Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The wealthy see the rest of us as things to be driven for their profit, not as humans worthy of decent lives and respect.

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Scottie’s world today

check all my online stuff or enjoy the rest of my day

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SKETCH

Your surplus labor value is stolen. The system gives the thieves multiples of that stolen wealth via stock evaluations.

Shrimp and Grits for Mar 23, 2022

Ted Cruz is sad becuase tries to sound dumb to connect with his base. His Ivy League debate skills are used to protect the weak-minded and petty in his party.

These vile assholes were always there in the Republican Party.

Trump gave them oxygen.

https://saywhat-politics.tumblr.com/post/679555900065955840/rep-mo-brooks-says-trump-asked-him-to-rescind

https://saywhat-politics.tumblr.com/post/679551947316019200/columnist-stunned-after-trump-endorsed-candidate

https://cthulhulovesewe.tumblr.com/post/679545816457920512

Mike Smith comic strip for Wednesday, March 23, 2022 by Mike Smith

red meat for cult base

Not only is there no test, it’s expressly forbidden.

If The US Senate followed Establishment Clause, the clause in the First Amendment of the US Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress, we would have almost no Republican Senators left.

https://saywhat-politics.tumblr.com/post/679551417839714304/watch-lindsey-graham-wants-ketanji-brown-jackson

Republican karma sutra

Two of Russia’s biggest spies posing with their puppet in the Oval Office. Trump did not allow US media to cover this event.

But, sure, tell me how 2A conservatives will fight ‘tyranny’ while their Republican leaders give everything to our biggest enemy.

denazication freak out

Andy Marlette for Mar 23, 2022

I do not think it is even that high. People in the US just don’t vote as they are disconnected from the government. They have been shown and told that government doesn’t work for them, the government only responds to the wishes of the wealthy. The government has been bought by the large donors. Often when people vote for something if Republicans are in charge the Republicans simply either ignore it or change what the voters wanted to suit right wing needs.

‘Desperate for the attention of other stupid people’ is the FOX model: the incurious moral blank.

https://cthulhulovesewe.tumblr.com/post/679546012653748224/youwish-youcould-pettyforyourthoughts

fear of god into a child

This meme is actually a Xian meme, where believing in yourself is a bad thing.
Of course, the problem is that a quick peruse of the Pinterest boards and Facebook pages of the people who post this, under such tags as “spiritual” and “inspiration” to...

Lee Judge comic strip for Wednesday, March 23, 2022 by Lee Judge

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

This is an attempt to both smear Germany with the past but to claim they are not helping now. In fact Germany is paying a steep price for enforcing the sanctions.

I post this drivel to ask even if all the salacious drug and sex stuff about Hunter was correct what would it matter? He is not an official advisor to his father such as the tRump children were. Hunter has no part of the government, draws no paycheck from the government, and is a private citizen. But things like this are an attempt to get their base to associate President Biden with sex and drugs through his son. They just can not find anything to attack Joe Biden with that sticks.

Again Rivers is far far hard right. He is in the cult of tRump. Why would we miss him due to high gas prices due to price gouging? So he can gouge more? His administration had high gas prices also before Covid by the right wing has forgotten that. Short memories they have.

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And now some for fun

Zits comic strip for Wednesday, March 23, 2022 by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

Bizarro comic strip for Wednesday, March 23, 2022 by Wayno & Piraro

Six Chix comic strip for Wednesday, March 23, 2022 by Bannerman, Xunise, Konar, Lawton, Patrinos & Piro

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Let them eat cake, or in other words “Screw the US public”

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Scottie’s world today

Just Ron getting out of bed

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What a disgrace

https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/679454336233996288/they-had-begun-to-consider-the-government-of-the

#Democrats don’t elect themselves, it’s a grassroots process. Choose to help grassroots candidates & orgs, otherwise we get elites or Majorie Greene Taylor https://ift.tt/UWXJCd5 usaunify.org

Shrimp and Grits for Mar 22, 2022

Darrin Bell comic strip for Tuesday, March 22, 2022 by Darrin Bell

Ted Cruz and dating habits

the GOP out in force

Any and every black person is a threat to GOP whiteness. Republicans want to negate black humanity.

