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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
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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Rudy driving.
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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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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Bosses have trained the worker to kiss their asses, time to break the training
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Scottie’s world today
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https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1483936527835140098?s=20
https://twitter.com/duffyink/status/1483871129420939268?s=20
Racism in roots above
Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilization. A sweeping report assessing the state of the natural world found that humans are having an “unprecedented” and devastating effect on global biodiversity, with about 1 million animal and plant species now threatened with extinction. Scottie
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
And yet the US is the only thing stopping Putin from invading so far. You don’t see Putin wanting talks with other countries, just the US. Scottie
A new study released Wednesday found no big exodus of people leaving California for other states during the COVID pandemic. But California is still losing population to domestic migration, because fewer people than usual are moving in from other parts of the United States. One of the top reasons people are leaving is housing prices. However the satisfaction rate is higher in California than most red states. Scottie
What the right wing hates is that main stream media is reporting the reality of Covid and the truth about the medical treatments / precautions. They have to try to vilify Dr. Fauci because he disputes their lies. As the mainstream media tells people the Covid truth the right wing media has to try to vilify them over this subject. This one was so stupid I did not even bother to leave a comment on the site. Scottie
The right wing is always trying to slam Biden with being inarticulate. Apparently they have forgotten their two favorite guys Bush Jr and tRump. Neither could speak in full sentences. Scottie
Yeah, giving all citizens a the right to votes is too radical for Goodwyn. A.G. is happy that the repubs are blocking radical things like lifting children out of poverty and making it easier for the lesser people to vote. Protecting voting rights and trying to pass a sorely needed infrastructure bill is NOT A RADICAL AGENDA!!!
Seriously? This is now how desperate Steve Kelley has become? This is how low he has to stoop when he can find nothing connected to reality?
As soon as I see someone throw out the name, “George Soros,” I know we are truly in the la-la-la cult extremist wacko zone. George Soros a Marxist?
George Soros came to the U.S. at age 15 as a Holocaust survivor with NOTHING and became a multi-billionaire INVESTMENT CAPITALIST. He comes as close as anything to representing a self-made CAPITALIST success story. He played your game and beat you at it.
Soros’ real crime? He had the NERVE to remember where he came from and seek to retain a system that helps those with less advantage, so as a result, this most successful INVESTMENT CAPITALIST gets labelled as a communist.
The difference between George Soros and the Koch brothers, Walton heirs, Mercer heirs, Mitt R-money, DeVos family, Steve Forbes, Bush family, and of course Donald Trump and his kids is that NONE OF THEM got rich by working hard — they inherited everything from Daddy.
SOROS is the only TRUE CAPITALIST among them. The rich elite TrumpubliCONs, who support tax giveaways for the few richest elites and massive corporate welfare, want SOCIALISM FOR THE RICH, and brutal market capitalism for everyone else.
