Thanks for your reality checks. Keep up the good work!

I am very encouraged by the "Democratic Stupidity" admission here, since up to now you have been playing a Lesser Evil Zero Sum game between the far right (R) & center-right (D) sellouts & lapdogs that the Corporat (spelling deliberate) Dem party has become openly since the Clintons. Shambling Joe Biden has been a racist longer than Trump has (being a bit older) & his body count of brown people killed & black & brown people incarcerated during the fake "War on Drugs" (if you're not rich or white) when he locked up multiple generations of victims. I'm no fan of Trump, never have been. However, he is less of a hypocrite than the Dem sell-outs, it's axiomatic that the R's fear their base, the Dem's hate their base, & has been for decades. Genocide Joe has 3 wars on the burner, supporting literal Nazis in the Ukraine (though the US has thrown away $215 billion & counting, they will still lose to Russia), the current genocide by the US & Israel, & the war over Taiwan which the US announced many months back for 2025. Too bad Joe did NOTHING for middle class, & much less for poor 'Muricans during his term, passing only the "bipartisan" Chamber of Commerce "infrastructure" bill to shovel $$$ up to the donors, letting business corruption run inflation rates up to over 13%, etc. The Dems play the Washington Generals to the R's Harlem Globetrotters. That's what the top 0.1% want, as do the MIMAC (Military Industrial Media Academic Complex) demand & pay for, that's what we all get. Trump is a symptom. Given a choice between a pure bully-pig vs. a weak imitation, people will naturally in the majority support the pure one. But let's be glad, there will never be "socialism" or fairness in the USA, there will be Freedumb to own guns, chain women to the kitchen sink once they're pregnant, kill off the young, the poor & the other "undesirables"-- all bought to you by the tiny club of TPTB that is the bipartisan ReThuglican--Dimmiecrat cult, "2 cheeks of the same arse," to quote George Galloway. All Empires have to end, ours is tottering, get the popcorn out!!

Are you insane?

As I watch my, pharma-hooked, 37 year old son being destroyed one molecule at a time, my heart sinks knowing there was a better cure. Thank you for standing up against today's P$ychiatry.

OhmiGawd!! Is there NO limit to Anderson's fatuous fellating of the senile, segregationist, corrupt, & warmongering loser Joe Biden, with 2 feet in the grave? Evidently not, based on this column.

He closes the column by warning about not responding to Social Media posts as "trivia", so what resources does he get his info from? Mercenary, financial oligarchical elites like "Bloomberg (Stop 'n Frisk the non-whites!) opinion columnists" & "The Atlantic magazine" run by skeezy David Frum who wrote Bush Jr's "Axis of Evil" speech & stovepiped all the lies about "WMDs in Iraq" over 2 decades ago. Oh, how trustworthy!

No wonder they support Biden!! 100% support for open genocide against the Native Palestinians in Gaza for 10 months & counting & an estimated nearly one half million dead (17% of the pre-war population) according to one reliable source-- www.ianwelsh.net/palestinian-deaths-in-the-gaza-conflict-are-probably-close-to-half-a-million/ If you wish we can take the more conservative estimate of The Lancet (the oldest, highly reliable medical journal in the world) some weeks back that at least 186,000 were likely dead. 95% of these are civilians, not "Hamas", but don't tell Phil, he just loves Joe, even if he's a poor debater. He's senile, Phil, he said he wouldn't feel bad about losing to Trump (the next Hitler, accd. to you & others) so long as he did his "goodest."

Joe is good for "distressed countries"? Even you admitted (long in the past) that Biden's moronic proxy war provoked on behalf of a Neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine (whose national hero is Stepan Bandera, who fought in a pro-Reich division founded by Heinrich Himmler, & has streets, schools, etc. named after him in Ukraine) was futile & would lose. Are you going to be as ecstatic as Lindsey Graham is when they "fight to the last Ukrainian"? The honest future historians will note that Joe shepherded 2 genocides on his watch, yet you selectively ignore both!! Shameful!!

