By Mark | August 18, 2019
Yesterday, several white nationalist groups descended on Portland, Oregon. The idea, it would seem, was for these heroic specimens of Arian perfection to bait the anti-fascist counter-protestors who had gathered in response into some kind of violent confrontation, in hopes that right-wing “journalists” like Andy Ngo might be able to get a few photos of […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andy Ngo, anti-fascist, ANTIFA, cereal, chauvinism, Civil War, Donald Trump, fascism, fear, grievance, higher self, Hyborian Warlord, incels, Jeffrey Epstein, Joe Briggs, MAGA, Nazi, non-violence, Oregon, Portland, Proud Boys, racism, recession, sexism, Ted Wheeler, terrorism, white nationalism, Wisconsin |
My plan had been to get the kids to be and then write about the rampant narcissism displayed by Donald Trump in the face of tragedy, but then I saw that Burt Lancaster’s 1946 film noir The Killers was on TV, and I decided that, for the good of everyone around me, I needed to […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Dan Scavino, Dayton, Donald Trump, grievance, Just Crack and Egg, narcissism, Ohio, psychology, racism, Texas |
Yesterday morning, at approximately 11:00 AM, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white male wth a history of racist views, walked into the Walmart next to El Paso’s Cielo Vista Mall with an AK-47-style assault rifle, and proceeded to take the lives of 20 human beings. While some on the right, like Texas Governor Greg Abbott, are […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 8chan, anti-immigrant, anti-immigration, assault rifles, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, background checks, Beto O'Rourke, border wall, call to action, call to violence, Charlottesville, Christchurch, conspiracy theories, domestic terrorism, Donald Trump, Drudge Report, gamification, go back to where you came from, go back to your countries, Great Replacement, Greg Abbott, gun control, gun laws, gun violence, impeachment, incitement to violence, infested, invasion, levitate the Pentagon, levitation, manifestos, mass murder, mass shootings, mental health, mental illness, Mexico, New Zealand, NRA, Nuremberg, Patrick Crusius, racism, Renaud Camus, Texas, The Inconvenient Truth, universal background checks, violence on the extreme right, Walmart, white nationalism, white supremacist, Will Hurd |
I wanted to write about immigration yesterday, after news broke that Donald Trump had fired Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, but I just didn’t think that I could do the subject justice, given the sheer magnitude of everything that’s been happening. But, with that said, I’ve decided to give it another shot right now. […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-immigrant, asylum, blue tape, Calexico, Claire Grady, cruelty, Customs and Border Patrol, deterrent, EPA, executive orders, family separation, FEMA, Flores v. Reno, gangs, Homeland Security, ICE, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration law, international trade. Mexico, Jeff Sessions, Jenny Lisette Flores, Kirstjen Nielsen, Mick Mulvaney, Mike Pompeo, ports of entry, racism, Randolph "Tex" Alles, Secret Service, Secretary of Defense, southern border, Stephen Miller, United Nations, White House Chief of Staff, xenophobia, zero tolerance |
By Mark | February 17, 2019
This morning, the President of the United States took to Twitter to say that the investigation against him and his associates — the investigation that has already yielded multiple convictions and guilty pleas — is “illegal and rigged”. He then went on to add — quoting Rush Limbaugh — that those investigating him “ought to […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged authoritarianism, call to violence, Capital Gazette, Donald Trump, enemy of the people, fascism, First Amendment, freedom of the press, future of journalism, Garry Kasparov, gun control, journalism, Limbaugh, Lügenpresse, lying press, mass shootings, Milo Yiannopoulos, Nazi, NRA, political violence, potential for violence, retribution, rule of law, Russia, Saturday Night Live, threats to Democracy, threats to journalists, Vladimir Putin |