Happy #MAGA Easter, everyone. Here, in celebration of how far we’ve come, is an ugly reminder of how things were before we had a born-again (porn star fucking) evangelical (pussy grabber) in the White House (colluding with a dictator to bring down our democracy). Happy Easter! pic.twitter.com/QnCVYMJOTm — Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) April 1, 2018 Always […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged authoritarianism, border wall, Christianity, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, deportation, Donald Trump, Easter, evangelical, hypocrisy, immigration, impeachment, Mexico, opioids, racism, Robert Mueller, shithole |
By Mark | February 6, 2018
As I took last night off, there’s a lot that we could talk about today. We could talk about he fact that our president, standing before a terrifyingly representative sample of what’s left of his base announced that those who refuse to applaud him are “un-American” and likely “treasonous”. Or we could talk about the […]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged $1.50, budget deficit, Cadet Bone Spurs, deficit spending, Donald Trump, Dow Jones, international trade, Jay Carney, John Kelly, Koch brothers, lazy, Medicaid, Medicare, military parade, New Deal, Paul Ryan, racism, rolling back the New Deal, Sean Hannity, social security, Steven Mnuchin, stock market, trade deficit, treason, un-American, wealth inequality |
By Mark | January 22, 2018
Remember, yesterday, when I said that I hoped the sight of millions of women marching across the United States put a little steel in the backbones of Congressional Democrats? Well, it seems not to have worked. This afternoon, the government shutdown ended, as a number of Democrats voted with Republicans to pass a temporary, three-week […]
By Mark | January 21, 2018
As we discussed last week, in hopes of avoiding a government shutdown, a bipartisan group of Senators led by Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin went to the White House with a plan that, as they relayed to the President, would pass through both houses of Congress. This compromise legislation, they explained to Donald Trump and […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged #SchumerShutdown, #TrumpShutdown, America First, Bill Kristol, border security, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, Chuck Schumer, Claire McCaskill, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Dick Durbin, Donal Trump, Donald Trump, Gang of Six, government shutdown, Haiti, immigration, immigration reform, isolationism, Jordan, Lindsey Graham, Mexico, Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, open borders, racism, Rand Paul, shithole, Stephen Miller, support the troops, Tammy Duckworth, Temporary Protected Status, the border with Mexico |
By Mark | January 17, 2018
Some of what you’re about to read may very well be wrong. I don’t pretend to understand the ins and outs of our convoluted government funding mechanisms. I have, however, been trying to follow along, and I wanted to share what I think is going on. As always, if you have an issue with something […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-immigration, border security, CHIP, Chuck Schumer, continuing resolution, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Department of Homeland Security, Dick Durbin, Donald Trump, Gang of Six, government funding, government shutdown, Haiti, Homeland Security, immigration, immigration reform, John Cornyn, John Kelly, Jorge Garcia, Kellyanne Conway, Kirstjen Nielsen, Lindsey Graham, Mexico, Norway, racism, shithole, Stephen Miller, the border with Mexico |