Oh, let's praise "The Bipartisan (Republican, Chamber of Commerce) Infrastructure Law" which shovels money upward to politically connected contractors, while Joe colluded with Joe Manchin & Kirsten Sinema (one now a Republican, the other a lobbyist) to torpedo the progressive infrastructure bill that could've helped ordinary people. But Joe knows his priorities (if not how to talk), as he promised the Donors, "Fundamentally nothing will change."

You outright LIE about Biden admin "Health Care" (sic) policies. He continued Trump policies to privatize Medicare via more expensive "Advantage" plans & force members to subsidize greedy profiteering businesses. He kept throwing kids in cages just as Trump did. He kept Cuba as a "terrorist supporting state" as Trump decided, despite literally no evidence. (And when 85% of the world knows the US is the world's greatest terrorist state-- ask the Vietnamese, Iraqis, Indonesians, Libyans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Mexicans, & many many more.

Politico did a nice piece some months back documenting the $17 million in money that was shoveled to Joe's brother, to his crack-smoking son Hunter & to his grandchildren. Good thing Joe can pardon them all from future prosecutions before he leaves office, right? (And while he still vaguely remembers who Hunter is.)

Joe was stopped from immigration reform, student loan forgiveness, affordable child care and other things 'coz the Meanie Republicans "stopped" him. Come on, man!! Joe never tried to do any of these seriously, the only thing he was ever sincerely interested in was buddying up with KKK friends like James Eastland (as he bragged during a 2019 "debate") & Strom Thurmond to keep "those" people (who he claimed in a 1973 speech shared on Counterpunch had 2/3rds levels of "low IQs") out of white schools.

Please don't kid yourself or anyone that you are remotely "liberal" or "left" when you support a monster like Biden. He's finally a little less vulgar & overtly bullying than Trump because age has caught up with him. But he was always a vicious racist, shill for the top 1% and bully, and that will be reflected in the actual history books.

After 1945, many Germans who had lauded what the Fuhrer did for the economy in the late 1930s shut up, wisely, given the subsequent genocide & destruction of the country. Perhaps you could be a little more circumspect about praising a war-profiteering mass murderer & enabler of open genocide?

Aww, never mind!! Nobody will remember or be reading your crap in a couple years anyway, you aren't Christopher Hitchens & your betrayal of any "liberal" or humanist values you once espoused will barely be noticed. Young people & minorities are done with fake left apologists for Endless wars & genocide like you. You are irrelevant & dishonest, & a suck-up to Power.

Well said every damn one of them I'm a Capricorn and I can't stand always being blamed for their issues with their self I have never seen nothing like this and it's really sad that their personalities are like that but they are not my cup of tea

I think God saved Trump so Trump could run for president and be defeated.

Good work Forey! I always enjoy your writing, Snuffy

I read articles occasionally to my wife,which happens to be my favorite person..& a fine way to share with one another.We navigate through the stories of current events.Trying to decipher the Real from the False.Straying from our Screens and longing for something from the past.A Slower time,harder in many ways..when Freedom Still Rang....alas e.g.Forrest Johnson "In the Days when Lutefisk Ran the Rivers"Feelings of childhood arose where they had been hidden by the .com bustle and senseless violence of current affairs.So Hats off to a Time of our Forefathers when Turkeys were as Fat as Ostrich,Buffalo roamed and Wild Horses Stood at the Creeks of this Great Continent,for the Creeks&Rivers,Lakes&Sounds were too full of Lutefisk to cross.E.S.Dunlap

When I was a little girl, I thought boys had it better than girls. So I started acting like a boy. Than goodness my parents did not interfere, they just left me alone. In those days you didn't get marched off to transgender camp. I finally figured it out for myself -- i was stuck with being a girl and so I made the best of it. Eventually it all worked out for me being female. My point is, I think we leave children alone. I guess boys have a harder time of it if they feel girls have it better, or they feel they would like to be a girl. They get bullied. I guess we need to teach children to not bully and to respect all shades of sexuality. We are starting to do that. I think we need to back off on sexuality issues and not go overboard because we need to let children be children and work things out if they can.

Well said Forey. Snuffy

Great article on McFarland. Thanks.

