Category: Cartoons / Political Cartoons
An assistant principal read the children’s book ‘I Need a New Butt!’ to second-graders. He was fired.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/11/toby-price-principal-fired-childrens-book/
Toby Price with his wife, Leah. (Toby Price)
“It’s a funny, silly book,” Price, 46, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I’m a firm believer that … if kids see that books can be funny and silly, they’ll hang around long enough to see all the other cool things that books can be.”
The students “thought it was hilarious,” Price recalled. But the superintendent for the Hinds County School District near Jackson, Miss., did not, and about an hour after the event, Price was placed on administrative leave. Two days later, on March 4, he was fired.
The superintendent, Delesicia Martin, who did not respond to The Post’s request for comment, wrote in Price’s termination letter that he “showed a lack of professionalism and impaired judgment” because “the topics described in this book were inappropriate.”
Now, Price is fighting to overturn the district’s decision. His efforts have garnered overwhelming support, he said, with parents, current and former students, and strangers speaking out and donating to a GoFundMe so he can pay for a lawyer and continue to support his family.
Price’s firing is the latest flash point over books in schools, though most of the conflicts have been over thosethat reference race and sexual orientation. In November, the American Library Association called the rate at which books are being challenged “unprecedented.”In several states where new laws are dictating how teachers discuss race in schools, many educators are scared they could lose their jobs over one misstep.
Price said hefears his situation could set a “scary precedent” for teachers in his district. He worries educators will wonder if they have to get approval for every book they read to their students.
“Teachers already have so much else to worry about when they come into a building: One, getting fired over test scores; two, is someone going to come in and shoot up the building? Or am I going to catch covid?” Price said.
The events leading to Price’s firing began March 2, when he organized a Zoom event for second-graders at the Byram, Miss., elementary school. The gathering was to celebrate Read Across America Day, which is Dr. Seuss’s birthday and a day dedicated to encouraging children to read. The plan was to have a special guest read a book to them.
When the guestdid not arrive, Price’s boss asked him to read to the students. Price said the second-graders loved the book, which is about a boy who thinks he needs a new butt after noticing his has a large crack.
Fifteen minutes after the event, Price said, the principal at hisschool called him into her office. According to Price, she told him that he shouldn’t have chosen that book and that parents might complain. Soon after the meeting, he said, he was told the superintendent wanted to see him at the district office immediately.
“They kind of just let me have it,” Price said. “She said, ‘Is this the kind of thing you find funny and silly? Fart and butt and bulletproof butts?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I did until I walked in.’ ”
On March 4, Price was called back to the district office and fired, he said.
Price said he was blindsided by the sudden decision, noting that he has never had any disciplinary issues. Not only does he love working with children, but he also has a family to support, he said. Two of his three children have autism.
Since the firing, Pricesaid, he has not been allowed back into his office to collect his personal items. And though he wants the district’s decision overturned, he’s unsure about returning to the job, since he fears he’ll be scrutinized by senior administrators. He is more concerned with ridding the termination from his record.
Price said he hasn’t heard of any complaintsabout the bookfrom parents and noted that members of the parent-teacher organization wrote to him offering their support. Former students have also spoken out, including one who wrote a thread on Twitter about how “amazing” Price was at his job.
“The man absolutely loved reading and actively encouraged it,” the former student wrote. “Even lending books from his own office for kids to read.”
Tom Angleberger, the children’s author best known for the “Origami Yoda” and “Rocket and Groot” series, told The Post that he has known Price for years. Angleberger said he admires that Price “never gives up” and dedicated a book to him and his family in recognition of his perseverance.
“Mr. Price is dedicated to making connections with kids, to making sure they have a caring adult in their lives and to proving to them that learning and reading don’t have to be boring,” Angleberger said.
Price said he doesn’t regret his decision to read “I Need a New Butt!”
“Kids need silly books,” Price said. “The world is too harsh a place.”
As of early Friday, the book was No. 6 on Amazon’s children’s book bestsellers list.
Thanks to Randy for sending me the link to this story and the reading of the book in question.
😜I Need A New Butt! | Kids Book READ ALOUD
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The people are struggling to survive in the US with insufficient incomes / resources to have decent lives while the majority of our elected officials get wealthy in office by serving the wealthy donors.
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We need to restore campaign finance laws. Citizens United ruling is malware for democracy.
