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November 24th, 2024 - 5:41 am § in Politics, Republicans
Why J. D. Vance will never be president (video)
These 3 things unmask Trump’s brutal fiscal policy plans
The Trump 2.0 economy is starting to come into focus. Three key factors paint a picture of where he intends to go. They are: (1) Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, is a deficit hawk. (2) A key Trump legislative priority is extending, even expanding, his tax cuts. (3) Trump rec[...]
November 21st, 2024 - 7:29 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Cops rounding up immigrants, what could go wrong?
Practice tips: (1) You need a search warrant to enter someone’s home (4th Amendment), (2) they don’t have to answer questions (5th Amendment), and (3) American Samoans aren’t immigrants (read details here). Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
November 21st, 2024 - 5:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Did Trump win a popular mandate?
That’s a squishy question for which there’s no clearcut answer. So let’s do a comparative analysis: Jimmy Carter won the 1976 election by more votes than Trump won the 2024 election, with far more people voting in 2024. Here are the numbers: 1976, Carter vs. Ford: There were 79,980[...]
Lindsey Graham covers himself in doggy doo
Even by politician standards, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a pathetic hack. Interpreting him is easy: He’ll criticize anything Democratic, and defend anything Republican. This time he’s defending an accused pedophile. He called any GOP senators who might vote against confirming Gaetz as[...]
What Carl Sagan and Mark Twain said about beliefs
Carl Sagan, astronomer and scientist: “What is faith? It is belief in the absence of evidence. Now I don’t propose to tell anybody what to believe, but for me, believing when there’s no compelling evidence is a mistake. The idea is to withhold belief until there is compelling evidence.” Mark[...]
When ya got nuthin, read their poetry to ’em
That’s how far Republicans went trying to block a Biden judicial appointment. Nowadays it’s a given that Republicans will oppose any Biden judicial appointee. It hasn’t always been that way; there used to be more Senate courtesy, but we’re now living in the era of hyper-par[...]
GOP senate candidate blames loss on vague “irregularities”
Eric Hovde is a silver spooner, the scion of a Wisconsin banking and real estate family. He wants to be a U.S. senator, but so far no dice. Hovde (photo below, profiled here) lost in 2012 to a popular GOP governor, and lost again in 2024 to Sen. Tammy Baldwin (bio here), the Democratic incumbent. [&[...]
November 18th, 2024 - 5:23 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Kari Lake pays up for lying about election official
Arizona election denier Kari Lake falsely accused Stephen Richter, a fellow Republican and Maricopa County election official, of stealing the 2022 governor’s election from her. Richter, whose family was threatened, sued Lake for defamation. She didn’t dispute liability (see story here), [...]
November 18th, 2024 - 1:37 pm § in Law and Courts
Why we need a felony murder law
Israel hanged Adolf Eichmann for his complicity in the murder of 6 million Jews even though he didn’t personally kill anyone. His role in the Holocaust was “collecting information on the Jews in each area, organizing the seizure of their property, and arranging for and scheduling trains&[...]