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1. about 23 hours ago on Luann

   Having been the first person with any emergency training to an emergency too many times, I can tell you that, YES, people in a panic or surprise situation have to be TOLD, repeatedly, to call for help. Often it’s me, and at other times I’ve snatched a phone from some blithering, incoherent person’s hand and calmly told the dispatcher the relevant information as fast as possible (I trained in emergency and CB radio response decades ago, so I learned the ropes).

   The ugly stereotype of young people just taking video in such a crisis unfortunately has some basis in fact. As well as people who think they can TEXT “911”. The BIG difference is in whether you have been trained to help others in need, or been “trained” by peers and social media to record and post everything. The big guy in today’s strip has at least been trained to react to this crisis, however badly. Parents and “teachers” of all stripes (Scout leaders, religious leaders, whatever) need to do a better job of training young people that “p00p happens” and how to both physically and mentally react to anything from a flat tire on their bike to someone dying.

2. 1 day ago on In Security

   My reaction to Sedine’s haircut is that of Sheldon Cooper on “The Big Bang Theory” when Penny cut her hair while Sheldon was away:

   “Nope, nope, nope……..”

3. 6 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   But THERE IS incompetence going on. That’s my point. As well as heavy mainstream media bias and prejudice of the caliber of Doonesbury’s Mark screaming “That’s GUILTY!!!! GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!!!!!” over the radio (in both 1973 about John Mitchell and in 2017 about Trump).

   And there has been increasing amounts of “doubt in the system” for decades now. “Trump” has simply succeeded in making himself a manifestation of that doubt, in a way that, say, the “Tea Party” or Perot’s “Reform Party” never could. And in that way, he was a political genius, whatever rubbish the rest of his campaign has been.

4. 7 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   I have seen numerous rational arguments put forth that the prosecutors and judge in the Daniels trial have engaged in several instances of misconduct and prejudicial behavior, more than enough grounds for either an appeal or a mistrial. This is somewhat on the level of incompetence that got O.J. Simpson off on his criminal trial for murder, and should it rise to the level of Trump getting off, the explosions of outrage by Trump haters will VASTLY overshadow the howls of outrage (and joy) that greeted the O.J. verdict.

   Lest you think I’m just a Trump supporter (I’m not) grabbing talking points from some lunatic right-wing or kook radio host (I dunno who to listen to), today a federal district judge indefinitely delayed Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida—on the apparent grounds that enough mishandling of the document boxes by the GAO prior to them being taken to Mar-a-Lago had occurred to call into question whether the evidence contained therein had been tampered with, potentially enough to support contentions that Trump & Co. were “set up” by people in the GAO.

5. 7 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   He wasn’t “the third term of Billary” or “Crooked Hillary.” That would be all that would be needed for maybe 45% or more of the voting public. (You still have to win over enough independents, etc.) Just like Biden only won because he wasn’t Trump—there was literally no other good reason presented to vote for Biden, and he spent most of the 2020 campaign being hidden from the voters.

   That would explain only how Trump got elected (assuming you actually accept he was elected—and if you don’t, I don’t want to hear a word about Trump not accepting the 2020 election results). As for the tiny proportion of voters hopelessly exaggerated by the news media that sincerely look and act like Trump cult worshipers, it’s really no more inexplicable than all the fawning over Obama, those Soviet-iconography-style posters of him, the red sequined “OBAMA caps, etc.—”he’s one of us!" (and that goes beyond mere skin color, as elaborated a bit by Egidius above).

6. 8 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   Well, if we consider that King Kong was shot dead by those that didn’t like him…………..

   And those who shot him denied the reality of their actions and said “it wasn’t the aeroplanes, it was beauty killed the beast”…………………….

7. 8 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   Not at all. There’s always a middle ground. I haven’t voted for either Biden OR Trump, and yes, I do vote.

   Not everyone who dislikes Trump suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Not everyone who dislikes or disapproves of Biden, or think he’s gone senile, is a MAGA red-Trump-cap-wearing zealous cult member. Not everyone who goes to a Christian church is a Bible-thumping orthodox evangelical. Rush Limbaugh used to emphasize (in vain, as the intended audience never would listen) that only a tiny percentage of feminists, the most extreme male-hating ones, actually qualified for his derogatory term “Feminazis.”

   The stereotype of “raging” TDS sufferers exists for a valid reason, as does the cliche of “Trump cultists.” The media love to exaggerate such stereotypes, to the detriment of all public perception, just as a tiny minority of college students in a tiny number of universities are distorting the image of the Ivy League and academia.

   I conceded as much across the board, and yet you insist that “there’s no middle ground with you. Everyone is red or blue.” You are basically proving that you only “hear” what you choose to think you hear, most likely due to having been conditioned to “tribalism” and division by political and social leaders.

   The easiest cure for “Hillary syndrome,” TDS, etc. is to simply accept that anyone who actually WANTS the job of president is by default clinically insane, and that you must stop letting politics—and those who abuse it to advance agendas—live rent-free in your brain and life. It helps to move somewhere where Washington D.C. might as well be on another continent as far as your day-to-day life goes—like “flyover country.”

8. 8 days ago on Mother Goose and Grimm

   No, I’m looking for an ARGUMENT.

9. 8 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   “Think” all you want that it’s “overstated.” I have personally witnessed many people who came literally “unhinged” at any discussion of Trump—and I don’t even get out that much. Most of the cliches came true—screaming, “literally Hitler!!!!”, “planning to suspend the Constitution and make himself dictator,” “greatest threat to democracy ever!!!”, etc. Reason and proportion go out the window with these folks. Of course, it is absolutely possible to oppose Trump for a variety of good reasons without becoming irrational about it, and a great many people do. Same for Biden opponents—they can’t ALL be “racist”

   But the right-wing equivalent of this would be the people who pushed (and still push) a variety of conspiracy theories about the Clintons and Obama, such as the “birthers”—they are wackadoodle and misguided, but they don’t go emotionally unhinged, PLUS sadly there’s JUST enough substance to be vaguely believable and very suspicious (Obama’s publisher printed that he was “born in Kenya” and then Obama dragged out releasing a birth certificate for ages, and then Vince Foster, Jeffrey Epstein, etc.). Aside from the tiny minority of true nutcases on Jan. 6th (most of the protesters stayed outside, remember), I don’t see emotionally unstable people amongst that ilk—in contrast to the “Left’s” "Antifa, " “BLM,” etc.

10. 9 days ago on The Other Coast

    Never had a good Afghan lamb kabob with rice pilaf? All the more for me, then…………..