The core of Republican politics is built on hypocrisy and scripted outrage.

Gym Jordan has selective amnesia. Did he speak out while a wrestling coach about sexual abuse towards student athletes? Nope.

Can he recall what he said on Jan 6 2021? Nope.

https://saywhat-politics.tumblr.com/post/679464878956756992/gop-senator-says-hed-support-supreme-court

https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/679458479202844672/texas-librarian-fired-for-defying-gov-abbotts

John Branch comic strip for Tuesday, March 22, 2022 by John Branch

https://saywhat-politics.tumblr.com/post/679430145294123008/listen-up-libs-its-not-voter-fraud-when-former

Republicans won’t admit they got scammed by Trump because the reason they voted for Trump was because they were tired of getting scammed for decades by Republicans.

Republicans want distractions.

Do they care about nepotism? No. They allow the Trump/Kushner families to enter the White House while failing every security clearance, multiple times.

All Republicans care about is scoring hypocritical political points.

the vlad and tucker show

The punchable face of FOX. A true shitstain of a human. A child of immense privilege. All he could achieve is parroting dictators & villains.

This is one of the major drivers of this conflict; Dictator Putin can not have Russians living next door to a functional Slavic democracy

Lee Judge comic strip for Tuesday, March 22, 2022 by Lee Judge

https://saywhat-politics.tumblr.com/post/679396496718938112/russian-soldiers-force-their-way-into-ukrainian

Mike Smith comic strip for Tuesday, March 22, 2022 by Mike Smith

Solidarity with Ukraine 🇺🇦.

Think about it.

We have a climate crisis.

Progressives will listen to science. Discuss the data. Encourage dialog.

Conservatives will listen to Big Oil. Deny reality. Legislate to remove ‘climate change’ from reports.

https://saywhat-politics.tumblr.com/post/679429292957007872/can-congress-stop-louis-dejoys-plan-to-buy-a

All female athletes matter

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Again Rivers is a hard far right wing nut who is desperate to blame Biden for everything he can think of. But so far their attacks have missed because they are so vague and the things they mention like the one above are not the fault of Biden or his administration. It is the result of the Republican dream of serving their big money donors by keeping the pubic desperate and in a hunger games society of being willing to do anything a corporation demands of them with no complaint. The Republican desire to have government do nothing for the people and everything for the wealthy has killed the dreams of the people.

See above. As for electric vehicles all the major auto manufacturers see it as the future. When Ford started making electric trucks that was the sign the tipping point had been reached. If you want to get away from the high price of gas, stop needing gas.

Why are far right wing nut cartoonist so desperate to keep money pouring into the pockets of wealthy oil companies? The fact is that both things will causes death and destruction. Both are preventable. Both are caused by man.

The only people still using “woke” are those banning books, attacking LGBTQ kids, threatening women, and facilitating gun violence.

Andy Marlette for Mar 22, 2022

I am surprised because the right never mentions Matt Gaetz legal troubles and that he is accused of sex with a minor and taking her across state lines to do so.

And how do they think the Democrats got the Republicans to vote for the bill? Yes by giving them lots of pork.

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And now some for fun

Bizarro comic strip for Tuesday, March 22, 2022 by Wayno & Piraro

Evangelicals Send Doomsday Tracts To Ukrainian Kids

Evangelicals Send Doomsday Tracts To Ukrainian Kids

Kevin Davis reports at Only Sky:

Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) is at it again, this time providing Ukrainian children with something they already have an abundance of – fear.

It’s no revelation that CEF, who runs the predatory Good News Clubs in schools and churches across the US and abroad, takes advantage of every opportunity to proselytize to children and convert them to fundamentalist Christianity through fear and candy bribes.

What they’re doing now, and celebrating through their recent announcement, is “caring for Ukrainian children” primarily by providing them with a booklet called, “Do You Wonder Why? Answers to Tough Questions.”

From the CEF’s website:

“Do You Wonder Why? Answers to Tough Questions” is in both the Ukrainian language and the languages of every border country, including Russia. The children in those countries also are seeing this tragedy and have questions about why bad things happen.

