Anthony L. Hall
@ipinions.bsky.social
Lawyer, Blogger, Yoga Enthusiast Blog: https://www.theipinionsjournal.com/
created August 30, 2023
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Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
If there's a God, his unconditional order will end up suppressing votes in red states, while blue states ignore it. But I fear this is just Trump laying yet another pretext to impose martial law after Republicans lose in 2026 or 2028...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course it's fake. Because Snoop Dogg is hell-bent on becoming the Michael Richards (aka Kramer from Seinfeld) of hip-hop...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why Putin continues to defy the EU, knowing he can count on them falling one by one, instead of standing as one...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Except that his apology don't mean diddly squat. He's clearly lying about thinking the player was offering him the hat. Everyone could see he snatched it out of the player's hand as he was handing it to the kid right in front of him. And what self-respecting man competes with kids for autographs?
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Except that his apology don't mean shit. Because he's clearly lying about thinking the player was offering him the hat. Everyone could see that he snatched it out of the player's hand as he was handing it to the kid right in front of him...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because Netanyahu needs to keep waging war to avoid jail. After all, the only future he sees for himself is as a war hero serving for life as prime minister, not as a crook serving life in prison. The hostages, even the global scourge of antisemitism, which his wars are inciting, be damned...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, Pooty, Trump is going to be so jealous, he might finally give Zelensky the weapons to bomb Moscow the way you've been bombing Kyiv...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
MAGA hacks are so used to having right-wing anchors amen their Trumpian lies, they forget it only works in their echo chamber...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
No kidding. It's not as if Moore is guilty of stolen valor. Meanwhile, Raddatz has interviewed Trump a thousand times, but I'd bet good money she never badgered him about using burn spurs as an excuse to dodge the Draft. But this just shows how Trump has bullied the media into complicity.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Evidently, as with thieves, there’s no honor among totalitarian despots either. The Taliban thought they could out-hustle Beijing, and Beijing thought it could tame the Taliban. Instead, both exposed the rot at the core of their rule: greed, mistrust, and brute power dressed up as governance.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
But, with genocides raging in Ukraine and Gaza, nobody seems to care about Sudan. Not least because all the interest in and support for Darfur had so little effect...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
And Netanyahu is loving it. Because the more he can get away with waging war, the less he's likely to end up serving time in jail — convicted on a battery of corruption charges...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
It's just another Trumpian bait-and-switch. Because he's just sweeping DC's homeless across the Potomac into heavily Democratic Arlington County...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because, like all bullies, Pooty can give it but can't take it. Trust me, Putin routinely calls Zelensky far worse than the predatory ogre Macron called him...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because in MAGA world, facts are only facts if they support Trump’s propaganda agenda…
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
I love this guy! He's like the best of Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders. Susan Collins is toast!
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
The timing, right before her book tour, smacks of inviting a slow-motion assassination. But Trump's retribution presidency is all about punishing political enemies and making people fear the cost of crossing him.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because who needs disaster relief when the Dear Leader can funnel federal funds into beautifying buildings in his own Russian-gaudy style…
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because South Park calling out her performative Christian BS has shamed her too much, for now...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
What next, Trump signs executive order to make groceries cheap again...?
