“He’s doomed to not be loved!” Never was there a more clear-cut case of “commentator’s curse” than when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was inaugurated on a sunny Kyiv day exactly five years ago. The TV narrator’s inference was that, after a landslide election victory with 73% of the vote, it could only go downhill for […]
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This election is bound to take a while, be patient
Election Day is Tuesday, but with early voting, the more accepted use of mail voting and the prospect of razor-thin races, it’s really Election Season. And Tuesday only marks the beginning of the next phase in that season. Gird for many of these elections to go on for days, if not weeks. This is all […]
Democratic leadership on Biden -‘time to cut bait’
A New York Times report revealed Saturday that many Democratic Party officials have little faith that President Biden can keep his party afloat amid mounting crises. The piece also implied that the Jan. 6 Committee is Biden’s last chance before the midterm elections to persuade swing voters who are more fixated on inflation. According to […]
Obama Had Secret Plan To Deploy Military On Election Day
The Obama administration was poised to send armed federal agents to polling places, deploy the military and launch full-scale counter-propaganda measures in case hackers disrupted the vote on Election Day, according to a report. The 15-page playbook, produced in October, outlined the “enhanced measures” the government was prepared to take in the event of a […]
White House Denies Giving Merkel A Bill For NATO
President Donald Trumpreportedly handed German Chancellor Angela Merkel a bill for around £300 billion ($374 billion) for the money her country “owed” Nato for defending it, a report said on Sunday, a claim that was flatly rejected by the White House. The Times, a U.K.-based publication, cited unnamed sources that claimed Trump handed Merkel a […]
Congressman Wants Special Counsel To Investigate Trump/Russia
The first Republican lawmaker has called for an independent investigation into possible contacts between Donald Trump’s associates and the Russians during last year’s election, while the White House says there’s nothing to the various claims. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., speaking this weekend on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher, praised new Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but […]
Trump Wants To Ally With Russia Against ISIS
President Donald Trump told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that he does “respect” Russian President Vladimir Putin, but that respect does not mean they’ll get along. In an interview set to air this week, O’Reilly asks Trump why he respects Putin — a former KGB officer who is known to have had his enemies killed. “I […]
Presidential Transition Turns Adversarial Between Trump And Obama
President Barack Obama and his successor Donald Trump are making moves that tread on each other’s turf and complicate the other’s agenda, creating one of the messiest White House transitions in recent years. Since Election Day, Mr. Obama has taken some of the most far-reaching actions of his eight-year presidency, leaving Mr. Trump to manage […]
Department Of Homeland Security Claims Hackers Influenced Election In 20 States
There have been hacking attempts on election systems in more than 20 states — far more than had been previously acknowledged — a senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News on Thursday. The “attempted intrusions” targeted online systems like registration databases, and not the actual voting or tabulation machines that will be used […]
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Another Scam According To Bernie Sanders
Our infrastructure is collapsing, and the American people know it. Every day, they drive on roads with unforgiving potholes and over bridges that are in disrepair. They wait in traffic jams and ride in overcrowded subways. They see airports bursting at the seams. They see the need for a modern rail system. They worry that […]
Stock Market Soars Post Election, Corrections Coming
Donald Trump’s election has given a quick boost to stocks, with the Dow Jones industrial average touching all-time highs. Since markets closed Tuesday, the Dow and the S&P 500 are up about 3 percent — and that’s after coming back from the massive Tuesday night drop. Some market observers expect that boom to continue through […]
Long Lines and Machine Malfunctions Plaguing American Voters
After weeks of competing claims of fraud and intimidation on Election Day, few voters who headed to the polls Tuesday morning encountered such problems, though there were some reports of machine breakdowns and long lines. The run-up to the vote was fraught, with unsupported claims by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of a rigged election […]