Tag Archives: Mike Pence

The enduring beauty of the deep state… Marie Yovanovitch provides the best counterpoint to Trumpism to date

By Mark | November 18, 2019

I had the good fortune to be on vacation this past Friday, so I was able to watch quite a bit of Marie Yovanovitch’s courageous testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in real-time. While there’s a great deal that I could say about the shameful behavior of Republicans on the committee and the response to […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Schiff, bravery, civil service, conspiracy theory, corruption, Courage, deep state, diplomacy, Donald Trump, House Intelligence Committee, Hunter Biden, intimidation, Jennifer Williams, Joe Biden, Marie Yovanovitch, Mike Pompeo, Rudy Giuliani, rule of law, smear, State Department, Twitter, Ukraine, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky, witness intimidation, Yuriy Lutsenko | 6 Comments

Giuliani associate Lev Parnas confesses to conveying the quid pro quo to Ukraine for Trump

By Mark | November 10, 2019

I’d wanted to talk about former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, and whether she’s angling to take the vice presidency away from Mike Pence, but then Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas came along fucked up my plans by announcing to the world that he’d reached out to the incoming Zelensky government as far back as May […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alexander Vindman, bribery, CNN, diplomacy, Donald Trump, extortion, Fareed Zakaria, foreign aid, Fraud Guarantee, Hunter Biden, Igor Fruman, Joe Biden, Lev Parnas, Marie Yovanovitch, Mike Pompeo, military aid, Nikki Haley, Pete Sessions, quid pro quo, Rudy Giuliani, Ukraine, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky, whistle blower | 4 Comments

Five things about the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Mark | October 27, 2019

In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, a U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, as part of an operation code-named Neptune Spear, entered a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and executed Osama bin Laden, the head of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda. In a televised announcement later that day, a sober Barack Obama […]

Posted in Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abbottabad, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al Qaeda, assassination, Barack Obama, baseball, booing, chants, credit, crying, Donald Trump, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Idlib, ISIS, Kurds, lock him up, Navy SEALS, Neptune Spear, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Russia, screaming, September 11, Situation Room, Syria, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Washington Nationals, whimpering, William McRaven, World Series | 67 Comments

Trump actually thought the ‘transcript’ would help

By Mark | September 25, 2019

With the whistleblower getting ready to go before Congress, his Director of National Intelligence testifying tomorrow, and Pelosi dropping the impeachment bomb last night, I guess Trump felt as though he had to do something, so, this morning, he released a summary of a call he had with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, back on July […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ben Sasse, collusion, Department of Justice, Director of National Intelligence, DNI, Hillary Clinton, House Intelligence Committee, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Joseph Maguire, Kamala Harris, Rudy Giuliani, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky, whistle blower, William Barr | 26 Comments

“We’ve got some difficult days ahead.” -MLK

By Mark | January 21, 2019

As of yesterday, the White House was saying that, President Trump and Vice President Pence had “no scheduled plans” for Martin Luther King Day. Today, however, they visited the MLK memorial in DC, where they stood for approximately one minute before leaving. Donald Trump, as he left, made the a brief, yet inspirational, speech. “Good […]