This Newsweek article (read it here) is titled, “Has 2024 Campaign Rhetoric Gone Too Far? Analysts Weigh In.” Let’s start with what people agree on: “Polling suggests that most Americans agree that the country is too divided by politics. An Ipsos survey … found that 81 [...]
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September 18th, 2024 - 8:37 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Politics, Racism, Republicans
Who’s most to blame for divisive political rhetoric?
Trump assassination attempt 2.0
America has always been a violent country. Several presidents, candidates, and leading public figures have been assassinated, with attempts made on others including FDR and Reagan. What happened to Trump isn’t a historical outlier. It shouldn’t be this way. Political violence is bad for [...]
September 10th, 2024 - 1:32 pm § in Democrats, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Politics, Racism, Republicans
Vance continues to lie after admitting he’s lying
JD Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, acknowledged “it’s possible” his claim that Haitian immigrants abducted pets “might not be true,” but encouraged his supporters to keep posting “cat memes” anyway, CNN reported on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 (read story here). [...]
Fentanyl smugglers are U.S. citizens, not migrants
Fentanyl deaths rose under Trump, and continued to rise under Biden, until today the drug kills more Americans than guns and car accidents combined. “Trump repeatedly blames the increase in fentanyl deaths on the influx of 10 million migrants who crossed the border during the Biden,” NBC[...]
WA public lands commissioner: Upthegrove gains 2 votes in recount, will advance to November election
Dave Upthegrove (photo, left; bio here), 53, a Democrat, likely will be Washington’s next Commissioner of Public Lands. He’s currently a King County Councilman, and previously served in the legislature. He will succeed Hilary Franz, a Democrat who didn’t seek reelection and instead[...]
Republicans for Harris?
It’s true, dozens of prominent Republicans are supporting Harris. They include “former White House officials and national security staff, … White House lawyers who served Republican presidents going back to Ronald Reagan, … even members of [Trump’s] own cabinet who once[...]
September 1st, 2024 - 7:03 pm § in America, Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Politics, Republicans
Untangling the Arlington Cemetery controversy
Ceremonies honoring America’s war dead and other heroes are common, and politicians often participate, so why is Trump’s visit to Arlington last week stirring controversy? For starters, federal law prohibits using national cemeteries for political purposes. In addition, Arlington prohibi[...]
Fact-checking the fact-checker
Usually we turn to fact-checkers to help us decide whether we can trust politicians. But sometimes the fact-checker comes under fire. This example, cited by MSNBC here, comes from PolitiFact. The Democrats played a 2016 video clip of Trump saying “there has to be some form of punishment for wo[...]
RKF Jr.’s “7 weirdest moments”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a Democrat like Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro is a democrat. In other words … not. No one should be surprised that Maduro is going after opponents after stealing an election. Nor should anyone be surprised that Kennedy is throwing in his lot with Trump. Neither Kenn[...]
Don’t watch this video!
This video has no nutritional value whatsoever; zero calories, zero carbs. It’s nothing but Sean Hannity, a Republican propagandist, and James Carville, a Democratic propagandist, trading talking points. It’s pure partisan pugilism; two guys playing “gotcha.” When Hannity bla[...]