First I sent a thunderstorm to ruin his stupid birthday parade. Now behold! I painted the skies with a rainbow to troll his helicopter for Pride Month!
1. God Hates You, Donold
The White House posted what they thought was a photo showing God’s endorsement: Marine One lifting off with a rainbow in the background.
But as always, the faux-king liars misinterpreted My meaning!
God LOVES LGBTQ+ people!
And I despise that infinite bigot Donold.
Luckily, Gavin Newsom’s press office understood and quote-tweeted it with: “Happy Pride 😌”
2. Their ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Just Collapsed
Trump’s prized “One Big Beautiful Bill” crumbled in the House.
It was supposed to be his grand legislative comeback. Instead, it got nuked by the parliamentarian.
Now the GOP is in full-blown civil war. Fighting over AI, Medicaid cuts, deficit math, and whose bootlicking is most loyal.
On top of all that, Tangerine Palpatine is raging at Fox News because his poll numbers are in the toilet.
Verily, thou mayest eat shit, Donold.
3. God Bless the ACLU
God bless the ACLU, who just won a unanimous court ruling striking down Louisiana’s ludicrous Ten Commandments law.
Public schools are not Sunday schools. And this court had the guts to say it.
Let it be known: while the cult worships golden idols of Donold and demands state-mandated religion, real Americans are still defending the Constitution.
Before you go, I need to say something important. This part isn’t a joke. It’s about survival. (snip-MORE)
Special to The Washington Pist from The Washington Ghost Read on Substack
Hello. Today…
… is proud to re-publish, here, an unsigned parody newspaper that showed up on the streets around The Post building today, tucked under windshield wipers, etc. It’s four pages. That is the front page above, top and bottom, and the back page. It appears to be generated by Brits — they use the word “lorries” and “toilet rolls” — and is about Jeff Bezos’s revoltingly, ostentatiously tone-deafedly expensive upcoming marriage in Venice to the generously bodiced Lauren Sanchez at a time when his Post is drastically contracting its operation and jettisoning sections to save money, and when his overworked Amazon employees earn peanuts and have to pee in jars to meet their quotas.
That’s really all I have to report. Whoever is responsible for it is clearly a journalist and clearly paid quite a bit to produce it. It is very worth reading.
More stuff tomorrow.
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On Monday, Secretary of Health (sick) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 members of the vaccine advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
RFK Jr. said in a statement, “A clean sweep is necessary to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science. ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) new members will prioritize public health and evidence-based medicine. The Committee will no longer function as a rubber stamp for industry profit-taking agendas.”
RFK Jr. is a rubber stamp for conspiracy theories.
The American Medical Association said Kennedy’s decision undermines “trust and upends a transparent process that has saved countless lives.”
In 2019, RFK Jr. engaged in spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation that helped spread a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed at least 83 people, mostly babies, in that nation.
RFK Jr is an agent of bullshit and only an insane person would listen to him, less enough, put him in charge of the nation’s health. (snip-MORE, and it’s really good!)
Since I blogged about this issue yesterday, and I just finished my second cartoon of the day (for the FXBG Advance, which you’ll see tomorrow), we’re going to talk about some of the fallout of the Elon/Trump War.
Trump is thinking of selling the cherry red Tesla S he bought from Elon to throw some public support and propaganda his way after Tesla’s stock took a huge hit. Since Elon started gutting the government, a lot of Tesla owners have buyer’s remorse and have been selling their cars. Now, Trump has buyer’s remorse.
Presidents can’t drive on public roads, and Trump can’t drive at all. Trump buying a car would be like me buying a helicopter. I can’t fly a helicopter. If anything, Trump should buy Jeffrey Epstein’s plane. That would be more accurate symbolism, especially if what Elon said about the Epstein Files is true.
I’m sure there’s a MAGAt out there with too much money who would overpay for Trump’s Tesla, other wise, the value has dropped about 28 percent, even if it’s slightly used and fart-free (though Trump did sit in it for a minute which is probably long enough for him to blast a few dozen and christen the car. (snip-MORE)
I thought I’d be up super late last night, and planned to watch news coverage of the L.A. protests until the wee hours of the morning. But I felt out of sorts all day yesterday, which infected my cartooning, and sleepiness hit me heavy at 11 p.m. after a dinner of runny egg salad sandwiches (I had to do something with a dozen recently-expired eggs before leaving town Saturday, and I used too much mayo), so I went to bed.
I woke up at 5 a.m. this morning, and I was ready to go. But I dreaded turning on my TV. I was afraid I’d find nothing but coverage of deaths and a city burning. But no, I didn’t find any of that. The most disturbing thing I learned was that Lauren Tomasi, a reporter from Australia’s Channel 9 News, was struck by a rubber bullet while she was doing her job. (snip-MORE)
The Advance included a note with my cartoons this morning as it often does, and today’s said:
Mail delivery in our area — indeed, in the Commonwealth — is a problem. Don’t take our word for it. Take former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger’s word for it. Her work uncovered delays galore, and the state consistently rates as one of the worst in the country for mail delivery. So when the downtown post office recently shutdown for, well, whatever reason it was closed for, there was mumbling, but not much of an uproar. Clay certainly noticed, however.
