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1. about 22 hours ago on Clay Jones

   — I have recently added a WordPress page and am in the process of uploading articles based on the notes I have compiled. When I have added a few more, maybe I will try to get a link in a format that can sneak through the GC policy against external links.

   I have had my own website for 30 years, but increasingly people are understandably reluctant to click on sites that are not well known to them. Sites like WordPress, Blogspot, Substack, etc., make them feel safer checking them out.

2. about 22 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Are you referring to that little green object between the Time magazine cover and the Big Mac? If so, that looks like a packet of Tic Tacs, the mouth freshener Trump referred to in the Access Hollywood on-tape confession to sexual assault.

   The only other green item I see is the roll of Bounty paper towels, reminiscent of what he thought would be adequate relief for Puerto Rico after a devastating hurricane, when they needed a lot more than paper towels.

3. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

   continuation …

   As a result, Nixon — the most corrupt president in history up to that point — won an extremely close election. Nixon did not end the war. The war that was on the verge of a pre-election peace accord, continued seven more years and tens of thousands more died unnecessarily.

   It could be argued that the anti-war activists who sat out the 1968 election were the ones who gave us Richard Nixon and seven more years of a war that was on the verge of being settled.

   If those who claim to be protesting for human rights in Gaza sit out the election or vote for a third party candidate who has no chance of winning, and that becomes the margin that sends Trump back to the White House so he can allow the full terror of the worst that Netanyahu can unleash, they will be the ones who have the blood of innocent Gazans on their hands for the genocide that ensues with Trump’s brutal blessing.

   Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

   The two parties are not the same. One of them will be in office after next January 20. Choose wisely.

   Will we repeat the history of 1968?

   Or will we make the most of our chance for a do-over — a political “Mulligan” — and chart a different course?

4. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

   continuation …

   In the familiar words of George Santayana: “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

   Will we learn the lessons of history, or are we doomed to repeat it?

   Will we learn the lessons of 1968, or are we doomed to repeat that tragic year?

   In 1968, college campuses were being shut down by anti-war protests.

   In 1968, the Democratic National Convention was in Chicago, as it will be again in 2024.

   In 1968, Democrats were dissatisfied with the nominee of their party, selected by a flawed system of backroom deals. Hubert Humphrey was a good, decent man. He played the lead role in steering the course of the Democratic Party away from the Southern segregationists twenty years earlier by successfully getting a civil rights plank added to the Democratic Party platform at their 1948 convention that drove Strom Thurmond and other Southern Democrats out of the Party, first into their own “Dixiecrat” Party, and later into the Republican Party.

   Humphrey was a solid liberal, but he represented the incumbent administration in which he had served as vice president and could not escape the baggage that brought because of the Vietnam War policies of Lyndon Johnson.

   In 1968, the Republican alternative was Richard Nixon, the most corrupt candidate ever to run for the presidency up to that point, as the 2024 alternative to Biden is, once more, the most corrupt candidate ever to run for the presidency. Nixon promised that he had a “secret plan” to end the Vietnam War, but in fact what he actually did was to sabotage the Paris Peace talks that were nearing a peace settlement by convincing the South Vietnamese through intermediary Anna Chennault that he would give them a better deal (see Anna Chennault affair). The records of this were sealed for fifty years and not released publicly until 2018.

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5. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

   continuation …

   For those who are dissatisfied with Biden’s handling of the border crisis, remember that Biden successfully negotiated a BIPARTISAN border bill endorsed by conservative border officers (who had endorsed Trump), but Trump ordered his congressional cult followers to sabotage it so he could politicize the border as a campaign issue.

   And for those who are dissatisfied with Biden’s handling of the Israel-Gaza conflict and threatening to either sit out the election or vote for and independent or third-party candidate in protest: be careful what you wish for.

   The choice this November will be Biden or Trump. Period.

   Barring any catastrophic upheaval, either Biden or Trump will take the oath of office next January 20. There will be no other outcome. Any electoral option other than a vote for Biden is a vote for Trump.

   Perhaps Biden has not done enough, but he has done more than many realize.

   But Trump?

   When it is American Nazis spouting their anti-Semitic hatred, Trump calls them “very fine people.” But when it comes to Muslims vs Jews in the Middle East, Trump reveals that his hatred for Muslims far outweighs his support for pro-Nazi anti-Semites.

   Do not forget that Trump’s first act after being sworn in January 20, 2017, was to order a Muslim ban. He is the one who took the provocative step of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. And his statement on April 4 to Netanyahu in which he criticized Biden for not helping Netanyahu enough, was: “Get it done. Get it over with and get it over with fast…” implying support for complete eradication of Palestinians in Gaza. In an earlier statement (March 25) Trump complained that Netanyahu was “losing the PR war” in Gaza and needs to “finish up” its offensive.

   Biden is pressuring Netanyahu to agree to a cease fire.

   Trump is encouraging Netanyahu to escalate the genocide.

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6. 1 day ago on Clay Jones

   CONGRATULATIONS CLAY on SEVEN PERFECT YEARS of daily cartoons without ever missing. Now, for todays…

   Netanyahu (NaziYahoo) shuts down Al Jazeera.

   Trump calls the independent free press the “enemy of the state.” Trump has threatened to be a dictator if he returns to the White House, and declaring emergency authority to shut down media that doesn’t toe his party line would be right in character.

