Daily cartoon / meme roundup: There is much more to life than work, and there should be in our advanced time.

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Scottie’s world today

conversation in my headMy goals

For the first morning since last Sunday I feel almost normal.   I have been sick for a week, Ron thinks we had a version of Covid.  I don’t care what the name of the thing is all I know is it put me in my bed.   I like my bed but not anywhere that much.   But the roundup still got done.  Ron said I was crazy and I told him it is an addiction to editorial cartoons.  Scottie

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will kill the economy

progress on the economy

pass piecemeal

Joe Heller Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

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You can’t save democracy with seditious traitors, Christofascists, and white nationalists.

Would you work with bank robbers to protect a bank?

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So it’s not the filibuster, it’s the Voting Rights Bill they are against. Unbelievably disgusting.

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there is your opstruction

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Republicans can’t defend their policies. Killing the political conversation is their mission.

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he knew who was responible

set up by borat

watching underdog cartoons

like a cult with meth

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Republican religion, nor their pro-life gaslight, will ever look to help the poor/vulnerable.

Helping the richest is their zero sum game.

Also, people like Putin create refugees through their military/foreign policy, [see Syria], yet conservatives love Putin.

By creating refugees, conservatives always have a boogeyman to frighten their base.

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Conservative policies are about isolation and lonerism. Inclusion is a threat.

We are a society of different people, and that scares people who only value whiteness.

Empathy evolves in stages. Some people will always be stunted at the lower levels. Unfortunately, those at the lower levels can’t experience/see/feel what the people at the higher levels experience. That discrepancy between levels is what defines our current politics.

The Knight Life Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

Steve Benson Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

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Under funding schools and education is criminal.

Teachers are long a target of conservative cuts. Teachers are 75% women.

We will never have strong communities until we invest in schools and teachers as core infrastructure. This is the foundation.

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

jim jones on tucker

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candy tucker in high heels

got people all riled up

effort to look this stupid

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how did this happen you moron

https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1485106144855183362?s=20

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not vaxxing effects eveeryone

Strange Brew Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

Arron Rodgers is a big asshole

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The biggest threat to a cop is themselves. They make selfish decisions, then claim victimhood.

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asshole nation

nice country if you can keep it

Walt Handelsman Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

prince and toad

ruin these young men's lives

Dogs of C-Kennel Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

FoxTrot Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

One Big Happy Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Michael Ramirez Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

Unfortunately, there are Not two sides of the same. The GOP Big Lie is a Fact… and So is their attempt at voter-suppression. The Dem side is a Big Truth, and should be noted as such.  At least he has confessed the “Big Lie” to be a lie. That’s progress. His lame attempt to both-sides the dishonesty is no more blameworthy than the snarls of a cornered beast. With apologies to Upton Sinclair, It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his standing within his tribe depends upon his not understanding it.  Scottie

Is that not the job of the press secretary? It has been done in every administration I can remember. Often it is a deliberate attempt to get a conversation going in the media or to change the Overton window. I would point out the prior administration went through a lot of press secretaries because they were required by their boss to flat out lie to back up his many lies. Scottie

Other than a small minority of cult like followers no one likes tRump nor wants him to run in 2024. More and more Republicans are openly saying it as tRump’s influence over the base is shrinking. The 2020 presidential election was not about Biden and his polices, but a referendum on tRump. tRump was rejected. He will be rejected by an even larger margin if he runs again. Scottie

The right wing media is desperate to bring Biden down.   Think on it, what have the Republicans done they can brag about?  They are reduced to lying about supporting bills they voted against.  So they hammer on Biden’s poll numbers.   It is partly the Biden’s peoples fault, they don’t brag enough on what they have accomplished, unlike the former guy who had to make most things up.   Scottie

Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

The distinction is extremely clear to me. If you don’t get it, try being a pregnant female. BEFORE birth, there’s a woman who has bodily autonomy or she’s less than a full human. AFTER birth there are two humans.  

This is BS propaganda. Abortions after gestational age of 21 weeks are extremely rare (<1%). They are fundamentally illegal unless medically necessary. The vast majority of those abortions are when the fetus is no longer viable. Overturning RvW most likely will not even ban these types of abortions more than they are now.

