Mark Maynard | threats to Democracy

Behind in the polls, Donald Trump threatens to delay the presidential election. One Republican cuts ties.

By Mark | July 30, 2020

This morning, citing the non-existent threat of mail-in voting, Donald Trump suggested that he may try to delay the upcoming election. And apparently this was the final straw for Steven G. Calabresi, a co-founder of the staunchly conservative Federalist Society. Upon reading this tweet of Trump’s, Calabresi drafted an opinion piece for the New York […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, COVID-19, Dave Catanese, Deep Root Analytics, Donald Trump, election fraud, election interference, Federalist Society, GDP, Joe Biden, martial law, police state, public health, Steven G. Calabresi, vote by mail | 28 Comments

This is fascism, right?

By Mark | July 22, 2020

[above: U.S. Attorney General William Barr winks at Donald Trump moments after the President announces that, as part of his new Combatting Violent Crime in American Cities initiative, federal officers will be deployed to more American cities to put down what he describes as a “radical movement” to “defund, dismantle and dissolve our police departments.”] […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, ATF, caravans, Chad Wolf, chaos, Chicago, Civil War, Combatting Violent Crime in American Cities, COVID-19, DEA, defund the police, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, fascism, FBI, gangs, grievance, Homeland Security, hospital capacity, ICU, law and order, law enforcement, Lori Lightfoot, martial law, police, police state, Portland, public health, racism, states rights, Tom Ridge, U.S. Marshals Service, violent crime, white grievance, William Barr, wink | 158 Comments

Today in Fascism: With DHS officers having been deployed to Portland, Chicago prepares for the inevitable, and we wonder if Detroit might be next

By Mark | July 20, 2020

The cool, military-looking guy above is former lobbyist Chad Wolf. [Insert Donald Trump “Drain the swamp!” soundbite.] As I understand it, Wolf has never served a day in the military. He did, however, attend Southern Methodist University on a tennis scholarship, and earn an undergraduate degree in history. And, now, because he was in the […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged border patrol, call to action, Carrie Cordero, Center for a New American Security, Chad Wolf, Chicago, Cory Booker, Customs and Border Patrol, Dana Nessel, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Detroit, DHS, drain the swamp, family separation, fascism, FBI, Gretchen Whitmer, HEROES Act, Kirstjen Nielsen, law and order, lobbyists, martial law, moms against fascism, police state, politicization, Portland, racism, unconstitutional, William Barr | 80 Comments

Trump declines to say whether he will accept the 2020 election results if he loses

By Mark | July 19, 2020

Donald Trump’s Fox News interview with Chris Wallace did not disappoint. It had everything that anyone could hope for. Trump lied about the mortality rate of COVID-19, rambled about our “beautiful world wars”, and doubled down on his claim that coronavirus is just “going to disappear”. And, of course, there was the part where the […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, 2020 election, call to action, Chris Wallace, COVID-19, Donald Trump, election fraud, election security, fascism, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, pandemic, pardons, police state, popular vote, Portland, Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, public health, vote by mail, voter fraud | 27 Comments

William Barr’s private army

By Mark | June 3, 2020

Images like the one above have been making their way around the internet today — images of heavily armed men blocking streets in Washington, DC — men with no unit insignia — men with no name badges — men who are apparently refusing to tell people under whose authority they are blocking people. And, understandably, […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Attorney General, Clint Watts, DC, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Jenn Budd, police state, Tom Nichols, William Barr | 19 Comments

Tag Archives: threats to Democracy

Behind in the polls, Donald Trump threatens to delay the presidential election. One Republican cuts ties.

This is fascism, right?

Today in Fascism: With DHS officers having been deployed to Portland, Chicago prepares for the inevitable, and we wonder if Detroit might be next

Trump declines to say whether he will accept the 2020 election results if he loses

William Barr’s private army

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