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1. about 23 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   You seem to be conflating election slogans with sincere desires. ;-)

2. about 23 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   Yeah, I “get” that, though it is completely possible to get a credit card that “secured” if you have a terrible credit rating, or if you just don’t want to over-spend, many cards will let you specify a low credit limit.

3. about 23 hours ago on Doonesbury

   > What outdated narrative? Please elucidate.

   The outdated narrative that enough people to matter refused to vote for Hillary or Kamala because of sexism or racism.

   Most of the people around me usually vote R, and most of them would have been totally okay voting for (e.g.) Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice (regardless of the rumors that she prefers women) running as a D against a weak or weird R candidate, and in ’16, Trump was a weird R.

   I’ve said before: if, in ‘16, the D’s had run a fairly moderate, likeable, well-educated black lesbian with 5 years of experience in government, we would never have had a President Trump, and it would have been a landslide.

4. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   Straight white cis dudes can be right, sometimes, or are you that bigoted?

5. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   It’s just lazy to blame Kamala Harris’ loss on sexism or racism. Doubtless, there were some votes lost for those reasons, but not nearly enough to cross the gulf between her and Donnie. As long as Dems keep clinging to that outdated narrative, they will not fix the real problems that made her (and Hillary) lose, and the Dem party will have its own “years in the wilderness” experience. Wake up and smell the coffee, or the next R president will be your fault, too.

6. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

   People are terrified of what Donnie might do. The Dems literally spent a billion dollars telling people how they should be super scared of him. Your friends believed them. I’m sure he wants to do 80% of the stuff they said, but it’s not like he’ll be able to do everything he wants. I’m expecting about 50% of his mental energy will be used up just coming up with insults for Elon Musk after their inevitable acrimonious bro break-up.

   Americans, these days, spend so much mental energy being afraid of things. It’s really sad. I do feel badly for your friends, but, you know, therapy is a thing.

7. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

   Sulking for four years because your favorite idiot didn’t get elected and the other idiot did instead? Really? What are you, 16? There are so many things in the world, and you can’t get over one not going your way? (Okay, it will probably lead to a few more not going your way, too, but still.) We have leaves changing, and babies growing up and learning things, and puppies . . . being puppies.

   Not to mention that it’s extremely likely that Congress will flip both houses in only 2 years. You’re getting yourself worked up way more than is reasonable. Maybe some weed would help.

8. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   > Do you think that once the megachurch leadership gets a seat at trump’s table they’ll be pushing to an ending widespread gambling? Closing the stores on Sunday? Restricting alcohol sales?

   When what freezes over?

9. 5 days ago on Doonesbury

   Islam prohibits murder of innocent non-combatants, too.

10. 7 days ago on Working Daze

    And you still missed the 2nd “t”. :-D