That fetus abandoned in the trash was most likely a baby that the mother had to conceal because she didn’t know what else to do. This is often caused by the stigma created by families about pregnancy outside of marriage by young women incapable of taking care of the child. It speaks to the fact that American society does less to encourage a mother to keep her child by supporting both the mother and child (the infamous “welfare mother” stigma). It’s so much easier for conservatives to punish the mother for getting an abortion and forcing her to carry the baby’s to terms and then abandon both mother and child.  Scottie

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And now some for fun

at work how do you fit

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

Off the Mark Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

Breaking Cat News Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

The Flying McCoys Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

Dog Eat Doug Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

Family Tree Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

Rubes Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

For Better or For Worse Comic Strip for January 23, 2022

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You Can’t Pray The Gay Away | Skitso Music | Skitsofrenic

Florida House committee passes “Don’t Say Gay” bill

Florida House committee passes “Don’t Say Gay” bill

  

“LGBTQ people are your neighbors, family members, and friends. We are a normal, healthy part of society and we will not be erased”

 

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TALLAHASSEE – A Republican majority Florida House Education & Employment Committee passed HB 1557, the Parental Rights in Education bill, colloquially referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill advancing the measure to the full House.

HB 1557 and its companion Senate bill SB 1834, would ban classroom discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, erasing LGBTQ identity, history, and culture — as well as LGBTQ students themselves.

The bill also has provisions that appear to undermine LGBTQ support in schools and include vague parental notification requirements which could effectively “out” LGBTQ-identifying students to their parents without their consent.

 
 
 

“The Trevor Project’s research has found that LGBTQ youth who learned about LGBTQ issues or people in classes at school had 23% lower odds of reporting a suicide attempt in the past year. This bill will erase young LGBTQ students across Florida, forcing many back into the closet by policing their identity and silencing important discussions about the issues they face,” said Sam Ames, Director of Advocacy and Government Affairs at The Trevor Project. “LGBTQ students deserve their history and experiences to be reflected in their education, just like their peers.”

In an email to the Blade, Brandon J. Wolf, the Press Secretary for Equality Florida noted; “Governor DeSantis’ march toward his own personal surveillance state continues. Today, the Don’t Say Gay bill, a piece of legislation to erase discussion of LGBTQ people from schools in Florida, passed its first committee and became another component of an agenda designed to police us in our classrooms, doctor’s offices, and workplaces. Make no mistake — LGBTQ people are your neighbors, family members, and friends. We are a normal, healthy part of society and we will not be erased.”

The Trevor Project’s 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health found that more than 42% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth.

According to a recent poll conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of The Trevor Project, 85% of transgender and nonbinary youth — and two-thirds of all LGBTQ youth (66%) — say recent debates about state laws restricting the rights of transgender people have negatively impacted their mental health.

When asked about proposed legislation that would require schools to tell a student’s parent or guardian if they request to use a different name/pronoun or if they identify as LGBTQ at school, 56% of transgender and nonbinary youth said it made them feel angry, 47% felt nervous and/or scared, 45% felt stressed, and more than 1 in 3 felt sad.

Central Pa. borough poised to become first to repeal LGBTQ protections

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/01/central-pa-borough-poised-to-become-first-to-repeal-lgbtq-protections.html

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The Chambersburg Borough Council is poised to on Monday vote to rescind an anti-discrimination ordinance in what is widely being seen as a politically driven move, coming only four months after the borough ratified the ordinance in October. Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com

A central Pennsylvania borough is poised to become the first municipality to repeal anti-discrimination safeguards that protect residents against discrimination based on their sexual orientation, ethnicity or gender identity.

 

The plan by Chambersburg Borough Council to vote Monday to rescind the anti-discrimination ordinance comes only four months after the borough ratified the ordinance in October.

 
 

Proponents of the ordinance say the newly installed conservative majority on the borough council is wielding its muscle, invoking the idea of a voter mandate to rescind an ordinance that was extensively vetted and researched last year.

 
 

“I don’t know of any reasons for repealing it other than a political move,” said Alice Elia, a Democrat and the former Chambersburg borough council president. “This issue should not be politicized. It’s an issue of justice and having equal protection for everybody in our community. It shouldn’t be a political or a Democratic or Republican issue. This should be something we are all concerned about.”

