Sunday, December 22, 2024

Sunday "Primary President Musk!" Funnies

The idea that threatening to primary Congressional Republicans who won't fall in line six weeks after their election to a two-year term is a bit more comical than usual for memory-impaired MAGAts. That it seems to be mostly working *cough*Tom Massie*cough*Chip Roy*cough* is more than the usual problematic for Congressional dysfunction over said two years. Fun.
Are these people even capable of cognitive dissonance? I suppose we'll find out the hard way.
Is it possible our corporate media played a part in failing the nation's teachable moment? If you've been reading Bradblog for the past several months -- and discounted the whining about not giving Joe Biden enough credit for 'success' -- then you already know the answer.

The Wall Street Journal -- not the most honest of news purveyors as we know -- spills some tea that some of us poured out five years ago. I believe riding a snail soft-pedals his dementia, the outsourced-to-sycophants nature of his presidency, and his vast corruption and ethical lapses.
I'm not among those who declare Uncle Joe he's-movin'-kinda-slow America's worst president. But after Nixon, Reagan, W Bush, and Hoover ... he's definitely in the top five.

Related: geriatric neoliberal Democrats have acted repeatedly to exclude younger progressives. Nancy Pelosi, 84, in Luxembourg recovering from hip replacement surgery after falling, whipped votes for a 74 year-old with esophageal cancer from her hospital bed to defeat AOC for a caucus leadership position. "Working Tirelessly for a Ceasefire" Sandy just found out what it's like when the boot you've been licking for four years kicks you in the teeth. *Update: Gerontocracy is quite obviously not the exclusive domain of Democrats. Fingernail-clinging control of the House is probably the reason Kay Granger wasn't reported missing for the past six months.

Team Donkey, to a somewhat greater extent than Team Pachy, is simply not a political party that welcomes young people. Zoomers, etc. please read the room and take the fewest steps to the exit. DSA, I'm lookin' at you.

Political discourse in the US has become difficult if not impossible because right-wing views are so completely untethered from reality. [...] And one of the biggest examples is the widespread belief that immigration is harmful, despite near-universal agreement among economists that immigration is not just helpful but crucial for the US economy.
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Sunday, December 15, 2024

'Broligarchs of the Year' Funnies


"First of all, this conversation never happened."
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"Target-Rich Environment" Toons


There'll be more holiday cartoons and a few of the usual mocking of the Blues and Reds in the second edition of the Sunday Funnies later today. As #SocialistSunday dawns let's be reminded that we need fight no wars anywhere except the class war everywhere.

We'll begin slowly for those, especially in the corporate media, who still don't seem to be grasping the reality, with Ted Rall.

No. War. But. The. Class. War.


Lighter fare queued.
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Sunday, December 08, 2024

"Pardon My Healthcare" Funnies

Tom Tomorrow posted the above before ... you know.


Shall we skewer Biden first? Or Trump?


Lucko here seems to think this is a mark againt T-Boy, but he's a little more blinded than usual by his TDS. Oprah took several million bucks from the Kamala campaign, as we know, and if she gets credit for birthing those two goons, then MAGAman picking them for his team is nothing but another FU to the Democrats.


Some of us knew we were screwed no matter who; delayed and denied by either (ether?) one. Dying for healthcare is the Great American way. Again.


I beg your pardon? (News: Biden considering pre-emptive pardons for Trump targets Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff)


Hearing echoes of "you don't need a pardon if you haven't done anything wrong".


Perhaps I should acknowledge the shitliberals' ongoing wishes for MAGA to feel some amount of buyer's remorse. I don't think it's going to happen, but they sure do.

Santa's doing much too much apologizing for the incoming admin.

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Sunday, December 01, 2024

"To the Spoiled Goes the Victory" Funnies



"Own the libs" football-spiking. Which, to be frank ... they're entitled to. Slam dunking in your rival's face is the Great American way. Wipe 'em out. Let's not pretend we wouldn't be seeing the same thing from Democrats if they had won.
But the Asses got kicked, and at their cringiest moment, they took Michelle Obama's high. Simultaneously peddling pre-election joy and existential authoritarian threats, Team Donkey internally didn't see a close race (the exact opposite of what the campaign said to the NYT on 10/28).

Burdened by what had been. Being wrong repeatedly was the only thing they got right.
The truth, like the dirt, always comes out in the wash.


And their response to this historic shellacking? Double down on the neoliberalism.


