Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Do the people in the US deserve quality lives like the people in other developed countries do, or are they just to be used until worn out, then thrown away

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Scottie’s world today

so little desire to do it That is the sperm that one

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this is literally the cutest gif ive ever seen in my life pic.twitter.com/HXlZ3GH8Vd

— check bio (@heartsdaIe) January 22, 2022

Wouldn’t it be a great world if people acted this way instead of acting only for themselves? Scottie

Remember when it was cool to help others, social welfare programs & orgs, & humanity? Everyone needs help in their lives. Now with unprecedented inequality, only the privileged get help.

give them to kids who have none

ten year challenge

He should know, his daughter helped raised the price of EpiPens

No one should be as rich as Elon Musk when millions of Americans still don’t have health care.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 23, 2022

Tax the wealth created by capitalism. Fund the vulnerable exploited by capitalism.

Trying to bring back child labor for 2022 huh.

Socialism shortage

Make that make sense

and ripped up the bad man's comic

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 @AOC

And then they pick a celebrity with zero political experience to be president?

I am the best. I have the best brain. Only I can do it. Only my son-in-law who can’t pass a security clearance can do this. No media allowed when I met with Putin.

Just say you enjoy the cult.

it happened and they are proud of it

A former Speaker of the House is threatening jail time for members of Congress who are investigating the violent January 6 attack on our Capitol and our Constitution.

This is what it looks like when the rule of law unravels. https://t.co/vpQZjTg9em

— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) January 23, 2022

Dumb people avoid prevention. Even bigger morons politicize prevention. The biggest morons avoid prevention because the politics.

arazona gov 101

https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1485355245677039616?s=20

If you identify with the racist, if your feelings are hurt to learn about racism, you failed life.

notice who they leave out

The right to privacy includes women.

Excellent idea #TaxTheChurches

““If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which skepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and...

#DunningKruger

The Dunning–Kruger effect is the cognitive bias whereby people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability.

I is a researcher

trump legacy

medical shoulder the burden of anti vax

Pretend victims.

https://mysharona1987.tumblr.com/post/623529427649888257

Increasingly strange to watch governors claim trans teenagers aren't old enough for gender-affirming care but a teenager is old enough to be forced into giving birth https://t.co/gHl8E3Hr7b

— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) January 23, 2022

https://cthulhulovesewe.tumblr.com/post/674223325810212865/apas-95-really-figures-theyd-go-for-incarcerated

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

We have been arming the Ukraine lately, as have Britain and Germany. I suspect Ramirez wants the readers to think it would be okay to preemptively attack Russia. Folks, slow down and give it another millisecond of thought, does that sound like a GOOD idea? If so, please get immediate counseling. At the same time the right wing is hammering Biden on his Ukraine policy the Republicans in congress that are in the pay or under threat from Russia are demanding that Biden rule out sending any troops. So Biden did say he wouldn’t send any US military troops to fight Russia in Ukraine. What a set of foreign asset assholes. Scottie

Since life changes all the time, it must be terrible to be a conservative who practically wets their pants when anything changes. Such an absurd cartoon. Also, “woke” is an obsolescent term. How is a gay M&M any more or less stupid than a straight one? You know what is stupid? People who worry about this crap.

News headline: “M&M characters get new, more inclusive look”

No WONDER poor ol’ Payneful is having a snit. “My GOD, how is it POSSIBLE for important cultural icons such as the M&M characters to CHANGE when they were already PERFECT, just like God made them in the garden of Eden? What is this world COMING to?!! (etc)” Scottie

Gary Varvel for Jan 24, 2022

Tom Hanks narrates a new spot that marks year one of Joe Biden’s presidency, one that tries to reinforce a message that the country is on the right track. This scares the right because he is a prominent well liked person. So they have to attack him as much as they can. Rather than admit that Biden really has accomplished quite a bit in just one year and would have done a lot more if the right had not tried to block everything that would help the country jsut because they don’t want Biden to have a win. That is how radical the right has become, doesn’t matteer if the country really needs it they will block it to deny the Democrats a win. The Democrats don’t do that … yet. Scottie

A.F. Branco for Jan 24, 2022

What a misrepresentation. She was saying take care of your self over the weekend, do what you need to do that recharges yourself, and then come back at the issues / problems strong on Monday. What is controversial about that message? Unless the left fighting the right wing ongoing sabotage of the country is scary for the right? Scottie

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And now some for fun

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott introduces ‘Parental Bill of Rights’ targeting state education system

https://www.chron.com/politics/article/Texas-Parental-Bill-of-Rights-Greg-Abbott-schools-16791504.php

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday evening plans to amend the Texas Constitution with a Parent Bill of Rights if he is re-elected. The proposal follows Abbott’s introduction of a Taxpayer Bill of Rights this week.

