Category: Anger

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: There is a better way, other countries have shown us but our elected officials are already too bought to allow us to have it

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Scottie’s world today

take your self too seriouslythe coffee goes in

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false class solidarity with billonaires

tripple your corporate income

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Billionaires stole your surplus labor value. They are not simply going to give it back.

Farcus Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

burning voter rights at the stake

Political cartoon

republicans scrubing out the right to vote

GQP memorial king

Chris Britt Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

use filibuster to keep people from voting

need to be better than blacks

I have a dream sign

pick up the pace people

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Conservatives are full of shame. Rather than deal/process the shame, they convert it to hate.

They punch down, they drag others to feel better about themselves.

The hate is so much a part of their white identity, they must negate all black humanity [and black excllence] to perpetuate their insecurities and bigotries.

Learn about their past? No way. Negate it.

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Also Republicans: we are the victims of racism.

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Republicans have perfected performative politics and grandstanding. Anything to avoid change. Anything to insulate whiteness.

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They know what they are. They know how to be silent in the face of injustice.

John Deering Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

Jack Ohman Comic Strip for January 16, 2022

Jen Sorensen Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

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Rather than take refuge behind the 1st Amendment and claim that the riot was not a part of the protest, Ginni is defending the riot.

if it feels true tweet it

Zack Hill for Jan 18, 2022

Michael Ramirez Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

no mask no answers

The Knight Life Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

The Knight Life Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

Brian McFadden Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

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We are country under the abuse of capitalism.

Some of us want out of the relationship, while others can’t quit their codependency with capitalism’s racism, misogyny, and greed.

ViewsAmerica Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

ViewsAsia Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

While I agree that some of us on the lower economic rungs need more government assistance, this cartoonist is one of the very far right wing that hammers Biden for any spending to help people.  So I have to ask why is the cartoonist trying to have it both ways, and the answer is just to have something to attack Biden with.   It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t match the other attacks on Biden, for the right wing the point is the attack.   Scottie

This cartoon shows how little the right cares about truth or reality.    Everything mentioned here is incorrect and a lie.   Not that the right wing cult followers care.   The puppy attack was proven false, the NIH did not pay for the part of the study with the puppies heads in flea tanks.  In fact the NIH tried hard to get that part of the study illuminated, backing out of the study when they were ignored.   He never lied to congress.   The people accusing him of that are not qualified to make that charge.   Oh yes they claim they are, just as Hannity and Tucker claim they are qualified to assess Covid treatments and vaccines, but they are not.   Scientists have reviewed the charges and the studies involved and they say it is not a gain of function advance the US part paid for.   Some one else may have done it, but the US did not pay for it as Rand Paul charges so he can fund raise off it.     The right wing media has ginned up outrage and attacks Dr. Fauci because they can not attack the science and protective measures he presents and advocates for.  If you can not attack the message, they want to kill the messenger.   Scottie

Great gravy the right wing would love that.   They are struggling to attack Biden on real issues.  Oh well they plan to steal the future elections anyway, and claim any election they lost were stolen from them.   In Florida the Republican lost and the Democrat won by a nearly 80% margin, yet the Republican refused to concede, and started claiming the election was rigged and stolen.   The Republican play book is to call any election they lose stolen and illegitimate.   For them and their members only Republicans can be elected fairly, only when they win is the election legitimate.  That is not democracy.  Scottie

Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

  As we prepare to face the twin disasters of record-low unemployment and all-but-record-high job growth, Al Goldwyn trembles in fear. 

