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1. about 11 hours ago on Clay Jones

   “… higher than Biden in 11 States”

   also, higher than Trump the other 39…

   The only problem is – we’d have to elect ALL of Kennedy to get the worm, and that is UNACCEPTABLE in ANY sane universe, so, basically, we’re “screwed”.

2. about 11 hours ago on Clay Jones

   The " wart that is (M.T.G.) on the “back” of the republican “elephant” is both much more pernicious and a bit further down…

3. about 11 hours ago on Frazz

   Planets are NOT “spheres” but oblate spheroids – there’s a “geometric difference” between the two.

4. about 11 hours ago on Prickly City

   Back when I was a “wage slave”, my company sent me to Atlanta for “school” and conferences, occasionally – having grown up around “Green”, I was super impressed as to the fact that EVERYTHING was so green (less impressed that every other street in the town seemed to be some variant on “Peachtree”) – my wife was ALSO less than impressed that I always returned home to New Mexico with my “southern” accent newly reenforced – I was LESS impressed with the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, but then, I’ve never been a big fan of “flying” – a great state with “unfortunate” politics (in my opinion) – especially since the Georgia legislature seems poised to destroy the People’s Voice in voting matters by removing a duly elected county official "(Fani Willis) just because they don’t like what she’s doing to Donnie John… you have my sympathy in that regard…

   Walker has no business in politics – though that could be said about many that are already there – but at least you’re not having to deal with Walker while ALSO having to deal with the corrosive effect of (M.T.G.)…

   Your state is at least rationally represented in the Senate, if not the House…

5. 1 day ago on Robert Ariail

   Remember the suggestion Donnie John made to “deal” with all those “Atomic” Bombs we had laying around and were not using? – the suggestion that we explode multiple A-bombs in nascent hurricanes to stop them forming further.

   Two things about that idea that sent shivers down my spine…

   The first was that we should use the weaponry AT ALL, and the second was that we should use them on “weather” – actually there were THREE shivery things, the last was that he actually HAD the power to DO such stupid things unless he was “talked down” from such idiocy, and he won’t have ANYONE around to “talk him down” from such flights of fancy in a second term, when all his advisors world be syncretic “yes” men.

   We Americans tend to forget just how much POWER we’ve already given our president, and he’s ALREADY outlined how, in a second term, he plans to accrue still more…

6. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   …and I’m a stubborn old coot, as well – it doesn’t matter (to me) whether 100 million people think I’m WRONG – MY VOICE and MY vote still MATTER (to me) – and I do appreciate the reference to Biden in your post – I DID catch it…

7. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   Actually, “Old” as long as you don’t live in one of the “swing states” of Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania or Georgia, you can pretty much vote Libertarian or even Green and it will have no effect on the outcome – only CERTAIN states matter anymore in presidential elections, thanks to the idiotic way our founding fathers set up the electoral college – note that MY state (NM) is sometimes “classified” as a “swing” state BUT, with only 5 electoral votes in the college, we seldom, if ever, get to play a part in electing a president – remember, it’s NOT how many votes a candidate garners but WHERE he or she gets them that counts…

8. 2 days ago on Prickly City

   Actually, “Old”, the politicians from which we have to choose is at the end of a long, drawn-out process from which the incompetents and the crazies have supposedly been “winnowed” – we start choosing our candadates LONG before even the “primaries” occur – if we are “unhappy” with the choices we’re given, we must participate in the winnowing process at an earlier level – this is WHY registering as an “Independent” is so stupid – if you are an “Independent”- that means you’re forever relegated to picking from the choices that have already been pretty much made for you.

   Our political system is basically an “either/or” system – you get a “Choice” of EITHER a democrat OR a republican. Any other “third” choice isn’t REALLY a choice at all, but merely a way to make you “feel good” while actually WASTING your ballot! The last time a “third-party” candidate won the presidency was in 1864, when Lincoln abandoned the newly-formed republican party and ran and won on the “National Union” ticket.

   Since that time, third-party candidates have ONLY acted as “spoilers”, so if you’re not involved from the “get-go” in one of the two dominate parties here in America, you’re right – you have little if any say in the process – but that is ultimately YOUR choice; no one else’s…

   The “Founding Fathers” really DIDN’T want the “Great Unwashed” involved in the electoral process except in a very peripheral manner and that’s the way they set the whole “shebang” up.

   You want more of a voice – register as either a republican or a democrat and work within your party for local, state and national candidates that support your views – here in America with its skewed “either/or” politics that’s THE ONLY CHOICE you have…

9. 4 days ago on Prickly City

   Here’s my position vis-a-vis politics (or really, about life in general, “Old”) – my father drilled into me that being “a man” had NOTHING to do with being able to “father” a child and EVERYTHING to do with (1) always speaking the truth and (2) always accepting responsibility for one’s actions.

   Occasional “slips” could be excused (we’re all human, after all), but basically, to be considered an adult, a person MUST follow those two rules, or they are considered a “child” regardless of their chronological age.

   Politicians all wish to be our leaders – that’s the nature of the beast – so to be MY leader they must first qualify to being an adult – I learned the “disaster” of following “children” in Vietnam – and I refuse to be sucked into THAT quagmire again…

   I try to NEVER initiate conversations about politics OR RELIGION with people in the general population. I consider it “okay” in this particular forum, as long as we avoid “name calling” (if I EVER offend you in any way, please call me on it and I’ll apologize and try to make amends), because civility in discourse is very important to me and, as long as you appear to be “civil” (and you do) I’ll also try to be “civil” as well (I think both of us seem to act as responsible as our chronological ages would have us act…

   There is nothing “wrong” with watching out for “number one” as long as it doesn’t keep us from recognizing that everyone is an individual and deserves consideration and respect – for instance, the thousands that attempt to cross our southern border are NOT "animals "in ANY sense of the word – they are people with stories and should NOT be dismissed out-of-hand as they are NOT violating either our laws nor international laws knowingly – they are merely fleeing intolerable situations in their homelands…

   But I will climb off my soapbox for now, and thank you for reading my “rant”…

10. 4 days ago on Joe Heller

    The Right has always had a somewhat “myopic” view of the past – my great-grandfather thought the “good old days” was before Appomattox, to hear my grandad tell it, the good old days were prior to 1920 – to a lot of my contemporaries, the good old days were before Johnson and the civil rights movements…

    To me the “good old days” are still ahead of us – after we’ve relegated the whole Trump – M.A.G.A. movement to the “dustbin of history” – I happen to be a “visionary optimist”…