Tag Archives: ethics

Unbreaking America: focusing on popular nonpartisan state ballot initiatives to build momentum for national anti-corruption legislation

By Mark | March 19, 2019

I have issues with the nonpartisan political action group RepresentUs. I don’t like, for instance, that, at their upcoming “Unrig Summit” in Nashville, their speakers are going to include the likes of Tulsi “I’ never met a dictator that I didn’t like” Gabbard, Howard “I want to run as an independent even if it means […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, American Anti-Corruption Act, campaign financing, Citizens Redistricting Commission, corporatocracy, Donald Trump, Election Day, For the People Act of 2019, gerrymandering, get the money out of Washington, Hillary Clinton, Howard Schultz, Jennifer Lawrence, Jill Stein, lobbying, Michigan, Mitch McConnell, money in politics, Nina Turner, nonpartisan, populism, Proposition 2, redistricting, RepresentUs, rigged system, threats to Democracy, Tulsi Gabbard, Unbreak America, Unrig Summit, vote the bums out, voter suppression | 47 Comments

I too have zero tolerance

By Mark | June 18, 2018

The above photo, taken by photographer John Moore, shows a heart-broken two year old Honduran asylum seeker being taken from her mother at the US-Mexico border. The scene, sadly, is one that has become all too commonplace these past several weeks, as the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy toward migrants crossing the southern border has […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-immigration, Apostle Paul, Barack Obama, border patrol, Brownsville, Casa Padre, child cruelty, crisis actors, cruelty, Diane Feinstein, George W. Bush, Germany, human rights, Jeff Sessions, Jesus Christ, John McCain, Kamala Harris, Keep Families Together Act, Kirstjen Nielsen, Laura Bush, Methodist, Michael Hayden, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Texas, United Methodist Church, United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council, Walmart, Walter Shaub, zero tolerance | 299 Comments

As more stories come to light about immigrant children being taken from parents at the border, Trump blames his administration’s policy on Democrats

By Mark | May 27, 2018

About three weeks ago, on May 7, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new “zero tolerance” policy at southern border. “If you smuggle illegal aliens across our border, then we will prosecute you,” Sessions said at the time. “If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you,” he continued. “And that child may […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Schiff, beshitted soulless pig, catch and release, David Simon, Donald Trump, epitaph, immigration, immigration reform, Jeff Sessions, Jim Carrey, John Kelly, post-fact, post-truth, racism, Republican lies, the border, the border with Mexico, Walter Shaub | 11 Comments

Cohen’s $600,000 from AT&T illustrates just what a joke it was when Trump promised to “drain the swamp”

By Mark | May 12, 2018

Trump ran for president as a populist reformer. He told people that he was going to “drain the swamp” of Washington, D.C., and restore the government to the people of America. In October of 2016, right before the election, Donald Trump told a campaign rally in Wisconsin, “It is time to drain the swamp in […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged AT&T, CNN, Cooley Law, Department of Justice, Donald Duck, Donald Trump, drain the swamp, Essential Consultants, honesty, lies, lobbyists, mergers, Michael Cohen, Mitch McConnel, Obamacare, Paul Ryan, populism, Randall Stephenson, Republican lies, Sheldon Adelson, Stormy Daniels, tax cuts, Time Warner, wealth inequality | 3 Comments

The perjurer, the scientist who wasn’t, and the world’s most accomplished barista

By Mark | November 2, 2017

Since we last spoke, a few interesting things have happened. Most notably from my perspective, Trump’s former foreign advisor, Carter Page, reportedly told members of the House intelligence committee today that, during the campaign, he had informed Jeff Sessions that he would be traveling to Russia. This, of course directly contradicts what Sessions himself said […]