Tag Archives: Dan Pfeiffer

Citing a “betrayal of our national security”, Nancy Pelosi goes all-in on impeachment

By Mark | September 24, 2019

Things appear to be taking a decisive turn in Washington. With evidence mounting that Donald Trump had attempted to coerce the President of Ukraine into assisting with the swiftboating of Joe Biden, and news breaking that the intelligence community whistleblower who first brought the charges to the attention of the IGIC had reached out to […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, bribery, cult of victimhood, foreign aid, House Intelligence Committee, Hunter Biden, IGIC, impeachment, Inspector General, Joe Biden, Joseph Maguire, Mark Warner, Michael Atkinson, Mike Pompeo, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi, national security, Preet Bharara, presidential harassment, quid pro quo, Richard Burr, Richard Nixon, Rudy Giuliani, Sally Yates, Senate Intelligence Committee, State Department, Swiftboating, transcript, treason, Ukraine, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky, whistle blower, William Barr | 103 Comments

NBC, ABC and CBS capitulate to Trump, offering him airtime to lie to the American people about the non-existent “crisis” on our southern border

By Mark | January 7, 2019

Early this afternoon, Donald Trump tweeted out that he would be addressing the nation at 9:00 on Tuesday evening to discuss the “national security crisis on our southern border.” The three networks, who, back in November of 2014, refused to televise a speech on immigration by President Barack Obama, saying that it was too political, […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ABC, border security, border wall, Brian Stelter, bullying, CBS, Donald Trump, fake news, illegal immigration, Judd Legum, Kirstjen Nielsen, national emergency, NBC, racism, stupid ideas, terrorism | 99 Comments

The redeployment of Mike Pence, agent of distraction, and the ever widening war with the NFL

By Mark | October 9, 2017

This past November, just a few weeks after the presidential election, Donald Trump quietly settled a fraud case against Trump University for $25 million, rather than go to court and respond to charges that the unaccredited education company operating under his name, was, to quote a former Trump University employee, “a fraudulent scheme… that preyed […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 60 Minutes, Bob Corker, bots, culture war, distraction, Donald Trump, election hacking, election integrity, Facebook, football, fraud, Hamilton, Indiana Colts, kneeling, Mike Pence, NFL, political theater, protests, Puerto Rico, race, race relations, racism, Russia, settlement, stunts, Trump University, Twilight Zone, white victimization, World War III | 25 Comments

Our word of the day is “leverage”

By Mark | August 28, 2017

A few days ago, I suggested on this site that Donald Trump, by pardoning Joe Arpaio, was signaling that he wouldn’t leave office willingly, like Nixon, but instead intended to fight, even if it meant fracturing the GOP, and perhaps the entire country, beyond repair. By rewarding Arpaio for his blatant contempt for civil rights […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Civil War, Donald Trump, identity politics, Illinois, Illinois Nazis, impeachment, Iowa, Joe Arpaio, Jon Favreau, leverage, Mitch McConnell, Nazis, Paul Ryan, Pod Save America, propaganda, racism, Richard Nixon, Russia, sanctions, tax cuts, trade, transgender, Wall Street, white nationalism, white supremacist, white victimization | 6 Comments

Thank you, Mike Pence, for drawing my attention to Alexander Hamilton

By Mark | November 21, 2016

In politics, as in business, it’s long been accepted practice to release bad news on Fridays in hopes of keeping media scrutiny to a minimum… And, I’m sure it was with this in mind that President-elect Donald Trump, this past Friday, released word that he’d agreed to pay a $25 million settlement to former students […]