Category: LGBTQ+ / Gay / Trans / Gender
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: It was never about the cost it is about forcing the public to struggle for the necessities in live. In the worlds wealthiest country it doesn’t have to be this way.
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No one ever asks, ‘how are you going to pay for it?’ with the military, and they waste trillions.
Elon Musk has gotten rich off others all his life. Elon Musk’s father was wealthy and owned an emerald mine in South Africa. His mother was from Canada, but was raised in South Africa. Elon Musk moved back to his mother’s homeland to avoid the military draft in South Africa. Shades of Donald Trump! (But a lot smarter and much more successful in multiplying his father’s fortune.)
Elon Musk was successful in developing software, and made a fortune developing X.com and PayPal, which he then parlayed into a role in a new company founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Musk did NOT found Tesla; he joined a company that was already being developed, and eventually ousted the founders and took full control himself.
Musk had developed enormous wealth DUE TO GOVERNMENT SUPPORT and government contracts, subsidies and guarantees. And there are certainly many legitimate public policy interests in developing clean, green, renewable energy.
But, while Musk certainly has demonstrated his own brilliance, imagination, drive and success, he has always developed his wealth on the backs of others — government, the public, and workers who transform his visions into actual products.
Forced birth?
Where are the forced birth crowd here and above? Where is all the support needed for these forced births? It is simply a tactic to control women’s bodies and their sex organs.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1472185834258501633
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Wow talk about causing the problem you are complaining about. This is not on Biden, it’s on willfully ignorant anti-vaxxers. The right wing media is doing everything they can to fight any attempt by the Biden administration to fight the Coronavirus. The right wing is actually encouraging spreading the virus. Yet now the blames Biden for not stopping the very virus the right is spreading? And the Republican party is happy about this, they are planning to run on it this next year. The Republicans plan to tell voters to vote for them because Biden has done a bad job fixing what the Republicans are deliberately breaking.
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“Ex-Gay” Leader: I Keep Hooking Up With All These Men But Then I Repent, Jesus Always Forgives Me
Every time I fell I would truly repent and turn away again. I would feel Gods love, mercy, and forgiveness sometimes before I could even finish the prayer. (I am not condoning this sin at all I’m just sharing what happened when I fell).
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Uniquely US problems other advanced nations do not have. Are we really #1
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
No one is aborting fully born toddlers, but I bet some parents think of it. That is called murder and against the law. Nice heart string pulling cartoon even if totally wrong about the subject. The real issue is about the woman and her rights to her life and her body. She is already born, she is a human life, she has human potential. These are all discounted and ignored by the forced birth crowd. Abortion is used before there is a viable life that can live with out the mother, or in case the mothers life is in danger because her life is important also. The forced birth crowd are not interested in human potential of the unborn fetus because after a baby is born they with draw all support. But every one wants to focus on the word life, well the woman has life. But what they really mean is human and a zygote / fetus is not human, but the woman is. Hugs
Plus these are the same damn people most virulent about not getting vaccines, wearing masks, and denying all the facts of the many deaths from the Coronavirus. Hugs
So misleading, dishonest, and maybe designed to discourage people from demanding government action on climate change. Obama is a private citizen, and while he is important and has some wealth, he is not a corporation spewing pollution in to the environment. It doesn’t matter if he has a beach front estate, again he is not a coal burning power plant or belching smog out his smoke stack. He is surely not dumping his trash into the ocean. Hugs
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: I am a progressive but I believe in things liberals do to help the people.
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People have too much on their minds these days trying to survive to follow what elected politicians are doing. That has allowed corporations to buy those politicians to insure the wealthy get more and more of the countries wealth and to make sure the government never serves the public.
We need to stop punching down. We need to see that capitalism is failing society. Capitalists should be kept away from government policy.
Congress must never do anything to help the American people. That would be Communism.
Working for his donors against the people who voted for him Manchin killed the BBB bill. Killed it. Now wants to play president some more even though we elected Biden because of what he promised to try to do when he ran, Manchin wants the child credit extended ten years taking all the money he will allow for the bill so that is the only thing in it. Why? Because Manchin pushed a child tax refund when he was governor of West Virginia. Now the Senate has given up on it and decided to try to pass voting rights bill needed if the Democrats hope to stop the Republican rigging of the next election in 2022, yes next year. But that wont happen either as Sinema has already said she wont change the filibuster under any circumstances, which means the bill is dead. Nothing will pass ever with Sinema and Manchin in the pockets of the wealthy donor class. Democracy is already dead.
Never vote for moderate or centrist Democrats. They are malware. Vote for progressives!
Republicans know they are traitors.
https://twitter.com/roderickgraham/status/1471615647834689546?s=20
Kim Potter is a murderer trying to create a situation where her horrible decisions and non-use of training give her power. It’s called white supremacy.
What is Bill 21 Quebec?
Bill 21, also commonly referred to as Quebec’s secularism law, bans some public servants deemed to be in positions of authority — such as teachers, judges and police officers — from wearing religious symbols on the job. Hugs
https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1471155338502184960?s=20
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Silly. Comparing apples and bicycles. PS: Also safe for gender discrimination, and you can even decide based on finger length, quality of the smile, who he/she hangs out with, smooth or crunchy… or how they squeeze the toothpaste.