Republicans have no policy, no consistent beliefs. Their media is not journalism.
They are reduced to abusing the emotions of their unspectacular base.
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The same congress where 8 members voted against aid to Ukraine? The same congress where half the Republicans supported Putin? The right wing hates to admit that President Biden has lead the world in response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. They hate that Biden gets credit when their cult leader couldn’t stand up to Putin even to support the US own intel agencies.
Gods the right wing cartoonist are desperate. Russia is not a communist country. They are hoping none of their viewers are smart enough to know it is not 1980 anymore. Bernie never touted communism for the US. Bernie wants the government to work for the public and not just for the wealthy. That is not communism. It is about the taxpayers getting a return on their tax money.
Christians like Payne are adamant in forcing everyone to think and enjoy hatreds like them, especially when it comes to racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia. Conserves are “woke” against “woke”. They don’t want white heterosexual folks to be offended by all those others around them. Some Disney employees participated in a walkout Tuesday to protest Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill The bill, which has not yet been signed into law, would limit discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools PREVIOUS: Disney opposes Florida’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, CEO to meet with Gov. DeathSantis. Payne hates gay people apparently.
Isn’t that virtue signaling? I though right wingers considered virtue signaling to be bad. The right didn’t care about Uyghurs during Trump’s term. Now they are pretending to care about an ethnic group they didn’t care about before because they need a reason to paint President Biden as a bad guy over something. So, what do you armchair quarterbacks expect President Biden to do? Trump tried imposing tariffs on China because of their unfair business practices. It didn’t work very well, and Trump had to ask Congress to give farmers money to help them out. America is busy dealing with Putin. A dictator that some right wingers to praise. Trump called him a genius for his invasion of Ukraine. Seems like a bad idea to pick a fight with two countries with nuclear weapons. As for Canada “mistreating” Christians, give me a break.
Anti-vaxxers remind me of the person that got mauled by the tiger at the zoo because they decided to go into the tiger pit. They were warned many times of the danger but decided to overcome the obstacles put in place designed to prevent such a tragedy from happening. Such safeguards are put in place in order to prevent people from dying from COVID. If you decide to have a hissy fit and not do what is expected to stop COVID, then don’t expect me to feel sorry for you if you die. I will only feel sorry for the people that died from COVID because they had a compromised immune system. Taking the analogy farther, they remind me of the person who decided to release the tiger so it could wander the city freely, mauling whomever it wants.
The cartoon over looks the new varient to push one of their favorite villains Dr Fauci and the fear that he will force you to do things you do not want to do. People Dr. Fauci is only an advisor. But it is easier to make him the villain and pretending tRump was not in charge of the things people hate.
tRump is not responsible for the vaccine development nor for their distribution. While tRump was throwing the US treasury to any organization that would promise him anything to save his bacon, the leading vaccine maker did not take the money from the US. All the vaccine manufactures had started working on vaccines before tRump started offering money. tRump offered money to people who claimed their businesses to develop vaccines were in their living rooms. The tRump people had no plan or method to get the shots into peoples arms. For that the credit goes to the Biden administration. But the real reason to not give credit to tRump / Republicans is their catering and fostering an anti-vaccine insanity that is not only prolonging the covid issue but has led to unnecessary death and economic problems. But the right doesn’t care about facts, they want to worship their cult leader tRump and pretend science is not real.
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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
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Your surplus labor value is stolen. The system gives the thieves multiples of that stolen wealth via stock evaluations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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Pro-Trump group sent armed members door-to-door in Colorado to “intimidate” voters: Lawsuit
oting rights groups have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop a pro-Trump group from going door-to-door in Colorado in search of evidence to support voter fraud allegations that have already been debunked and rejected by courts.
The lawsuit alleges that the U.S. Election Integrity Plan — led by Shawn Smith, an ally of former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and MyPillow founder Mike Lindell — is sending armed members door-to-door in areas with large numbers of voters of color, questioning people about how they voted and taking photographs of their homes.
The lawsuit, which is backed by the state chapter of the NAACP, the League of Women Voters and Mi Familia Vota, alleges that the “voter intimidation” campaign violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, a post-Civil War law aimed at preventing white vigilantes from terrorizing Black people to stop them from voting.
