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Hillary Installed Her Email Server to Deceive Obama but It Cost Her the Presidency. Now Republicans Are Citing It to Excuse Trump hoarding top-secret documents…

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 at 10:33 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Even erstwhile sensible Republicans like Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire are coming across like those useful idiots on Fox News – who propagate Russian propaganda as readily as they do Trumpian lies. Only that explains Republicans all over TV these days carping about Hillary Clinton setting up a private email server at her home,… Read more.

Douglass Damned Its Inherent Hypocrisy, but July 4th Has Many…

Monday, July 4, 2022 at 11:53 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

I am referring, of course, to Frederick Douglass. Because one could substitute the word “Black” for “Slave” in “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” – the famous speech he delivered on July 5, 1852, and it would still resonate. Douglass decried the myriad ways America’s treatment of black folks made a mockery… Read more.

Trump’s Humiliation of Mitch McConnell Is, Well, By the Book…

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 6:23 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

There seems no denying that, the more Donald Trump humiliates Republican men, the more they seem to want to kiss his ass.  This has been the most stupefying feature of American politics since 2016. Senator Ted Cruz infamously put a fetishistic twist on cuckoldry in this regard that is just too perverse for words. Of… Read more.

Trump Wanted His Rednecks to Look Like Brownshirts

Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 9:03 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

President Trump reportedly thought his MAGA insurrectionists looked too much like a motley crew of rowdy rednecks. He was pissed. He wanted them to look more organized and uniform, you know, like Hitler’s Brownshirts (aka Storm Troopers). Trump’s disdain for his Rednecks  Never before in the history of politics has a leader shown such overt disdain for… Read more.

Calling Out Trump After Voting for Him Just Makes Chris Christie a Hypocrite

Monday, November 23, 2020 at 7:13 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Christie, the commentator Chris Christie, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, is a regular commentator on the top-rated Sunday talk show This Week. On today’s episode, he and fellow commentators discussed Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the presidential election to Joe Biden. Here’s the indignant way Christie chimed in: The conduct of the president’s… Read more.

VP Pence Projects Disappointment Onto CJ Roberts

Friday, August 7, 2020 at 9:31 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Pence projecting disappointment Vice President Mike Pence says Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment to conservatives. ‘Look, we have great respect for the institution of the Supreme Court of the United States,’ [Vice President Mike] Pence told the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody on Wednesday.  ‘But Chief Justice John Roberts has been a disappointment… Read more.

Freed Michael Cohen Vows His Trump Tell-All Will Outsell Mary Trump’s…

Friday, July 24, 2020 at 8:17 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Cohen free to unleash on Trump Michael Cohen walked into his apartment building on the Upper East Side Friday evening to begin his home confinement term, ending a weeks-long fiasco that saw him arrested and returned to federal prison for refusing terms of his confinement. … [Judge Alvin Hellerstein] on Thursday ordered Cohen’s release from… Read more.

First Adopted Gerber Baby: A Little Aunt Jemima?

Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 10:22 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Kudos to Gerber for featuring and celebrating an adopted baby. But why dress her up to look a little Aunt Jemima? And don’t get me started on her (adoptive) parents being White! Black Gerber Baby Magnolia Earl, who recently celebrated her first birthday, just made history as the first adopted baby to be the Gerber company’s spokesbaby,… Read more.

Juneteenth and Reparations for Slavery

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 6:56 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Juneteenth and reparations for slavery Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It stems from slaves in Galveston, Texas, not being informed of their emancipation until June 19, 1865. That was two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. What about reparations? The US House of Representatives… Read more.

Trump Affirms His American Dystopia with Orwellian Newspeak

Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 8:57 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Trumpian newspeak  President Trump issued his “most essential command” on Tuesday during a speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He commanded, Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. … Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening. (CNN, July 25, 2018) In other words, we all… Read more.