Takes me back! I raced a little at Mn. Drag ways in the early 70s & always loved watching Dicks wagon & even got to race him once with my ‘69 Torino ( I barely lost but Dick very concerned that it was close) so he jumped out of his car on the return to check my classification and was relieved to see BMP, I was just a kid who loved power & really looked up to Dick being a Ford nut myself: Him , Warren, John all great memories!

I want to thank Mr. Kurki for the one thoughtful & intelligent letter this week, "Beware the power elite." I despise Mr. Trump as much as any sane person does. However, I'm tired of the Reader being the exclusive forum for SpitLibs (I'm being polite in print) like the other 2 letter writers to support the coming Harris-Walz genocide of Palestinian civilians-- thru starvation, bombing which has already exceeded Hiroshima levels under Biden-Harris of civilians, rape (which the Israelis filmed & share with the world) of prisoners with blunt objects, now slaughter of West Bank & Jerusalem people who never "voted for" or "supported Hamas," shooting Christians sheltering in churches, etc. etc. Trump is horrible but you cannot get worse than supporting genocide (as Harris openly does, & Walz, photographed with the murderous war-criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in 2009, also clearly does. Both major parties are garbage, I left the Dems after supporting them for over 40 years. History will not be kind to Biden or Harris if they win. (They may not as they may lose the state of Michigan due to the full-throated support for genocide, & as Kamala promised at the Dem Convention, the "most lethal military" ever in history. These people are, like the Repukes, full-on fascists. But they pretend that not hating LGBTQ people or women's right to bodily autonomy makes them morally "better." The Nazis who were kind to gentile children or animals were still Nazis. If you support Zionism & genocide, you are a monster, even if it's done by a fake "liberal" Dem.

Elizabeth Warren should get as much credit as Bernie Sanders!

People should stop knocking President Biden and treating him with disrespect. History will show he saved this country after the mess Trump left. He was at mass when Trump was shot. His prayers probably saved Trump's life. If Trump had been killed, the Trumplicans would REALLY have a juicy conspiracy theory to fuel their wrath.

Who hurt you

Ed, kudos for trying to get good stats. An few thoughts.; AI is the new Y2K.,You can throw away Christ,the very true son of the Almighty, the Torah and the Bible when Israel ceases to exist,BECAUSE it never will cease to exist! Still there,yesterday, today and for eternity. If you want to avoid eternity in mental disintegration and be in the good place,IF you feel you can discipline yourself...THEN I can direct you there. SEMPER FI.

Hey, Phil-- I am looking for your forthcoming book, "How I Quit Worrying & Learned to Love the Biden-Harris Genocide" to come out. I'm glad you have stopped pretending to be pro-Peace or anywhere on "the Left" & embraced murderous ghouls like Dick & Lynn Cheney, li'l Antony Blinken & now 100% support the extermination of the Palestinian civilian population, men, women & children, because the Dems sometimes pretend (totally insincerely, based on their policies, the rollback of Roe v. Wade which they empowered by putting Kavanaugh & Coney-Barret and that set on SCotUS) to "care" about women, minorities & LGBTQ+ people. Blue Maga all the way, huhn? I guess your heart swells with pride at Harris' promise at the DNC (10 months into a US funded & directed genocide in both Gaza and now the West Bank) to have the "world's most lethal military"!! Wow! If any old Nazis survive from failing WW II how great that you align with them. No affordable health care for Americans, no infrastructure improvement, 60% of the budget goes to failing wars & you're all in!! Brilliant! There's an old saying, "Scratch a Liberal & you'll get a fascist." In your case we don't even have to scratch however. Congratulations on embracing genocide, greater economic inequality (like Obama did to the US black populace, lowering their standard of living more than at any other time in US history). Oh, but "Trump would be worse" than Biden-Harris' 110% support for genocide since October of 2023, you believe? Ha-ha! Idiot, you assume facts not in evidence. I hope that there is karma and in your next life you are born as a Palestinian child, to be exterminated within a couple days. Congratulations, you are a Monster on the level of the Cheneys, Blinken & Sullivan, etc. You support Hell for Americans as well as people around the world we invade, kill and impose right wing fascist regimes on. You have no morals, & no shame. Embrace it!!

There is no decency in either of the major parties. This column is disgusting and s grievous insult to the hundreds of thousands slaughtered under the Biden Harris administration