Recent Comments

1. about 11 hours ago on Prickly City

   — Like I said, I agreed with you on the concept. As for “nitpicking,” it was in the era of Harding-Coolidge-Hoover that Will Rogers first coined the term “trickle down.” I just didn’t want them to get a free pass.

   Yes, it is never a bad idea to remind the population of 1929, and that includes reminding them who caused it.

   The party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Eisenhower was NOT the party of Harding-Coolidge-Hoover and certainly not the party of Nixon, Reagan, Bushes and especially Trump.

2. about 11 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   @bike2sac continues to perpetuate racist stereotypes that are not rooted in fact.

   And I am very much old enough to remember racist stereotypes about Mexicans in general and Tijuana in particular, and certainly remember when Vietnamese refugees came here after the end of that war and settled in and around Westminster, Orange County, which became known as “Little Saigon.”

   Whatever anyone did or did not do to survive hunger, war and poverty in their countries of origin, once they came to the United States, got good jobs, worked hard and prospered and contributed to their new homeland, they assimilated to American cultural norms while also preserving and sharing their own delightful customers.

   And I stand by what I correctly stated: NONE of the racist stereotypes @bike2sac spewed are the slightest bit true, and they reek of rumors and stereotypes that he “heard somewhere.”

3. about 12 hours ago on Prickly City

   Agree in concept but I would call Republicans the good guys from 1860 (Lincoln) through 1908 (Taft) with a brief revival from 1952-60 (though Eisenhower foreign policy under the Dulles brothers, John Foster running the State Department and Allen running the CIA was disastrous).

   Starting in 1920 you had the corruption of Warren Harding and the introduction of the “trickle down” model of top-loading incentives and deregulation that eroded our economic foundations.

   The Harding-Coolidge-Hoover trifecta of modern conservatism (Coolidge was Harding’s VP and made Hoover, who he called an economic genius until he would later try to distance himself set, his Secretary of Commerce) the stage for the Great Depression a few months into Hoover’s term.

   It was also their judicial appointments who put so many roadblocks in the way of FDR’s reforms.

4. 1 day ago on La Cucaracha

   — 1355.

5. 1 day ago on La Cucaracha

   — I call BS. You are repeating racist stereotypes that, as I have said, go back decades and are now being “updated” for LEGAL Haitian workers in Ohio.

   I was born in Southern California and have lived here all of my seventy-something years. I have been going to Mexico (I am fluent in Spanish) for more than 60 years, including Tijuana and Ensenada (border and sub-border cities) as well as other parts of Mexico, Central America and South America. I have also spent much time in Orange County (I have lived in L.A. and [currently] San Diego Counties. I had two brothers in Orange County including one in Westminster, from before the hard-working Vietnamese immigrants settled there and made it their “Little Saigon.” I am very familiar with Tijuana in Mexico and “Little Saigon” in Orange County.

   NOTHING YOU HAVE SAID IS TRUE. Yes, it was a common RACIST stereotype but, no, NONE OF IT IS ACTUALLY TRUE.

   It springs from the same well-spring of racist bigotry now being resurrected by Trump and Vance and their racist minions.

6. 1 day ago on La Cucaracha

   — Project 2025 is 922 pages long. There are many, many provisions I did not include. There are far too many to even come close to a comprehensive list in a comics comment section.

   Project 2025 is a blueprint that Trump had drawn up by some of his closest insider advisors in conjunction with the ultraconservative Heritage Foundation. It is an effort to restructure government to concentrate authoritarian power in a unitary executive and impose Talibangelical extremist radical Nationalist “Christian” (“Nat-C”) social policies, coupled with plans to REDISTRIBUTE middle class wealth from the working people who produce it, to the few richest elites who already have the most.

   Here are a few more of its more terrifying elements:

   • Nationwide ban on abortion

   • Outlaw contraception

   • Outlaw IVF

   • Eliminate no fault (mutual agreement) divorce

   • Demand that abused wives stay with abusive husbands

   • End marriage equality

   • Mass deportations and concentration camps

   • Teach “Christian” religious beliefs in public schools

   • Public funding for private religious schools

   • Raise taxes on working people and cut taxes for rich

   • 10% sales tax on imported goods (tariff)

   • Harder for to hourly workers to qualify for overtime

   • Eliminate protections for workers and consumers

   • Raise prescription drug prices

   • Undermine Social Security and Medicare —raise retirement age, increase employee contribution and reduce benefits

7. 2 days ago on La Cucaracha

   — And yeah, yeah. We know 34x CONVICTED FELON and serial sexual abuser and business fraud DonOLD Trump is trying to distance himself from HIS Project 2025 because he has seen how unpopular it is.

