By Mark | November 3, 2016
Yesterday, freaking out that Trump was climbing in the Michigan polls, I announced on this site that I’d be taking some vacation time from work to help out at Democratic Party office here in Ypsi. I did so because I knew that, if I made a public proclamation, I’d actually probably follow through. And apparently […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 2016, canvassing, Donald Trump, elections, get out the vote, Hillary Clinton, Jack Brown, Lisa Zuber, Michigan Avenue, Panda Ypsilanti |
By Mark | November 2, 2016
A few weeks ago, I mentioned here that I might spend some time working on behalf of the Clinton campaign in either my birth state of Kentucky, where the Republican Governor said not too long ago that patriots may need to shed blood in order to “reclaim” the U.S. if Trump loses, or our neighboring […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, Donald Trump, elections, email, enthusiasm gap, FBI, Hillary Clinton, James B. Comey, Kentucky, Ohio, polling, Pussy Grabber, scandals, the black vote |
By Mark | October 30, 2016
I wasn’t going to mention the fact that F.B.I. Director James B. Comey sent a letter to members of Congress this past Friday, telling them that new evidence had surfaced pertaining to the agency’s investigation into the private emails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. This, as multiple news sources have since reported, was […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, Anthony Weiner, Director James B. Comey, Donald Trump, email, F.B.I., hacking, Harry Reid, Hatch Act, Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, Justice Department, Loretta Lynch, national security, Richard W. Painter, Russia, Sally Yates, Vladimir Putin |
By Mark | October 26, 2016
While I’m helping Arlo get his pterodactyl costume ready for tomorrow night’s YpsiGlow event, I wanted to share this video with you. It’s an excerpt from Micahel Moore’s new film Trumpland. As it’s been making it’s way around the internet for the past day or two, I suspect that most of you have probably already […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Predictions | Also tagged 2016, Arlo, Brexit, costumes, Detroit Economic Club, dispossessed, Donald Trump, Ford Motor Company, free trade, fuck you, Halloween, Hillary Clinton, Hillbilly Elegy, Mexico, Michael Moore, middle class, middle class anger, molotov, Obamacare, outsourcing, Percocet, revenge, Trumpland, voting, YpsiGLOW |
By Mark | October 17, 2016
During this past weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack, I talked at some length with Scott Hagerstrom, the Michigan director of the Trump Pence 2016 campaign, about both the possibility of polling place discord on November 8th, as a result of Trump supporters attempting to suppress the vote in “certain areas”, and the likelihood […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Pop Culture, Rants, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, ACORN, assassination, birther, Boston Globe, Breitbart News, Cincinnati, conspiracy theories, Dan Bowman, Donald Trump, election fraud, endorsements, facts, future of journalism, global climate change, Global Warming, GOP, hacking, Hillary Clinton, hot mic, illegal immigration, independent press, investigative press, Jared Kushner, Married with Children, Matt Bevin, Media, media literacy, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, President Camacho, pussy, pussy grabbing, racism, reality television, rebellion, reform, Republican Party, revolution, rigged elections, RNC, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Scott Hagerstrom, sexual assault, Steve Bannon, Steve Schmidt, tea party, Tea Partyfication, the collapse of the Republican party, the hijacking of the Republican party, The November 9 War, the sad state of journalism, the short attention spans of Americans, threats to journalists, unshackled, Values Voter Summit, Vladimir Putin, vote tampering, voter suppression, voting, voting rights |