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1. 4 minutes ago on Clay Bennett

   Instead of “they” you can simply say “that person”

2. 11 minutes ago on Mike Luckovich

   I once had a Christianist try to tell me people were gay due to demonic possession.

3. about 4 hours ago on Chip Bok

   Projection. The whole “tea party” movement was supposed to look like a grass-roots effort, but it was, in reality, a scripted “astro-turf” movement financed by the shadowy guys who control the AntiPublican party but don’t want us to know who they are lest we boycott their businesses. And Trump’s rallies are all full of supporters, no one else is allowed in and he encourages his henchmen to beat up any non-supporters that get in.

   And I think some of the RW comments on here are generated in Russian spam farms.

4. about 4 hours ago on Steve Breen

   If THAT attempt to bend reality to his will didn’t convince people he’s crazy, I don’t know what would.

5. about 4 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   To be even more succinct, we already had a President who was largely a product of his handlers (Reagan) and was in his second term at least somewhat in the grip of Alzheimer’s. I would prefer a “diminished” Biden with handlers of the quality that brought about the agreement with the AntiPublicans than an equally diminished Trump who listens to no one and blunders about wildly, manufacturing controversies to distract from his other controversies.

   P.S.: Yes, Biden is old, but people see what they are looking for and I see a guy who is likely to manage four more years, after which maybe both parties can move on to younger people.

6. about 6 hours ago on Steve Breen

   The problem with that argument is that Putin believes, along with much of the Russian establishment, that nuclear war is winnable. We would indeed give Putin nothing to reign over, but we would do the same to ourselves in the process. Even if they didn’t get a shot in, very unlikely, that scale of nuclear detonation would make the whole world difficult to live in.

7. about 6 hours ago on Prickly City

   1. Biden may not have gone out in public as much as the Presidential super-spreader did, but he was visible nonetheless, responsibly following the guidelines that were understood at the time. 2. “TelePrompter writers?” Every politician has speech writers; the only time Trump uttered a complete sentence in public was when he read, almost comically, from the TelePrompter, turning his whole body from side to side (you’re supposed to shift just your eyes) as he woodenly read the words. Any other time he spoke in carny patter. 3. “The squad” is to the left of center, but only radical in the current schema where the “center” has been moved so far to the right. And those women have never advocated for violence or made statements that were provably false, as have many of the stalwarts on the other side. 4. I’ll repeat: Biden’s positions and those of his advisers and supporters, are somewhat left of center, but hardly “radical left,” by any objective measure. On the other hand, the Grand Old Party seems to be in the clutches of the radical right and inching toward Fascism.

8. about 6 hours ago on Gary Varvel

   1. The window-smashing adjacent to the peaceful protests over George Floyd was not done by people meaning to overturn our whole democratic system. This is a false equivalence at best. 2. The actual protesters were peaceful and had no control of those who chose to capitalize on the situation. 3. George Floyd ALLEGEDLY tried to pass counterfeit money, something that was not shown to be true before he was suffocated by a police officer while several others saw it was wrong but failed to intervene. What he did before is irrelevant to the situation. I’ve heard this argument before: he was a really bad guy who got what was coming to him, never mind that we can’t prove that he did THIS.

9. about 6 hours ago on Michael Ramirez
   I have heard no one with actual medical knowledge publicly suggesting Biden is anywhere near senility. On the other hand, several psychologists have posited that the other guy has serious psychological, and worse, personality disorders.
10. about 6 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

    No one is asking anyone to accept anything except every person’s right to exist. And the point of gay pride is NOT recruitment, just the freedom for people who ARE that way to be that way. Nobody is truly free until everybody is free.