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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
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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.
Defund the police. Reform the police. End the cruelty.
Time’s Person of the Year is an abusive, entitled scumbag. Go figure he is a racist, too.
Capitalism is built on debt.
Republicans are the embodiment of failure.
Melania is one long scam. NFT? Be best? Einstein Visa?
Elon Musk becomes more horrible by the day.
White nationalists who protest get police protection. Fact.
I not only don’t watch the Olympics I couldn’t care less about them.
1939 again?
A great reason to get off fossil fuels as soon as possible.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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And now some for fun
Is this the start! Just as US intel reported Russia would do
This is what I was talking about last night. The next 72-120 hours are critical.
Everything is essentially in place that Putin could go whenever he wants.
Reports out of Russia are that he’s preparing a statement to read to the Russian Federal Assembly.
Originally tweeted by Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) on February 17, 2022.
They also demanded that the US remove all military equipment from central and eastern Europe, and threatened a “military-technical response” if demands aren’t met.
Oh, and Putin wants a pet dragon and some fairy dust.
Originally tweeted by Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) on February 17, 2022.
Pro-Russian forces are desperately trying to draw fire from Ukraine — they’re clearly trying to elicit a response that would give them a “reason” to invade.
Originally tweeted by Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) on February 17, 2022.
Oh, so the Ukrainian Army just happened to start mortaring pro-separatists *right* as the Russian Army got into their final firing positions and desperately needed a casus belli?
How very convenient.
And by convenient, I obviously mean complete bullshit
Originally tweeted by Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) on February 17, 2022.
Yep.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see an attack begin tonight — or at least in the next couple of days.
I’d still love to be wrong, but I don’t think I am.
Originally tweeted by Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) on February 16, 2022.
I think I found one of those Russia troll accounts
On https://comicskingdom.com/kirk-walters/2022-02-17/ I wrote:
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
I got this for a reply.
The Ukrainian democracy was ended by Obama in 2014 when a group whose ancestors welcomed the Wehrmacht as liberators in 1917 and 1941 were given money and weapons and overthrew the democratically elected government. They are a minority who now have full control of what used to be an independent Ukraine that let everyone speak whatever language they liked and go to whatever church they liked.
The new government banned all things Russian throughout the Ukraine: it is illegal to speak Russian or to have a Russian Orthodox Church, all of which should be Lutheran or Roman churches, with a few Ukrainian Orthodox Churches (recognised by the Patriarch in Istanbul in 2018).
The Donbass declared itself independent of the Ukraine, and the Crimea voted to return to Russia from which they’d been given to the Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954. Both the Donbass declaration and the Crimean vote are illegal under Ukrainian/US/NATO law.
Russia does not recognise the Donbass declaration of independence, but says the Donbass must remain an autonomous region in the Ukraine where the Russian language and the Russian Orthodox Church remain legal, and Russia also recognise the Crimean vote to return to Russia.
The US has given the new and greatly improved Ukrainian government $billions of weapons and money, and demands that the Ukrainian military force the Donbass to obey Ukrainian law against all things Russian and re-annex the Crimea. The Ukraine keep promising to do so, but later, since they know that attacking either the Donbass or the Crimea will bring the Russian military back into the Ukraine where they will demolish the Ukrainian military as they did in 2015. This, of course, is what the us wants since it will force Germany to finally cancel Nord Stream 2 and will justify harsh third party sanctions on Russia prohibiting all other countries from trading with Russia (back before 1930, third party sanctions were considered an act of war, but then the US, with what was believed to be the 2nd strongest military, imposed such sanctions on Japan and no one except Japan objected, and that Japanese objection caused the US to deploy its entire nuclear arsenal against Japan, so the US thereby earned the right to impose such sanctions whenever they wish).
I am busy and do not have a lot of time so I posted this in reply.
Misleading propaganda. Totally Russian misinformation. Ukraine today is a democracy and before it was under the control of a Putin puppet like Chechenia is. Have we learned nothing from Manafort’s history? Where do you think he came from? It makes me wonder about a Disqus profile that pushes such disinformation. IMO.
The same account posted this.
The US and the PRC play a game called “strategic ambiguity”.
The PRC keep saying they intend to force a peaceful reunification, where by “peaceful” they mean, as long as Taiwan does not declare itself an independent country, they will not use their military or drastic sanctions or any other act of war.
And the US keep SAYING Taiwan is just another province of the PRC while treating it as an independent nation.
