Donald Trump, refusing to admit his lies about South Korea promising $54 billion to pay to build the entire project, is doubling down on stupid.
“If they don’t want to do it, that’s OK with me,” he told reporters outside the White House. “I’ll just charge ‘em more. Tell them if they don’t sign shortly, I’m gonna double it up.”
Read MoreMexico is not paying for the wall. South Korea is not paying for the pipeline.
Read MoreDonald Trump held a campaign event for Sen. Dan Sullivan in the White House Wednesday, complete with fabricated claims that the Korean government has agreed to pay for the entire project.
This was a complete fraud designed to boost Sullivan’s campaign against Democratic challenger Mary Peltola.
Read More$54 billion is the alleged total cost of the project. It is ludicrous to believe that South Korea would offer $54 billion for the project as Trump claims, especially since South Korean news organizations say there is no binding deal.
Read MoreThis is nothing but a campaign stunt aimed at duping the voters in Alaska. It’s the latest version of “Mexico will pay for the wall.”
Read MoreA reader who has tried to engage with Sen. Dan Sullivan says his office is replying now with brief notes that are more to the point than the turgid term papers produced in the past.
But waffling and indecision remain the central feature of Sullivan’s communications about anything related to the Trump administration.
Read MoreVoting machines are more accurate that counting ballots by hand.
There is no real argument about that. But Barbara Haney and Tammie Wilson, followers of Trumpism, are claiming that we need to abandon voting machines in Fairbanks and rely on tired election workers to count everything by hand because they don’t trust the machines.
Next they will be calling to abolish the cash register, the electronic calculator and the abacus. Tinfoil hats will be mandatory at borough assembly meetings.
Read MoreAccording to Sen. Dan Sullivan, the war in Iran should keep going for as long as Donald Trump wants.
Congress has no power to stop him, according to Sullivan, who has voted 14 times to continue the war.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan, a rich man born to a rich family from Cleveland, is taking shots at Democratic challenger Mary Peltola for a picture someone took of her flying first class, claiming this puts “Alaska last.
This “man of the people act” posted on social media reeks of desperation. The leader of Team Sullivan has an estimated net worth of between $5 million and $12 million, which puts him in the top third of the U.S. Senate wealth rankings.
Read MoreYou may have noticed that the three Republican candidates are on the run from the record of Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
They have nothing to say about the shape Alaska is in after nearly eight years of Dunleavy’s watch, except that Alaska is headed in the wrong direction.
They won’t say that Alaska is better off today. The only politician making that claim is Dunleavy.
Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins mentions the incumbent more than the GOP candidates, always in the context of saying that Dunleavy hasn’t worked with other people, refuses to listen and has not tried to find solutions and common ground with the Legislature.
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