Daily cartoon / meme roundup: After working most of the day on the roundup I lost 2/3 of it. Here is what I could save. Enjoy

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Scottie’s world today

wake up trying to impress you

Suck it up butter cup

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We fail our children in so many ways.

It’s time we put our money in heath care, child care, and prenatal care instead of feeding an endless war machine.

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Family Tree Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Speed Bump Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Farcus Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

The Flying McCoys Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Yes they knew it was wrong

make racism wrong again

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It was always about killing the messenger.

In the years since Colin took a knee, we’ve learned that, in the eyes of conservatives, there is no acceptable form of protest against racial injustice.

Joel Pett Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Marshall Ramsey Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Rose red violets blue tRump

Rob Rogers Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Robert Ariail Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

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Republicans see a calamity and elect it. The Russians beam with pride.

Trump is absolute poison for America.

 

 

Marshall Ramsey Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

 

 

you can never leave

Brian McFadden Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

two moms families gone

right wing burn the leaf

joe possition on climate

Candorville Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

It seems Putin got what he wanted.  Ukraine has said they wont join Nato.  It is a shame that the local bully can keep the people from advancing their country with threats to destroy them. 

Russia is not the USSR, but Putin would like it to be. 

John Deering Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

China is pushing it’s spear of influence all over the world.   Just as the US did in the middle of the last century.   And China is getting ever closer to places the US thought were in the US sphere of influence.   The US is falling way behind and had better fix their interactions with other nations. 

Views of the World Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Oh I knew this was coming.  It is pure distraction from tRump’s troubles.   Basically Durham was appointed by Barr to find things to try to back up tRump’s claims that the Russia investigation was illegal.  Several court cases and investigations found that the investigation was legal and valid.    Every legal podcast I have listen too destroys the indictment.   His indictment against the lawyer that brought the findings of the tech people to the FBI he accused of lying because he did not tell the FBI he once worked for Hillary.  Once worked for her.  He was not working for her then.  The FBI did not ask because it did not matter, the information was what mattered.  So it was not lying to the FBI to not says something they did not ask.    If a person reports a bank robbery to the FBI the issue is not if the person reporting has a bank account.   The other thing that jumps out is that these types of charges are normally one page.  Durham wrote a screed of 26 pages of conjecture and conspiracies.   He was building right wing talking points.  Here is the weaponizing of the DOJ that the right seems to think Biden has done.  It is being done right in the open, using the DOJ and the courts to attack political enemies like a banana republic.  

Also this is an attempt to distract from the information given to the FBI.  The fact is a Russian bank in Moscow that was tied to Putin was pinging a dedicated server in tRump Tower.   There was no explanation for it.   Especially when the talk was Russia was helping tRump.  Their was an attempt to hide the server, to hide the data on it, to hide the connection, and that server only talked to that bank.   Very suspicious.  So The right deflects by saying the real crime that should be investigated was the person who delivered it had once worked for Hillary.

How about both when the deserve it?  This is not jousting wind mills.   This is calling out that acts of aggression and violating human rights. 

So what should the US have done to truckers / people on the Canadian side of the border? Send troops into a sovereign country and blow stuff up, steal the trucks by towing them away, and kidnap the people by arresting them? Well that is what the new right wing hero Putin would do. This was Canada’s problem to solve and they did.

The current inflation problem is caused by price gouging and profit taking. Companies are making record profits. CEO pay packages are soaring. The ones being hurt are the consumers as companies try to make up for the slower times during Covid.

Again the current inflation is caused by price gouging and profit taking of businesses. Corporations have record profits. CEO pay packages / benefits are soaring. But they want the people to blame everything else especially the little increases in pay that workers may get.

It is about the data. The cases are falling in the areas where the mandates are being withdrawn. This is a great thing, less cases means less death and less really ill people in hospitals. Follow the medical science is what people should be doing. It is what the people in charge should be following.

Mike Lester Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Must be a Fox reporter, can’t wear a mask correctly. Only people that are insecure in their own sexuality are concerned with others sexuality. And Republican politicians, of course.

