Prisoner EXPOSES Corrupt Prison System

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The US wont progress until people have enough money to live comfortable decent quality lives. Life should be more than a struggle for survival

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Scottie’s world today

Sorry being a decent person is bad for you

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#raisethewage

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Rentier capitalism.

Rentier capitalism is a term currently used to describe the belief in economic practices of monopolization of access to any kind of property (physical, financial, intellectual, etc.) and gaining significant amounts of profit without contribution to society.

Cornered Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

When you forget to cancel a 7-day free trial because you wanted to watch that one movie

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They want to

ashamed of the history

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Laws for thee, none for me.

#blackhistorymonth #injustice

ViewsAmerica Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

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Number still zero

person he tried to steal it from

Jeff Stahler Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Joe Heller Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

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If eating peanuts could hurt democrats, Republicans would be at schools eating PB&Js to own the libs.

Strange Brew Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Doonesbury Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

ViewsAsia Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

Michael Ramirez Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

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FOX is Russia’s sister network.

Farcus Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Mike Lester Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

It’s ironic that Fox is so outraged by the media properly passing on the Durham probe fabrications, when they are so flagrantly ignoring the real story about Trump’s financial corruption. It’s just more proof that Fox has never been a news network. And it’s why their audience is so pitifully uninformed, or even worse, misinformed, about everything from the Biden economic boom, to the COVID pandemic, to the 2020 presidential election, and so much more. They are the “New Ignorati.” And that’s exactly how Fox News wants them.

Fox News has been completely distorting the Durham Nothingburger to falsely claim that it proves that Hillary Clinton was spying on Trump. There is no truth to that whatsoever, and the filing doesn’t even make that allegation. But that didn’t stop Sean Hannity from fictionalizing the story.

The Sussman indictment – and I’ve been saying this since it dropped because of a lack of materiality and unclear charges – will probably be dismissed before it even goes to trial. I describe this latest Durham stunt as “Kash Patel garbage in, Kash Patel garbage out, and then Trump threatening to kill people as a result. It’s that simple.”

No one from Clinton’s campaign ordered spying or hacking. No spying or hacking took place. A contractor that was tasked with analyzing DNS queries on government networks. They brought in a lawyer who works on cybersecurity matters to bring what they thought was suspicious activity to the attention of national security agencies. One of Bill Barr’s hacks claims the lawyer didn’t tell the FBI he had also done work for the DNC. The lawyer has proof that the FBI was well aware that he had worked for the DNC.

A.F. Branco for Feb 20, 2022

Minnesota Freedom Fund. The Minnesota Freedom Fund is working to end the discriminatory, coercive, and oppressive policy of cash bail, which criminalizes poverty and takes a disproportionate toll on communities of color. It is a well known problem that poor people spend more time in prison than those with money to pay bail. Justice shouldn’t depend on your income. Bail was used to insure a person will show up in court. But it has become a punitive measure used to harm people. Bail was not to be used as punishment but it is being used that way. Remember that a person is considered innocent until judged at trial.

Tom Stiglich for Feb 20, 2022

The misleading right wing media wants to convince everyone that their favorite boogieman was spying on tRump. Fact is that was not true. Neither John Durham nor anyone else for that matter had actually  provided any evidence of any such crime, let alone even suggested it. … (T)he actual reason that the “LameStream” media hadn’t covered the story was likely because, as the Times notes: (1) Sussmann’s  conversation with the CIA had already been reported last October (2) Durham never once said anything about the White House being “infiltrate[d]” (3) the special counsel also never claimed the Clinton campaign had paid Joffe’s company and (4) perhaps most importantly, “the filing never said the White House data that came under scrutiny was from the Trump era.” In fact, lawyers for the data scientist who helped develop the data analysis in question, say this happened during— wait for itBarack Obama’s presidency.

Steve Breen Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Almost a million Americans are dead, more reported Covid fatalities than any other country in the world. Yet some accuse leaders of doing too much.

Steve Kelley Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

S Kelley believes the Fox narrative. They really want her to run and tell everyone else she is. She lives rent free in all their heads.   Conservatives just can’t get over the fact that Hillary won the popular vote in ‘16

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And now some for fun

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

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Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Andy Capp Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Off the Mark Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Reality Check Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Herman Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Baldo Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Dog Eat Doug Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

The Middletons Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Pickles Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

The Buckets Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Lola Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Daddy's Home Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

For Better or For Worse Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

Monty Comic Strip for February 20, 2022

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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Why is universal healthcare not a right in the US? It would save businesses money, cost less, cover everyone. Oh ya it would take the incredibly large profit out of it for healthcare systems and drug companies.

