Tag Archives: Mitch McConnell

PPP data, finally released by the SBA, shows that millions of US taxpayer dollars went to businesses tied to the likes of Jared Kushner, Mitch McConnell, and Devin Nunes, in what can best be described as a corporate looting free-for-all

By Mark | July 6, 2020

I was going to write about Florida’s executive order to reopen schools in August in spite of the fact that they just broke a national record with 11,458 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, and their hospitals are now reaching capacity, but then the Small Business Administration (SBA) finally caved to pressure and released the names […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, anti-government, Ayn Rand, Ayn Rand Institute, CARES Act, coronavirus, corruption, COVID-19, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, Elaine Chao, Florida, Foremost Group, Grover Norquist, hypocrisy, Jared Kushner, Kanye West, looting, Marc Kasowitz, oversight, Paycheck Protection Program, PPP, public education, public health, Small Business Administration, transparency, Treasury Department, Yeezy | 10 Comments

A former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warns of the President’s use of the military, saying, “I am deeply worried that as they execute their orders, the members of our military will be co-opted for political purposes.”

By Mark | June 2, 2020

[above: Military police block peaceful civil rights protesters from approaching the Lincoln Memorial on the day that Donald “don’t be too nice” Trump declares that his administration “has done more for the black community than any president since Abraham Lincoln.”] There are a lot of different ways that I could take things this evening, but […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, armed forces, authoritarian, authoritarianism, Ben Sasse, Bible, black lives matter, Constitution, constitutional crisis, DC, Donald Trump, future crime, George Floyd, George W. Bush, Insurrection Act, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Kasie Hunt, Lafayette Square, Lincoln Memorial, Lisa Murkowski, mark Esper, Mike Mullen, military, military police, Minority Report, National Guard, non-violence, police state, police violence, political ads, protests, racism, rubber bullets, St. John's Church, tear gar, thought crime, violence, Will Hurd | 75 Comments

Rick Bright testifies that we still “don’t have a master plan for (the COVID-19) response,” and McConnell concedes that, yes, the Obama administration did leave a detailed pandemic response plan, but that Trump just didn’t follow it

By Mark | May 15, 2020

Two interesting things happened in the real world yesterday as fucking idiots with assault weapons gathered in Lansing, shutting down the capitol to speculate about the imaginary crimes committed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer and fantasize about her assassination. Rick Bright, a former high-ranking vaccine official at the Department of Health and Human Services, testified before […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged #Obamagate, assault weapons, COVID-19, Department of Health and Human Services, Gretchen Whitmer, Hydroxychloroquine, Lansing, noose, pandemic, protests, public health, Rick Bright, testimony, threats of violence, whistle blower | 34 Comments

They want to bankrupt the blue states, and kill public unions, but, yes, let’s talk about the injection of Lysol

By Mark | April 25, 2020

Toward the end of this past week, it became evident that the Republicans intended to use this horrific pandemic in order to force individual states into bankruptcy. Mitch McConnell, having worked to deliver hundreds of millions of our hard-earned tax dollars to corporations, said this past Wednesday that the states being hit hardest by COVID-19 […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Anthony Fauci, anti-government, bailouts, bankruptcy, Bill Bryan, blue states, Chloroquine, Climate Change, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis, Deborah Birx, deficit spending, denial, Department of Homeland Security, disinfectants, DNA, Donald Trump, FDR, George Bush, George Bush the Lesser, Global Warming, Great Depression, Green New Deal, Hydroxychloroquine, injections, Iraq war, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, Lysol, magic beans, miracle cures, New Deal, Obama, pandemic, public health, Ram Emanuel, sarcasm, shooting up, small government, snake oil, sunlight, tan suit, union busting | 128 Comments

What COVID-19 metrics should we be following?

By Mark | March 31, 2020

I get that it’s important, from a public health perspective, to track the total number of active COVID-19 cases over time. Having a sense as to how many people have been diagnosed at a given point in time, should, in theory, give you a sense as to what you might expect a week or two […]