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Thanksgiving 2025: Everything Settled in Conflict Again

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Thanksgiving cartoon for 2025

Thanksgiving 2025 should be about gratitude and grace, but this year it’s exposing empty wallets, political trench warfare at the table, and leaders gaslighting us that life is “wonderful” while millions slide toward modern breadlines. In this iPINIONS commentary, I explain how inflation, culture wars, and Trumpian excess have turned Thanksgiving into a stress test… Read more.

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Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Culture, democracy, economy, family, Happy Thanksgiving 2025, Inflation, politics, Trump

Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Hurting China — They’re Drinking Your Latte and Gaslighting the Bill

Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
cartoon about Trump tariff boosting cost of coffee

Remember when tariffs were supposed to hurt China, not your morning latte? Welcome to Trumpenomics—where your $9 coffee isn’t overpriced, it’s just patriotically taxed. And the kicker? Trump still insists only foreign gougers are paying his tariffs. iPINIONS contends that this claim is so delusional, it belongs in the same hall of autocratic gaslighting as… Read more.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Authoritarianism, china, Economics, gaslighting, Inflation, iPINIONS, latte, Netanyahu, Putin, rump, Tariffs

Trump Launches Strikes Against Yemen, Starting Another ‘Stupid War’

Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump launches military strikes against Houthis in Yemen

On guard, Yemen President Trump took time out from yet another golfing weekend at Mar-a-Lago to announce military strikes against Yemen on his social media platform. U.S. forces launched a ‘decisive and powerful’ attack on Houthi militants in Yemen, President Donald Trump said Saturday, an escalation against the group targeting maritime traffic and American troops… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: economy, Houthi, Inflation, Orwellian politics, stupid wars, trade war, Trump, U.S. military, war, Yemen

MAGA Republicans Are Selling Out Democracy for Cheaper Bread

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
MAGA Republicans voting for cheaper bread democracy be damned

Donald Trump is a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, convicted felon and adjudged rapist. He’s also a pathological liar who incited an insurrection. Yet listen carefully, and you’ll hear MAGA Republicans saying they’re voting for him anyway just to avoid 3% inflation. They blithely overlook his threats to turn American democracy into a Russian-style autocracy, as if that’s… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: 2024 election, Biden, democracy, Inflation, maga republicans, Pandemic, Trump, Trump indictments

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