   Trump says Biden is running a “Gestapo administration.” In the TrumpubliKKKlan cult, every accusation is a confession.

   As we approach the 2024 elections, we must remember what is at stake.

   For those who are dissatisfied with economic performance under Biden, remember that it was Trump’s whose failures to address the pandemic early and aggressively (the way Obama crushed the 2009 return of H1N1 flu, known as the Spanish flu when it struck in 1918, so that in the U.S. it barely caused the ripple) crashed the stock market, drove unemployment to almost 20%, gave us refrigerated trucks acting as temporary morgues outside of hospitals, and collapsed the supply chain which would eventually drive inflation rates (a lagging economic indicator that would hit under Biden) to almost 10%.

   Biden is the one the cleaned up the pandemic, has doubled the stock markets over what they were when he took office, brought unemployment down to under 4% for the longest sustained period in more than sixty years, reopened the economy, passed an infrastructure bill that Trump promised but failed to deliver, fixed the supply chain and brought inflation back down to almost 3% while avoiding the recession that most economists predicted — and all with the narrowest level of congressional support.

   Yes, prices are still too high. Corporations are gouging consumers, raking in record profits that exceed inflation rates by orders of magnitude, and using their monopolistic market leverage to engage in profiteering that needs to be addressed by aggressive antitrust actions.

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7. 5 days ago on Clay Jones

   Like I said, once the nut job conspiracy theorists get an idea in their heads, they will stubbornly lock it in and shut out any attempt to clarify the record.

   And then they will repeat the same thing, over and over, with unending tedium, month after month, and somehow think everyone will be impressed by how clever or “original” they are.

8. 6 days ago on Clay Jones

   — You are an ignorant little twit. You think you are so smart, that you have everything figured out, but you are an annoying little idiot who knows NOTHING.

   You are just a stupid little conspiracy theorist who jumps to conclusions, guesses wrong, and then when your error is pointed out, you put your thumbs in your ears, go “la-la-la-la-la-la I can’t hear you” and will never, ever listen to facts.

   You think GoComics is the only social media platform on the Internet with these comics?

   Yes. Consider time.

   Many of the ideas or points presented in editorial cartoons are in response to current events, and in many (or most) cases, I have already been commenting on those all day, long before the new comics have been posted, so I already have a body of work that can be quickly adapted to the specific new cartoons.

   Even more specific is the fact, of which the ignorant little twit is completely unaware, that many (if not most) of the GoComics cartoonists have their own websites and also post in other social media forums, so that by the time their cartoons appear in GoComics, many of us have had plenty of time to see them and prepare responses ready to post as soon as the new cartoons are updated for the new day.

   That banner that says “Premium Member” after my name means I am paying to be here, not the other way around. The only ones getting paid to produce content have a banner that says “Creator.”

   And no, I am not going to change my commenting strategy just because there are ignorant little twits like you who think they know everything, think they have everything figured out, when in fact YOU KNOW NOTHING.

9. 6 days ago on Clay Jones

   — I suspect that the genesis of @rossevrymn’s little brain-fart conspiracy theory obsession is that I post often lengthy (substantive) comments almost immediately after GoComics updates the comics for the new day.

   What this ignorant little twit has no grasp of is that GoComics is not the only social media platform on the Internet.

   Many of the ideas or points presented in editorial cartoons are in response to current events, and in many (or most) cases, I have already been commenting on those all day, long before the new comics have been posted, so I already have a body of work that can be quickly adapted to the specific new cartoons.

   Even more specific is the fact, of which the ignorant little twit is completely unaware, that many of the GoComics cartoonists have their own websites and also post in other social media forums, so that by the time their cartoons appear in GoComics, many of us have had plenty of time to see them and prepare responses ready to post as soon as the new cartoons are updated for the new day.

   But again, @rossevrymn, an ignorant little twit who understands nothing of how GoComics manages content (and does NOT hire shills that pretend to be regular commenters), simply jumped to a conclusion, gets it wrong, and makes false and, frankly, defamatory accusations, and then like all nutty little conspiracy theorists will spend the rest of his miserable life defending his falsity.

10. 6 days ago on Clay Jones

    — Almost every time I post something, @rossevrymn makes the accusation that I am somehow posting editorial content on behalf of GoComics. This is an extremely repetitive thing he does, which is an inaccurate jumping to conclusion on his part and which is, frankly, defamatory to both me and GoComics.

    He is accusing me of misrepresenting my role and being a representative of GoComics posting as a commenter under false pretenses, and he is accusing GoComics of participating in such fraud.

    While he often agrees with me on issues, he does not represent a liberal, objective, fact-based mindset. He is such an uninformed little twit that he does not understand that the banner “Premium Member” means I am paying them to be here (in exchange for such benefits as no ads and all the chosen, preferred comics on one page (which loads quickly because, well, there are no ads) instead of having to click to a new page for each cartoon.

    The only ones posting comments who do represent GoComics and who do get paid have a different banner — it says “Creator” and means they are one of the cartoonists whose work is published and syndicated by Andrews McMeel Universal, which operates GoComics.

    GoComics is fully transparent. @rossevrymn simply jumped to a conclusion, gets it wrong, and makes false and, frankly, defamatory accusations, and then like all nutty little conspiracy theorists will spend the rest of his miserable life defending his falsity.

    Oh, and Obama was born in the United States, too, and Biden really won the election.

    And the earth is spherical.