Gary Varvel for Feb 15, 2022

Durham made a filing, no charges, no indictment. He built up a 26 page conspiracy theory with no new information and all insinuation. He accuses the lawyer that took the information from the tech people to the FBI of lying by not telling the FBI he once worked for Hillary. That doesn’t matter. If someone reports a bank robbery the FBI doesn’t care if the person has a bank account or not. The important point was the information Durham and the Republicans want to bury, that there was a bank in Moscow connected to Putin communicating with a server in tRump tower. It was the only computer communicating with that server. This at a time when there when Putin had hacked the DNC and was rumored to be interfering in the election. So this is just an attempt to muddy the waters and create a misleading right wing talking point.

A.F. Branco for Feb 15, 2022

I guess if a minority of the people wanted to race their cars through school zones some times killing kids and themselves, we should let them because of “Freedom”. The mask and vaccine mandates saved lives. No one lost freedom. No one was forced to get a shot or wear a mask at gun point. But if you wanted the right to join in the fun, you had the responsibility to follow public health rules.

Tom Stiglich for Feb 15, 2022

This cartoon really pissed me off.  That is an asinine cartoon that insults child abuse victims. Wearing a mask is not child abuse any more than wearing shoes are. It causes no harm and protects the wearer. Most children are not bothered by masks, the only ones with a problem with them are because the parents have made such a stink over it. Masks are proven to prevent the spread of Covid. Period. They saved lives, of children and adults. Grow up.

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Kids do not care about masks, they are too worried about boredom, tests, bullies, making friends, dates, and a hundred more things important to them.  Masks are not even on the list. 

Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Police funding is actually UP across the country, and that “Defund the Police” meme is about as valid as the “Critical Race Theory” and “Sharia Law” boogymen that right wing propagandists use to keep their gullible “base” riled up.

MEANWHILE Republicans are doing everything they can to destroy democracy and literally steal elections, while supporting thoroughly-rotten criminal candidates, starting at the top with their Dear Leader. But what’s important to right-wing propagandists is to distract with their shiny-object reminders of anger and fear.

Goodwyn is indirectly attacking BLM, since “Defund the Police” was a collateral slogan of those protests; demonize “Defund the Police” (blaming all crime on a non-existent policy), and you’re also reminding people why they hated and feared BLM, too.

Win, win, because you keep people angry, fearful, and aggrieved, keeping attention off the very real assault on America.

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And now some for fun

Zack Hill for Feb 15, 2022

Pickles Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Real Life Adventures Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Pluggers Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Shoe Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

The Born Loser Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Broom Hilda Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Close to Home Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

For Better or For Worse Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Dogs of C-Kennel Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

One Big Happy Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

who can tell with GOP

you can never leave

Brian McFadden Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

two moms families gone

right wing burn the leaf

joe possition on climate

Candorville Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

It seems Putin got what he wanted.  Ukraine has said they wont join Nato.  It is a shame that the local bully can keep the people from advancing their country with threats to destroy them. 

Russia is not the USSR, but Putin would like it to be. 

John Deering Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

China is pushing it’s spear of influence all over the world.   Just as the US did in the middle of the last century.   And China is getting ever closer to places the US thought were in the US sphere of influence.   The US is falling way behind and had better fix their interactions with other nations. 

Views of the World Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Oh I knew this was coming.  It is pure distraction from tRump’s troubles.   Basically Durham was appointed by Barr to find things to try to back up tRump’s claims that the Russia investigation was illegal.  Several court cases and investigations found that the investigation was legal and valid.    Every legal podcast I have listen too destroys the indictment.   His indictment against the lawyer that brought the findings of the tech people to the FBI he accused of lying because he did not tell the FBI he once worked for Hillary.  Once worked for her.  He was not working for her then.  The FBI did not ask because it did not matter, the information was what mattered.  So it was not lying to the FBI to not says something they did not ask.    If a person reports a bank robbery to the FBI the issue is not if the person reporting has a bank account.   The other thing that jumps out is that these types of charges are normally one page.  Durham wrote a screed of 26 pages of conjecture and conspiracies.   He was building right wing talking points.  Here is the weaponizing of the DOJ that the right seems to think Biden has done.  It is being done right in the open, using the DOJ and the courts to attack political enemies like a banana republic.  