 
 

The ordinance, which extends protections against discrimination to gay, transgender or genderqueer people in employment, housing and public accommodations, was passed in October by the then-Democratic majority council.

 
 

The political makeup of the council, however, changed with the November municipal election, which ushered in a 7-3 Republican majority.

 
 

Allen Coffman, a Republican and newly installed borough council president, is clear on why he opposes the ordinance.

 
 

“All of us that ran in this election to be on council we think we got a mandate from the people,” he said. “People we talked to when we were campaigning did not like this ordinance at all. I don’t know what the vote will be, but I have a pretty good idea.”

 
 

The council last year led a three-month exploratory process to fact find and delve into the issues. The process was accessible to the public.

 
 

“I felt it was a very open, very educational process that allowed people to ask questions,” Elia said. “It wasn’t rushed.”

 
 

A few weeks ago, immediately after installation of the new members, the council revoked a measure that would have assembled a commission to oversee discrimination complaints, instead voting in favor of a measure to repeal the ordinance.

 
 

“It was kind of a take back Chambersburg and let’s go back to the 1950s the way we all liked it,” said Sandra Mailey, chairwoman of the Franklin County Democratic Committee. “Everybody in Chambersburg didn’t feel that way.”

 
 

Although Franklin County is predominantly Republican leaning, Mailey said that what is playing out in the borough — the county seat — mirrors other nationwide trends.

 
 

“I think it’s a national strategy of the Republican party to get to the base and get to local government to take over from grassroots groups and try to maintain power that way,” she said.

 
 

What is arguably being rushed, Elia said, is the upcoming repeal vote by a newly elected council whose members, with a few exceptions, are serving in public office for the first time.

 
 

“My concern is that it’s a big decision to overturn something like this,” Elia said. “It hasn’t happened before and for that to be something that is first on the table for people who have never held a position like this is a big thing to do.”

 
 

Coffman said the ordinance serves no purpose and is redundant, noting that the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission already is tasked with handling discrimination complaints from commonwealth residents.

 
 

“There are no penalties, no fines,” he said. “There’s nothing that the ordinance can make someone do. The most they can hope for is that the committee request the two parties to sit down with a counselor or mediator and talk about it. Quite frankly there is nothing that compels them to. There’s no teeth in this.”

 
 

Coffman, who was re-elected to the council as president, last year voted against the ordinance. He said he planned to vote to repeal it on Monday.

 
 

“My view of government is to simplify it and not make it more complicated,” he said. “If you have no guarantee that you can get a resolution at the local level, it’s obviously going to go to the state. To me we are stalling. If you have a good case, it’s good enough to go to the state and let them make the decision.”

 
 

If Chambersburg succeeds in repealing the ordinance, it would mark the first time an LGBTQ inclusive law is revoked in Pennsylvania. To date, 70 municipalities, including Gettysburg, Shippensburg, Carlisle, Camp Hill and Harrisburg, have ratified such ordinances.

 
 

Pennsylvania is one of 27 states that have no explicit statewide laws protecting people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in employment, housing and public accommodations.

 
 

“Rushing to repeal it to fit the politics of the moment would be an exceedingly bad move,” said Preston Heldibridle, executive director of the Pennsylvania Youth Congress, an advocacy group for transgender youth. “This goes beyond politics. This is a neighborhood issue and we support all those who live, work and choose to raise their families in the borough.”

 
 

Heldibridle, whose group this week hosted virtual town halls on the issue, said the ordinance addresses gaps in state and federal law, specifically listing sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes. The Chambersburg ordinance also extends protections to veterans.

 
 

Heldibridle noted that anti-discrimination ordinances have broad support, including from education and economic stakeholders. During Thursday’s town hall, he noted that entities such as WellSpan, Penn State, Wilson College and Giant have come out in support of the ordinance.

 
 

“There is unprecedented support for equal rights protection for the LGBTQ community under the law,” Hildebrand said.

 
 

This week, ahead of Monday’s vote, several educators, faith leaders and business community members voiced their support for the ordinance and their opposition to its repeal.