President Biden has made sure vaccines are available for everyone in the USA. Mask mandates have been made difficult to impossible by Republican political hack judges on the Supreme Court. Deathsantis in Florida and other Governors in ‘Red’ states have all but guaranteed the death of many of their constituents.   It’s deplorable that the Republicans do everything they can do to encourage their voters not to wear masks and get vaccinated, then have the audacity to blame Biden for the decisions they made? Pathetic.   tRump murdered nearly 700,000 Americans through his incompetent handling of the pandemic. A pandemic he worsened. Biden has deal with a majority of Americans who wear masks and get vaccinated AND the idiot tRumpanzees (who are the ones dying in the hospitals).   Scottie

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And now some for fun

Shrimp and Grits for Jan 18, 2022

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

Speed Bump Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

Reality Check Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

Moderately Confused Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

Dog Eat Doug Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

Real Life Adventures Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

Rubes Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

One Big Happy Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

Rose is Rose Comic Strip for January 18, 2022

Republicans Enter ‘Post-Election’ Phase, Blindly Disputing Vote Outcomes

Republican Voting Restriction Strategy Already Bearing Fruit In Texas

GOP legislatures are working overtime to weaken US democracy

Comatose Anti-Vax Man Flown To Texas Hospital After Minnesota Hospital Decided To Pull The Plug

Comatose Anti-Vax Man Flown To Texas Hospital After Minnesota Hospital Decided To Pull The Plug [VIDEO]

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports:

Scott Quiner, 55, of Buffalo, was flown from the Twin Cities to Texas over the weekend, an attorney representing the family said. Scott Quiner’s case drew widespread attention last week after Mercy Hospital said it would disconnect the ventilator on Thursday. Quiner, who was unvaccinated, had been in the hospital’s ICU since Nov. 6 with critically low oxygen levels and had shown little signs of improvement since his arrival.

Quiner’s wife, Anne, went to Anoka County court seeking an emergency restraining order to prevent Mercy from disconnecting the ventilator. Without a judge’s decision, “my husband will die,” Anne wrote in her petition seeking the court’s action. A GoFundMe has pulled in more than $28,600 as of Monday morning. A second fundraiser on the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo was seeking to raise $100,000. As of Monday, the effort had brought in $41,000.

Read the full article.

As you can see below, among those riling up the rubes in this case is anti-vax extremist and QAnon leader Stew Peters. That’s Peters in the first clip below.

 

https://twitter.com/twit2gl/status/1481988720052031488?s=20

Republicans declare war over race in public schools — and Black kids get left out of the discussion

https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/race-schools/

Republicans declare war over race in public schools — and Black kids get left out of the discussion

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Over the past year, Republicans have declared a war on how race and racism are addressed in public schools. This enmity was forefront in the gubernatorial election in Virginia, as well as battles over school boards across the country. In the past few months, at least seven states have banned so-called “critical race theory” from curricula. Over a dozen more are moving similar bans through state legislatures.

 

It would be naïve to expect more from the Republican Party. It requires an ongoing and bloody culture war to win. But there is another party with a role to play, who might be receptive to correction: the media.

Overall, the media’s coverage of the battle over education has been, let us say, “deeply problematic.” Reporting on the issue has overwhelmingly featured white parents describing the discomfort their children felt in discussions about racism.

Apparently, no one has thought it relevant to consider the experiences of Black children. This is regrettable as it’s impossible to cover a story about race in education while amplifying exclusively white voices.

How would the coverage change if the media approached the topic with an eye to informing citizens? To answer that question, consider just a few relevant data points.

First, Black kids experience racism before they enter school.

Research has shown that Black children are aware of racism usually before age five. Black kindergarteners are far more cognizant of their own race than their white counterparts. They are also keenly aware of racism, though they can’t always name the experience.

 

Black children’s awareness of racism is not illusory. It is based on empirically demonstrated lived experiences that are shaped by interactions with peers and teachers. White teachers are more likely to direct Black kids to special education and less likely to recommend them to gifted classes, even when their performance is at the same level as their white peers. Punishments for similar behaviors are more severe, resulting in Black children being systematically humiliated, in addition to being more frequently detained and suspended.

As they age through the school system, Black children report feeling more and more isolated. It’s not in their imagination. Even Black 5-year-olds are more likely to be described by their white teachers as angry or threatening than their white classmates. White teachers are more likely to perceive Black children as older than they are, which contributes to teachers responding to them in age-inappropriate ways. White children get comfort. Black children get punishment.

And I’ve only talked about preschool and kindergarten

Black children are often unfairly disadvantaged by their dialect and linguistic discrimination. When children enter primary school, they begin the process of learning to read. This requires mapping alphabetic visual symbols onto the sounds we use when we speak.

