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1. 10 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   Interesting how @Phobos, one of the smallest moons in the known solar system, describes perfectly the actions and strategies of the extremist far right TrumpubliKKKlan cult, and then tries to redirect it back to Democrats.

   Same old crap they always do.

   They are so ashamed of what they do that they have to accuse Democrats of their crimes.

   In the TrumpubliKKKlan cult, ever accusation is a confession. Thank you @Phobos for such a perfect DEMONstration.

   It is the “BIG LIE” strategy straight outta the Joseph Goebbels, Roy Cohn, Roger Ailes, Karl Rove, Vladimir Putin, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller and Donald Trump playbook: “Project your own vulnerabilities back at those you oppose.”

   John Kerry was a war hero running against George Dubya Bush avoided Vietnam by getting a cushy job from which he was mostly AWOL running against a highly-decorated war hero? Swift Boats!

   John McCain was born in Panama (to U.S. citizens stationed in the nearby Canal Zone)? The birther LIE that Obama was born in Kenya.

   Trump solicits Ukraine help (“I want a favor, though”)? Try to gin up a Biden Ukraine scandal and make up lies and distortions about Hunter Biden.

   Trump suffers multiple mini-strokes and dementia (covfefe, hamberder, Washington protecting the airports)? Accuse Biden of not being coherent.

   Trump weaponizes the Justice Department to aid accused allies and threaten perceived enemies? Accuse Joe Biden of weaponizing the Justice Dept despite unprecedented efforts to remain completely separate from it.

   Have a party filled with pedophiles? Like Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, Gym Jordan, Dennis Hastert, Lauren Boebert (whose ex-husband Jayson was convicted and served time for “lewd exposure” to underage girls), right-wing pedophile priests and, of course, Jeffrey Epstein’s best pal Donald “pu$$y-grabber” Trump. Invent a bizarre conspiracy theory about a pedophile ring in a DC pizza shop, with no evidence, that redirects it to Democrats.

2. 10 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   Oddly, the 922-page text of Project 2025 is strangely silent about common sense gun safety reform. I guess they continue to be happy with the certainty that they have ensured that any foreign terrorist, domestic terrorist, would-be assassin, convicted violent felon, violent domestic abuser or is pathologically mentally unstable is the best-armed terrorist, assassin, violent felon or psychopath in the world — who can place an order online or walk into any gun show in any unregulated state and buy from any private party an unlimited amount of battlefield weapons of war and ammunition with no ID, no background check and no questions.

   Unless and until TrumpubliKKKlan cult worshippers agree to take the issue of easy access to firearms seriously, they have no right to whine about the consequences of their reckless policies.

   Make no mistake, there is NO PLACE FOR VIOLENCE in politics, but…

   Those who have spewed hatred, violence and divisiveness have a lot of nerve to whine about being victims of the violence, hatred and division they sowed.

   What goes around, comes around.

   SOW THE WIND; REAP THE WHIRLWIND.

   “Cast your bread upon the water” and it will return to you a hundredfold. If that bread be violence, then again, “as you sow, so shall you reap.”

   DEMOCRATS want to beat Trump with BALLOTS, NOT BULLETS.

   Those who try to take away voters’ ballots but demand easy access to bullets can not whine and cry when they face the consequences of their own demands.

3. 10 days ago on Clay Bennett

   — Well, “PENCE” and “VANCE” both have five letters (the last three of which are the same), but there the similarities end.

   Ultra religious right-wing zealot Mike Pence, who famously refused to ever be alone with any woman not his wife, bent the knee, kissed the ring (and the rear end) of Donald Trump with deep cultish servility for four excruciating years, but ultimately found his limit after being advised by Dan Quayle, the most ironic possible savior of the republic, who was not only a fellow Hoosier, but also had been in the exact same position as a vice president to a one-term president (Geo H.W. Bush) who had to certify his own loss.

   JD Vance is a quick learner. He watched Pence and learned his lesson. He has drunk the Trump cult Kool-Aid, injected the Trump cult heroin and embraced what he called the “American Hitler” and proved that, unlike Pence, he has no limits.

   On imposing Talibangelical Christofascist Sharia law, Vance is far more extreme than the irreligious Trump, who has violated all of the Ten Commandments and is the poster child for all of the “Seven Deadly Sins” — pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth

   JD Vance found acclaim and respect as the author of Hillbilly Elegy, in which he described a childhood that was saved only by the good union job his grandfather was able to gain.

   Yet now, the flip-flopper seeks to eradicate the power of the very unions that enabled him to survive a difficult childhood. He has turned his back on every value on which he rose to fame and acclaim.