Might be an even better idea than renominating Kamala in four years; she's alerted her handlers and donors from an undisclosed Hawaiian vacation location that she's 'keeping her options open'. We already know the American electorate's collective memory is shorter than my puppy's (after all, they re-elected Trump in a landslide). The long con for '28 is likely to be AOC. We'll see. Pay attention to those -- other than my tribe, that is -- who launch diatribes against her. What a country.
Now get back in your silos.
Xitter is not a silo. That's why I'm staying there (for the time being).

News items: COP29 climate conference fails to adequately address global plastic waste concerns; world braces for Trump admin's assault on environment

There might be a cognitive disconnect in the toon above regarding plastics.

Latest developments suggest that we already have the equivalent of a credit card's worth of microplastics in our bodies, and that we are also consuming that much on a weekly basis. Perhaps this explains a few things (the nearly 80-year-old president-elect's decision-making, his poor diet, anger management issues, his iconically gay 1980s musical choices, things like that).

Public schools in Texas will soon be Sunday schools Monday through Friday. Voucher supporters will forge ahead regardless (that's always been a money grab). No word yet on whether the home schoolers approve of the curriculum changes.

Teachers open-carrying Bibles and guns, monitoring the bathrooms for trans kids. Back in my day the worst that could happen was to get caught smoking (a Marlboro) in the boy's room.

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Thursday, November 28, 2024

Turkey Toons


Lots and lots of them this year.

Not just the pollsters.
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Sunday, November 24, 2024

"Armageddon It Yet" Funnies


Getting the End of Days out of the way before moving out of the White House.
Honestly though, the Donks have had a real bad couple of weeks, psychologically speaking. At first it was funny, but now it's cringe watching the meltdown extend into its third week. I'm just glad I'm not on Bluesky siloed up with summa the wursta those people. Enduring the KHive Blue MAGA #VoteBlueToStopTheStupid cult on TwiX in October was almost more than I could take.



This is intended to be two MAGA Republicans talking but to me it could just as easily be a coupla Resistance Democrats.


The Tulsi Russiagate conspiracy fever is spreading like bird flu.
Nick Anderson has got it real bad.


Here's what I don't understand: how the Pentagon would allow a "Russian asset" to serve in the Army Reserves for 26 years, rising to the rank of Lt. Colonel. Then again, the Pentagon choked on their sixth consecutive financial audit, so perhaps -- following the dubious 'conspiracy' thread -- Gabbard's Manchurian secret agency is a CIA fail. I'm forced to repeat that while I personally have felt betrayed by Tulsi's political maneuverings over recent years, these toons read like smears, especially with lower-hanging, legitimate-beef fruit (Matt Gaetz, picked, and Bobby Jr, clinging).

Taking your cues from Hillary Clinton is the repeated demonstrative failure, people. No Democrat needs to be kicked harder to the curb by the Democratic Party.

Speaking of somebody who needs to be fired ...
Yeah, we might have bigger problems.

Happy Thanksgiving! (Brad says try to be nice.)
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Sunday, November 17, 2024

Revelations, eXodus, Genesis Funnies


Beginning at the end (from the perspective of some).



Those representations of Bobby Jr. do resemble him, but maybe not the best likeness of Little Marco or Lt. Col. Gabbard.

(BTW there is interesting pushback from a few -- shall we say, controversial -- experts who think Tulsi is a good choice for DNI. After reading them I am genuinely intrigued about how her nomination and tenure will play out. I'll reserve judgement. I remain perplexed about her hard starboard tack being about something beyond a grift, but mostly I still like her because I will never align with HR Clinton and DW Schultz.)

Perhaps a bit of Leviticus? Some of we pagans may need indoctrination on how to properly glorify our once and again king.


Yeahno. I'm not down for any idol worship either. Still hearing echoes of Nicolle Wallace saying 'how did we get here', and that's annoying.


While watching the Donks autopsy themselves I see lots of people announcing their departures from the country and certain social media. Even for those who voted for Trump, the diaspora may not be entirely voluntary.

And not so many declarations of withdrawal from the dysfunctional political system which keeps producing these conditions. Let's be reminded that wholesale revisions are necessary (and that voting probably isn't going to get us there). But if you're still into that, there's lots of work to do: a new political party for the actual left, a version of ranked choice voting to nullify the Electoral College, getting the money out of politics, and some other stuff unlikely to happen over the next four years.


Of course we could just lie around and wait to see what happens.
We'll get a hard reboot of one kind or another sooner than later.
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