The lawsuit cites the “County & Local Organizing Playbook” used by the group, which instructs members to “undertake citizen audit activities to either refute or confirm serious allegations of election malfeasance” in order to “support future legal action.” The group, some of whose members are armed, has been going door-to-door in El Paso, Mesa and Weld counties in Colorado, using public voter lists to identify areas where they believe ballots were fraudulently cast, the Colorado Times Recorder reported last year. The report prompted an alert from Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who warned voters of unofficial canvassing efforts and urged residents to report harassment and threats to local law enforcement or the Justice Department.
“Defendants’ objectives are clear. By planning to, threatening to, and actually deploying armed agents to knock on doors throughout the state of Colorado, USEIP is engaged in voter intimidation,” the lawsuit states. “USEIP’s public-facing actions are a clear signal to Colorado voters — especially voters of color — that to vote in an upcoming election means facing interrogation by potentially armed and threatening USEIP agents at their doorstep thereafter.”
The lawsuit claims that some members have worn “badges” and falsely accused voters of fraud.
“Sometimes armed and donning badges to present an appearance of government officiality, USEIP agents interrogate voters about their addresses, whether they participated in the 2020 election, and — if so — how they cast their vote,” the complaint says. “It is reported that multiple agents have claimed to be from ‘the county,’ and have, without any evidence, falsely accused the residents of casting fraudulent ballots.”
The voting rights groups say the group’s efforts to seek out areas where they believe voter fraud occurred has largely focused on high-density housing areas and communities experiencing a growth in the number of minority voters.
“No one should have to be afraid to go to the polls or fear that doing so will mean being threatened in their own homes,” Courtney Hostetler, senior counsel for Free Speech for People and one of the lawyers leading the lawsuit, said in a statement. “Free and fair elections can only occur when people know that they are able to safely vote without reprisal or intimidation.”
The group’s “playbook” thanks Lindell, a leading election conspiracy theorist. Smith, the group’s founder, attended Lindell’s election conspiracy-laden “symposium” last year in South Dakota along with former Colorado election clerk Tina Peters, who was indicted earlier this month for her role in leaking sensitive voting system data that was published by QAnon conspiracy theorists and right-wing websites. Griswold’s office said earlier this year that Smith had also convinced another election official, Elbert County Clerk and Recorder Dallas Schroeder, to make copies of his office’s hard drives that he later gave to “unauthorized people in violation of Election Rules.”
Shawn Smith, the head of USEIP last month led a “lock her up” chant while discussing Griswold at a rally and said that “if you’re involved in election fraud, you deserve to hang.”
He can also seen in a video among a group of violent Trump supporters who clashed with police outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He was accompanied by Colorado state Rep. Ron Hanks, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate who has also pushed false election claims.
Smith is also the president of another “election integrity” group called Cause of America, also funded by Lindell, which Smith announced on Bannon’s “War Room” podcast.
USEIP appears to have fully embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory. Its website and the first page of its “playbook” include the slogan “We Are the Plan,” frequently associated with QAnon believers. During a presentation organized by Sherronna Bishop, the former campaign manager for Rep. Lauren Boebert, USEIP leader Cory Anderson (who is also a member of the anti-government Three Percenter militia) described the briefing as “being red-pilled,” according to the Times Recorder. (That expression, originally drawn from “The Matrix,” is popular among QAnon followers and other far-right conspiracy theorists.)
The lawsuit names Smith, as well as co-founders Holly Kasun and Ashe Epp, who was also at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
It alleges that their attempted canvassing for election fraud evidence had the “purpose and effect of intimidating Coloradans from voting, trying to vote, helping others to vote, supporting or advocating for certain political beliefs, or exercising the right to speak, peaceably assemble, or petition the government for redress of grievances, in violation of Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act.” The suit also accuses the group of violating a section of the Ku Klux Klan Act that bans “conspiracy to interfere with civil rights.”
“Sadly, efforts to intimidate voters are nothing new,” NAACP general counsel Janette McCarthy Wallace said in a statement. “The NAACP has a long and proud history of opposing those who would seek to thwart democracy. We could not sit idly by and allow voters to potentially be bullied out of exercising their rights.”
The lawsuit does not offer specific examples of voters being intimidated or harassed by armed canvassers, but last year USEIP leader Charity McPike urged armed members to provide “security” for the group.
“We are attempting to line up security. However, anyone who carries protection might want to let us know so we can offer your cell phone numbers to those who are concerned,” McPike said, according to Colorado Pols.