Also this is an attempt to distract from the information given to the FBI.  The fact is a Russian bank in Moscow that was tied to Putin was pinging a dedicated server in tRump Tower.   There was no explanation for it.   Especially when the talk was Russia was helping tRump.  Their was an attempt to hide the server, to hide the data on it, to hide the connection, and that server only talked to that bank.   Very suspicious.  So The right deflects by saying the real crime that should be investigated was the person who delivered it had once worked for Hillary.

How about both when the deserve it?  This is not jousting wind mills.   This is calling out that acts of aggression and violating human rights. 

So what should the US have done to truckers / people on the Canadian side of the border? Send troops into a sovereign country and blow stuff up, steal the trucks by towing them away, and kidnap the people by arresting them? Well that is what the new right wing hero Putin would do. This was Canada’s problem to solve and they did.

The current inflation problem is caused by price gouging and profit taking. Companies are making record profits. CEO pay packages are soaring. The ones being hurt are the consumers as companies try to make up for the slower times during Covid.

Again the current inflation is caused by price gouging and profit taking of businesses. Corporations have record profits. CEO pay packages / benefits are soaring. But they want the people to blame everything else especially the little increases in pay that workers may get.

It is about the data. The cases are falling in the areas where the mandates are being withdrawn. This is a great thing, less cases means less death and less really ill people in hospitals. Follow the medical science is what people should be doing. It is what the people in charge should be following.

Mike Lester Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Must be a Fox reporter, can’t wear a mask correctly. Only people that are insecure in their own sexuality are concerned with others sexuality. And Republican politicians, of course. 

Gary Varvel for Feb 15, 2022

Durham made a filing, no charges, no indictment. He built up a 26 page conspiracy theory with no new information and all insinuation. He accuses the lawyer that took the information from the tech people to the FBI of lying by not telling the FBI he once worked for Hillary. That doesn’t matter. If someone reports a bank robbery the FBI doesn’t care if the person has a bank account or not. The important point was the information Durham and the Republicans want to bury, that there was a bank in Moscow connected to Putin communicating with a server in tRump tower. It was the only computer communicating with that server. This at a time when there when Putin had hacked the DNC and was rumored to be interfering in the election. So this is just an attempt to muddy the waters and create a misleading right wing talking point.

A.F. Branco for Feb 15, 2022

I guess if a minority of the people wanted to race their cars through school zones some times killing kids and themselves, we should let them because of “Freedom”. The mask and vaccine mandates saved lives. No one lost freedom. No one was forced to get a shot or wear a mask at gun point. But if you wanted the right to join in the fun, you had the responsibility to follow public health rules.

Tom Stiglich for Feb 15, 2022

This cartoon really pissed me off.  That is an asinine cartoon that insults child abuse victims. Wearing a mask is not child abuse any more than wearing shoes are. It causes no harm and protects the wearer. Most children are not bothered by masks, the only ones with a problem with them are because the parents have made such a stink over it. Masks are proven to prevent the spread of Covid. Period. They saved lives, of children and adults. Grow up.

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Kids do not care about masks, they are too worried about boredom, tests, bullies, making friends, dates, and a hundred more things important to them.  Masks are not even on the list. 

Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Police funding is actually UP across the country, and that “Defund the Police” meme is about as valid as the “Critical Race Theory” and “Sharia Law” boogymen that right wing propagandists use to keep their gullible “base” riled up.

MEANWHILE Republicans are doing everything they can to destroy democracy and literally steal elections, while supporting thoroughly-rotten criminal candidates, starting at the top with their Dear Leader. But what’s important to right-wing propagandists is to distract with their shiny-object reminders of anger and fear.

Goodwyn is indirectly attacking BLM, since “Defund the Police” was a collateral slogan of those protests; demonize “Defund the Police” (blaming all crime on a non-existent policy), and you’re also reminding people why they hated and feared BLM, too.

Win, win, because you keep people angry, fearful, and aggrieved, keeping attention off the very real assault on America.