 
 

The Rev. Renata Moseley Harper of the John Wesley A.M.E Zion Church in Chambersburg, invoked her faith in supporting the ordinance.

 
 

“I support this non-discrimination ordinance specifically because of what Jesus said was the greatest commandment,” she said. “To love God with all our heart, soul, might and strength and to love our neighbors as ourselves. How wide is our circle of neighbors? Well according to Jesus Christ, everyone is a potential neighbor and due our love and compassion.”

 
 

Moseley Harper, who is Black, said she was no stranger to discrimination and had as a former resident of the borough been denied services at restaurants and housing because of her race.

 
 

“The question that we have before us as a faith community is how do we want to be known?” she said. “What kind of people are we going to be? Folks who extend this protection to our neighbors and then yank it back? Would not we rather be known as a community that extends love, compassion and protections to all citizens?”

 
 

State Rep. Wendi Thomas, a Republican from Bucks County, excoriated the idea that an anti-discrimination ordinance faced repeal.

 
 

“What year are we in?” she said in a written statement read at a Pennsylvania Youth Congress town hall this week. “We are 22 years into the 21st century. We are past the time we should allow any fellow Pennsylvanians to be treated as second-class citizens whether for their gender identity or sexual orientation. Yet here we are in 2022 having to talk about fairness for all fellow human beings.”

 
 

Thomas noted that LGBTQ anti-discrimination legislation has long stalled in the Legislature.

 
 

“To my fellow public officials until the General Assembly passes this legislation, it is up to you,” she said. “You are the only ones who can provide exclusive protection for LGBTQ people. We can never be fully free, if some of us are still treated like second-class citizens.”

 
 

Coffman rebuked the idea that the borough needs the ordinance. He noted that council last year reprimanded him for what was considered a racially inappropriate email that he sent to a constituent.

 
 

“I don’t consider our community a racist or bigot community,” he said. “Do I have a personal interest in this? Absolutely.”

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: No one loves their health insurance company. They desperately need healthcare and live in a country that insists everyone make a profit for them to get it

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Scottie’s world today

no one understands me

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People deserve to have the right of free healthcare.   It should be one of the main functions of the government to care for the well being of the people.  Oh wait it is but that part is ignore in favor of profit.   We need universal expanded Medicare for all

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We gave tax cuts to ‘job creators’.

Matt Wuerker Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

Steve Breen Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

Don’t let the Republicans off the hook.   Scottie

Stuart Carlson Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

John Deering Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

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Justice Roberts, this shame is on you. Your legacy is that of vengeful racism. You destroyed voting rights for millions. You are the architect of undermining election integrity and global disenfranchisement of non-white voters.

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Conservative policies are about isolation and lonerism. Inclusion is a threat.

We are a society of different people, and that scares people who only value whiteness.

no unicorns in zoo

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Republicans have weaponized their fragile snowflake rhetoric to protect their own racism.

‘Don’t hurt my feelings’ is GOP top agenda.

Clay Jones Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

dumping eveidence on trump

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Family values.

Loveless, humorless, moral blanks can survive with ease in conservative politics.

Just to protect whiteness.

top bullshit spreader

Joel Pett Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Matt Davies Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Gary Varvel for Jan 22, 2022

ViewsEurope Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

ViewsAsia Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Aunty Acid Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

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king dog chess piece

don't be sad little boy dog

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Lisa Benson Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

Yeah, Lisa! Nothing worse than preventing the country from crumbling into the rubble of a third world nation!   Good thing the Obstructionist party is hard at work preventing progress and making sure needless defense contracts keep getting filled!  Scottie

Hillary has not even hinted at running. The right loves that they have made her such a boogieman after 30 years of attacks and they can not wait to trot her out to scare their base. It is that simple. No one in the Democratic party has wanted her to run again, it is just the left hoping to gin up outrage in the cult. Republicans had an opportunity to prevent this twice by voting to convict Trump. Republicans can also prevent Trump from running by taking him to task for his lies about voter fraud. They can also stop rigging the system in order to make it harder for people to vote and creating a situation where Republicans can overturn any election results they don’t like.  Meanwhile, it is unlikely Hillary will be running since there is a Democrat in the White House. Besides what is the big deal? The Republican Party failed to lock her up, so it looks like she did nothing wrong.   Scottie

