Category: Cartoons / Political Cartoons
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Republicans & the wealthy rigged the economy and now they are rigging the elections for the same reasons, to give themselves more wealth and power
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Scottie’s word today
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Rigged economy sold as ‘trickle down’.
The ‘do as you’re told’, ‘comply or die’, ‘only mobsters take the fifth’, ‘law & order’ bad faith cult.
Being a complete idiot would get you fired from most jobs. Republicans elect them.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Oh Klem. Do you not understand the difference between a right and a freedom? The Pettus Bridge marchers were seeking to exercise their voting “rights” as granted in the Constitution. Truckers, or for that matter, anyone operating on public highways, are exercising a privilege that comes with defined conditions and restrictions. They have the freedom to choose whether they want to cross the border, and comply with the conditions, or take local gigs only. And all this over a freakin” vaccine when the truckers have MANDATORY medical exams as conditions for their licenses. Remember the way the Selma to Montgomery marchers disrupted the supply chain and threw thousands of people out of work? Remember the swastika flags? The open expressions of anti-Semtisim? Remember the calls to overthrow the government? Remember? ‘Cause I don’t.
Yes as the science changes so does the government advice. Normal and acceptable. Anything else is propaganda by those who deny science and want to promote confusion and dissent.
Right wing cartoon sites I have commented on today.
https://comicskingdom.com/lee-judge/
https://comicskingdom.com/lee-judge/2022-02-12/ again
https://comicskingdom.com/darrin-bell/ I expect a bunch of crap on this one, don’t expect it will survive Republican snowflake outrage.
https://comicskingdom.com/mike-smith/
https://comicskingdom.com/lee-judge/2022-02-12/ Again
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And now some for fun
Rand Paul: I Hope Truckers “Clog Up” US Cities
The Louisville Courier-Journal reports:
In an interview Thursday with the Daily Signal, a conservative media site, the U.S. senator from Kentucky said “it’d be great” if the protests spread to Washington, D.C., when asked about his thoughts on the protests and how the nation’s capital would react if they spread south across the border.
“The thing is, it wouldn’t shut the city down because the government workers haven’t come to work in two years anyway, so I don’t know if it’d affect D.C.,” Paul joked. “It’d be nice change. We’d actually have some traffic.”
“I hope the truckers do come to America, and I hope they clog up cities,” Paul said. “We’re seeing a break in the dam now. Several Democratic governors are finally sort of relinquishing. What they’re finding is moms and dads are upset about this, they’re not just Republicans. Everybody is upset about this.”
Read the full article.
Remember Rand Paul has large investments in medical companies that produce treatments for covid. it is to his benefit to keep people getting sick and needing medical help / treatment for Covid. So why do what is right when he can stuff his pockets with money from the suffering of the people.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup. Fox news viewers are only about 3 million out of a country of 336 million. Democrats need to remember that and not run scared from the right wing media
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Scottie’s world today
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There is a maga group trying to finish destroying a very important preserve that tRump against court rulings just started destroying for his vanity wall. They want the preserve gone, revoked , or just ruined beyond ability to function so they can get their wall section that wont make a bit of difference.
Yes that would cause kid real distress. Funny thing about those who think that teaching history about slavery causes white kids discomfort forget is black kids experience racism long before they start school.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
I find the misleading right wing media’s obsession with a civil servant weird. Dr Fauci is accomplished yes, but he only a bureaucrat. He has no power or authority to make rules and regulations. His only task is to advise based on his skill and education, like others in the government. Yet the right has developed an almost cult like mythology around this person. I wonder why? Could it be he is an intelligent well skill person who knows what he is talking about? Could it be he refutes and shoots down all the right wing nonsense over Covid and public health measures? Or could it be he disagreed with the cult leader tRump and the followers of the dear leader must now attack him with everything they have to protect the snowflake that claimed Covid would just disappear like magic called tRump? I wonder?
Silly cartoon. China doesn’t allow protests and has ever person allowed to enter the stadium vetted. No one would dare protest.
Right wing cartoon comment sections I commented on
https://comicskingdom.com/david-m-hitch/
https://www.creators.com/read/gary-varvel Good reading, I am very proud of this exchange
https://www.creators.com/read/a.f.-branco
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: It is time to really look at the standard of living and quality of life in the US
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Scottie’s world today
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The US incarcerates more people than any other country. We might want to be careful when throwing around charges of human rights abuses.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The facts change and the people responsible for public policy have to change their advice to match the new circumstances.
Complete projection and trying to hide what they are doing. Remember this is the party that is pushing bills to ban subjects from being taught in schools, banning even talking about LGBTQ+, requiring teachers to wear cameras, out kids to parents, has a media arm called Fox News, and trying to call an insurrection riot legitimate political discourse.