310,000 copies have already been printed and distributed in 11 countries. A friend of a CEF worker spotted a mother reading it to her son on a train in Poland 300 km from the Ukrainian border.

We’re assembling 100,000 simple backpacks with the booklet above and other gospel resources. Church partners are adding a toy, candy and food.

The booklets reportedly claim that everything bad in the world is the result of God’s righteous anger at sin.

The Child Evangelism Fellowship, which runs the infamous Good News Club schoolyard infiltration campaign, is trying to terrify Ukrainian children into latching on to their particular version of Christianity. Kevin Davis summarizes CEF’s “booklet”https://t.co/wxd3rbmHCG
— Center for Inquiry (@center4inquiry) March 22, 2022

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Republicans and the right wing media only care about attacking the Democrats to create outrage in their cult like base

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Scottie’s world today

eye sight better

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Us no universal healthcare

brexiteers know battle

one trump gop thrown in

they are lying to you

face of the gop

go to the poolls

Republican agenda

gop and race 2022

right to refuse

republicans who voted for jackson

will trade refugees

Every conservative argument is the same: they create an outcome that will NEVER happen, they try to hoodwink as many haters as possible for their identity politics, then when none of their predictions come true, they never apologized or seek forgiveness.

See: gay marriage, LGBT rights, inclusion.

It’s bad faith, homophobia, and hate masquerading as a political party.

just go to church pay your taxes The bible belt

water for guzzler

air pod sub woofer

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

This cartoon lies while making a claim the other news agencies lied. The right thinks that just because there is a laptop that means all their wild claims were correct. Spoiler alert the report they cite states there was nothing incriminating found on the laptop. Nothing! It is like the Durham report where they claimed that it showed Hillary was spying on tRump. No the report did not say that. They claim the report showed that Hillary was working with the Russians, no it did not. In the case of Hunter’s laptop Rudy kept claiming that he had it in his bedroom, but I guess that was another lie? These people see no wrong in anything a Republican does and believe tRump is pure greatness, yet the find issue with Biden for even the smallest misstep.

While this cartoon is correct stating the US has invaded with made up pretexts it doesn’t mean that the US shouldn’t help the Ukrainians and stand up to Putin. We did wrong, and we should be held accountable. Putin / Russia is doing wrong, needs to be stopped and punished. This must not be allowed by any country.

It seems that the guy who had Hunter’s laptop” never tried to return it to its owner, was and avowed Trump admirer and had the ability to create those e-mails he <i.“(supposedly)” found and make it look like they had been there originally.

Nope, nothing suspicious there… Exactly. And of course, took it nowhere near anyone official, either; but to an iffy kind of newspaper “reporter. The laptops exist but the authenticity of the contents of the only one with a relatively intact hard drive has not been determined.

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And now some for fun

Zack Hill for Mar 21, 2022

Bizarro comic strip for Monday, March 21, 2022 by Wayno & Piraro

Ukraine Says Russia Bombed School Sheltering 400

Ukraine Says Russia Bombed School Sheltering 400

The Associated Press reports:

Ukrainian authorities said Sunday that Russia’s military bombed an art school sheltering some 400 people in the port city of Mariupol, where heavy street fighting is underway weeks into a devastating Russian siege.

The strike on the art school was the second time in less than a week that local officials reported an attack on a public building where Mariupol residents had taken shelter. A bomb hit a theater where more than 1,000 people were believed to be sheltering on Wednesday.

City officials and aid groups have described dire conditions in Mariupol, where food, water and electricity have run low and the fighting has prevented humanitarian convoys from reaching the city.

Read the full article.

UNRELENTING SIEGE: Zelenskyy slams Russian ‘terror’ after an art school sheltering hundreds of people was bombed and destroyed in Mariupol, Ukraine. https://t.co/vhEU7vrYMo pic.twitter.com/4TOrdDmQD3
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 20, 2022

Russia bombs an art school sheltering 400 people in Mariupol, city council says. Moscow claims it launched hypersonic and cruise missiles on targets.https://t.co/dLTz4lHGpR
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 20, 2022

Russia bombed Mariupol art school sheltering 400 people, says Ukraine https://t.co/XJY8BenKFC
— The Guardian (@guardian) March 20, 2022

AL House Passes Ban On “Divisive” History Lessons

AL House Passes Ban On “Divisive” History Lessons

The Montgomery Advertiser reports:

The Alabama House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would ban the teaching of “divisive concepts” in K-12 history after a debate in which Democrats accused Republicans of trying to erase history.

