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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Sunday, July 13, 2025

'The River Ran Cold as ICE over Biblical Grounds' Funnies


Sometimes the toons just can't be funny given the state of current events. This isn't one of those weeks. The wheels certainly came off for Trump and his cabinet of sycophants, but the gas tank also exploded and the airbags blew up in their faces. And as awful as it has been for Central Texas campers, migrant families, and the Americans who love them, the cartoonists cracked wise at the expense of our hapless, corrupt officials in all the ways they richly deserved.

If you’re brought to tears by images of waterlogged stuffies and want to know who is to blame for the deadly Hill Country floods, Gov. Greg Abbott doesn’t want to hear it. “That's the word choice of losers," Abbott said when asked by a reporter who was responsible for the devastation. As our governor tells it, the July 4th flood was less a preventable tragedy and more a fumbled play under the Friday night lights. “Know this, every football team makes mistakes,” he said. “The losing teams are the ones that try to point out who's to blame.’” So dry those eyes and rub some dirt on it. Coach Abbott is here to focus on results -- just don’t expect him to review the game tape.


Beck has got this. An anthem for Gov. Greg.

The forces of evil in a Bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
'Cause one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag
One's on the pole, shove the other in the bag
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose job
The daytime crap with the folksinger slop
He hung himself with a guitar string
A slab of turkey neck and it's hangin' from a pigeon wing

Gotta get right if you can't relate
Trade the cash for the beef, for the body, for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite
That's chokin' on the splinters

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
(Get crazy with the Cheeze Whiz)

Adam Zyglis drew death threats from MAGA for this one, above.


Kristi the Gnome has proven incapable of doing her job. Clay Jones does a masterful takedown of her shortcomings, but beyond the hilarity of her vacuous incapability is the fact that Texans calling for help in the wake of the flood couldn’t find any.
The City of Angels is under siege from an ICE storm. Brad managed several related toons and even worked Lalo Alcaraz in, but somehow overlooked the travesty in his own barrio.
Who would Jesus deport? Worse question: Who would deport Jesus? Why, Christian conservative Republicans, of course. Zionists would just bomb the concentration camp where He had fled.
King T has decreed that no one shall speak of his former best friend and pedophile, but unlike the files that have *allegedly* gone missing from AG Bondi's desk, that topic isn't going to be censored.
Ken Paxton is getting a D-I-V-O-R-C-E. It's bitter. Not their split; the reaction from MAGA toward state Senator Angela, whom they deem a saboteur of his US Senate bid against John Cornhen. Try to imagine being so radicalized that you think K-Pax becoming USAG would be bad because it makes Corn Dog's path to re-election easier.
And the Texas Lege reconvenes in short order to take up a few pressing concerns, like a bathroom bill, redistricting urban Democrats further out of power, and (maybe) outlawing cannabis gummies. Ban Patrick is undoubtedly stressed out about having to kneel to the Fumbling QB.
Elon seems serious about a third party. I'd settle for a second one.
Ted Rall (commentary, no cartoon):

In this two-party system, a third party should begin by running as a second party. Seventy percent of the 76,902 elections held in the United States are uncontested, meaning that the number of candidates on the ballot is less than or equal to the number of seats up for election. Whether it's for state senate, city council or county coroner, unchallenged incumbents always win.

Seventy-eight percent of law enforcement elections have one candidate on the ballot.

So if reform/progress is still possible via elections -- a tenuous prospect on its best day -- people who care about that need to shift into high gear. You know, as with the climate crisis, building independent media, and a handful of other things.
Two obits, cartoonist Steve Benson and ...
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