Author: Thomas Bush
3 more people close to Trump get COVID
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 12, 2020Three more people close to Donald Trump have tested positive for COVID. Two are White House aides, including the political director, and the third was a guest of Rudy Giuliani. Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, has also recently tested positive for COVID. His aides are frustrated because he did not issue a statement and …
Read MoreRepublicans support Trump’s refusal to concede, some GOP Senators follow his lead
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 11, 2020Well, it’s come to this. Major Republicans have backed Trump’s foolish claims that the election wasn’t legitimate. And by doing that, they’re enabling his stupid march towards authoritarianism. At the very least, the GOP is undermining faith in democracy––and what’s worse, GOP senators are taking his lead and refusing to concede races they obviously lost. …
Read MoreTrump’s fundraising efforts to fight “election fraud” actually paying off campaign debts
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 11, 2020You almost have to admire Donald Trump. The man is like the Joker, he doesn’t have a plan, he just does and goes from there. This is a prime example. He loses the election. With absolutely no thought of consequences, he just claims the election was tampered with. But clearly it wasn’t, and the courts aren’t buying …
Read MoreQAnon reveals how much we can’t trust tech companies to self-govern
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 9, 2020The success of the QAnon conspiracy theory forces us, as a society, to confront our relationship with big tech companies. Since their inception, sites like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Etsy have made incredible amounts of money while taking zero responsibility for anything they host. By presenting themselves as simply a “marketplace,” they can plead innocence …
Read MoreTrump isn’t going to go quietly
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 8, 2020Donald Trump has lost the White House, but don’t expect him to leave quietly. A former director of the CIA is worried that Trump will rile up his base and possibly drive them to violence. Even though his aides tell him the legal assaults will be useless, he intends to throw every lawsuit at the …
Read MoreMike Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, has COVID
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 7, 2020Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, has tested positive for COVID. His aides are frustrated because he did not issue a statement and only advised a close circle. That put Trump’s entire staff at risk. The White House’s COVID outbreak spread to the Vice President’s office. His chief of staff, Marc Short, tested positive for …
Read MoreMultiple news outlets cut off Trump’s election press conference
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 6, 2020MSNBC, CBS, NBC, and NPR all cut away from Trump’s election press conference, citing its dishonesty, inflammatory intent, and overall insanity. In the conference, Trump made accusations of voter fraud, attacked his enemies, and undermined the foundations of democracy. Overall, I try not to be partisan, but it’s simply jaw-dropping that the occupant of the …
Read MoreMajority of Americans think Trump has harmed the nation’s standing in the world
Posted by Thomas Bush / November 1, 2020Polling reveals that 51% of Americans think Trump has harmed the country’s reputation on the world stage, while 36% think he improved it. The numbers are similar for his “Make America Great Again”––only about a third of Americans think he did so. According to a recent poll, two-thirds of Americans think that we are in …
Read MoreTrump lashes out at his Republican enemies
Posted by Thomas Bush / October 29, 2020“Grace under fire” is not a phrase that comes to mind when one thinks of Donald Trump. He generally doesn’t handle opposition well, a trait he demonstrated again recent when he lashed out at the Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans. At a rally in Arizona, he called them “RINOs,” which stands for Republicans …
Read MorePolls show that most Americans think we’re worse off than before Trump
Posted by Thomas Bush / October 28, 2020According to a recent poll, two-thirds of Americans think that we are in a worse position now than we were in 2015. That explains why Biden is polling so well in traditionally Republican states, like Florida where he is two points ahead of Trump. The Topeka Capital-Journal, a popular paper in the Kansas state capital, backed Donald …
Read MoreVoters encouraged to drop ballots off at official drop boxes and avoid USPS
Posted by Thomas Bush / October 28, 2020Left-wing publications are urging voters to drop their ballots off at official drop boxes rather than use the post office. It’s also wise to ensure you’re using a real ballot box, and not one of the fake ones Republicans have set up. It’s important to drop them off because, despite multiple court orders, the Post …
Read MoreKansas newspaper switches endorsements and backs Joe Biden
Posted by Thomas Bush / October 27, 2020The Topeka Capital-Journal, a popular paper in the Kansas state capital, backed Donald Trump in 2016 but is supporting Biden this year. In 2016, USA Today urged its readers not to vote for Donald Trump, but it did not overtly endorse Hillary Clinton. This election year, they have broken with the tradition of non-partisanship in place since …
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