The bill, HB 312, passed 65 to 32, on a mostly party-line vote. Four Republicans joined the chamber’s Democrats in voting against the bill.

The bill, one of many being pushed by Republicans around the country to restrict the teaching of race and history, would forbid teachers from teaching students to “adopt or believe” a list of “divisive concepts.”

The Birmingham News reports:

After the bill passed, the Democratic representatives stood together to denounce the bill and the Republican majority’s procedural move to cut off the debate and pass the legislation, which was part of the House GOP agenda for this year, dubbed “Standing Tall for Alabama.”

The bill, by Rep. Ed Oliver, R-Dadeville, has been one of the most controversial this year. Oliver was asked if there was any indication that is happening in Alabama, Oliver said there is but did not provide any specifics. He said the bill was intended to be preventive.

“This is ridiculous if this is a priority for us with all the other issues that we have going on. We’re looking at a lot of folks that are in poverty, folks that need health care and opportunity.” @AnthonyDaniels https://t.co/Jp7MNtnPgr
— Alabama Democrats (@aldemocrats) March 19, 2022

The bill passed after an often scathing debate in which Black Democrats called the bill racist and shared their own experiences of segregation and prejudice. https://t.co/jC4VGQFNFG #alpolitics
— Brian Lyman (@lyman_brian) March 18, 2022

Riverside County parent furious after teacher leads political chant involving preschool students

https://abc7.com/riverside-county-teacher-leads-political-chant-in-preschool-video-joe-biden/11662414/

https://abc7.com/video/embed/?pid=11662824

An Eastvale mother is furious after discovering a video showing her daughter’s preschool teacher leading a political chant in which the 4 and 5-year-old students were calling for President Joe Biden to leave office.

“I was just in shock,” said Christina McFadden, who told Eyewitness News the video was posted on a school messaging app that is used to communicate with parents. The incident allegedly happened on Feb. 18 at Turning Point Christian School in the city of Norco.

“I had to watch it multiple times to realize, is this really happening?” McFadden said.

The video lasts only about eight seconds. You can hear a teacher asking the students, “Who’s our President.” The students then respond in unison, “Biden!” The teacher then asks the students “What do we want to do with him?” and the students respond twice, “We want him out!”

McFadden said when she picked up her daughter from school that afternoon, one of the first things she referenced was the chant.

“The first thing she said to me when I picked her up was ‘We want him out,'” said McFadden. “That was the great message she learned that day. Her first history lesson.”

McFadden said the video was removed from the messaging app about three hours after it was first posted. In its place, a school administrator left a message for the families to whom the video was sent:

“We use Brightwheel as a parent communication app to share about your child’s day and activities. Earlier today a video was posted that has since been deleted as it did not share our school and church philosophy of honoring and respecting authority including those in government positions,” the message said.

The message continued, “We are sorry for any misunderstanding this could of (sic) created. With courtesy towards the families of our campus and the children in the classroom I am asking you to please not share with others or post the video on any social media platform.”

Eyewitness News reached out to Turning Point Christian School by phone and email and did not immediately receive a response. It’s unclear what, if any, disciplinary action was taken against the teacher.

Dr. Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at UCLA, said he doesn’t feel what was shown in the video is appropriate behavior by the teacher.

“I’ve always believed the role of teachers is not to indoctrinate students about what to think,” said Howard. “It’s to help develop critical thinking skills so students can make their own decisions.”

“I know private schools operate under a different set of guidelines and procedures,” Howard continued. “But I don’t know even in a private domain that those leadership officials would want teachers telling their students what to think about a particular political figure.”

McFadden said the school did not tell her whether the teacher was disciplined, only saying she had been “repentant” and had learned from her mistake. She only posted the video online, after blurring everyone’s faces, when she didn’t feel the school’s response was adequate.

