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Category: Cartoons / Political Cartoons
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: It is not free stuff, it is using government to serve the people, help the public. The people today have a lower standard of living since the New Deal.
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https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1470882713888788480?s=20
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/670587423673237504
But, but, but …it was antifa. The entire operation was Trump, the Republican Party, and FOX. They all knew. They all lied afterwards.
Republicans want a Civil War, based on lies and conspiracies, based on promises they will never deliver, just to retain power and destroy elections/democracy. Their violence is premeditated. Their base is incapable of independent thought. The losers have united. Instead of owning their growing defeats, they invent excuses. They blame others.
They knew they were guilty. Then they invented an enemy to blame it on. Republican/FOX fascism, writ large.
They knew. They lied. The Right want their ‘lone wolves’ to attack progressives using FOX propaganda.
Hannity, Ingraham, and Kilmeade think their viewers are worthless. They lie to their faces.
https://twitter.com/GBBranstetter/status/1470377979175968768?s=20
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The funny thing about the right attack Biden on crime is that the left attacks Biden for being to strict on crime and punishment. Have all the right forgotten the 1994 crime bill sponsored by Biden that led to a jump in mass incarceration. Biden is historically pro-police, pro-prison, pro-hammer down law and order. However turning the US into a police state wont solve the crime problem. Crime may be rising now but is still less than it has been even in the last decade. Crime has been falling steadily. But there are some who stand to gain by turning the US into a police state. Resist their fear mongering. We can do better, again look at other countries, they solve crime problems with out locking up large segments of the population in prisons designed to be punitive and in inhumane. Hugs
The right likes to call any coverage of the Coronavirus hysterical because they work for the profit of big money. A virus that has killed over 800,000 people in less than 2 years and 1% of people over 65 in the country. Think of that. Why would anyone want to ignore that, because it cuts into profit. If you have take precautions it costs profits. So the right wing makes it seem the virus is no problem at all and any one who wants to fight the virus is wrong. Hugs
Maybe if police were not busy oppressing minorities with the Republicans endless war on drugs they would have time to focus on petty theft. Crime rates in GOP cities are the same as those in Democrat led cities. Crime rates in cities that increased police funding showed increases in crime. By pushing this false Fox News inspired narrative, you ignore the true roots and causes of crime. Typical GOP-posturing. Hugs
I’m not sure of the point. Kentucky officials and citizens have been highly complimentary about the federal response to the disaster. And the Biden admin has been begging people to get booster shots. What is Mr. Lester’s beef? Sen. McConnell went as far to praise the speed and effort the President has made in response to the disaster. No mention was made or Covid-19 vaccinations. Hugs
Again the right wing projects. Blame Biden they shout for taking away something Biden worked hard to give you and the Republicans fought every attempt to keep you having. It is extended in the build back better plan that Manchin, Sinema, and the Republicans are fighting to keep from ever becoming law. This is misdirection in hopes of making the people angry at someone trying to help them by the person trying to hurt them. Hugs
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No Zuckerberg is the ET. This reminds me of the twilight zone episode where everyone on a bus stopped at a diner in a snow storm. They were scared a escaped prisoner was mixed in with them. After they all got back on the bus and the bus crashed killing everyone one guy returned to the diner where he announced he was from Mars and they were going to invade, but the cook in the diner laughed and told him too late as he was from Venus and they were already to invade. Hugs
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: To corporations workers are simply commodities to use and throw away. Only they and their fellow wealthy ilk are worthy of a decent life in their opinion.
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Worker solidarity will change this. Unite!
Both parties are not the same.
DOJ needs to drop the hammer.
The Chief of Staff of a twice impeached lifelong criminal is a traitor and cheater.
This is the design. Not the flaw.
