As many know by now, everyday Americans, including many gamers and others on Reddit, found their common voice and a call to action when they joined together to squeeze the Wall Street short sellers who were attacking GameStop, a brick-and-mortar video game retailer. It’s a delicious way to exact revenge on the same people who bilked America’s workers out of trillions in 2008 after the financial panic. And as usual, Shakespeare is right there with us, in this case with Henry V’s inspiring speech to his troops, the current holders …

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Apparently, Meghan McCain, daddy’s girl to the late senator John McCain and token republican on The View, now has regrets about her failure to oppose President Biden during the presidential campaign. Obviously, we are in Lady Macbeth territory. Here’s Meghan’s tweet congratulating Biden on his “victory”: “Congratulations Mr. President! ⁦JoeBiden⁩ – one of the truly decent and moral men I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing. Please lead our nation bravely towards healing and bipartisanship.” And here is Meghan a week later: “If we’re all just deplorable and need to …

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Our new President Dogberry started his usurpation by ordering the Department of Homeland Security to conduct not only a 100-day moratorium on deportations, but an actual jailbreak for all illegal immigrants currently in custody. Non-enforcement of the law is now the law. Some people laugh in order to keep from crying, and we will use Shakespeare for the same purpose, or at least try to. Clearly, we’re in Hamlet territory. At the start of the play, Horatio is chatting with a border guard, Marcellus, who has seen the famous Ghost …

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