Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Be a Betty White. She fought for equality and other people in a time when very few would.

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Scottie’s world today

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Don’t we wish we could.  Scottie

The filibuster is going. Voting Rights are coming.

McConnell will say anything because conservatives could not care less about consistent GOP values or ethics.

Also, none of Trump’s SCOTUS nominees could ever get 60 Senate votes like all other Presidents had to achieve.

https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1478465436496838658?s=20

The above cartoon is interactive identifying the people pictured and what they did.   https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2022/ann-telnaes-jan-6-capitol-cartoon/?itid=ap_anntelnaes

A guilty conscience needs no accuser. These racists feel uncomfortable for a reason.

Idiot anti-vaxxers add a massive burden to our health care system. They don’t care how abusive they are to nurses and doctors.

Funny how they believe in science/medicine when their rhetoric leaves them for dead.

Because so many are denying the virus and the public safety measures are sending their kids to school with the virus the situation changes daily, sometimes hour by hour.    The disruption is hard on kids and families.   If we are not going to increase the funding to have large areas where the kids can spread out and be together safely then we need to go back to full time remote learning.   It can be done and needs to be done.   We simply have to pay for caregivers to watch over their children or a group of children spaced out properly.   It is all about the priorities the US has.    Scottie

End their tax-free status!

Elon Musk will blame his failures on everyone except himself.

https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1478466519705268236?s=20

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

This is pure made up misinformation.    This is the same party that blamed Biden for not getting more Afghans out when we left.  The border is secure, the US is not being over run by brown people.   The brown people are already here and they are collectively the majority of the country or will soon be.   It is normal and OK.   This country has whole towns dying because the people are moving away, but now this is the perfect time to reinvigorate these towns with new people.   With work from home and other measures jobs can return.   Kids will be stay instead of moving away.   People this large country is not full.   Scottie

Same response as the cartoon below.  Scottie

Don’t you love right wing misinformation propagandist like Rivers?   The Republicans are the ones who tried to scramble our Democracy on Jan 6th.   The Republicans did the insurrection, the riot at the capital on Jan 6th.   They did not succeed in getting their way and keeping power, this time.    So they implemented more destruction to democracy by enacting voter restrictions and gerrymandering to keep the other party voters from using their right to vote.  How anyone even the right can see the above cartoon and not realize how backwards it is confounds me.   Scottie

Same response as below.  Scottie

Oh the fickle right.    Remember when they did not want testing.   In Florida they still don’t.  They don’t want anyone to know we have Coronavirus in Florida, so they can get those tourist to come here.    They want cruise ships to stop testing and just go with sick people.   Florida and those places with Republican governors want the system back to the way it was before Covid so the money flows for them.   The wealthy donors are not getting as much profit and they want that.   The Governors shut off unemployment to force poor workers to return to virus infected work places at the same time they passed laws giving companies immunity if a worker catch Covid working for them.   The point is our lives and the money we would have to pay if hospitalized do not matter to the wealthy Republicans.   To the Republican leaders like DeathSantis you are nothing but a clog, a gear to be used and when ground down too much then thrown away.   Life doesn’t have to be this way.   The people should expect more. 

But to the tests and why we are having a shortage I already addressed this.   People attended gatherings during the last two holidays.   A lot of tests were used at the parties and even a lot more after as people tried to figure out if they were safe at these parties and after.   Many found out they were positive when tested requiring more testing.   The businesses that want to open at full capacity need tests to do so.   They are buying a lot of the supply.   Because the suppliers were not prepared for a huge increase it will take them a while to catch up but in the meanwhile they are loving the increased profit.   Think of the toilet paper shortage, it was not that toilet paper was not being made, it was that people suddenly started hording car / truck loads of it.   Some then tried to price gouge selling it.   But Biden never gave a time frame for the tests, only that the government would pay for them and send them out.   It is a gimmick anyway, one test is not helpful.  Scottie

Complete bullshit and lies.   Flat out lies.   This is again the right wing attempt to deny reality and try to force the world / the US back to the way it use to be.   Give it up, this is the normal now and should be.   They really give their viewers deadly misinformation.   Scottie

The state of education in this country is past ridiculous.  Maybe it would help if administrators listened to the teachers and understood they were concerned about returning to a job where there is little protection for the teacher, and by proxy, the teacher’s family and loved ones.   Once again, blame the union for trying to provide living wages and benefits for workers instead of the employers who use and abuse the employees. I’ve known teachers, and more and more of them are leaving the profession because the pay is low, the children do not get engaged, parents are hostile, and they need to teach to Bush the lesser’s no child left behind program, which enriches the pockets of giant test companies.  Two of ours are our healthcare and school systems. Before the pandemic there were stories of teachers living in their cars because they were renting their apartment / house so they could make enough money to eat! Once the pandemic hit it got worse. Many schools are now limping along with numbers of teachers, security, food workers, custodians on health leave while they recover from COVID. And there are no substitutes for any of these people. Teachers in some districts are asking that their schools return to remote learning until the “viral tsunami” passes and quarantined staff return. In many places if their needs are not met they will quit. And then who will work in schools?

Whether or not they “like” teachers, they certainly vote for people who enact laws designed to destroy public education for profit.   The path they want to tread is exactly the same path they forced the public hospital system down in the 70’s. I think we all know how that turned out.  This is exactly the same. Privatize the schools to keep from raising property taxes is EXACTLY THE SAME TACTIC as privatize the hospitals to keep your county taxes low.   We’ll wind up spending ten times as much for less. That’s where this road ends.   Some of us are old enough to remember public hospitals in remote counties.   And we even remember the tactics undertaken to ensure they’d be “unprofitable”.

http://tnh.stparchive.com/Archive/TNH/TNH09061979P01.php?tags=hospital|sold

When she was shot Babbitt was on video crawling through a window she had just helped break out to gain access to a hallway they were not allowed into that had members of congress in it.   The right wants to make her a hero and has much in the way they made Rittenhouse a hero.   Facts don’t matter to them.   Babbitt was judged by the left on what she was doing, and she was an imminent threat of death or serious body injury to the congresspeople.  Floyd was not committing a crime at the time he was killed, he was not a threat to anyone at the time he was murdered and what he was being detained for was not a death penalty offense which cops don’t have the authority to carry out.  The cases are not equal in any manner.   The funny thing it is the right that insists on judging everyone on their past, just like they did the people killed by their new hero Rittenhouse who had no way to know the past of those he killed.   Scottie

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And now some for fun