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1. about 2 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   continuation …

   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 the very intelligent, articulate Biden of not being coherent.

   Trump so old and feeble and obese he can’t sit a few hours in a courtroom like any other defendant? Accuse Biden, who is far more slim, trim and in great shape (even regularly rides a bicycle that Trump admitted he would never go up) of being the one who is weak or feeble.

   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.

   Trump credibly accused of rape, sexual harassment and groping by 26 women (including one woman, advice columnist E Jean Carroll, who successfully sued Trump for sexual assault)? Trump was served with a lawsuit for raping a 13-year-old and years of palling around with repeat convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein? Repeatedly bragged about groping women and barging in on UNDRESSED UNDERAGE MISS TEEN contestants (pedophile!)? Call Biden a pedophile with zero evidence. (You’d think Trump would want to stay away from that one.)

   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 “pü$$y-grabber” Trump? Invent a bizarre Q-Anon conspiracy theory about a pedophile ring in a DC pizza shop, with no evidence, that tries to redirect it back to Democrats.

2. about 2 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   The whole tawdry arrangement with the National Enquirer, — the gutterball of “journalism” — is emblematic of everything about how Trump and lying Republicans operate in their alternate universe of what Trump’s top aide Kellyanne Conjob addmitted on air was “alternative ‘facts’.”

   Any coverage in the mainstream corporate media unfavorable to Trump? “FAKE NEWS!” But have your own fake news like the National Enquirer, Faux “News,” NoiseMax, Alex Jones deliberately and KNOWINGLY run fake stories THEY KNOW ARE FALSE, as gets revealed later in court records such as the current Trump criminal trial or the defamation lawsuits that cost Faux “News” almost a billion dollars, Alex Jones $1.5 billion in total judgments and cases still pending against NoiseMax and OAN.

   The former publisher of the National Enquirer was forced to admit in court that he made an overt deal to provide illegal unreported “in-kind” campaign contributions to act as the campaign’s “eyes and ears” and to rig coverage in Trump’s favor by KNOWINGLY planting FAKE STORIES about whichever candidate was the current threat.

   When Ben Carson surged, he ran a completely FIB-ricated fake story about the brain surgeon leaving a sponge in a child’s brain that he knew was false. When Ted Cruz surged, he ran a completely fake story about Cruz’s father working with Lee Harvey Oswald that he knew was false. And then for the fall general election, he made up story after completely fake story concocting all kinds of bizarre lies about Hillary. All fake news that he knew were lies, planted in service for a political campaign. Plant fake stories. Suppress real stories. Nothing but lies and coverups.

   It was just doubling down on what Republicans have been doing for the last 25 years…

   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!

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3. about 3 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   There goes the TROLL doing his thing — lying again.

   No, unlike lying TROLL TrumpubliKKKlan cult worshippers, we do not scream “Russian!” at anyone we disagree with. We call out those who actually have clear, demonstrable ties to Russia, as in the case of Donald Trump (outlined in detail in both the report by Robert Mueller [a life-long REAL Republican] and the report by the Senate Intelligence Committee back when Republicans had the majority which was even more explicit), or Jill Stein, who went to Russia with Trump aide Mike Flynn and was photographed having dinner with Flynn and Putin* and, when asked about it in an interview, said that Putin is a “man of peace” (videos of all of that readily available) or Tulsi Gabbard, whose ties were spelled out by CNN, NBC and the Los Angeles Times even before Hillary made them public.

   TrumpubliKKKlan cult worshippers throw around words like Nazi, fascist, Communist, socialist or other terms that they haven’t the slightest idea what the terms even mean, with no basis. They cry “Wolf!” when there is nothing there and then wonder why no one ever believes their lies.

   When Democrats cry “Wolf!” it is because the dangerous, snarling beast is actually clawing at the door trying to get in.

4. about 5 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   Supporting (and actually participating in) “conversion therapy” for LGBTQIA+ people (her father ran a “conversion therapy” “clinic”) is not “slightly” disagreeing with fundamental Democratic Party values.

   KKK Grand Wizard David Duke was the one who endorsed Tulsi Gabbard. That was not done by Democrats.

   And no, Tulsi Gabbard was outed as a Russian mole because of a slight disagreement. Even before Hillary brought it to light in a primary debate, it had previously been reported by CNN, NBC News and the Los Angeles Times. (I have provided links to all of them in the past and I still have them for posting in other forums that allow it.)

   It is old news.

   The Democratic Party did not kick anyone out.

   Once her true views became public, she could no longer hide and decided to move on to where she really belonged.

   That was eight years ago. Old news. But it does show how far back the TROLL had to go to find a scrap of something he could twist into something different than what it really was.

   Poor TROLL. Facts just never seem to work for him.

5. about 5 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   — No one kicked Tulsi Gabbard out of the Democratic party. Being registered as a Democrat does not entitle people to hold offices that voters will not vote to elect them to.

   Tulsi Gabbard represented views unpopular with her constituents (including anti-LGBTQIA+ positions such as support for “conversion therapy,” support for Putin, being endorsed by David Duke) and, unable to win elections while holding views her constituents found reprehensible, she left the party to go and be the Moscow MAGA agent that Hillary correctly outed her to be in a 2016 primary debate.

   The Democratic Party represents certain standards and values. The party does have a platform and does represent a viewpoint and an ideology such as equality of opportunity, voting rights, civil rights, personal choice, keeping religion out of government, etc.