Abbott publicly signed the bill at an event hosted by the Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, where he criticized schools shutting down during the pandemic and issuing mask mandates. He said the bill will help restore parents as the primary decision-makers of their child’s education and healthcare decisions.

“No government program can replace the role that parents play in the education of their children,” Abbott told the audience. “Our focal point is to ensure that parents are put at the forefront, both of education of their children as well as the decision-making for their child’s healthcare.”

Abbott continued to impart that the government often intrudes on parental decision-making and threatens the role guardians have in their child’s wellbeing. “Many parents are growing increasingly powerless about what to do to regain that control,” Abbott said. “That must end.”

Under the bill, Abbott said the state’s constitution will be amended to “make clear that parents are the primary decision makers in all matters involving their children.” The bill will expand parents access to school curriculum and ensure material is available online or in other easily accessible ways, he said.

“We will make sure parents concerns about school curriculum or policies will be heard quickly and respectfully,’ Abbott said, adding that under his plan the state will give parents the option if their child will repeat a course or grade level instead of leaving the decision solely to the school district.

To protect children’s privacy in schools, the state will also prohibit the selling or the sharing of students’ personal data outside of the Texas public education system, Abbott said.

Abbott, who is running for reelection, has made it a point to target inappropriate content in schools. In November, he directed the Texas Education Agency to develop statewide standards preventing “obscene content in Texas public schools.” Shortly after he told the agency to investigate criminal activity related to “the availability of pornography” in public schools, saying the agency should refer to such instances “for prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.”

Parents. Matter.

Under my Parental Bill of Rights, we will amend the Texas Constitution to reinforce that parents are the main decision makers in all matters involving their children. pic.twitter.com/z64eobbk7Y
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 21, 2022

Under the Parent Bill of Rights, Abbott said any educator convicted of providing minors with “obscene” content will lose their educational credentials and state licensing, forfeit their retirement benefits and will be placed on a “do not hire” list. The state will also require schools to post the bill online for parents to access.

“Also school districts will be required to provide parents with information and options for charter schools, magnet schools and other public schools as alternatives for their children,” Abbott said.

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Bill Bennett, who served under President Ronald Reagan, congratulated Abbott on the bill and reiterated the importance of parents involvement in classroom issues. He said the bill will likely be imitated in other states. “Not every teacher is a parent but every parent is a teacher,” Bennett said. “We know that the parents influence on the child is the greatest influence of any adult…We need to restore the priority of the parent to the classroom and to the child’s education which is what you are doing.”

Bennett also advised parents to not be “intimidated by the cult of expertise.” “When it comes to education of children, if you don’t understand what they’re talking about, you’re probably right and they’re probably wrong,” he said. “It’s not complicated what to teach children and what parents want schools to do is teach children how to read, write, count and think and develop reliable standards of right and wrong.”

Abbott’s action follows the lead of other Republican leaders across the U.S. who have issued similar bills. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a Parents Bill of Rights in June of 2021. The Intercultural Development Research Association, which has voiced opposition to Abbott’s “critical race theory” bill that went into effect in December, issued a statement Thursday denouncing the governor’s bill, calling it another coordinated attack on the rights of students, parents and teachers in public schools.

We expect to see a “parent’s bill of rights” released in Texas today. If it’s anything like similar proposals, it will be nothing more than a coordinated attack on the rights of students, parents, and teachers in public schools. #TeachtheTruth
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— IDRA (@IDRAedu) January 20, 2022

“All families must be part of building excellent and equitable schools regardless of their racial or ethnic background or socio-economic status,” the statement said. “Unfortunately, many schools have not prioritized or invested in developing authentic relationships with families, particularly those of color, those with limited incomes, and immigrant families.”

The IDRA also called out groups attempting to pit families and schools against each other with the goal of passing legislation that “whitewashes and simplifies” history.

“These groups, who purport to represent values such as ‘equality’ and ‘transparency’ are feeding some families inaccurate information about their schools and encouraging them to make harmful demands and violent interventions in school policymaking to advance policies that actually widen inequalities and exclusion,” the statement said. “They are pushing their economic, social, and political agendas under the name of ‘parent engagement.’ This is dangerous.”

