Ward on Words

It's been a couple of weeks since Trump won the election with less than 50% of the vote. It is the first time in three elections that he has won the popular vote. He also swept the swing states, given him an electoral college win as well.  The night of the election, as the returns came in, I was, as someone who had picked Harris to win, quite shocked at the outcome. Trump is an adjudicated rapist; he owed millions in penalties to Trump University students he swindled; he is forbidden from operating a charity in New York because of fraud; he incited violence at the Capitol on 1/6/21 with the intention of halting the certification of the election; he owes millions to the woman he defamed; he has appealed his business fraud case; he stole classified documents and refused to return them, claiming they belonged to him (and no need to store them in anything but a gilded Mar A Lago bathroom). But he was elected president and will take the oath of office on 1/6/21. He has made it clear tha...

Today is election day in the United States, the day we choose our elected leaders. In my own community, the North Carolina General Assembly (NCGA) passed a law last year prohibiting my county – and my county only – from voting for all county commissioners on ballot . Now thanks to the NCGOP super-majority in the state, we can only vote for the commissioner in our district. I think it's weird that the state legislature spends time on the business of one county, but this is North Carolina and I have yet to figure out the state's politics. That said, there is a national election to be decided today. Former President Donald Trump represents the Republican Party for president; Vice President Kamala Harris represents the Democratic Party. This election, according to polls, promises to be a nail-biter. Here are reasons why I think Kamala Harris will win a significant victory. 1) Abortion is on the ballot - and even in deep-red "pro-life" states, when abortion protections mak...

Just a few days before the 2024 general election, the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, was interviewed by Tucker Carlson on the RSBN network (full disclosure: Tucker Carlson alas, graduated from the same college as me - different years) and mentioned (about an hour into the interview) that Liz Cheney, former US Representative and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney is a problem he'd like to address: "Let's put her there with a rifle, nine barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it when the guns are trained on her face."  (Tucker Carlson chimed in with: "that'd be Dick Cheney's repulsive little daughter" in  that same interview .)  Donald Trump is a candidate for president of the United States, who during a televised interview, expressed the desire to shoot a political opponent - who happens to be a member of the same party as Trump, though she has been "purged" from any leadership roles in the p...