A healthy democracy requires healthy competition between healthy political parties. We don’t have that. Republicans fill our public discourse with stunts, grandstanding, and lies; there’s very little serious discussion of serious issues. Democrats aren’t perfect (no one is), but Re[...]
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January 8th, 2025 - 11:08 am § in America, Donald Trump
Trump takes a crayon to the map
Trump thinks of Canada as just another real estate development (read story here). If you ask Canadians, they’re not interested, see poll here. While making Canada a U.S. state is just a fantasy, were it to happen, that would give Democrats a massive advantage in the Electoral College and House[...]
Are you ready for climate change?
Really, none of us are. “Hundreds of millions of Americans are about to have a collision with planetary reality,” a Mother Jones article says (read it here). That reality already includes “superstorms and rising seas; droughts and failed crops; deluges and floods; megafires and or[...]
January 2nd, 2025 - 11:08 pm § in America
American G.I.s committed a Malmedy massacre, too
Americans like to think we’re better than other countries in a barbarous world. The fact we elected someone like Trump to leader our country, not once but twice, argues that we’re not so special after all. So does slavery, Native American genocide, and the Japanese-American internments. [...]
Trump wants Panama Canal back
President-elect Trump, claiming Panama is “ripping off” America with exorbitant canal fees, is threatening to seize the canal, The Hill reported on Sunday, December 22, 2024 (read story here). The U.S. took over construction from France in 1904, completed the canal in 1914, and returned [...]
Can Musk be president and speaker at the same time?
The U.S. is heading toward one-man rule, but not by who you assume. It’s becoming clear the White House will be a “Weekend at Bernie’s” affair, whereby staffers prop up a physically and mentally defunct Trump, but Elon Musk wields power behind on the throne. Musk isn’t [...]
December 17th, 2024 - 9:47 pm § in America, Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Republicans
Kamala Harris won’t be president
Kamala Harris will never be president. I’m not saying she won’t run; but if she does, she won’t be elected. The 2024 election proved it. Sure, she was dealt a tough hand to play, and played it better than anyone had a right to expect. She was a last-minute nominee, saddled with Bid[...]
The five fundamental laws of human stupidity (video)
Are Americans getting dumber? It’s more mathematical then you think. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
A brief primer on oligarchy by Aristotle (video)
Government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. How we got there. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
83 years ago today
Of 87,000 U.S. military personnel stationed on Oahu Island on Dec. 7, 1941, it’s believed 16 are still alive. “Chuck” Kohler, a 17-year-old enlistee from Minnesota, says he disobeyed orders to shelter in a ditch and ran to join the fight. “I had learned early in life that you nev[...]