Sunday, June 29, 2025

"Who's your Daddy, who's your Mamdani" Funnies

News items, for those having trouble keeping up (or have tuned out):

There's some (gallows) humor to be found here!
"Gallows" in this case refers not only to the Constitution, the federal courts, the rule of law, etc. but also to the Democratic Party. Brad's on vacation again -- he did manage some toons today, usual 'Orange Man bad' stuff -- but I'm here to remind you that just a few weeks ago he declared how important it was that Trump be impeached again. Read the comments there.


Michelle is doing her best, but this is a lost cause, in Texas and beyond. To be clear, the aggressive pushback against Zohran Mamdani suggests that perhaps the myriad problems of rich wyt pipo need extra emphasis from Democrats. And a skosh more Zionism.


Yes, I hear the plaintive wails already; all this isn't entirely the fault of the incompetent Washington Democrats.



Obits.


Wrapping today with some laughs, hopefully.

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Sunday, June 22, 2025

"Two Weaks Notice" Toons


Not feeling the chuckles today. Had to rebuild this post early this morning after several cartoons suddenly became irrelevant.
Carlos Latuff does not miss.

As with last week, I may post some of the Funnies about ICE and Juneteenth and Pride and other topics that I deleted from this one. If I feel like it.
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Monday, June 16, 2025

Signs and Scenes from 'No Kings'


Back in the Aughts, when I was a Democrat, I participated happily in marches and protests like yesterday's. I went to Crawford and Camp Casey. In 2011 I marched in downtown Houston during the Occupy uprising. (I spoke with corporate media at both events but my remarks were left out of their reports.) I felt empowered and enthused by doing so. There was no social media at that time so we bloggers made the news happen, swelling our heads with our perceived influence.

We sincerely felt like we had the power to change the world. History reminds us we had little sway. Yesterday's events were cathartic for participants and most observers, but after twenty years of evidence, these actions not only don't move the needle but actually create an atmosphere for worsening the problems for which we demand redress.

George W. Bush bombed Iraq and got re-elected. Annise Parker had the cops sweep Occupy out of the Houston park because the Bayou City Art Festival was looming on the calendar. Texas Progressive Chode Kuffner is still posting how much he likes her. This is your latest clue that voting for Ds or Rs isn't solving anything. So if you got out in the heat and exercised your 1A rights yesterday, enjoy the feels, but if you saw Ukraine flags or signs like this one ...


... be clear about what happens next.


Point made, enjoy the views.


Update: Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters thinks Trump's birthday parade "could have used some drag queens".
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Sunday, June 15, 2025

"Raining on His Parade" Funnies

Was it just a week ago ...
That seemed like a big deal at the time, didn't it. Over the past seven days, several brand new shitshows blew up. With limited commentary from me and marginally in chronological order...

"I think Israel has enough problems without kidnapping Greta Thunberg." -- Trump

He meant that sarcastically, but he stumbled right into the truth.
When Padilla interrupted Noem during her press conference to try to ask a question, the DHS secretary had just said that her agents were in Los Angeles "to liberate this city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and this mayor have placed on this country."

Might collate some No Kings protest photos and signs later if I feel like it.
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Sunday, June 08, 2025

Everybody's Fighting Funnies

Ohhh myyy, what a week.

I thought I was going to have to do another Dumbocrats post, But Lonnie and Donnie's Smackdown came to my rescue. All the Blue crew who said they saw it coming ... no they d'int. Not like this. All the MAGA who called it kayfabe ... you're full of it, too. So the blast radius expanded, the Earth was scorched, but the fallout will last for -- well, probably a few days before Trump drops another nuke, figuratively or Gawd forbid literally.


Seriously; there are considerably more important topics troubling the nation and the planet than whether or not two billionaire egomaniacs have reconcilable differences or don't.
But fight amongst themselves some must, and I'm just here to document the atrocities.
If I were a Texas Democrat, I would hope that they can find someone other than Olivia Julianna to advise their candidates on how to speak dudebro. And I wouldn't get too excited about James Talarico's chances against Ken Paxton -- or John Cornyn, for that matter -- in November, 2026. For a multitude of the same old reasons, none of which include fundraising.
Don't miss the big holiday festivities this month: Pride.
You're not gonna fly anywhere on your vacation this year, are ya?
Los Angeles exploded over the weekend, with ICE cracking down, migrant supporters pushing back, and both labor and Cali's blue politicians raising the stakes after SEIU's David Huerta got injured while being arrested. And now Trump is calling in the National Guard, and Pete Hegseth is threatening to send Marines into the streets.
And there's a volatile situation in the Mediterranean.

So I'll wrap today wih The Stooges, keeping themselves topically relevant after nearly a century with some mockery of Bobby Junior.

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Sunday, June 01, 2025

Taco Trump, Ban Patrick, and the Pachy Meltdown Funnies


Have you ever seen an elephant wilt on low heat? Me neither. Should I start at the top or the bottom? I can't really tell a difference.