This cartoon was inspired by my own grievances, and it’s the second time the local post office has pissed me off enough to draw a cartoon. Louis DeJoy has inspired others.
The first time was back in December, when they raised the rates to my mailbox and then shut down the branch containing that mailbox. (snip-MORE)
Donald Trump is deploying the National Guard, not to stop riots or for safety, but to start a fight. And he’s doing it illegally.
ICE is conducting raids in the Los Angeles area. They’re not going after criminals, but average citizens who may just so happen to be undocumented. I don’t use the word “illegal” to describe humans unless it’s in the context of someone else using it. Humans are not illegal.
When the National Guard is deployed, it’s usually at the request of a governor or other officials. Yet, neither the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, nor Governor Gavin Newsom has requested military aid, like what happened during the Rodney King riots in 1992.
There has been some violence, such as cars being set on fire and other property damage, but to a small extent. The L.A.P.D. can handle these protests, which are legal.
Governor Newsom said Trump’s decision to call in the National Guard is “purposefully inflammatory.” He’s right.
Trump wants everyone to sit back and allow him to do whatever he wants. Not getting that, he wants a fight. He wants protesters to get violent. He wants L.A. to burn. He wants blood. He wants to point at the city and blame a Democratic mayor and a Democratic governor. He wants to blame liberals and Democrats. He wants to portray himself as the law-and-order president (sic), while he’s the president (sic) who pardoned the white nationalist J6 terrorists who attacked law enforcement. (snip-MORE)
So many old friends in Wichita deplore the conservatism, and yes, there are more voters voting Republican than Dem (though their Dem party is healthy.) Yet, Wichita loves everyone, and I love that! If you’re lucky the little video player on the page will work, and you can watch the broadcast. https://www.ksn.com/video/ict-big-gay-market-hosts-event-for-3rd-year/9749633
Democratic donors are about to spend $20 million on a “strategic plan” called “Speaking with American Men” to figure out their problem with men, and mostly White men. The plan includes “study(ing) the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and virality” in male “spaces.”
I’m non-partisan, but I will offer to help the Democrats figure out their White dude problem for half the price. While I wait for my $10 million check to arrive, I’ll tell you what the Democrats’ problem with men is. Are you ready?
The Democrats’ problem with men is….drumroll please……women.
More specifically, the men of this nation don’t want a woman president. They would rather vote for a mentally unstable racist moron who committed treason against this nation and is a rapist felon.
Democrats lost men when they nominated Hillary Clinton in 2016. It didn’t matter that she was a hundred times more qualified for the presidency than a mouth-breathing, Putin-controlled, knuckle-dragging gameshow host with a bleached skunk for a combover. The Democratic Party had a better candidate, a better campaign, a better message, and more money, but America’s men said, “Nope! She cackles.”
Then the Democrats nominated Joe Biden in 2020, whose only exciting feature is that he wasn’t Donald Trump. Honestly, that’s what got me excited.
And last year, Trump won again when the Democrats didn’t just nominate a woman, but a Black woman. Even the percentage of Black male voters dropped.
Women’s support for Kamala Harris was at the same level that they supported Joe Biden in 2020, but the share of men backing Democrats dropped from 48 percent in 2020 to 42 percent in 2024. (snip-MORE; hang with it)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that the USNS Harvey Milk, a ship in the US Navy, be renamed. The ship is named after the Navy veteran of the Korean War and San Francisco politician who was assassinated in 1978.
Hegseth’s office issued a very brief statement, saying, “Secretary Hegseth is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all DOD installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief’s priorities, our nation’s history, and the warrior ethos,” said Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell. “Any potential renaming(s) will be announced after internal reviews are complete.”
Other ships the bigoted regime is looking to rename include USNS Thurgood Marshall, the USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the USNS Harriet Tubman, the USNS Dolores Huerta, the USNS Cesar Chavez, the USNS Lucy Stone, and the USNS Medgar Evers.
Honestly, I’m shocked this fascist gaslighting racist regime isn’t renaming every ship after Trump.
Nancy Pelosi said, “This spiteful move does not strengthen our national security or the ‘warrior’ ethos. Instead, it is a surrender of a fundamental American value: to honor the legacy of those who worked to build a better country.” (snip-MORE)
Before we get too giddy about this, remember that once upon a time, Kim Jong Un called Donald Trump a “dotard.” At any time, Trump and Elon can kiss and make up, gaslight the entire GOP into believing this feud never happened, and Trump will get mad at reporters for bringing it up, like the TACO, which is another thing Trump keeps changing his mind on.
And as my pal Rob said, Trump knows that deep down, Elon has $400 billion. Well, maybe not now after dancing around with Trump and destroying his credibility. And his feud with Trump has reportedly dropped shares of Tesla to the point that Elon has lost around $27 billion.
But Trump Always Chickens Out. T.A.C.O.
Who could have predicted that this love affair between two narcissistic, stubborn, racist, bullheaded billionaires was going to collapse in such sensational fashion? Everyone who is not a MAGAt. So, how did this start? Elon called the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” calling it a “disgusting abomination.” I guess he felt free to say that after he “left” DOGE to re-focus on his businesses. What does Stephen Miller’s wife think of all this? Who wants to hear that pillow talk? (snip-MORE)
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