"Export Your Problems" Funnies

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Bill)

Here's a problem I wish Texas could export: Christian fascists.

“A worst case scenario is: you unleash hell on your kids and in your home,” said Jamie Gooch. “(Hocus Pocus 2) is based on witches harvesting children for blood sacrifices ... “Do not watch this film,” she warned. “Everybody thinks it’s fake and innocent, but they could be casting any type of spell that they want to, anything could be coming through that TV screen into your home.”

Sure hope her neighbors have a raucous Halloween party on tap.

Julian Assange’s case is not just about (him). It is also about news outlets like The New York Times and The Guardian, which published scores of stories based on information they were given by WikiLeaks. It was clearly a collaboration, yet only one guy is sitting in a British jail and facing a life sentence in the United States.

We might not always like or agree with people who become symbols of press freedom, but that freedom is essential to who we are as a nation.

"Climb It Emergency" Funnies

Hurricane warning (from 2017):

At the "Harmacy", from Jen Sorensen

Many women are finding that in states with strict abortion bans, drugstores won't fill their prescriptions without special confirmation from a doctor or a privacy-invading consultation with the pharmacist. It's yet another way in which anti-choice extremism is upending healthcare. This article in The Guardian provides an overview.

"Heavy Traffic" Funnies

5 años robando fondo$.
5 años guisando.
5 años de ignorar necesidades.
No hay fotuto que pueda taparlo.
La crisis es por los “líderes” ineptos que siguen de pie con sus votos. #FueraPierLUMA pic.twitter.com/ILX6pA9xOm

— De La Nada! (@delanadapr) September 23, 2022

"Pawn to Martha's Vineyard" Funnies

Daily Cartoonist: cartoons that may only amuse me

Sunday "It Shows" Funnies

And somewhere in Middle Earth, aka Austin ... this is why young Hobbits are priced out.

Sunday "Blame It on Antifa" Funnies

Middle-class Americans don’t have a lot of government programs directed at helping them. So it’s not surprising that one criticism of student loan forgiveness by Biden two months before an election is catching on: that it feels like the government is trying to buy votes. Only in an electorate accustomed to getting nothing back from its political class would such a statement resonate as well as this one.

This isn’t the most important or the most prominent anti-trans argument. But it’s one I’ve heard a whole bunch of times over the years, and it always bugs me that even taken on its own terms, it makes no sense. Nothing about restricting what bathrooms trans people use can stop predatory men from being predatory, or cis men from lying.

The entire argument is a pretext (even if not everyone making the argument is consciously aware that it’s a pretext). For the proponents of these laws, the mere existence of trans people is threatening, and so any law that strikes at and ostracizes trans people – even if the arguments are gibberish – is supported.

And that, in the end (literally in the fourth panel) is what this cartoon is really about – not a single nonsensical argument, but the way that this and other arguments, boiled down to their essence, are rationalizations for othering and harming trans people.

They also like fear mongering with that image of predatory men wearing dresses while attacking women – an image that goes back in pop culture at least as far back as Hitchcock’s Psycho, and probably much further.