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Steven Grant is a veteran comics writer who used to work for Marvel in the 80s (he's even credited to a Punisher miniseries drawn by Mike Zeck preceding the 1987-95 ongoing series), once conceived a creator-owned book called Whisper, and now, wouldn't you know it, he's one of the most vocally leftist lecturers on Twitter. Here's his rants against Trump:

I wish Trump would just get on with founding the Patriot/MAGA Party so we could get on w/listing them as a terrorist organization...

— Social Distancing Since 1971 (@ThatStevenGrant) January 24, 2021

But no complaints if Biden's new administration won't view Hamas and PLO as the terrorist organizations they are? This is disgusting, but not unexpected, coming from somebody who's tragically such a PC advocate.

Flipped on the TV, came up on, of all things, a MyPillow ad. Was annoyed but then vastly amused b/c on the final card in bold letters they advertised DEEP DISCOUNTS ON ALL PRODUCTS.

Gosh, wonder what prompted that...

— Social Distancing Since 1971 (@ThatStevenGrant) January 24, 2021

And here, he hints at his dislike of the owner of this business because he's a conservative. And I guess Grant believes the guy shouldn't be able to make a living because of that, huh? Very sad.

The final count: 30,573 lies from Trump during his presidency. Average ~7644/yr, or ~21/day. Except close to half came in 2020, so that's ~15,286 for last year alone, or ~42/day, with previous years averaging only ~14/day...

— Social Distancing Since 1971 (@ThatStevenGrant) January 25, 2021

Jeez, Biden's wristwatch, John Roberts... all Republicans know how to do anymore is lie vehemently to kick up hysteria...

— Social Distancing Since 1971 (@ThatStevenGrant) January 25, 2021

This is so sad, it's not even funny. Grant perpetuates the cliche that all Trump and Republicans could do was lie, and nothing else. And it makes no difference if Biden lies about anything. Considering Grant obviously has no intention of ever voting for the Republicans no matter what direction or policy they take, I just don't see the point of his obsession.

A word on impeachments:

There has never been a successful impeachment of a US president.

But while impeachments have been considered either via resolution (inc the reason idiotic QAnon-fueled resolution against Biden) or investigation but not pursued /1

— Social Distancing Since 1971 (@ThatStevenGrant) January 26, 2021

There has never been a successful impeachment. But this has virtually nothing to do with guilt or innocence. Johnson was saved by a single vote, by a senator who feared conviction might, regardless of what Johnson had done /3

— Social Distancing Since 1971 (@ThatStevenGrant) January 26, 2021

(Nixon could be said to have been successfully removed from office due to impeachment, but while articles of impeachment in his case were drawn up, he - w/some coaching from powerful GOP members of Congress - took that as a sign a speedy resignation was a better solution, /5

— Social Distancing Since 1971 (@ThatStevenGrant) January 26, 2021

Consideration of actual charges never even entered into it.)

So don't go expecting this impeachment to result in a conviction either, esp. w/most GOP senators already opposed; recent history suggests they will be unswayed by the evidence regardless. /7

— Social Distancing Since 1971 (@ThatStevenGrant) January 26, 2021

What's important in this instance is to get the evidence for impeachment on the official record is as full & coherent a manner as possible. /9

— Social Distancing Since 1971 (@ThatStevenGrant) January 26, 2021

(& his last impeachment still dogs Trump to some extent, tho' he has done his best to keep attention on other things.) The Senate may not vote to convict, but history is very likely to deliver a different verdict. /11

— Social Distancing Since 1971 (@ThatStevenGrant) January 26, 2021

Predictably, Grant would just love to see Trump impeached wholesale, along with senators like Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley. And Grant ignores the horror story Antifa created for the latter and his family. Makes me wonder why Grant wanted to work for a company built up by a guy who argued that "with great power comes great responsibility". Because Grant shows none of that.

Suddenly had this vision of a revamped Suicide Squad of convicted supercriminals who had to earn their freedom by manning suicide hotlines & convincing callers to keep living, b/c who, living in the DCU these days, wouldn't seriously contemplate just saying enough is enough...?

— Social Distancing Since 1971 (@ThatStevenGrant) January 27, 2021

I wonder if this is supposed to be an allusion to a story pitch Grant would like to make for a variation on the original comic written by John Ostrander, only this time, it'd star metaphors for conservatives in the roles of crooks forced to do special service for the country. Only this time, if I can read Grant's ideas correctly, instead of using superpowers for fighting other villains and such running amok, they'd do political services for Democrats, is that it?

I also found at least one political tweet by Darick Robertson, the artist of Garth Ennis' overrated tommyrot, The Boys:

Conservatives: Lies are only OK when it’s our guys telling them. https://t.co/HWbpEHBXnP

— Darick (@DarickR) January 27, 2021

Well at least this explains where Grant's going about declaring Trump a liar: he's parroting what a garbage heap like the Wash. Post is lecturing! These old geezers sure don't look very far past what's called mainstream press, do they?

Based on what politics Grant espouses today, it makes me wonder if he still stands by his 1985 Punisher miniseries any more than Gerry Conway does as the character's co-creator (with Ross Andru) in the Bronze Age. Probably not. Grant is, at this point, another washed out comics scribe who can't resist the unfortunate tug of social media for raising divisive issues that're only causing ever more division in the USA.

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