Sunday, August 17, 2025

Submarine Sandwich Fascists Funnies


The cartoonists have succeeded in capturing the humor in the absurdity of the state of the nation.

"Speaking lies to authority" really needs to be the new resistance. They are all lying to you, all of the time, and all of us know it. Right?

It appears that Texas Democrats have declared victory in their opening skirmish of the 2025 REDistricting Wars. Alamo in Chicago -- and Boston, New York, and California -- concluded, they're going home. (Most of these folks are too young to remember Viet Nam also.)
Institutions of higher learning, corporations once shamed into doing the right thing (DEI), and museums of American history are bending the knee to King T's warped worldview.
Deals! They're making deals everywhere! Only the best deals!


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Sunday, August 10, 2025

'Running the Numbers' Funnies


Someone's having personal problems with arithmetic.
In this reality it's possible that we can all find a silver lining.


Personally I find it unfortunate to be living at a time when science and math and truth must be subverted to a partisan extremist agenda.
In this new world order, some re-education might be ...overdue.


It's probably too late for that, though.
So please excuse me but I just can't excited about Democrats 'fighting' for voting boundaries or 'democracy' being at stake when it got replaced by oligarchy in 1944, an unholy consortium of wildly corrupt power brokers in 1960, and fascism since 1980 (yeah, I voted for Reagan twice; blame me). Voting. Is. Not. Going. To. Fix. This.

You might remember that last week I mentioned the failure of Christians to live up to their own standards, apparently because their gods now are Trump and the GOP.
Alas! A Blog has two toons worth reposting this week. As a person who recently began on Mounjaro -- and who has been on a GLP-1 agonist before -- I understand the mental dilemma.
You might also enjoy Jim Gaffigan's take on this topic (with which I entirely sympathize).


In an interview, Peter Beinart said:
In a lot of American Jewish institutions, you get in more trouble if you question the legitimacy of the state of Israel than if you question the authority of the Torah, right? Which is just a very strange thing.

Hillel, which serves Jewish college students, basically has this statement of radical pluralism. It’s like, We don’t care if you keep kosher. We don’t care if you keep Shabbat. None of that’s important. Bring your whole self. Except if you’re anti-Zionist.
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Sunday, August 03, 2025

Cracked and Packed Cartoons

Perhaps you're aware of the flood of tyranny we're experiencing in Texas.
The virus is spreading to other states.


Republicans in the Texas Lege held seven hearings on redistricting before conducting one on the Hill Country floods. And Ban Patrick turned it into a blame game (not that the locals didn't deserve it, mind you). So while there are many things more important, they chose to protect their dictator, preserve their authority, and cover their ass.

Forgive me for not believing that voting can fix this.


Reminder: A Latino from the RGV, Gilberto Hinojosa, was the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party from 2012 to 2024.

Yes, there are more important things to address besides redrawing precincts. And they extend well beyond the borders of Texas.
Clay Jones also has our segue.
I see so many "Christian, conservative" Xitter bios on the #TXLege hashtag posting the most vile animosity toward migrants, women who wish to determine their reproductive futures, Democrats, etc. that it makes me bilious. WTF happened to Christianity? Why did they revert to the Old Testament?
Yeesh. I did have a few kinda sorta Funnies today.


Who wouldn't need a gummy after all this? Except, you know ...

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Sunday, July 27, 2025

"OMG They Killed Donny" Funnies

Some of these are NSFW.


The episode’s plot revolves around Trump suing anyone who doesn’t agree with him -- including the town of South Park, who protest a mandatory appearance of Jesus Christ as part of the president’s push for Christianity in classrooms. The show also takes aim at CBS for settling with the Trump administration to smooth the Paramount-CBS merger, and canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. In between opening and closing scenes, the show depicts Trump firing a portrait artist for drawing his penis in actual size, wanting to have sex with Satan (who is more interested in releasing the Epstein files), and various wall paintings in the White House of Trump engaging in sex with a sheep, using a glory hole, and firing drones and missiles via his groin.

During a Q & A at San Diego Comic Con, SP creator Trey Parker said the decision to include Trump’s anatomical part took four days to resolve with corporate, and was only cleared when the creators added googly eyes to Trump’s penis to make it a “character,” and therefore could not be blurred out.
CBS wants you to know that canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has nothing -- absolutely nothing -- to do with politics, presidential tantrums, or settling lawsuits with the most thin-skinned man in America. Nope. It’s purely about money. Just cold, hard capitalism. And if you believe that, we have a $16 million '60 Minutes' interview settlement we’d like to sell you.

The network that once stood behind fearless journalism is now bravely running for the hills, ducking behind PowerPoint slides about “market headwinds” and “late-night fatigue” ...

Sure, Colbert consistently beat his competition in ratings, but CBS says the show just couldn’t pay for itself anymore. Apparently truthiness now comes with a price tag, and it was just slightly more than CBS could afford -- especially while trying to merge with Skydance, whose prospective boss is the son of a billionaire Trump cheerleader. Nothing suspicious about that! Just a normal American coincidence.

CBS insists it’s not political even as it slams the door on one of Trump’s most prominent satirical critics -- right after paying hush money to the former-now-current president in the form of a legal settlement, like a mobster paying protection fees. “It’s just business,” they say.
Rob Rogers -- who knows all about censorship in the name of protecting T-Pain's fragile ego -- does double duty this week.
Your GOP Congressionl members are going on vacation, they won't be hosting any town halls, and they aren't taking any questions about you-know-who.
Nine of ten toons Mike Ramirez draws are insufferably conservative. But even a MAGA pig can occasionally dig up a truffle.
Some famous people passed away this week. One was a POS MAGA racist and he can rest in piss. The other I liked despite him being a Zionist. I had mostly blamed his wife for that because of his dependency on her, but that only extends so far.
It's not complicated.
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Sunday, July 20, 2025

"After Awhile, Pedophile" Funnies


See, I already did the first half.


Too many toons to choose from, some overlapping themes, like the Epstein files starring as Frankenstein's monster, for instance (not included here).


Trump's War on Knowledge received additional funding and weaponry from Congress, and the bombing campaign intensified. Elmo briefly went rogue as an alt-right QAnon MAGA stooge but was rescued and deprogrammed. The Sesame Street gang pissed off -- and gearing up to fight back, I hope -- as opposed to another picture of them mourning Big Bird's head on a platter suits my mood.


Yeah, we're all getting flooded out, and nobody in charge is gonna save us.
Maybe we'll have better choices next year. A Quinnipiac poll from this past week reveals that 49% of Americans 'would consider' (loaded question) voting for a third party. No, not that one.
Reality distortion? Fascist fatigue? Or a brief moment of clarity?
Colbert lost me years ago with his neoliberal evolution, but CBS taking a hard right turn and calling it business, not personal just doesn't wash.


Still have SuperTrump toons to get to.

RIP Bob Stein.

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