Real loving god there buddy. I always wonder at people who buy expensive vehicles and then write or plaster them with stickers. I doubt the sanity of people like this. Hugs
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Rivers is another right wing media cartoonist. I wonder why the right thinks the common decency of wearing a mask and social distancing to protect others around them is hell. Why vaccines paid for and approved by their tax dollars, used with very minuscule side effects world wide is too much to ask for saving lives. The lives they save could be theirs. After all this time and data, the objections now come down to stubborn I don’t want to because my tribe has said it is bad. They would rather believe a talk show host who is a high school drop out or whose bosses said in court no one should believe him rather than a certified immunologist with over 30 years in the practice of saving peoples lives. Hugs
The real economy is how money flows effecting peoples lives. It is not the stock market which is how much money the wealthy are gaining from the system. In the economy today there is a huge divide between the wealthy and the public. That divide is making it hard for the public to meet their daily needs. The Democrats are trying to fix and narrow that divide. But because the wealthy are so entrenched and own so much of the media along with a majority of the elected office holders it is a fight to get anything for the people, anything helps the public. The wealthy only care, their only interest is more for themselves. More than they can spend, more than the other wealthy for bragging rights. The public needs to know who is fighting for them, and who is fighting against them. As corporate owned media is not going to tell them, and bribed politicians are going to lie about the attempts to pass bills to help the public, it is up to us to share the true of what is happening with the people. Spread the news, to everyone, on every blog, at every meeting with others. Get the word out before it is too late. Hugs
At least Biden is actually trying to something to help the majority of Americans unlike the last administration who only wanted to help the wealthy 0.1%. Yet another phrase that the GQP has stolen from the language. Used to be “free stuff” was the crap that you got for signing up for a savings account or a web service. Now they intend it to mean “Democrats invested in infrastructure or the people”. Damn them to Hell. Hugs
Only AG would believe atheist’s have meltdowns over the origin of words. If you really want to drive “them” crazy, just wish them a Happy Festivus and watch their heads explode!!! Even if Holiday originated from Holy Day, that’s not its modern meaning. And besides, even if you intend it as Holy Day, that’s still more inclusive because every religion has some concept of Holiness. No one is telling you that you can’t say Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays is simply meant to show respect for those of us who DON’T celebrate Christmas. I have never understood the made up war on Christmas and anger on the right if people don’t use their exact phrasing. Isn’t this the freedom people? No vaccines and do what they want party? But forcing everyone to pay homage to a holiday that has borrowed every aspect of it from other faiths and pagan rites seems weird to me. Hugs
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Corporations taking advantage of the situation to price gouge, jack up prices while trying to blame workers for rising costs.
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Sorry but the above hunger strike is stupid and makes hunger strikes look bad. The fact is Sinema doesn’t care and wont care if these protestors die. She has made that clear. She cares only about herself, her future. and her money. Her money! She cares about what her donors pay her to care about. She is shamelessly bought and legally bribed.
And yet Bernie fully backed up Biden’s run for president. Clyburn stopped Bernie by convincing more people to vote for Joe. That’s part of democracy. What about putting up candidates with a bit of personality and bite instead of the bland non-entities who raise the most money? Hugs
Guns and children at Christmas is sick. You are appealing to abusers, white supremacists, and the cult of toxic enablers. The opposite of Jesus.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1470170846136348677?s=20
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This is the danger I mentioned before. Disbelieving the person being discriminated against being the default position of authorities. The idea that it is best to assume everyone who claims to have been discriminated against or assaulted due to racism / bigotry is lying or making it up. That is a scary place to be in for the disadvantaged. Hugs
Have right wing cartoonist seen the job numbers? Biden adds 943k jobs — more jobs in a single month than Trump netted during his ENTIRE TERM. Are you glad Biden is President?” Nearly a million jobs added for the month. Then the wall street Journal published: “Biden went on to say, “We have now created over 3 million jobs since I took office, more jobs than have ever been created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history, thanks to the incredible work of the entire team.”” 3 million jobs added. Even coming out of Covid slow down and with a continuing Covid presence that is great. Hugs
I seen a slew of these misleading right wing media cartoons that said Santa was anti-vaccine and Santa wouldn’t visit any where there was a vaccine requirement. What a crock. These people do not speak for the mythical character, the spirit of Christmas is not deterred by virus or vaccine for virus. This is a mind control scare job attempt. It is disgusting. Hugs
Same old mislabeled trope. Time to give it a rest. The only ones voting to defund the police have been Republicans. The people that really just wanted reform did not think through the defund slogan. If you need a long explanation for what you really mean about something, it’s best to reword it. I some places if you’re not white, police will search your car during a traffic stop and take your money for “evidence” of suspected drug activity. No receipt given even when requested. Going to the station doesn’t help with the sudden amnesia of what happened to your cash or drug charges, at least until the next “random* traffic stop. Yeah, the police fund themselves just fine. it is helpful to understand the frustration that spawned that unhelpful slogan. In many if not most black neighborhoods, they actually would be safer with no police at all. Why? The police do not stop gang violence or even try in many cases. Rather, they harass, arrest, shake down, and kill black people who are doing nothing wrong. In a daily basis. For them, this cartoon is laughable. They truly feel that if the police went away, they would be safer. Whatever happened to making police more liable for murder. Guess nothing will change and more black/People of colour will continue to die or be bullied.
