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idonotlikepeas posted:

Carlos Latuff

Willatron posted:

Am I the only one who thinks those David Hitch cartoons that are just big dumb faces saying big dumb bullshit are just really unpleasant to look at?

Horrendous art style.

The Wurst Poster posted:

Willatron posted:

Am I the only one who thinks those David Hitch cartoons that are just big dumb faces saying big dumb bullshit are just really unpleasant to look at?

Horrendous art style.

Skios posted:

Tom Stiglich

Skios posted:

Steve Breen

Skios posted:

A.F. Branco

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David Horsey posted:

Dave Reichert, the former King County sheriff, member of Congress and current leading Republican contender in the race for governor, says his party “has been taken hostage.”

It may be more like an alien abduction.

The latest evidence of this was the Republican Party’s state convention last week in Spokane. Reichert was passed over for the party’s endorsement in favor of Semi Bird, a political novice whom voters recalled last year from his position on the Richland school board.

Delegates also literally turned their backs on former U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who is running for state lands commissioner. Congressman Dan Newhouse was shunned, as well, and the party’s endorsement was given to his right-wing rival, Jerrod Sessler.

Why did these three prominent Republicans not win the backing of their own party? Because they have failed to show abject fealty to former President Donald Trump. Beutler and Newhouse, in particular, were anathema to the majority of the conventioneers because they voted to impeach the ex-president after he aided and abetted the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and conspired to overturn the 2020 election.

The trio of outcasts are branded as RINOs — Republicans in name only — by many of Trump’s MAGA devotees, but, in any other era, Reichert, Beutler and, especially, Newhouse would be recognized as the solid conservatives that they are. The definition of conservative has morphed in recent years, though. The conservative brand now has far less to do with support of conservative policies than with an attitude of belligerence, grievance, paranoia and fear — the attitude that Trump embodies in his every utterance and encourages in his followers.

The GOP’s MAGA base has moved so far from the rational conservatism of past Republican leaders like Slade Gorton and Jennifer Dunn that they are essentially aliens who have seized the collective mind of the state party and turned it into a personality cult — a party that is truly Republican in name only.

Paul Berge posted:

In an episode of a podcast called "Look Into It" hosted by conspiracy fabulist Eddie Bravo, NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers claimed that Dr. Anthony Fauci, in cahoots with the Center for Disease Control and the federal government, was responsible for exacerbating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980's and repeated their strategy with COVID-19.

I don't care to link to the February 23 podcast itself, which is behind a paywall anyway; but this little germ from the three-hour episode escaped the lab last week and went viral on Xitter:

"The blueprint was created in the '80's: create a pandemic, you know, with a virus that's goin' wild. Right? Only — he was given — Fauci was given, like, over $350 million dollars to research this, come up with drug that was new or repurposed to handle the AIDS pandemic, and all they came up with was AZT. And if you do any smidge of research — and I know, I'm not an epidemiologist, I'm not a doctor, I'm not an immunologist, whatever the gently caress — I can read, though, right? — right — I can look things up and I can learn just like any normal person, you know, I can do my own research, which is so vilified, you know, to even question authority — but that was the game plan back then: create an environment where only one thing works. Back then, AZT. Now, rembisivir, remdesivir, until we get a vaccine. Which, by the way, Anthony Fauci had stake in rembirvi vaccine."
Rodgers was repeating false claims by independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that the CDC suppressed all sorts of supposed cures in order that favored yet fatal medical treatments would hold a monopoly on the HIV/AIDS/COVID market. These claims have been debunked by PolitiFact (and if you're into doing your own research, there are dozens of sources cited at the end of that post).

Dan Wilson, senior associate scientist at Janssen and host of the YouTube show “Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson,” said Kennedy’s retelling of the AZT history was “dead wrong.”

Kennedy and Rodgers were “repeating a form of HIV/AIDS denialism, where antiretroviral drugs are said to be ineffective against progression of the virus,” Wilson said. In reality, he said, AZT “was the first time that doctors could do something to help people who (were) wasting away and dying painful deaths.”

