B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for November 03, 2024

Ant having any of that

Tell the truth, and run.

“Very fine ants…”

Same outcome, if you replace the ants with humans.

Bloody Tuesday

You should have known better.

It’s a fatal error to think the truth is always in the middle.

Ants have opinions.

Yeah both-sidists like Neville Chamberlain gets your cities bombed. Too many people and especially journalists today take that approach and fail to raise alarms about fascists and Project 2025.

Come on, Wednesday!

Those over there are clinging to their guns and religion and are a basket of deplorables and are garbage.

He shoulda anticipate the outcome.

He needs some pointers in moderating.

Some people would rather have their grievances than satisfaction.

I see this in today’s society: some people struggle for self-esteem, others struggle in self-pity.

Better off being master of your silence than slave of your words.

United we stand divided we fall.

Hallowe’en scares are 3 days behind us and easily forgotten. The truly scary times are 3 days ahead and, depending on outcome, are likely to leave scars on our souls.

I notice that all their arrows are pointing in the same direction

Run Forest……Run!!!!!

There is no democracy in the world of ants.

Both sides that we’re being offered agree; we need a more expensive military than the rest of the top 10 combined, financed by the biggest national debt in history, to defend ourselves when they get annoyed that we like to sell weapons to any tinpot dictator who will sign with our companies.

It is a shame compromise has become a dirty word in Washington. How else can we govern ourselves?

The Republican Party, now led by tRump, has pushed out and eliminated moderates in their ranks. The Republican Party that began as the Liberal Party in 1854, the ‘Party of Lincoln’, a Liberal, has gone a full 180º and expanded into fascism and insurrection. In the Republican Party moderation is outlawed.

Just a couple more bulls h i t days, and Congress will continue to stall everything … except the National Debt.

Let’s face it, The Declaration of Independence was the result of compromise and so was the Constitution. Problem is, imbeciles don’t KNOW that.

Jan. 6 protests on the right, BLM riots on the left. No one has clean hands. Surely there is something that would unify us all? Maybe we need to start (or enter) a war…then we’d all be “Americans” again.

This echoes something I’ve long thought about. George W. Bush and Barack Obama both described it, albeit for different reasons. I especially see this toward both extremes of the political spectrum: unless you are absolutely 100% with us in everything, you are wrong and the enemy (speaking as one of liberal tastes, I especially see this on the “progressive” side). Bush said "you’re either with us or against us’ (which to me sounds like there is no middle ground), and Obama said a problem with mush of politics is “perfect is the enemy of the good” (again meaning if it isn’t perfect but only “good”, many are opposed to it). Now, “compromise” has become a dirty word for both sides. Even Biden was criticized (by Democrats) for “reaching across the aisle” when he was in the Senate.

Here’s the problem this country faces regarding compromise. In the great beforetimes of Faux Noise, the arguments by and large were about policy. Tax rates, what pork projects to get done in your district and/or state, etc. They were things that weren’t life or death so if you disagreed with someone, it was fine because no one was going to die over it. Once Faux Noise injected Xenophobia and greenlit racism into all of its regular viewers and proved to be a great fundraising source for every backbench House and Senate member, every argument isn’t about policy at all. Instead, it’s only about who should live or die and who should be treated as 1st class citizens (the answer is everyone btw but you aren’t if you don’t control your own body for most of your life like women don’t under Republican tyranny). You can’t compromise on that. We fought a civil war over that. Brave people marched and died after that to make sure everyone was equal.

The Confederacy is what Trump and all the Republican think tanks want to turn America into. Rich white men controlled everything, minorities were unpaid labor, and everyone else was dirt poor and uneducated. And of course, women had no rights. I want the Republican Party we had in the 1950s-1980 (minus the true crazies that did the Red Scare nonsense in the 50s). We need 2 functioning, thinking parties in this country.

No matter which candidate wins, the country loses.

well, it used to be…

Moderation: something our most scurrilous politicians gave up years ago.

Wasn’t something similar to the second last panel, uttered by someone?

Suggesting both sides are partly right = calling both sides totally wrong. Run for the hills.

Vote our country depends on it. AND HAVE NO FEAR

Upon meeting a person for the first time, within seconds she asked me if I was a Democrat or Republican. I told her I was an independent thinking moderate. She was offended.

Attack the infidels!!

(Infidel, our definition: anyone who doesn’t see it OUR WAY.)

And the extreme moderates? The ones who neither want to ban it or to subsidize it? (For a wide range of "it"s.)

They get hit hard.