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1. 9 days ago on La Cucaracha

   People voted for Trump because he promised to lower prices for gas and groceries and they suckered for the lies of a CON man.

   They sacrificed the freedoms for women, minorities and LGBTQ+ people for cheaper bacon, eggs and gas, and they won’t get any of it.

   Mexico didn’t pay for any wall, and they are not going to pay for any tariffs.

   Tariffs are not paid by the country from which goods are imported. No country ever pays a tax to the U.S. Treasury. Taxes are paid by the companies that import goods (or even parts and components that go into otherwise American-made goods) who will then pass them along to consumers.

   Every economist knows this; every economist warned this is what will happen. The suckers who believed the CON and voted for the 34x CONVICTED FELON will find out. The hard way.

   As for groceries grown or produced here? Just wait ’til the gullible suckers see what it does to the price of food when you deport half the farm workers and half the meat packers.

2. 12 days ago on For Heaven's Sake

   — Everything you said is correct, but in addition to all the imported foods and consumer products seeing prices skyrocket, even the home-grown foods will see massive price increases when half the farm workers and half the meat packers that produce them get deported.

3. 19 days ago on Prickly City

   — The FERN has no receipts nor evidence. We cite facts. The FERN repeats unsubstantiated smears and rumors he picks up from TrumpubliKKKlan hate media and other gossip or just pulls brown stuff out of his rear end.

4. 19 days ago on Prickly City

   — I would have preferred to see a commutation to a simple fine, which would keep Hunter safe while also technically not be a pardon.

   But the fact is, Hunter Biden was singled out because of who is father is.

   He illegally owned a firearm for just a few days and never even fired it. He paid back the taxes and fees.

   Any other defendant with the same set of facts would have taken a plea and gotten off without time behind bars. In fact, such a deal had all been worked out, but then, at the last moment, a Trump-appointed prosecutor and a Trump-appointed judge buckled to political pressure and yanked the carpet out from under the deal.

   And, as @ahganom already noted, a Trump-appointed judge broke with all precedent to rule that the special prosecutor appointment process was unconstitutional, therefore the indictments were all invalid from the start, according to conservative logic.

   Sorry, there can’t be one set of facts and legal rulings for TrumpubliKKKlans and a different one for Democrats.

   Now Biden needs to issue blanket pardons for every person that Trump has identified as a target of his campaign of retribution — the real “lawfare” — as he proclaims anyone who does not kowtow to him to be an “enemy within” (echoes of Stalin and his purges).

5. 19 days ago on Prickly City

   Call me when Hunter Biden gets a two billion dollar “investment” from Saudi Arabia.

6. 19 days ago on Prickly City

   Aside from the fact that the PARDON has nothing to do with today’s cartoon … you don’t like the PARDON?

   Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha

   Too bad. We mix MAGA TEARS with our champagne.

   Funk your feelings.

7. 23 days ago on Prickly City

   When the TROLL is incapable of discussing the subject of the cartoon or the original comment he purports to reply to, he CHANGES THE SUBJECT to an irrelevant tangent in an effort to divert the thread down one of his rabbit holes.

   So far in this thread, he has tried to CHANGE THE SUBJECT to:

   A “documentary” by discredited fraudster James O’Keefe about an evil worm named Pedro R who hides in a church

   A guy named Joel Salatin who hosts a podcast called “The Lunatic Farmer” who may be the world’s greatest farmer, but completely irrelevant here. And yeah, I understand you love your involvement with gardening, like I am very proud of the degree of expertise I have achieved in birding and sign-language interpreting at the highest levels, but I don’t keep dragging them into settings where they are not relevant. Oh yeah, YOU’RE the one who keeps bringing up my interpreting for presidential candidates (I have interpreted for every major Democratic candidate from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama), as if you somehow think that I am supposed to be embarrassed by the fact that I have risen to a level of very elite stature among interpreters who get those kinds of high-profile assignments, including in this thread … another one of your rabbit holes. I am proud of my résumé, in politics (my college major), in writing and publishing, in interpreting and, yes, even in birding.

   Tim Kaine, SNL, and the state of Virginia

   Anti-police brutality protests from almost five years ago.

   Elise Stefanik

   Terrorist bomb threats and assassination attempts, which are serious issues, but not relevant to this threat.

   Mayan and Neanderthal DNA

   Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” of which he demonstrates zero understanding

   Making up knowing and malicious false and defamatory accusations against others which are better litigated in more appropriate settings.

   Your horse is dead. You can stop beating it now.

   This is the way in which a TROLL concedes on issues while trying to save face.

8. 23 days ago on Prickly City

   Is the Fern TROLL lying intentionally? Or is he so dense that he does not understand simple vote count terminology of “majority” vs “plurality.”

   “Plurality” means to get the MOST votes.

   “Majority” means to get more than half.

   Do you really not understand this? Or are you intentionally misrepresenting my past statements? (Again)

   Bill Clinton won the popular vote TWICE, both times by margins of SIX MILLION. He won the popular vote. He was not a majority president. He won a plurality, not a majority.

   Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by THREE MILLION. She did not win a majority. As to the actual vote of the people, she got the most votes. She won a plurality of the popular vote, but not a majority. And she did not win the election because the election is not based on the actual will of the people.

   Joe Biden won the popular vote by SEVEN MILLION. He also won a majority of that vote, with 51.3%. He won both the majority and the plurality.

   Donald Trump won the popular vote by squeaking by with a bare plurality of only 1.5 million. He got the most votes, a plurality, but not a majority.

   Only four presidents — two Democrat, two Republican — have won at least two times with outright majority votes both times in the last 120 years: Democrats Frankling D Roosevelt and Barack Obama and Republicans Dwight D Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. (FDR won both the majority and plurality FOUR times.)

9. 23 days ago on Prickly City

   Trump LOST the popular vote (the only real measure of the “will of the people”) by margins of THREE MILLION (2016) and SEVEN MILLION (2020).

   When Trump finally managed to win the popular vote, he barely squeaked by with 1.5 million.

10. 23 days ago on Prickly City

    As an interesting side note, Andrew Jackson also won the popular vote three consecutive times, but won the presidency only two of them. In 1824, Andrew Jackson won the popular vote by a wide margin, but in a four-way split, no one got the majority of the Electoral College. So, per the rules of the Constitution, the top three Electoral Vote winners were sent to the House of Representatives, who awarded the presidency to fellow House member John Quincy Adams who had come in third place in the popular vote.

    Jackson bounced back four years later and then won two consecutive terms with both the popular and electoral votes.

    Thus, Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland join Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the only three presidents to have won the popular vote at least three times (FDR won both the popular and electoral vote four times).