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1. about 4 hours ago on Clay Jones

   — it is a political / editorial cartoon. I think my response is appropriate to the message in the ’toon.

2. about 4 hours ago on Steve Kelley

   And right on schedule, here comes Steve Kelley to try to sabotage the election by undermining confidence in the process. Republicans are trying to scare off voters, intimidate voters, suppress voters and eliminate voters because they know that the American people DO NOT WANT THEM.

   The only voter fraud is that committed by REPUBLICANS.

   • Trump and donor-turned-Postmaster General Louis DeJoy sabotaging the Postal Service to discourage voting by mail, which has hitherto been one of the safest ways of voting.

   • Republicans in California creating fake “official” ballot drop off boxes where the ballots go ILLEGALLY to themselves instead of the Registrar of Voters. State law here allows voters to give their ballot to another PERSON, who must then also sign and witness the ballot, NOT TO A BOX.

   • A real, actual, legitimate ballot collection box in an African American area of Los Angeles was destroyed by arson, along with about a hundred ballots that had been dropped off. Pure voters suppression.

   Any voter who is unsure if their ballot has been received and accepted and who lives in a state that encourages rather than suppresses voter participation can go to their state’s online ballot tracker site and verify that the ballot has been received and approved, as I did a couple of days after dropping off my ballot at a legitimate official site.

   Also in California and many other states, if for any reason there is a question or problem with a ballot, they will notify you and give you ample time to correct the defect (in California up to three weeks after the election as long as the original ballot was cast on or before election day).

3. about 4 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Hunter Biden’s laptop? Even Trump’s own intelligency people are confirming that this is just another Russian disinformation campaign. Poor Russia. Julian Assange is in prison, WikiLeaks is effectively out of business, and they need some hacked dirt. What to do? What to do?

   Ah! Just make stuff up!

   Have someone claim to have received Hunter Biden’s laptop at a Delaware computer repair shop (where Joe Biden lives, even though Hunter lives in California), where the computer guy swears he saw Hunter Biden (even though he is legally blind) and has Hunter’s laptop, which somehow ends up with Rudy Giuliani, who intelligence official (appointed by Trump) confirm is being played by Russian intelligence disinformation officers.

   ALL credible media have debunked this farcical failure except Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post tabloid trying to replace the failed National Enquirer. Even Murdoch’s Wall $treet Journal, which did run the story, also at least confirmed that they could not independently validate any of the claims.

   Biggest problem for these hoaxers: DONALD TRUMP IS RUNNING AGAINST JOE BIDEN, NOT HUNTER BIDEN. Hunter has battled drug addiction and cheated on his wife, and many presidents have had to deal with wayward children, brothers and other relatives without any involvement of their own, yet multiple investigations by Trump’s Department of Justice, two investigations in Ukraine and even a senate committee investigation controlled by REPUBLICANS all confirmed ZERO evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter, and ZERO connection of any of Hunter’s activities involving Joe Biden.

   So now maybe they’re going to FIBricate a Toobin connection? That’s pretty sticky even for Trumpsters.

   The Trumpsters are getting desperate.

4. about 9 hours ago on Steve Kelley

   — Pence calls his wife “Mother.” They have children.

   Does that make Pence a “mother****er”?

5. about 10 hours ago on Steve Kelley

   — mostly agree, but we are NOT in the same place as Merrick Garland in 2016.

   When Antonin Scalia died, the election was eight months away. Neither party even had a candidate clinch the nomination, much less be officially nominated. In U.S. history, a number of Supreme Court justices were confirmed in an election year, including Anthony Kennedy, Reagan’s last appointment, confirmed in 1988, during a presidential year, while the senate was controlled by the opposing party (and Joe Biden was chair of the judiciary committee; so much for that lie about an imaginary “Biden rule,” a trial balloon he floated but never actually carried out). It was still primary season then, too.