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Scottie’s world today

then that is meway cooler than appear

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blacktwittercomedy:
“Black Social Comedy
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Monty Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

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Conservatives coordinate corporate fascism.

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Fox news sprays farts gop

Hillary spided on tRump obcession

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tRump doesn't take responciblity

Tim Campbell Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

Nick Anderson Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

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Don't want their kids to know

back to jim crow

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Stories with no context are propaganda. White supremacy runs on propaganda.

#Opinion #Hypocrisy #Indigenous

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The misinformation right wing media tries to keep their base riled up with anger and outrage to keep them engaged. They know if the base is angry they will be more active in the cause. But anger clouds judgement and the right wing media misleads to get the desired actions from the base. The result is cognitive dissidence on a massive scale. The base has to deny reality and create conspiracy fantasies to make the ideas work. Normal things are taken as if nefarious plots. A guy they call sleep Joe and claim has lost his mental abilities is also a mastermind taking away their nebulous freedom thing. The right uses the same arguments in support of their conspiracies that they refute on things they do not want others to have the freedom to do. Such as abortion. Against vaccines then it is their body their choice, but if it is a woman wanting an abortion it is her body but someone else’s choice mandated by law.

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Conservative gospel: think only of yourself while thinking the worst in others. Convert your shame into anger. Never atone.

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It’s a FUCKING DEATH CULT!

⭐️JESUS
⭐️GUNS
⭐️BABIES

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Matthew 12:31-32
“Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be...

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Gun manufactures love the cries that crime is worse, that life is super dangerous, that someone anyone doesn’t matter who is coming to take your guns. It drives sales. Fear is what they use as advertisements. I have to wonder at people willing to lose their job to avoid getting a vaccine while fighting to keep kids from life saving masks, but wont allow any restrictions on guns to save the lives of school children. I just looked up the numbers.

… surveys show that gun ownership in America is actually highly concentrated. Only 22 to 31% of Americans adults say they personally own a gun.

Rates of personal and household gun ownership appear to have declined over the past decades – roughly two-thirds of Americans today say they live in a gun-free household. By contrast, in the late 1970s, the majority of Americans said they lived in a household with guns.

Most of America’s gun owners have relatively modest collections, with the majority of gun owners having an average of just three guns, and nearly half owning just one or two, according to a 2015 survey by Harvard and Northeastern researchers, which gave the most in-depth estimate of Americans’ current patterns of gun ownerships.

But America’s gun super-owners, have amassed huge collections. Just 3% of American adults own a collective 133m firearms – half of America’s total gun stock. These owners have collections that range from eight to 140 guns, the 2015 study found. Their average collection: 17 guns each.

Chris Britt Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

ViewsAsia Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

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Stuart Carlson Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

John Deering Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

Joel Pett Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Seems as though the same christian Taliban that believes Transgender schoolgirls will somehow utilize their penile extremity to their advantage in sports, didn’t think the massive strength and abilities of the Williams sisters put an unfair advantage over other girls in Tennis.

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

This is the craziness that the right promotes about public health mandates.    Creating rules that keep the public safe is cause to kill some one.   WTF

Lisa Benson Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Protesting is legal, and in a way patriotic… no matter what the subject, it is an expression of living in a free country.

Breaking the law while protesting… that’s another thing. You CAN make that choice, it is called “civil disobedience”. But these people (and Lisa) don’t seem to comprehend that you are still breaking the law, and that there will be consequences.

There are groups who have been protesting for decades (from environmentalists, to pro-life movements… all political stripes). And these experienced protesters understand that you need to work with the system. You have to play the game. You set up a blockade, and you wait to be arrested, testing how long you can hold out, hoping you can get some media attention, and cause some grief to your opponent. These “truckers” on the other hand are actually saying “your laws don’t apply to us”. That’s not protest, that’s anarchy.

The Truckers can protest on the side of the road, in the park almost anywhere they would like. the TRUCK is a tool that is regulated by the state and as such it has NO FREE SPEECH RIGHTS.

