Bits & Pieces
Articles with unfiltered opinions
The First Publisher’s Statement by Larry Flynt in 1974
Originally published July 1974 Anyone can be a playboy and have a penthouse, but it takes a man to be a Hustler. With this philosophy in mind, we are launching the most sophisticated men’s magazine of the century. Some of you are already aware of our successful chain of night clubs located in most...
Reconciliation for a Suffering Country
Editor’s note: On February 10, 2021, our fearless leader, Larry C. Flynt, passed away, as this edition was going to press. Below is his last Publisher’s Statement. We are already feeling the loss deeply, and our June 2021 HUSTLER will be a special commemorative issue, available May 11. It seems to be the inevitable...
The Man of the Hour
It’s no secret that Joe Biden was not my favorite Democratic candidate for President. I’ve criticized his long history of coddling the Republicans and his gung ho support for the Iraq War. But if you’re looking for saints of unblemished purity, you won’t find them in the political arena. I don’t care who your...
The System Is Rigged, All Right—for Republicans
For years now, Donald Trump has been whining about how the system is rigged against him—despite winning the White House in 2016 while losing the popular vote. George W. Bush won in 2000, even though he also lost the popular vote. You would think that in a democracy the majority of voters would elect...
Onward to 2022!
As I write, control of the Senate is hanging in the balance, dependent on results from the Georgia runoffs. The outcome will be as consequential as the Presidency itself, because without a Democratic Senate majority, Mitch McConnell, the self-proclaimed “grim reaper,” will block everything Biden and the House try to accomplish. McConnell has proven...
Should Biden Pack the Court?
Mitch McConnell blatantly cheated Obama out of his Supreme Court appointee in 2016 (Merrick Garland), and since that time Trump has appointed three conservative Justices—including ramrodding Amy Coney Barrett through nine days before the election. Let’s not forget that Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and had no mandate to make the Court...
Count Every Ballot
The year 2020 has been one of the most chaotic in American history. We’ve had the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu, the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, social justice protests and counterprotests across the country, and the whole West Coast, where I live, has blazed like Dante’s Inferno with uncontrollable wildfires. On...
Over The Top! To The Polls!
Folks, it’s only a few days before the election, so I’m going to blow the bugle one more time here: CHARGE to the polls! There is absolutely no excuse for sitting this one out. And every single vote could be the one that tips the balance, because the Republicans will surely stoop to every...
Get to the Polls!
For decades now Americans my age have complained about the apathy of the generations that came after the radical ’60s. Why couldn’t they be as politically conscious and active as the hippies and Yippies? Well, that has changed now: Radical youth is back, marching in the streets daily to demand change from coast to...
Safeguard Our Election Now!
As the coming election draws near, it is urgent that we get the problems with our voting system solved, and pronto! With all the other problems in the country, we don’t need another headache like the infamous “hanging chad” fiasco of 20 years ago that gave the Presidency to George W. Bush over Al...
Trump, Master of Disaster
Anyone who’s read even a smidgen of history knows that total idiots have become kings and presidents. And they might get along without too much trouble for a while, but then a crisis comes up that the moronic leader turns into a catastrophe. Sooner or later, the good folk in the country finally get...
How Trump Blew the Coronavirus Response
Conservative mouthpieces have been comparing Trump’s response on the COVID-19 pandemic to Obama’s response to the H1N1 swine flu epidemic in 2009, noting that 12,000 Americans died of the disease over a year-long period. But there are important differences: The first domestic case of swine flu was detected on April 15. Obama declared a...
Media Meltdown Over Bernie
As Bernie Sanders began to surge toward the nomination earlier this year, media commentators flipped into full freak-out mode—and I’m not primarily talking about Fox News, but rather the “liberal” network, MSNBC. Chris Matthews led the derangement parade, comparing Bernie’s surge to Hitler’s 1940 conquest of France. He then continued on an absurd rant...
Trump’s GOP in Retreat
At a 2016 campaign rally, Trump promised that Republicans would win so big under his leadership, they would all get headaches and beg, “Please don’t win so much!” Like everything else that comes out of his puckered piehole, it was an ego fart completely divorced from reality. Since Trump has been in office, Republicans...
Trump the Hit Man
To ring in the New Year, our impulsive clown in the White House, acting like a mob boss, ordered a hit on the second most powerful man in Iran, General Qasem Soleimani, while he was driving away from the Baghdad airport. This assassination—contrary to both American and international law—was a drastic escalation in Trump’s...
