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Sunday, April 27, 2025

"The Grift of the MAGA" Toons


(All apologies to O Henry, whose family home in Austin is a museum hosting the 48th Annual Pun-Off World Championships on May 10.)

Beginning today with the passing of the plate in the Texas Lege as vouchers will soon become law.
“It’s one of the most important votes you’ve ever taken,” Trump told the (statehouse) GOP caucus in a meeting that Governor Greg Abbott had called.

Standing around Abbott, House Republicans listened as Trump rambled on about Texans, freedom, families, and how he would return education policy back to the states. He then promised to back them if they voted for school vouchers: “I’ll be endorsing you. ... Everybody that I endorsed, every single person that I endorsed in the state won.”


There's blame aplenty to pass around, of course. The GOP fascists don't really respond to criticism or mockery as we know, or constitutional rights, as we are now learning.


Personally I fault the enshittification of the Democratic Party, who keep losing to the worst people in the world. But I get particularly angered watching the old sheepdog Bernie Sanders passing his dogwhistle to new hotness fraud AOC. Two hundred and fifty million dollars raised over two cycles and not a dime's worth of change.


So now we're rapidly moving past the point where voting is going to fix this.

Some are blaming the corporate media, and they're certainly a reasonable foil.
Polls are a reflection of an already deeply devolved media environment rife with propaganda, and the more you let them dictate what is acceptable for Democratic leaders to say, the further into authoritarianism we slide.
When even the most liberal pope ever cannot make God's Chosen Genociders feel the slightest guilt or remorse, perhaps it's for the best that the self-destruction of a habitable environment assures a factory reset.
Yeah, coulda been funnier. Too bad.
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Sunday, November 10, 2024

"A Flawless Campaign" Funnies


Somebody's living in a mirrored funhouse.
It's not her fault, it's his fault.

(T)he ritual knives are also out for Biden, who some Democrats,including Harris campaign staffers, are eager to offer up as a sacrifice for the loss. “Biden will hold a lot of blame for it,” a senior unnamed Harris campaign official told CNN. “And frankly, he should.” This is shameful asscovering. Harris ran the worst, most uninspired Democratic presidential campaign since Mondale, but Fritz was more likable and actually tried to offer a slate of policies to counter Reaganism.

What about all that disgusting sexism and misogyny?

Noted diversity expert Joe Scarborough: “Democrats need to be mature and Democrats need to be honest. And they need to say yes, there is misogyny. But it’s not just misogyny from white men! It’s misogyny from Hispanic men! It’s misogyny from Black men who do not want a woman leading them. There might be race issues with Hispanics. They don’t want a Black woman as president of the United States. The Democratic Party likes to Balkanize people into groups and say, oh, white people don’t like women and Blacks. A lot of Hispanic voters have problems with Black candidates! They don’t like each other.”

And then there's those revolting transgenders.

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY, re-elected) says Democrats “have to stop pandering to the far left ...I don’t want to discriminate against anybody, but I don’t think biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.” I don’t want to discriminate against anyone but them, them, uh, pro-noun people! Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA, re-elected) also blamed Democratic support for trans rights for their losses: “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete. But as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” I wonder if Moulton can contemplate his two little girls getting burned to death in a tent by a US-made bomb?

Moulton's campaign manager resigned on Friday, joining Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa in the unemployment line.


If you’re looking for one anecdote that explains why Harris lost the election, this one is hard to top: According to a piece by Franklin Foer in The Atlantic, Harris’ early attempts at voicing a populist economic message, timid though it was, attacking corporate greed was quickly muted by one of her top economic advisors, her brother-in-law and chief legal officer Tony West, who told her that if she wanted to curry favor with his network of CEOs she’d have to lay off Big Business. So figures like UAW president Shawn Fain were replaced on the campaign trail with the likes of Mark Cuban.

In October, Harris appeared more times with Cuban than Fain and was escorted by Liz Cheney more often than anyone else.

That's not anybody's defintion of a 'flawless campaign' but that's what I keep seeing over and over again. Does anybody who voted for Kamala feel propagandized yet?

Leave it to Mike Ramirez to interpret the election results as Kamala needing more conservatism.
A few distractions, maybe some busy work for those still grieving.
AOC is gonna have to do that Resistance shit again.

I shoud make a more significant acknowledgement of the troubles to come for all of us.

For Texas Democrats, A Lost Decade

The losing streak goes back a lot farther than that (1996); for yours truly it began in 2002 and the founding of this blog, but whatever.