“No voter should ever feel threatened in the safety of their own homes,” Celina Stewart, League of Women Voters chief counsel, said in a statement. “The nefarious actions of the USEIP are a blatant form of voter intimidation used to target and with the intent to silence Colorado voters of color, which is in clear violation of the Voting Rights Act.”
The USEIP is also working with the Colorado Republican Party on its “Election Integrity Operations,” according to the Times Recorder. A USEIP member is in charge of the GOP’s program and has given joint presentations with Epp, the group’s co-founder. Heidi Ganahl, the leading Republican candidate for Colorado governor, promoted the group during a recent event, declaring that they are “doing great things.”
USEIP did not respond to a request for comment. The group’s website says it plans to expand to other states, including Arizona, Georgia and New Hampshire. Its training materials are already being used by conspiracy theorists in Utah who call themselves the Utah Voter Verification Project, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.
Residents in Hurricane, Utah, alerted Washington County officials in December that members of the group, who refused to identify themselves, showed up at their doors with personal voter information, according to the report. The members also recorded voters without their consent.
“We can record anyone without telling them. We don’t need permission,” one unidentified trainer told the outlet. The group’s training manual also stressed that “you do not have to identify yourself at all.”
The goal of the Utah group appears to be to collect affidavits from voters who claim to have evidence of illegal votes. In the wake of Trump’s 2020 defeat, his legal team attempted to submit voter affidavits to prove their debunked allegations, but those efforts were almost entirely rejected by judges and discredited by election officials.
There has been no credible evidence of voter fraud in Utah, which Trump won by more than 20 points. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox and Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson condemned those who are spreading “misinformation” about the election and dismissed claims of fraud as “absolute falsehoods.”
Other Trump supporters have tried similar door-to-door audits. Cyber Ninjas, the bankrupt company that led Arizona’s failed “forensic audit,” sought to send canvassers door-to-door in Maricopa County but ultimately relented after the Justice Department warned that such an effort would violate federal laws against voter intimidation.
Another group called the New Mexico Audit Force also sent its members door-to-door in heavily Republican Otero County, which had already spent $50,000 on an “audit” confirming that Trump had won the county by more than 25 points. The House Oversight Committee last Thursday announced a probe of the effort, warning that the audit “illegally interferes with Americans’ right to vote by spreading disinformation about elections and intimidating voters.”
USEIP also appears to have had trouble vetting its volunteers. The group’s training manual says that the group intends to check volunteers’ social media and called on them for a “gut check,” saying leaders had “learned (roundaboutly) that there were a couple of people in our group, who were volunteering for our events, who had a criminal history of sexual misconduct,” and adding, “it’s unfortunate that we must check volunteers for pedophilic leanings.”
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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Absolute control and submission.
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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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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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The US is called the wealthiest country on earth and yet the public is the too poor to enjoy life
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I am seeing this sort of cartoon all over the web.
This was drawn by a right wing cartoonist with no acknowledgement that the right denying masks and getting vaccinated would cut down on the chance of another surge in the Covid virus variants.
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It’s NOT because of gas prices. It’s because they don’t want to pay taxes to support anyone but themselves. Trade lower gas prices for lower education, restrictive healthcare, lax safety regulations, more government in your private parts, etc.
Reading the comments on this cartoon was enlightening. Every tenth comment explained that the report did not say that. Every tenth comment explained what the report said, and how it differed from the right wing narrative. Then after the comment that explained things there was a rash of right wing misinformation posted as the real true story and then the insults. That is what the right wing is today.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Why is the US the only developed nation with out a real family leave system? Are we not as pro-life as the right wing claims?
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Sorry got a real late start. Enjoy!
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Conservative politics uses the lens of anger.
It’s an international commodity, folks.
Comrade Carlson.
Tucker said it was not ‘un-American’ to support Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. He was wrong. Tucker’s opinion is non-stop coordinated pro-Putin propaganda.
Trump bullshit laid bare.
Republicans are soft on crime because they would lose the entire Party if they had ethics.
Entire Republican Party is garbage politics legislated by garbage politicians to appease the garbage intellect of their base.
So many horrible conservatives to keep track of.
Authoritarians ban books. Create a false world where only THEY have the truth. See: GOP
Control speech. Attack truth. Punish women.
Russia or GOP?
Teaching people about the history of cruel actions only offends you if you identify with the cruelty.
