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1. 2 days ago on Clay Jones

   — or it could be that they are carrying out the will of Vladimir Putin, who is determined to find as many creative ways as possible to kill off as many Americans as possible, destabilize our government, undermine our elections and keep our nation divided.

   Putin got Trump installed for those very purposes and is still using his little puppet in support of those efforts that he has the most to gain from.

   There is no other reasonable explanation for a strategy of killing off your own voters and supporters.

2. 2 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   — Yes, which is why I cited Australians and Canadians and Swiss as people who love their guns but still managed to end or prevent epidemics of gun carnage by reining in the extremes, establishing reasonable controls, and still allowing appropriately limited access to those guns with proper controls. I did differentiate between them and, say, Japan or most of the rest of western Europe.

   The steps that worked in Australia, Canada and Switzerland could be made to work here, as well, if we did not have such vicious determination to oppose even the slightest steps in that direction.

   Gee, with those who take their orders from Vladimir Putin (who famously donated millions to the NRA even though he allows no such firearm oversight in his country and who is aggressively trying to vaccinate his own population) so firmly opposed to vaccines and masks to prevent mass deaths, and opposed to even the slightest steps towards putting an end to our epidemic of gun carnage, you would almost think they are still taking their marching orders from the one person who stands to gain the most from killing off as many Americans as possible.

3. 2 days ago on Clay Bennett

   — Yep, Republicans only win elections because of massive gerrymandering of congressional districts and the disproportionate representation in the senate and Electoral College. Oh, and control of the media owned by very wealthy individuals and corporations and unlimited campaign cash to influence messaging. And voter suppression. Lots and lots of suppression of constituencies likely to vote Democratic. And now they are upping their game to control the counting and certification of whatever ballots do get cast.

   We need massive, massive election reform — REAL election reform, not the bovine poop fake “reforms” that merely double-down on the rigging of the system.

4. 2 days ago on Clay Jones

   Conservatives think little children are more traumatized by wearing masks to protect them from deadly infectious diseases or being exposed to factually-accurate, balanced, objective history, than cowering in terror during active-shooter drills or, even worse, as actual active shooters roam the halls of their schools picking off vulnerable victims.

5. 2 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   A more correct statement would be, “more gun violence than any other INDUSTRIALIZED country.” Honduras and others on the list ahead of us are third-world formerly colonized nations. According to NPR (and unlike @azbob I’ll actually include a link), the U.S. does not have the most gun deaths, but none of the countries ahead of us would be categorized as industrialized nations. And compared to other INDUSTRIALIZED nations, we are orders of magnitude more deadly.

   https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/24/980838151/gun-violence-deaths-how-the-u-s-compares-to-the-rest-of-the-world

6. 2 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   — The Swiss do have a high level of gun ownership. But they also have a high level of training and oversight and, no, a random person can’t just walk into a gun show and buy a military-grade weapon of war more suited to the battlefield.

7. 3 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   — I call bovine poop. A certain segment of Americans may be more “rough and tumble” than those in Japan or Europe, but if you think there is more of a “wild west” mentality than those in the Australian Outback or the northwestern territories and Canadian Rockies of our neighbor to the north, you are badly misinformed.

   The problem is not the culture. It is not video games, it is not movies, it is not cowboys.

   IT IS THE NRA and their band of lobbying terrorists doing the bidding of one of their largest donors, Vladimir Putin, to join with the anti-vaxxers to kill off as many Americans as possible.

   If you do not understand this, you have suckered for the NRA / Putin / right-wing POOP-aganda machine.

8. 3 days ago on Clay Bennett

   All of the six Republican-appointed ”justices” are illegitimate. All were either appointed by an illegitimate “president” who did not win the popular vote and only “won” the electoral college by massive cheating and voter suppression OR lied under oath about sexual violence during their confirmation hearings OR only got their nominations or confirmations because of illegitimate manipulation of the confirmation process in ways never envisioned by the Founders.

   Clarence Thomas — committed perjury during confirmation hearings lying about sexual assaults.

   John Roberts — appointed by an unelected president who took office without getting the most votes and only “won” the Electoral College solely because of cheating and voter suppression in Florida.

   Samuel Alito — appointed by an unelected president who took office without getting the most votes and solely because of cheating and voter suppression.

   Neil Gorsuch — appointed by an unelected president who took office without getting the most votes and solely because of cheating via CONspiracy with Russia and vote suppression in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Also occupies a seat that should have been filled by Obama who was obstructed by racist McConnell.

   Brett Kavanaugh — appointed by an unelected president who took office without getting the most votes and only “won” the Electoral College solely because of cheating via CONspiracy with Russia and voter suppression AND committed perjury during confirmation hearings and sexual assaults including rape.

   Amy Coney Barrett — appointed by an unelected president who took office without getting the most votes and solely because of cheating and voter suppression AND whose appointment was illegally rushed through in an unprecedented violation of the Senate’s own rules after voting in a presidential election was already under way.

9. 3 days ago on Clay Jones

   Today’s extremist, radicalized Qrazy Qonspiracy theory TrumpubliQan Qult Qonservatives will not take the slightest steps towards keeping battlefield-grade weapons of war out of the hands of terrorists, convicted violent criminals, domestic violence abusers or severely mentally ill persons or anyone who wants to take a military-grade weapon into a church, nightclub, concert, or PUBLIC SCHOOL FILLED WITH LITTLE CHILDREN, but they will SPARE NO EFFORT to “protect” children from being exposed to actual honest, objective history.

   The violent thugs who screamed and threw rocks at little Ruby Bridges or the Little Rock Nine don’t want their grandchildren to learn that they screamed and threw rocks at little Ruby Bridges or the Little Rock Nine.

   More kids have been sacrificed on the blood-stained altar of NRA domestic terrorists and gun manufacturer profits than the number of brave military heroes who have been sacrificed on the blood-stained altar of greedy corporate profits for the “defense contractors” of the “military-industrial complex” that [Republican] Eisenhower warned us about.

   And until this country decides it loves its children more than letting terrorists, convicted violent criminals, domestic violence abusers or severely mentally ill persons have unfettered easy access to military-grade weapons, the mass murder of little children will continue.

   And they have the NERVE to call themselves “pro-life.”

10. 3 days ago on Michael Ramirez

    — No, the psychology of Americans is not that different from those in Japan, Australia, Europe or Canada. The difference is that it is TOO EASY TO GET MILITARY-GRADE WEAPONS OF WAR into the hands of terrorists, convicted violent criminals, violent domestic abusers, children or severely mentally ill persons.