I am seeing versions of this everywhere.   It is very misleading.   Democrats do not mind ID, but we are against the Republican ID requirements that make ID’s nearly impossible for some people to get and they accept only certain ID’s they think their voters might have no matter how obscure while denying popular forms of ID’s that Democratic voters might have.   Scottie

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And now some for fun

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

Speed Bump Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

just getting out of bed

Dog Eat Doug Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

Mannequin on the Moon Comic Strip for January 22, 2022

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The rich got richer and the people lost their right to vote, so the wealthy got the rest of the money

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Scottie’s world today

conversation in my headkill with kindness

Catch up note.  I have been sick since Sunday.   I thought it was from entertaining on Saturday and staying up far too late.   But it is far more than that.   Ron had not felt well for more than a week.  His symptoms were not as severe as mine are but they were mostly the same.   He had gotten over it so we did not worry.  I was not feeling well for a few days after Sunday but Wednesday was bad and yesterday was really bad and today is like yesterday.    Head full, slight headache, hot sweats, cold periods, fever, extreme nausea, vertigo, really tired, intermittent running nose that we thought that was allergies.    Yes we both now think I have Omicron or some version of Covid and that he did also.   Wednesday and yesterday spent most of the day in bed.  This morning got up early thinking I could do some news stories I had missed, but this is not working.  I am going to get as much done before I am forced back to bed.  The thing is in Florida it is really hard to get a Covid test and before I would get any result I would be over it.   So I will just quarantine at home just in case.  **  Took all day with many rest periods, I am now going back to bed.  I will try to get to comments tomorrow. **  Scottie 

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based on punishment

Working It Out Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

hope and change and the stay the same

Joel Pett Comic Strip for January 20, 2022

boring entertain us

pleasure working with you

Stop we will open the door

Andy Marlette for Jan 20, 2022

Matt Wuerker Comic Strip for January 19, 2022

gop wordle

Drew Sheneman Comic Strip for January 20, 2022

racist americans are voting

black people vote as much

don't bark and don't bite

flag of prejudice

Matt Davies Comic Strip for January 20, 2022

Mike Lester Comic Strip for January 20, 2022

five kinds of Republicans

Rob Rogers Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Steve Breen Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Rudy driving. 

Tom the Dancing Bug Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

must show work see after class

Clay Bennett Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Nick Anderson Comic Strip for January 20, 2022

educate your sons

Lalo Alcaraz Comic Strip for January 20, 2022

The Knight Life Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Mike Luckovich Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Joe Heller Comic Strip for January 20, 2022

good news wars

Do not feed the bear

Russian diplomacy

ViewsEurope Comic Strip for January 20, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

The old white guy cartoonist pretended in the article that went with this cartoon that Biden should do this to protect black people and to increase the wages of black people.   Right.   Immigration has fallen for the last decade and it has not increased the wages of black people.  The real issue is that the brown people coming here do have more children right now than the white people already here.   So again the idea of a white majority or white ethnostate is what drives  these racist on immigration at the southern border.   Scottie

Wright and one other right wing media cartoonist keep trying to push Hillary into the limelight, to force the idea of Hillary running again to rile up their base.   They know that for 30 years the right wing media villainize Hillary and the right wing base is in a constant rage about her while the independents are sure she must have done something wrong even though she has never been found guilty of any Republican charge.  Hillary has not even suggested she is running nor that she thinks Joe should be replace.   Scottie

I think this must be a regional thing.   Yes we have a few things that are short like cat food.  But mostly it is just one brand name missing with plenty of that item by by a different supplier.  Our problem is the costs of stuff.   The price of meat is out of this world along with milk which is $5.48 a gallon here.   There are other things Ron comes home just all upset over the price of, but we are not yet scrounging for food as Tony Perkins claims due to Biden. 