But it’s not about COVID, vaccination, or mandates. As part of an interview with Pat King, leader of the “Freedom Convoy”, he tells us exactly why they’re “protesting”:

“Now, what it is, is the part of the depopulation. And a lot of people don’t understand what that means.”

(Tell us, Pat. Tell us what it means)

“And what there is, see, is there’s an endgame. It’s called depopulation of the caucasian race. Or the Anglo-Saxon.”

Blink

“And, that’s what the goal is, is to depopulate the Anglo-Saxon race, because they are the ones with the strongest bloodlines.”

https://crooksandliars.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1b79560977ef0d50a412db2c8&id=3db6e2660e&e=c3c56402b9

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The Democrats face an uphill battle to get their message out. Also historically the party in power loses seats in the midterms. But the Republicans are facing their own serious voter issues with only the shrinking base fully committed to the current message out of the Republican party. For example tRump is very popular with the base but not popular with the average Republican and swing voter. The Jan 6th denials are very popular with the base, but despised by the main stream Republicans and swing voters. If the Republicans run on the emotion of blocking every thing the Democrats try to do to help the public while pushing tRump with his big lie and trying to sell the fantasy that Jan 6th was legitimate political discourse the Democrats will keep control of congress and may even gain seats.

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What would you have him do, start world war three? Nuke Moscow and end civilization as we know it. Putin wants to lie and and invade with little cost to himself. By Biden keeping it in the news, marshaling the NATO countries, by getting other countries to agree to crippling sanctions he is doing as much as he can to deter Putin. Plus the US has increased our arms sales to Ukraine and encouraged other countries to do so. Anything else is just counter effective and would prove Putin’s point that he needs to take other countries to keep his safe.

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And now some for fun

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

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Speed Bump Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

The Flying McCoys Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

Real Life Adventures Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

Pickles Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

Family Tree Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

The Buckets Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

Lola Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

Dogs of C-Kennel Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

The Middletons Comic Strip for February 19, 2022

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There was a cartoon about cannibals in this space.   While I thought the punchline was funny it was pointed out to me that the way the individuals in the cartoon were drawn, it was very stereotypical and is a trope used by racist bigots.  I have decided because of that to remove the cartoon and explain that my intent was not to cause harm.   The punchline would have worked without the characters being drawn that way and it is a shame the cartoonist went in that direction.   I apologize for missing the offending part of the cartoon and I thank the person who pointed it out to me.  Thanks.

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Russia – Ukraine explained

TN Bill Would Designate Some Gun Owners As Police

ABC News reports:

Legislation introduced in the Tennessee state legislature this month is raising alarms from the state’s police union and gun control advocates who say it could turn the streets into the “old West.”

Two bills in the state assembly and state senate, HB 254 and SB 2523, would amend Tennessee law and designate “a person who has been issued an enhanced handgun carry permit” as a member of law enforcement.

State Sen. Joey Hensley, who introduced the state Senate version of the bill, told ABC News that the goal of the bill was to allow enhanced gun permit carriers to carry their weapons into locations where off-duty law enforcement enter, such as a store or restaurant that prohibits guns inside their business.

Read the full article.

Hensley last appeared on JMG three weeks ago when he introduced a bill that would ban “obscene” books from public school libraries.

He first appeared on JMG in 2019 when he introduced a bill to ban same-sex couples from adopting.

Four-times-married Hensley, a physician, returned to our attention the following year when he was accused of prescribing opioids to family members and his girlfriend. His girlfriend, not incidentally, was his married cousin.

Hensley was also the sponsor of Tennessee’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” public schools bill and he authored a bill which would have declared children conceived via artificial insemination to be illegitimate.

In 2017 he was accused of adultery in a local couple’s divorce filing. In 2015 one of his ex-wives took out an order of protection against him after she claimed he deliberately hit her twice with his car.

Florida GOP House Candidate Threatens Cop’s Job During Minor Traffic Stop: “Don’t You Know Who I Am?”

Florida Politics reports:

Sarasota Republican Martin Hyde was cited Monday morning for failing to display the proper registration on his vehicle at a speeding stop, according to records obtained by Florida Politics. He was stopped at 9:45 a.m. on Feb. 14. That’s a minor enough infraction, one bearing a civil penalty of just $116. But apparently it was enough to irritate Hyde to the point of threatening an officer’s livelihood.

