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1. 2 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   — There was an earlier iteration in 2014 that Sarah Palin and right-wing Talibangelical extremists helped promote that also passed by huge margins, but the Uganda courts struck it down under pressure from international human rights organizations and threats of sanctions.

   The one @librarylady59 is referring to, along with the link the NPR’s coverage (Rachel Maddow also had detailed coverage including an in-studio interview with a Ugandan dissident vowing to again take it to the courts on her program last night) is a new iteration that just passed. And yes, U.S. Talibangelical extremists have again been active in promoting the new one, though I have not heard any mention of Sarah Palin specifically this time around.

2. 3 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   — Lips? Well, at least my keyboard.

3. 3 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   PROgressives are “woke” — i.e., awake, alert and ready and aware of injustices that they seek to first identify and then rectify and, yes, that includes climate change and damage to our shared environment along with other issues of personal freedom for individuals over corporations and social justice and equality of opportunity for everyone. Being “woke” is to be inclusive, expansive and protective — seeing the “big picture” and acting on it.

   Conservatives proudly proclaim themselves the opposite of “woke” — i.e., COMATOSE. Being comatose is to be blind to any experience or perspective other than one’s own very narrow personal existence, hating anyone who is different.

   Those who ridicule being awake, alert and ready apparently prefer to be in a drunken stupor of hate-infused intoxication and a world of insecure, conspiratorial hallucinations and (their term) “alternative facts,” rather than the real world-reality of being awake, alert and ready.

   To be “woke” is a badge of honor. Those who try turn such beautiful aspirations into something ugly say more about themselves than they do about those they unsuccessfully seek to denigrate.

   Florida Governor Ron DeSatan picked a fight with a Disney mouse, lost a billion dollar expansion along with several thousand good-paying jobs that will instead go to Gavin Newsom’s “woke” California. We Californians (along with our Governor, Gavin Newsom), thank Florida for helping move our state ever closer to becoming the fourth largest economy in the entire world (currently number five) — larger than most other nations.

   Ron DeSatan’s “war on woke” will work out for him just about as well as fellow tyrant Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is working out for him.

4. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   — Yep, from Millennials to us Boomers, there are many Democrats who would prefer a different candidate, and that shows up in polls, but when it comes time to vote and the choice is between four more years of the economic recovery, peace, prosperity, deficit reduction and normalcy we have enjoyed under Biden, or a return to four more years of the noise, violence, hatred, bigotry, incompetence, and economic and social devastation we suffered under four years of Trump — it will be an easy choice. Biden has done a good job, is healthy and mentally fit, certainly much more than his dementia-sotted, cholesterol-clogged obese predecessor. We may wish for a different preferred alternative candidate, but we will not hesitate to vote for Biden (again).

   Also not reflected in the polls is how Trump rotting away in a prison cell will affect his ability to run a campaign. Sure, the extremist loony die-hards will vote for him no matter what, but virtually the entire middle will be quite put off with the idea of voting for a convicted felon who is in jail, and if he is convicted for seditious conspiracy for his role in January 6, he would be ineligible to ever again hold any public office of trust under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment, passed to disqualify all those who participated in the treason of the Confederacy from ever holding public office.

5. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   — Yep. Many of the alt-“Christian” Christofascists from the Caliphate of Talibangelistan aka Y’all Qaeda of Gilead can correctly identify the current numerical year, but when you get to the question, “Who is the president of the United States” and they still answer “Trump,” they prove their mental unfitness (which may also be the reason they are so determined to keep it easy for the mentally incompetent not to be excluded from firearms background checks).

6. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   — Here is a link to the peer-reviewed scientific Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law that I think you are referring to, that cites 27 trained psychiatrists who did assess Donald Trump and found him PATHOLOGICALLY DANGEROUS.

   http://jaapl.org/content/46/2/267

7. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   — Totally agree. I believe (like you, without current proof) that the medical records already exist to show that Trump had strokes, either minor TIA’s (transient ischemic attacks, or “mini strokes”) or something more serious. Such events can also occur in comorbidity with the onset of dementia or as a precursor to it.

   There is a delicious irony about those who support Trump, who is clearly in massive mental decline, while trying to make an issue of Biden’s mental state, when Biden is running circles around those he engages with (baited the “Freedom Caucus’ into committing to defend Social Security and Medicare at his State of the Union; completely outmaneuvered McCarthy to get everything he really needed in the debt ceiling deal). Oh, and even if he occasionally stumbles on obstacles in his way, Biden can at least ride a bicycle, as he does often (Trump revealed more than he perhaps intended when he said he would never go near one), and he can run UP the same ramp that Trump had to shuffle and shamble down, with assistance from aides.

   It is always true of Republicans that they accuse their adversaries of their own most vulnerable weaknesses.

8. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   — In addition to not knowing that McConnell fell, or that he had to be hospitalized, or that Democrats sent best wishes for recovery, if @aristoclesplato9 cannot find a single accurate fact ” “one grain of truth” — in what I posted, it means he also does not know that FDR won World War II while confined to a wheel chair and dealing with massive cardiovascular issues.

   Someone that disconnected from reality, who just denies everything and offers nothing of substance to replace it, is so far removed from the fact-based universe that any comment they make about “dementia” becomes particularly ironic.

9. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   — “obvious dementia”? I think you must be referring to “Agent Orange.” For someone with “obvious dementia,” Biden sure got the best of McCarthy in negotiating the debt ceiling agreement. Not one of Biden’s initiatives in the infrastructure act or the environmental bill got cut other than about 25% of the amount of the increase in funding for IRS collections on high-dollar returns. Biden also got a two year deal compared to the six months that Republicans wanted so they could do this all over again.

   As for “obvious dementia,” compare that with a highlight role of the Trump dementia show:

   • COVFEFE

   • Hamberder

   • The imaginary Bowling Green massacre

   • Yo-Semite

   • Thigh-land (where Trump ends up when he tries to “grab ’em by the pu$$y” and misses)

   • George Washington was protecting the airports…

   • Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

   • Injecting bleach to cure COVID.

   • Staring directly into the sun.

   Oh, and repeatedly trying to claim credit for the Veterans Choice Act (H.R. 3230; Pub.Law 113–146) — which was signed into law by OBAMA IN 2014, even when reporters point it out to him.

   Just the tip of the iceberg; so many more.

10. 4 days ago on Clay Bennett

    — So true. Democrats always stand for freedom and personal liberty for individuals; Republicans stand for “liberty” for corporations to run roughshod over the rights of workers and consumers, but as for personal freedoms they want to micromanage every aspect of real people’s personal lives: dictate control over every aspect of our private lives, including private relationships (dictate who you can or can’t marry or even what behavior is allowed behind closed doors), private medical choices (reproductive choices such as abortion or contraception, medical marijuana, end of life choices, stem cell therapies, gender-identity care), tell us what books we or our children can have access to, or try to force PRIVATE religion into PUBLIC policy and religious rituals into public meetings or subsidize it with special tax advantages (socialized religion).

    And then they have the nerve to say that “Democrats are coming for your freedoms.”

    ::: rolling eyes :::