Kate McKinnon won’t hook up with me because I’m male. Gender discrimination!
Billie Eilish won’t date me because I’m older than her grandfather. Age discrimination!
The hot blonde I met in church won’t see me because I’m married. Marital status discrimination.
None of the Kardashians will date me because I can’t come up with enough cash. Economic discrimination.
Lauren Boebert won’t hook up with me because I don’t have a tattoo on my . . . . You know, that’s OK with me. Dating is a rather personal choice. I doubt it would be pleasant for either party if we match a racist white person with a black person. Ted himself would not want to spend an evening with a racist homophobic MAGA cap-wearing hedge fund manager.
At no other time has the jobs been separated by is it a job that existed before or is it something never seen before? We have never asked if a newly hired cook or server was at a place that is new? Weird way to try to attack Biden. Just be happy the jobs are coming back as businesses start opening due to the vaccines / boosters. Think how great the economy would be if everyone would get vaccinated, wear masks when appropriate, and try to slow / stop the spread of the virus.
I have no trouble with this. I have been social distancing and removing my self from personal contact with people since childhood. But especially since about 2014. I am at a point in my life where I am very comfortable with online contact vs in person contact. If I want more there is Skype, text, face time, and I have the computer set up with cameras. If I was a student today I would choose remote learning, I think a lot of kids serious about learning would. A lot of nursing students did their early years of learning online when I was still working back before 2014. So while not everyone can get the social interaction they need online, Ron for example cannot he still likes person to person contact, I and many others find socializing online to be enough.
Then tell the companies to stop inflating their prices. Greed is a choice. We should be doing something about Inflation, then, instead of mindlessly blaming President Biden or the Fed like the Right-Wing Death-Cultists are trying to do. The way to stop this is to restore full and necessary regulation to businesses, including Price Regulations. This inflation is entirely due to the choices that the Private Market Made. It is neither necessary, nor justified. Summers must be happy that the upper 1% have greatly increased THEIR wealth! Summers hates any wage earners being paid more. And he fights like hell to keep billionaires from paying taxes.
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Report reveals at least 20 million US adults identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: It is not free stuff, it is using government to serve the people, help the public. The people today have a lower standard of living since the New Deal.
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https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1470882713888788480?s=20
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/670587423673237504
But, but, but …it was antifa. The entire operation was Trump, the Republican Party, and FOX. They all knew. They all lied afterwards.
Republicans want a Civil War, based on lies and conspiracies, based on promises they will never deliver, just to retain power and destroy elections/democracy. Their violence is premeditated. Their base is incapable of independent thought. The losers have united. Instead of owning their growing defeats, they invent excuses. They blame others.
They knew they were guilty. Then they invented an enemy to blame it on. Republican/FOX fascism, writ large.
They knew. They lied. The Right want their ‘lone wolves’ to attack progressives using FOX propaganda.
Hannity, Ingraham, and Kilmeade think their viewers are worthless. They lie to their faces.
https://twitter.com/GBBranstetter/status/1470377979175968768?s=20
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The funny thing about the right attack Biden on crime is that the left attacks Biden for being to strict on crime and punishment. Have all the right forgotten the 1994 crime bill sponsored by Biden that led to a jump in mass incarceration. Biden is historically pro-police, pro-prison, pro-hammer down law and order. However turning the US into a police state wont solve the crime problem. Crime may be rising now but is still less than it has been even in the last decade. Crime has been falling steadily. But there are some who stand to gain by turning the US into a police state. Resist their fear mongering. We can do better, again look at other countries, they solve crime problems with out locking up large segments of the population in prisons designed to be punitive and in inhumane. Hugs
The right likes to call any coverage of the Coronavirus hysterical because they work for the profit of big money. A virus that has killed over 800,000 people in less than 2 years and 1% of people over 65 in the country. Think of that. Why would anyone want to ignore that, because it cuts into profit. If you have take precautions it costs profits. So the right wing makes it seem the virus is no problem at all and any one who wants to fight the virus is wrong. Hugs
Maybe if police were not busy oppressing minorities with the Republicans endless war on drugs they would have time to focus on petty theft. Crime rates in GOP cities are the same as those in Democrat led cities. Crime rates in cities that increased police funding showed increases in crime. By pushing this false Fox News inspired narrative, you ignore the true roots and causes of crime. Typical GOP-posturing. Hugs
I’m not sure of the point. Kentucky officials and citizens have been highly complimentary about the federal response to the disaster. And the Biden admin has been begging people to get booster shots. What is Mr. Lester’s beef? Sen. McConnell went as far to praise the speed and effort the President has made in response to the disaster. No mention was made or Covid-19 vaccinations. Hugs
Again the right wing projects. Blame Biden they shout for taking away something Biden worked hard to give you and the Republicans fought every attempt to keep you having. It is extended in the build back better plan that Manchin, Sinema, and the Republicans are fighting to keep from ever becoming law. This is misdirection in hopes of making the people angry at someone trying to help them by the person trying to hurt them. Hugs
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No Zuckerberg is the ET. This reminds me of the twilight zone episode where everyone on a bus stopped at a diner in a snow storm. They were scared a escaped prisoner was mixed in with them. After they all got back on the bus and the bus crashed killing everyone one guy returned to the diner where he announced he was from Mars and they were going to invade, but the cook in the diner laughed and told him too late as he was from Venus and they were already to invade. Hugs
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: To corporations workers are simply commodities to use and throw away. Only they and their fellow wealthy ilk are worthy of a decent life in their opinion.