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And now some for fun

Zack Hill for Feb 15, 2022

Pickles Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Real Life Adventures Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Pluggers Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Shoe Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

The Born Loser Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Broom Hilda Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Close to Home Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

For Better or For Worse Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Dogs of C-Kennel Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

One Big Happy Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The US justice system is for the wealthy, the US injustice system is for the rest of us

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Scottie’s world today

all three goes a long wayPeople hurt

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Family Tree Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

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Farcus Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Working It Out Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Working It Out Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

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Matt Wuerker Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

Graveyard of civil discourse

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The GOP knows misogyny equals donation$$.

Rob Rogers Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

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A ‘sad, pathetic liar flushing documents down the toilet’ is your Republican moral compass.

White supremacists want to rewrite history to hide their shame.

Jack Ohman Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Doonesbury Comic Strip for February 06, 2022

Doonesbury Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Clay Jones Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Candorville Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Steve Kelley Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

ViewsBusiness Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

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ViewsBusiness Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

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We need the political will to reform society.

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Common denominator: white supremacy

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One evening, Lot’s eldest daughter gets Lot drunk and has sex with him without his knowledge. The following night, the younger daughter does the same.

Robert Ariail Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

still think he is bluffing bear

Michael Ramirez Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Germany is waiting. They don’t want to poke the Bear until it’s absolutely necessary.

Matt Davies Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Today's Szep Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Aunty Acid Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Shoe Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Candorville Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Rose is Rose Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Tom Stiglich for Feb 14, 2022

No one was calling for Rogan to be canceled or taken off the air. The issue was his misinformation about a public health crisis and misinformation on treatments for the public health crisis. Even he admitted he was careless with the truth and should have done better. The problem is he is promoting his program as a news show reporting facts and not just an opinion show. Now Spotify labels the misinformation and directs people to the factual true information.

And that is not being taught either.  It is just another way to prevent real  history from being taught.  If they can prevent people from learning how bad slavery was then they can prevent any of the real history of holding black people back from being learned and they can keep doing things to oppress POC.

By using state power to censor any truthful teaching about how four centuries (and counting!) of American racism have influenced the socioeconomic status of Black Americans, bans on the teaching of “CRT” implicitly and deliberately “teach” the lie that the glaring disparities persist because Black “individuals” are “inherently inferior.” Those promoting such bans claim to be driven by solicitude for pupils’ feelings; but they are solicitous only about White pupils’ feelings. The effect of their lie on Black pupils’ feelings is devastating by deliberate design.

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Non Sequitur Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Off the Mark Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Strange Brew Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Eek! Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Reality Check Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Farcus Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Herman Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Herman Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Joe Heller Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

The Flying McCoys Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

The Flying McCoys Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Dog Eat Doug Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Pickles Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Pickles Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Cornered Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Cornered Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Shoe Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

The Buckets Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

The Buckets Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Lola Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Close to Home Comic Strip for February 14, 2022

Mannequin on the Moon Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

One Big Happy Comic Strip for February 13, 2022

Avlon: GOP distrusting Russia was a constant. All that changed with Trump

Parents Organize To Fight Back Against GOP’s Classroom Culture War

Michael Smerconish: Voter suppression may not be reason Democrats lose midterms

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’.

Working It Out Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Farcus Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

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Biden's real proplem

team changes names

Joel Pett Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

Clay Jones Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

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a loser still does

Stuart Carlson Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

flush 15 times

trump wipes ass with documents

John Deering Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

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The ‘do as you’re told’, ‘comply or die’, ‘only mobsters take the fifth’, ‘law & order’ bad faith cult.

hire the best people

libbys juice fake flavor

Sloppy steve

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Being a complete idiot would get you fired from most jobs. Republicans elect them.

ViewsAmerica Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

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Jeff Stahler Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

Steve Breen Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

dying with it

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Lalo Alcaraz Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Ihave a dream school

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justices over time

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ViewsAsia Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Steve Benson Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

dog vs water

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Henry Payne Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

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.

Lisa Benson Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

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.

Gary Varvel for Feb 11, 2022

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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when you bury a body

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Strange Brew Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Free Range Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Reality Check Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

The Flying McCoys Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Today's Szep Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Baldo Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Dog Eat Doug Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Real Life Adventures Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Cornered Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Wizard of Id Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

B.C. Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

The Buckets Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Lola Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

Drabble Comic Strip for February 12, 2022

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.  

