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

Comment section

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.

What is your major malfunction

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Working It Out Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Ted Rall Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

how quickly he forgets

tea part to maga party

John Deering Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Robert Ariail Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

thugs assaulting police maga

Stuart Carlson Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

John Deering Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

Walt Handelsman Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

RGB version

Andy Marlette for Feb 09, 2022

Political cartoon.

KEVIN SIERS Charlotte Observer

if taxation was theft

media same both sides do it

exports

anti-vax graveyard

Shrimp and Grits for Feb 09, 2022

Frazz Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Marshall Ramsey Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

Jeff Stahler Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Moderately Confused Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Mannequin on the Moon Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

One Big Happy Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Candorville Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

ViewsAmerica Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

Nick Anderson Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

ViewsEurope Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

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. 

Robert Ariail Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

ViewsAsia Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

The snow is all man made

Robert Ariail Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Gary Varvel for Feb 09, 2022

Rob Rogers Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

Dana Summers Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

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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. 

Lisa Benson Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

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.

Mike Lester Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

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.   

Bob Gorrell for Feb 09, 2022

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.

Tom Stiglich for Feb 09, 2022

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.

Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

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

Scott Stantis Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

pass on barking frenzywhen babmi mom killed

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Andy Capp Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Speed Bump Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Speed Bump Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

Off the Mark Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

Strange Brew Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Free Range Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

Eek! Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

Reality Check Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

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.

The Flying McCoys Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Dog Eat Doug Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Real Life Adventures Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

Family Tree Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

Family Tree Comic Strip for February 09, 2022

Elderly Florida Dems Have Their Party Affiliation Covertly Changed

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

more bad news

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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wages not up

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. 

reject what you see and hear

Jack Ohman Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

stungun to the neck

maga second admendemnt rights

nebraska gop platform

and bad at everything else

look at my black over there

no one had any books

Joel Pett Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

Zack Hill for Feb 08, 2022

Andy Marlette for Feb 07, 2022

Shrimp and Grits for Feb 08, 2022

alive in a hellscape

Views of the World Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

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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.

Henry Payne Comic Strip for February 06, 2022

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.

A.F. Branco for Feb 08, 2022

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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And now some for fun

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip for February 08, 2022

5G and QAnon: how conspiracy theorists steered Canada’s anti-vaccine trucker protest

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/canada-ottawa-trucker-protest-extremist-qanon-neo-nazi

Ottawa’s occupation was a result of unrivaled coordination between anti-vax and anti-government organizations

Protesters gather near the parliament hill as truckers continue to protest in Ottawa.
Protesters gather near the parliament hill as truckers continue to protest in Ottawa. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
 

Thousands of demonstrators have successfully occupied Canada’s frigid capital for days, and say they plan on staying as long as it takes to thwart the country’s vaccine requirements.

 

 

The brazen occupation of Ottawa came as a result of unprecedented coordination between various anti-vaccine and anti-government organizations and activists, and has been seized on by similar groups around the world.

It may herald the revenge of the anti-vaxxers.

The so-called “freedom convoy” – which departed for Ottawa on 23 January – was the brainchild of James Bauder, an admitted conspiracy theorist who has endorsed the QAnon movement and called Covid-19 “the biggest political scam in history”. Bauder’s group, Canada Unity, contends that vaccine mandates and passports are illegal under Canada’s constitution, the Nuremberg Code and a host of other international conventions.

Bauder has long been a fringe figure, but his movement caught a gulf stream of support after the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, announced last year that truckers crossing the US-Canada border would need to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The supposed plight of the truckers proved to be a compelling public relations angle and attracted an array of fellow travelers.

Until now, a litany of organizations had protested Canada’s strict public health measures, but largely in isolation. One such group, Hold Fast Canada, had organized pickets of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s headquarters, where they claimed that concentration camps had already been introduced in the country.

 

Another group, Action4Canada, launched legal challenges to mask and vaccine mandates. In one 400-page court filing, they allege that the “false pronouncement of a Covid-19 ‘pandemic’” was carried out, at least in part, by Bill Gates and a “New World (Economic) Order” to facilitate the injection of 5G-enabled microchips into the population.

Both groups are listed as “participating groups” on the Canada Unity website, and sent vehicles and personnel to join the convoy.

Other organizers joined Bauder, including Chris Barber, a Saskatchewan trucker who was fined $14,000 in October for violating provincial public health measures; Tamara Lich, an activist for a fringe political party advocating that western Canada should become an independent state; Benjamin Dichter, who has warned of the “growing Islamization of Canada”; and Pat King, an anti-government agitator who has repeatedly called for Trudeau to be arrested.

Since they have arrived in Ottawa, the extreme elements of the protest have been visible: neo-Nazi and Confederate flags were seen flying, QAnon logos were emblazoned on trucks and signs and stickers were pasted to telephone poles around the occupied area bear Trudeau’s face, reading: “Wanted for crimes against humanity.”

The official line from Bauder and his co-organizers, however, has remained focused; in a Facebook live broadcast, Bauder instructed his supporters to “stop talking about the vaccine” and instead stick to message of “freedom”.