   When Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, the election was not four weeks away, it had already begun and both parties had official candidates and people are actually voting. NO SUPREME COURT VACANCY HAS EVER BEEN FILLED THIS CLOSE TO AN ELECTION DAY, and especially once actual voting has begun (the idea of early voting is a fairly recent phenomenon). Chief Justice Roger B. Taney (author of the horrible Dred Scott decision) died in October of 1864, an election year, but the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, refused to fill the seat, saying the winner of the election should fill it (which turned out to be himself).

   Now the Republican senators, filled with double-standard hypocrisy, have actually suspended procedural rules to ram this right-wing religious bigot through with utter disregard for rules or process or tradition (including their own).

   THIS is what court packing looks like. So yeah, if Democrats take the presidency and senate and hold the house, they absolutely should acknowledge that, however much they dislike a politicized Supreme Court, Republicans are the one who did it and now they have to play on the field they have been left regardless of how much the TrumpubliCONs whine and cry about the mess THEY created.

6. about 12 hours ago on Steve Kelley

   — no, you are simply wrong, trying to make it up as you go along and you keep guessing WRONG.

   Most RESPONSIBLE, CREDIBLE news sources report the FACTS based on objective evidence regardless of their fan base, which also happens to be why their AUDIENCE (not “fan base”; they are not cults like Faux “News”) includes people of diverse viewpoints and backgrounds, and excludes only those who refuse to watch OBJECTIVE fact-driven news that doesn’t just provide confirmation bias for their pre-determined conclusions.

   And again, REAL news outlets have objective standards of real journalism and procedures for verification based on evidence, and NONE of them has ever had the same kind of direct, incestuous relationship that Faux “News” has with the Republican party which directly and with premeditated calculation, created it. And yes, we have the actual documents, which I have referred to above.

   You continue to live in a protective bubble of denial.

7. about 12 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   — agreed, and yes, Canada’s lower death rate is due to universal health care, but also due to a more competent government taking aggressive measures to contain the virus, and despite its proximity to the most infected nation on the planet.

8. about 17 hours ago on Clay Jones

   — I mostly agree with you, except for the part that “he no longer knows a lie from the truth.” He lies intentionally. He knows he is lying. He knowingly, intentionally lied to the American people about COVID being “just like the flu” when he repeatedly told Bob Woodward that it was “five times more deadly” than even the “most strenuous” strains of flu, and also tipped off Wall $treet investor cronies to the seriousness so they could sell stocks that would be hurt and buy stocks in companies that would provide pandemic solutions (clear case of insider trading).

   I do agree he is sick and needs professional help.

   But his lying is intentional, knowing and selective.

9. about 17 hours ago on Steve Kelley

   And as I described with a detailed history of the direct relationship, unprecedented in the world of real news, Faux “News” does NOT merely leaning right, they are extreme hard right and, no there is NO major media outlet that remote corresponds to anything remotely like that on the far left.

   On social issues, the corporate conservative media (all owned by very wealthy, traditional elites) tends to be SLIGHTLY left of center.

   On fiscal issues, they are somewhat right of center, but do try to maintain solid journalist standards and are generally credible whether you like it or not.

10. about 17 hours ago on Steve Kelley

    — it is Reuters. Yes, Reuters is a good, reliable, objective source. Still part of the corporate conservative media, but like most of them, yes, they do try to live up to solid journalistic standards and usually deliver. The Wall $treet Journal has always leaned right, but at least was trustworthy until bought out by Rupert Murdoch (who also owns Faux “news”). He promised to keep it journalistically independent, but when he broke his promise, much of the formerly respectable staff resigned in protest.

    No, the corporate media are ALL FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE. As I said, they may be liberal on some social issues, and support basic competence in government as preferable to incompetent blowhards (and some individual reporters and commentators may be individually liberal — after all, they are working people), but their corporate bosses (who get to set operational policy and editorial viewpoint) are extremely conservative on matters of fiscal and economic policy as they seek to protect their elite status and continue their class warfare against working people.

    I know conservatives don’t like factual reporting, because facts lead to a more liberal outlook and conservatives deal with “alternative ‘facts’” (read: LIES) and they hate it when those darn real facts upset their alternative “reality.”