If you support corporate Republican socialists and spit in the face of a true SELF-MADE CAPITALIST, then YOU ARE THE MARXIST. Scottie
The tennis player was not seeking asylum, which by US laws and by treaties is not only allowed but not a crime. So yes they should be given a hearing date which according to the FBI 91% do make it to. Scottie
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Mom makes tough choices for kids during Omicron surge
A GOP senator attacked CNN instead of answering questions. Here’s why
Fox reporter tries to embarrass Biden. It backfires INSTANTLY
Parental control apps are outing kids to their parents & blocking them from LGBTQ resources
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: The future of politics looks really bad
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Scottie’s world today
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One of the reasons that the roundup takes me so long each day is the distraction I get by arguing with the right wing cult members on the misleading right wing media cartoons. I have stopped replying to or addressing the cultist directly because they simply want to insult or deny reality. But as I look at the cartoon I go down and read the comments. The right wing misleading ones I create a comment, often researching the relevant subject. The replies to my efforts are mostly insulting reality denying crap. So I leave it there for those who read the cartoon comments. What I have found is I get a lot of up votes, a lot of likes by people who agree but have given up trying to fight the aggressive ignorance of the right. Scottie
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Let’s hope he turns out to be as great as Carter. History has shown Cater was a rather good president just not vicious enough to fight underhanded Republicans. Scottie
Not just Jewish life, it is part of the entire society getting more crude, rude, and violent. I figure you can thank the Republican right wing. Scottie
I have been with my husband for 32 years. We are still sexually active thankfully. The government wont let us donate blood no matter the need because we are active homosexuals. It is outright bigotry. Yes they have tried to fudge it here and there, one was saying it was OK if you are not sexually active while the same doesn’t apply to straight people. It is bigotry. Other countries have corrected this, the US has not. I am angry over this openly bigot policy so I wont ever donate again. Yes I used to donate as a young Army man but I quit when this became the policy. Scottie
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
I do not understand the right wing media’s attempts to paint Joe Biden as an authoritarian strong man dictator while also portraying him as a confused tottering old man. The fact is they just need to demonize and smear Biden so their followers will be enraged and vote for Republicans while they also are trying to discourage the left from voting. To this cartoon, how is Biden being a strongman over security? Maybe he is doing what they want with the border, which they claim he has thrown wide open? He can not get Manchin and Sinema to do as he says, how is he a dictator? Scottie
The right wing is terrified that people will realize how close the Republicans are to ending democracy. So they must convince people that Jan 6th was nothing and not one elected official had anything to do with it. The right is hoping to convince people that the only threat to the US is evil brown dark skinned people who practice a different religion than the good white Christians storming capitals and threatening everyone who has an opinion different than theirs. Scottie
It’s hardly a wreck. Country is in fine shape. Most people are better off than a year ago. The Qpublicans want their base to believe otherwise. The previous guy left the train wreck behind like most Republicans do on exiting office, leaving it to adults to clean up the mess.
It’s almost been one year and Republicans have managed to blame Biden for things that happened long before he was President. Rand Paul all edged in questioning Fauci that all 800,000 American COVID deaths occurred during Biden’s presidency. He’s been blamed for all the unemployment that occurred from mid-2019 on. He’s was handed a shit show by the last administration and has handled as well as could be expected. Scottie
Talk about one of these things not like the others. The other were protesting and promoting things that would help others not just themselves. Djokovic is just a selfish egocentric jerk who was caught caring only about himself and possibly actively harming others. Huge difference! Scottie
Would be great if the cartoonist would look into the situation before throwing out a cartoon. The money is going to independent credited assistance agencies that deal directly with the people. Not the Taliban government but the starving people. Also the right has used the starving people as an attack against the Biden administration leaving Afghanistan, now when the same Biden administration tries to help those starving people they are attacked again for that. Seems it has nothing to do with Afghanistan but the goal is to attack Biden. Scottie
I see, calling out racism is dividing the country because the racist don’t like being called out? Tough shit. A large part of the population is people of color. Whites are soon going to be a minority if they are not already. Look bigots hate being called out, they want to shit on those they hate with joy and be proud of it. Look DeathSantis in Florida is asking for a law that makes it illegal to teach anything that makes white kids uncomfortable in school. But black kids are already uncomfortable, they are living in the racism whites deny. Scottie
Very short sighted. While the right likes to pretend that Covid is not a problem so far just in the US nearly 900,000 have died from it in two years. In two years. That is a huge death toll. Omicron might not have the same death stats, but the long term damage to lungs and other organs is the same. Covid is not just get it and get better virus, it has long term health issues. That is the truth that people ignore at their own peril. Scottie
Dr Fauci has extensive education in the medical fields related to viruses and their spread in society. He has 36 years of public service using his knowledge to advice and protect the US population from viruses and diseases. Most of his critics do not have anywhere near his education level to even begin to understand what he can read and evaluate yet they think they are his equal in knowledge. It is silly to think that watching Fox News or reading Breitbart makes you qualified to dispute or even disagree with Dr. Fauci’s assessment. It is like saying you watched a YouTube video on changing a tire so you can do open heart surgery. Scottie
As we prepare to face the twin disasters of record-low unemployment and all-but-record-high job growth, the right trembles in fear. President Biden has made sure vaccines are available for everyone in the USA. Mask mandates have been made difficult to impossible by Republican political hack judges on the Supreme Court. Deathsantis in Florida and other Governors in ‘Red’ states have all but guaranteed the death of many of their constituents. It’s deplorable that the Republicans do everything they can do to encourage their voters not to wear masks and get vaccinated, then have the audacity to blame Biden for the decisions they made? Pathetic.