Officer Julia Beskin in her official report states that Hyde became belligerent when he was stopped. She wrote that Hyde, when he did not produce his registration immediately, told her to “look it up cause he did not have it.” That’s when he threatened her job. “Do you know who I am?” Hyde said before threatening to call the police chief. “This is going to end your career.” Hyde is challenging U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan in a Republican primary.

Read the full article. As you’ll see, Hyde, who has made multiple failed runs for local office, has a history of assholery and racism. Last year one of his rants before a school board earned him a spot in a Lincoln Project roundup of crackpots. Below is his latest campaign ad.

Martin Hyde threatens to end officer’s career over traffic stop

Congressional wannabe Martin Hyde threatens to end police officer’s career over traffic stop

‘Do you know who I am?’

Apparently, congressional candidate Martin Hyde was worried about more than chocolates and roses on Valentine’s Day.

The Sarasota Republican was cited Monday morning for failing to display the proper registration on his vehicle at a speeding stop, according to records obtained by Florida Politics. He was stopped at 9:45 a.m. on Feb. 14.

That’s a minor enough infraction, one bearing a civil penalty of just $116. But apparently it was enough to irritate Hyde to the point of threatening an officer’s livelihood.

Officer Julia Beskin in her official report states that Hyde became belligerent when he was stopped. She wrote that Hyde, when he did not produce his registration immediately, told her to “look it up cause he did not have it.”

That’s when he threatened her job.

 

“Do you know who I am?” Hyde said before threatening to call the police chief. “This is going to end your career.”

Hyde is a two-time failed Sarasota City Commission candidate now challenging U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan in a Republican Primary.

He acknowledges the events took place, and said he felt bad enough about it to call the officer after the incident. But he questioned the newsworthiness of the interaction.

“Man doesn’t like getting three tickets when he barely deserved one,” Hyde said. “And by the way, I called her afterward and said sorry.”

He also said he never intended to literally call the chief of police, and said that’s simply a phrase he says in moments of conflict. In this incident, he said he’s still not sure if he was driving 57 mph in a 40 mph zone, and he said the officer jumped on him about paper registration when his car had a tag and questioned his cell phone use. He maintains he was not using his phone. “It was all annoying,” he said.

 

This isn’t the first run-in with police for Hyde. During his first city race in 2017, police reports surfaced dating back to his 2010 divorce proceedings including a request for an injunction.

During a second run for the Commission in 2019, he became the central figure in a viral video shot at the Sarasota Bath & Racquet Club. In it, Hyde was complaining about teenagers using the club in which he is a member. At one point, he said, “I don’t know what drugs they are on.”

One of the people filming repeated a moment not caught on video, asserting Hyde told the Puerto Rican teens to “cut some grass.”

Hyde for years has been a regular speaker at local government meetings, and of late has been a staple at Sarasota School Board meetings. One of his rants recently led off a Lincoln Project video.

But Hyde said anyone who knows him will not hold these moments against him.

“I can’t get upside down about it,” he said. “I don’t think it will derail any limited appeal I might have. It’s not news. I’m getting bored of it. There’s a lot of stuff nobody talks about, serious things worthy of conversation. This is in the vein of ‘dog chases cat’ and it’s just crap.”

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Why do other developed country have higher happiness / satisfaction ratings and they have all the things the Republicans claim we can not afford. Imagine what we could have if corporations did not own the government.

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Scottie’s world today

redefine the lineTrue inner peace

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Capitalism would rather create a trillionaire than pay labor thriving wages.

Shareholder economics is destroying everything in its way. People and the planet.

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That’s correct…median income went down for the first time and this was before COVID. Sorry to inform you, #BrokenCapitalism won’t fix itself. #Activism https://ift.tt/MRCO206
That’s correct…median income went down for the first time and this was before COVID. Sorry to inform you, #BrokenCapitalism won’t fix itself. #Activism https://ift.tt/MRCO206

https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1492175329904971776?s=20&t=R2FYvqwu_c2pyQpuv5jS8Q

Lola Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

progressivepower:
“In case you were wondering…
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Working It Out Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Monty Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Matt Davies Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

progressivepower:
“Have you noticed that despite all this ‘alleged’ “socialism and social welfare”, the billionaires and top 1% have never been wealthier? Do you not notice #Billionairesinspace ?
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Clay Bennett Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Let democracy prevail

fly the unfriendly skys

Jack Ohman Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

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log will remaind confidentail

Robert Ariail Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Nick Anderson Comic Strip for February 16, 2022

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Trump properties/real estate, writ large.