Please notice it is the right wing ideas and parents that are being encouraged to interfere, given authority over the classroom, and are being touted as needing to tell schools what to teach. If you are progressive, believe in equality, understanding, and tolerance, then keep it to your self. This is simply an attempt to legalize brain washing kids into a right wing 1950’s agenda / propaganda. Remember get the kids young, drill into them to be good little republican worker bees and you got a bunch of future white supremacist running around. Not all kids will go that way, but look at the problems we have in the rural areas of red states where this basically has been done in their schools. The Christian white nationalist right wing Republican is a minority trying desperately to keep the power and advantage the had to continue to rule as they did. It is that simple. They are using the same tactics Putin used and farmed out to other authoritarian states to demonize and then erase LGBTQ+ people from their societies. They idea of no mask or never shutting schools is to keep the parents working. The wealthy lost a lot of profit of the workers, need to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Why is the only parents that matter over healthcare are the anti-maskers? Why do those kids get to make other kids / families sick? Also notice the constant slam that the educators and the educated are wrong. If you don’t understand what the teacher is saying then the teacher is wrong! Don’t trust science and facts, go with myth and make believe to again be a good dumb worker bee. Scottie

CT Republican Elections Official Charged With Murder

CT Republican Elections Official Charged With Murder

People are hurting. small landlords are hurting, congress full of millionaires are not hurting so won’t help address the problem. Red state governors were given money to help renters but refused to do so. The idea was to drive people out and the wealthy hedge funds could buy up the properties. Scottie

Anti-Vax Man Dies Of Something In Texas After Family Sued Minnesota Hospital That Wanted To Pull The Plug

Anti-Vax Man Dies Of Something In Texas After Family Sued Minnesota Hospital That Wanted To Pull The Plug

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports:

A severely ill COVID-19 patient flown from Minnesota to Texas during a legal battle over whether his ventilator should be turned off died Saturday.

Scott Quiner, who was unvaccinated, was being kept alive by the machine at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, north of Minneapolis, after contracting COVID-19 in October. His family sued the hospital over a move to disconnect Quiner, and a judge issued a restraining order Jan. 13 blocking Mercy from turning off the machine.

Last weekend, the family flew Quiner to Texas, where he was being treated at a Houston hospital. He died Saturday morning. The family’s story drew national attention as the surge in COVID-19 patients strained hospitals across the country.

The New York Times reports:

On Jan. 12, Ms. Quiner pleaded for a lawyer’s help on the “Stew Peters Show,” a podcast whose host has falsely called coronavirus vaccines “poisonous shots” and given a platform to pandemic conspiracy theories.

She said that aside from her husband’s lungs, his organs were functioning and “there was nothing wrong with his brain.” Only a couple of days earlier, she said, her husband had opened his eyes “and was more alert.”

“I’m thinking, ‘Why are you killing him?’” said Ms. Quiner, whose husband had made her his health care agent in 2017. Under Minnesota law, that means she has the authority to make medical decisions on his behalf if he is unable to himself.

Radical right-wing broadcaster Stew Peters suggests that Anthony Fauci should be executed for crimes against humanity: "What did we do to Saddam Hussein? These people swung from their neck in front of the world for killing far less people." pic.twitter.com/1iQxyZwzcu
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 16, 2021

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 head My 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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https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/674011485328031744/dispatchesfromtheclasswar-what-students-at-donald

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but America has socialismfor the rich and cold, hard capitalism for everyone else.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 23, 2022

https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/674021825096859648/antoine-roquentin-wages-for-trucking-and

After a blockbuster year, the 5 biggest Wall Street banks just paid out $142 billion in bonuses and compensation for 2021 — $18 billion more than in 2020.

Why do banks do so well when people are suffering? Let's go back to the 1980s.https://t.co/IebqruygTd

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 22, 2022

wilwheaton:
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will kill the economy

progress on the economy

pass piecemeal

The answer to “tyranny of the majority” was never rural white over-representation. That’s just the tyranny of a minority.

The answer was always that laws oppressing minorities mustn’t be allowed to stand—the exact sorts of laws white rural overrepresentation guarantees.

— A.R. Moxon, Ṽerífíed Dück 🦆 (@JuliusGoat) January 20, 2022

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

Would you work with bank robbers to protect a bank?

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

https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/674103618548400129

there is your opstruction

https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/674104099885793280

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

wilwheaton:
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he knew who was responible

set up by borat

watching underdog cartoons

like a cult with meth

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.

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.

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.

jim jones on tucker

A thread worth reading. https://t.co/PcYYFGGAQQ

— Richard Jeffrey Newman (@richardjnewman) January 22, 2022

candy tucker in high heels

I give it 2 months before Tucker Carlson leaves his wife for the green M&M

— Benjamin Slyngstad (@SlyngCartoons) January 23, 2022

got people all riled up

effort to look this stupid

how did this happen you moron

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

not vaxxing effects eveeryone

Arron Rodgers is a big asshole

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

the not really good book who was gideon work of fiction

asshole nation

nice country if you can keep it

prince and toad

ruin these young men's lives

The three genders pic.twitter.com/vLlmLo06hs

— naomi 🏳️‍⚧️ linktree in bio, aetheria on hive (@H0NEYRIVER) January 22, 2022

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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

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

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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