4. 10 days ago on Clay Bennett

   So it turns out that JD Vance’s statement about being addicted to the Trump heroin was more a premonition than a warning.

   And when he said that Trump was an “American Hitler,” he did not say that it was a bad thing.

   Maybe Vance is the perfect match for Trump!

5. 10 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   Some of the former top Trump insiders — Trump’s closest and Trumpiest advisors — who participated in drafting the 922-page proposal known as Project 2025 and their role in the Trump administration (very incomplete partial list):

   Steven Miller — top policy advisor

   Peter Navarro — Deputy Assistant to the President

   Russ Vought — Director of Office of Management and Budget

   Bernard L. McNamee — Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

   Ben Carson — HUD Secretary

   Rick Dearborn — Deputy Chief of Staff to the President

   Ken Kuccinelli — Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security

   Paul Dans — Chief of Staff at Office of Personnel Management

   Spencer Chretien — Associate Director of Presidential Personnel

   Hans A von Spakovsky — Advisory Commission on Election Integrity

   Brendan Carr — FCC Commissioner (and just wait ’til you see what he wants to censor)

   Christopher Miller — Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense

   … and many, many more. The entire proposal has been designed by top Trump insiders with more than 300 references to Trump by name. He admitted they were planning it more than two years ago. Trump cannot wash this stain off his hands. Any attempt to distance himself is prevarication on steroids, even by Trump standards.

6. 10 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   Donald Trump has seen how unpopular his Project 2025 — the plan to impose Christian sharia law of a Talibangelical extreme theocracy, written by his own top staff insiders with the Heritage Foundation — is, so is now trying to distance himself from it.

   Of course, remember when…

   Trump claimed he had never heard of David Duke.

   Trump claimed he didn’t know who the Proud Boys were.

   Trump claimed he did not know Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of his long-time bromance pal Jeffrey Epstein, despite the many photos of them partying cheerily together.

   Stormy Who?

   E Jean Who?

   Now all of a sudden, he has no idea about Project 2025, mostly written by his most extreme and closest former top advisors. Nope. Never heard of ’em.

   The proof — the smoking gun — that Trump is lying when he says he has no involvement in Project 2025 (aside from the fact that it was produced by HIS PEOPLE) is the fact that, two years ago, on April 21, 2022, Trump announced that the wonderful people at the Heritage Foundation (under whose auspices Trump’s people developed it) were preparing a formal plan for restructuring the government FOR HIM.

   And now they are even trying to re-brand this package of atrocious government overreach as “Agenda 47” — same hazardous product with new packaging and a new label — from which it will be much more difficult for would-be “President 47” to distance himself when the authoritarian stench seeps through the wrapping.

   What is most scary is that, in addition to the 922 pages made public, there is more material still being kept confidential because it is too inflammatory for general consumption. If even these religious radicals find it too extreme for the public, it must be truly terrifying!

   But sadly, there are gullible TrumpubliKKKlan cult worshipers credulous enough to sucker for that.

7. 10 days ago on Clay Jones

   — Thank you for the kind words. Several have inquired about creating a possible blog site … earlier this year I did begin a blog page on the WordPress platform and have already uploaded a few articles to it.

   ddwiz wordpress com (no leading “www”)

   In the upper right corner is an index of the few most recent posts. I have not posted a lot there yet, but perhaps I will redirect my energies to adding more content.

   The WordPress site does allow reader comments (which the blogger — me — moderates; so comments don’t just appear as soon as they are entered, each has to individually be approved depending on when I check them. I do accept thoughtful dissenting views, but trolls are not only not approved but are blocked). If someone wants to send a personal note, they can add a comment and just say it is a personal message and I won’t make it public. This does allow for more individualized interaction.

8. 10 days ago on Clay Jones

   Just visited Claytoonz and entered a couple of comments. Look forward to being a more regular participant on Clay’s excellent site.

9. 10 days ago on Rob Rogers

   — Well, you are at least one of the people who will still see me on Facebook and, again, for lengthier content, I have recently begun a blog on the WordPress platform:

   ddwiz wordpress com (no leading “www”)

   The WordPress site does allow reader comments (which the blogger — me — moderates; so comments don’t just appear as soon as they are entered, each has to individually be approved) so it could allow for more individualized interaction.

10. 10 days ago on Rob Rogers

    For those inquiring about creating a possible blog site … earlier this year I did begin a blog page on the WordPress platform and have already uploaded a few articles to it.

    ddwiz wordpress com (no leading “www”)

    In the upper right corner is an index of the few most recent posts. I have not posted a lot there yet, but perhaps I will redirect my energies to adding more content.