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1. 4 days ago on Matt Davies

   It’s so predictable that MAGAts who can’t defend Trump always try to deflect by parroting “Hunter Biden Hunter Biden.” Newsflash for you: James Comer told a Republican colleague yesterday he’s ready to be done with the sham impeachment inquiry against President Biden. Despite desperately looking, the GOP has been unable to find any evidence of any criminal or improper dealings by him.

2. 8 days ago on Chip Bok

   Statistics show that the number of abortions does not significantly decrease when it is illegal. What increases are female deaths and significant health issues, often including a permanent inability to have children, from back-alley abortions.

3. 9 days ago on Chip Bok

   sigh No one is calling Trump a dictator for saying abortion should be left up to the states. What people are saying is that his position means that he is automatically in favor of the state of Arizona’s State Supreme Court and legislature supporting the imposition of a draconian 1864 forced-birth law even though he’s now said that he thinks they went too far and “that’ll be straightened out.” You can’t have it both ways.

4. 24 days ago on Chip Bok

   What does this even mean? If RFK meets the requirements to be on state ballots, he’ll be on state ballots. No political party can dictate the ballot content.

5. 25 days ago on Steve Kelley

   I’m shocked, shocked that this cartoon leaves out the details about the bond, which pauses the judgment against him while he appeals and is intended to make sure that defendants found guilty have enough assets to cover the amount of the judgment against them while they are appealing the ruling, to prevent people from tying up a case with appeal after appeal as a way to avoid paying the amount they owe.

   As for the bond itself, it has been temporarily rejected by the court because of the lack of sufficient proof by the surety company he used to post the bond, Knight Specialty Insurance Company, run by a supporter of his, that it has enough assets to pay if his appeal fails.

6. 26 days ago on Chip Bok

   The societal insistence that there is a single “norm” of sexual orientation or gender identity and that anyone who is outside this artificially imposed “norm” is abnormal or deviant is based on ignorance. It is the reason why it’s only in the past few decades, when medical and mental health organizations have started to acknowledge that there is a spectrum of sexual orientation and a condition where gender identity does not match biological sex, that those who do not fall into the narrow definition insisted on by many in society have been willing and able to acknowledge their own identity publicly.

7. 26 days ago on Steve Kelley

   I don’t even know where to start with your rant:

   • I post on this site to try to provide facts to counteract the blatantly false right-wing talking points that accompany slanted right-wing cartoons. No one is paying me to do so (although if you do have a direct web site or email address of someone who would, I’d be happy to apply!)

   • Contrary to your ignorant diatribe, Transgender Day of Visibility has been declared and noted with events around the world on March 31 since 2009. If you can figure out how to use Google or Wikipedia, you can confirm this for yourself.

   • Gender dysphoria is recognized by all mainstream medical and mental health organizations. I am sure you would much prefer to continue in your prejudiced ignorance, but if by some miracle I’m wrong, you can educate yourself at sites like nhs^.uk^/conditions^/gender-dysphoria/

8. 26 days ago on Chip Bok

   That’s what made it even more inappropriate: he actually began and ended the diatribe with “Happy Easter”

9. 26 days ago on Steve Kelley

   • There’s no reason why Christians should have been affected by the President’s statement. He didn’t say that the day should be observed instead of Easter.

   • March 31 is International Trans Day of Visibility – it’s not just a US proclamation – and it’s been around for 15 years.

   • As others have noted, the rules about WH Easter egg decorating have been in place for 45 years, including during the Trump administration, so if anyone is deliberately making a big deal out of something that has quietly been around for a while, it’s the right wing latching on to culture war talking points based on falsehoods.

   • If you want to point to a politician who trampled over Easter, instead of pointing to the President, who went to church on Easter Sunday and whose Easter message included noting the power of the hope and promise of Christ’s Resurrection, people should instead be pointing to Trump, the GOP presumptive nominee, who did not go to church and whose paragraph-long Easter message consisted entirely of all-caps juvenile insults and lies about the people involved in his various criminal cases.

10. 26 days ago on Chip Bok

    sigh I should cease being surprised that some in the right wing decide on a completely false narrative based on lies and the rest of the right wing just parrots it without either bothering to look into it or caring whether it’s true.

    • International Trans Day of Visibility has occurred for the past 15 years on March 31. It just happened that this year Easter also fell on March 31.

    • The President noting this observance did not in any way negate Easter or affect its observance in any way.

    • One presumptive Presidential nominee of a major political party – a church-going Catholic – went to church on Easter Sunday. The other did not go to church… and instead spent his time spewing over 70 online messages containing lies and personal insults about his political opposition and the District Attorney, judges, and their families related to his pending criminal cases, including in his actual Easter message.