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1. 7 minutes ago on Two Party Opera

   I’m not sure that I see the point of today’s strip. Is President Biden stomping on the college protestors?

2. 2 days ago on Doonesbury

   Nonsense. Get over it. Politicians are like everyone else: some are good; some not.

3. 5 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Perhaps the "Snooze"refers to the Fox’s audience advancing age and tendency to nod off in front of their t.v.s. :)

4. 5 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Almost all of us watched All in the Family back in the early 1970s. The show was not bigoted. It made fun of the bigoted head of the family.

5. 5 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Who is “the liberal”?

6. 5 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I believe you. Your mug probably does say “Free Speach”.

7. 6 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   When I said that Republicans fear Trump, I wrote too quickly. More precisely, Republican office-holders & -seekers are intimidated by Trump’s supporters, fearing that they cannot retain or win office without Trump’s endorsement. They really have been hoist by their own gerrymandering. By ensuring that so many districts were solidly Republican, they left them open for a Yahoo like Trump to take over these folks.

   Democrats and other patriots are greatly concerned over what might happen if Trump returns to the White House, especially with a Republican Congress. We fear that the entire republic is in danger, as Trump will replace thousands of civil servants with people whose only qualification is loyalty to Trump, and he will not respect our Democratic institutions and refuse to hold an election in 2028. Trump admires strongmen like Putin, and he wants to be our version of one as he hands the nation into Putin’s hands.

8. 6 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I replied to this comment last night, but GoComics must have disapproved my remark.

   America is a majority-rule country. Yes, we protect the rights of the minority, but it is the majority that speaks, so it is reasonable to speak as “we” when one is speaking for the majority.

   If “we” must mean 100%, then “we” will never happen. One hundred percent of us have never agreed on anything—even becoming Americans in the first place.

   You couldn’t even say “We overthrew the British and became the United State of America” since many (future) Americans sided with the British. I will continue to use “we” whenever I speak (write) for the majority of us, and you should feel free to do the same—that is, if you ever find yourself in the majority. ;)

   My sources about our opinions about Trump during his first impeachment trial came from Wikipedia (“First impeachment of Donald Trump”), which showed three of four polls taken after impeachment with majorities or pluralities of us supporting conviction. Notice that many of the polls in the article in Five Thirty Eight also showed similar numbers. YouGov: 45% to 41% for removal; Morning Consult: 50% to 43% for removal.

   Other polls showed slight pluralities against removing Trump from office, so my “we” may have overstepped slightly, but it’s certain that way more of us wanted to see Trump removed than wanted to see Clinton removed in 1999.

   As for the polls in 2016: They did not say that Hillary Clinton would win. They said that more of us would vote for her, which we did by a large margin. Unfortunately, the Electoral College saw the matter differently, but the polls were not wrong. We, the American people, have never wanted Trump as our president.

9. 6 days ago on Ted Rall

   Yes, thanks: Our presidential elections require that one candidate receive over 50% of the Electoral votes, or the election is thrown into the House of Representatives, where each state’s delegation gets a single vote, based on how 50+% of the delegation chooses. This system very quickly devolved into two parties since more parties would more likely send each election into the House, where much horse-trading would be done, the voice of the people, already diluted by the Electoral College, would be virtually non-existent, and the likelihood of a minority president would be much greater.

10. 7 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    As I said earlier, “we, the American people”. After the House impeached Trump, the polls showed that the majority of us thought that Trump was guilty and that the Senate should convict.