   Project 2025 is not going away, it’s going into hiding.

   In addition to the fact that Project 2025 was written by Trump cronies and name-checks him more than 300 times, the real proof — the SMOKING GUN — that Trump is lying when he says he has no involvement in Project 2025 (aside from the fact that it was produced by HIS PEOPLE) is the fact that, two years ago, on April 21, 2022, Trump announced that the wonderful people at the Heritage Foundation (under whose auspices Trump’s people developed it) were preparing a formal plan for restructuring the government FOR HIM.

   A new secret recording has been released of two fake “representatives” of a conservative donor interviewing Russ Vought (Director of Office of Management and Budget in the Trump administration) and a key architect of Project 2025 that Trump has to publicly distancing himself and will continue to do so, but is actually completely on board and eagerly participating and raising money for P-2025 and that Trump is “very supportive of what we do.”

8. 2 days ago on La Cucaracha

   — > gasp! <

   A childless dude by choice! No vote for you! (Oh wait a minute, doesn’t count for guys.)

   Project 2025 is at the core of all of it.

   1. Concentrate power in the hands of an imperial president (but only if it is a Republican). In Donald Trump’s own words, to be a dictator on day one (Faux “News” Town Hall hosted by Sean Hannity, 12-5-23) and that overturning any election he loses “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, EVEN THOSE FOUND IN THE CONSTITUTION.” Eliminate civil service protections for career federal workers.

   2. Micromanage the personal lives of private individuals. They want to dictate private relationships (dictate who you can or can’t marry or even what behavior is allowed behind closed doors), private medical choices (reproductive choices such as abortion, IVF or contraception, medical or recreational marijuana, end of life choices, stem cell therapies, gender-identity care), tell us what books we or our children can have access to, or try to force PRIVATE religion into PUBLIC policy and religious rituals into public meetings or subsidize it with special tax advantages (socialized religion).

   3. REDISTRIBUTE all wealth from the working people who produce it to the few richest elites and corporate special interests who already have the most. When conservatives blather their usual hollow lip service about “freedom” or “liberty,” what they mean is “freedom” for ginormous corporations to run roughshod over the rights of workers (including trying to roll back even child labor laws that protect children!), consumers and our shared environment, but they want to micromanage and dictate control over every aspect of your personal lives.

9. 2 days ago on La Cucaracha

   — You’re in good company … Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, Oprah Winfrey, the late Betty White, Anjelica Houston, Helen Mirren, Stevie Nicks, Lily Tomlin, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Aniston and many others.

   There are many teachers (including hundreds of thousands of nuns in parochial schools), educators, and heroes who make tremendous contributions without feeling obligated to conform to a male chauvinist’s idea of how they should be forced to live their lives and, no, they do not need to have their voting representation reduced (why only childless women? what about men who choose to have vasectomies?) and no, THEY ARE NOT GOING BACK!

10. 2 days ago on La Cucaracha

    The LIES about Haitian immigrants being here illegally are Trump/Vance LIES. They are here legally. They are working; they came because they were INVITED to fill job openings that were going unfilled and hurting business.

    The LIES about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating people’s pets are LIES. The people who started them have retracted, renounced and apologized for them. The REPUBLICAN local mayors, city managers and the REPUBLICAN state governor have all renounced them.

    The Fern TROLL’s incoherent rant has NOTHING to do with the current situation, right now, in the United States, in Springfield and now Dayton, Ohio.

    They are lying. They know they are lying. They are doing it on purpose to incite racial tensions. On Sunday, September 15 in an interview with Dana Bash, who was pushing Vance on why he and Trump keep pushing a proven LIE about “illegal” Haitian immigrants eating pets, Vance said: “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’ going to do.”

    They seem awfully obsessed with cats.

    Vance is obsessed with “childless cat ladies” on which he blames the ills of the world, wants to dictate control of their family situations, and believes they should have less voting power.

    Trump is obsessed with “grabbing ’em by the pussycat” without bothering with that whole annoying “consent” thing.

    They are both obsessed with pushing discredited, debunked racist tropes about LEGAL Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating cats.

    They lie. They make up stories. It is intentional. They have this bizarre obsession with eating pets. If they want to talk about bizarre obsessions with eating dead roadkill, they can turn to their new best friend and top advisor, bear cub munching, whale-head carving RFK Jr and his very hungry brain worm.

    Really WEIRD!