Sunday "From the Rivers to the Seas and the Oceans" Funnies

Most of Israel’s weapons imports come from the US. Joe Biden is rushing even more arms to them:

As (Secretary of Defense) Lloyd Austin told the Senate, “We are flowing security assistance to Israel at the speed of war.”[...]

“The emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy,” Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said last month. [...]

“It is not in the US national interest to engage in arms transfers where we assess that they are likely to be used in human rights violations”, Christopher Le Mon, a senior State Department official, said in March. “It does not advance our national interests, it does not advance our national security.”

George Orwell's 1984 gets invoked a lot these days, but what happened to the word 'woke' is exactly what was intended with Newspeak. Per Wikipedia, "Orwell explains that Newspeak follows most rules of English grammar, yet is a language characterized by a continually diminishing vocabulary; complete thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning." With 'woke' we see the entire project of humanism reduced to a stupid insult. Shamefully, many political commentators not on the authoritarian right still use this lazy shorthand to belittle activists or anything vaguely socially conscious, invoking the right's pejorative framing.

Republican Electile Dysfunction Funnies

It's their lady problems again.

Bill Bramhall, The New York Daily News @BillBramhall #GOP pic.twitter.com/DqTzTdXjwW

— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) November 9, 2023

Democrats reading too much into last Tuesday's outcomes as a portent for two years' hence might also bear observation.

Grocery warehouse robot crushes human robot inspector to death

Washington Post editor David Shipley approved, published, then deleted the Mike Ramirez cartoon on the left:

pic.twitter.com/lD112sXiAV

— David Moss (@RedEviction) November 9, 2023

The Washington Post took down an editorial cartoon (last) Wednesday that depicted a Hamas leader using civilians as human shields after the drawing was criticized as racist and dehumanizing toward Palestinians.

More about the censored cartoon from al-Jazeera and The Hill.

Updates: Conservative media bash the removal of the 'toon, and Ramirez and the WaPo have revised their agreement regarding his contributions to their op-ed pages.

Ramirez has always been a right-wing freak, but censorship of political cartoons is not something a democracy does.  I thought we settled this topic when the offices of Charlie Hebdo were attacked.  If you were ever concerned about free speech, corporate media, and creeping fascism, now would be a great time to support/oppose as the case may be.

And take precautions when you do, but don't be paranoid.  One of the several chronic flaws of Red MAGA groupthink is violent hallucinations.