While Republicans spreaded conspiracy theories about mail-in voting inaccuracies during the 2020 presidential election, five US states hold most of their elections almost entirely by mail and have so for years.
Category: politics
(Not So) Fun Fact: When a Survivor Winner Became a Republican With a Disturbing Bill
Survivor winner Nick Wilson currently serves in the Kentucky Legislature as a Republican. He recently made the news after introducing a bill (which he later withdrawed) that would legalize physical intimacy between two first cousins.
(Not So) Fun Fact: AARP’s Conservative Rival That Advocates Against Senior Well-Being
While AARP is officially nonpartisan and does not endorse political candidates, a company called AMAC was founded in 2007 as the conservative alternative to AARP. AMAC ironically advocates to raise the age of Social Security which would put more seniors at work and usually tries to get more privatization in medicine.
(Not So) Fun Fact: The Ohio Senator Who Tried To Make Trump Criticism Illegal
Robert Kagan recently wrote a opinion piece to The Washington Post warning that Donald Trump coming back to the White House could mean a dictatorship in America. Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) was so upset by the letter that he reported the journalist to the Department of Justice to falsely report him for an “insurrection.”
Fun Fact: Obama vs Trump on Drone Strikes
While Obama was heavily criticized for the use of drone strikes in military operations, Trump far exceeded his numbers and (even worse) made these engagements far less transparent. So nobody’s quite sure how many were done under the Trump presidency.