The govt shutdown explained:
30 friends are ordering pizza. 20 only want pepperoni. 10 want one pizza with veggies.
The rule: 23 people have to agree on what to order or nobody eats.The 20 refuse to allow even a single veggie pizza, then blame the 10 for everyone going hungry.
Right now we face 3+ more years of this shit.
We all know who actually owns the shutdown.
HARWOOD: “Each one has involved different politicians, issues, and electoral outlooks. But modern-era shutdowns stem from a common root cause: the extremism of today’s Republican Party.” zeteo.com/p/stop-the-l…
The GOP has been fact checked (and “gasp” what a shock), they are lying.
THE CLAIM: Democrats shut down the government because they want to give free health care to immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally.
THE FACTS: This is false.” apnews.com/article/fact…
There is a deep reason why Trump was desperate for a shutdown …
Some guy from back in 2011 “When a shutdown happens, it is all the fault of the president” …
One of many voices speaking the truth – @repcohen.bsky.social on the shutdown…
If you say Dems should negotiate with Trump, please confirm you’ve read the pre-shutdown Trump EO that authorizes you and yours to be probed as terrorists if you commit any thought-crime listed on the right-hand side of this Ken Klippenstein report excerpt. *That* is who you want to negotiate with.
The government has already effectively been shut down for months as Trump has destroyed checks and balances, usurped the power of the purse from Congress, and unleashed an authoritarian nightmare throughout the country.
Why would any Democrat vote for any continuing resolution that allows this to continue?
So here are a few more political cartoons on this before we then move on to cover off a few other items from this past week. You might wonder why I lean so much into political cartoons. It is because humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism, and boy do we need it.
Clay Jones – “I could have been a normal cartoonist and had just drawn a crying monkey“
So how and when will it end?
TACO Trump and Republicans will cave (he won’t admit he’s caving, of course, but he will cave).
My prediction: This shutdown will end sooner than the last one. Air traffic controllers will ensure it does. Within the next few weeks, a few will call in sick. Then the flight delays will cascade.
At that point, pressure will suddenly mount on the White House and Republicans in Congress to end it.
It’s not a certainty of course, but I do agree with him, it is a critical pressure point, and so that makes it a high probability.
Shutting down Trump
As for mocking Trump, no need to cobble up fake stuff, simply post the real stuff he has actually done …
As an aside, not only is Trump a very stupid individual, but you can also get his supporters to agree … like this …
The Rising tide of Fascism
No reason to believe this was anything but the premeditated murder of four fisherman in international waters: a war crime. Trump and his jackals destroy the evidence every time, and never release any intel, and have a history of committing and celebrating war crimes—so that must be the presumption.
Multiple layers of Lunacy and utter incompetence
The guy with access to vast military resources is spiralling …
- Link to DailyBeast article here
- Quote: “They said Hegseth is becoming increasingly “obsessed” with his own security and exhibits frantic behavior, such as fidgeting and pacing during meetings. “There’s a manic quality about him. Or let me rephrase, an even more manic quality, which is really saying something,” an insider told the outlet. “Dude is crawling out of his skin,” another source said.
- When the journalist reached out asking for comment, the Pentagon Spokesman went into Full Trump mode: “”[We] receive all kinds [of] outrageous and untrue requests, but this might be the stupidest request we have received to date. You may be the least informed ‘journalist’ to ever report on the Pentagon. Your entire story is completely false.” … which these days more or less translates to that being a confirmation.
The “deal” on offer …
Seth quite rightly points out that he can’t be trusted, his “offer” is utterly worthless …
Trump’s former “spiritual adviser” is a pedophile …
- Another Pastor off to jail for fiddling with kids. That’s such a common thing that it hardly makes news now. However, the fact the Trump had previously embraced him as his “spiritual adviser” is oh so very on brand from Trump and deserves a moment in the spotlight.
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ADP’s private employment report flashes big warning signs for Trump’s economy…
We all know where all the money went …
The degree of utter stupidity in play is truly jaw dropping stuff …
What is also rather obvious is that the current reality just can’t be sustained …
That $52 Trillion is not made up, it is a calculation being widely reported this past week …
Concepts of a Healthcare plan
Side note: That image above is not parody, he actually tweeted that out.
That “urgent” gathering of all the generals
Clay Jones – “But no mention of drunkos, pedos, gropos, dumbos, creepos, or weirdos“
- Uncle Pete wants you! … to go to the liquor store and pick up a fifth of Woodford Reserve at 1:30 AM
Guns Again!
The Guardian (Mon 29th Sept) – Mormon church shooting suspect had Trump sign outside home, records show …
The gunman who killed at least four worshippers, wounded eight and was shot to death by police on Sunday at a Mormon church in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, had a sign emblazoned with the last name of Donald Trump outside his house, public records show.
Clay Jones – Just another MAGA terrorist
Epstein Update
Gestapo updates
They deployed tear gas because they were stuck in traffic …
Root cause is an utterly corrupt SCOTUS that has enabled it all …
Chicago …
- This is the way Nazi SS soldiers behaved searching for Jews during WWW II – and now it has become the trademark of US federal agents. This a travesty of justice system in a democracy!
A wholly justifiable deep fear has taken root …
”Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes … Families are torn apart: men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find their parents have disappeared.”
