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We agree on something. This is bad news.

Gaslighting, again. What law is volatile of the 14A? Just answer the question. I thought you were talking about rich folks there for a second. That’s what MAGA is. The trailer folk to do the BS the rich folk don’t want to do.

Do you think history will show that the public was misled about DJT's current mental and physical condition? Where's the medicals? Why the stumbling on the steps of Air Force One? Why the slurred words? Why the incoherent articulation of his thoughts? I do. Just as I think we were misled about JB's mental state. JB is done, off the stage, and no longer relevant. But Trump is still here, and it's worth making these points because of MAGA's affinity for the conspiracy game. (Where are those Epstein files, again?) Policy and law are two different things. So, again, I ask, what law do you feel violates the 14A? Try to save the snark and insults in the response and just treat the merits. (Which we all know that you can't, because you're completely wrong.)

It’s shocking that you’re a teacher. I ask again, what law has been created that so abridges the rights of the citizenry? Yeah sure. He’s a friggin doctor. You’re not. And he had the added benefit of being right about everything he said. A mandatory vax (sanctioned by SCOTUS, FYI) is authoritarian, but sending the Marines to an American city point guns at Americans is not. Unbelievable.

The margin was and is thin. We also beat the clown pretty convincingly once, unlike establishment Republicans. And, when we lost, we didn’t raid the Capitol and make up conspiracy theories to cope. You missed a comma as well, FYI. Right after blowhard. The “they” in that sentence also should be “it.” And you want to abolish the DOE.

I don’t disagree. Trump is a blowhard do nothing corrupt fool. But there are those who vote for him because they think (wrongly, in my view) the alternative might be worse.

Gaslighting. I’m not defending anything other than common sense and law. Powers not reserved delegates anything not enumerated as a federal power to the states. Like policing. Maybe when you pass that spelling class you can turn your lonely eyes to con law. No. This is wrong. There is nothing wrong with ICE. These guys are following orders. This is not the way to disagree with LEO tactics.

Exactly. This is exactly right. What the rioters are doing is BS. But this is an LAPD/mutual aid/CHP/Cali state response area. They deal, until they can’t, and then governor asks for outside help if necessary. At that point NG comes in and assists as permitted by law.

TDS. Nice. A usual fallback when you don’t know what you’re talking about. What law, exactly, are you talking about here? And aren’t those challenges (14A) typical conducted as equal protection exercises in the courts? And, on top of that, you still have this little “powers not reserved problem” to get around. Also, your spelling sucks. It’s “raping.” Not “rapeing.”

Please. Nobody in LA wanted the NG because it’s not an issue that demands that intervention. And before we get to liberal pols and their behavior on J6, it’s nice that you admit that there was a reason to hide. Which Pence Romney and plenty of “conservatives” did as well.

How’s Trump doing on the stairs? Maybe he can land that new Qatari jet at the same airport George Washington used in the Revolutionary War. Just because Biden is too old doesn’t mean that Trump can’t have scrambled eggs for brains. Which he does. 10A. Try reading it. And, where is this responsibility of which you speak? Let’s put our finger on it, shall we? I didn’t realize you’re a tax and spend big government guy. Because that’s what you now support.

Probably that pesky Tenth Amendment.

Nah, I'm good. I stand to benefit, actually. I'm in the market, unleveraged, and in pristine financial shape. Now I'm setting up generational wealth for the kiddos. The goofs with whom I grew up and who aren't invested and who are living paycheck to paycheck aren't. They, and you, don't see what's coming. You're on the way to being the serfs of the 21st century. It's terrible, but sadly true. Keep rolling with MAGA and see what happens. Some weirdo won't be snapping a deuce in the same bathroom as your daughter (a good thing), but economically the majority of MAGA voters are on the path to being completely screwed.

What's your point? You whitewash it because it suits your political interests. All of the MAGA whining about rule of law and law and order is empty and strictly convenient. J6 was "overblown," and we don't have to follow court decisions we don't like, says MAGA. You're a bunch of hypocrites on at least this issue.

Enjoy the tax giveaways for the rich. And the monster deficits that flow therefrom that are going to weaken the value of your hard earned. Maybe trickle down will actually work someday. I doubt it, but every once in awhile a blind squirrel gets a nut.

J6 But do we need the Marines? No. Did the governor ask for the Marines or the National Guard? No. And if we're so eager to employ the National Guard, then why not have done so on J6? It's a manufactured crisis. Violence is not the solution. There are rioters in addition to protesters here, and the rioters are wrong. They should not harm or threaten to harm LEOs. For that they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Same thing goes for property damage. Can't happen. It is not the way. So too is the response wrong. Putting aside the rank hypocrisy in employing the National Guard here, but not on J6, the President is supposed to be a voice of calm and reason. There simply is no reason for the federal government to intercede in this way and at this juncture in what is principally a local matter.

Well said, and accurate. The proof will be in the pudding when the "Bush" Republicans get the party back and the Democrats return to emphasizing economic populism as opposed to fringe social issues. Will MAGA vote Democrat? Or will it have been so poisoned by Trump's lies and vitriol that it continues to largely vote against its own economic interests? Time will tell.

Hoax. Are you the DC coroner? Nope. Just a loser in a basement somewhere.

That's one. Still waiting on the buildings. Now do the number of officers who died as a result of J6. Before I get more MAGA faux outrage, the point is this. No violence is good violence. But MAGA has more than a tinge of hypocrisy in whitewashing J6 and then complaining about things like what happened yesterday in Southern California and even the summer of 2020.

J6 was an attempt to defeat the peaceful transfer of power. Also, during this "summer of love" of which you speak (an interesting moniker, inasmuch as Trump has alluded to J6 as a day of "love"), which federal buildings (plural) were "destroyed?" Your words. Also, which police officers were "killed" during those protests? Again, your words. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the number is a big fat zero for both.

In every case, eh?. It was BS then and it’s BS now. Keep on shoveling it for him.

Oh yeah. I would be disappointed if someone didn't furnish that apparel for him.

At least you're throwing around something besides HCQ these days. And yet Trump pardoned every J6 participant. While I completely agree with what Dan says here, I wonder how that correlates with the Trump pardons of all J6 insurrectionists.

I actually don't disagree that it has to come up. Raising it to 69 seems perhaps extreme (I believe that's the number in the BBB, but could be wrong). One wonders why Republicans don't simply increase the top marginal tax rate to, say, 39.6% and use some of those monies to fund social security. But hey, it's MAGA's show now.

Two posts in a row without a cartoon. Shocking and amazing at the same time.