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Wednesday Reads: Bawk, Bawk. Wait, I mean…Gobble, Gobble.

Posted: November 21, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, U.S. Politics, Wednesday Hump Day Cartoons |40 Comments

 

 

And that cartoon above…was drawn before tRump’s statement yesterday: Trump signals Saudis won’t face severe punishment for Khashoggi killing | TheHill

Trump refused to blame Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for Khashoggi’s killing even though the CIA has reportedly concluded that the crown prince ordered his assassination.

 

 

Too much going on in the news…I’m just going to hit you with the cartoons. For now…

Questions: 11/20/2018 Cartoon by Rob Rogers

Cartoon by Rob Rogers - Questions

Facebook Denial: 11/16/2018 Cartoon by Rob Rogers

Cartoon by Rob Rogers - Facebook Denial

Oh, and btw, Child bride in South Sudan sold in Facebook auction – CNN

I hate Facebook. (I don’t know, but it took me a couple of times to type out Facebook. I kept typing Fuckbook.)

11/20/2018 Cartoon by Jimmy Margulies

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11/20/2018 Cartoon by Jimmy Margulies

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Bruce Plante Cartoon: Uncle Sam and Facebook: 11/18/2018 Cartoon by Bruce Plante

Cartoon by Bruce Plante - Bruce Plante Cartoon: Uncle Sam and Facebook

Bruce Plante Cartoon: Roy Clark: 11/16/2018 Cartoon by Bruce Plante

Cartoon by Bruce Plante - Bruce Plante Cartoon: Roy Clark

Attacking the press: 11/20/2018 Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis - Attacking the press

11/20/2018 Cartoon by Gary Varvel

Emergency response: 11/14/2018 Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis - Emergency response

Clay Bennett editorial cartoon: 11/20/2018 Cartoon by Clay Bennett

Cartoon by Clay Bennett - Clay Bennett editorial cartoon

Clay Bennett editorial cartoon: 11/18/2018 Cartoon by Clay Bennett

Cartoon by Clay Bennett - Clay Bennett editorial cartoon

Clay Bennett editorial cartoon: 11/17/2018 Cartoon by Clay Bennett

Cartoon by Clay Bennett - Clay Bennett editorial cartoon

11/20/2018 Cartoon by Kevin Siers

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11/18/2018 Cartoon by Kevin Siers

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11/20/2018 Cartoon by Joel Pett

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11/20/2018 Cartoon by John Cole

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At the BORDER—- caravan??: 11/19/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath

Cartoon by Deb Milbrath - At the BORDER---- caravan??

MAKING CALLS: 11/18/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath

Cartoon by Deb Milbrath - MAKING CALLS

AT the BORDER…… still: 11/18/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath

Cartoon by Deb Milbrath - AT the BORDER...... still

Georgia Governor Race: 11/17/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath

Cartoon by Deb Milbrath - Georgia Governor Race

11/20/2018 Cartoon by Joe Heller

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Rake the Floor: 11/19/2018 Cartoon by Ed Hall

Cartoon by Ed Hall - Rake the Floor

11/21 Mike Luckovich: Karma

11/20 Mike Luckovich: Slight the troops

11/18 Mike Luckovich: Pussies galore.

11/16 Mike Luckovich: The enemy!

 

11/15 Mike Luckovich: Still counting

 

 

 

 

11/16/2018 Cartoon by Joe Heller

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Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving…this is an open thread.

40 Comments on “Wednesday Reads: Bawk, Bawk. Wait, I mean…Gobble, Gobble.”

  1. Joanelle says:
    November 21, 2018 at 8:00 am

    Excellent, JJ!

  2. Enheduanna says:
    November 21, 2018 at 10:42 am

    Love the Prince paperback covers JJ.

    Hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving. Looks like Northern California is getting some rain!

  3. bostonboomer says:
    November 21, 2018 at 10:58 am

    Nancy Pelosi doesn’t fool around.

  4. NW Luna says:
    November 21, 2018 at 11:04 am

    Happy doggo under that Thanksgiving table!

  5. NW Luna says:
    November 21, 2018 at 11:07 am

    The US president* thinks it’s OK to kill asylum seekers.

    The Trump administration allowed troops to engage in some law enforcement activities and potentially to use deadly force, according to a report by Military Times on Wednesday.

    The order, which loosens the engagement restrictions on military personnel at the southwest border, was not signed by President Trump, but by White House chief of staff John Kelly.

    It was labeled a “cabinet order,” reported the Military Times.

    Under Kelly’s order, military personnel at the border are allowed to “perform those military protective activities that the Secretary of Defense determines are reasonably necessary,” according to the report.

    The “protective activities” include “a show or use of force (including lethal force, where necessary), crowd control, temporary detention, and cursory search.”

    • Gregory P says:
      November 21, 2018 at 11:55 am

      Won’t be long now until they start rounding up the Presidents “enemies”. This is fixing to get really bad, really quickly. Hard to believe I was sitting in Political Science in 1987 and being taught by Dr. Leach about the rule of law, the Constitution, and how the separation of powers protected us all against those who would oppress us. I guess that is all out the window now. The people of this country got sold out for a few pieces of silver by the Republican party and they’ve successfully duped a large portion of the population into believing anything they’ve been told. It is just astounding the damage that has been done by right wing talk radio, Fox “News” and our own Supreme Court.

