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1. 1 minute ago on Prickly City

   As I stated to begin with, voters (barely) voted for Trump because he promised to bring down the price of gas and eggs.

   By the time he deports half the farm workers who grow our food, work in meat packing plants and build our homes on constructions sites, and imposes tariffs that get tacked on to the price of consumer goods (including many that are “made in America” but which use imported parts and components), consumer costs will skyrocket.

   Trump “loves the uneducated,” but the uneducated are about to get educated … the hard way.

   And in the 2026 midterms, it will be Republicans who have to defend the most swing senate seats.

   Buckle up.

2. 5 minutes ago on Prickly City

   A self-described unemployed high-school dropout still living at home with Mommy who can’t tell the difference between the closest vote margin in this century, the fourth closest margin in the last 100 years, and the seventh closest margin in all of U.S. history, who can’t actually get a single fact right or even respond substantively to what the post he purports to reply to even says, can’t possibly be taken seriously.

   The Troll has not made a single statement that is factually accurate as to anything the Democratic Party stands for, anything in the original comment, or anything remotely resembling historical fact.

   He is a pure TROLL and his sole intent is to take the thread down irrelevant tangents and bizarre, unrelated rabbit holes.

3. 25 minutes ago on Prickly City

   Naturally, the Fern Troll shows up to lie about Democratic policies. Since nothing he said about Democratic policies is remotely accurate or factual, there is nothing of substance to rebut.

   As for what right wing nut jobs say on podcasts, I don’t have the slightest interest, for the same reason that I don’t eat out of garbage cans.

4. 32 minutes ago on Prickly City

   Trump (buttressed by allies in the bazillionaire-owned corporate media and his own wholly-owned media at Twitter/X, Faux “News” and NoiseMax) keeps repeating the false claim that he won a “landslide” and has a clear “mandate” to do whatever he wants.

   Landslide? Mandate? It was nothing of the sort.

   If just a handful of voters across three swing states that Trump narrowly won had gone the other way, it would be the Democrats crowing about a “landslide.” Republicans could not even flip the senate seats (two of which were open seats) in four of the swing states that Trump carried. Trump’s ubiquitous red tie was longer than his nonexistent coattails.

   Fact: Trump won the popular vote by barely one percentage point, the seventh narrowest margin out of the 59 presidential elections in our country’s history and the fourth closest margin in the past 100 years.. THAT IS NOT A LANDSLIDE; that is certainly no mandate.

   A “landslide” with a mandate would be more like…

   1936 — FDR carries 46 states (out of then 48) and a popular vote of 66.8% to 32.7%

   1972 — Nixon carries 49 states and a popular vote of 58.5% to 41.2%

   1984 — Reagan carries 49 states and a popular vote of 58.8% to 40.6%

   I was old enough (and politically active enough) to remember the REAL landslides of 1972 and 1984. The Fern Troll, who in other threads has echoed Trump’s lies, wasn’t even born for any of them. He has no idea what a landslide is.

5. about 1 hour ago on La Cucaracha

   These are not serious cabinet nominations (or rather, abominations). And they are not meant to be.

   It is an attempt to propose a cabinet so absurd that even Republicans will oppose it, and then Trump will force them to bend the knee and swear that it is the most wonderful, beautiful cabinet ever nominated. This is a tool of imposing his will; his total control, and demanding total obedience. It goes beyond a “loyalty test.”

   It goes way beyond a mere loyalty test. It is a FEALTY test.

   Pete Hegseth, a rapist bully who feels threatened by strong women in military combat roles, to blow up the U.S. Dept. of Defense and weaken us to the benefit of our enemies

   Tulsi Gabbard1 to blow up National Intelligence agencies

   Matt Gaetz2 to blow up the U.S. Dept. of Justice

   RFK Jr (and his brain worm) to blow up health and kill off Americans

   Who benefits from blowing up all U.S. national security agencies more than Vladimir Putin?

   1 A former on-air contributor of Russia-owned propaganda channel RT (Russia Today), whose Russian hosts described her as “our girlfriend Tulsi” and a “Russian agent” who repeatedly repeated false and misleading Russian propaganda

   2 Withdrawn and replaced by former Florida Attorney General and Trump impeachment lawyer Pam Bondi. Gaetz will either return to the house (where he was just elected to the new term beginning in January) or offered a new position that doesn’t require senate confirmation.