I wondered how long it would take for the right wing cartoonist to pick this up. Took less than a day from when Fox News aired a misleading story on it and the cartoonist drawing what the misinformation is. No the US government is not buying crack pipes. They are funding ways to keep addicts from dying or over dosing along with spreading disease. Beau has a good video on this with some of the things the bill funds. So I expect this to be a big shit storm on the comment section of the radical right cartoons.
The preponderance of evidence indicates that mask wearing reduces transmissibility per contact by reducing transmission of infected respiratory particles in both laboratory and clinical contexts. Public mask wearing is most effective at reducing spread of the virus when compliance is high.
Leffler et al. (29) used a multiple regression approach, including a range of policy interventions and country and population characteristics, to infer the relationship between mask use and SARS-CoV-2 transmission. They found that transmission was 7.5 times higher in countries that did not have a mask mandate or universal mask use, a result similar to that found in an analogous study of fewer countries (30). Another study looked at the difference between US states with mask mandates and those without, and found that the daily growth rate was 2.0 percentage points lower in states with mask mandates, estimating that the mandates had prevented 230,000 to 450,000 COVID-19 cases by May 22, 2020 (31).
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118
We’re not going away from mask mandates because they’re ineffective. We’re going away from them because the will to use them is evaporating.
I don’t have a problem with people who don’t want to wear a mask, however I do have a problem with people going into establishments without a mask demanding service when the owners of those establishments require their employees to wear a mask. House rules, follow the house rules of get out of the house. If you do get sick are you willing to forgo expecting your health insurance company to pay your medical bills since you decided not to take precautions?
^^^Just can’t stop repeating lies…
Has the U.S.-Mexico border been left completely open for anyone to cross?
No. And we’ve been here before.
In March, we rated False a claim that the border “is now open to anyone from anywhere in the world who wishes to enter our country.” In April, we rated False a claim that the U.S. is locked down and there’s “a wide open border.” And in July, we rated Mostly False a claim that Biden “is restricting travel for Americans into Mexico, but is keeping the border wide open for illegal aliens to walk right into our country.”
Here’s what is happening now.
Biden has continued a policy — initiated by former President Donald Trump — to restrict Americans’ travel to Mexico, as a way to fight the spread of COVID-19. On Nov. 26, after omicron was identified in South Africa, Biden banned travel from South Africa and seven other African countries.
Most people trying to cross at the border into the U.S. are being turned away, under a March 2020 order by the Trump administration to curb the spread of COVID-19. The Biden administration is still enforcing that policy, although it’s exempting children who arrive alone, as well as some families.
Encounters at the southern border rose each month since Biden took office through July, before dropping the next two months. The latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures show there were more than 1.7 million encounters during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.
In September, the last month for which data was available, there were 192,001 encounters, 102,673 of which resulted in expulsion.
No policies have been changed that would make the borders more open, said Michelle Mittelstadt, spokesperson for the Migration Policy Institute.
The claim that the U.S.-Mexico border is completely open is False.
Comment sections I have made comments on today. I wonder how long they will stay up.
https://www.creators.com/read/gary-varvel
https://www.creators.com/read/a.f.-branco/02/22/319815
https://www.creators.com/read/tom-stiglich
https://www.creators.com/read/zack-hill
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And now some for fun
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The workers do all the real work to make the profit while the upper incomes claim they are the job creators
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Scottie’s world today
A majority of the right wing comments are simply insults with no information, no credible sources, and no acceptance of reality. They some how think winning is to “own the libs with insults” like little kids on a school playground.
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For some reason when Macron went to talk to Putin over the issue of Ukraine they were seated at a table with like 20 feet between them.
The snow is all man made
https://twitter.com/MoiraDonegan/status/1491211439675113474?s=20&t=nW24iiq5d9eAFXiyy_2NJA
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
I did not think Rivers could sink any lower than he has been, but he surprised me with this one. I don’t post it for the message but to see how some right wing cult members see the world.
It’s a sad comic. President Biden really wants unity but the GOP has no wish to join the US of A. Got to give Joe credit for trying though.. His predecessor actively did and continues to divide the nation. Biden would love to have a unified government but you can not expect the Republicans to do anything to help the country because they think their chances of reelection come from denying Biden anything especially if it helps the public.
So true. The misleading right wing media arm of the Republican party can not stand to have Biden credited with anything. They are all about obstruction and misinformation to try to get Republicans elected to office.