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Worker solidarity will change this. Unite!
Both parties are not the same.
DOJ needs to drop the hammer.
The Chief of Staff of a twice impeached lifelong criminal is a traitor and cheater.
This is the design. Not the flaw.
Real loving god there buddy. I always wonder at people who buy expensive vehicles and then write or plaster them with stickers. I doubt the sanity of people like this. Hugs
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Rivers is another right wing media cartoonist. I wonder why the right thinks the common decency of wearing a mask and social distancing to protect others around them is hell. Why vaccines paid for and approved by their tax dollars, used with very minuscule side effects world wide is too much to ask for saving lives. The lives they save could be theirs. After all this time and data, the objections now come down to stubborn I don’t want to because my tribe has said it is bad. They would rather believe a talk show host who is a high school drop out or whose bosses said in court no one should believe him rather than a certified immunologist with over 30 years in the practice of saving peoples lives. Hugs
The real economy is how money flows effecting peoples lives. It is not the stock market which is how much money the wealthy are gaining from the system. In the economy today there is a huge divide between the wealthy and the public. That divide is making it hard for the public to meet their daily needs. The Democrats are trying to fix and narrow that divide. But because the wealthy are so entrenched and own so much of the media along with a majority of the elected office holders it is a fight to get anything for the people, anything helps the public. The wealthy only care, their only interest is more for themselves. More than they can spend, more than the other wealthy for bragging rights. The public needs to know who is fighting for them, and who is fighting against them. As corporate owned media is not going to tell them, and bribed politicians are going to lie about the attempts to pass bills to help the public, it is up to us to share the true of what is happening with the people. Spread the news, to everyone, on every blog, at every meeting with others. Get the word out before it is too late. Hugs
At least Biden is actually trying to something to help the majority of Americans unlike the last administration who only wanted to help the wealthy 0.1%. Yet another phrase that the GQP has stolen from the language. Used to be “free stuff” was the crap that you got for signing up for a savings account or a web service. Now they intend it to mean “Democrats invested in infrastructure or the people”. Damn them to Hell. Hugs
And once again, the pathetically uneducated dropout Lisa Benson confirms how little she understands of any serious economic issue. New Deal Keynesian liberal market economics is NOT about expecting “FREE STUFF” any more than law enforcement, emergency first responders or “free” public schools — or even the military that costs far more than anything proposed — is “free stuff.” We all contribute and we all benefit. We want PUBLIC POLICY to address legitimate PUBLIC NEEDS, but has very specific proposals for how ALL OF US contribute, in a way that is fair for everyone. We all expect to pay our fair shares.
We also expect the billionaires and corporate special interests who have been getting a free ride to pay their fair share. But for our money we don’t want to just blow up other countries to enrich “defense contractors” of the “military-industrial complex” that (Republican) Eisenhower warned us about; we want to get for our money the things that benefit all of us and INVEST in the resources and opportunities that generate economic returns that enrich us all. Not free stuff. The only reason the Republicans want our infrastructure to fail is so they can sell it to the highest bidder. Which will cost the working majority that commutes to work the most, as we would have to pay tolls and taxes everywhere we go. Hugs
Only AG would believe atheist’s have meltdowns over the origin of words. If you really want to drive “them” crazy, just wish them a Happy Festivus and watch their heads explode!!! Even if Holiday originated from Holy Day, that’s not its modern meaning. And besides, even if you intend it as Holy Day, that’s still more inclusive because every religion has some concept of Holiness. No one is telling you that you can’t say Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays is simply meant to show respect for those of us who DON’T celebrate Christmas. I have never understood the made up war on Christmas and anger on the right if people don’t use their exact phrasing. Isn’t this the freedom people? No vaccines and do what they want party? But forcing everyone to pay homage to a holiday that has borrowed every aspect of it from other faiths and pagan rites seems weird to me. Hugs
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Scottie's Playtime 
You would think the Republicans would be happy. The deficit has actually decreased around a third of a billion under President Biden. Not a surprise, since we don’t have a grifter in the White House anymore.
This is why the Republicans needed to focus on the debt ceiling and be over dramatic about the whole thing. Most American’s don’t understand the debt ceiling has nothing to do with the actual deficit. They also understand if Biden keeps reducing the deficit, they may not need to increase the debt ceiling again for quite some time. If we could roll back some of the tax cuts to the wealthy, perhaps never.
Well, until the Republicans gain full control again, as they believe in deficit spending, but only when it’s them doing the spending.