For the rest of us, we believe that police forces around the country have forgotten they are our employees. They are supposed to be here to protect and serve, yet too often they protect and serve only the richest and best connected. They throw their power around far too much, they protect their own even when they are bad apples. The entire policing system in this country needs a complete overhaul. Funds need to be directed toward mental health, and trained mental health professionals need to be the first responders in mental health crises. The whole system of using cops as revenue collectors (ie., speeding tickets) is also abhorrent to cops and citizens alike. Policing CAN be a positive for ALL Americans, but today it is being used as a wedge issue to divide Americans and keep far too many innocent people living in fear while not stopping the guilty from committing crimes — or even bringing them to justice. Hugs
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Some of the tweets on http://fairandunbalanced.com/?p=25213
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Whee did all the money go, who has it, and why are the rest struggling to live the American dream
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Avoid these corporate bastards. Let your wallet do the talking.
Boycott Kellogg’s.
Student loans are the only unforgivable debt via bankruptcy.
World Human Rights Day, Dec. 10 2021
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I was surprised at the commenters who not only agreed with this cartoon but cheered it on. The misinformation in the US is overwhelming and dangerous. Let’s address each panel starting with the top left. Rittenhouse posed with white supremacist where he was flashing the white power finger sign while grinning seemingly real happy. Rittenhouse was declared not guilty of murder but he did kill two people after taking an assault style rifle to a place he did not belong because he knew that possible violence could happen and then antagonized others there to the point they attacked him causing him to fire his weapon to defend himself. I think he shouldn’t have been able to use the self defense argument but the court allowed it.
Second panel. If you watched the videos carefully Nick Sandmann did what he is accused of, he stepped down into the path of Phillips while his buddies cheered him on. Phillips couldn’t back up nor move sideways but Sandmann could. He knew that and what he was doing. A large teen blocking the path of a smaller older man with a cheering crowd at his side, you tell me if that is not deliberate intimidation.
Third panel. There is documented evidence of the cooperation between the tRump campaign and the Russians. There was obstruction documented in the Mueller report. the fact is no one investigated collusion as Mueller had already been told he couldn’t indict tRump and the term collusion has no specific legal meaning in criminal law; there’s no such criminal charge. But again there is no doubt of the tight way the tRump campaign worked with the Russians.
Fourth panel. And what boss would not fire an employee that lied to them? Hugs
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Why in the US do people have to work and struggle for survival when the people in other advanced countries do not have too?
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Bezos feels no shame.
Remember Republicans screeching about ‘activist judges’.
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Unemployment is 4.2 % Wages are rising. Please tell me again how the Media is promoting something that isn’t true! The wages for the lowest earners are rising faster than the highest earners for the first time in decades! How is that a media smoke screen? Just read an article about US jobless claims at 52-year low. All lies, I guess. The media reports the SAME employment numbers as “bad” under Biden that they said were “good” under Trump. Incessant screaming about inflation when it is a natural part of supply and demand. When people are polled about the issues without saying which stance is from Dems or Repubs result in HUGE numbers in favor of liberal and even PROGRESSIVE ideas being highly favored, especially taxing the wealthy and large corporations, but the media keeps saying that Dems need to move even further towards Repub ideals to appeal to the voters. The media is corporate, it definitely doesn’t favor Dems.
Of course it depends on which media you look at. Fox, OANN, Newsmax, Breitbart and similar will tell you that anything a Democrat does is wrong, even if a republican does it first. Hugs
Another example of Mike Lester’s incompetence with statistics. There has been no statistically significant difference in the increase in homicide rates for cities with Democratic and Republican mayors. US cities with Trump hotels have higher homicide rates than the US as a whole. That’s just about as meaningful a statistic as the one M. Lester is relying on. More big cities have Democrat (or non-partisan) mayors than GQP or even GOP. That has been true all along. And it’s also true that bigger cities have more criminals who are committing more murders than last year or the year before. But if you look at the top 5 or 10 cities with GOP mayors and the most murderous cities of similar size with Democrat mayors, you will see that the rates have no correlation w/ the party in charge. None. Interesting. The top ten states in terms of murder rates are: Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, S. Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, Maryland and Georgia. Most of these are deep red states. Maybe they need Democratic governors. Hugs
There are elections in those cities.
