Sunday, May 04, 2025

Sunday 'War on Sesame Street' Funnies


In case you missed it, there's been a substantial propaganda campaign from MAGA elites to convince the masses that Trump's destructive economic policies will make men more "masculine". The dialogue coming from the TV in the first panel of this cartoon is taken directly from a Fox chyron: "TRUMP'S TARIFFS WILL MAKE YOU A MAN?"

The Blue generals still don't seem up to the task.

David Hogg's imminent expulsion from the DNC for challenging the status quo is one same old thing; Bernie and AOC's "fight the oligarchy" tour and candidate recruiting effort is nothing but a classic sheepdog maneuver: run on the D line for ballot access and the millions of lemmings who will vote for those losers but call yourself an independent -- like him -- so you can criticize the party's failings while benefiting from its (diminishing) tradition. Yes, Sanders actually does run indy; that's part of his charade, and once upon a time he was a bit of a socialist, but if you believe that now, I have some "Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself" signs and a factory of F-35 parts in Vermont to sell you.

Cartoonish (actually meme-ish) developments from the Texas Lege ...


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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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