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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Sunday, November 10, 2024

"A Flawless Campaign" Funnies


Somebody's living in a mirrored funhouse.
It's not her fault, it's his fault.

(T)he ritual knives are also out for Biden, who some Democrats,including Harris campaign staffers, are eager to offer up as a sacrifice for the loss. “Biden will hold a lot of blame for it,” a senior unnamed Harris campaign official told CNN. “And frankly, he should.” This is shameful asscovering. Harris ran the worst, most uninspired Democratic presidential campaign since Mondale, but Fritz was more likable and actually tried to offer a slate of policies to counter Reaganism.

What about all that disgusting sexism and misogyny?

Noted diversity expert Joe Scarborough: “Democrats need to be mature and Democrats need to be honest. And they need to say yes, there is misogyny. But it’s not just misogyny from white men! It’s misogyny from Hispanic men! It’s misogyny from Black men who do not want a woman leading them. There might be race issues with Hispanics. They don’t want a Black woman as president of the United States. The Democratic Party likes to Balkanize people into groups and say, oh, white people don’t like women and Blacks. A lot of Hispanic voters have problems with Black candidates! They don’t like each other.”

And then there's those revolting transgenders.

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY, re-elected) says Democrats “have to stop pandering to the far left ...I don’t want to discriminate against anybody, but I don’t think biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.” I don’t want to discriminate against anyone but them, them, uh, pro-noun people! Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA, re-elected) also blamed Democratic support for trans rights for their losses: “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete. But as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” I wonder if Moulton can contemplate his two little girls getting burned to death in a tent by a US-made bomb?

Moulton's campaign manager resigned on Friday, joining Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa in the unemployment line.


If you’re looking for one anecdote that explains why Harris lost the election, this one is hard to top: According to a piece by Franklin Foer in The Atlantic, Harris’ early attempts at voicing a populist economic message, timid though it was, attacking corporate greed was quickly muted by one of her top economic advisors, her brother-in-law and chief legal officer Tony West, who told her that if she wanted to curry favor with his network of CEOs she’d have to lay off Big Business. So figures like UAW president Shawn Fain were replaced on the campaign trail with the likes of Mark Cuban.

In October, Harris appeared more times with Cuban than Fain and was escorted by Liz Cheney more often than anyone else.

That's not anybody's defintion of a 'flawless campaign' but that's what I keep seeing over and over again. Does anybody who voted for Kamala feel propagandized yet?

Leave it to Mike Ramirez to interpret the election results as Kamala needing more conservatism.
A few distractions, maybe some busy work for those still grieving.
AOC is gonna have to do that Resistance shit again.

I shoud make a more significant acknowledgement of the troubles to come for all of us.

For Texas Democrats, A Lost Decade

The losing streak goes back a lot farther than that (1996); for yours truly it began in 2002 and the founding of this blog, but whatever.

There is a room with three doors. Each bears a label: “Latino Vote”, “Purpling Suburbs”, and “Big City Turnout”. This November, Texas Democrats opened these three doors, and behind all they discovered a Cerberus from Greek mythology with the heads of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Greg Abbott. Then the monster ate them.

That pretty much sums it up, so feel free to stop reading now. But if you insist, I’ll elaborate.
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Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Jill Stein


K-Pax did not block out, there is no news regarding black boxes switching votes (which is coming from any reliable source, I should say), Jill Stein didn't get 5% nationally. I feel about the same today as I did yesterday: a little crummy but copacetic.

My empathies to Ted McLaughlin, Charles Kuffner (who never seems to see it coming), Brad Friedman (head cheerleader for the Blues to the bitter end), Neil "Lost Democracy" Aquino, and all my other former Donkey friends for the anguish you must be feeling this morning. Mrs. Diddie feels your pain if that makes you feel any better.

I do not.
I hate to say I saw it coming. No, really.

My first real suspicions came a week ago so I put down that marker. Then I saw the news about the whacked-out polling (the 'herding') but before that I had read about the Trump supporters hiding from the pollsters' telephone calls. There was cartoon about it in the 10/27 Funnies.

So that explains the Red Wave (to a degree; they mobilized their vote), but what about the Blue Ebb? Why didn't Democrats turn out?

You don't think it was the genocide, do you? Nah. Must've been something else, like resentful Black men or sexists/misogynists in general or maybe it was Joe Biden, the most progressive president since FDR, not stepping aside soon enough. It probably wasn't affordable healthcare or the economy or climate change, of course. I'm sure the autopsies performed by the Democratic braintrust will figure it out in the coming days. Or weeks. Or months.

Let's see how long it takes for them to suss it out.
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Sunday, November 03, 2024

Garbage In, Garbage Out Funnies


Ben Garrison LMAO

Thanks again to Ted Rall for hitting the nail on the head every single time.
Yet another inadvertent endorsement for Jill Stein (or the third-party candidate of your choosing) from another cartoonist who failed to realize that democracy dictates more than two spoiled choices.


Immigration is a tremendous problem in this nation, as Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Ted Cruz, and Colin Allred have been screeching about for months now. And it will undoubtedly become a bigger problem, for migrants and the rest of us, regardless of the election results.


Immigration is great for the US. It’s great for the economy. It’s great for our culture. Compared to those of us born here, immigrants are disproportionately of working age, disproportionately working, and disproportionately law-abiding. Immigrants are more likely to work in “essential” jobs. Immigrants are more likely to start new businesses than the native-born, creating more jobs than they take.

There’s probably no one policy which could do more to improve the U.S. economy than making it easier for people to immigrate.

And a huge number of Americans are convinced that immigration is a terrible thing.
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