Sunday, September 21, 2025

"No Donny, These Men are Nihilists" Funnies


"They don't believe in anything."

*Uninformed Adult Content Warning: some younger readers -- and certain mega-MAGA types -- might be alarmed by toons and memes in this week's collation. Proceed at risk of your sensitivities and insensibilities being challenged.
Truth is fluid. Facts are flexible. Faith is malleable. Forgiveness by the higher power of your choosing is both situational and contingent upon your political indoctrination. If T-King actually believes he can get into heaven, or win the Nobel Peace Prize ... his wildly successful long con has overtaken even him. That's the definition of megalomania.


This is what they have decided will be normal.


After reading some excerpts of Kamala's book, I would say that she isn't planning on running for political office again. Unless her plans would be to do to the Democratic Party what Netanyahu is doing to Gaza. We know she was never opposed to that.
Perhaps fascism or genocide simply don't concern you. Maybe you're that person who thinks that electing Democrats will fix all this. That oligarchy with some abortion and a few gay rights (but not those nasty trannies) is the path back to normalcy.

Disavow yourself of that.


Maybe consider opposing a societal scourge more existential than authoritarianism.

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Sunday, September 14, 2025

"Politics the Right Way" Toons


I'm going to start doing it. But before I do, return with me briefly to a simpler time -- last week -- when all we had to worry about was authoritarianism flavored more like 1939 than 1968.
*Update Mon. 9/15 - two new toons below won't stay fresh enough for next Sunday given how many pieces news is breaking into. I kept them in flow and removed a dupe from last week (I don't like reruns; that was an error).

Now then ...

"So much belligerence. Can't you ask nicely?"

Detecting the same amount of outrage as the changing of the Cracker Barrel logo.

Meanwhile the Real Apocalypse is Now.


There were some additional concerns, as Susan Collins might describe them, that seemed to have been lost in the proverbial flood of hatred and disinformation. In no particular order:

And First Dog on the Moon has an amusing follow-up to their "Lies!" cartoon from a week ago.
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Sunday, September 07, 2025

Causing a Führer Funnies


You bet your Caracas he would.


"SHOTS FIRED"

Somebody ask Grok.

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Sunday, August 31, 2025

Brain Damage Funnies

There's always a thread that ties these psychopathologies together.

Wouldn't it be great if there was an opposition party? I mean one opposed to the Republicans, not the disaffected left.

News item:

Do you remember when being online was ... fun? Informative?
Dave was a real one.

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Sunday, August 24, 2025

"Roll Over, Orwell" Toons


It was a bad week for reality.
As a person who favors socialism a bit more than Zohran Mamdani these days, I repost conservative cartoonist Chip Bok's screed about T-Boss' shift away from free markets. If Republicans don't really give a shit about democracy, do you think they'll care about capitalism?

Statism is the idea that the state should wield sweeping control over economic and social policy. It shows up when government stops being a referee of private enterprise and starts acting like a player -- or worse, the team owner. While a dose of state involvement can exist inside democracies, left unchecked it slides quickly into something darker: centralized power, political favoritism, and an economy run at the pleasure of whoever happens to hold office.

And through statism, Trump has finally discovered his inner socialist -- but only the part where the government seizes industries while he gets to play CEO-in-Chief. The administration’s latest brainstorm: Uncle Sam buying golden shares in Intel, U.S. Steel, and rare earth companies.

The irony is rich: the same GOP that once worshipped Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom is now paving over it with taxpayer money and MAGA logos, and the only Hayek that Trump is familiar with is Salma.

Republicans used to warn that government meddling would strangle freedom. Now they’re arguing over which cabinet secretary gets the corner office at Intel. It’s Soviet-style industrial policy, except instead of five-year plans, we get five-minute rants on Truth Social.

Trump insists it’s all about “national security”, but really it’s a chance to steer boardrooms the way he steers golf carts: recklessly and off the path. The right spent decades mocking Democrats for picking winners and losers. Now Trump is literally picking winners -- and the losers are free markets, competition, and ultimately consumers.

So congratulations, Republicans. You’ve gone from Reagan’s 'government is the problem' to Trump’s 'government owns the problem'. Hayek warned about the road to serfdom; Trump just slapped a toll booth on it, painted it gold, and put his name on the sign.

Coming soon to the Smithsonian, replacing the current exhibits on enslaved Africans in America: Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folklore of the Old Plantation.
The unhoused in D.C. have a very reasonable request.

Noting the 80th anniversary of the publishing of George O's Animal Farm:

(The book) reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, a period when Russia lived under the Marxist–Leninist ideology of Joseph Stalin. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Barcelona May Days conflicts between the POUM and Stalinist forces during the Spanish Civil War.


Indeed some animals -- and some malignancies -- are more equal than others.


T-Pain wants to get into heaven, and he thinks his negotiating skills in stopping ten wars (sic) and counting can get him there.

With all of the news that's been coming out of the Lone Star State's capital this past week, something happened which may have dodged your notice.
"Yes, we starved and bombed Palestinians but they had pre-existing medical conditions and were dying anyway" is not the flex that the Israeli government -- or should I note, the majority of Israelis who elected these criminal psychopaths -- think that it is.

But what will the neighbors think? Candidly, I just don't want to know.
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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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