Your weekly guided tour through the MAGA multiverse — where the news is strange, the takes are wild, and the stakes are real.
Along with the above cartoon, cartoonist Pat also adds the following commentary …
Eight Democratic senators game away the only thing they had on this criminal regime—real leverage to protect Americans from losing their healthcare—for WORSE than nothing: A promise from GOP And we all know a promise from Trump toadies is worth shit
Their argument is that real pain was being inflicted by the shutdown. True as that might be, them caving will result in even greater long term pain and so we got what is in effect an utterly pointless surrender. The promise of a vote at some point is to be honest utterly worthless.
People are talking about how much suffering the shutdown caused, but nobody is talking about the suffering the cave is going to cause. People will bear great pain when they have hope. The eight just shot that hope to hell. That’s going to destroy people. Many people will sign off from life this winter.
Those that perhaps as always, best express how most feel are the political cartoonists.
MacLeod
There has been Good News
This past week also saw a small victory, that was more about what SCOTUS did not do rather then what they did do …
- It also means that Kim Davis has finally reached the end of the legal road, and so now she can f**k off to oblivion with her very own self-made financial ruin because of her own stupidity and bigotry.
- For a longer discussion on what the appeal was all about, you can read my article from last Aug. Briefly, the SCOTUS appeal last July, was done on the basis of overturning a ruling against Davis, and for good measure they also asked SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell.
- If SCOTUS had actually taken it up then it would have opened up a huge legal minefield. To overturn the ruling against Davis would have enabled any county clerk who finds interracial marriage to be sinful to refuse to issue licenses to interracial couples, or an election official who believes women should not vote to refuse to count ballots cast by females. Even a zoning official personally opposed to Christianity could refuse to permit the construction of a church. Not even the deeply compromised SCOTUS was stupid enough to overturn the ruling (but I do admit I was still deeply worried).
OK, let’s move on now.
This past week we got even more data that confirms how utterly ignorant Trump really is.
He really is very very stupid
There is just no denying the fact that this is a total clown show …
Real estate Solutions!!
- I do have to wonder what Eisenhower would think about deploying troops to defend a Cheesecake Factory.
- If you are puzzled about what happened to some bricks and mortar, then permit me to spell out the obvious with one word – Amazon. Many of the more traditional stores are dying. In other words, #TrumpIsAnIdiot.
- Also, you don’t have to actually live in Chicago to know that it is called the Magnificent Mile, he can’t even get the name right.
However, it is not just stupidity alone, but is coupled with malice and a complete lack of basic human empathy for others.
He is also deeply malicious and evil
Starving vulnerable people is not simply a side effect, it is his specific policy …
The Trump regime also declared that funding for the CFPB is illegal. Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators. Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
What his actual priorities are is very clear …
And of course his revenge tour continues …
This really does sum him up rather well …
- You might also argue that there is a slight typo there and that the phrase should actually be “Turd Immunity”
This past week also delivered an Epstein Update
Trump is guilty as fuck, but who is going to hold him accountable?
This also happened, and so we have the 218 votes to now force a vote on the Epstein files …
And so an utterly terrified Trump was working his butt off to flip a republican back …
Meanwhile we also now have this new insight …
Also, this tweet happened…
- So yes, she really did tweet that (link here) … and yes, the quote is wholly factual and accurate, … and yes, Jefferson did indeed impregnate Sally Hemings whom he owned as property, not once, but five times.
… and so at every level utter chaos and raw stupidity continue to prevail.
Multiple layers of Lunacy and utter incompetence
So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money, and yet he never thought that through.
“We didn’t prepare for that possibility?”
He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
Best to stock up on your Italian Pasta while you still can …
The UK have taken their ball and gone home …
Welcome to “justice” in Donald Trump’s America.
They’re all just looting the treasury now
… as for what his supporters think … well basically they don’t because …
Even summing up just one day from the past week reveals how utterly crazy things have become …
Bondi in July: “there’s no Epstein client list”. Bondi now: “the department will pursue (Democrats) with urgency”.
Imagine thinking this DOJ is anything but a tool of the aspiring dictator in the Oval Office …
It was always clear from day 1 that Tariffs are a tax that you pay …
Raw Fascism
What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern…
It really is a Cult
They voted for him again, and he did to them exactly what he did last time …
Consequences of Voting for Republicans
They voted against their own best interests …
SNAP
A reminder that the money was once available but is gone now because it has been stolen …
Christian Nationalists – the cult within the cult
The nuttier right-wing religious fanatics within the MAGA cult are as always doing their thing …
- Permit me to translate … “silence our faith“=stopping us from imposing our whacky beliefs on everybody else; “corrupt our schools“=teaching actual science and not god did it; “attack the family“=enabling people marry the person they love; It’s all code for intolerance, stupidity, ignorance, and bigotry.
- She still retains the freedom to do all that, but does not get the right to inflict it on the rest of us.
So why else popped up in this category over the past week?
The usual suspects of course.
Ryan Helfenbein says that “God did create man in his own image to live in a material world and to steward that material world,” therefore “owning a home isn’t merely a material ambition, it’s fulfilling a creation mandate we see in Genesis 1 and 2.“
- Ah yes — Genesis 1:3, ‘And God said, let there be equity. I must’ve missed the verse where Adam applied for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage
- If you are wondering who he is, he is the VP of Communications & Public Engagement at Liberty University. This is all part of his “theology” of greed. Being rich is your duty and a blessing from god, being poor is their fault – or to put that another way, they just love rich people to donate.
Mario Murillo says that conservatives must not turn against President Donald Trump: “I know what Satan is doing, he’s trying to make Trump’s effectiveness be undermined.“
- “effectiveness” … hunger, poverty, corruption, lies, etc… I’m not sure he understands which team Trump is playing for.
Glenn Beck proclaims that “we’re already in World War III,”
- he’s been saying this for more than a decade.
Jackson Lahmeyer believes that the Rapture is imminent and “we will soon hear a trumpet blast and the sky will open up and we, his church—like John [The Revelator]—will be taken up.“
- If all the religious fanatics suddenly vanished one day, then the world would be vastly improved for the rest of us.
- Lance’s immigration plan is basically: ‘Deport everyone… except the people who might clap for me.’ Truly visionary
Second entry from Lance this week. Lance Wallnau warns that “millions of people in the MAGA base are getting bit by the demonic COVID virus of antisemitism,” which was part of “Satan’s strategy in killing Charlie Kirk.”
- If you are MAGA and a tad confused, then permit me to translate this Lance-babble into plain English. People have dared to criticise his beloved Israel (he calls that antisemitism), for embarking on a campaign of Genocide. I can only wonder if he also considers the Jewish citizens of Israel who have very vocally opposed the Genocide to also be guilty of antisemitism.
Nick Fuentes is sad that all the videos of him saying racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic things have given people the impression that he is a racist, misogynistic antisemite.
- LOL.
Weirdest of the Weird
Yea, it’s Joel again (it almost always is).
- Christian nationalism: because nothing says ‘follow Christ’ like recreating the empire that killed him
Even More Political Cartoons from the past week
As always, there are many excellent cartoons.
Media Sane-washing of Tyranny
Newsom has a few thoughts on Dementia
Meanwhile, Trump is unable to handle the California Clapback — instead he wants to go to court because the voters came up with the wrong result. He really does not like democracy. “California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 50” apnews.com/article/cali…
Some Truth on Truth Social
They turned on an AI for Truth Social and have been shocked to discover that it insists on telling the truth …
Finally
Jon Stewart “Can’t F**king Believe” Democrats Caved on the Shutdown | The Daily Show …
