Progressives dunked on Platner and ignored his PTSD — and Trump dusted off the Cold War to smear the socialists.
Author: Doug
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The Ohio Legislature left for their summer break but before they left they made sure to do what they could to shore up Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for governor since he is in a tie with the Democrat in state won by Trump 3 times and by 11 points in 2024. They jumped on the Medicaid fraud bandwagon, messed with our elections again, and hope we forgot about the Trump Epstein files.
Of course there is corruption in US politics that some call campaign contributions but President Trump and family have said “hold our beer” with the just the latest being a slush fund to pay off people who attacked the capitol in 2021. Then we hear about Ohio Republicans stopping a child marriage ban and putting up an election photo ID amendment to the Ohio constitution to mask the lack of reasons to vote for them in November.
One of my political antagonists, who couldn’t pass up using the state to attack all kinds of marginalized groups, lost his bid to be the Republican nominee for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District. Then we look at a recent interview Bill Maher did where he repeats a lot of transphobic myths then we consider the implications of the recent US Supreme Court case Louisiana v. Callais that finally gutted the Voting Rights Act.
In the Ohio’s governor’s race one party wants you to forget we went through a pandemic in 2020. It’s the same party responsible for the 20,000 deaths after they ignored the science. Ohio Representative Josh Williams is running for Congress and continuing the long running legacy of tokenism in today’s Republican party. He also carries water for white anti-abortionists. I think it’s funny that non-religious Trump and JD Vance who became catholic 20 minutes ago would tell the infallible Pope of the Catholic church that he is wrong about theology.