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1. about 8 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   — Yes, I have verified your correction that the worm was not removed. It is still there as a hardened lump.

   And yes, I have seen the reports that he ate tuna and other mercury-laden species for years. As for the irony of being an environmental lawyer who should have known better (or did know and recklessly did it anyway), that odd juxtaposition was specifically pointed out.

2. about 15 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   — Thank you for your concern. I pop up when I have something to say, which is not every day.

3. about 16 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   continuation …

   6. In the meantime, more to the subject of this thread, Tuesday was the Indiana primary election. Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the race more than three months ago and has not campaigned since, won 21% of the vote. This is consistent with all the post-Super Tuesday primaries.

   ONE FIFTH or Republican voters are voting against Trump, even when there is no longer any viable alternative in their party’s primary.

   Some may decide to go for Biden.

   Some true conservatives may decide they can never vote for Biden. For these voters, brain-worm mercury-poisoned memory-impaired (all his own admissions) RFK Jr may be preferable to a con man serial adulterer rapist con man who pays hush money to porn stars and Playboy nude model 1998 “Playmate of the Year.”

   But sure, Talibangelical christofascits, keep wagging your moralistic fingers in our faces and preaching “family values,” you disgusting hypocrites.

4. about 16 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   Whiny crybaby Trump has whined and cried that, boo-hoo, having to show up in court four days a week has kept him off the campaign trail.

   Boo hoo, crybaby snowflake.

   The facts are as follows:

   1. Trump is not the president of the United States, and has not been since January 20, 2021.

   2. Trump currently holds no official position (speaking officially, pending the Republican National Convention, he is not even — officially — the nominee of the Republican Party).

   3. He has been indicted by a local grand jury in a state court (no, Joe Biden nor the Department of Justice, which are at the federal level, have even the slightest involvement in this state / local judicial proceeding.

   4. Many, many of those who are being held in custody pending trial, without bail (where Trump will be if he keeps violating lawful gag orders), had day jobs that were impacted by the fact of their pre-trial incarceration. Trump has been given far more chances than any other defendant would have been given (yes, the wealthy elite can buy greater access to judicial protection than other civil or criminal defendants). Whiny crybaby Trump whines about how badly he is being treated (boo hoo, crybaby snowflake), but no other defendant in his position would still be out on “own recognizance.”

   5. Whiny crybaby Trump whines about being kept off the campaign trail. He is not in court on Wednesdays. He was not in court yesterday (Wednesday). He did not use that time to campaign. He flew to Mar-a-Lardo to host a reception for investors in his NFT (non-fungible-token) scam trading cards. The con comes first. The scam comes first. The grift comes first.

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5. about 16 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   — I understand your concern and I agree with your perspective (about treating rumors as truth). I do not agree that anything I have said contravenes that perspective, nor did you cite any example of such. If you wish to cite a specific example, which you did not, I will be happy to consider it.

6. about 18 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   — As for who RFK Jr draws votes away from … just as Trump “loves the uneducated” (who are the only ones, other than the few richest elites who benefit from his corporate welfare and tax giveaways to the rich, gullible enough to vote for him), the “uneducated” who hate those “ivy league eggheads” and prefer the mentally impaired who let them feel superior may actually see RFK Jr as a less morally-challenged alternative to Trump.

   Initially, the Kennedy name was siphoning support from Biden. But with the Kennedy family endorsing Biden, and Kennedy’s mental challenges being revealed, along with his anti-vaxx and other conspiracy theories, and promising to consider pardoning the treasonous January 6 traitors, that equation may change. He may end up drawing more from Trump and actually help Biden.

   Deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole. Curiouser and curiouser.

7. about 18 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   — I don’t think RFK Jr was a drug criminal for years. He was a respected and successful (and yes, articulate) environmental attorney. His anti-vax lunacy and his descent into bizarre conspiracy theories only came about after the period in which it was discovered that a parasitic worm had eaten portions of his brain, that he had mercury poisoning and that he had suffered memory loss.

   But since that tragic sequence of events did unfold, yes, he should sit down and shut up.

   I share the perspective of the Kennedy family. They love their brother, cousin, nephew, father, but they know how utterly and tragically impaired he is and that he should not be anywhere near occupancy of the White House.

   As for Trump, he says he does not drink (if the only way we know something about Trump, an inveterate liar, is that he told us, do we really “know it”?). He says nothing about drugs. He sniffs and snorts like a coke head. There were widespread rumors that drugs flowed freely in the Trump White House. It seems a much better fit for Trump.