Such strict message control has attracted mainstream support. Numerous members of the Conservative party, Canada’s official opposition, have come out to meet the protesters. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have both endorsed the convoy. Fox broadcasters Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson have provided glowing updates on the continuing occupation.

Bauder vowed the convoy would camp out in Ottawa until their demands are met, insisting to his followers that a “memorandum of understanding” would force the government’s hand, possibly even triggering fresh elections, if enough people sign.

A Canada Unity organizer went further, saying it would require the Senate to “go after the prime minister” for “corruption” and “fascism”. There is no legal basis for those claims.

King has laid out a more direct plan of action to the occupiers: “What we want to focus on is our politicians, their houses, their locations,” he said in a January Facebook stream. If political pressure doesn’t work, King said, blocking major supply chains “will be later on”.

Soon after, the head of security for parliament issued an extraordinary warning to members of parliament to avoid the protest entirely, for their own safety.

The occupiers have deliberately made life difficult for anyone in Ottawa’s downtown core. Trucks have been laying on their air horns throughout the day, often well into the early morning hours. An Ottawa court granted an injunction on Monday afternoon, ordering that the honking must cease.

In the shadow of parliament, a flatbed truck was converted into a stage – functioning as a speaker’s corner during the day, where far-right politicians and occupiers took the microphone to decry Trudeau and Covid vaccines. At night, the stage functions as a DJ booth for raucous dance parties.

 
Anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate demonstrators gather as a truck convoy blocks the highway at the busy U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alberta, Canada, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Technology has made the occupation even easier: drivers share information on routes and the best ways to evade police barricades via the walkie-talkie app Zello. Organizers in other cities use the secure messaging app Telegram to share information, coordinate messaging and plan solidarity protests.

The occupiers now have the resources to stay for an extended period of time: they have raised more than C$6m (US$4.7m) through various crowdfunding platforms, in cash and bitcoin, despite having been booted from GoFundMe’s platform after raising over C$10m.

The Ottawa occupation is proof that a few thousand determined protesters can overwhelm police and shut down major cities with enough vehicles and coordination. Solidarity convoys have shut down the busy Coutts border crossing between Alberta and Montana, strained police resources in Toronto and Quebec City, and activists as far away as Helsinki, Canberra, London and Brussels have taken note. On the convoy channels, protesters warn this is just the beginning.

Let’s talk about Canada’s response to the truckers….

Peter Thiel Exits Meta To Focus On Electing Cultists

Scary to us normal people. A billionaire tRump supporter. Why does he support tRump? Because he loves his money, and he is a racist.

The New York Times reports:

Peter Thiel, one of the longest-serving board members of Meta, the parent of Facebook, plans to step down, the company said on Monday.

Mr. Thiel, 54, wants to focus on influencing November’s midterm elections. Mr. Thiel sees the midterms as crucial to changing the direction of the country, this person said, and he is backing candidates who support the agenda of former president Donald J. Trump.

Over the last year, Mr. Thiel, who has a net worth estimated at $2.6 billion by Forbes, has become one of the Republican’s Party’s largest donors. He gave $10 million each last year to the campaigns of two protégés, Blake Masters, who is running for a Senate seat in Arizona, and J.D. Vance, who is running for Senate in Ohio.

Read the full article.

What’s really driving inflation? Corporate greed

https://www.salon.com/2021/12/01/whats-really-driving-inflation-corporate-greed_partner/

Giant corporations with little to no competition are driving price increases

By ROBERT REICH

PUBLISHED DECEMBER 1, 2021 10:18AM (EST)

Bare shelves in a supermarket | Parent and child wearing medical face masks (Getty Images/Salon)

Bare shelves in a supermarket | Parent and child wearing medical face masks (Getty Images/Salon)

This originally appeared on Robert Reich’s blog.

The biggest culprit for rising prices that’s not being talked about is the increasing economic concentration of the American economy in the hands of a relative few giant big corporations with the power to raise prices.

If markets were competitive, companies would seek to keep their prices down in order to maintain customer loyalty and demand. When the prices of their supplies rose, they’d cut their profits before they raised prices to their customers, for fear that otherwise a competitor would grab those customers away.  

But strange enough, this isn’t happening. In fact, even in the face of supply constraints, corporations are raking in record profits. More than 80 percent of big (S&P 500) companies that have reported results this season have topped analysts’ earnings forecasts, according to Refinitiv.

Obviously, supply constraints have not eroded these profits. Corporations are simply passing the added costs on to their customers. Many are raising their prices even further, and pocketing even more.  

How can this be? For a simple and obvious reason: Most don’t have to worry about competitors grabbing their customers away. They have so much market power they can relax and continue to rake in big money.

The underlying structural problem isn’t that government is over-stimulating the economy. It’s that big corporations are under competitive.

