Bernie is a mensch, and Biden is a mensch. Trump is a shlump.

If Spinoza didn't have faith in God, then how could he talk about faith? If he never experienced faith but was talking about it, he really would not know what he was talking about.

Wow! What a disgraceful column. It is hard to summon up words, the author's point of view is so degraded & hateful.
He calls himself a "liberal" and perhaps implies he is "progressive," then tells you that (in a "democracy") you MUST support a vicious racist like Biden who is funding & expediting a full-scale starvation & genocide of the Palestinian indigenous people in the West-created haven for Ashkenazi Jews (whose ancestors converted to Judaism in the middle ages, look up "Khazars" on Wikipedia) who for the most part never had ancestors in the Kingdom of Israel which existed for less than 2 centuries!! But hey, the US is doing what it does best, murdering non-white people (Vietnamese, Indonesians, Syrians, Libyans, Hondurans, Cubans, Chileans, etc. ad infinitum) & Mr. Anderson, a good "liberal" is clapping loudly from the Peanut Gallery!! Just sickening.

What's the difference between a Liberal and a Fascist? A Fascist is less hypocritical and will tell you plainly that they enjoy oppressing & murdering non-white & poor people (including poor whites.) A "liberal" like Mr. Anderson will support the exact same policies (I bet Mr. Anderson thinks Victoria Nuland is a great thinker) and pretend to lament the death of innocents with crocodile tears.

As my last name indicates, I am of partially Germanic stock & I hate and lament the crimes of my cousins there during the largest major genocide in the 20th century. Now we have a 2nd genocide occurring, 85% of the World knows it, Mr. Anderson even admits it is a genocide, & he tells me I must vote for Genocide Joe and enable it!! (NB-- I was born in South Dakota as my poor German ancestors were driven out of there by poverty in the late 19th century, as my poor Irish ancestors were driven out of Ireland by famine deliberately created by the English at the same time. So nobody closely related to me ran the crematorium ovens, as far as I know.)

No, Mr. Anderson, I won't support any NeoCons, Joe nor the rest!! I won't be complicit in genocide & if you had any humanity you wouldn't demand I do so. Yes, people in Wisconsin & nationwide "didn't like Hillary"!! She is equally racist & genocidal as Joe (Lock Up the Darkies) Biden, who wrote the "crime bill" creating criminal sentences for crack cocaine 100 times stronger than for good white Wall Street execs who like to snort an occasional line in their limos & never get arrested, resulting in decades long jail sentences for 1,000s of black, brown, & some poor white men & women over 2 generations, while people like his "wonderful" son Beau can film themselves smoking crack & broadcast it and get nothing worse than paid "therapy."

Hillary Rodham Clinton was a Goldwater Girl who opposed the Civil Rights movement, MLK & equal rights for black Americans in the 1960s & '70s. Her husband is (like Trump) a sexual predator & rapist & an associate of the pedophile Mossad agent Jeffrey Epstein, but hey, they mean well (?) She opposed gay marriage for decades. She never met a colonial US war she didn't love. She spit in the face of voters like me (I was forced out of the Dem party after 40 years support when they stole the nomination from Sanders a 2nd time in 2020, openly) for years, calling us stupid & weak. They never oppose the "bad" Republicans with the hate and virulence they do with the actual Left, they are all buddies. She pulled a coup in Honduras during the 2nd Obama admin that resulted in drug dealers running the country, & mass, organized rapes against Honduran women until finally those monsters were ousted. Oh, & in Libya, which had the highest standard of living for decades after Gaddafi came to power, she ran another coup that split the country into 3 weak ethno-states ruled by Stronmen. In one of those, there are Slave Markets for blacks from Sub-Saharan Africa being openly sold-- here "management" of foreign affairs must make you so proud, huh? Black chattel slavery in the 21st century (just like Joe pulled with the prison industry)-- how praiseworthy is that!!

Yes, Mr. Anderson, brandish your wonderful moral superiority over all of us who don't support "the donors" who run both the Good Cop Dem party & the Bad Cop R's and continue to shovel money uphill to the richest while slashing social services to the middle class & poor, betraying FDR's legacy, who do NOTHING to confront or stop Climate Change, who start endless wars (as you yourself admit) & profiteer personally thereby. But if you have any intellect left (I used to respect you uniquely among the D.R. staff, you at least had a sane view of the US-incited Ukraine (Nazis) v. Russia war which will soon result in corrupt, small & poor Ukraine becoming even more hellish & backward), if you have any integrity left, I'd ask you to acknowledge that once you support genocide (as you admit you do) you are unworthy to even be called a "Liberal." You are a Fascist & White Supremacist, based on the policies you support, just as much as both Biden & Trump are.

If the "Overton Window" in this country has moved so far right that the Left, or "liberals" actively scold and demand that we all must SUPPORT genocide & the starvation & murder of civilian populations of women & children, the USA is NOT morally superior to Hitler's Germany. It is equivalent.

But continue to Punch Left and hate those of us who won't support your beloved Uniparty. It pays the bills I'm sure. And you're not important enough to be listed in the history books as someone who acted as a cheerleader for ethnic cleansing, apartheid, & genocide as you do in this article.

The first letter to the editor I had published in the Reader denounced what I thought was your fellow columnist Drabnik's false claims that Liberals are the real Fascists. Regretfully you have proven him partially correct.

The rest of the world and history will dump the US Empire in the trash-can of history next to Nazi Germany, the North Koreans, the Burmese Junta, Pinochet's Chile, Pol Pot's regime, & settler-colonialist Israel. The US will be a Pariah State alongside the genocidal Israelis who we support while they slaughter the "human animals" Mr. Ben Gevir speaks of. The Military Industrial Complex owes you their thanks.