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: There is a better way, other countries have shown us but our elected officials are already too bought to allow us to have it
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Scottie’s world today
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Billionaires stole your surplus labor value. They are not simply going to give it back.
Conservatives are full of shame. Rather than deal/process the shame, they convert it to hate.
They punch down, they drag others to feel better about themselves.
The hate is so much a part of their white identity, they must negate all black humanity [and black excllence] to perpetuate their insecurities and bigotries.
Learn about their past? No way. Negate it.
Also Republicans: we are the victims of racism.
Republicans have perfected performative politics and grandstanding. Anything to avoid change. Anything to insulate whiteness.
They know what they are. They know how to be silent in the face of injustice.
Rather than take refuge behind the 1st Amendment and claim that the riot was not a part of the protest, Ginni is defending the riot.
We are country under the abuse of capitalism.
Some of us want out of the relationship, while others can’t quit their codependency with capitalism’s racism, misogyny, and greed.
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
While I agree that some of us on the lower economic rungs need more government assistance, this cartoonist is one of the very far right wing that hammers Biden for any spending to help people. So I have to ask why is the cartoonist trying to have it both ways, and the answer is just to have something to attack Biden with. It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t match the other attacks on Biden, for the right wing the point is the attack. Scottie
This cartoon shows how little the right cares about truth or reality. Everything mentioned here is incorrect and a lie. Not that the right wing cult followers care. The puppy attack was proven false, the NIH did not pay for the part of the study with the puppies heads in flea tanks. In fact the NIH tried hard to get that part of the study illuminated, backing out of the study when they were ignored. He never lied to congress. The people accusing him of that are not qualified to make that charge. Oh yes they claim they are, just as Hannity and Tucker claim they are qualified to assess Covid treatments and vaccines, but they are not. Scientists have reviewed the charges and the studies involved and they say it is not a gain of function advance the US part paid for. Some one else may have done it, but the US did not pay for it as Rand Paul charges so he can fund raise off it. The right wing media has ginned up outrage and attacks Dr. Fauci because they can not attack the science and protective measures he presents and advocates for. If you can not attack the message, they want to kill the messenger. Scottie
Great gravy the right wing would love that. They are struggling to attack Biden on real issues. Oh well they plan to steal the future elections anyway, and claim any election they lost were stolen from them. In Florida the Republican lost and the Democrat won by a nearly 80% margin, yet the Republican refused to concede, and started claiming the election was rigged and stolen. The Republican play book is to call any election they lose stolen and illegitimate. For them and their members only Republicans can be elected fairly, only when they win is the election legitimate. That is not democracy. Scottie
As we prepare to face the twin disasters of record-low unemployment and all-but-record-high job growth, Al Goldwyn trembles in fear.
President Biden has made sure vaccines are available for everyone in the USA. Mask mandates have been made difficult to impossible by Republican political hack judges on the Supreme Court. Deathsantis in Florida and other Governors in ‘Red’ states have all but guaranteed the death of many of their constituents. It’s deplorable that the Republicans do everything they can do to encourage their voters not to wear masks and get vaccinated, then have the audacity to blame Biden for the decisions they made? Pathetic. tRump murdered nearly 700,000 Americans through his incompetent handling of the pandemic. A pandemic he worsened. Biden has deal with a majority of Americans who wear masks and get vaccinated AND the idiot tRumpanzees (who are the ones dying in the hospitals). Scottie
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Scottie's Playtime 
Attacking the capitol and trying to overturn an election is a “racial agenda”. Scottie