– Diary of Ann Frank (The quote is verified and real)
Charlie Kirk – The Chosen One
This week Kirk is the “Chosen one”.
- I will acknowledge that Metaxas is partially correct – Humanity *didn’t* deserve Charlie Kirk. We never earned that punishment.
Rob McCoy says that Charlie Kirk was “a modern day Moses.“
- Moses led people to the Promised Land. Charlie Kirk leads people… to Twitter arguments
I’ll just toss this random quote into the mix here …
“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason & Dixon’s but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other”
– Ulysses S. Grant stated in a 1879 speech at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Army of the Tennessee in Des Moines, Iowa
Christian Nationalists
The nuttier right-wing religious fanatics within the MAGA cult are as always doing their thing, and so here are a few samples from the past week …
- Michele Bachmann says that what she loves about President Donald Trump is that “he puts his Superman suit on … and he says, ‘I’m going to stand up for the American people.'” – – – – – (As I’m sure you are aware, Bachmann was doing “nutty” long before it became official GOP policy)
- Pastor Rob McCoy’s tribute to Charlie Kirk was filled with Christian nationalistmyths and disinformation. – – – – – (Sigh! … Rob McCoy has been delivering disinformation with organ music since forever.
- Pastor Doug Wilson says that the three keys to bringing about a revival in America are stamping out “every form of compromise with Darwinism,” “every vestige of feminism,” and “there needs to be no compromise with secularism.” – – – – – (So let’s see now, that’s ban science, silence women, and outlaw freedom, and that is all apparently “revival”. Nothing says ‘revival’ like dragging society back to 1850 )
- David Barton claims that 192 out of 198 countries in the world are actively persecuting Christians. – – – – – (Well yes, liars are going to lie. As with most claims Barton makes, this is not true)
- Jim Garlow brags that the “Trump Administration [is] the most OPENLY CHRISTIAN administration ever.” – – – – – (If it is the most Christian administration ever, then I’m the Pope’s Uber driver)
Weirdest of the Weird
- Here is how you also can utilise Mat Staver “Logic”: Pineapple on pizza is responsible for climate change; TikTok is why your car won’t start; etc…
- What is actually going on is this: “I am going to threaten you and demonize you until you ultimately fight back, and then I am going to say it is all your fault.“
- Staver has also previously made deeply stupid statements linking social change to divine punishment, implying that events like natural disasters, crime, or even murders are caused by America abandoning “biblical values.” (which is a term that simply means his interpretation of a vague text or two)
- Um, yea. People who use Nazi-like rhetoric tend to get labeled a Nazi, that’s literally how it works.
- While Nick Fuentes has never called himself a Nazi, his praising of Hitler, Holocaust denial, and advocating for a white ethno-state pretty much does that.
Newt Gingrich claims that “Obama was a major factor in creating a much more racist and much more dangerous America.“
- The time before 2008 was just a post-racial utopia where everyone held hands and sang Kumbaya … right?
- We are of course all familiar with Obama’s “crime”. It basically involved him being guilty of getting elected while not being white.
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon is quite upset with Newt for daring to attempt to be more racist than he is, so this past week he had a message for Black people who decry America’s history of oppression: “Stop being a little boy. You’re whining and crying about something that’s ultimately your fault.”
- Telling people to ‘stop whining’ about oppression while you spend your whole career whining about Starbucks cups and rainbow flags is a very Webbon move.
- If oppression is ‘your fault,’ then I guess Joel thinks the Israelites chose Pharaoh.
Religious grifter Hank Kunneman declares that “Hillary Clinton needs to go. [Barack] Obama still needs to be in handcuffs”: “I’ll say it because it’s true. Somebody asked me, ‘What’s Hillary up to?’ I said, ‘I don’t know, I think she’s shape-shifting, flying as a bat or a werewolf in the middle of the night.’”
- So Hillary’s a werewolf now? I guess it means that he has merged Fox News with the SyFy Channel
Even More Political Cartoons from the past week
As always, there are many excellent cartoons.
Pravda
“Ex Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale registers as a foreign agent for Israel” — to make content targeting Gen Z on TikTok, etc… (he withdrew from the 2020 campaign team after domestic violence accusations from his wife) …www.mediaite.com/politics/for…
Media Sane-washing of Tyranny
Conspiracy Claims
Do you ever yearn for the time when the President of the United States and the Village Idiot where two different people?
Alas, here we are now …
Meanwhile Jnr is sure “They” are out to get him and his dad …
Some Are willing to take a stand
- You can watch that clip here.
The Official Newsom Press Office is still being excellent …
So this happened yesterday …
Oregon got that good ruling from “a very biased judge appointed by radical left marxist Donald J Trump” …
Finally
Yes, way off topic, but hey, I wanted to mark the occasion with a final hat tip to her …
She was an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously. When Gary Larson published the cartoon below, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint. Then later the whole thing was defused when she returned – she found it funny
- She also later commented in an interview: If you’re in a Garry Larson cartoon, you know you’ve made it.
OK, so who will I finish with this week, Colbert or Kimmel?
Hey, how about both of them together …
- Colbert had Kimmel on and Kimmel shared details of of being taken-off-air event … it comes in 3 parts … they had ad breaks.
Ad break … and they are back …
Ad break …
