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John Byrne
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| Posted: 06 July 2026 at 11:03am | IP Logged | 1
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FaceBookSome truly bizarre comments. Is it really possible that so many people cannot grasp the difference between “based on” and “exactly like”?
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 06 July 2026 at 11:18am | IP Logged | 2
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Considering some of the other comments that are starting to
rear their heads, I would say yes.
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 06 July 2026 at 11:53am | IP Logged | 3
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Scrolling down through many, many, many comments... what do people get from making their comments, especially when it seems like 75% of them all say the same thing -- "Luthor was smart," or some close variation. Why chime in, why add the same statement, over and over and over and over and over and over again. The internet is an extremely weird world.
Anyway, I'm stumped over what point the original poster was making here:
What makes the comments [by JB] stand out is that Byrne has often been viewed as holding conservative or right-leaning views throughout his career. While it's never wise to assume someone's politics from public perception alone, that reputation has led many fans to see his criticism of Trump as a sign that frustration with the president extends beyond the usual political divides.
What? What's saying or suggesting? Reputedly right-wing-ish John Byrne has become frustrated with Trump beyond the political divide between Republicans and Democrats, or something? Huh?
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Brian Hughes
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Michael, the average responder to any FB post does not take time to read the responses by others on most posts. They simply leave thier thought and move on, unless the post is about them.
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Michael Penn
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Thanks, Brian. I never had, and never will have, a FB account or really anything like it. As old as Facebook is, it's all new to me.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 06 July 2026 at 1:37pm | IP Logged | 6
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Do not understand how I got a right wing rep. True, I was a registered Republican for a few years, but that was when they could still lay some claim to being the Party of Lincoln. When I moved here 21 years ago (!) I registered as an independent. Ah, well!
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Brian Miller
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I never had, and never will have, a FB account or really anything like it.
*****
I haven’t either, but Walt has almost made me change my mind a few times.
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Michael Roberts
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Do not understand how I got a right wing rep. True, I was a registered Republican for a few years, but that was when they could still lay some claim to being the Party of Lincoln. When I moved here 21 years ago (!) I registered as an independent.
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What’s bizarre is there’s a segment of online comics fandom who are convinced that you are a MAGA Republican because you may have described yourself as center-right several decades ago and there’s another segment that seems to be aware of your past 10 years of Trump criticism (God have we been dealing with him for that long) who complain you are “woke” and have TDS.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 06 July 2026 at 4:40pm | IP Logged | 9
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I borrow from a Canadian party and call myself a progressive conservative. I just like the sound of it. “Let us go forward—carefully.”
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Steven Myers
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I think there's a problem that everyone has to be sorted into political ideologies and attached to a party. It's one thing when people identify as something, but another when they insist on placing others into categories. Washington warned against political parties. I think he was right.
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Veli Loponen
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Usually, when I heard comments that position you to right, I often wonder
do they know you at all. Of course there's always snippets of interviews or
social media posts that may sound like it when heard only as it is. But as
I've learned following your career, you're not so right wing.
Also, it might be that my understanding is not so good on this topic since
I'm Finnish. Often in social media I meet comments from USA that say that
we are basically communists. Based on that you definitely are right wing.
On the other hand I don't think we are communists in here, so there's also
that.
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Vinny Valenti
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| Posted: 06 July 2026 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | 12
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Well, it's another case of JB predicting the future of sorts, since DC went and made Luthor President during the mid-2000s!
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