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1. 3 days ago on Mike Luckovich

   Thomas and Alito are the worst of that dirty half dozen.

2. 6 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Perhaps another giant bird dropped a woman nearby.

3. 8 days ago on Bloom County

   I can guarantee you that many — likely most — of the people at the various rallies over the past few months also care about the hostages and are opposed to Hamas. Some of the rallies have been co-organized by Jewish organizations. Most of the progressive leaders I pay attention to have decried Hamas, and I’ve never heard of any of them getting any serious criticism for doing so (perhaps from some fringe elements, but if so they rightly ignore it).

   There are many reasons that the primary focus of the rallies has been to call for a ceasefire and push the US government to use whatever leverage they have on Israel to get it to stop bombing civilians and to allow sufficient aid to get into Gaza. First of all, at this point the bulk of the suffering is being caused by Israel. Of course Hamas is ultimately responsible for starting the conflict and is partly to blame for the suffering of Palestinian civilians. But the US isn’t Hamas’s ally, it’s Israel’s. There isn’t much point in Americans having “Free the Hostages” rallies, because ordinary Americans don’t have much leverage on that issue (Israelis, on the other hand, have had many such rallies, because they recognize that Netanyahu’s relentless bombing campaign isn’t doing anything to get the hostages out). So the one thing people in the US can do to minimize suffering in this conflict is to call for the US government to pressure Israel to stop its indiscriminate attacks on civilians.

4. 9 days ago on Bloom County

   I remember Biden’s plagiarism scandal. It was a dumb thing to do, but it was incredibly minor in comparison to all the awful things his opponent has done and continues to do.

   And contrary to some of the comments here, there are actually a lot of people on the left who understand that it is possible to care about both Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians, and to despise and condemn both Hamas and the Netanyahu government without being either Islamophobic or anti-Jewish.

5. 14 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Fair enough, at least in situations where a troll’s comment has already run away with the title of featured comment. But early on, it’s possible for people to boost some other comment into the position by making enough extra replies to push it into the lead. I’ve done it myself a few times.

6. 14 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Lest they try it with my comment, let me be clear: it’s members of the MAGA movement that are most likely to stand on a sinking ship and proclaim everything is fine.

7. 14 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Why does everyone reply directly to the troll? That just makes their comment the featured comment. And as usual, they are just projecting, since their side is the one with the obvious disconnect from reality.

8. about 1 month ago on Doonesbury

   Biden has done a good job so far overall, and there’s no reason to doubt he will continue to do a good job for the next four years. In the most recent survey of presidential experts and historians, Biden was ranked 14th out of 45 presidents, whereas his predecessor was ranked dead last.

9. about 1 month ago on Mike Luckovich

   “Democrats believe if a lie is repeated often enough, many will assume it is a fact.” More projection. This is exactly what the right wing does all the time, even though their lies are often totally outrageous nonsense. The vast majority of Democratic rhetoric, on the other hand, has at least some relationship to the truth.

10. about 1 month ago on Mike Luckovich

    Absolutely. Given the alternative, everyone who wants to see a decent future for the US and the world has no choice but to vote Democratic in every election, at least until the MAGA party collapses and is replaced by a sane option.