Tag Archives: Ted Cruz

Not wanting the American people to make the connection between the border wall and white nationalism, the Republicans attempt to force racist Congressman Steve King, the wall’s biggest proponent, from the House

By Mark | January 15, 2019

I guess we should just be happy that the Republicans have finally decided to turn on Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa. While we’re congratulating Republicans for doing the right thing, though, and joining Democrats to formally condemn King on the floor of the House for questioning whether the term “white nationalist” should be considered […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-immigrant, border wall, David Duke, Donald Trump, House of Representatives, Iowa, Kevin McCarthy, Nazi, racism, Steve King, white nationalism, white nationalist, white supremacist | 111 Comments

2018 Election Day open thread

By Mark | November 6, 2018

9:00 AM I’m home with a sick kid, so thing may not go as planned, but I’m hoping to vote soon, and then head back home to do some remote phone banking through Swing Left for Amy McGrath, the Democratic candidate for Kentucky’s 6th district, which covers Frankfort, where I lived as a baby, Georgetown, […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ACA, Adam Schiff, Amy McGrath, Andy LaBarre, Arlo, Atlanta, Bill Schuette, Black Panther Party, bowling, Brian Kemp, Clementine, Congress, Dave Trott, Debbie Stabenow, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, Election Day, election interference, election reform, election results, elections, Elissa Slotkin, fake news, Georgia, get out the vote, Gretchen Driskell, Haley Stevens, health care, House Intelligence Committee, Jeff Irwin, Kansas, Kentucky, Kris Kobach, Landline, Lena Epstein, Michigan's 11th congressional district, Michigan's 7th Congressional District, Michigan's 8th Congressional District, midterm elections, Mike Bishop, Pennsylvania, Peter Larson, phone banking, Piss Alley Rollers, Pita Pita, play structure, Pod Save America, political violence, racism, Riverside Park, Rust Belt, Sidetrack, Snellville, Stacey Abrams, Swing Left, Tim Walberg, voter fraud, voter suppression, voting, Wisconsin | 216 Comments

With midterms approaching, the evil of the right is on full display

By Mark | October 23, 2018

With the midterms fast approaching, and the prospect of both houses of Congress, as well as several statehouses, potentially flipping, Republicans across the country are becoming increasingly desperate. And, as you might imagine, this desperation is manifesting itself in truly terrible ways. In Texas, with the young, dynamic Beto O’Rourke gaining momentum, Ted Cruz has […]

Posted in History, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Gillum, anti-immigration, anti-Semitism, asylum, attempted murder, Beto O'Rourke, Bill Kristol, Brian Kemp, caravan, Central America, civility, conspiracy theory, cowardice, Dan Pfeifer, Donald Trump, exact match, fascism, fear mongering, Florida, George Soros, Georgia, gerrymandering, Greg Gianforte, Hannah Arendt, incitement to violence, journalism, lying, MAGA, Medicaid, Medicare, middle class tax cuts, midterm elections, Mike Pence, pipe bombs, political violence, racism, Richard Linklater, robocalls, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Secretary of State, Senate, Stacey Abrams, tax cuts, terrorism, Texas, threats of violence, threats to journalists, voter fraud, voter suppression | 43 Comments

Are Democrats “too dangerous to govern”?

By Mark | October 13, 2018

To all of the Republicans who have jumped on the “Democrats are a danger to the rule of law” bandwagon as a way of delegitimizing protest, and obscuring the fact that regular Americans have very real and legitimate reasons for being upset with their leaders in Washington, who are essentially taking health care from working […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, Amy Klobuchar, birther, Brett Kavanaugh, bullying, Charlottesville, Christine Blasey Ford, David Pecker, Donald Trump, face stomping, health care, Hitler, hypocrisy, law and order, Melaina Trump, narcissism, National Enquirer, Pennsylvania, preexisting conditions, professional victims, protest, reproductive rights, rule of law, Scott Wagner, snowflakes, Tom Wolf, unhinged mob, victimhood, violence | 111 Comments

School shootings, the delay-and-do-nothing right, and those who blame women for “the destabilization of the sexual marketplace”

By Mark | May 22, 2018

I’d wanted to write about something else entirely tonight, but then I stumbled across the above tweet, and it sent me tumbling through the looking glass, into a pitch-black world of toxic masculinity and weaponized insecurity, where women, having been debased to the point of no longer being considered human, are seen merely as instruments […]