By Mark | October 30, 2020
I’m sorry that I haven’t been around much lately. Between working to get Biden elected, taking care of the kids, and helping to get an award-winning, five-star restaurant off the ground here in Ypsi, I just haven’t had time to engage in the debate over the rapidly imploding right wing conspiracy theory about Hunter Biden’s […]
By Mark | November 3, 2019
I don’t generally pass along news items that I can’t verify, but the U.S. outlet of the conservative British political publican The Spectator just posted a story alleging that Donald Trump was essentially blackmailed into pulling U.S. troops out of Syria by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who apparently threatened to release a recording of […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged blackmail, Donald Trump, foreign affairs, foreign policy, Istanbul, Jamal Khashoggi, Jared Kushner, Kurds, MBS, Mohammad bin Salman, murder, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tayyip Erdogan, The Spectator |
By Mark | October 19, 2019
As I don’t think I’ve ever said as much here, it’s probably about time that I come out and say publicly that I’m not a fan of Tulsi Gabbard’s. If she were to somehow be the last Democrat standing, I’d vote for her in a general election against Trump, but that’s the only scenario I […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, Alt Right, Bashar al-Assad, Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, David Duke, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, homophobic, isolationist, Jill Stein, Joe Biden, Michigan, Mike Cernovich, Nick Merrill, peace, Pennsylvania, Richard Spencer, Russia, Russiagate, Steve Bannon, Syria, third party, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Ukraine, warmonger, Wisconsin |
By Mark | October 13, 2019
When Donald Trump announced last week that, at the request of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, he would be pulling back American troops stationed in Syria, everyone knew exactly what would happen. We knew that our allies, the Kurds, would be wiped out by the Turks. And that’s exactly what’s happening right now. […]
Posted in History, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ahrar as-Sharqiya, border security, border wall, chaos, Chuck Schumer, diplomacy, Donald Trump, enemy combatants, ethnic cleansing, Europe, foreign relations, Havrin Khalaf, Homeland Security, ISIS, jihad, Kurds, M4, mercenaries, murder, offending allies, Qamishli, Richard Engel, Russia, Stephen Miller, Syria, Syria Future Party, Tayyip Erdogan, terrorism, threats to Democracy, war, withdrawal |
By Mark | October 7, 2019
Back in December, 2018, without consulting any of his national security advisors, Donald Trump announced that we’d be pulling all U.S. troops out of Syria. The response, as you might remember, was both swift and overwhelmingly negative. Lindsey Graham said at the time, “An American withdrawal at this time would be a big win for […]