Ex: People were racist. They were cruel.
Cruel person: Hey, I’m racist. Don’t hurt my feelings.
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The right is desperate to ignore all the work Biden has done to box in Putin at the same time the right sings Putin’s praises.
Again the right wing cartoons are desperate to find anything to stick in blaming Biden. Gas prices have been addressed, we even have audio of one of the CEOs saying there is no way they would increase production and reduce their profits.
My gods, their country is being destroy while their people slaughtered and the right wing can only think of the money going to help them. Why, because the right things only of the wealthy wanting every cent of the nation’s wealth and they cry to see it going to help people.
Sick. While crime in the US may seem up right now it is not anywhere near what it was 10 years ago. But to compare any crime in the US to a war torn country that has been invaded and their people are being slaughtered is gross.
Yes Biden made a gaff. He goofed. He admitted it, he laughed about it. He is human. He has been known for making verbal mistakes. He did not get angry when he did it, he did not deny it. I find the difference between him and trump greatly refreshing. tRump would have attacked the press who reported it and claimed he never said what everyone heard him say.
Despite the rights many lies, such as Rudy saying he had the laptop but the authorities wouldn’t look at it, the authorities really had the laptop, the emails that refuted what the right wing was claiming were already in the hands of the DOJ / FBI. They clear both Hunter and Joe Biden. The emails to Hunter’s business partners also stressed many times that Joe Biden wouldn’t be bound by anything that Hunter was doing, that no one doing business with them should do so thinking they would influence Joe Biden’s behavior. It was so above board it is like watching a 1940’s TV show.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Republicans are preventing the government from working for the people. Vote them out and have a government of the people working for the people
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None of these other countries have for-profit corporate insurance. It’s that obvious.
Health care does not need a middle man.
All libertarians eliminated. All FOX World done.
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/678996186992164864
Progressive politics will save the country.
American oil companies answer to shareholders and owners, not to the government.
Prices are a reflection of their greed, not supply and demand, nor the cost of crude oil per barrel.
Handful of *subsidized* monopolistic oil companies. It’s not a free market.
Refuse to be your child’s first bully 🌈
Republicans are all about control. The only way to get more power for their white cis-hetero male is to take away the rights of others and attack diversity.
Reactionary Republicans are the worst people.
‘Let others live’ said no conservative, judgmental control freak ever.
Authoritarians spread homophobia. See: GOP
Media bias.
The GOP/Russia authoritarian code:
We are criminals. We are corrupt. We are doing nothing wrong. The other side is worse.
Republicans are willing participants. Corruption is a pillar of authoritarianism.
Russia funds the GOP. GOP attacks democracy, non-whites, LGBTQ community, teachers, students, schools, and public health policy.
From Trump to entire GOP congress: they all take Russian money and parrot Russian active measures.
Marge is an international disgrace.
Republicans don’t even mind. They ❤ Putin.
Russia has their receipts.
Collusion. Conspiracy to commit treason. Propaganda syndication. Pro-Putin.
The dots are connected.
Putin wants to be Stalin. GOP ambitiously enable and amplify the madness.
Anyone who is soft on Putin is a disgrace.
When your selfishness clouds your entire world view. Middle Age Riot
The long-tail of covid is unknown. So ironic for Conservatives, who need absolutes to function, so embraced covid.
Covid is not over
The Republican male view of how pregnancy works.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
There is a difference between giveaways, like tax cuts for corporations and billionaires and investing in country to modernize it and make it competitive on a global scale.
Here we go again. The following is from “New Hopes for a Changing World,”Bertrand Russell, 1951:
“Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster…In the situation that existed in the Great Depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again. But everybody thought that to do so would risk almost certain loss. Within the framework of classical economics there was no solution. Roosevelt saved the situation by bold and heretical action.
“He spent billions of public money, and created a huge public debt, but by doing so he revived production and brought his country out of the depression. Businessmen who in spite of such a sharp lesson continued to believe in old-fashioned economics, were infinitely shocked; and though Roosevelt saved them from ruin, they continued to curse him and to speak of him as ‘the madman in the White House.’”…
Our Government is supposed to help everybody, not just to give largesse to rich people in the comedic hope it will effectively filter down the wealth strata of all citizens. Roosevelt did the upper class a true favor, and some still refuse to believe it. Unfortunately, it took a world war to eventually unite us — for a while.
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And now some for fun
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.