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Utah

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Media is using Nextdoor app as source.

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The US government should be able to do more than one thing at a time. So the government can address gun violence at home and address Russian aggression abroad. The fact is every time the Democrats try to do common sense gun regulations the Republican party at the request of the NRA has stopped them. Not even closing gun show loop holes for back ground checks could get past the Republicans that were blocking it. Now that the NRA has self destructed I wonder if there can be sensible gun rules / regulations enacted.

nra wishes 2nd amendment

Andy Marlette for Feb 17, 2022

 

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Joel Pett Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

Drew Sheneman Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

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#LinkedIn removed our page… so many posts were going well and paid advertising was starting next week. Our new page has zero followers https://ift.tt/gokED5t

Great, now they’re going to want to do an that 😑
@VeryBadLlama
Great, now they’re going to want to do an that 😑

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Republicans want to break education in order to protect white supremacy. They can’t defend their position[s], so they look to cancel the conversation/debate/dialog.

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‘Enslaved people’ in America is a white construct.

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Breaks her heart? What heart?

She is upset that kids, in theory, could be taught that different colors of skin have different experiences, and she clearly identifies with the racists in history and feels the shame.

Walt Handelsman Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

Clay Jones Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

So again it is the ritual that matters

This shows that it is not what is in your heart or how you live that their god cares about, but it is the rituals that are important to that deity.   Being a good person not needed, the correct words for a a man made ritual ceremony is necessary.

Religion spreads by violence, not truth.
Religion spreads by violence, not truth.

Not sure where this one is going?

Tim Campbell Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

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ViewsAsia Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

Marshall Ramsey Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

Make no mistake.  If Germany follows through with shutting down the gas pipeline, that is 40% of the Russian economy.   I think that would hurt Putin.

Rob Rogers Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Steve Breen Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

John Deering Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Dana Summers Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Again very few police departments have had funding decreases and almost all police departments have gotten increases or demanded them.   Police are organized gangs now shaking down the public for money.  

The right wing media is going crazy to push back on something that not only is collaborated but that is something tRump has done all his life in his businesses.   One right wing guy keeps telling me to prove it, when I mention eye witnesses he claims that is not proof. 

Michael Ramirez Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Biden doesn’t set the price of gasoline. The US is a net oil exporter. Biden has pushed energy independence from the beginning but the GOP stands in his way. Coal is dead.

Henry Payne Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Every time the Republicans need to hide some bad news story about them, they trot out Hillary.   The right has been demonizing her for 30 years.  Okay, now that all conserve cartoonist have played the same false accusations, we await the next ranting points from Fox Spews.

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The Durham report doesn’t say that. The right needs to shift the focus away from Trump’s many scandals. Trump is in trouble for tax fraud, tried to get people to overthrow the government, he tried to replace real electors with phony electors, he wants Hillary Clinton killed, and has connections to Russia. Smart people know the right is just generating a smoke screen and are ignoring the phony scandals involving Hillary Clinton. President Biden will be running for re-election in 2024 so Hillary Clinton won’t be running.

Lisa Benson Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

The right wing has become energized and are trying to take over the school boards all across the country.  Then they will remove anything they dislike, stop the kids from learning crititcal thinking, and install indoctrination propaganda. 

In an election marked by unusually high turnout among Asian-American voters, where the most heavily rejected candidate was called out for her history of offensive anti-Asian tweets, where a principal issue was the Vincent’s efforts to reduce Asian-American representation in elite programs, where the incumbents were criticized for disproportionately appointing white women to boards and commissions, where white mothers make up an unusually low share of the electorate, Lisa Benson declares the victory belongs to . . . white women like herself.

All this shows is that people want to get things done. The principle sin of the Board Members who were kicked out was that instead of making sure the children of SF were back in school during a pandemic, they were more interested in changing the names of schools. Republicans should take note. If your only policy is to make liberals cry, sooner or later your voters are going to wonder when you’re going to get things taken care of.

