Sunday, May 18, 2025

"A Whiter Shade of Migrant" Funnies


Is it really color or is it class?


And if MAGA ever comes to the realization that they're also casualties of the class war ... could that eventually break their fever?

A Fox News poll from late April 2025 showed Americans approve of Trump’s border security policies, 55% to 40%. To shift public opinion against him, a significant economic downturn might be necessary. Polls indicate economic concerns could erode his base: a Reuters/Ipsos poll (April 30, 2025) reported only 36% approve of Trump’s economic stewardship, with 56% disapproving, as fears of recession grow (82% of voters worried, per Decision Desk HQ/NewsNation). This highlights a troubling reality where economic stability overshadows other issues. If jobs vanish or inflation spikes -- 91% of voters are concerned about rising prices -- support for deportations may (finally begin to) wane, revealing our misplaced priorities.

So while we wait for them to wake up and catch up, it seems they're still engaged in culture war, taking exception to a woke pope.
King Donald meanwhile lashes out at the Boss. Michael de Adder surely did not realize his cartoon would blend so well with developing news when he drew it.


This cartoon (below) doesn’t get into the policy reasons that cars in the U.S. have gotten so big. But our individual preferences have been shaped by the way federal policy shapes our car norms.

Legally, car companies can avoid stricter emission standards -- and make higher profits -- by selling bigger SUVs and trucks. As a result of this loophole, auto makers have spent decades on a nonstop campaign to convince us that huge cars are a necessity.

There are also tax reasons. Tariffs -- which have been in the news a lot lately -- are the reason we don’t have more smaller cars to buy.


In the early 1960s, Europe raised the ire of American officials by slapping a 50 percent tariff on chicken exported from the United States. In retaliation, the US enacted a 25 percent tax on pickup trucks imported from abroad. The dispute is long forgotten, but the “Chicken Tax” lives on.

Although the tariff was initially aimed at Germany’s immense auto industry (Volkswagen in particular), it also applies to pickups imported from newer automaking powers such as Japan and South Korea, where carmakers are often adept at building vehicles much smaller than those available to Americans.


The Chicken Tax (a name sure to confuse) makes it impossible to make a profit selling small foreign cars in America. So they don’t.

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Sunday, May 11, 2025

"Escape from Trumpcatraz" Funnies


Nobody gets out alive.
Of course there had to be a 'birdman' cartoon.

In light of Democrats getting arrested in Newark outside a detention facility a few days ago, I should consider going a little easier on their do-nothing-and-wait strategy.

Okay. Considered.
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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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Sunday, April 20, 2025

'Habeas Corpse' Toons


Holy Shit Week rolls to an end.


The Vardians stand up for Veritas ...
... meanwhile ...
... also while re-education classes get under way.

Who's down for an impromptu late-semester getaway to a beautiful South American country? You may be eligible for a complimentary ticket, but no beaches on this excursion.
Women celebrities ride Jeff Bezos' rocket, are now astronauts

Apologies for cracking phallus jokes on Easter. No apologies for cracking on wealthy clueless elites.


If Gayle King is an expert on space because she flew to the edge of the atmosphere for ten minutes ... then I'm a gynecologist. Trust me.

So many are traumatized, but MAGA is partying like it's 1939.
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Sunday, April 13, 2025

"When the Pyromaniac is the Fire Marshal" Funnies


T-Pain is beating us leftists and the oil companies to the "burn it all down" punch.


Can't have all these fires without mentioning the climate. Oh wait ...

Eid was last week (the Israelis kept bombing and starving Palestine). Passover this weekend. Christians celebrate Easter next weekend. This atheist is of the opinion that were there actually a god, better people he could have chosen. Mike Peterson of the Daily Cartoonist:
One of the hardest challenges I found as a journalist was to be in an interview where you realized that the person was lying to your face. Fortunately, I could usually work around a self-serving falsehood by finding a second, more forthcoming source or, if it were an insignificant sidenote, ignoring it for the moment.

But as (these cartoonists; see link) note, the changing explanations and downright fables being put forth by the IDF are highly significant and are part of a particularly toxic, repeated pattern that goes back at least to the murder of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, whose death was explained away, then edited and explained again, then finally excused with a “whoops.”

And the mother and daughter killed by a sniper while walking in the courtyard of a Christian church.

And the tiny girl who pleaded for help while the medics trying to rescue her were killed, and who was then killed herself.

And now this, and the explanations have once more fallen apart. Turns out one of the wounded, dying medics left behind a recording that overturned the IDF’s version of events.

But cartoonists and other commentators have become wary because any criticism of the IDF or of government policies towards Gaza is attacked as antisemitism.

However, you can still draw funny penguins without being accused of being antiornithological.
"I heart Hamas". "Open borders". Women in Men's Sports". Somebody missed the point (as well as the 'Hands Off' rallies). It's accurate that the Blues aren't going to see a midterm renaissance, but not for the reasons Eric Allie thinks.

Not just across the pond.

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