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:

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— 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.

Días de Demasiados Muertos Funnies

Days of Too Many Dead

Summer Funnies (summer not)

I try to find a theme or a flow to these weekly collations but that did not happen this week. So I'm posting five here at the top that produced a giggle, followed by five that made me cringe.

And here are the not-so-much, also in no particular order.

Finishing with more horror (hope you can tolerate it but it might be best to feel motivated to some kind of action beyond blogging or tweeting)

The First Casualty Funnies

There is such a thing as “fog of war”, but it can be artificially generated. Observers may be forgiven for believing half of what they see and none of what they hear.

This (below) reminded me of the imminent mayoral election in Houston and specifically John Whitmire's grift on Harris County Republicans' caterwauling about crime.

Conflict Unavoidance Funnies

The Guardian (declined) to publish a depiction of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu by cartoonist Steve Bell, reportedly telling him the artwork perpetuated an anti-Semitic trope.

The London Press Gazette reported:

Bell posted the blocked cartoon to Twitter/X on Monday, saying that after he filed it that morning he received a “cryptic message” from Guardian editors saying: “pound of flesh”.

In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice the antagonist, Jewish moneylender Shylock, demands “a pound of flesh” as security for a loan made to his Christian rival, Antonio.

Bell said he responded to the desk saying he did not understand the allusion, “and received this even more mysterious reply: ‘Jewish bloke; pound of flesh; anti-Semitic trope’”.

Bell’s drawing includes a note referencing a cartoon by David Levine from the 1960s, picturing then-US president Lyndon Johnson with a scar on his belly shaped like the map of Vietnam.

(Joe Biden) is in a proxy war in favor of a country that jails opponents and cancels elections. His party sues to keep rival political parties off the ballot. He refuses to debate challengers. He insists on running even though most members of his own party don’t want him to. Democracy begins at home, Joe.