Now, I'm all in favor of doing one's own research. It's incumbent upon any responsible editorial cartoonist to check into the veracity of things before whipping off a cartoon about whatever one just heard from a talking head on TV or read in some piece of Xeet on Xitter.

But one must be aware that the internet is programmed to give you confirmation bias. If you google "aliens built pyramids," you will get hundreds of links to articles positing that aliens built the pyramids. (Well, of course they did. Having spent decades traveling light years to visit the only flat planet in the universe, what else were they to do?)

But returning to the topic at hand: As a devoted Green Bay Packers fan, I'm saddened to see Aaron Rodgers follow the Brett Favre playbook of going to the Jets only to becoming a huge embarrassment to everyone who ever rooted for him. The guy is, or at least has been, a bright, intelligent fellow; remember how he whipped Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary's and astronaut Mark Kelly's butts on Jeopardy! in spite of getting the Final Jeopardy clue about Harley Davidson wrong? You can't credit that to clicker reflexes alone!

That was nine years ago, however; and perhaps it's true that he has been knocked to the turf a couple times since then.

But over his years with the NFL, he has gotten pretty full of himself. In his last years with the Packers, he didn't deign to pre-season practice with the rest of the team, meaning that new receivers and running backs spent half a season getting used to his habits and rhythms. And it showed.

Please, Lord, let Jordan Love model himself after Bart Starr instead.

idonotlikepeas posted:

Carlos Latuff



It's good that those folks in the background worked out exactly where to stand to make their signs make sense.

idonotlikepeas posted:

Mike Smith



Mike Smith is 64 years old. Just a random fact I thought I'd mention at this point for no particular reason.

Ted Rall posted:

Police departments are having trouble recruiting new cops. There may be an explanation.

Neito posted:

I've been thinking on the "Buying votes" narrative and it's very revealing, in my opinion, about what these specific conservatives think a politician is.

To a normal person, a politician is basically a bundle of promises and policy ideas bundled into a navy blue suit, and you vote for the one that most matches your ideology.

To some political cartoonists, a politician is a big mean daddy who tells you you can't have cake for dinner and bosses you around.

InsertPotPun posted:

my theory is that with the fall of the number of people being cops there will be a rise in the number of serial killers and everyone will come to the absolute wrong conclusions as to the reason

idonotlikepeas posted:

Ed Gamble

Nenonen posted:

To whom is "restrictions on Alaska oil and gas drilling" a free gift? Oil and gas well owners in other states? Drillers who don't like polar bears?

Yeah, that's buying votes alright

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...I was very surprised when Trump invited Johnson to Mar-a-Lago a few weeks ago. The foreign aid package was a slap in the face to all of us MAGA minded, but Trump praised Johnson and apparently his influenced helped solidify his speakership. There are no longer enough votes to remove him—and the Democrats have promised to vote for him to keep him there. The Uni-Party is now more unified, thanks to Trump. Marjorie Taylor Greene had to be very disappointed that a motion to vacate Johnson will not work. The Democrat legacy media praised Johnson for taming Trump, who called Johnson a “good person.”... Trump should have denounced Johnson as well. Instead he is supporting him for reasons that are unfathomable to the MAGA minded. Is he doing this to help get himself reelected? Is he playing 4-D chess? Who knows—I only know that I agree Ron Paul—and his son Rand.

Trump should have invited Ron Paul to Mar-a-Lago instead. I enjoy drawing Trump in a positive light, but when he disappoints I will not pull any cartoon punches. This was a big disappointment.

Grrrgraphics supports President Trump and thinks he is the only choice if we want to save the Republic. But MAGA is not a cult and we are free to point out missteps that affect us all.

100YrsofAttitude posted:

I had to check this one's blurb due to the depiction of Trump. I've pulled what I found to be the choice quotes:

Bolding and italicizing his.