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1. 3 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   See how the neo-Nazi, KKKonservative TrumpubliQans are?

   As soon as someone mentions REAL FREEDOM — personal liberty, personal choices in our private lives to make our own decisions about our own lives — boo hoo! — the snowflakes have to try to make it personal and say that people who love liberty have no friends.

   Projection much, snowflake friendless loser?

   Keep defending your allies who take turns kissing Putin’s rear end, saluting North Korean generals, worshipping a giant glowing orb with Muslim dictators and literally flying the flags of Nazis and the slave-owning rebels while you call yourself “American Pie.”

   Keep trying to insult those whose REAL FREEDOM and social lives you actually envy, as you try to justify your demands that Big Daddy Government tell you what you can watch or read or believe, who you should marry, what kind of medical choices you should be allowed, and micromanage every other aspect of a pathetic life for which you seem incapable of making your own choices.

   And the thing that EATS AT YOU, is that you know, when I talk about freedom and liberty in our personal lives, YOU KNOW I’M RIGHT.

   Sinclair Lewis reportedly predicted that when fascism came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American Flag and carrying a Bible.

   The rest of us want to live in the freedom and personal liberty that Patriots died for while fighting those flags of Nazis, KKKonfederate rebels and the North Koreans and Russians you bow to.

2. 3 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   Sorry, your assessment is wildly off mark. LBJ tried to start a nascent “War on Poverty.” He tried to get something started, and then Richard Nixon committed an act of treason to steal the 1968 election by sabotaging the Paris Peace talks to end the Vietnam War, that did not become known until the papers about the Chennault Affair were unsealed in 2018 (fifty years), and then promptly killed aborning the reform efforts to save families.

   Families were decimated by a war on unions, a war on working people and the stagnation of gains for the middle class as the rich got richer and the wealth gap opened to its widest extreme since the Gilded Age.

   And pornography as free speech?

   Your definition only, you little tyrant.

   You wrap yourself in an American flag and call yourself “American Pie” but the flag you bow to is the hammer and sickle.

   That is your problem. You want Uncle Sam to be your father rather than your Uncle, and micromanage every aspect of people’s personal lives, including telling them what they should believe and what they should be allowed to read.

   You dictators want Big Intrusive Government to dictate and micromanage every minute detail of our private lives, including private relationships (dictate who you can or can’t marry), private medical choices (reproductive choices, medical marijuana, end of life choices, stem cell therapies) or try to force PRIVATE religion into PUBLIC policy or subsidize it with special tax advantages (socialized religion).

   And yes, what we can or can’t believe, watch or read.

   Thank you for admitting who and what you really are.

3. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   How can you say the liberal / PROgressive governing ideas were having bad unintended consequences when they never really got into governing public policy. Unless you mean rights for minorities, women, LGBTQ+ folks, the disabled? Unless you mean trying to ensure that Americans enjoy the same public policy benefits as other countries such as universal no-fee health care, universal no-tuition public colleges/universities such as got me through the state university system (after I had begun my political science major at a well-known conservative religious university with the goal of electing religious conservatives but discovering from studying original sources what a fraud they were and transferring to a REAL university system and changing my view)?

   This country was guided by policies that were somewhat economically PROgressive to varying degrees, if not quite full-on hippy, from the mid-1930’s until the start of the Reagan war on working people and the effects of Nixon/Reagan judicial appointments, and 1933-1980 was the greatest sustained period of economic growth and broad-based, widespread prosperity in the history of the world, not to mention the greatest expansion of human rights.

   Which PROgressive governing policies did you find so onerous prior to the coming of Reagan in 1981?

4. 4 days ago on Clay Jones

   The comment from @chmsam a couple below this one (in the full thread) provides the link to the unredacted cartoon on Clay’s own site. To repeat in this thread:

   https://claytoonz.com/2021/11/24/peng-shuai/

5. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   I live in the bluest of the blue states, California. I was born here. Third generation. This is my home. I love it here. Our PROgressive policies have been able to offset much of the tyranny the TrumpubliQans are trying to impose elsewhere. This has been a great country for most of my more than seventy years. Only recently have sinister, anti-democratic forces tried to undermine our progress, set us back, and create an aristocracy of the elite of the kind the Founders most feared.

   Where other states have suppressed voters of color, we have protected everyone’s right to vote. Where other states perfect a science of gerrymandering, we have outlawed it. Where other states oppress women’s rights, we have in place the nation’s strongest reproductive freedom and gender equality laws.

   No, I am not going to surrender this beautiful country because a bunch of thugs led by a would-be dictator who literally encouraged a hostile, violent takeover to overthrow an election HE LOST BY SEVEN MILLION VOTES.

   And yes, there are other countries that have achieved models of public policy success that we can learn from. And no, I am not the one who is going to leave my home, my country, my language, my customs just because thugs and bullies like you want to destroy this country.

   No surprise the BULLY’s solution is to export anyone who wants to stand in the way of your efforts to take over this country and turn it into a fascist dictatorship.

   “American Pie”? More like Traitor Tea.

   You worship a political thug who dances to Putin’s puppet strings, salutes a North Korean general and worships a giant glowing orb with the Saudi king? You think exiling those who want to preserve our nation’s ideals is the solution? YOU can be the one to leave and go to Russia, North Korea or Saudi Arabia and take Trump with you.

   Drip. Drip. Drip. The snowflake meltdown continues.

6. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   — As I said, and explained in response to those who claimed otherwise.

7. 5 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   No, I have been EDUCATED by REAL historians who are unravelling the coverups and denials with which they sanitized history and whitewashed their atrocities.

   Even still, there are people like @AmericanPie who can’t face a comprehensive, total, honest history that both celebrates achievements and recognizes wrongs, and incorporates the full range of American experiences, not just of the white conquerors who invaded from Europe, because (boo hoo) they are too insecure and will get their delicate little snowflake feelings hurt if they find out what really happened.

8. 5 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   Those of us who “used to believe we have an honorable and exceptional history” believed that because that was the original, WHITEWASHED, sanitized, dishonest, incomplete version of history we were raised to believe and taught by people (parents, teachers) we trusted (and who were, honestly, doing their best with the information THEY had).

   What broadened our views to become more inclusive and complete?

   Deeper exposure and intensive study of more complete factual data, including going to original sources, coupled with an open mind not resistant to more complete facts.

9. 5 days ago on Michael Ramirez

   — You are correct. Accused witches were burned in Europe. In what is now the United States, they were hanged or drowned. I am not aware of any witch burnings on American soil, only Europe.

10. 6 days ago on Michael Ramirez

    Understanding factual, contextually-accurate history is important. Sure, we can enjoy the turkeys, get together with family and loved ones, give thanks, but we should also remember the true origins and pause to remember the surviving remnants of great tribes who saved the Pilgrims yet today remember the observance as a day of solemnity.