By Mark | September 30, 2020
During last night’s shitshow of a debate, Donald Trump was given multiple opportunities to condemn white supremacy. Instead of doing so, he called on members of the Proud Boys — an organization described by the FBI as a far-right, male-exclusive group group with ties to white nationalism — to “stand by.” Chris Wallace, as you […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, anti-science, ANTIFA, antifascism, authoritarianism, conspiracy theory, debates, dog whistle, Donald Trump, EOS, fascism, FBI, Kamala Harris, Proud Boys, Qanon, racism, stand by, white grievance, white nationalism, white supremacy |
[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, Chad Wolf, 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, 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 |
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, El Paso, fascism, fear, 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, El Paso, Just Crack and Egg, narcissism, Ohio, psychology, racism, Texas |