'Petulant tantrum' does not do these displays justice. Then again, 'justice' used in conjunction with Chicken Taco Trump and Nanny Patrick is an oxymoron.

There were lots of options -- toons, memes, AI -- this week. You've probably seen many of them already. It was amusing to watch both of these manchildren lose their marbles publicly, which means we should do everything we can to pump up their blood pressure. The way news stays broken lately, there's always a fresh fool waiting in the wings, ready and willing to show their ass.

One more, melding the top two butthole buds.

The bromance ends; Elon and DOGE depart, with Stephen Miller's wife and without the White House door hitting them, if only figuratively speaking. The impact on our lives and deaths will continue to be felt for too long.


Dude may need an intervention, but I doubt anybody close to him is willing to do that.

Of all the Kennedys who passed before their time, there's one who has survived a brain worm, drug abuse, swimming in sewage, eating roadkill, and Lawd knows what else. We just don't deserve him.


"Well, we're all going to die."

You first, bitch.

Gosh, not so funny after all.

Congratulations, Class of '25.

I told Mrs. Diddie that from now on it would cost a nickel for my thoughts. And she knows I'll accept her check, but I don't take crypto.

Somebody say 'barbecue'?
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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Dysfunctional Democrats, Part 2 (Texas Edition)


(I dropped the national Jackasses in a vat of bubbling grease back here.)

This aggregation is reserved for our less aged and yet just as incompetent state and locals who are mostly serving as tackling dummies for a rapacious gang of junior MAGA Republican Christofascists in the Texas Lege. Democrats running Harris County Commissioners Court and City Hall also continue to exhibit an ongoing but still shocking lack of immunity from malfeasance and unforced errors. And they spend entirely too much time telling us how hard they are fighting back as their losses pile up like corpses in Gaza.

This dead Donkey's for you, Lone Star Dems. The good news is you have all the liberty you could possibly want to pray in public over the body.
The 89th Legislative Session lurches to an end and the best we can say is that a very large number of heinous bills have died agonizingly in committee, or under an avalanche of POOs, or subdued by the numerous shattered gavels of Speaker Burrowed. Texas Dems voted for the lesser evil over David Cook in January and by Gawd got exactly that. Without much in the way of contrast, Gene Wu became House minority leader, replacing TMF, and was never, ever too busy to give us relief from his insipid social media.

The real disgrace falls, as it nearly always does, on those who sell themselves out.

Public school finance -- vouchers, teacher pay -- generated much heat before and during the session which sadly came to no good end for our children nor their educators. IMHO no bill's passage will galvanize more opposition to those Democrats AND Republicans who voted in favor of SB3. The animosity I'm seeing from the electorate is bipartisan, and I expect to see it translate into retribution at the polling place in 2026.

Maybe that's a bright spot. Too soon to say.

One thing that isn't too early to reveal is that while Vikki Goodwin is a fine state representative and has taken the early initiative to challenge Nanny Patrick on his cannabis con, I won't be voting for her -- or any other Texas Democrat -- on the basis of 'not MAGA'. I don't do lesser evil voting, and neither should you.

There's the same old trouble in Bayou City, as Harris County Democrats, who finally rid themselves of one dirty DINO (Kim Ogg) continue to feud viciously with each other.


I like Hidalgo but she has brought a lot of stress on herself, attempting to reward her friends with contracts and perks and such. I truly don't know why she keeps doing that and I wonder whether she's long for the job for a variety of reasons. Garcia -- or more probably Briones -- seems eager to push her out and run for judge themselves, certainly alongside Ogg's pal Annise Parker. Then there's John Whitmire, perhaps Houston's lousiest mayor (for which competition has been stiff going back decades). He got elected with the assist from the Harris GOP scum, lesser-evil voting him in over Sheila Jackson-Lee, who returned briefly to Congress *ahem*.


It's all a nastier cesspool than the Ship Channel turning basin.

If you must subject yourself to this toxicity, your best follow for the infighting is Neil Aqueeno (I'm not mocking him; that's how he pronounces it), who once told me that blogging about local politics was a traffic killer. This was when he was still calling himself 'Texas Liberal' and his most-clicked post there was about Shamu, the killer whale at Seaworld. I note he's also not calling himself a rank and file Democrat any more, FWIW. All that and his relentless, Egberto Willies-styled self-promotion (I'm guessing for his own council run in the future?) aside, he remains a committed activist and a solid blogger. And he's capable of evolving, which is certainly more than can be said of Shell Kuffner, who's more obsessed lately with measles than even campaign finance reports.

So ...alternatives?


For the love of Mike, run for something. Just not as a Democrat or a Republican. That is, if you are of the mind that voting or elections is still something that can be counted on to make change.


