I am seeing this sort of cartoon all over the web.Β Β
This was drawn by a right wing cartoonist with no acknowledgement that the right denying masks and getting vaccinated would cut down on the chance of another surge in the Covid virus variants.Β
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Itβs NOT because of gas prices. Itβs because they donβt want to pay taxes to support anyone but themselves.Β Trade lower gas prices for lower education, restrictive healthcare, lax safety regulations, more government in your private parts, etc.Β
Reading the comments on this cartoon was enlightening.Β Β Every tenth comment explained that the report did not say that.Β Β Every tenth comment explained what the report said, and how it differed from the right wing narrative.Β Β Then after the comment that explained things there was a rash of right wing misinformation posted as the real true story and then the insults.Β That is what the right wing is today.Β Β
These are statesmen?Β Β This is what passes as reasonable people for the US congress?Β Β This is what the Republican party has devolved into.Β Β Thugs.Β Β Hyper aggressive and quick to anger.Β Β Threaten violence to get what you want.Β Β The people that voted for tRump love this as they run on emotion.Β They don’t think things out, they yell and scream.Β Β
Ohio Republican Senate candidates Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons nearly came to blows during a candidate forum Friday evening. Mandel, a former state treasurer and an early front-runner in the race, has targeted Gibbons in recent weeks in the contentious and competitive Republican primary.
At a GOP candidate forum organized by FreedomWorks, Mandel claimed that Gibbons made βbillions of dollarsβ shipping Ohio businesses to China. Gibbons disputed the claim, saying Mandel βnever worked in the private sector.β
Mandel then jumped up and stood inches from Gibbons, yelling that he served two tours in Iraq. βDonβt tell me I havenβt worked,β Mandel said.
βYouβre dealing with the wrong guy,β said Mandel, the raceβs evangelical-backed candidate, after a heated exchange about Gibbonsβ business interests in China, seemingly mumbling under his breath: βYou watch what happens. Pussy.β
Making the incident all the more disturbing, the two men are the current front-runners in the primary to replace Republican Sen. Rob Portman, who is retiring. It underscores just how intense Ohioβs primary has gotten and the extreme plays the candidates are willing to make to get Donald Trumpβs attention.
The moderator intervened just as Vance urged them: βGuys, sit down. Cβmon. God damn. This is ridiculous.β
Mike Gibbons and Josh Mandel get in each otherβs faces at tonightβs GOP #OHSen forum hosted by FreedomWorks.
In a debate in middle school, calling your opponent a "pussy" would be out of bounds. But that's just fine for the U.S. Senate? Neither of these guys should be elected.
Ohio GOP Senate debate turns nasty as Gibbons and Mandel go nose-to-nose https://t.co/opIDSY6M1B
As best I can tell this is the first time a major candidate for federal office has called another βa pussyβ in public since Donald Trump used that label for Ted Cruz on the eve of the 2016 New Hampshire primary https://t.co/xMrOcLUImT
Tucker said it was not βun-Americanβ to support Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. He was wrong. Tuckerβs opinion is non-stop coordinated pro-Putin propaganda.
Trump bullshit laid bare.
Republicans are soft on crime because they would lose the entire Party if they had ethics.
Entire Republican Party is garbage politics legislated by garbage politicians to appease the garbage intellect of their base.
So many horrible conservatives to keep track of.
Authoritarians ban books. Create a false world where only THEY have the truth. See: GOP
Control speech. Attack truth. Punish women.
Russia or GOP?
Teaching people about the history of cruel actions only offends you if you identify with the cruelty.
Ex: People were racist. They were cruel.
Cruel person: Hey, Iβm racist. Donβt hurt my feelings.
The right is desperate to ignore all the work Biden has done to box in Putin at the same time the right sings Putin’s praises.Β Β
Again the right wing cartoons are desperate to find anything to stick in blaming Biden.Β Gas prices have been addressed, we even have audio of one of the CEOs saying there is no way they would increase production and reduce their profits. Β Β
My gods, their country is being destroy while their people slaughtered and the right wing can only think of the money going to help them.Β Why, because the right things only of the wealthy wanting every cent of the nation’s wealth and they cry to see it going to help people.Β
Sick.Β Β While crime in the US may seem up right now it is not anywhere near what it was 10 years ago.Β Β Β But to compare any crime in the US to a war torn country that has been invaded and their people are being slaughtered is gross.Β Β Β
Yes Biden made a gaff.Β Β He goofed.Β He admitted it, he laughed about it.Β He is human.Β He has been known for making verbal mistakes.Β Β He did not get angry when he did it, he did not deny it.Β Β I find the difference between him and trump greatly refreshing.Β tRump would have attacked the press who reported it and claimed he never said what everyone heard him say.Β
Despite the rights many lies, such as Rudy saying he had the laptop but the authorities wouldn’t look at it, the authorities really had the laptop, the emails that refuted what the right wing was claiming were already in the hands of the DOJ / FBI.Β Β They clear both Hunter and Joe Biden.Β The emails to Hunter’s business partners also stressed many times that Joe Biden wouldn’t be bound by anything that Hunter was doing, that no one doing business with them should do so thinking they would influence Joe Biden’s behavior.Β It was so above board it is like watching a 1940’s TV show.Β
Republicans are all about control. The only way to get more power for their white cis-hetero male is to take away the rights of others and attack diversity.