Portland ran all “nonpartisan” candidates. I don’t see an R candidate in Tucson. Albuquerque ran all “nonpartisan” candidates. Austin ran all “nonpartisan” candidates. I don’t see an R candidate in St. Paul. Baton Rouge was a 56/43 result. Indianapolis was a 72/27 result. Louisville was a 61/27 result. Toledo ran all “nonpartisan” candidates. Columbus -the nonpartisan incumbent ran unopposed as far as I can tell. In Rochester it looks like the D candidate ran unopposed In Philly it looks like an 80/19 result. This doesn’t look like the Rs are trying Mike. 5 of those races were all “nonpartisan”. While I agree that those kids would want the murder rate to go down I don’t see any of them looking to Rs to save them. Results pulled from Ballotpedia or Wikipedia (depending on which came up first).
I see pictures of Republican families armed to the teeth with guns. Some of which are the kind that are designed just to kill humans. Meanwhile they support an attack on the nation’s Capital, refuse to impeach a criminal in office and still try to claim that they are the party of Law and Order. This is gaslighting at the Olympic level.
These are local elections and they allow people living in the community a voice in what the elected officials do. That is democracy. The people have to be here in the country legally to vote, they just don’t have to be a citizen like in federal elections. So stop the fear mongering about a simple issue of fairness. Hugs
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Even as the economy is roaring back big corporations are trying to rake in every cent of profit they can at the expense of the people.
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Republicans love ethnofascists.
Trump is a traitor.
https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/1468963763827011585?s=20
Imagine if your teenager was killed by another teenager, and your response was to give more teenagers more guns. At Christmas.
Republican brand is ‘proud irresponsibility’.
Jussie Smollett should pay for the investigation and so should the many white people calling the police on black people doing every day activities while black. Don’t single out the black guy for a false police report and let all the white people doing them go. The ones really hurt by Smollett’s false claims are the future LGBTQ+ who are attacked and abused who wont be believed or viewed with suspicion due to what Smollett did. The right is going to have a field day with this issue, but am not putting this one in the misleading right wing section because it is true that Smollett has been found guilty of making a false report of being attacked by maga guys. Hugs
Invest in trains. Plan high-density walkable cities. Get rid of cars.
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No that is not why. One of the jobs of these medical experts is to explain the situation, the issue in a clear way the public can understand. As in the first part using something that sounds like “new” would lead to confusion. Using the name of a country’s leader also would be confusing. It also would be inflammatory. The maga right wing crowd seem to forget that many wanted to call Covid 19 the tRump virus because of the horrible job he did dealing with the virus. How would the maga cult feel about their dear leader saddled with that? They would scream non-stop that their feelings were hurt. So the same with other world leaders. Hugs
Total misdirection. Pregnancies are not contagious. I can not catch the zygote from you. a bunch of women can not get pregnant from one pregnant woman. Covid is a virus, it is contagious just from being in a room with a person who has it. To get pregnant requires an action on your part, but catching Covid doesn’t require you to participate. Vaccine mandates are legal and have been required since before the US was a country. Good old George Washington required his soldiers to get vaccinated. Hugs
People are comparing 2021 gas prices to 2020 gas prices when the economy was in a covid lockdown and fewer people driving and demand was way down. Better comparison prices in 2018 (from Ballotpedia)“As of Aug. 7, 2018, the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline ranged from $2.57 (Mississippi) to $3.77 (Hawaii).As of Aug. 7, 2018, average gasoline prices per gallon equaled or exceeded $3.00 in 11 states and Washington, D.C.The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline on Aug. 7, 2018, was $2.86.” Today in Austin gas is $2.95. Hugs
Why not return the abortion issue to the women and let them decide!? Right, leave it up to individual states to impose their rule over women. Next up, can religious rulers impose their views on their states’ populations? They don’t want the United States of America, they want the Independent States of America. More powers for the governors. The main fallacy with “return to the states and let the voters decide” is that the more oppressive states are doing their best to cherry pick who “the voters” are. If the abortion issue was truly decided by the voters it would be much more available as would birth control. Because the right to bodily autonomy should be constitutionally protected. It’s not that hard to understand. Because bodily autonomy is too important to let states have different rules. Something that we already do for a myriad less basic issues. Like which side of the road to drive on. Like requiring that everyone legally allowed have actual access to voting. Like requiring drugs be tested for efficacy and safety. Hugs
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: That pain in democracy’s butt is caused by the wealthy getting over on the public
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Musk lives off government handouts.
They can’t even handle having a conversation.
Instead of rejecting christofascism, Republicans have become christofascists.
Children with weapons of war around a Christmas tree? Boosting? The insecurities are staggering. These poor kids.
Christofascists have one god, the gun.
Celebrate Jesus with a gun. For children
Patriarchy includes women. Going after vulnerable women, women in need, women in abusive relationships, rape victims, their privacy, their reproductive rights that have precedent for FIFTY years, is beyond despicable.
It’s non-stop punching down.