Bullshit!   What about the money for the defense department?  Tax cuts for the wealthy never get cost checked.   But anything helping the people or taking care of the decaying nation needs is called tax and spend liberalism.   The people are not buying the misleading talking point anymore.  Scottie

While Biden was not articulate in how he put it, he was right.  We know Putin has special operations people in Ukraine.  He has troops out of uniform helping the separatist.  Biden did not want to get in to a war over those handfuls of Russian troops.   However he has made it clear that if Putin tries to take any more of Ukrainian territory they will pay a huge price in retaliation.  Scottie

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And now some for fun

Mike du Jour Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Andy Capp Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Speed Bump Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Off the Mark Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Aunty Acid Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Dog Eat Doug Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Garfield Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Marmaduke Comic Strip for January 21, 2022

Parental control apps are outing kids to their parents & blocking them from LGBTQ resources

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/01/parental-control-apps-blocking-kids-lgbtq-resources-outing-parents/

A recent study has found that 92% of parental control apps over-block websites, with the most commonly blocked content being those related to LGBTQ identities and sexual health.

The study, from Top10VPN, examined some of the most popular apps available on Google Play, as well as how they handle attempted access to certain websites popular in either the U.S. or U.K.

Some apps, it found, blocked kids from accessing LGBTQ resource websites like Stonewall, the Trevor Project, and It Gets Better, deeming them “adult content.”

What’s more, the study found that most of the apps notify parents when their kids attempt to access a blocked site, which could lead to dangerous situations in which kids are unknowingly outed to their families.

One app, Kaspersky Safekids, even blocked kids from using the search term “LGBTQ” on YouTube. Kaspersky Safekids also blocked searches of “homosexuality,” “safe sex,” “sexual abuse help,” “abortion,” “condom,” and “birth control pill.”

Despite blocking LGBTQ websites and search terms, some of the apps still permitted kids to access sites like OnlyFans, which actually does feature adult content, and allowed for search terms like “buy gun.”

And in only 10% of Top10VPN‘s tests, the parental control apps blocked websites known for the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories.

“The over-censorship of LGBTQ+ content is a well-documented feature of private tech companies’ attempts to filter ‘safe’ content, whether this is done by parental control apps or by platforms themselves,” said Siyang Wei, Policy Coordinator at the U.K.’s LGBT Foundation.

“This not only discriminates against LGBTQ+ content, but prevents young people from accessing information, services, and communities that could be vital to their wellbeing.”

Last year, anthropologist Mary L. Gray warned that artificial intelligence will “always fail LGBTQ people,” along with other marginalized groups. Gray said it will forever be up to human interference to ensure AI is not discriminatory.

“When AI whittles us down to one identity,” Gray said, “We can look at that and say no. I’m more than that.”

 

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: people on disability are not causing your problems, the wealthy pushing their tax burdens on to you are your problem

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Scottie’s world today

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Culture wars are the oxygen of capitalists.

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The root of our problems is corporate greed.

Bottom people make the profit

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The most common comorbidity is poverty.

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We need the language to deconstruct late stage capitalism. You can’t change what you can’t describe or understand.

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https://twitter.com/crgulla/status/1482072525676892171?s=20

Farcus Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Scott Stantis Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

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1000%. Republican rhetoric is useless. They will say/do anything to give themselves power.

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Spare us the “bipartisan” hand-wringing.

Use the code words donnie

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Republicans are the party of theft. They all know voter suppression and gerrymandering are about stealing elections. They know the audits were about stealing elections. They know slowing the Post Office was about stealing elections.

The complicity and gaslighting, vis a vis, ‘stop the steal’, represent manifest diseased GOP morals/ethics.

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Clay Jones Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Jack Ohman Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Clay Jones Comic Strip for January 15, 2022

Steve Benson Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

knock some heads together

John Deering Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

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Law and order is a white supremacist construct.

Prickly City Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Kevin Necessary Editorial Cartoons Comic Strip for January 14, 2022

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Notice it includes the wrong Douglass and the correct one is spelled with only on S.   Scottie

https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1481323276462968834?s=20

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‘Knowing you are the problem, then blaming others’ is the conservative mission statement.

The malfeasance is manifest.