Mission accomplished some time ago, Clay. It was a bipartisan effort.
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"Decrepit is as Decrepit Does" Part 1

On Memorial Day weekend -- now mostly about barbecues, beaches, and beer consumption -- Americans once paused to honor our valiant soldiers who gave their lives in service to their country. Wars these days being big business for defense contractors, the armed services a jobs program for disadvantaged youth, and the USA not functioning like a democracy, it seems appropriate to this observer that we note the passing of different group of warriors and their lost battles for a cause that has long been beyond their reach.

Yes, it was a very bad week for Democrats, as everybody but their most devoted lickspittles were able to acknowledge.

Let's count the ways, starting at the top.
This cartoon is not a hit on Joe Biden. It’s a hit on the Democrats who enabled him to commit to a second term and helped hide his health issues. The question here is whether Democrats enabled it or if they just stuck their heads in the sand. [...] Don’t get mad at me for pointing that out. Get mad at the DNC. And maybe, just maybe, also get mad at Joe Biden. In 2020, he did state: “I view myself as a transition candidate,” and “I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else.”
Oh yes, Joementia had enablers aplenty. Including a most shameful one at CNN, who's now profiting from his collusion. Tap out, Jake.
We know they concealed his cancer because they obfuscated his Alzheimer's. They tried to drag him over the finish line, have him resign at some point and turn it over to Kamala. But that first debate -- where Meathead Reiner screamed, "we're losing" -- forced the switch. For Kam's part, she a) did get shafted by the DNC's refusal to act democratically and hold a primary which she likely would not have lost anyway; and b) earned her shellacking. She wasn't hamstrung by the calendar. She ran a ridiculously bad campaign.

Here's a few observations about Geriatric Joe from TwiX. I'll begin gently, but fair warning: if you spend all your online time in that silo where the skies are blue, it's going to sting, especially if you're still gripping your Donkey pride.


But this post isn't just about Biden and Harris, who wants to run for something in 2028, mind you. Presumably not on the old man's legacy again.
A moment of silence for Gerry Connolly, Raul Grijalva, and Sylvester Turner, because their missing votes were the difference in Trump's BBB win.


Congresssional Dems have conducted themselves poorly in other ways.

And Democratic governors (yes, the disgraced and disgraceful Andrew Cuomo's honorarium is still 'Governor', at least until New Yorkers elect him mayor).

I'll wind down this portion with some collated thoughts about where the party is headed from here.
The Democratic Party does not want a 'Joe Rogan of the left' because they cannot tolerate criticism of their bureacracy (see Hogg, David). The Generation Z voters they need to attract are demonstrably NOT going to vote for Gaza genocide, a lack of commitment to climate action, healthcare for all, and so on and so forth.

More about our lame-ass Texas Democrats, and more cartoons (some are funny!) in Part 2.
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Sunday, May 18, 2025

"A Whiter Shade of Migrant" Funnies


Is it really color or is it class?


And if MAGA ever comes to the realization that they're also casualties of the class war ... could that eventually break their fever?

A Fox News poll from late April 2025 showed Americans approve of Trump’s border security policies, 55% to 40%. To shift public opinion against him, a significant economic downturn might be necessary. Polls indicate economic concerns could erode his base: a Reuters/Ipsos poll (April 30, 2025) reported only 36% approve of Trump’s economic stewardship, with 56% disapproving, as fears of recession grow (82% of voters worried, per Decision Desk HQ/NewsNation). This highlights a troubling reality where economic stability overshadows other issues. If jobs vanish or inflation spikes -- 91% of voters are concerned about rising prices -- support for deportations may (finally begin to) wane, revealing our misplaced priorities.

So while we wait for them to wake up and catch up, it seems they're still engaged in culture war, taking exception to a woke pope.
King Donald meanwhile lashes out at the Boss. Michael de Adder surely did not realize his cartoon would blend so well with developing news when he drew it.


This cartoon (below) doesn’t get into the policy reasons that cars in the U.S. have gotten so big. But our individual preferences have been shaped by the way federal policy shapes our car norms.

Legally, car companies can avoid stricter emission standards -- and make higher profits -- by selling bigger SUVs and trucks. As a result of this loophole, auto makers have spent decades on a nonstop campaign to convince us that huge cars are a necessity.

There are also tax reasons. Tariffs -- which have been in the news a lot lately -- are the reason we don’t have more smaller cars to buy.


In the early 1960s, Europe raised the ire of American officials by slapping a 50 percent tariff on chicken exported from the United States. In retaliation, the US enacted a 25 percent tax on pickup trucks imported from abroad. The dispute is long forgotten, but the “Chicken Tax” lives on.

Although the tariff was initially aimed at Germany’s immense auto industry (Volkswagen in particular), it also applies to pickups imported from newer automaking powers such as Japan and South Korea, where carmakers are often adept at building vehicles much smaller than those available to Americans.


The Chicken Tax (a name sure to confuse) makes it impossible to make a profit selling small foreign cars in America. So they don’t.

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