   Within that common set of values is a wide range of viewpoints, degrees of emphasis of certain aspects over others, etc.

   Certainly we have a wider spectrum than today’s Republicans, where there is almost lock-step (goose-stepping) conformity on issues, far less divergence than anything like the gulf between the Warren-Sanders-AOC wing and the Manchin-DLC-Blue Dogs.

   GOP divisions are more about whether to act like grownups and make deals that involve finding consensus and compromise, or throwing tantrums, engaging in food fights and “my-way-or-the-highway” absolute refusal to bend a bit to accommodate political reality (like not having the White House and only having one house in the legislative branch).

   It is a “Big Tent.” But even tents have walls and if they want to play the game, they do have to be somewhere in the Ball Park.

   But no, a person who opposes LGBTQIA+ rights, a person who is endorsed by David Duke, a person who supports Vladimir Putin and his murderous regime, no, they are not a good fit for our party, they are not within the broad spectrum of viewpoints and interests and they will fit better on Faux “News.”

6. about 6 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT party with a wide range of divergent views, opinions and interests.

   Democrats also have intraparty divisions. And Democrats, too, have to walk the tightrope of internal squabbles and competing interests — the Black caucus, Hispanic caucus, leftist PROgressive caucus, moderate Democratic Leadership caucus, conservative Blue Dog caucus.

   But when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker, with a similarly narrow margin to what McCarthy had and what Mike Johnson now has, she was able to pull the disparate interests together, build consensus, and get legislation passed.

   Our party has divisions, differences and competing interests. But we are not wild-eyed, mouth-frothing crazed lunatics. We are mature adults who can make deals, find consensus and compromise and work together like the grownups in the room.

   And you know darn well that if Nancy Pelosi had crashed and burned the way McCarthy, Johnson and his ungovernable CHAOS CAUCUS have self-destructed, that no Republicans would have bailed her out as is likely a handful of Democrats (the exact small number needed) will do.

7. about 6 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   No matter how many times a TROLL repeats the same lies and reality reversals over and over it does not make them true and it does not make him credible.

   And no, I am not going to take his bait and go down the rabbit hole of every tangent of every lie, distortion, projection or outright reality reversals (such as trying to equate training anti-ISIS fighters with the exact opposite and, no, I am not going to “explain” details of training operations he has completely misrepresented, the details of which are readily available and can easily be explored by anyone interested) that have nothing to do with the original cartoon or my comment that initiated this thread.

   If I did that every time he introduced another new lie, he would just keep repeating new ones over and over again as he tries to hijack the thread.

   Anyone who wants to explore unrelated subjects is free to do so.

8. about 7 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   The TROLL thinks that if he just repeats the same lie enough times, people will eventually believe him.

   This is part of the intentional strategy of lying Republicans who know that they have to lie because if middle-class working people know the truth about how the few richest elites at the top who are trying to REDISTRIBUTE wealth from the people who produce it to those who already have the most, they won’t go along with it.

   The strategy of lying and repeating the lie is intentionally strategic.

   Dubya Bush even admitted it.

   READING FROM A TELEPROMPTER in a speech May 24, 2005 at the Athena Performing Arts Center at Greece Athena Middle and High School in Rochester, New York, Bush momentarily lapsed into a rare admission of raw, confessional honesty:

   “You gotta keep repeating things over and over and over again … to kinda catapult the propaganda”

   It is on YouTube. A few keywords will find it for you.

   They lie. They repeat the lie. And they know exactly what they are doing.

9. about 8 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   No matter how many times the Fern TROLL repeats his reality-reversed lies, or throws out names of operations that he utterly and completely misrepresents, or overlooks what was actually said (that “Obama essentially eliminated ISIS and had them _almost _completely exterminated before Trump came along and allowed them to proliferate” that tells the correct facts and the rest of the story) it does not make his TROLL LIES true nor any more likely to fool anyone.

10. about 8 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

    The Fern continues to metastasize his rhizome pumping out reality-reversed lies.

    It was Dubya Bush who gave $43 million dollars to the Taliban in May of 2001 AFTER we knew of their oppression of women and how they had blown up 1,600-year-old Buddhist statues they considered blasphemous (I repeatedly provided links to news reports before that was disallowed), and then ignored very specific warnings about Osama bin Laden preparing to attack in the United States (easy to find actual copies of the Presidential Daily Briefing for August 6, 2001) and then let the bin Laden relatives leave the country while air space was shut down for everyone else and then let Osama bin Laden escape Afghanistan and flee through Tora Bora into Pakistan.

    It was Obama who got Osama.

    It was Dubya Bush who messed up Afghanistan, redirected military assets to Iraq because, in the words of oilman Dick Cheney, they had “better targets” (oil), destroyed all stability there and allowed the rise of ISIS.

    Obama was the one who essentially eliminated ISIS and had them almost completely exterminated before Trump came along and allowed them to proliferate.

    It was Trump who freed hundreds of top Taliban terrorists, allowed them to regroup and rebuild and then locked in the terms of withdrawal to take place after the next inauguration to guarantee that it would be messy.

    All of these FACTS are easily verifiable.

    It is the lying TROLL FERN who is doing his best David Pëcker National Enquirer fake news reality reversal, making up fake stories and suppressing (reversing) actual facts in the ultimate PROJECTION.