Really asinine. Non-citizens can not vote! It takes years. In general, a non-citizen must spend at least 5 years as a lawful permanent resident to be eligible for naturalization while a spouse of a U.S. citizen must spend at least 3 years as a lawful permanent resident3. The median years spent as an LPR for all citizens naturalized in FY 2020 was 7.1 years. To think this is the Democrats plan you give Democrats far to much credit for future planning.
The cartoonist is way off base, no one I knows says it is OK for Democrats to use the N-word. I think this is in anger over Republicans being called on the carpet for using that word. Having said that I have an issue with “bad words”. I really don’t think there are any words that should be outlawed. I understand that words can hurt and wound. I have some words that make me cringe and Ron has words he doesn’t like me to use. But words only have the meanings we give them, and it is the same with the power words have. Their power comes from us. By making the word referred to by its initial makes it more powerful than it ever should be. It is not like a person doesn’t know what the N-word means so is their a difference between using the word or using the n-word to mean the same thing.
Complete lie and misdirection. The crime has risen in cities and states with both Republican and Democratic leadership. Plus crime is still lower than it has been in the last decade. It is expected to decline as the country returns to non-pandemic conditions. What prosecutors are doing is not prosecuting non-violent crime with lower dollar values so that they can use more programs designed to rehabilitate people and not feed the school to prison for profit pipelines. They are not prosecuting low level drug crimes such as possession when so many states have legalized cannabis. The sad fact is there is profit in incarcerating a lot of people in the country, there is a political reason to incarcerate black people and take away their voting rights. There is an attempt to stop any reforms to the justice system and prosecutions in the US. Again this cartoon is misdirection and misinformation.
No police forces have been defunded, most have seen budget increases. However the Republicans did vote against more money for the police. Yes the Republicans did vote no to police getting more money! The Build Back Better bill had money for police departments all across the US and Republicans killed it. Not one Republican voted for it. So save your pious fake tears.
This is BS. Trying to explain science to science deniers is a waste of time. The world is not flat. The world is way more than 6000 years old. The Bible is fiction, not canon. Vaccines work. Masks protect the wearer and the people around the wearer when worn properly.
If it weren’t for 1/2 the population wearing masks, this pandemic would be far worse…
If 100% of the population wore masks, we would not be so deep into this pandemic NOW!
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And now some for fun
On the above, Ron and I tell each other when we are going to go for a nap so the other can join in. But we have only been together 32 years.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: In the wealthiest country on earth the majority of people struggle to have enough money to live. It doesn’t have to be this way
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Scottie’s world today
Had a dental appointment today, made a red sauce with meatballs for a spaghetti supper, and some thick sliced garlic cheese toast for supper. I had to take extra medication to be able to do that. So I am too tired to finish the roundup. I don’t have any appointments tomorrow so I plan to add the cartoons I missed today ( about half the normal pages I go to ) into tomorrows roundup. Best wishes to all
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No one buys the exact things each week. But we all buy mostly the same foods all the time that we like to eat and we normally by the same detergents or other supplies. And the truth is only lately has wages started to rise but there are still far too low. In my area I am reading that to be able to rent a 1 bedroom apartment a person needs a wage of $20.17 an hour for 40 hours. $24.82 for a two bedroom. Most people work for less than $15 dollars an hour around here.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
It doesn’t have to be this way. One way to fix this, rent a large space to have children spread out at tables, have good wifi, and have a few adults to circulate around the large space. Just like a classroom but much bigger and each kid working on their own computer at their own speed. It is done in other countries why not the US.
And the misleading right wing cartoonist fails to mention the parties did a complete swap on ideals with the Democrats currently being against discrimination and the Republicans being for discrimination and oppression, not to mention insurrection and other throwing the government.
Pelosi said that the contestants should be aware of their situation and their safety so they might want to wait on their criticisms of China until they were safe. She did not say they shouldn’t say anything negative about China, she did not try to stop them from insulting China. But again facts don’t really matter to the right wing.
I want to scream when I see these cartoons. Because so many of the right wing cult members believe this is the god’s honest truth. I argue that no polices have changed other than family detention, I show court cases preventing Biden from making changes on the southern border, I point out illegals can not vote and illegals can not become citizens. Nothing matters to them. tRump said 3 million illegals voted for Hillary and now every right winger is convinced that Biden is busing illegal immigrants across the border to vote for Democrats.
Yet no outcry from Branco when ICE under tRump was taking children separated at the border from their parents on midnight flights all over the country and given to Christian adoption agencies to adopt out to Christian parents, collecting fees from those adopting parents, many of those children who have not been returned to their rightful parents. The very definition of child human trafficking.
