The Four Color Media Monitor

Avi, I've been looking forward to a post like this ever since election night. Leftists can never accept the fact that poll after poll after poll after poll has always shown theirs is the minority worldview in this country. Isn't just 21% who describe themselves as liberal? It's knuckle dragging primitive thinking thinking to believe they represent the greater good, much less the vast majority. Larsen has no business lecturing people on what their 'self-interests' are. He and his fellow knuckle draggers are the last people who'd champion individualism.
These are people with no connection to reality.
Take an aunt of mine for example. Typical liberal - complete with white guilt, blame USA first indoctrination. She's going berserk because Rick Scott won reelection. She thinks this means the GOP is done in FL. She's unhinged. I had to remind her FL has been electing GOP governors since '99. And you think all the Cuban exiles are suddenly going to start voting Left? After what they've escaped? Again, these people run from reality.
I look forward to whatever tweets emerge from Marz, Robinson, any other leftist writer/artist who feels like their holidays are ruined now. Also, I hope you're able to find tweets by Van Sciver or Dixon or any creator with the gall to not bend over and grab the ankles for every left wing cause.


Chuck

"That's why we seek out religion. Simple, comforting answers to complex questions. "Somebody up there is taking care of you. Don't worry."

Yeah, that's just what Aristotle, Plato, Maimonides, and many others who put out nothing but vapid, sentimental tripe about God and the universe have always said.

"Proponents same sex marriage don't want anything more. There's no slippery slope. Nobody's demanding people be allowed to marry animals.

Sure, they don't want to shut down businesses, have propaganda spread in the schools or anything. He's either stupid, uninformed, or terribly naive.

I realize that "the poor" includes both good people struggling to get by, and parasites sponging off of society. But one problem is that politicians don't make distinctions. An able-bodied welfare recipient can vote, and that vote counts just as much as the vote of an SSI recipient who is disabled and can't work. For that matter, the freeloader's vote counts the same as the vote of someone who works 70 hours a week and pays 35% income tax.

If Larsen thinks that the cost of housing is high now, wait until contractors are forced to pay $12.25 an hour to their employees, including unskilled laborers and illegal aliens who don't speak English.

I am not against gay marriage or equal rights for gay people. But I realize that some religions (Christianity, Orthodox Judaism, Islam) consider homosexuality to be a sin. And people have a right to practice their religion as long as they don't force it on the rest of us.

The real slippery slope is not so much that some weirdos may try to legalize bestiality or pedophilia. It's that, once something is defined as a "right," then some people will demand that it be provided for them, with no ifs, ands, or buts.

In Oregon and Iowa, gay couples sued bakeries for refusing (on religious grounds) to bake cakes for same-sex weddings. In New Mexico, a gay couple took legal action against a wedding photographer who refused to photograph their ceremony. And, in Great Britain, a gay couple sued to force the Church of England to perform same-sex weddings. (Gay marriage is legal in Britain, but the law states that churches cannot be forced to perform ceremonies that violate their religion.)

The plaintiffs in those cases are doing the same thing that a lot of religious extremists (including Muslims and fundamentalist Christians) want to do to gay people. That is, they are imposing their values and sensibilities on others.

Having to settle for a civil ceremony instead of a lavish church wedding, or having to shop around for a different bakery (or even having to do without a cake), is just not a violation of one's rights. It is not the same thing as a hospital refusing to admit a black patient, or a fire department refusing to extinguish a fire in a gay bar.

The middle screenshot/retweet complains of "increased military spending" and cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. But, consider this: the military is less that 20% of the US federal budget, and social welfare programs are over 40%. Plus, 2/3 of the money spent on welfare programs goes for administrative overhead. Of the remaining 1/3, some is wasted on fraud, overpayments, and mismanagement.

It's possible that we really need to increase defense spending. And it's also possible that we can cut some waste from welfare programs without hurting the working poor or the disabled.

The 2014 election was a referendum on Obama. He wasn't on the ballot, but his policies were.

He promised that Americans could keep their medical insurance policies if they wanted. Within months, people began losing their insurance.

He said that ISIS was a "junior varsity" team. Now they control large parts of the Middle East.

He gave weapons to "moderate" Syrian rebels, who then either surrendered or defected to the enemy.

The unemployment rate is higher now than it was when Bush was in office.

And Larsen and his ilk cling to their fantasy that Democratic losses were due to elections being bought and rigged by the Koch Brothers and Fox News.

Two things:

1) If Larsen is so damn unhappy with the way things are, then maybe he should get the f*** out of the country.

2) F*** Erik Larsen.

I'm getting really sick of people with more money than me lecturing me about the evils of rich people. But I guess I shouldn't expect logic or competency from Erik Larsen. He's the guy who gladly condemned Marvel in an editorial (seen in that Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck crossover) for screwing over Steve Gerber in regards to Howard the Duck, but then made excuses for Todd McFarlane trying to screw over Neil Gaiman.