That was the seed of the recall in San Francisco, where two parents launched the effort in January 2021 after the school board kept schools closed. San Francisco public schools took longer to reopen than most in the country, and almost all of the district’s 50,000 students stayed in distance learning until the fall.

Meanwhile, the school board spent its time on what many critics called misplaced priorities, including a months-long effort to rename 44 schools instead of focusing on reopening them.

Parents and other residents of San Francisco, one of the most liberal cities in America, do not dispute the need to reexamine the historical figures schools are named for, but the effort was criticized for poor research, historical inaccuracies and bad timing. It became one of several examples critics cited of the board putting progressive politics over the needs of children.

The political tracking website Ballotpedia identified 96 school districts in more than a dozen states where race in education and masks were part of the debate in 2021.

Many see that as a prelude for this November’s midterm elections, pointing to the example of San Francisco, a famously tolerant city that lost its patience when progressive politics took priority over pandemic needs.

Scott Stantis Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Carter managed to get things on the right track. He got derailed by the hostage crisis and got outdone by an b movie actor, the same way Hillary was outdone by a third rate tv personality.   It would be a big help if more members of Congress would put on their big girl/boy pants and stand up for the country and Constitution.

Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

  • HskrPhan Premium Member about 5 hours ago

    A new Johns Hopkins University study finds lockdowns only prevented 0.2% of Covid-19 deaths and were “not an effective way of reducing mortality rates during a pandemic.” I can only wonder about the reason for lockdowns and those people who advocate for these measures. Especially because of the negative impact on the young.

  • Daffer   about 3 hours ago
    @HskrPhanBut the study is not definitive. The research represents a non-peer-reviewed “working paper” by three economists affiliated with Johns Hopkins University. The institution did not endorse the study.

    “The university hasn’t taken a position on this and typically wouldn’t in such a situation,” university spokesperson Jill Rosen wrote in an email.

    “The working paper is not a peer-reviewed scientific study, and its authors are not medical or public health researchers,” Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told PolitiFact in an emailed statement. “To reach their conclusion that ‘lockdowns’ had a small effect on mortality, the authors redefined the term ‘lockdown’ and disregarded many peer-reviewed studies. The working paper did not include new data, and serious questions have already been raised about its methodology.”  

    And one of the authors is a fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute, known to be critical of all things governmental.

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Off the Mark Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Speed Bump Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Eek! Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Herman Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Dog Eat Doug Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Marmaduke Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Real Life Adventures Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Shoe Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Close to Home Comic Strip for February 18, 2022

Why the US doesn’t have universal child care (anymore)

Lies and the Lying Racists: The GOP on Critical Race Theory (Feb. 17, 2022)

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: It is / has become impossibly hard to afford to live. I have watched my older neighbors move / sell their homes to move in with children because they couldn’t afford to be on their own. Then I realize I am also being squeezed out of being able to live on what I have each month also.

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Scottie’s world today

go left todayhere is a rats ass

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Attn: donut-eaters who will never own a yacht.

You are getting played. Unbelievably.

We need large-scale promotion of neighborhood solidarity and worker solidarity.

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Defund the police. Reform the police. End the cruelty.

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Time’s Person of the Year is an abusive, entitled scumbag. Go figure he is a racist, too.

Have you noticed that despite all this ‘alleged’ “socialism and social welfare”, the billionaires and top 1% have never been wealthier? Do you not notice #Billionairesinspace ?
Have you noticed that despite all this ‘alleged’ “socialism and social welfare”, the billionaires and top 1% have never been wealthier? Do you not notice

Mannequin on the Moon Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

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Capitalism is built on debt.

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Republicans are the embodiment of failure.

Matt Davies Comic Strip for February 16, 2022

trump lies all the time

Chris Britt Comic Strip for February 16, 2022

Steve Benson Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

John Deering Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

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Melania is one long scam. NFT? Be best? Einstein Visa?

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Walt Handelsman Comic Strip for February 16, 2022

Elon Musk becomes more horrible by the day.

Jack Ohman Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

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White nationalists who protest get police protection. Fact.

 

Adresssing school issues not

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Religion is based on fear.
Religion is based on fear.