    • bostonboomer says:
      November 21, 2018 at 12:47 pm

      That is unbelievable! Trump is a wannabe dictator.

  6. dakinikat says:
    November 21, 2018 at 11:18 am

    I miss real “presidentin”

    • Gregory P says:
      November 21, 2018 at 12:01 pm

      He is a nice, wonderful well intentioned man but when they had the majority in the House and the supermajority in the Senate they should have reinstituted laws to curtail propaganda, lying on tv and over the broadcast airways, gerrymandering, voter suppression, etc. They allowed it to be very easy to get to where we are now. A lot of this stuff goes all the way back to Reagan and could have been easily corrected at any time. Now, fixing this mess is going to be next to impossible.

  7. dakinikat says:
    November 21, 2018 at 11:22 am

  8. dakinikat says:
    November 21, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    Mueller might soon bring charges that even Trump die-hards can’t trivialize
    By HARRY LITMAN
    NOV 20, 2018 | 3:05 AM

    https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-litman-mueller-probe-blockbuster-developments-20181120-story.html

    Look first for an indictment against radio commentator Jerome Corsi, who told the world last week that after several months of his cooperating with the probe, Mueller has informed him that he will be charged with “some form of lying” to the Mueller team.

    A fabulist, blowhard and general odd duck, Corsi might seem like small quarry for Mueller. But as with Paul Manafort’s lobbying partner Rick Gates, whose cooperation anchored the tax and fraud case against the former Trump campaign manager, Corsi is directly connected to another Trump insider, Roger Stone. Stone was in regular contact with candidate Trump during the campaign, and perhaps with WikiLeaks and its Russian sources.

    Stone and Corsi appear to have had advance knowledge of the WikiLeaks October 2016 release of emails from the account of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. Both men have indicated that Corsi was the source of Stone’s foolish Twitter boast and prophecy: It would “soon [be] Podesta’s time in the barrel.” Corsi suggests, implausibly, that he just sussed out WikiLeaks’ moves from publicly available sources, and Stone insists his email wasn’t referring to hacking or WikiLeaks anyway. He says he had no advance knowledge of the Podesta reveal.

    And yet, given that the first cache from Podesta’s account was released a matter of minutes after the “Access Hollywood” tape sent the Trump campaign reeling, it seems possible the release was a coordinated effort, and Stone could have been the conduit.

    Another augury of blockbuster developments: Mueller last week filed a statement in the District of Columbia court that is overseeing the case of Manafort, who awaits sentencing on his tax and fraud conviction. Mueller requested a 10-day delay in submitting a status report on the ground that the later report would “be of greater assistance” to the court’s work determining what sentence Manafort deserves. Mueller’s request strongly suggests that we’ll soon see important additional information bearing on the value of Manafort’s cooperation, up to and including a potential role as a key witness in a soon-to-be-unveiled criminal case.

    The whole point of the enormous pressure Mueller brought to bear against Manafort was to shake loose information about persons above him in the food chain. Those are very few, arguably only Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner or Trump himself (who we know believes that Manafort could incriminate him).

  9. dakinikat says:
    November 21, 2018 at 12:04 pm

  10. dakinikat says:
    November 21, 2018 at 12:05 pm

  11. dakinikat says:
    November 21, 2018 at 12:07 pm

    • NW Luna says:
      November 21, 2018 at 8:19 pm

      And this organization supposedly investigated corruption in government. Can’t make this shit up.

  12. dakinikat says:
    November 21, 2018 at 12:34 pm

    Happy Thanksgiving JJ!!! Sky Dancers!!!! I love the Purple Pulp Fiction Covers!!!

  13. bostonboomer says:
    November 21, 2018 at 12:46 pm

    • Enheduanna says:
      November 21, 2018 at 1:45 pm

      But why do we have to hold our breath and hope the Robert’s court will do the right thing. And as far as gerrymandering – Roberts in particular will not do the right thing.

      • NW Luna says:
        November 21, 2018 at 8:22 pm

        Exactly. And now they have two Trump appointees in the last year or so — the court’s stacked against independence.

  14. Minkoff Minx says:
    November 21, 2018 at 12:56 pm

    Hope everyone is safe this long weekend.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqc85Dxn5ix/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=lhpltah8bf5t

  15. Enheduanna says:
    November 21, 2018 at 1:48 pm

    JJ – my favorite name for FB I’ve seen on the Internets is Crackbook….hahahahaha

  16. Fannie says:
    November 21, 2018 at 6:35 pm

    Happy Thanksgiving Sky Dancers…………..and it’s raining in Northern California.

  17. dakinikat says:
    November 21, 2018 at 7:09 pm

    • NW Luna says:
      November 21, 2018 at 8:24 pm

      So that’s why they chop the heads off!

    • Sweet Sue says:
      November 22, 2018 at 2:53 am

      I once ruined a really fancy dinner party when I took it upon myself to inform the other guests that lobsters are related to cockroaches. Yes, we were eating lobster. Talk about Debbie Downer. Whomp, whomp. Happy Thanksgiving!

  18. NW Luna says:
    November 21, 2018 at 9:06 pm

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