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The US incarcerates more people than any other country.  We might want to be careful when throwing around charges of human rights abuses.

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The facts change and the people responsible for public policy have to change their advice to match the new circumstances.

Complete projection and trying to hide what they are doing.    Remember this is the party that is pushing bills to ban subjects from being taught in schools, banning even talking about LGBTQ+, requiring teachers to wear cameras, out kids to parents, has a media arm called Fox News, and trying to call an insurrection riot legitimate political discourse.

I wondered how long it would take for the right wing cartoonist to pick this up.  Took less than a day from when Fox News aired a misleading story on it and the cartoonist drawing what the misinformation is.   No the US government is not buying crack pipes.   They are funding ways to keep addicts from dying or over dosing along with spreading disease.    Beau has a good video on this with some of the things the bill funds.   So I expect this to be a big shit storm on the comment section of the radical right cartoons. 

The preponderance of evidence indicates that mask wearing reduces transmissibility per contact by reducing transmission of infected respiratory particles in both laboratory and clinical contexts. Public mask wearing is most effective at reducing spread of the virus when compliance is high.

Leffler et al. (29) used a multiple regression approach, including a range of policy interventions and country and population characteristics, to infer the relationship between mask use and SARS-CoV-2 transmission. They found that transmission was 7.5 times higher in countries that did not have a mask mandate or universal mask use, a result similar to that found in an analogous study of fewer countries (30). Another study looked at the difference between US states with mask mandates and those without, and found that the daily growth rate was 2.0 percentage points lower in states with mask mandates, estimating that the mandates had prevented 230,000 to 450,000 COVID-19 cases by May 22, 2020 (31).

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118

We’re not going away from mask mandates because they’re ineffective. We’re going away from them because the will to use them is evaporating.

I don’t have a problem with people who don’t want to wear a mask, however I do have a problem with people going into establishments without a mask demanding service when the owners of those establishments require their employees to wear a mask. House rules, follow the house rules of get out of the house. If you do get sick are you willing to forgo expecting your health insurance company to pay your medical bills since you decided not to take precautions?

Comment sections I have made comments on today.  I wonder how long they will stay up.

https://www.creators.com/read/gary-varvel

https://www.creators.com/read/a.f.-branco/02/22/319815

https://www.creators.com/read/tom-stiglich

https://www.creators.com/read/zack-hill

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A majority of the right wing comments are simply insults with no information, no credible sources, and no acceptance of reality.  They some how think winning is to “own the libs with insults” like little kids on a school playground.

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For some reason when Macron went to talk to Putin over the issue of Ukraine they were seated at a table with like 20 feet between them. 

The snow is all man made

https://twitter.com/MoiraDonegan/status/1491211439675113474?s=20&t=nW24iiq5d9eAFXiyy_2NJA

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I did not think Rivers could sink any lower than he has been, but he surprised me with this one.  I don’t post it for the message but to see how some right wing cult members see the world. 

It’s a sad comic. President Biden really wants unity but the GOP has no wish to join the US of A.   Got to give Joe credit for trying though.. His predecessor actively did and continues to divide the nation.   Biden would love to have a unified government but you can not expect the Republicans to do anything to help the country because they think their chances of reelection come from denying Biden anything especially if it helps the public. 

So true. The misleading right wing media arm of the Republican party can not stand to have Biden credited with anything. They are all about obstruction and misinformation to try to get Republicans elected to office.

Really asinine. Non-citizens can not vote! It takes years. In general, a non-citizen must spend at least 5 years as a lawful permanent resident to be eligible for naturalization while a spouse of a U.S. citizen must spend at least 3 years as a lawful permanent resident3. The median years spent as an LPR for all citizens naturalized in FY 2020 was 7.1 years. To think this is the Democrats plan you give Democrats far to much credit for future planning.

The cartoonist is way off base, no one I knows says it is OK for Democrats to use the N-word.  I think this is in anger over Republicans being called on the carpet for using that word.  Having said that I have an issue with “bad words”.  I really don’t think there are any words that should be outlawed.   I understand that words can hurt and wound.   I have some words that make me cringe and Ron has words he doesn’t like me to use.   But words only have the meanings we give them, and it is the same with the power words have.  Their power comes from us.   By making the word referred to by its initial makes it more powerful than it ever should be.  It is not like a person doesn’t know what the N-word means so is their a difference between using the word or using the n-word to mean the same thing.   

Complete lie and misdirection. The crime has risen in cities and states with both Republican and Democratic leadership. Plus crime is still lower than it has been in the last decade. It is expected to decline as the country returns to non-pandemic conditions. What prosecutors are doing is not prosecuting non-violent crime with lower dollar values so that they can use more programs designed to rehabilitate people and not feed the school to prison for profit pipelines. They are not prosecuting low level drug crimes such as possession when so many states have legalized cannabis. The sad fact is there is profit in incarcerating a lot of people in the country, there is a political reason to incarcerate black people and take away their voting rights. There is an attempt to stop any reforms to the justice system and prosecutions in the US. Again this cartoon is misdirection and misinformation.

No police forces have been defunded, most have seen budget increases. However the Republicans did vote against more money for the police. Yes the Republicans did vote no to police getting more money! The Build Back Better bill had money for police departments all across the US and Republicans killed it. Not one Republican voted for it. So save your pious fake tears.

