BILL BARR’S FRAUD…. Robert Harrington | 7:00 pm EDT July 29, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis One of the greatest evils infecting rational thought today is the conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theories begin in speculation, speculation that is then allowed to congeal into certainty without evidence. Very often the conspiracy theory conveniently advances the claimant’s own personal or political agenda.…
Start the Nuremberg trials Bill Palmer | 1:08 am EDT July 30, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis Since Donald Trump took office, certain federal law enforcement agents have been engaging in increasingly criminal behavior. We’ve seen ICE and Border Patrol kidnap immigrant kids from their parents and hold them hostage in cages. Now we’re seeing federal agents tear…
Where is the outrage? Robert Harrington | 11:45 am EDT July 25, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis (photo: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/politics/donald-trump-ghislaine-maxwell-i-wish-her-well/index.html ) There is a lone, consistent glory of the United States of America, and that is the peaceful transfer of power. Through the wars, the racism, the wholesale slaughter of native peoples, the unrestrained enslavement of foreign peoples and the…
FROM FACEBOOK POSTING THIS WAS ON A FRIEND’S PAGE: An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’ THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse: That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on…
Don’t even go there Robert Harrington | 8:00 pm EDT June 18, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis Let’s say your grandmother just died. Her death is especially distressing to you because you’ve lost a lot of family members of late who were equally precious to you. Let’s say you go to a friend for comfort. Their first reaction…
Embracing science and rejecting Trump Robert Harrington | 10:30 am EDT June 17, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis WYSIATI is an acronym for “What You See Is All There Is.” It’s a concept created by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman to account for common human overconfidence in judgments and impressions that are based exclusively on what we already know, or…
Donald Trump, terrorist Robert Harrington | 10:30 am EDT June 11, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis I don’t know why it is that most of the mainstream media omits this important detail about the attack on 75 year old Martin Gugino. Before his unprovoked summary assault and grievous resulting injury by “peace officers,” this harmless, elderly resident of Buffalo,…
I hate Donald Trump Robert Harrington | 2:00 pm EDT May 27, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis When I was in high school I had one of those friends who claimed to never hate anyone. If he harboured anything like antipathy for someone at all he would claim that, instead of hating them, he preferred, as he put it,…
Donald Trump is rushing headlong into sheer lunacy. Robert Harrington | 12:01 pm EDT May 23, 2020 Palmer Report » Analysis (Robert Harrington is an American expat living in Britain. He is a portrait painter.) As I write this, 340,003 human beings have died from coronavirus worldwide. Of that number, 97,647 of those deaths are Americans. In other words,…
Trump’s hydroxychloroquine habit is the triumph of rightwing quackery By Richard Wolffe REPRINT from THE GUARDIAN Opinion The president’s anti-science cult represents the nadir of a long tradition of conspiracy-loving wingnuts from the fringes of American conservatism What kind of buffoon brags about taking a drug that could kill him? Among the…
