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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Hypocrisy’ Category
Republicans can’t have it both ways on guns
Austin Theriault, a Maine GOP legislator running for a U.S. House seat “as a champion of the Second Amendment,” called the sheriff in January 2023 because he saw a man carry an AR-15 rifle into his house, Huffington Post reported on Monday, September 9, 2024 (read story here). The police[...]
Stolen valor
Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s running mate, exaggerated his military service by saying he retired as a Command Sergeant Major (CSM), when he only served in that capacity but retired as a Master Sergeant, and carried “weapons of war … in war,” despite never having served in an act[...]
The backstory of “swiftboat” political attacks
John Kerry was infamously “swiftboated” when he ran for president in 2004. Usually, being a veteran is a plus in politics. “Swiftboating” (explained here) is a political tactic employed to neutralize that advantage, or turn it into a political liability. The term implies lyin[...]
Lara Trump lectures on DEI hiring
Trump’s daughter-in-law, whom he installed as Republican National Committee chair, claims Biden chose Harris as his running mate “based on how she looked, based on the fact that this is a woman, based on the fact that she was a minority woman.” Outraged, she said considering gender is “reall[...]
Vance lied about Walz’s military service
Kamala Harris’s running mate didn’t evade combat duty. Republicans are trying to “swiftboat” Tim Walz (the term is explained here), and Vance is their point man. He’s falsely claiming Walz timed his National Guard retirement to avoid deploying to Iraq. But Walz left the Guard to run f[...]
McConnell doesn’t like Biden’s Supreme Court reforms
Good. If he did, I’d be very suspicious. Sen. McConnell broke every rule of Senate collegiality when he blocked Obama’s appointee, using “it’s an election year” as an excuse, then jammed through another Trump appointee right before an election. McConnell engineered a co[...]
Is this man a “cat lady”?
In a now-viral rant back in 2021, when J. D. Vance dissed on “childless cat ladies,” he basically was saying childless people shouldn’t run the country because they have no stake in the future. This phrase has resurfaced in the 2024 campaign as a jibe against Kamala Harris and (oth[...]
Mike Collins and J.D. Vance should resign from Congress
Mike Collins, a first-term GOP congressman from Georgia (bio here), made a splash two months ago with a sick Kennedy joke. Responding to RFK Jr.’s claim “a worm ate part of my brain” (story here), Collins joked, “You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain, or live long enough [...]
Thomas and Alito deserve to be impeached
Justice Thomas took millions in undisclosed gifts, and refused to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases even though his wife was neck-deep in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election, even calling Trump’s chief of staff. Justice Alito also failed to report expensive gifts, including a luxury fishing [...]