Tag Archives: white grievance

In nationally televised shitshow, Donald Trump says Proud Boys should “stand back and stand by” when asked to condemn white supremacists

By Mark | September 30, 2020

During last night’s shitshow of a debate, Donald Trump was given multiple opportunities to condemn white supremacy. Instead of doing so, he called on members of the Proud Boys — an organization described by the FBI as a far-right, male-exclusive group group with ties to white nationalism — to “stand by.” Chris Wallace, as you […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, anti-science, ANTIFA, antifascism, authoritarianism, conspiracy theory, debates, dog whistle, Donald Trump, EOS, fascism, FBI, grievance, Kamala Harris, Proud Boys, Qanon, racism, stand by, white nationalism, white supremacy | 149 Comments

I told myself that I wasn’t going to post about the RNC, but then this happened…

By Mark | August 24, 2020

When word came out a few days ago that the Republican Party had decided to go into their convention without any platform, instead just pledging their complete and total fealty to Donald Trump, I knew that the RNC was going to be weird. This feeling was further compounded upon reading that half of the speakers […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, California, cults, culture war, Donald Trump, heroin, Joe Biden, Kimberly Guilfoyle, race baiting, Republican National Convention, Republican Party, Republican platform, RNC, screaming | 309 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.”] […]