Misogyny is the default.
Double standard.
I have chronic pain that limits my quality of life, it restricts / limits my ability to function. That is just a fact of my life. I had a muscle relaxer doctor had been prescribing me for years that worked great for me. The Florida legislators felt they knew better than my doctors, better than any doctors and said that if the doctors office also wrote prescriptions for some other medications then they couldn’t write prescriptions for the medication I was taking. Even if I was not taking the other medications. If they did prescribe the medication I was using and the patient died for any reason, any reason, the pain doctors could be charged with murder. My doctors immediately stopped prescribing the medication. I have never found another that works as well for me. Thanks Florida. Hugs
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Yeah, Lisa, you sure pwned that mentally disturbed, homeless guy who allegedly lit that tree on fire! Yes it was wrong to burn that fake tree (?) In front of a fake news provider (!) I Don’t know if I should shake my head in disgust or give a thumbs up to the symbolism ! It wasn’t even a Christmas tree. Fox built a metal pyramid, hung greenery (probably fake), then hung decorations on it. You can call it a tree, I suppose, but it has the same relationship to a real tree that Fox’s construction of patriotism has to real patriotism. Hugs
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: there is the science and data, but a lot of people just want the myths, magic, and misdirection
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Kids need full armor to survive in school these days. Hugs
Some 15 year olds are more mature than others, but no 15 year old is an adult. There is a long history of charging minors as adults since the 1970’s as part of the war on crime. It presumably helps deal with the fact that an age is not the same as a degree of maturity. It’s also a technique for dealing with a particularly depraved crime, such as murdering several people where the DA thinks the maximum punishment for a juvenile isn’t sufficient.
I would prefer a magical system where each person is tried as they actually are, and then upon conviction, sent to rehab where they would stay until (magically) we knew they were better, including time in a half-way house to prove they were better. Puritan USA can’t cope with that though. PUNISHMENT is the primary goal.
Biden has announced that sending in troops to defend Ukraine is off the table, so he is basically telling Putin to go ahead and invade. I know Biden doesn’t like war, but damn we just approved 780 billion dollars for the military for one year. One year. Why if we can not use them to stop the invasions of a friendly democracy from an authoritarian dictatorship. China is watching this and feeling that they can invade Taiwan at any time and the US wont interfere. Hugs
At least Biden is standing up to Putin unlike tRump who was desperate to have Putin’s approval for some tRump project in Moscow, which tRump never got. Hugs
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And this shows what the right wing is now, trolls and insult performance artists. Lets not bother to be role models for the kids nor a democracy other countries look up to. Hugs
Progressives or corporate Democrats. The issues the progressives are talking about and promoting are the same ones the entire party was trying to promote and implement way back in the 1970’s. Back then people like Nancy Pelosi were all for the progressive things like universal healthcare, free education, food assistance, and so much more. Then Nancy got addicted to the corporate money and she couldn’t get enough. She was one of the ones who pulled the Democrats to the right year after year decade after decade. When she was asked why she should be Speaker of the House she replied because she brought in the most donation money. But while the Democrats moved right to be part of the wealthy corporations the people of the US have not. In fact the country has moved more left supporting the LGBTQ+ community, legalizing cannabis, voting rights for people who finished their prison sentences, universal single payer healthcare, help for food insecurity, help for the homeless, help with childcare, and so much more. It really has become a civil war in the US between the wealthy and the public. Hugs
Only because the misleading right wing media keeps lying about vaccines, masks, and the personal responsibility people have to stop the spread of the virus. Hugs
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And once again, the pathetically uneducated dropout Lisa Benson confirms how little she understands of any serious economic issue. New Deal Keynesian liberal market economics is NOT about expecting “FREE STUFF” any more than law enforcement, emergency first responders or “free” public schools — or even the military that costs far more than anything proposed — is “free stuff.” We all contribute and we all benefit. We want PUBLIC POLICY to address legitimate PUBLIC NEEDS, but has very specific proposals for how ALL OF US contribute, in a way that is fair for everyone. We all expect to pay our fair shares.
We also expect the billionaires and corporate special interests who have been getting a free ride to pay their fair share. But for our money we don’t want to just blow up other countries to enrich “defense contractors” of the “military-industrial complex” that (Republican) Eisenhower warned us about; we want to get for our money the things that benefit all of us and INVEST in the resources and opportunities that generate economic returns that enrich us all. Not free stuff. The only reason the Republicans want our infrastructure to fail is so they can sell it to the highest bidder. Which will cost the working majority that commutes to work the most, as we would have to pay tolls and taxes everywhere we go. Hugs