‘I’m afraid’: Texas butterfly sanctuary forced to close after far-right threats

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/06/texas-butterfly-sanctuary-far-right-threats

The nature preserve on the US-Mexico border became a target of rightwing ire after it opposed construction of Trump’s wall

Marianna Treviño-Wright, executive director of the National Butterfly Center: ‘I used to believe much better of people.’
Marianna Treviño-Wright, executive director of the National Butterfly Center: ‘I used to believe much better of people.’ Photograph: John L Mone/AP
 

In Mission, Texas, on the border between the US and Mexico, sits the National Butterfly Center. A 100-acre nature preserve once exclusively dedicated to the conservation of plants and wildlife, it has now been thrust into the national spotlight and become a focal point of divisions over the country’s immigration policy.

This week, the butterfly center was forced to close its doors indefinitely amid ongoing threats from far-right conspiracists and QAnon followers who falsely claim it is a haven for human-trafficking and illegal migration.

 

 

“They’re not conspiracies, they’re just outright lies,” Marianna Treviño-Wright, the executive director of the National Butterfly Center, told the Guardian. “I think that’s a very important point that needs to be made. As long as they’re called ‘conspiracies’, then it seems like there’s some plausibility.”

The North American Butterfly Association (NABA), which runs the center, decided to close it down indefinitely on Wednesday as a precautionary measure, after being warned to “be armed at all times or out of town” during a We Stand America rally in support of a border wall.

The butterfly center first attracted the attention of the far right in 2017. Treviño-Wright and the NABA made headlines for suing the organizations behind the construction of a section of Donald Trump’s border wall after they sought to build straight through the butterfly preserve. Those groups included We Build the Wall, led by Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon and founder Brian Kolfage, which is now facing corruption and fraud charges.

Conspiracy theories about the butterfly center snowballed after Kolfage posted a series of tweets, claiming it was run by “left wing thugs with a sham butterfly agenda” and asserting without evidence that “rampant sex trade” was taking place on the property. Treviño-Wright said an increase in online and in-person harassment soon followed.

A court date for the case about the section of border wall on the center’s property has not been set yet.

Treviño-Wright said since the lawsuit she has faced personal threats and on one occasion, assault, by the extremist Virginia Republican congressional candidate Kimberly Lowe who visited the butterfly center last month and demanded to see “‘illegals crossing on rafts”. In an audio recording of the visit, Lowe is heard claiming baselessly that Treviño-Wright was “OK with children being sex-trafficked, raped and murdered”.

“It’s utterly ridiculous that instead of Democrats and a pizza joint, it’s immigrants and a butterfly center,” Treviño-Wright said, comparing the situation to the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy that took off in 2016 in an attempt to paint the then presidential candidate Hilary Clinton as a proponent of human trafficking.

The butterfly center’s closure this week did not come as a surprise to Treviño-Wright.

“This has been escalating. Not just the attacks on us, but the agenda in the political landscape. I think it makes sense for the [NABA] board to pump the brakes. If this madness is going to continue until the midterms or, God forbid, beyond that, we need to have personnel and a plan in place to protect ourselves as best as possible to be prepared for this horrible situation.”

Marianna Treviño-Wright stands near a section of the new border wall in Mission, Texas.
Marianna Treviño-Wright stands near a section of the new border wall in Mission, Texas. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP

Treviño-Wright said the construction of sections of the border wall, and the subsequent vitriol that came from QAnon followers and Trump supporters, had a profound effect on the butterfly center and its staff.

“When you’re targeted by laws that are designed to be destructive, it’s very difficult to continue operations as normal. So it’s been disruptive. It’s been destructive. And it’s made it very difficult for us to focus on our mission, which is environmental conservation and education.”

Choking back tears, Treviño-Wright explained the events of recent years had put a strain on her mental health and personal relationships.

