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Conservatives just hate America

It’s time to face facts. Conservatives hate America. They’re in love with their dream of what they want America to be, and they claim to love America, but it’s an America that doesn’t exist.

They hate the fact that anyone can become an American.

They hate the fact that in America, you’re allowed to be of any religion or no religion at all.

They hate the fact that in America, they’re not allowed to push their religious laws about abortion or gay rights on everyone.

They hate the fact that America includes people who are different than them — different races, different religions, different ways of looking at the world.

They hate the fact that a majority of Americans disagree with them on almost every important issue.

They claim to love America while hating a majority of the people in America, and a majority of the Constitution and our laws.

They’ve done a good job of packing the courts with fellow haters, and electing fellow haters to political office, so those of us who love America are constantly having to fight them.

But the bottom line for them is that they hate what America is, which is why they constantly scream that they want to “Make America Great Again” — meaning, a white, straight, Christian, male-dominated America.

And that’s just hateful.

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Bait and switch

Matt Wuerker
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Discussing the middle east without being anti-Jewish or anti-Muslim

The saddest part about the whole Israel / Palestine debate I am seeing among fellow liberals is how easily it turns into anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim commentary

I’ll repeat what I’ve said before and then that’s all I’m going to say because this always turns into a terrible debate:

Israel is a democratic country surrounded by countries that want them completely eradicated and have no interest in living together, and they support terrorists who attack Israel. That doesn’t mean Israel has the right to treat them as terribly as they have done, or to commit war crimes.

I can support Israel without agreeing to what their government is doing in the same way I can support the US without agreeing to what our government is doing.

Attacking the Israeli government for their actions is NOT attacking the Jewish people, many of whom (including Israeli citizens) ALSO disagree with their government.

And attacking Muslim politicians here in America who say we should not be supporting Israel in their war crimes should be based on their positions and NOT on the fact that they are Muslim (since there are nonMuslims who also say that).

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The Solid South (again)

Gerry Trudeau

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What Trump wants you to believe

The idiot gave a speech the other night in which he still is complaining about the 2020 election. Here’s a summary of what he said:

“When I was President in 2020, Joe Biden fixed the election so I would lose even though he wasn’t in power at the time.

Then in 2024, when Joe Biden was in power, this time he decided not to fix the election.

Also, since the Democrats clearly can fix elections, they purposesly lost the House and the Senate for no apparent reason.”

cartoon by Rick McKee

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The next 250 years

Brian Carroll

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Weird AI

A while ago, I was at a convention with Robert Sawyer, who had written one of my favorite series (The WWW series) in which the internet becomes sentient. In the book, the internet uses its ability to help researchers combine studies done and helps advance medicine and technology and otherwise push us toward a better future.

I asked him if he thought it was possible and that could happen with AI.

Sadly, he said no — he was not optimistic, despite the fact that most of his books have a satisfying ending…

But in general, I think AI will improve our lives eventually in those areas (NOT in the artistic areas — I can’t imagine AI producing good literature or art). But not yet. AI that gives us completely wrong answers on google or that gives wrong diagnoses or legal research isn’t what we need, obviously.

The problem now is that the technology isn’t up to it. Someday we won’t need huge AI centers gobbling up electricity and reservoirs of water. Someday it will be able to differentiate between facts and lies. But not yet. You shouldn’t rely on it.

Anyway, AI is not going away. We need to control it and regulate it and demand that it isn’t used for creative endeavors. And we need to make sure it’s used ethically.

Nick Anderson

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Felony Circus

Pat Bagley

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The Democratic demand for perfection in its politicians and how that kills us

As one great philosopher said in the sixties, you can’t always get what you want.

But too many Democrats demand that their politicians and candidates be perfect — and if the politician isn’t in agreement with them 100% of the time, then they’re the enemy and must be destroyed.

This extremism does nothing to help us. Politics is about the art of compromise, and the Angry Young Man who demands perfection and refuses to vote for a candidate who isn’t perfect almost always ends up with a Republican getting elected instead. And instead of ending up with a politician who you only agree with 75% of the time, you get one you agree with 0% of the time.

And I’m seeing this now, especially concerning a few specific Democratic politicians.

First is NY Major Mamdani. So far, I have been very happy with what he has accomplished in his short term, but that doesn’t mean I agree with everything he has said about Israel. Does that make him my enemy? No. I am pragmatic enough to know that the alternative would have been a terrible Republican sucking up to Trump and with whom I would not agree at all.

And then there’s Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. Hoo boy, does he have some skeletons in his closet. But what is our option? There are some of my Democratic friends who are doing everything they can to destroy him, which only helps Republican Susan Collins get re-elected so she can continue to kiss Trump’s butt and destroy our chance of taking back the Senate. Is that what we want?

Not to mention my own Senator Fetterman. Boy, has he disappointed Pennsylvania voters. His approval ratings went from very high to one of the lowest of all Senators. I’m sure he’ll be primaried if he runs for re-election. But I’d still prefer him over the alternative. I mean, we could have been stuck with Senator Doctor Oz, who now is part of the Trump administration. Does anyone honestly think he’d be better?

It’s like when Democrats were upset with West Virginia Senator Manchin. Remember him? The lone Democrat in one of the reddest, conservative states? Sure, he may have only voted with us 50% of the time, but the Republican who replaced him (the ironically named Jim Justice) votes with us 0%.

Sometimes the choices we have aren’t great. But we’re going to end up with one or the other, and you have to choose the best of two bad options.

And the other distinction is this: Sure, I don’t agree with everything these guys do and stand for — jeez, I didn’t even agree with everything Obama did — but they will listen to us. These guys need our votes, and will listen and maybe even change their positions. There’s no way a Republican will do that. They know you’ll never vote for them, so why would they waste their time on you or care about the issues you care about?

Don’t sit out the election. Don’t vote third party. I’m not saying to ignore your candidates’ problems, but acknowledge them and realize they’re not as bad as the alternative — and then hold your nose, and vote for the Democrat.

And if you don’t, and we end up not taking the House and Senate because of you, well, we’ll all know who to blame.

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GOP Logic

Bill Bramhall