Many Black children are speakers of African American Vernacular English (AAVE), a dialect of our language that is just as rich and systematic as any other. However, because this dialect differs from the standard dialect, Black children who speak AAVE are told that they have a “home language” and a “school language.”

The former has no place in the classroom and the distinction between “home” and “school” inevitably plays into linguistic stereotypes of AAVE as somehow inferior or sloppy. White children are rarely told the dialect they speak is not befitting of a school environment, even when their dialects also differ from the standard.

Further, Black students who speak AAVE are given little help in making the bridge from their dialect to the “standard” demanded of them. The systematic differences in their dialect are not noted; these differences are more commonly just characterized as “wrong.” Consider how terribly confusing that must be for a 6-year-old child.

At this point, we’ve just talked about play and reading.

 

Despite the repeated falsehoods on the right, it is extremely rare for a curriculum to devote considerable attention to racism as a systemic and ever-present problem. Rather, the opposite is usually taught: that racism and racists are far, far away and that children are color-blind.

Combine such lessons — no racists here! — with Black children’s empirically demonstrated experiences of racism and it’s hard to imagine a more comprehensive and vicious form of gaslighting.

It is unsurprising many Black children develop chronic stress as a result of overt and covert racism. This chronic stress, in turn, has not just been linked to social, emotional and academic outcomes, but also to physical health. Black children experience elevated levels of cortisol throughout the school day, a physiological state that not only leaves children exhausted, but also impedes their ability to work.

Discrimination results in the prevalence of “stereotype threat” among Black children, adolescents and college students, such that if attention is brought to their race by a white educator, their performance on a task will decrease. Racism — from childhood to adulthood — is and will be a constant assault on both the body and mind.

The fact that Black people are so invisible from our public framing of the education debate shows just how intellectually impoverished the conversation is. They exist primarily as objects of discussion in the imagination of white Americans. A subject to debate, not people to listen to. This rendering of Black Americans as invisible is, perhaps, an argument for teaching more about racism in society, not less.

The GOP is waging a race war. We shouldn’t expect them to care about Black kids. We should, however, demand that the rest of us place Black children within the scope of our conversation about education.

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: people on disability are not causing your problems, the wealthy pushing their tax burdens on to you are your problem

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Scottie’s world today

half witted stuff before the internetposting that stupid shit

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Culture wars are the oxygen of capitalists.

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The root of our problems is corporate greed.

Bottom people make the profit

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The most common comorbidity is poverty.

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We need the language to deconstruct late stage capitalism. You can’t change what you can’t describe or understand.

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https://twitter.com/crgulla/status/1482072525676892171?s=20

Farcus Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Scott Stantis Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

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1000%. Republican rhetoric is useless. They will say/do anything to give themselves power.

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Spare us the “bipartisan” hand-wringing.

Use the code words donnie

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Republicans are the party of theft. They all know voter suppression and gerrymandering are about stealing elections. They know the audits were about stealing elections. They know slowing the Post Office was about stealing elections.

The complicity and gaslighting, vis a vis, ‘stop the steal’, represent manifest diseased GOP morals/ethics.

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Clay Jones Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Jack Ohman Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Clay Jones Comic Strip for January 15, 2022

Steve Benson Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

knock some heads together

John Deering Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

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Law and order is a white supremacist construct.

Prickly City Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Kevin Necessary Editorial Cartoons Comic Strip for January 14, 2022

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Notice it includes the wrong Douglass and the correct one is spelled with only on S.   Scottie

https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1481323276462968834?s=20

https://reagan-was-a-horrible-president.tumblr.com/post/673487260706111488

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‘Knowing you are the problem, then blaming others’ is the conservative mission statement.

The malfeasance is manifest.

Robert Ariail Comic Strip for January 16, 2022

I heard it is jock itch

Coming soon.   But what people forget is that those cases some are going to get really sick from Covid, they are going to incur large medical bills, and a lot of them will die.   Is that the future the anti-vax groups want?  Just a roll of the dice if you go bankrupt or die?   How many deaths will be enough when nearly 900,000 are not?   Scottie

hit by covid liberty

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

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*in order to protect our strong men- we must drink pee and show our indoctrination*

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We should not be shrugging off long-term risks.

freedom to not wash hands

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It’s a cult.

