Sunday, May 03, 2026

Shots Fired Funnies


"It’s an odd thing to wake up on a Monday after a weekend in which someone tried to assassinate the president ... and feel absolutely nothing about it."


"In the early hours of Sunday, I awoke to check the time on my phone and learned that there had been a shooting – apparently, an assassination attempt – at this year’s White House correspondents’ dinner, an event held annually to honor the journalists who cover presidential politics.

I stayed awake just long enough to read that the attack had been thwarted and that no one had been killed, and then I went back to sleep."
Unsurprisingly this stunt didn't bump Trump's wars, our dying fossil fuel-based economy, or Israel's steady progress on genocidal empire construction fully out of the headlines. Again. So maybe another march/protest organized by the Democrats and their surrogates... nemmind.
The Brits on my TL are saying no more King Charlie Sausage Fingers, either.

At this point I'm again reminded of the SNL Dana Carvey/Bush-Dukakis/Jon Lovitz presidential debate in 1988, when Lovitz-as-Dukakis mutters, "how can I be losin' to this guy". THIS is how.
So a few of us decided, even on a very wet May Day in HTown, to do some democracy a bit more directly. We didn't have to go outside to play, but some did.


How else are we gonna fix the SCOTUS unless we start over from scratch?
Steve Brodner depicts the return of the crow, his artistic style suggesting a kinship between Roberts and Roger Taney, who wrote the decision in Dred Scott, and who is generally seen as the worst Chief Justice in US history.

So far.

They're redrawing all the maps, y'all. Everywhere. I hope you finally realize that voting is -- in the words of the man responsible for replacing Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas -- na ga do it.

Or this? Might be a little tougher than taking our government back, honestly. Because some men just want to watch the world burn while they score a few more billion.


Okay then. You prolly clicked in here for some Funnies.

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