Corporations are using the excuse of inflation to raise prices and make fatter profits. The result is a transfer of wealth from consumers to corporate executives and major investors.

This has nothing to do with inflation, folks. It has everything to do with the concentration of market power in a relatively few hands.

It’s called “oligopoly,” where two or three companies roughly coordinate their prices and output.

Judd Legum provides some good examples in his newsletter. He points to two firms that are giants in household staples: Procter & Gamble and Kimberly Clark. In April, Procter & Gamble announced it would start charging more for everything from diapers to toilet paper, citing “rising costs for raw materials, such as resin and pulp, and higher expenses to transport goods.”

Baloney. P&G is raking in huge profits. In the quarter ending September 30, after some of its price increases went into effect, it reported a whopping 24.7% profit margin. Oh, and it spent $3 billion in the quarter buying its own stock.

How can this be? Because P&G faces very little competition. According to a report released this month from the Roosevelt Institute, “The lion’s share of the market for diapers,” for example, “is controlled by just two companies (P&G and Kimberly-Clark), limiting competition for cheaper options.”

So it wasn’t exactly a coincidence that Kimberly-Clark announced similar price increases at the same time as P&G. Both corporations are doing wonderfully well. But American consumers are paying more. 

Or consider another major consumer product oligopoly: PepsiCo (the parent company of Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Quaker, Tropicana, and other brands), and Coca Cola. In April, PepsiCo announced it was increasing prices, blaming “higher costs for some ingredients, freight and labor.” 

Rubbish. The company recorded $3 billion in operating profits and increased its projections for the rest of the year, and expects to send $5.8 billion in dividends to shareholders in 2021.

If PepsiCo faced tough competition it could never have gotten away with this. But it doesn’t. In fact, it appears to have colluded with its chief competitor, Coca-Cola – which, oddly, announced price increases at about the same time as PepsiCo, and has increased its profit margins to 28.9%.

And on it goes around the entire consumer sector of the American economy. 

You can see a similar pattern in energy prices. Once it became clear that demand was growing, energy producers could have quickly ramped up production to create more supply. But they didn’t. 

Why not?  Industry experts say oil and gas companies (and their CEOs and major investors) saw bigger money in letting prices run higher before producing more supply. 

They can get away with this because big oil and gas producers don’t face much competition. They’re powerful oligopolies. 

Again, inflation isn’t driving most of these price increases. Corporate power is driving them.

Since the 1980s, when the federal government all but abandoned antitrust enforcement, two-thirds of all American industries have become more concentrated.

Monsanto now sets the prices for most of the nation’s seed corn.

The government green-lighted Wall Street’s consolidation into five giant banks, of which JPMorgan is the largest.

It okayed airline mergers, bringing the total number of American carriers down from twelve in 1980 to four today, which now control 80 percent of domestic seating capacity.

It let Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merge, leaving America with just one major producer of civilian aircraft, Boeing.

Three giant cable companies dominate broadband [Comcast, AT&T, Verizon].

A handful of drug companies control the pharmaceutical industry [Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck].

So what’s the appropriate response to the latest round of inflation? The Federal Reserve has signaled it won’t raise interest rates for the time being, believing that the inflation is being driven by temporary supply bottlenecks.

Meanwhile, Biden Administration officials have been consulting with the oil industry in an effort to stem rising gas prices, trying to make it simpler to issue commercial driver’s licenses (to help reduce the shortage of truck drivers), and seeking to unclog over-crowded container ports.

But none of this responds to the deeper structural issue – of which price inflation is symptom: the increasing consolidation of the economy in a relative handful of big corporations with enough power to raise prices and increase profits.

This structural problem is amenable to only one thing: the aggressive use of antitrust law.

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.

Real Life Adventures Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

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Elect a working class Congress.

And 0 pay their fair share
And 0 pay their fair share

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The hypocrisy of GOP whiteness. Freedoms for me, but none for thee.

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‘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.

unconsitutional NC

trump rips up the proof

It’s all antifa’s fault!

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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.

How do you open a book

Chris Britt Comic Strip for February 05, 2022

INSANE!!!! #blacklivesmatter #blackhistorymonth

fox tells me what to beleiveLights camera bullshit fox

fauci controls homeless

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. 

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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.

Zack Hill for Feb 07, 2022

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The Knight Life Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

your turn

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Republicans normalize racism. Writ large.

ViewsEurope Comic Strip for February 06, 2022

ViewsBusiness Comic Strip for February 06, 2022

Views of the World Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

Michael Ramirez Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

ViewsAmerica Comic Strip for February 06, 2022

their next album

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

A.F. Branco for Feb 07, 2022

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.

Tom Stiglich for Feb 07, 2022

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

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

Today the above are called right wing trolls. 

Strange Brew Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

Farcus Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

Today's Szep Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

Garfield Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

Shoe Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

Mannequin on the Moon Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

One Big Happy Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

The Duplex Comic Strip for February 07, 2022

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Republican Stupidity Results In THIS

Let’s talk about a question on republican lawsuit legislation….