Tag Archives: William Barr

Trump’s dangerous campaign to delegitimize the election

By Mark | November 9, 2020

Generally speaking, I’m OK with the way things are playing out. I’m happy that, so far, there have been no pro-Trump domestic terrorist attacks. And I like that, despite Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, every major news outlet went ahead and called it decisively for Biden. I also like that leaders from around the […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, 2020 election, Attorney General, Climate Change, conspiracy theories, COVID-19, David Bossie, Delaware Valley Cremation Center, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, election fraud, Emily W. Murphy, Fantasy Island Adult Books and Novelties, Four Seasons Total Landscaping, General Services Administration, hostage situation, Inspector General, Joe Biden, Jones Day, Lindsey Graham, Mike Pompeo, Mitch McConnell, Paris Accord, Philadelphia, Porter Wright, Preet Bharara, ransom, Richard Pilger, Rudy Giuliani, Secretary of State, voter fraud | 129 Comments

A few days after calling America’s senior citizens his “favorite people,” Donald Trump mocks the elderly

By Mark | October 13, 2020

With Joe Biden leading Donald Trump among seniors by more than 20 points in the polls, the President of the United States did something both bold and desperate last week, releasing a bizarre green screen video of himself promising those over 65 that, if he were to be reelected, he would give them all access […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, ageism, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Michael Flynn, mocking, senior citizens, unmasking | 95 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, threats to Democracy, Tom Ridge, U.S. Marshals Service, violent crime, white grievance, 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, threats to Democracy, unconstitutional | 80 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, […]