Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Exploring Trump’s “Manifesto of Mistruths”: Is our economy really “the best it has ever been”?

By Mark | February 9, 2020

I didn’t watch Donald Trump’s State of the Union a few days ago. I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. And, apparently, I wasn’t alone. Viewership, it seems, was way down. Which, I guess, given what he had to say, was a good thing. Trump not only lied, but he lied a lot, even […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Arlo, Bureau of Labor Statistics, deficit, deficit spending, Donald Trump, Dow Jones, economic growth, economic recovery, factories, federal deficit, GDP, Gross Domestic Product, health care, job creation, jobs, manufacturing, Medicaid, Medicare, Nancy Pelosi, North By Northwest, Obamacare, Paul Krugman, preexisting conditions, Republican lies, S&P 500, social security, Social Security Disability Insurance, SSDI, Steven Rattner, stock market, stomach flu, tax cuts, The 39 Steps, Trump tax cuts, unemployment | 125 Comments

The Horowitz report on the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation

By Mark | December 11, 2019

On Monday, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his long-awaited 433-page report into whether or not the FBI was justified in opening their investigation into contacts between Russian operatives and members of the Trump campaign in the run-up to the 2016 election. And, guess what? It wasn’t the “atomic bomb” that Donald Trump’s supporters […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged bias, Carter Page, Crossfire Hurricane, Department of Justice, dossier, FBI, FISA, Inspector General, Kamala Harris, Lisa Page, Michael Horowitz, Michael Steele, Peter Strzok, Russia, Russiagate, Senate Judiciary Committee, surveillance, William Barr | 67 Comments

Five things about the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Mark | October 27, 2019

In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, as part of an operation code-named Neptune Spear, entered a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and executed Osama bin Laden, the head of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda. In a televised announcement later that day, a sober Barack Obama […]

Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbottabad, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al Qaeda, assassination, baseball, booing, chants, credit, crying, Donald Trump, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Idlib, ISIS, Kurds, lock him up, Mike Pence, Navy SEALS, Neptune Spear, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Russia, screaming, September 11, Situation Room, Syria, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Washington Nationals, whimpering, William McRaven, World Series | 67 Comments

Trump asks the President of Ukraine to make nice with Russia, the country that attacked it and stole its land

By Mark | September 25, 2019

I want to write about everything that’s happened today, as writing about things here helps me to process things, but, before I dive in, I wanted to share this piece of video with you. It was taken earlier today in New York City, at the United Nations building, where Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged conspiracy theories, Crimea, Crimean Peninsula, Donald Trump, foreign affairs, foreign relations, Miss Universe, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky | 2 Comments

Our racist president, being a racist, says something racist

By Mark | July 28, 2019

I didn’t want to write about Donald Trump’s most recent racist statements, as, to be honest, I didn’t see as how any good would come of it. It was just a week or so ago that we were talking about how he’d told four freshman Congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “crime infested” […]