If the US or Taiwan ever SAY Taiwan is an independent nation, then and only then will the PRC use its military to force complete reunification.
It seems to me I identified the first Russian troll farm account I identified on my own. There are a couple I suspect such as DEN who is a died in the wool cult member who defends any Republican police, is a tRump cult member defender, and hates on all Democrats. He is a slippery one where when you catch him out in a falsehood simply changes the subject, moves the goalposts, or attacks a Democrat.
What do you guys think? I put the link in the post and you can go there and go to their profiles if you want. michaelwne takes the Russian line on the Olympic and other topics. But I could be wrong.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: The average net worth of a 30 year old in the US is a negative number. The average person in the US is really poor. The government works for the wealthy
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Scottie’s world today
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We fail our children in so many ways.
It’s time we put our money in heath care, child care, and prenatal care instead of feeding an endless war machine.
As I keep saying the major cause of inflation is price gouging and profit taking. Private business is sucking every cent they can from the lower incomes to the upper levels. They are going to keep doing it until there is nothing left to take. They are killing the golden goose for short term profit.
There are two different sets of rules for men and women
Toxic whiteness can’t handle black humanity.
Why give Kim the attention and press coverage he craves. Th US knows what he has and what he is doing and he is not a threat to the US. He wants the attention that he got from tRump and misses it. Don’t give it to him
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Seems to me the government of Canada is winning this situation not the truckers. The government has blocked the truckers funding, the government cleared the bridge, the government has the authority now to yank the commercial licenses, and the authority to seize the trucks.
Because the report on tRump clogging toilets and ripping up papers is collaborated. The Durham fantasy about Hillary is just a conspiracy rehash of spin attempts to validate tRump’s claim that the Mueller investigation was illegal. Durham did not file charges in his new filing, there was no new information. He is trying to charge the guy who provided the information to the FBI with lying to the FBI because he did not tell the FBI he once worked for Hillary and the FBI did not ask. The FBI did not ask him that, so how is not telling them a lie? Every lawyer I have heard on this says it is going to be laughed out of court if it ever gets to one. Durham made a 26 page report on a filing that should have been half a page. All so he could spin a misleading right wing tale.
What we are witnessing is PRICE GOUGING, NOT INFLATION.
INFLATION is when business owners raise prices commensurate with higher costs to make ends meet.
But when corporations are reporting record all-time profits, raising prices is NOT INFLATION, it is PRICE GOUGING to capitalize on supply chain disruptions caused by a national emergency.
McDonald’s profits soared 59% in 2021, to $7.5 billion.
ExxonMobil reported a $8.9 billion in profits in the FOURTH QUARTER ALONE, while it was jacking up prices to new records.
Numerous other companies jacked up prices while raking in record profits in 2021.
Donald Trump crashed the economy, destroyed the supply chain, blew up international trade relations by imposing ridiculous tariffs that hurt farmers and consumers, mishandled a pandemic that exploded into a worldwide economic crisis and now as Biden is putting people back, restoring consumer confidence, which stimulates demand, but the devastation wrought by Trump on the supply chain is taking longer to undo, especially as anti-science right wing nut jobs continue to undermine recovery from the Trump plague.
If there were a hurricane, tornado, flood or wildfire and vendors were charging $20 for a bottle of water, they would be arrested. We need to see some of the corporate heads who have tripled their profits on the backs of consumers being frog-marched into the Big House.
Truth is not important. Smear, innuendo, and outright lies are necessary to outrage and disinform the public. This is the way to absolute power.
Amazing that after 30 years she is still their biggest boogieman. The right trots her out any time they need to deflect or distract knowing she is an easy way to enrage the base. The Durham filing added no new information. It was a screed of conspiracies designed to distract from a serious issue tRump has. Lawyers have publicly said the filing should have been half a page but Durham went on for 26 pages just to spin a misinformation tale. The crux of what Durham charged Michael Sussmann with is lying to the FBI by not answering a question the FBI never asked. Yes that is right, the FBI never asked him if he worked for Hillary as it was not important. It is going to be laughed out of court if it ever gets to one. Sussmann took information from some tech people on a bank from Moscow associated with Putin contacting a dedicated server in tRump Tower. He did not give them his life story, why would he. If you tell the bank about a bank robbery they don’t care if you ever had a bank account. So again an attempt to mislead and confuse, to muddy the water from the true criminal tRump by using a boogieman the right has demonized but never been able to prove did anything wrong.
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And now some fun
Scottie's Playtime 
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/