“It really has made me a misanthrope. I used to believe much better of people, but now I’m afraid to even go to the grocery store because I can’t trust that the person with the cart next to me doesn’t believe” the lies, Treviño-Wright said.

On her accidental venture into political activism, Treviño-Wright called herself: “Utterly reluctant, unwilling, and anxious-to-not-be-here-or-be-doing-this-any-more.”

The butterfly center is now sharing strategies for dealing with confrontational conspiracists with the Children’s Museum of Denver, which was forcibly shut down after anti-maskers frequently directed their anger towards staff.

Treviño-Wright said she didn’t know if her center would reopen, but “certainly hope[s] it does.

“It’s a magical place and it’s a place I’ve poured the last 10 years of my life into developing and defending. I hope there’s a wonderful future in store for the National Butterfly Center, but as long as these people get away with these things, I’m not sure of anything. Not just for anything but for our entire country.

“It’s just unbelievable that somehow things have reached this point in American history that a nature center stands at the crossroads of whether our country slides full-on into authoritarianism or our democratic republic survives.”

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/73-of-trump-voters-believe-trump-is-wrong-about-pences-ability-to-overturn-the-election/

The Daily Beast reports:

The financier famed for bankrolling some of Steve Bannon’s best-known ventures, as well as the far-right strategist’s jet-setting lifestyle, is in deep trouble for steering a $28 million yacht—the same boat where federal agents arrested Bannon in 2020—out of American waters.

A New York judge slapped Guo Wengui, who also uses the aliases Kwok Ho Wan and Miles Guo, with $134 million in contempt of court fines on Wednesday for violating multiple restraining orders barring him from selling or relocating the boat or any other property he controls.

The high price tag results from nearly a year of the fugitive Chinese national defying the court’s order that he return the craft to a U.S. port—an order that carried a daily forfeiture of $500,000.

Read the full article.

The yacht is being sought as an asset to cover unpaid loans allegedly owed to a Hong Kong investment firm.

Wengui is also the chief financial backer of the social media platform GETTR.

Several years ago he and Bannon flew banner planes around Manhattan which declared them to be the Chinese government in exile.

Wengui presently lives in a $68 million Manhattan penthouse.

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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The Knight Life Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

Shoe Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

Political cartoon.

how liberty dies

not poltical discourse

Chris Britt Comic Strip for February 10, 2022

Clay Jones Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

Nick Anderson Comic Strip for February 10, 2022

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Walt Handelsman Comic Strip for February 10, 2022

Tom the Dancing Bug Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

Spot the difference

Rob Rogers Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

Breaking Cat News Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

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. 

Andy Marlette for Feb 11, 2022

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.

government steals

Drew Sheneman Comic Strip for February 10, 2022

Matt Davies Comic Strip for February 10, 2022

Shrimp and Grits for Feb 11, 2022

Joe Heller Comic Strip for February 10, 2022

Jeff Stahler Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

Michael Ramirez Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

Steve Benson Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

ViewsEurope Comic Strip for February 10, 2022

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Frazz Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

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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.  

A.F. Branco for Feb 11, 2022

I know no leftist will ever concede this truth, but if we hadn’t had the mandates and lockdowns and monetary incentives we’d actually be better off now and would’ve lost less people, regardless of any vaccines existing.

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    Please show how. Use reason and evidence. Every peer reviewed study shows that not only have the public medical precautions saved lives but if they had not been fought so hard for political reasons by the right even more lives could have been saved. No country has had the lose of life that the US has over Covid. The US has more Covid deaths than even the poorest countries because the misleading right wing has made a public health crisis political. This is a fact. Other countries had true shut downs, the US had sort of one. Other countries took mask wearing seriously and everyone did it, the US had a political party making wearing masks an assault on their freedom. Just what are lives worth to you? The US went to war over 9/11 with less than 3,000 lives lost. We are losing over 4,000 a day right now which is down from the peak, and a political party wants to pretend it is OK. So again tell me how we would be better with no mandates and what every you think was a monetary incentive.

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    https://www.creators.com/read/gary-varvel    Good reading, I am very proud of this exchange

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    And now some for fun

    Herman Comic Strip for February 11, 2022

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