NATO, but that’s a bad idea
Does she have any good ones? Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) tweeted yesterday the U.S. leave NATO and should stop supporting Ukraine (see tweet below). Raw Story played this story by saying, “Greene says it’s time to let Putin win” (see story here). That’s not exactly accu[...]
June 30th, 2022 - 3:47 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Biden’s hypocritical new stance on filibuster
Biden, who has opposed changing the Senate filibuster rule, is now calling for a “carveout” to pass federal abortion rights (see story here). But he still hasn’t endorsed carveouts for anything else, beyond the existing exceptions for spending bills and judicial nominees. Look, abo[...]
June 29th, 2022 - 9:23 pm § in Politics
Fake electors identified
Bogus electoral slates were signed by 84 people from 7 states. According to Raw Story, these are the names of the fake electors. For details about their backgrounds, go here. Arizona (11) Nancy Cottle, Loraine B. Pellegrino, Tyler Bowyer, Jake Hoffman, Anthony Kern, Jim Lamon, Robert Montgomery,[...]
June 29th, 2022 - 2:14 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Who is Cassidy Hutchison?
Besides the witness who shredded the last remnants of whatever illusions of respectability and legality still clung to the Trump gang of seditionists who tried to violently overthrow our government? She’s not a lawyer. Not a Democrat agent, either. Hutchison (bio here) is 25 years old. SheR[...]
The Trump plot in a nutshell
An article in Salon (here) sums up what we’ve learned from the Jan. 6 hearings: “In the public hearings so far, the House Select Committee on January 6 has marshaled facts in fastidious detail showing that former President Trump’s attempted coup was plotted and organized by the pre[...]
June 29th, 2022 - 11:17 am § in Politics
Florida bans rainbows
So obsessed is Gov. Ron DeSantis with banishing gay people to non-person status that rainbows are now illegal in and near Florida schools. Florida teachers also have to report gay students to the political police for being gay. “Teachers in Orange County, Florida are being told to scrape rainb[...]
June 28th, 2022 - 9:48 am § in Law and Courts
GOP lying spreads to Supreme Court
There’s no limit to Republican lying. That’s the lesson from a pair of Supreme Court rulings last week. In the first, the 5-4 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, it became evident that all three of Trump’s nominees to the court lied to win confirmation. They told key senators that Roe [...]
GOP rep praises “historic victory for white life”
Does this mean nonwhites can still get abortions? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 26th, 2022 - 12:27 pm § in Politics
Republicans aren’t for freedom
Republicans have long maintained they’re for individual freedom, but in reality this isn’t absolute, and must be put in context. The context is they want the freedom to do as they please, regardless of the impact on others. This is a one-way street; it doesn’t go in the other direc[...]