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This man is clearly suffering acute cognitive decline that manifests in manic bouts of demented rage. What (else) could go wrong...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course, because (with Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, Iranians, and Syrians), Netanyahu needs to keep waging war to avoid facing criminal prosecution and jail. After all, the only future he sees for himself is as a war hero serving for life as prime minister, not as a crook serving life in prison.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because gun-crazy America decided long ago that the “right” to possess weapons of war matters more than stopping psychos from using them for mass shootings. Which is why the epidemic of gun massacres says far more about “ordinary” Americans than it does about the shooters themselves.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Knowing about shooters has never stopped the next. Yet the media make martyrs of them, giving them the fame they craved. This glorifies them... and incentivizes copycats. Yet gun-crazy America prefers to make killers infamous rather than keep them from getting the weapons of war they use so easily.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Knowing about shooters has never stopped the next. Yet the media make martyrs of them, giving them the fame they craved. This glorifies them... and incentivizes copycats. Yet gun-crazy America prefers to make killers infamous rather than keep them from getting the weapons of war they use so easily.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because Gabbard knows the mission of Trump's CIA is to execute retribution against his political enemies — covert operations against the country's mortal enemies be damned...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Good try, MAGA, But his gender identification doesn't trump the fact that he was a racist, gun-toting MAGA disciple...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, this facility had about as much impact on mass deportations as the DeSantis campaign had on presidential politics...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, these preening suck-ups might have no problem looking at themselves in the mirror. But what self-respecting family member or friend could look any of these secretaries in the face and contain their utter contempt?
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, leave it to the oxymoron Trump administration to conduct "covert operations" that end up on the pages of the NYT...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This is Trump unwittingly showing the contempt he has for those who volunteer to serve in the military. Remember, he infamously ridiculed them as "suckers and losers." So, as far as this draft-dodging oaf is concerned, they're just as useful picking up trash as they are defending the country.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This is what jury nullification should be about — ordinary citizens refusing to criminalize non-violent civil disobedience. A far cry from the Jim Crow era, when prosecutors stacked all-White juries to acquit plainly guilty White racists of crimes against innocent Blacks.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This shows Trump's retribution presidency putting a fatalistic twist on shooting the messenger. In other words, Trumpism is morphing from a personality cult into a death cult. Beware, America!
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Except that the only gripe Cracker Barrel listened to was Trump's, who isn't and never has been a customer...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because Kim stroked his ego so much, gullible Trump thought they were lovers. So nobody needed this White House spectacle to see that the only thing that matters to Trump is feeding his ego and fattening his pockets — personal friendships, national security, and international alliances be damned.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Really, NYT, a whole friggin' feature?! Here's all anyone needs to know: Gay Jillian Michaels is trolling in anti-LGBTQ MAGA America in the Judaic tradition of Jews who decided the best way to survive in antisemitic Nazi Germany was to collaborate as its loudest propagandists.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, "Mr. Wonderful," but the only wonder is that so-called free enterprise capitalists like you keep making excuses to support a narcissistic, grifting, gilded-tower socialist like Trump...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
But why just call for Clemens and Rose but not Barry Bonds, Mr. President? Oh, right...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
The problem with his Nobel Peace Prize dream is that he keeps claiming credit for brokering peace deals he had nothing to do with or a peace that's only a figment of his narcissistic imagination...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not just the economy. America spent more than two centuries building a shining city on a hill as a beacon of democracy. Yet in less than a decade, Trump’s norm-busting behavior and policies have exposed that city as a mirage and its founding principles as little more than a house of cards.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
And have you noticed how Trump is now deploying Black and Latino agents to front his Gestapo-style immigration roundups and patrols in blue cities? They presume critics can't cry foul when the face of mass deportation and crackdown on crime looks like the people being deported and harassed.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because diversity, which used to be America's strength, is now cast as its Orwellian weakness. And, alas, this shows scientists aping corporate CEOs in surrender to MAGA doublethink, where Lie is Truth, White is Black, Perpetrator is Victim, Indoctrination is Education, and so on...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Canada, surrender monkey, making a mockery of the rallying cry, "elbows up!"