From me, you only get contempt & shame (if you are even capable of that?) I won't be reading you or the Reader in the future if this is the best that "Liberals" like you can do.

Mark Schneider,
Duluth MN

Oops!! I accidentally called Hunter Biden "Beau" & left a "g" out of Strongmen. Sorry, it's hard to edit such a long response online before hitting Add Comment. PS-- I'll be interested to see if this comment stays up, since I know good Liberals now support censorship just like their Rightist Pals do. You can't have people like Jewish Voices for Peace protesting Joe or Genocide. It upsets the Libs!!-- M.S.

This was cool, i am a bad guy from iran ( before i was good ). I loved your writing. U did it so good that was sooooo intresting. Please pray for me i have to buy a judge to keep my wife from divorce.

Anyone who is not a billionaire or an outright militarist fascist voting for EITHER of the Duopoly Corporate Endless War parties "is like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving." Funny that Mr. Anderson only sees Evil on one side of the aisle when they are both right wing authoritarian parties funded by the Oligarchs and working only for the Oligarchs. Biden blocking affordable health care (saying he would veto it!) is okay-- why exactly? Yes, mostly the Dems are better on some social issues (LGBTQ+ rights) but they still fund endless wars & loot & spit on their supporters. (The GOP fears their base, the Dems hate their base has been axiomatic for decades.) Hey, Phil, why do you look at the speck of dust in your brother's eye & pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" as a brown-skinned Palestinian once said. Keep supporting the Dems while they make sure your children & grandchildren die in poverty, perhaps of fentanyl ODs as America circles the drain!!

See one across the Des Moines River in Windom, Minnesota 56101 today April 1. 2024. Seen it the last few days. Very wooded and safe.

Thanx Chris sending hugs to your dad I miss seeing him . Funny I am sitting here staring at a gift he sent me from you store I think it was called the monkey lol

Thank You Doctor Gary G.!
Many Thanks and Loving Blessings for good health and strength and good will to keep on informing for the good of ... "The Grossly ignorant public" quote from the truly Honourable Mr. Henry PARKES MP., 5 five times Premier of New South Wales, Sydney Australia in his speech to Parliament re. his Bill 1866 (before Federation in 1901 January; his Bill for Public Schools Education for all children ... not only for the $$$ wealthy ... at the time there was only the Kings College and The Sydney Grammar School...(hmm..the good old days..?

So Ed, in retrospect to the current state of affairs do you still want to degrade Al Capp's foresight into the calamities that follow the current Joe B character?

Shame on you for your shameless lying on behalf of the senile Genocide Joe Biden, Mr. Anderson.
Have you forgotten shambling Joe's promise to his donors, "Fundamentally nothing will change?" That's one of the very few promises he kept.
Biden has been a reactionary & openly racist asshat his entire political career, saying in the 70s that allowing non-whites into "his" children's schools would turn those schools into a "jungle" & bragging even in 2020 of his friendships with KKK supporters like Strom Thurmond & Sen. James Eastland. Even cacklin' Kamala called him out for this!!
Once elected he worked with his "pals" Joe Manchin & Kirsten Sinema (both totally corrupt swamp creatures on the take, to kill the Democrat infrastructure bill without even a formal vote, & to only pass the "bipartisan" (Republican) bill from the Chamber of Commerce. (Manchin's daughter got a lock on Insulin prescriptions in her area & killed hundreds by quadrupling the price.)

Here's a partial list of things Biden betrayed the Dem. base on:

Decriminalizing marijuana. (He's half starting the process now, desperate for votes, 85% of his term gone.)

Stopping the college debt ripoffs from bills he wrote as the "Senator from Mastercard"/ Delaware.

How did he respond to BLM's demands to defund the police? By giving them much more funding & setting them loose on students peacefully protesting a genocide to beat and arrest young protesters.

Also, let's not forget "Corn Pop was a bad dude!!" Or his recent statement which the White House immediately debunked that his uncle was probably eaten by a (black) cannibal during WW II!!

Biden has always supported all the wars, hates Muslims & doesn't even hide it, catered to the 0.1% & supported Neoliberal economics, & doesn't even know where he is much of the time. The Dem's aren't even the Rethug's "Lesser Evil" anymore, both parties are openly fascistic & just passed nearly $100 billion for future wars in Ukraine-Russia, Taiwan, & against China.

Ordinary people know that inflation was far WORSE under Biden than even under Trump (who I don't support) but you shamelessly lie for your "team." "The Inflation Reduction Act" was a big lie, & the best claim it could make is that, while it shoveled $$$ uphill to the richest (which the Uniparty always does) it "may" have slowed the rate of inflation from double digits to high single digits.

The ruling class hates & spits on us ordinary people. You're fellating Biden is not a good look, Anderson. History will judge & all your lies will be forgotten, you are a disgrace. You are not remotely "progressive" you are just a lacky to psychopaths, a Useful Idiot of the lowest & most obvious class.

Says who, Wing Ying Huie was the sole owner of the Chinese Lantern and he ran the restaurant with his famous assistant Rose. Every employee loves Wing and afraid of Rose. The only employees that were not afraid of Rose were the Chinese cooks because they did not understand Rose for not knowing English. That was the case for most of the Chinese cooks. Majority of the cooks were recruited from SF and some were from NY but they all are originally from China. Vicky was funny and always flirting with one of one of the English speaking cooks.