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On the above, Ron and I tell each other when we are going to go for a nap so the other can join in.  But we have only been together 32 years.

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Had a dental appointment today, made a red sauce with meatballs for a spaghetti supper, and some thick sliced garlic cheese toast for supper.  I had to take extra medication to be able to do that.   So I am too tired to finish the roundup.  I don’t have any appointments tomorrow so I plan to add the cartoons I missed today ( about half the normal pages I go to ) into tomorrows roundup.  Best wishes to all 

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No one buys the exact things each week.  But we all buy mostly the same foods all the time that we like to eat and we normally by the same detergents or other supplies.    And the truth is only lately has wages started to rise but there are still far too low.   In my area I am reading that to be able to rent a 1 bedroom apartment a person needs a wage of $20.17 an hour for 40 hours.   $24.82 for a two bedroom.  Most people work for less than $15 dollars an hour around here. 

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It doesn’t have to be this way.  One way to fix this, rent a large space to have children spread out at tables, have good wifi, and have a few adults to circulate around the large space.  Just like a classroom but much bigger and each kid working on their own computer at their own speed.   It is done in other countries why not the US. 

And the misleading right wing cartoonist fails to mention the parties did a complete swap on ideals with the Democrats currently being against discrimination and the Republicans being for discrimination and oppression, not to mention insurrection and other throwing the government.

Pelosi said that the contestants should be aware of their situation and their safety so they might want to wait on their criticisms of China until they were safe.    She did not say they shouldn’t say anything negative about China, she did not try to stop them from insulting China.  But again facts don’t really matter to the right wing.

I want to scream when I see these cartoons.  Because so many of the right wing cult members believe this is the god’s honest truth.  I argue that no polices have changed other than family detention, I show court cases preventing Biden from making changes on the southern border, I point out illegals can not vote and illegals can not become citizens.   Nothing matters to them.  tRump said 3 million illegals voted for Hillary and now every right winger is convinced that Biden is busing illegal immigrants across the border to vote for Democrats.

Yet no outcry from Branco when ICE under tRump was taking children separated at the border from their parents on midnight flights all over the country and given to Christian adoption agencies to adopt out to Christian parents, collecting fees from those adopting parents, many of those children who have not been returned to their rightful parents. The very definition of child human trafficking.

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Help the non-billionaires.

Elect a working class Congress.

The hypocrisy of GOP whiteness. Freedoms for me, but none for thee.

‘Legitimate political discourse’ is what the indoctrinated call terror.

The abuser has removed all their morals/ethics. The indoctrinated can’t admit their mistake, so they further radicalize themselves to appease the abuser. It’s a cult.

The police have no intention of serving the community. All they want is power and violence.

They contort their own anti-vaxx deaths into ‘rise in crime stats’. They want more money to reward their inhumanity. It’s disgusting.

https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/675559440929456128

Plus the study is not peer reviewed.   However it is getting a lot of traction.  They were talking about it at my doctors office this morning.   Scary. 

Imagine hearing this and thinking death is a better option. Imagine hearing this and NOT think of the burden of the unvaccinated on society.

Takes a certain mind to dismiss science and humanity while deaths approach one million.

Republicans normalize racism. Writ large.

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Let’s compare the number of trademarks China gave Ivanka when tRump was president to how many they have given Pelosi? The former guy has at least 100 Chinese trademarks, and Ivanka got 18 Chinese trademarks in just 2 months. Yet you claim Pelosi is the one taking money from China.

Ah this will please the cult base but has no grounding in fact. Wasn’t it former guy tRump who had trouble walking down ramps and stairs requiring someone be very close to him in case he wobbled or started to fall. Oh yes, there is video of it.

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Today the above are called right wing trolls. 

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In other words his income is tied to fossil fuels and he want the US to keep using them.  The idea that by using more fossil fuels such as oil and coal we can make the plant cleaner is asinine.   Manchin is hoping what he said will be picked up and run on the right wing misleading media as sound bites.  He wants to make sure the clean energy parts of the Build Back Better bill are dead even though much of the country wants to and is ready to do more to fix the climate crisis. 

Take away obstruction and Republicans will have to work.

No bigger performative coward than Mike Pence.

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“Race” is a construct. There are only humans. That hasn’t stopped one set of humans for using demographic labels (race, religion, sex, economic class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.) as a means to suppress and kill that hated group. It’s human nature, unfortunately. We hate. We kill. Dig deep enough and you’ll find greed is the reason. It’s the most humanistic trait there is.

The old hero fantasy. Unlike in the movies there is a real mess to clean up.   People who buy guns to shoot intruders are eight times more likely to shoot their own children.   The burglary rate has dropped by half over the last ten years. The homicide rate, however, has climbed in those ten years. But it’s not because people are shooting burglars. Mostly it’s family or random, often unarmed strangers on the street.  

The right wing screamers that appointing a black woman is racist seem to have the assumption that race is the only qualification Biden is looking for and that there is no qualified black woman.  That is racist.   The idea of a white man not automatically getting the position while a black person must fight for it is shocking to the right.  

Congress hasn’t done a good job since the GOP went off the range with the Tea Party, Trumpism, MAGA, and the other whack jobs they brought in.

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