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Eating Raoul (1982) Trailer
“Family Values” Republican Candidate For Oregon Gov Admits He And His Wife Belonged To Swingers Group
And yet the gays / lesbians are going to ruin the sanctity of marriage. Marriage is one man and one woman claim the Religious even though in the bible it is one man and as many females as he can screw. Look I really don’t care who bangs who as long as it is consensual. If all parties agree go for it. I don’t feel people are property. I say that as someone in a 32 year long “marriage”. But I do get tired of the hypocrites that had no problem with Britney Spears and Jason Alexander: 55 hours marriage but said our legal marriage in 2015 would destroy the institution. At this point I think some like Franklin Graham do it for fundraising yet some like Brian Brown and Scott Lively go all over the world trying to promote hate and criminalize homosexuality.
The Williamette Week reports:
Sandy Mayor Stan Pulliam, a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, told WW today that prior to entering the race, he and his wife, MacKensey, “explored relationships, mutual relationships with other couples, for a brief period of time before ultimately deciding that it wasn’t for us.”
Pulliam, 40, agreed to an interview after a 2016 screenshot from a page titled “Swinger Facebook Group PDX,” rocketed around Oregon political circles.
Sitting for a Zoom interview Thursday afternoon alongside MacKensey, his wife of 12 years, Pulliam, 40, repeatedly declined to specify when the “mutual relationships” began or ended, except to say that 2016 was an accurate date and their participation ended well before he began running for governor.
Mediaite reports:
“In Oregon, we really cherish values of individuality and liberty,” Pulliam said. “The decisions that we made were for MacKensey and I to make in the privacy of our own homes.”
Pulliam added that he and his wife are not ashamed of their previous activity, nor are they ashamed of it. In fact, he said, the couple has received an outpouring of support.
He also denied that he is bisexual. “I’m a heterosexual male,” Pulliam said. “And I’ve only personally engaged in heterosexual activity.”
Below is from his campaign site.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Life happens so let government work for the public instead of just the wealthy
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Scottie’s world today
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Help the non-billionaires.
Elect a working class Congress.
The hypocrisy of GOP whiteness. Freedoms for me, but none for thee.
‘Legitimate political discourse’ is what the indoctrinated call terror.
The abuser has removed all their morals/ethics. The indoctrinated can’t admit their mistake, so they further radicalize themselves to appease the abuser. It’s a cult.
The police have no intention of serving the community. All they want is power and violence.
They contort their own anti-vaxx deaths into ‘rise in crime stats’. They want more money to reward their inhumanity. It’s disgusting.
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/675559440929456128
Plus the study is not peer reviewed. However it is getting a lot of traction. They were talking about it at my doctors office this morning. Scary.
Imagine hearing this and thinking death is a better option. Imagine hearing this and NOT think of the burden of the unvaccinated on society.
Takes a certain mind to dismiss science and humanity while deaths approach one million.
Republicans normalize racism. Writ large.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Let’s compare the number of trademarks China gave Ivanka when tRump was president to how many they have given Pelosi? The former guy has at least 100 Chinese trademarks, and Ivanka got 18 Chinese trademarks in just 2 months. Yet you claim Pelosi is the one taking money from China.
Ah this will please the cult base but has no grounding in fact. Wasn’t it former guy tRump who had trouble walking down ramps and stairs requiring someone be very close to him in case he wobbled or started to fall. Oh yes, there is video of it.
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And now some for fun
Today the above are called right wing trolls.
What we are witnessing is PRICE GOUGING, NOT INFLATION.
INFLATION is when business owners raise prices commensurate with higher costs to make ends meet.
But when corporations are reporting record all-time profits, raising prices is NOT INFLATION, it is PRICE GOUGING to capitalize on supply chain disruptions caused by a national emergency.
McDonald’s profits soared 59% in 2021, to $7.5 billion.
ExxonMobil reported a $8.9 billion in profits in the FOURTH QUARTER ALONE, while it was jacking up prices to new records.
Numerous other companies jacked up prices while raking in record profits in 2021.
Donald Trump crashed the economy, destroyed the supply chain, blew up international trade relations by imposing ridiculous tariffs that hurt farmers and consumers, mishandled a pandemic that exploded into a worldwide economic crisis and now as Biden is putting people back, restoring consumer confidence, which stimulates demand, but the devastation wrought by Trump on the supply chain is taking longer to undo, especially as anti-science right wing nut jobs continue to undermine recovery from the Trump plague.
If there were a hurricane, tornado, flood or wildfire and vendors were charging $20 for a bottle of water, they would be arrested. We need to see some of the corporate heads who have tripled their profits on the backs of consumers being frog-marched into the Big House.