In the wake of the Charlottesville events, most of the coverage have been referring to the event as a ‘rally’, ‘mess’, ‘white supremacist rally’ and ‘hate crimes in Charlottesville’. Very few articles included the word terrorism. And we’re wondering why. Terrorism is the use of violence for a political purpose. Now, maybe we should exclude […]
For this post we’re donning our spurs and we’ll saddle up the old gray stallion riding backwards in time to the Wild Wild West. Warren Love, a State Representative, is still living in that time. The State Representative called for a good old-fashioned lynching. The person who vandalized a Confederate statue should be hung. Love […]
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia reportedly just shared this image he got via the mail after the Charlottesville attack by the extreme White Supremacists. It seems to be a threat to the life of Kelly Thomasson. After Charlottesville this was mailed to the Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth- her husband just shared it […]
The UK government decided to enact the article 50 procedure, triggering the Brexit, earlier this year with no actual plan of attack in place. The results of this… ‘strategy’ are now showing. Mostly through their absence. On the one hand, the UK is likely to strike a bargain with the EU for an extension of […]
Well, as if this political soap opera that is unfortunately not a “House of Cards” rip-off, but real life, needed more complications. It didn’t. Still, Robert Mueller is now also going after Mike Pence, or so it seems. Mueller is investigating wether Michael Flynn was getting kickbacks, fraud. He asked the White House for documentation on […]
Just three years ago, the republicans were OUTRAGED over the colour of President Obama’s suit, calling it ‘unpresidential’. The following segment, tweeted by ‘NowThis’, shows media snippets concerning the tan suit, and various critics calling it all kinds of things including – and we’re not making this up – “an impeachable offense”. One election later, we’re finding […]
In an opinion piece republished on Saloon, Charles Kaiser lashes out against the Trump administration with Fire and Fury. His tone is unmistakably harsh and convictive, calling the Trump Administration ‘incipient Fascism’. He also says lawmakers who do not verbally protest Trump’s actions are complicit in his crimes. It’s hard to argue against the harsh accusations […]