Reactionary Republicans are the worst people.
βLet others liveβ said no conservative, judgmental control freak ever.
Authoritarians spread homophobia. See: GOP
Media bias.
The GOP/Russia authoritarian code:
We are criminals. We are corrupt. We are doing nothing wrong. The other side is worse.
There is a difference between giveaways, like tax cuts for corporations and billionaires and investing in country to modernize it and make it competitive on a global scale.Β
Here we go again. The following is from βNew Hopes for a Changing World,βBertrand Russell, 1951:
βDread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disasterβ¦In the situation that existed in the Great Depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again. But everybody thought that to do so would risk almost certain loss. Within the framework of classical economics there was no solution. Roosevelt saved the situation by bold and heretical action.
βHe spent billions of public money, and created a huge public debt, but by doing so he revived production and brought his country out of the depression. Businessmen who in spite of such a sharp lesson continued to believe in old-fashioned economics, were infinitely shocked; and though Roosevelt saved them from ruin, they continued to curse him and to speak of him as βthe madman in the White House.βββ¦
Our Government is supposed to help everybody, not just to give largesse to rich people in the comedic hope it will effectively filter down the wealth strata of all citizens. Roosevelt did the upper class a true favor, and some still refuse to believe it. Unfortunately, it took a world war to eventually unite us β for a while.
This is the very definition of child trafficking.Β Β This is what they did with the children ripped from the arms of their parents at the southern border of the US.Β Β They farmed those children out across the country and gave them to Christian adoption agencies to sell to parents of the Christian faith.Β There is something creepy and sick going on as these are the same people sure the Democrats are running child sex rings in the basements of pizza shops that have no basements.Β Β
1 of 2 |Β Former state Rep. Matt Shea, who declined to seek reelection after a report charged him with engaging in domestic terrorism, is in a small town in Poland with a group of more than 60 children that he says were rescued from a Ukrainian orphanage. (Dom Dziennikarza)
Former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, the far-right Republican who was found by a House-commissioned investigation to have planned and participated in domestic terrorism, is in a small town in Poland with more than 60 Ukrainian children, trying to facilitate their adoption in America.
Shea has said his group helped rescue 62 children and their two adult caregivers from an orphanage in Mariupol, the city in southeastern Ukraine that has been bombarded by Russian forces.
But international agencies say, with the chaos and confusion of war, now is not an appropriate time for international adoptions from Ukraine. And Sheaβs presence, and the lack of information surrounding the American group heβs with, has raised concerns among some residents of Kazimierz Dolny, the small Polish town where the children are staying at a hotel-guesthouse.
βI asked him many times, βWhat are you going to do with these children?β and he told me that itβs not my business,’β Weronika Ziarnicka, an aide to the mayor of Kazimierz Dolny, said of Shea. βI got the feeling in my gut that somethingβs wrong with this guy; he didnβt want to tell me his last name.β
Shea, who rarely speaks to mainstream media, did not respond to requests for comment.
Speaking onΒ a Polish television show, βIdΕΊ Pod PrΔ d,β Shea said he was working with a Texas group called Loving Families and Homes for Orphans (he also called the group Loving Homes and Families for Orphans).
βIt is a hosting organization that hosts Ukrainian orphans in America with Ukrainian families with the intent that ultimately that ends in adoption,β Shea said on the show. βItβs been doing this hosting program for several years.β
Loving Families and Homes for Orphans appears toΒ have a website, but it is nonfunctional.
The group, based in Fort Worth, registered with the Texas secretary of state in 2018. No such group is registered as an adoption agency with the Texas Department of Health and Human Services. The group is also not registered with the Intercountry Adoption Accreditation and Maintenance Entity, the group that oversees American agencies involved in international adoption.
A nonprofit group called Loving Families and Homes for Orphans was registered in Florida just one month ago. It lists its purpose as: βTo provide loving and caring homes and families for the orphans from other countries for a short time period.β
The group was registered by Irina N. Sipko of Palm Coast, Florida. Sipko did not return requests for comment.
