Tag Archives: Washington Post

Blackmailed by Pecker… The Bezos dick pic, the role of the Saudis, and possibility that Kushner may have been involved

By Mark | February 7, 2019

If you haven’t yet, I’d encourage you to read the article that Jeff Bezos posted to Medium today about a blackmail attempt against him on the part of AMI, the parent company of the National Enquirer. It would appear, from letters that Bezos has made public this afternoon, that AMI, led by Trump associate David […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Amazon, AMI, Bill Kristol, blackmail, collusion, David Letterman, David Pecker, dick pic, Donald Trump, extortion, Gavin de Becker, Jamal Khashoggi, Jared Kushner, Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, our friends the Saudis, Saudi Arabia, spying | 10 Comments

When markets thrive on stability, what did you think was going to happen when you elected Donald Trump?

By Mark | April 4, 2018

As I know very little about how the economy works, or the extent to which the stock market effects the economy, or, really, anything else about money related matters, I try to steer clear of such subjects here on the site. For those of you who might be interested in discussing the Dow Industrial Average’s […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ali Velshi, Amazon, China, Donald Trump, Dow Industrial, Great Depression, Jeff Bezos, Medicaid, Medicare, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, post office, Richard N. Haass, securities fraud, social security, stability, stock market, tariff, trade war, uncertainty, Velshi and Ruhle | 23 Comments

The hijacking of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

By Mark | November 27, 2017

There’s so much I want to talk about right now… the failed attempt on the part of Project Veritas to trick the Washington Post into running a fake story about Roy Moore’s fondness for child rape; the fact that our President couldn’t help but make a racist joke today while honoring Navajo ‘code talkers’ for […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged administrative state, Barbara Lee, big banks, CFPB, Citibank, code talkers, consumer protection, David Sirota, deregulation, Dodd-Frank, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, finance, financial crisis, financial reform, health care, higher education, Ian Millhiser, Laurence Tribe, Leandra English, Mick Mulvaney, Navajo, net neutrality, racism, regulation, Richard Cordray, Santander, tax reform, Timothy Kelly, Wall Street deregulation | 6 Comments

Three months ago, Sean Spicer said that banning media outlets from presidential press conferences is something that dictatorships do. Yesterday, the White House did just that.

By Mark | February 25, 2017

At some point prior to the 2016 election, Donald Trump, angered by what he perceived to be negative press coverage, banned reporters from the Washington Post, Politico, and Buzzfeed from his campaign events. When asked this past December by Politico’s Jake Sherman whether or not we might expect to see the same kind of aggressive […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged blacklist, Breitbart News, Buzzfeed, CPAC, Dan Rather, Dean Baquet, dictatorship, Donald Trump, fake news, First Amendment, free press, journalism, New York Times, Politico, Sean Spicer, the future of journalism, the press, the sad state of journalism, threats to Democracy, White House Correspondents’ Association | 11 Comments

Covering Trump: The Presidency and The Press in Turbulent Times

By Mark | December 14, 2016

Continuing our recent conversation about how to exist in the post-fact word of Donald Trump, I thought I’d share a few brief notes from a panel discussion I attended at the University of Michigan a couple of weeks ago titled Covering Trump: The Presidency and the Press in Turbulent Times. The panel, which featured Craig […]