There is a room with three doors. Each bears a label: “Latino Vote”, “Purpling Suburbs”, and “Big City Turnout”. This November, Texas Democrats opened these three doors, and behind all they discovered a Cerberus from Greek mythology with the heads of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Greg Abbott. Then the monster ate them.

That pretty much sums it up, so feel free to stop reading now. But if you insist, I’ll elaborate.
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Sunday, January 28, 2024

"Hague, Schmague" Toons

*Actual quote from Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Greg Abbott might be having the time of his life. He might also be cruising for an epic bruising. Social media has been both kind and unkind.

Ken Paxton's life, by contrast, is getting a little worse.
What's rough about this next one is that Team Donkey thinks that should be an elephant talking. They just cannot see that all those Republicans who've defected -- who say they're perfectly comfortable in the Democratic Party -- aren't helping them succeed electorally.
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Sunday, July 02, 2023

Supremely Ridiculous Funnies

Joe Biden refuses to step aside in favor of a more electable Democrat.  Now the voters are presented with a choice between him and Donald Trump.  Somehow this is not his fault, but your problem.

There's a lot wrong with the toon above: Greg Abbott looks more like Rick Perry, his name is misspelled on the limousine. Contrast with Clay Jones' below, which gets the receding hairline right and the fish lips perfect.
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Sunday, January 01, 2023

Twenty Twenty-Three Funnies




These toons of course are all from last year.  This year's will appear next week, after some news gets made and the artists react.  The circle of life and all that.

I probably won't be doing much more blogging going forward than I did in the last half of '22.  Uvalde broke me, and the failure of the Texas electorate to hold anyone accountable for it and all the other cruelty demonstrates a profound psychological dysfunction.


Greg Abbott and the rest are still playing 'hold my beer' with the lives and welfare of millions of people, and documenting those atrocities as I have over the past twenty years (my blog-versary was in November, whomp whomp) is beyond me.  The Lone Star State is rotten; filled with too many Christian fascists and entirely too many enablers, grifters, and 'good Germans'.  And I'm not seeing the fighters the Democrats keep calling themselves actually doing anything to slow the evil down, much less stop it.
So Happy New Fear.  More of that on the way; the Texas Lege convenes later this month.  In the meanwhile please be safe, warm, and find some joy outside the political arena.  Or respite, as the case may be.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

"Let's Make a Gun Deal" Wrangle


Moving at the speed of Monty Hall Wayne Brady over the weekend, John Cornyn pushed all of the Republican senators who are retiring or not up for re-election in '24 into a caucus of gun grabbers to join the Democrats in a coalition of the Mostly Unwilling to Do Anything about the nation's 2nd Amendment carnage in our schools, churches, malls, summer camps, suburban neighborhoods, on our highways and byways ...


There was lots of congratulations to the brave conservatives from centrist Donks.  Stace weighed in heavily against yesterday, uncharacteristically forceful.  Kuffner cast a jaundiced eye at the MFOL rallies over the weekend, then adjusted to his typical "it's a start" posture at the end.  (News like this consistently leaves him in 'shit or go blind' mode.  He'll have another thought about it after he reads his morning paper.  He does better covering the bike trails anyway.)

However this goes in the coming days -- I'll bet on some changes to the bill that cause one or two nervous Republican senators to drop out -- count on the usual hyperbolic screeching from all involved, all the way up to the rafters of the peanut gallery.

I'll watch the sideshows.  This was one.


National media jumped on the Alright Cubed train, thinking they were clever.  That ship sailed back in 2021 as far as I care.  Let's not encourage the presidential prospects of yet another actor.  Recall that McConaghey doesn't like the "bag of snakes" that politics is.  Let's encourage that for him.

And let's not overlook the SML in waiting, our glorious Cornfed Corndog senior senator from the Great State, who prays every night, just like all of us, that Mitch McConnell passes peacefully in his sleep.  And that John Thune retires.

Moving on to a few other items on Flag Day and Taco Tuesday.


You're better off if you're in an equity-indexed fixed annuity, or maybe you're liquid enough to consider a Treasury note.  (This is not investment advice.)  Not so much if you want to buy a house.  A lot of Americans just want to be able to afford their rent, though, and Jerome Powell thinks all of this suddenly upward mobility in better-paying jobs is inflationary.  That, as you know, has been a convenient excuse for companies to raise their prices and reap windfall profits.  The invisible hand of the free market is picking your pocket again.

*Bell rings* Economics class is over.


Also more inflamed than Braddock usually is.  Maybe he's seen something that reveals intractability in the TXGOP primary voter hive mind.  I know I have.