“It doesn’t matter, at this point, which side of the fence you’re on. This can happen in your child’s classroom, and it is happening,” said McFadden.

An Eastvale mother is furious after discovering a video showing her daughter's preschool teacher leading a political chant in which the 4 and 5-year-old students were calling for President Joe Biden to leave office. https://t.co/oDkaI6UfyD
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) March 20, 2022

“An Eastvale mother is furious after discovering a video showing her daughter’s preschool teacher [Turning Point Christian School- Norco] leading a political chant in which 4 & 5 y/o students were calling for President Joe Biden to leave office.”

h/t @abc7robmcmillan (facebook) pic.twitter.com/VVraf8KMba
— InMinivanHell (@inminivanhell) March 19, 2022

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Are workers people who should have a decent life or livestock to be used to make profit then discarded when used up

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Scottie’s world today

Not coming back for them

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tRump again loves baby killers

Putins Cheerleader marge

Bookends in courage

Putin safe corridor is a grave

Family targets

Absolute control and submission.

tRump jan 6th wave

The right is desperate to have their Covid boogieman back. They built up such a hatred for a public servant whose job was only to advise to the best of his ability. Now that the need for that advice has diminished Dr Fauci is less in the news and the right can not use him to distract, misinform, and rile up their base.

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I do get tired of going over the same things. Her chemistry levels are with in specs for a woman. She was getting beat by other women but that doesn’t get much press. She has put in the time and effort to get good at her craft, which is swimming. Some people just excel at their sport, and others do not. Women have been under the accusation of being too manly since women’s sports started. I posted that this morning as I was getting up. What about the woman runner that was so good she was breaking records, there were claims she was really a man and other crap. She was born a woman and because she was really good she was accused of being a man? What does that say about how women’s sports and the women in them are really seen?

Lia Thomas came in 5th in a race yesterday. Seems average to me. This is something that the right likes to hide and only stress the wins so it seems the trans people are sweeping every event in women’s sports. But that is a lie.

The number of people that get sexual reassignment surgery is extremely small as a percentage of the population. The number that participate in sports is even smaller. It’s certainly nt a problem that needs to be addressed in Congress or in the state legislatures. Let the governing bodies of the various sports address it.

Nebulous

A) If you’re not good enough to be competitive on the men’s team, you’re sure not going to be making records on the women’s team. There’s not THAT much difference in most sports.

B) Would anybody actually believe that a jock would want to become a woman and draw the ire of conservative homophobes and transphobes merely because he’s not the top man on the team?

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OldCoal

So show me this line of young men eager for surgery or chemical castration so they can compete in women’s sports!

And you can’t. You can’t because it doesn’t exist. A tiny handful of people on hormones or who’ve had surgery want to compete and that’s a national issue because Tucker and his buddies say it is. Why?

Their usual whine is “gender assigned at birth”. Yet the briefest possible glance at Caspar Semenya’s Wikipedia page clearly says HER gender assigned at birth was female, and she’s never taken hormone therapy of any kind. But SHE has issues being allowed to compete.

I’m sure she’s grateful to all you Qubs. /s

And, just to get the rest of the story:

THIS is what Qublicans usually cite about cisgender sport:

ally includes suppressing testosterone levels and boosting estrogen.

The research was carried out by Dr. Timothy Roberts, a pediatrician and associate professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and his colleagues. They found that trans women who underwent hormone therapy for one year continued to outperform non-transgender women, also known as cisgender women, though the gap largely closed after two years. But even then, trans women still ran 12% faster.

HOWEVER they leave off this part (usual Qub partial quotes) :

Roberts, however, suggested the difference in running times needs additional perspective. “It was a 12% advantage after two years in run times. But to be in the top 10% of female runners, you have to be 29% faster than the average woman. And to be an elite runner, you’ve got to be 59% faster than the average cis woman,” he told DW.

I posted the audio of an oil executive saying the wouldn’t increase production because right now the profits are too great. They are price gouging and they are proud of it. It doesn’t matter any more who gets hurt in the pursuit of the almighty profit.

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