6. about 1 hour ago on Prickly City

   These are not serious cabinet nominations (or rather, abominations). And they are not meant to be.

   It is an attempt to propose a cabinet so absurd that even Republicans will oppose it, and then Trump will force them to bend the knee and swear that it is the most wonderful, beautiful cabinet ever nominated. This is a tool of imposing his will; his total control, and demanding total obedience. It goes beyond a “loyalty test.”

   It goes way beyond a mere loyalty test. It is a FEALTY test.

   Pete Hegseth, a rapist bully who feels threatened by strong women in military combat roles, to blow up the U.S. Dept. of Defense and weaken us to the benefit of our enemies

   Tulsi Gabbard1 to blow up National Intelligence agencies

   Matt Gaetz2 to blow up the U.S. Dept. of Justice

   RFK Jr (and his brain worm) to blow up health and kill off Americans

   Who benefits from blowing up all U.S. national security agencies more than Vladimir Putin?

   1 A former on-air contributor of Russia-owned propaganda channel RT (Russia Today), whose Russian hosts described her as “our girlfriend Tulsi” and a “Russian agent” who repeatedly repeated false and misleading Russian propaganda

   2 Withdrawn and replaced by former Florida Attorney General and Trump impeachment lawyer Pam Bondi. Gaetz will either return to the house (where he was just elected to the new term beginning in January) or offered a new position that doesn’t require senate confirmation.

7. about 1 hour ago on Prickly City

   Yes, it is going to be a l-o-o-o-o-o-o-n-g four years.

   Trump made a lot of grandiose promises, including promising to lower the cost of groceries, which he is not going to do (after he deports half the farm workers and meat packers, supplies will crash, production costs will soar and grocery prices will explode).

   The voters voted for lower food prices and they are going to be very angry when Trump grocery prices explode off the charts.

   Voters did NOT vote for government to mandate who can use which restrooms.

   Voters did NOT vote for Project 2025, about which Trump lied and from which he tried to distance himself, but is now loading up his administration with its architects.

   Voters did NOT vote for a cabinet full of rapists, child molesters, Russian agents and brain-worm conspiracy theorists.

   Trump made a lot of promises, and when he not only fails to deliver what the voters chose him to do but actually gives them a lot of garbage that they clearly did not want, they will come back with a vengeance in 2026 to clean house (and senate, when it will be Republicans defending the vulnerable seats).

8. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

   The choices are not the simplistic either/or dichotomy that the simplistic Fern thinks it is.

   And by the way, I never miss “60 Minutes” and I saw the segment Fern misrepresents. While I certainly do not support all the extreme, often counterproductive positions taken by PETA, the woman did not accept the premise that the choice was between standing idly by and allowing phony “fish-in-a-barrel” staged “hunts” of trophy animals and allowing the species to go extinct.

   There are other ways to fund conservation and habitat/environment protection and restoration that offering up primitive, barbaric animal sacrifices, if there is more public policy support for adequate funding rather than blood-sport entertainment of the most primitive, barbaric sort … for example, paying local poachers generous (by local standards) salaries to protect the animals and their habitat rather than wreak destruction, as has been done very successfully in some areas of Africa, and is a far better win-win option.

9. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

   — The word “sentient” means having conscious awareness and feelings. The perception that animals (or certain other humans that go in the “them” category) do not have feelings or conscious awareness or is a prerequisite to being able to think of them as expendable, or as justification for cruelty or wanton destruction.

   Yes, the animals I cited such as elephants, lions, giraffes and even rhinos (and also deer or other common game animals, too) all have feelings, and all have conscious awareness.

10. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

    To all of the people who, sounding rather defensive, keep making a big deal about how they hunt for food:

    Please refer to my initial post and my early comments expanding on it.

    I clearly differentiated between hunting “trophy” game purely for “sport” and hunting for food, especially for those who actually depend on it.

    I further clarified my point by citing the examples of those who go to Africa to kill exotic, often endangered species such as elephants, giraffes, lions or rhinos, often at parks where the animals are set up for easy shots, so they can get easy “trophies” without much “sport” involved. If that does not apply to your point, then it doesn’t apply.

    If the shoe fits, wear it. It not, don’t.

    It seems like a lot of people are making great effort to argue against a point that no one made.