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Mark’s Covid Diary… June 16, 2020
Posted in Civil Liberties, Mark's Life, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged agent provocateurs, ANTIFA, Arizona, bleach, Boogaloo, Costco, COVID-19, crisis gardens, Donald Trump, Enrique Neblett, Florida, food delivery, George Floyd, gun reform, gun violence, health disparities, inequality, Jaws, kale, Katrease Stafford, Kroger, lungs, lynching, masks, milkshakes, Monica, political violence, privilege, public health, race inequality, racism, school shooting, Shake Shack, structural racism, violence on the extreme right 42 Comments
Risking our lives to save his own
As of today, there are 53,740 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, of which, 1,700 are here in Michigan. Here’s our current trajectory, based on the data. One would hope that, with about half U.S. states now under some form of lockdown, and testing finally starting to ramp up, we may eventually, over the […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 2020, Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, Dan Patrick, death panel, Donald Trump, Easter, lockdown, pandemic, Presidential politics, public health, shelter in place, social distancing 38 Comments
The Killers
My plan had been to get the kids to be and then write about the rampant narcissism displayed by Donald Trump in the face of tragedy, but then I saw that Burt Lancaster’s 1946 film noir The Killers was on TV, and I decided that, for the good of everyone around me, I needed to […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Dan Scavino, Dayton, Donald Trump, El Paso, grievance, Just Crack and Egg, narcissism, Ohio, psychology, racism 51 Comments
Yet another young white male with a gun goes on a killing rampage citing the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory
Yesterday morning, at approximately 11:00 AM, Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white male wth a history of racist views, walked into the Walmart next to El Paso’s Cielo Vista Mall with an AK-47-style assault rifle, and proceeded to take the lives of 20 human beings. While some on the right, like Texas Governor Greg Abbott, are […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged 8chan, anti-immigrant, anti-immigration, assault rifles, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, background checks, Beto O'Rourke, border wall, call to action, call to violence, Charlottesville, Christchurch, conspiracy theories, domestic terrorism, Donald Trump, Drudge Report, El Paso, gamification, go back to where you came from, go back to your countries, Great Replacement, Greg Abbott, gun control, gun laws, gun violence, impeachment, incitement to violence, infested, invasion, levitate the Pentagon, levitation, manifestos, mass murder, mass shootings, mental health, mental illness, Mexico, New Zealand, NRA, Nuremberg, Patrick Crusius, racism, Renaud Camus, The Inconvenient Truth, universal background checks, violence on the extreme right, Walmart, white nationalism, white supremacist, Will Hurd 93 Comments
Prophesying the coming of Trump, “the high priest of fraud,” in 1958
Over the past few days, a reader of this site – a fellow calling himself iRobert – has shared the same link in the comments section several times. It’s a link to an episode of a television program from 1958 starring Robert Culp called Trackdown. Saying that the episode in question, titled “The End of […]
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged 1958, border wall, CBS, Columbo, con man, con men, Death Lends a Hand, Fred Trump, Hoby Gilman, iRobert, Lawrence Dobkin, Old Man Trump, racism, Robert Culp, Talpa, Texas Ranger, Trackdown, Woody Guthrie 11 Comments