8. about 20 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   Robert F Kennedy Jr was, several decades ago, an excellent, respected environmental attorney. I heard him in interviews a number of times and admired him and had great respect for him.

   We now learn from newly-released and verified medical records that his brain was partially eaten by a parasitic worm which died in his brain and had to be removed, causing unspecified memory loss, which was also exacerbated by mercury poisoning.

   As RFK Jr has descended deeper into obvious mental decline over the past few decades, his former sharp mental acuity has failed and he has become ensnared in baseless conspiracy theories and half-baked reality denial and has even said he would consider pardoning the treasonous January 6 traitors who tried to violently overthrow a full, free and fair election.

   RFK Jr deservers compassion and understanding, and whatever medical treatment is appropriate. But it is obvious that, like Trump, he should never be allowed anywhere near residency in the White House.

   Simultaneously, we also know that Trump, too, is in a serious state of severe mental decline.

   In the book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, twenty-seven respected psychiatrists, acting under their professional obligation of a “duty to warn,” examine the public statements and behavior of Donald Trump and deem him to be severely mentally impaired.

   Donald Trump tried to call himself a “stable genius,” but it turns out that the only real “stable genius” was Mr Ed the talking horse, from the old 1960’s sitcom (for those old enough to remember).

   So it turns out that Joe Biden is running against TWO dangerously compromised opponents suffering from severe mental decline.

9. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

   Why is the self-described Swamp Creature so obsessed with 2019, when Trump’s corporate welfare, tax giveaways to the rich, deregulation of protections for workers and consumers, exploding the deficits to amounts more than all previous administrations’ deficits COMBINED, dismantling of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Pandemic Prevention Handbook that Obama had created, as part of the permanent White House staff which he used to SUCCESSFULLY prevent the return of H1N1 flu (nicknamed the Spanish Flu the last time it hit and killed more than 600,000 Americans, which would be the equivalent of two million in today’s population) when it hit in 2009, just a couple of months after Obama took office. The 2009 H1N1 devastated many countries, but Obama’s quick action stopped it cold in the U.S. In contrast, Trump knew about how devastating COVID would be in December of 2019 (as he told Bob Woodward on tape) and DID NOTHING FOR MONTHS. His failure allowed the pandemic to explode and wreak total havoc.

   Trump did not leave office until 2021, and THAT is the date to which people need to compare Biden. When Trump took office, the stock market was HALF what Biden has brought it back to. Biden has doubled it over what he inherited. Unemployment was close to 20% when Biden took office. Biden has brought it down to below 4%, which is considered full employment (normal turnover always leaves a small percentage), and has kept it there for more than 20 months, the longest period of unemployment below 4% in more than 50 years. In January of 2021, the supply chain was in the process of collapsing

   Are you better off than when Trump left office?

   Four years ago, we were using refrigerated trucks in hospital parking lots as makeshift temporary morgues.

   Four years ago, we were in the throes of massive unemployment and total collapse of the stock market.

   Four years ago, grocery store shelves were as empty as in Russian grocery stores.

10. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

    And yes, Biden has also been a brilliant president. Not as charismatic as Obama, but an incredible record of accomplishment. With the narrowest possible majority (50-50 Senate and narrow House margin his first two years, 51-49 senate and losing majority in his next two), managed to achieve more successes than any president in a first term since FDR.

    A few of the Biden achievements (Promises made, expectations exceeded):

    • More jobs created than any other president in just his first term

    • Lower drug prices

    • Wage growth exceeds inflation

    • Capping credit card late fees and other junk fees

    • Student loan forgiveness

    • Reduced annual budget deficit every year

    • Passed first bi-partisan gun legislation in thirty years

    • Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

    • First African American woman on Supreme Court

    • Strengthened relations with NATO and other allies

    • Lowest prolonged unemployment below 4% in more than 50 years

    • Bringing inflation down from 9% caused by Trump’s supply chain collapse, to under 3% today, and always at levels lower than other industrialized nations.

    • Record stock market highs (currently trading at more than double what it was on the last day Trump was in office)

    • Delivered BIPARTISAN BORDER BILL before Trump ordered it blocked and obstructed so he could keep his top wedge issue unsolved and run on a problem that exists solely because of Trump.

    And yes, the unprecedented obstruction that began under Obama has not been able to slow down Joe Biden and his incredible record of achievement.