Tag Archives: John Kelly

Fear

By Mark | September 4, 2018

Now that Bob Woodward’s book about Donald Trump is just about a week away from hitting the shelves, we’re starting to get a little more insight as to what’s inside. Today, we got word that both Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly are quoted in the book. Mattis apparently […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bob Woodward, Donald Trump, fear, ghosts, guilty, guilty conscious, Jim Mattis, LBJ, MacBeth, Shakespeare, television show idea, village idiots | 12 Comments

Now that Omarosa is out, Kellyanne Conway cannot name a single other African-American working in the West Wing

By Mark | August 12, 2018

On the first anniversary of last year’s deadly “Unite the Right” event Charlottesville, as white nationalists gathered across from the White House to bemoan their loss of agency in a changing America, Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway went on ABC’s This Week to discuss the new book by fired White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. Well, […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ben Carson, Charlottesville, Ja’Ron, Kellyanne Conway, Omarosa, Omarosa Manigault Newman, racism, Situation Room, Unite the Right, White House, white nationalism | 10 Comments

“Remember how I said what I said, and how everyone got so mad? Well, I actually meant the opposite.”

By Mark | July 17, 2018

It’s being reported that we have White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to thank for today’s uncomfortable press event, during which Donald Trump tried to walk back the fact that he’d taken the side of Vladimir Putin over the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to Vanity Fair, it was Kelly, who, after […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Cold War, collusion, Donald Trump, election hacking, election meddling, FBI, Igor Konashenkov, KGB, Russia, Russiagate, treason, Vladimir Putin | 140 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, ethics, immigration, immigration reform, Jeff Sessions, Jim Carrey, post-fact, post-truth, racism, Republican lies, the border, the border with Mexico, Walter Shaub | 11 Comments

Giuliani confirms that “Spygate” was never anything more than an effort on the part of Trump to find out what evidence Mueller has collected against him thus far

By Mark | May 24, 2018

Remember how, yesterday, we were discussing the fact that Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, in spite of recusing himself from the Russian investigation this past April, when a House ethics investigation determined that he’d been sharing classified materials relating to the Mueller investigation with members the Trump administration, was attempting to get more information about the […]