It doesn’t make sense to intelligent people…

Their forearms are showing though 😮

Drew Sheneman Comic Strip for February 16, 2022

Stuart Carlson Comic Strip for February 16, 2022

Editorial Cartoon.

Actually infuriating

No one watching the olympics

I not only don’t watch the Olympics I couldn’t care less about them. 

Steve Breen Comic Strip for February 17, 2022

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1939 again? 

ViewsBusiness Comic Strip for February 16, 2022

A great reason to get off fossil fuels as soon as possible. 

Ukraine deplomacy

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China wont destroy Taiwan per say.   They will blockade it and take it over destroying the democratic government.  China wants control over the entire area and all those in it.  Ideally they want control over the entire world, but so does the US.  The question becomes does the US and the world care about democracy as they use to say they did or not?   We can see with the situation in Ukraine which is a democracy being threatened by a dictatorship that presents itself as a pretend democracy that the world really is not as forceful on the subject as they once were. 

ViewsEurope Comic Strip for February 16, 2022

Andy Marlette for Feb 16, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

What is really funny is the idea that tRump would know what was a server and what was a copier.    This goes back to the filing by Durham which was nothing new but is an attempt to investigate the investigators thing to find something to negate the findings in the Russia / tRump probe. 

This is pure bull.  The truckers were allowed to interrupt the economy and society for two weeks and some.  I am all for a protest, but not for shutting down peoples lives and stopping normal activities of a large portion of the city for weeks, disrupting the home life and families  of people not even involved.   

Lisa Benson Comic Strip for February 16, 2022

The GOP’s Durham ‘bombshell’ is a bust

Even though Durham never directly said in his motion that Clinton coordinated a campaign to “spy” on Trump through Joffe, The New York Times noted, conservatives have been quick to draw such conclusions, accusing liberal media of being biased for not covering the alleged scandal.

Fox News on Tuesday also noted the amount of media coverage the alleged scandal had thus far received by ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, and MSNBC. According to Fox News Research, all of these channels have respectively dedicated “0 minutes.”

https://www.rawstory.com/durham-investigation-2656679054/

The researchers were not “spying” on the Trump campaign in 2016 but were instead working at the request of federal officials to investigate Russian malware attacks that had targeted the U.S. government and the White House, said Jody Westby, a lawyer for one of the research scientists involved, David Dagon of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The U.S. was on high alert at the time after the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails by Russian operatives. The data at issue was from the time Obama, not Trump, was in the White House, according to Westby.

“They were simply doing … research of Russian attacks against U.S. entities, including the federal government,” Westby said, adding, “The motion is unfortunate because it offers a lot of confusing information that is not factually accurate.”

https://www.al.com/news/2022/02/what-does-john-durhams-trump-russia-probe-investigation-reveal.html

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The statistics show that the returns on investments by people in congress is much higher than the general public’s returns. Now that implies that congress uses their knowledge and regulatory ability to create personal gain. It sure seems that for a lot of elected officials, they see the office as a golden lotto ticket to personal wealth. The days of public service and helping the people seems to be long gone. Their should be some sacrifice to serving the public, it should be for the country, not for enriching oneself or personal power.

So anyone who wins an elected office should have to place all stocks in blind trusts managed by a reputable company and no office holder may direct the purchase of sale of any individual stock. That goes for family members in the same household. I would also deal with the legalized bribe system called lobbying. The system has become a way for the well off to bribe the office holders and shut out the voices of the public.

The only complaint I have about the cartoon is it is bias and misleading. It makes it seem as if only one party is doing the stock trading. In fact both parties are and both parties have people ignoring the legalities of filing required forms about their finances and stocks. The majority of elected offices have been filled by wealthy people seeking to increase their own wealth at the expense of the people and the needs of the country.

A.F. Branco for Feb 17, 2022

Another cartoon with the smorgasbord of old failed hits. Just keep throwing everything at the wall hoping something will stick. The misleading right wing media is having to make things up now that the President is an adult who doesn’t have temper tantrums while openly breaking the laws and insulting everyone he can.

Tim Campbell Comic Strip for February 15, 2022

The idea that Biden is conducting his anti-war effort in the open is stupid.   He and his team have to work behind the scenes out of the view of cameras.   To expect some big displays is not reasonable.  But then the right never is.  

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