Tag Archives: Chad Wolf

This is fascism, right?

By Mark | July 22, 2020

[above: U.S. Attorney General William Barr winks at Donald Trump moments after the President announces that, as part of his new Combatting Violent Crime in American Cities initiative, federal officers will be deployed to more American cities to put down what he describes as a “radical movement” to “defund, dismantle and dissolve our police departments.”] […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, ATF, caravans, chaos, Chicago, Civil War, Combatting Violent Crime in American Cities, COVID-19, DEA, defund the police, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, fascism, FBI, gangs, grievance, Homeland Security, hospital capacity, ICU, law and order, law enforcement, Lori Lightfoot, martial law, police, police state, Portland, public health, racism, states rights, threats to Democracy, Tom Ridge, U.S. Marshals Service, violent crime, white grievance, William Barr, wink | 158 Comments

Today in Fascism: With DHS officers having been deployed to Portland, Chicago prepares for the inevitable, and we wonder if Detroit might be next

By Mark | July 20, 2020

The cool, military-looking guy above is former lobbyist Chad Wolf. [Insert Donald Trump “Drain the swamp!” soundbite.] As I understand it, Wolf has never served a day in the military. He did, however, attend Southern Methodist University on a tennis scholarship, and earn an undergraduate degree in history. And, now, because he was in the […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged border patrol, call to action, Carrie Cordero, Center for a New American Security, Chicago, Cory Booker, Customs and Border Patrol, Dana Nessel, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Detroit, DHS, drain the swamp, family separation, fascism, FBI, Gretchen Whitmer, HEROES Act, Kirstjen Nielsen, law and order, lobbyists, martial law, moms against fascism, police state, politicization, Portland, racism, threats to Democracy, unconstitutional, William Barr | 80 Comments

This is Donald. Don’t be like Donald.

By Mark | March 14, 2020

We know that Donald Trump and members of his administration have had direct personal contact with least two people who, shortly after their interactions, have tested positive for coronavirus. Trump had dinner with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s communications director, Fábio Wajngarten, at Mar-a-Lago, who afterward tested positive for the virus. And, the President’s daughter, Ivanka […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Anthony Fauci, Australia, Brazil, coronavirus, COVID-19, Daily Show, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Donald Trump, Fábio Wajngarten, H1N1, Ivanka Trump, Mar-a-Lago, Matt Gaetz, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, Obama, Peter Dutton, political rally, public health, role models, self-quarantine, shaking hands, social distancing, vaccination, virology, William Barr | 13 Comments

It’s comforting to know that we have some of the dumbest, most ill-equipped people in our entire country leading the fight against coronavirus

By Mark | February 26, 2020

Continuing our conversation from yesterday about how woefully ill-equipped the current administration is to deal with something as complex as this current public health emergency we’re facing, I think it’s worth mentioning that our Director of Homeland Security is apparently relying on data concerning the spread of the virus from the Johns Hopkins public website. […]