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
But 14 years...? Surely she's guilty of some willful blindness in all this. Some women just refuse to learn... Shame. Sad.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, Trump warned there will be "retribution." So, welcome to the MAGA police state, America. This is all about political harassment and intimidation. Except these MAGA keystone cops didn't even bother to make sure Bolton was at home to maximize the humiliation Trump clearly wanted...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
No, MAGA has given it new meaning. Woke now means anything that does not champion White supremacy and the interests of White Entitled Incompetent (WEI) men. That's why they will have you believe that diversity, which used to be America's strength, is now its Orwellian weakness...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, Trump warned there will be "retribution." So, welcome to the MAGA police state, America...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because S**t is MAGA for Black. Trust me, folks, the only reason these MAGA White nationalists are executing these brazenly racist policies is that they plan to emulate the Nazi Third Reich by using military force to rule for 1000 years. And look how that turned out...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, Trump warned there will be "retribution." So, welcome to the MAGA police state...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Surely the only story here is how CNN has so lost its way that it's morphing into the X of cable news. After all, nothing betrays journalism quite like paying MAGA propagandists to troll liberals just to incite performative outrage for ratings...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because Trump is such a narcissist that he wants to be the center of attention not only at every wedding and funeral, but even at the National Museum of African American History and Culture...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
National Museum of African American History and Culture (Blacksonian) to Trump: Please, Sir, tell us all the good things about slavery and Jim Crow, so that we can tell the MAGA's "woke-free" version of US history in a way that pleases you, Sir.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because all of Trump’s cabinet secretaries strut around like feudal lords in Game of Thrones or entitled Roys in Succession — obsessed with the trappings of power, not the responsibility of it. They’re emperors with no clothes, mistaking pomp for purpose, spectacle for service.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because she has seen the likes of Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas demonstrate that the only way for Blacks to make it in the GOP is to spew self-hating racist bile that would make even the grand wizard of the KKK wince. This Georgia lackey makes Sambo Herschel Walker look like MLK...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, because Trump wants to do to Blacks and Hispanics in America what Netanyahu is doing to Palestinians in Gaza. He and Netanyahu are birds of a feather in every way...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Smithsonian to Trump: Please, Sir, tell us all the good things about slavery and Jim Crow, so that we can tell the MAGA's "woke-free" version of US history in a way that pleases you, Sir.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Smithsonian to Trump: Please, Sir, tell us how good slavery was so we can tell that side of this American tragedy...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This is just Leavitt showing off those pneumatic lips in the other act Trump himself says he so enjoys seeing her perform...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump thinks military Vets are suckers and losers. So his ICE thugs have no compunction about sweeping the homeless among them off the streets or locking up their immigrant wives for deportation...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because Trump has told these MAGA pawns that only Republicans should be allowed to use redistricting plans to rig elections...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, right after he told pastor Franklin Graham and other evangelical leaders to be better Christians by doing what Jesus would do. And all the Pharisaic sycophants said, Amen.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
No, instead of gawking at troops loitering around "white" monuments, the liberal media should be in S.E. DC featuring (Black) residents shouting into the camera, "Hey, Trump, the crime's over here."
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Good try, Aaaron. The problem is that Trump has no idea what a friggin' "totem pole" is...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This explains why Trump said in the Oval Office today that dining in DC has drastically increased since his crackdown. Yes, folks, you can't believe a word this president says. What could go wrong...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Showing that he was a much better comedian than Trump was a businessman before becoming president...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Showing why he was a far better comedian than Trump was a businessman before becoming president...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, because Putin told him to. Never mind that Putin implemented mail-in ballots in Russia. But this is Trump showing the world that there's no end to the ways Putin can play him like a puppet on a string. At long last, America, how much humiliation will you take...?
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, and this rebranding will flop quicker than rebranding Netflix Qwikster did.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because delusional Kaepernick thinks being a strong Black man means marching to the beat of his own drum — even when the drum belongs to someone else, like ESPN or the NFL.”
