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1. 7 months ago on Gary Varvel

   Biden doesn’t have dementia. I’ve seen too many people with dementia to know it when I see it. He’s 80+ and it shows. However, your point is well taken, he needs to step aside and let someone else take over the lead.

   Now Mr. Trump is not far behind Pres. Biden and that also shows. He’s also has soooo many negatives. The difference between republicans and Democrats is that we’re calling out Biden. What are republicans doing?

2. 7 months ago on Gary Varvel

   What’s it say about your candidacy when members of your own party are trying to kill you?

3. 7 months ago on Steve Breen

   The forest management line is tiresome in that while it has a grain of truth, it’s mostly ignorant of the causes of fires and solutions to the problems they cause.

   There are three factors driving fires in the West – weather, population growth and terrain.

   Whether want to believe or not, the fact is that the climate in the West is getting warmer. It’s a fact born out by weather stats. That means the vegetation dries out quicker and more thoroughly than in the past. Additionally, pests like the bark beetle are moving into habitats that previously were too cold for them, killing scores of trees and creating fuel for fires.

   As populations grow, people are pushing further into areas where it is unwise to build houses. We are building along ocean cliffs subject to erosion, beaches subject to hurricanes and woods subject to fires. Nature doesn’t stop because you want an ocean view.

   Finally, there is terrain. The reason California is called the Golden State isn’t just about the gold discovered here, it’s the vast grasslands of the state that turn gold when they dry out in the summer. That’s where most of the fires start. Fires move uphill which where most of the forests are. Most of the fires burning in California are in rugged, inaccessible areas making them difficult to fight.

   It’s not about forest management.

4. 7 months ago on Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons

   Speaking of meds, up yours.

5. 7 months ago on Michael Ramirez

   No I don’t. The assassination attempt on Mr. Trump has nothing at all to do with Gov. Newsome or my opinion on anything. It’s not a Trump card.

6. 7 months ago on Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons

   Uh huh. Maybe so, but let’s take a look at the rhetoric from the right over just the past four years. Most recently from Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation and one of Project 2025:

   “And so I come full circle in this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

   I could fill up the comments section with similar, documented quotes. It sucks to be on the receiving end of that rhetoric, doesn’t it.

7. 7 months ago on Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons

   You know you guys are the biggest hypocrites. For the last 30 years we’ve been listening to the violent, threatening rhetoric from the right. It’s been particularly bad since Trump came on the scene. Now you want to blame us lefties for YOUR rhetoric coming home to roost.

   Pathetic and completely predictable.

8. 7 months ago on Michael Ramirez

   This what happens when you guys get confronted with facts and reasonable arguments. Y’all melt like snowflakes.

9. 7 months ago on Michael Ramirez

   Well you’re entitled to be wrong and I’ll informed. And what happened to Mr. Trump today has nothing to do with that.

10. 7 months ago on Michael Ramirez

    Well, lets start with the obvious, Governor Newsome is not the mayor of San Francisco. When he was the mayor he was actually very successful.

    Next. San Francisco is a city of 800,000 in a state with nearly 40,000,000. That is to say that San Francisco is not all of California. The Hilton in Union Square is just one business, SF has many that are doing quite well. Their success is partly the reason that SF real estate is so expensive.

    Gov. Newsome is not perfect. He’s made mistakes, but overall he’s done OK. Most of the big problems he faces here have been problems for the 30 years I lived here. They defy simple solutions. republican governors didn’t fix them either. Jerry Brown did the best, but he’s retired now.