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1. about 23 hours ago on Working Daze

   And you still missed the 2nd “t”. :-D

2. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

   Well, he has already resigned from Congress, so the ethics investigation is now only a memory. The Dems (I think) are trying to subpoena the dirt the investigation dug up on him. So whether he gets the job or not, he’s out of Congress. We could still have a deal for a more reasonable candidate. (I don’t think it requires scare quotes.) That deal would leave Gaetz (temporarily) out of a job, and not under investigation. I’m pretty sure Donald would find another job for him pretty soon.

3. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   > I’ve never had a problem with autopay through my checking account. It’s easy to monitor online.

   Good for you. I don’t know what the odds are, but if/when you do have a problem, you’re dependent on your bank to help you, and there’s really nothing to make them help you. With a credit card, at least there are laws they have to comply with, even if they don’t want to help you.

4. 3 days ago on Doonesbury

   > We’ll see…Gaetz may force the issue.

   Yeah, Trump is hard enough to predict that all we can really say is “we’ll see”.

   I have hopes that there are enough non-MAGA R’s left to keep Gaetz from being confirmed. Your more pessimistic view is, judging from recent history, more likely to be right, though.

   I keep thinking that Trump is really not hard to predict, if you “crack the code” and just keep the 3 keys in mind. I’ve heard a lot of theories about what the keys are. My intuition (it’s pretty good at this sort of puzzle) tells me there are 3 in this case. Most D’s insist there are only one or two, and most R’s think there are more, or that he’s just working on “integrity,” and turn into Humpty Dumpty (commonly mistaken as the Red Queen) about what that means.

5. 3 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   > You’re assuming they used a credit card, and not a debit card or a direct withdrawl from their checking account. The last 2 options not having the same protections as a credit card.

   This is why using anything but a credit card for auto-pay is really a bad idea. At least there’s a chance the credit card might help you from being scammed. Though there was the time AmEx helped Delta charge me twice for a single plane ticket. But at least there’s a chance.

6. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   > Fox propaganda and Republican/magat propaganda are the same.

   Pretty much. The news division used to try to provide “straight” news, but the producers intermingled it with Repub opinion, which undermined their efforts, and the viewers didn’t like it, so eventually it turned into what we have now, where it’s about as far to the “right” as MSNBC or Huffington Post are to the “left”. It seems even further to the right, because the producers still intermingle opinion (which is not actually produced by the news department) with the news.

   And I would say it’s much closer to MAGA than Republican, in that it barely acknowledges non-MAGA Repubs or their ideas at all.

7. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   The name “Tom Brady effect” has been used for a few different things, but in politics, I’ve heard it as reluctance to tell a pollster your true opinion when you think it could make you look bad. IMHO, it’s (combined with the vilification of Trump voters we see more or less constantly in this very forum) probably why Trump has consistently polled at about 3% less than his actual vote count.

   You should listen to the NYT post-election roundtable in their daily podcast. They had a bunch of “experts”, all of whom either are Dems, or at least rooting for the Dems, and they pretty much all agreed that Trump gained (or the Dems lost, depending on your perspective) ground relative to the last election, in almost every single county in the U.S. largely because of the Dems’ insistence on viewing the election in terms of race and gender. They universally concluded that if they continue to do so, it will probably keep the Dems out of the White House for several election cycles.

   There is certainly plenty of evidence that Dems see politics in terms of identity on this page, and plenty besides your own posts.

8. 4 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   And you didn’t even start on the many compatibility issues.

9. 6 days ago on Doonesbury

   > Trump Secret Service should be strictly voluntary. Nobody should have to be around that guy if they’d rather be somewhere else

   When Secret Service agents complain about Trump, it’s that he likes his motorcades long, and he overcharges the agency to stay in his properties (when he’s at one), and how difficult the job is of protecting him is. Like Obama and Biden, they report he’s polite and treats them well.

   When they complained about Hillary (both during her campaign and when she lived in the White House), it was how nasty she was to them.

10. 6 days ago on Doonesbury

    > So you’re saying we should act like Trump and his minions did for the next 4 years

    That is an option. Of course, then you’d be labeling yourself with all the same labels you gave them during their time in the wilderness. I suggest it’s not a good deal. Let them be them, and you be you.