Artur Pomianowski, the mayor of Kazimierz Dolny, said inΒ a post on FacebookΒ that heβd visited the children and they are safe and being well cared-for. He also said the βcase is being investigated and clarified by the relevant authoritiesβ and that the kids would not leave Kazimierz Dolny without consent of the authorities.
βI do not know what Matt Shea and his friends are doing here around children,β Pomianowski said in an email. βMr. Shea and his friends have given us some contradictory information and, for that reason, it is difficult for us to trust them.β
In a statementΒ posted to Facebook by Dom Dziennikarza, the journalistsβ guesthouse where the children are staying, Loving Families and Homes for Orphans says it is a Christian organization based in Texas and that Sipko is the director.
βWe are in direct contact with the governments of Ukraine and the United States, supported by the highest levels of politicians, international and local church leaders as well as dozens of companies from Ukraine, the USA and Poland,β the statement says.
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The U.S. State Department did not directly respond when asked if theyβd been in contact with Loving Families, but a spokesperson warned: βOnlyΒ accredited Adoption Service ProvidersΒ are authorized to facilitate intercountry adoptions of children to the United States.β
It can be extremely difficult in wartime to determine whether children who appear to be orphans truly are eligible for adoption, the State Department said.
βIt is not uncommon in dangerous situations for parents to send their children out of the area, for safety reasons, or for families to become separated during an emergency,β the State Department spokesperson said. βEven when a childβs parents have died, children are often cared for by other relatives.Β Also, many children living in orphanages in Ukraine are not orphans.β
The National Council for Adoption said this is not the time for U.S. citizens to be considering adoption from Ukraine, as many families fleeing the war become separated.
βIt is paramount that the identities of these children and their families be clearly established, and their social, legal, and familial status is fully verified by governmental authorities,βΒ the council said. βFor most of these children, we cannot do that at this time.β
The United Nations High Commission on Refugees and UNICEF put outΒ a joint statementΒ calling for temporary and foster care for children but saying βAdoption should not occur during or immediately after emergencies.β
Former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, the far-right Republican who was found by a House-commissioned investigation to have planned and participated in domestic terrorism, is in a small town in Poland with more than 60 Ukrainian children, trying to facilitate their adoption in America.
Shea has said his group helped rescue 62 children and their two adult caregivers from an orphanage in Mariupol, the city in southeastern Ukraine that has been bombarded by Russian forces.
βI asked him many times, βWhat are you going to do with these children?β and he told me that itβs not my business,ββ Weronika Ziarnicka, an aide to the mayor of Kazimierz Dolny, said of Shea. βI got the feeling in my gut that somethingβs wrong with this guy; he didnβt want to tell me his last name.β
Shea first earned national headlines in 2019 when leaked chats showed his violent fantasies about executing non-Christians and when it was learned that he had participated in militia drills to train young men for βbiblical warfare.β
Shea advocates for the creation of a 51st US state based on βbiblical law.β He has also said that all American men who fail to avow allegiance to Jesus should be executed.
He was expelled by the Washington state Republican caucus but refused to resign even after the feds found that he had βparticipated in an act of domestic terrorism against the United Statesβ by helping plan the armed takeover of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016.
He did not seek reelection in 2020 and is now the pastor of Covenant Christian Church in Spokane.
In the clip below from this weekend, he appears on a Polish right wing outlet.
Former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, accused of participating βin an act of domestic terrorism against the U.S.,β isΒ in Poland to adopt 60 Ukrainian children. He refuses to tell authorities what he plans to do with the children, or even his last name. https://t.co/mKewZ0NFwx
Reactionary Republicans are the worst people.
Scottie's Playtime 
There is a difference between giveaways, like tax cuts for corporations and billionaires and investing in country to modernize it and make it competitive on a global scale.Β
Here we go again. The following is from βNew Hopes for a Changing World,βBertrand Russell, 1951:
βDread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disasterβ¦In the situation that existed in the Great Depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again. But everybody thought that to do so would risk almost certain loss. Within the framework of classical economics there was no solution. Roosevelt saved the situation by bold and heretical action.
βHe spent billions of public money, and created a huge public debt, but by doing so he revived production and brought his country out of the depression. Businessmen who in spite of such a sharp lesson continued to believe in old-fashioned economics, were infinitely shocked; and though Roosevelt saved them from ruin, they continued to curse him and to speak of him as βthe madman in the White House.βββ¦
Our Government is supposed to help everybody, not just to give largesse to rich people in the comedic hope it will effectively filter down the wealth strata of all citizens. Roosevelt did the upper class a true favor, and some still refuse to believe it. Unfortunately, it took a world war to eventually unite us β for a while.
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