By Mark | October 28, 2019
I’ve just been informed that the mass delusion known as QAnon turned two today. It was apparently on this day back in 2017 that the following was posted to 4Chan, marking the beginning of what is probably the most ridiculous chapter to date in American history. Spoiler alert… Hillary Clinton, fearful of prosecution, did not […]
Also posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 4Chan, 8chan, Ben Collins, birthdays, conspiracy theories, deep state, Donald Trump, fan fiction, gullible, Hillary Clinton, JFK Jr., mass delusion, mental illness, pizzagate, Qanon, rat king, Robert Mueller, Tom Hanks |
By Mark | October 13, 2019
When Donald Trump announced last week that, at the request of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, he would be pulling back American troops stationed in Syria, everyone knew exactly what would happen. We knew that our allies, the Kurds, would be wiped out by the Turks. And that’s exactly what’s happening right now. […]
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By Mark | September 5, 2019
I was going to write a substantive post about Iran tonight, but I decided to read an old Vonnegut book instead. Here, because I feel as though I owe you something — even though I know that I don’t — is a photo that I recently posted to Instagram. It’s something that Arlo said to […]
By Mark | September 2, 2019
I know it’s probably cheating, but here’s something that I posted more than half a decade ago on the occasion of Labor Day. If anything, I think it’s even more appropriate today, seeing as how Michigan has since become a so-called “right to work” state, and we now how have an unquestionably anti-worker administration running […]
Also posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Schiff, Alexander Acosta, American Railway Union, Annual Day of Yard Work, anti-worker, Chicago, company town, Donald Trump, Eugene Debs, Governor Altgeld, Grover Cleveland, Illinois, Marvin Kaplan, Patrick Pizzella, Pullman, Pullman Palace Car Company, Pullman strike, Richard Olney, Socialism, strikes, tax cuts, the threat of Socialism, unions, William Emanuel, workers rights |
By Mark | August 20, 2019
If you’re reading this in the future, and want to send a cyborg back in time in order to keep me from being born, so that I don’t destroy Skynet, or do whatever terrible and awesome thing it is that I’m going to do in my remaining years here on earth, this is where you […]
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