Robert Ariail Comic Strip for January 16, 2022

I heard it is jock itch

Coming soon.   But what people forget is that those cases some are going to get really sick from Covid, they are going to incur large medical bills, and a lot of them will die.   Is that the future the anti-vax groups want?  Just a roll of the dice if you go bankrupt or die?   How many deaths will be enough when nearly 900,000 are not?   Scottie

hit by covid liberty

Non Sequitur Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

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*in order to protect our strong men- we must drink pee and show our indoctrination*

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We should not be shrugging off long-term risks.

freedom to not wash hands

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It’s a cult.

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This tracks.

Aggressively wrong

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The double standards are everywhere.

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ViewsEurope Comic Strip for January 16, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

Gary Varvel for Jan 17, 2022

History has shown that left to their desires the states will infringe on rights granted by the federal constitution. Yes the constitution is the founding document that provides the structure the US is built on. When rights that should be enjoyed by all are with held or restricted to some, the federal government must act to restore them. Plus some elections are federal elections and so should be standard across all states as with other interstate laws. Again that is provided for in the constitution. If you take out the right wing media attempts to stir up their base’s emotions you can see that this is something that has happened before and should happen again. The federal government is doing its job to address a problem across state lines and to ensure equal protection under the 14th amendment. Scottie

Bob Gorrell for Jan 17, 2022

Have these people seen Biden’s 36 years in government service?   He is a center right leaning politician who has more than once advocated cutting social security payment, assistance to the poor, being tough on crime, in favor of keeping cannabis illegal, and refusing to eliminate student debt even though some of these things helps the economy immensely.   Biden is no lefty, no progressive, but he is a corporate democrat.   Biden is beholden to the wealthy corporations and is willing to do mostly as they wish as they wish.   The reason Biden has been pushing for policies that the right wing media call progressive is they help both the country and the wealthy / big businesses.  But the right has to be against anything that Biden is for so they create a false scare tactic against even stuff they supported just a few years ago, such as voting rights reform.    History and truth are pesky things the right wing media is trying to avoid.  Scottie

A.F. Branco for Jan 16, 2022

According to 2019 FBI data, seven out of ten states with the highest per-capita rates of violent crime voted Republican in the 2020 election. In contrast, seven out of ten states with the lowest rates voted Democrat. However, the District of Columbia had the highest rate despite voting blue.  Mississippi has the highest murder rate, I hear it is a deep red state.   Facts matter.   The cartoon is just an attempt to play on fear and keep outrage going in the right wing base.   Scottie

https://repustar.com/fact-briefs/do-red-states-rank-higher-in-violent-crime-rates-than-blue-states

CRT is simply a dog whistle for the right so I will ignore its use here.  MLK’s words are as appropriate for today as they were back when he issued them. What is discouraging is the US has regressed on the gains in civil rights that King fought for. The US has not only stopped moving forward to eliminate pervasive racism but again has one political wing actively trying to promote it. He was right about the lack of support and work needed by moderate white people to change the discriminatory nature of the country. Scottie

Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Youngkin is dividing Virginia by pushing the false idea that CRT is being taught in its schools.   Goodwyn prefers the old Texas schoolbooks which told that the slaves were happy being told what to do.   White people afraid of facing the truth will be the downfall of this country.   Not a joke. A Virginia Republican legislator introduced a bill requiring public schools to teach students about the Lincoln – Douglass debates. Frederick Douglass.  

Youngkin banned the teaching of Critical Race Theory (although it is not being taught).   Youngkin did not ban the teaching of Replacement Theory.  Make of it what you will.

Teachers now have to fear if they say anything critical about; slavery, Jim Crow, lynching they will be fired. If Little Johnny goes home and says Mr Jones said in history class that slaves were considered subhuman and often flogged and his Great, Great,Great, Great Grandfather got rich off their labor-Mr Jones is teaching CRT and should be fired.  Protecting our children from an imaginary CRT agenda, killing our children by lifting mask mandates during a lethal pandemic. Not the least bit divisive. Next we’ll have bodycams on teachers to prevent the spread of seditious knowledge.   Scottie

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And now some for fun

Andy Capp Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Herman Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

Marmaduke Comic Strip for January 17, 2022

FoxTrot Comic Strip for January 16, 2022

Liberal Redneck – President Sinema?? (Naw)

Donald Trump Jr. Has Laughably Ironic MELTDOWN