Recent Comments

1. about 4 hours ago on Ted Rall

   That just makes both sides mad at you. America hasn’t been able to be conveniently ignored for at least 80 years, probably more than that. We’re just too big and too powerful. Switzerland has it easy.

2. about 5 hours ago on Moderately Confused
   When I graduated from high school in 1962, my husband and I bought a three bedroom, two bath house and two decent cars within the next few years, on what he was making on a job he got right out of high school. Most of the guys I graduated with did the same. I didn’t work, few married women did, and those who did usually chose to do so. Now, it isn’t really a choice for most women, unless they don’t mind living in poverty.

   When I decided to become a teacher, my first quarter’s tuition at Southern Illinois University was $79, and we rented any books we needed for $20. Anyone could go to college with just a part time job to pay for it, and without piling up a lifetime of debt. Since that time, the GNP has skyrocketed and the American worker is acknowledged to be the most productive in the world. But, most of the value they are producing is going to the top 1%. who use that money to buy politicians who make laws that insure that they keep making most of the money, which they can use to buy more politicians, who will write more laws so they can make more money to buy more politicians and etc etc etc.

   The Middle Class standard of living is declining, and a college graduate hasn’t anywhere near as easy a time as we had with just high school. We produce the highest quality goods on earth, and we can’t afford to buy them. A young person told me a while back that I couldn’t really understand why their generation was so angry. What I actually don’t understand is why they aren’t rioting in the streets.
3. about 5 hours ago on Ted Rall

   It isn’t possible to be on the side of the good guys when both sides are doing really bad things. That’s why WWll was such a hit, we had a really bad side to fight against.

4. about 5 hours ago on Steve Kelley

   An objective observer may see this as futile and showcasing the fact that they have no proof of anything they are accusing Biden of. They are not putting on this show for objective observers, they are entertaining the MAGAts, and keeping them engaged. If you read MAGAt comments, they are totally convinced that Biden is a mentally incompetent old man with a poor memory who is managing an international crime organization so effectively that no one is able to come up with any proof that the organization actually exists. When you are dealing with that kind of reasoning, you have to provide some entertainment to make sure they don’t have time to actually think.

5. about 5 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   The rules are that the mikes are turned off when your time is up. How that keeps screaming from being picked up by the other person’s mike is questionable, possibly sound proof booths? Actually, I would really like to see Biden looking like he did in the State of the Union speech, with muted ranting in the background.

   There will be no audience, so no audience interruptions, which was a standard procedure until MAGAts got involved. It wasn’t necessary to ban an audience because civilized behavior was observed by all those in attendance. Since they can’t bar those who have no concept of civilized behavior, they are barring everyone.

   And, the networks that will be filming are CNN and ABC. This doesn’t prohibit other networks from picking up the feed and reporting on it. All in all, this sounds like an actual debate worth watching. They were becoming childishly unprofessional before Trump was involved and he has turned them into a spectacle that should have been appalling and embarrassing to any American adult watching.

6. about 24 hours ago on Herb and Jamaal

   We don’t just have freedom of religion but also freedom FROM religion. Evangelicals are not as mindless as they appear to be. They really want the entire country to share their beliefs, or at least to act like they do.

   They don’t like abortions, and actually birth control.

   They want everyone to attend church and believe in Jesus.

   They would not just allow public prayer everywhere all the time, but demand that anyone not participating be punished.

   They would not allow any evidence of any other religion, or lack thereof to be displayed in public. That kind of thing is frightening to them and they really really hate it.

   And, Trump has promised them a christian version of the Taliban in America. This is quite a reach, considering that he doesn’t attend church himself and has shown absolutely no morals according to the dictates of any religion.

   It is amazing to see how many of these people who are, in their own minds at least, a moral shining light actually are not ashamed of the fact that they are avidly supporting the least moral person imaginable.

7. 1 day ago on Clay Bennett

   Because the constitution was written by a bunch of white male (many slave holders) who wanted a back door way to pretend “all men are created equal” but still enable men like themselves to override the system and keep out the riff raff. I don’t think it would be necessary to amend the constitution to fix this. Just require the delegates to present the number of votes for each candidate from their state, add them up and get the person who the people actually voted for.

8. 1 day ago on Clay Bennett

   They won’t let me use enough boxes to answer that question.

9. 1 day ago on Clay Bennett

   Republicans have to lie and cheat any way that they can or they will cease to exist. Voter suppression is just one of their methods. In phone surveys, when people are given a choice on issues that affect their daily life, taken from both Republican and Democratic Party publications, those who identify themselves as Democrats agree with the Democrats about 80% of the time. Independents do too, about 58% of the time. The weird thing is that 42% of Republicans agree with the Democratic positions too, unless they are told which is which. Then they fall into line and agree with the Republicans 78% of the time. People who identify as Republicans make up somewhere between 30% and 42% of the voters, depending on the year. It’s currently way down. 78% of 42% is 33%. The Republicans would never win another national election with those odds. So, the Republicans have to keep as many people who they suspect will vote Democratic from voting as possible, and keep the rest of them confused enough to vote against their own best interests.

10. 1 day ago on Herb and Jamaal

    I have neighbors who put a Trump sign in my yard. When I took it back to their door with instructions to never do that again, their daughter answered the door. She said she was voting for Biden, and her mom and dad were still pretty “with it” about other things, but their church had them totally brainwashed in favor of Trump. Question is: Why is an organization that preaches for one political party and particularly for a candidate who is reliably dishonesty in business dealings and who has the family values of an extremely active tomcat still tax exempt?