"So just to be clear:"

Just to be clear, I recognise that a new normal has been set in the the US polity over the last decade and a half such that making jokes like this are perfectly normal.

Can't help but notice that you are desperate to avoid any contact with the evidence of vote tampering. That, btw is also a new normal although MAGA are doing their best to change it.

"That's a standard. I disagree with it."

You don't have standards, just sides.

Comrade Trumpster,

Unlike you I can't spend hours every night, not that I would want to, sitting up late watching Donald getting it off in his animal videos, especially the ones he and his good buddy Jeffo made on the island. We all know Donald's got the mongrel in him, and his cabinet is full of donkeys, jackasses, hyenas and cuckoo birds, what a menagerie! There were reports that the Donald was wearing black pj's when he was cavorting with Steamy Stormy, not true, he was actually wearing his gorilla suit.

As for YOU, since you are into animals, I think the scientific name is bestiality, what animal do YOU want me to refer to YOU as, Donald has taken most of the names for his political enemies, but there are a couple left that YOU can choose from; GOOSE, TOAD and BILLY GOAT, I understand YOU wanted to be referred to as the GALAH, but that Rubio fella has already taken that one. What's it to be, how about Mhaze the Monkey, now that's got a ring to it, what ya say?

mhaze,

If the "new normal" is presidents amplifying imagery depicting opponents as animals, that's precisely what I think should be resisted rather than accepted.

As for vote tampering, that's a separate question. If you have evidence you consider credible, present it.

But lowering standards of presidential conduct because politics has become toxic isn't something I agree with.

And accusing me of "having sides" doesn't change that.

Hi John,

I have to correct you, "lowering standards of presidential conduct" Having Donald referring to his political opponents as apes, baboons etc, may in the Donald's case, given his track record, actually be raising the political standards from Donald.

Trumpster, you are too slow, J.D. Vance just jumped in and took Billy Goat, you're left with Goose and Toad. Make a choice.

"Unlike you I can't spend hours every night,"

Actually the video lasted about 90 seconds. But as usual Paul shows that he is completely clueless on the issue even while he pretends to know what he's talking about. Whereupon he then plays the clown thinking that makes up for being entirely unaware of the truth.

"And accusing me of "having sides" doesn't change that."

Not an accusation.... an observation.

mhaze,

If you think I have sides, point to where I've applied a different standard to similar conduct.

What I've consistently argued is that presidential conduct shouldn't be justified on the basis of partisan grievance.

If you think that's taking a side, so be it.