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
But Trump is too ignorant to grasp what Putin means by “peace.” Because Putin wants to settle the “root causes” by undoing the collapse of the USSR and crushing Ukraine’s belief that it’s an independent state. To Putin, Ukraine is just a rogue province of Mother Russia.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Not since the mini has a new fashion trend struck me as so welcoming and empowering...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, but why not add that Putin also agreed to withdraw from all Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine and support its integration not just into the EU but NATO, too...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course, it's hardly surprising that Leavitt was left shocked and "ashen" after seeing the man she gets on your knees for, because she always saw him as an alpha man, getting on his knees for another man.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
LOL. What gaslighting nonsense is this, NYT? Empathy as Trump’s “secret weapon”? Please. Everyone knows empathy to Trump is what kryptonite is to Superman, or sunlight to Dracula.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
But it worked. In other words, Trump is such a clueless buffoon that he's bragging about Putin using idle flattery to play him. This war criminal can't believe his dumb luck. But Trump is making it so easy that Putin's Cheshire Cat grin is beginning to betray signs of contempt...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This is what happens when you staff your administration with White Entitled Incompetents (WEI) whose only qualification is abject loyalty to the gilded-tower grifter playing president of the United States...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This is what happens when you staff your administration with White Entitled Incompetents (WEI) whose only qualification is abject loyalty to the gilded-tower grifter playing president of the United States...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This is what happens when you staff your administration with White Entitled Incompetents (WEI) whose only qualification is abject loyalty to the gilded-tower grifter playing president of the United States...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
And the optics only got worse for Trump when Putin greeted him on the tarmac by saying: Now remember, Donald, you're the puppet; I'm the master...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Putin: But of course you are not here to negotiate for Ukraine, Mr. President. No, we are here to negotiate about Ukraine. Now, first on the menu, er, agenda, is what we both recognize is the autonomous Donbas region of the Russian Motherland…
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
MAGA: But who needs Cruise when we've got Sly, right...?
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
The lady doth rage too much, methinks...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
S.E. DC: Hey, ICE, crime over here!!!
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Because the only war macho crybaby Hegseth’s “warrior ethos” is good for is MAGA’s war on “woke.” Restoring a Confederate monument that whitewashes slavery isn’t patriotism; it’s historical cosplay for cowards too scared to face the truth.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
How very Trumpian of Elon!
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
If you've even wondered how the lost Israelites ended up forsaking God to worship a Golden Calf, just look at how Israelis are forsaking democracy to worship a wannabe autocrat, Bibi Netanyahu. Sad. Sad. Scary.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Not since Trump bragged about acing a cognitive test by correctly identifying a giraffe, tiger, and whale have we been treated to such a farcical and self-defeating display of “fitness to serve.”
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why even Deputy AG Blanche is afraid to experience Rogan's interrogation on Ghislaine Maxwell and the Epstein pedo files...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Even the Weimar Republic didn’t “obey in advance” to this degree to appease Adolf Hitler. Mid 2020s America is now edging toward elective autocracy in ways that make the Weimar-to-Nazi slide in the mid-1930s look less like history than prophecy.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Except he's not fantasizing. He's grooming...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Except that fact-checking in the time of Trump is like trying to bail out the Titanic with a teaspoon.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
That's odd. Don't they know Putin is not interested in securing peace, but a complete victory, in Ukraine?
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
But, Sam, the way Elon is benefiting himself on X pales in comparison with the way Trump is enriching himself in the White House. So...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course, what Comer willfully refuses to say is that Trump was the Epstein pedophile ring's top John...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Except this isn’t about “reaction forces” at all. It’s about Trump preparing military soldiers to replace MAGA rabblerousers to ensure that his next coup attempt on Jan. 6, 2029, has discipline, firepower, and the Pentagon’s muscle behind it. “Woke”? No, Wake up, America.
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
This is all laying the groundwork to use military soldiers instead of MAGA rabble-rousers to ensure that his next coup attempt on Jan 6, 2029, succeeds...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Too soon, TS. You're becoming the Donald Trump of pop music. Give us a chance to miss you, and enjoy other performers, a little...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Except that the way Elon is benefiting himself on X pales in comparison with the way Trump is enriching himself in the White House. So...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Except that Macron shouldn't be calling for UN peacekeepers. He should marshal EU-led peacemakers to deploy to Gaza even over the Israelis' objections to enforce peace and stability. All else is folly...
Anthony L. Hall (@ipinions.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, just like his big peace plan for Ukraine is news to Ukrainians...