There's an export market to other states for this brand of crazy, and some migrants got busted in a UHaul in Couer d'ALene, Idaho on Saturday.


Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club broke it first.


It could be that.  It could be Mugshot Photoshop, where someone's eyes or mouth got switched into someone else's face.  My theory is that the aliens have arrived and they're breeding with the crackers.  So I'm no longer counting on a last-minute rescue from outer space.

Okay then.  Moving on quickly.


Last: this got a lot of action for the Signal but I just didn't see much beyond Texas Paul and Meidas amplifying it.


What more is it gonna take?

I'll have some environmental news, including the TCEQ's sunset hearing next week, later.  A few more social justice pieces ...



... and the calm-me-downs.

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Saturday, June 11, 2022

The Weekend Wrangle from Far Left Texas


Going light on the unpleasant news to end the week.  If you need to get your sweat on and expend some outrage at our Guns Over People politicians, there are outlets to do that across the state today.


Meanwhile Pussy Riot at the Capitol.


I'm not watching the January 6th hearings.  I saw that movie the day it came out.  I'm waiting for the awards shows criminal prosecutions of the people at the top who conspired to motivate the useful idiots, the ones currently being held to justice.  I'm more concerned about things like this.


I presume there's polling happening right now that will update us on any changing of hearts and/or minds.  Same with assault weapons, Greg Abbott's re-election chances, etc. and all that, you know.  So we're waiting.

Meanwhile we're burning up about a few other things.


I guess that's the segue to cops doing their usual thing.


Yes, we all remember the good old days when prisoner transfers went right by the book.

I did say 'burning up'.


More left for Monday on Texas conservatives' latest response to protecting children: poutrage at drag shows.  Right now I need some calm-me-downs.

First: so long to these two Texans.


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Monday, June 06, 2022

The "Bad News for Baptists and Greg Abbott" Wrangle


Scattershooting (*groan*) while the Texas Progressive Alliance stands around and watches the neo-Nazis in Ukraine rebrand themselves ...
Don't believe I've ever seen Governor Fish Lips' lips so tight.  He must be under duress.


Perhaps that additional $50 million that Dave Carney was bragging about last month is out of reach now.  Speaking of $50 million:


More committees, fewer school doors, bulletproof shields for cowardly cops; anything they can think of to avoid the actual problem.  Speaking of shitty law enforcement officers:


On and on it goes, with no end in sight.  Same old shit, same old nothing.


Vote harder.  "Vote Blue".


I just don't think that's going to work out any better than it has for the past twenty-something years.


Consider the definition of insanity.  Then consider doing something besides what you've been doing over and over again.


Just a suggestion.

When I read this my first thought was, "Hey! Maybe Shelley Kuffner has finally seen the light!"  Then I read 'her', and realized, 'nope, not yet'.


Here's a few more environmental notes.


Once again: thank you, Joe Biden.

A few social justice tweets; bad news first.


Some good news and some activist items.


Segue-ing into the soothers.

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Saturday, June 04, 2022

A Really Lousy Week Wrangle


It's too late for me to catch up on all the atrocities that went down since the last non-toon post, but like our pathetic Democrats in Washington and Austin trying to pass some gun safety legislation -- or anything approaching that -- I'll give it a go anyway.


As you know, Beto did his best to capitalize on all of these blunders.  The blue partisans and the media got honked up about it, but some of us saw it for what it was.


Then there was the NRA convention here in H-Town, which was filled with its own theatrics.  Inside and out.


If I blog any more about this topic at this length it'll be about the cops and their failures, coverups, lies, and whatever other corruption gets uncovered in the days to come.


Be reminded that absofuckinglutely nothing will be done to stop the next tragedy.




There were some other bad things that happened while I was away.  You probably noticed.


I would like to think that after he leaves Congress early next year, we will have heard the last of Louie.  But I doubt it.


Cuellar has survived because of the assistance provided by Republicans Nancy Pelosi, James Cyburn, Steny Hoyer, and Joe Biden.


But there were also some good things.  And some of those involved Texas Democrats.


This is an embarrassing defeat for Matt Angle, who had taken to calling Jasmine "Crypto Crockett" in his slimeball attempts to wedge his chosen Blue Dog into this seat.  Crockett isn't even all that progressive; nobody's talking about welcoming her to The Squad's cast of pretenders.  She may not be as shitlibby as Colin Allred or Lizzie Fletcher; we'll have to wait and see.


A tough road still ahead for Zapata against Chip Roy.  She's made all the right moves and the winds seem to be prevailing.  She's one of the very few I would say: help if you can.


That's enough for now.  More on Monday.  A couple of soothers:

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