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This tracks.

Aggressively wrong

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The double standards are everywhere.

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ViewsEurope Comic Strip for January 16, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Gary Varvel for Jan 17, 2022

History has shown that left to their desires the states will infringe on rights granted by the federal constitution. Yes the constitution is the founding document that provides the structure the US is built on. When rights that should be enjoyed by all are with held or restricted to some, the federal government must act to restore them. Plus some elections are federal elections and so should be standard across all states as with other interstate laws. Again that is provided for in the constitution. If you take out the right wing media attempts to stir up their base’s emotions you can see that this is something that has happened before and should happen again. The federal government is doing its job to address a problem across state lines and to ensure equal protection under the 14th amendment. Scottie

Bob Gorrell for Jan 17, 2022

Have these people seen Biden’s 36 years in government service?   He is a center right leaning politician who has more than once advocated cutting social security payment, assistance to the poor, being tough on crime, in favor of keeping cannabis illegal, and refusing to eliminate student debt even though some of these things helps the economy immensely.   Biden is no lefty, no progressive, but he is a corporate democrat.   Biden is beholden to the wealthy corporations and is willing to do mostly as they wish as they wish.   The reason Biden has been pushing for policies that the right wing media call progressive is they help both the country and the wealthy / big businesses.  But the right has to be against anything that Biden is for so they create a false scare tactic against even stuff they supported just a few years ago, such as voting rights reform.    History and truth are pesky things the right wing media is trying to avoid.  Scottie

A.F. Branco for Jan 16, 2022

According to 2019 FBI data, seven out of ten states with the highest per-capita rates of violent crime voted Republican in the 2020 election. In contrast, seven out of ten states with the lowest rates voted Democrat. However, the District of Columbia had the highest rate despite voting blue.  Mississippi has the highest murder rate, I hear it is a deep red state.   Facts matter.   The cartoon is just an attempt to play on fear and keep outrage going in the right wing base.   Scottie

https://repustar.com/fact-briefs/do-red-states-rank-higher-in-violent-crime-rates-than-blue-states

CRT is simply a dog whistle for the right so I will ignore its use here.  MLK’s words are as appropriate for today as they were back when he issued them. What is discouraging is the US has regressed on the gains in civil rights that King fought for. The US has not only stopped moving forward to eliminate pervasive racism but again has one political wing actively trying to promote it. He was right about the lack of support and work needed by moderate white people to change the discriminatory nature of the country. Scottie

Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Youngkin is dividing Virginia by pushing the false idea that CRT is being taught in its schools.   Goodwyn prefers the old Texas schoolbooks which told that the slaves were happy being told what to do.   White people afraid of facing the truth will be the downfall of this country.   Not a joke. A Virginia Republican legislator introduced a bill requiring public schools to teach students about the Lincoln – Douglass debates. Frederick Douglass.  

Youngkin banned the teaching of Critical Race Theory (although it is not being taught).   Youngkin did not ban the teaching of Replacement Theory.  Make of it what you will.

Teachers now have to fear if they say anything critical about; slavery, Jim Crow, lynching they will be fired. If Little Johnny goes home and says Mr Jones said in history class that slaves were considered subhuman and often flogged and his Great, Great,Great, Great Grandfather got rich off their labor-Mr Jones is teaching CRT and should be fired.  Protecting our children from an imaginary CRT agenda, killing our children by lifting mask mandates during a lethal pandemic. Not the least bit divisive. Next we’ll have bodycams on teachers to prevent the spread of seditious knowledge.   Scottie

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And now some for fun

Andy Capp Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Herman Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Marmaduke Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

FoxTrot Comic Strip for January 16, 2022

Liberal Redneck – President Sinema?? (Naw)

Let’s talk about history and an oppressor narrative….

Donald Trump Jr. Has Laughably Ironic MELTDOWN