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Sunday Cartoons: Trump is a Dictator

Posted: February 16, 2025 | Author: | Filed under: just because |9 Comments

It has been happening since day one!

Remember when they mocked us for saying that democracy is on the ballot?

— Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) 2025-02-15T22:13:00.257Z

“a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis” makes the AfD sound like a bunch of old biddies who can’t face facts. They want to *revive and repeat* the racist policies of the Nazis.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) 2025-02-16T01:36:20.510Z

This point, from my old Obama DOJ colleague @joycewhitevance.bsky.social , is also spot-on and consistent with my newsletter post earlier today (though much pithier than what I wrote!). open.substack.com/pub/joycevan…

— Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) 2025-02-16T01:21:00.840Z

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

— ex-Lethality Jane (@lethalityjane.bsky.social) 2025-02-15T17:48:58.449Z

Cartoons via Cagle:

Stay safe…this is an open thread.

9 Comments on “Sunday Cartoons: Trump is a Dictator”

  1. Mama Lopez's avatar Sadhbh (Sigh-ve) says:
    February 16, 2025 at 10:11 am

    https://bsky.app/profile/cullenhendrix.bsky.social/post/3licihr5t5s2u

    I don’t know why that is not embedding…

    Quote:
    There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 – the teeth of the #COVID pandemic.

    Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates…

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
      February 16, 2025 at 12:01 pm

      Well, you can’t say I didn’t warn every one he was going to tank the economy. Those prices sure aren’t coming done either. He just does not want to look at the reality outside of his worthless mind.

      I love the Midget Club. I wish I could’ve have gone there to meet the couple that ran it.

      • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
        February 16, 2025 at 1:58 pm

        RFK Jr. rescinds Indian Health Service layoffs
        The last-minute decision to rescind the layoff order for IHS came as healthcare workers waited for bad news

        https://ictnews.org/news/rfk-jr-rescinds-indian-health-service-layoffs

        “WASHINGTON — Newly installed Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. verbally rescinded the layoffs of 950 Indian Health Service employees Friday evening, just hours after the workers were told by phone that they were losing their jobs, sources familiar with the notification told ICT.

        The layoff orders for IHS were rescinded about 6 p.m. Eastern on Friday, Feb. 14, and the official email notifications of the layoffs were never sent to the probationary employees who expected to receive them, sources said.

        Acting IHS Director Ben Smith said on an emotional phone call Friday afternoon that the 950 employees would receive the layoff notices from the Office of Personnel Management “immediately,” according to sources who heard the call.

        The call left a number of employees in tears, and Smith emphasized that the layoffs were “troubling news” for all employees.

        After news arrived a few hours later that the layoffs had been rescinded, supervisors began notifying the targeted employees that they had been given a reprieve.

        The about-face by HHS on the layoffs came after several letters were sent to the Trump administration asking for exemptions for health workers and warning of “unintended life and death consequences” in Indian Country if hundreds of healthcare workers were abruptly laid off.

        “There are 214 Tribal Nations that receive some or all of their care directly from IHS, and losing probationary providers and staff would mean a loss of health and ultimately mortality,” according to a letter sent midday Friday to the OPM and agency leaders by a coalition of Native organizations.

        “Indian Country cannot afford emergency rooms and clinics being forced to shut down or significantly downsize, eliminating critical access to care,” the letter stated.”

      • Mama Lopez's avatar Sadhbh (Sigh-ve) says:
        February 16, 2025 at 5:50 pm

        Oh yes, me too …on the Midget Club.

  2. Mama Lopez's avatar Sadhbh (Sigh-ve) says:
    February 16, 2025 at 10:23 am

    Correct. This is a President of the United States declaring himself a dictator.And instead of Americans understanding that we’re now under imminent threat of martial law and tyranny, we’ll get a month of think pieces about what the President of the United States meant by his UNAMBIGUOUS statement.

    — Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) 2025-02-16T13:02:44.523Z

  3. Unknown's avatar Anonymous says:
    February 16, 2025 at 11:42 am

    I contracted measles in 1960 at age 5 along with my brother and sister. I remember laying in a darkened room all three of us in a bed getting salve put in our eyes. We all made it – but we all have terrible eyesight (myopia).

    Parents! Please vaccinate your kids. I am vaxed to the hilt now – covid, tetanus, shingles.

    Enheduanna

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
      February 16, 2025 at 12:30 pm

      That’s about the time I got them too. I had all the childhood diseases. I remember sitting by the plastic santa clause on Rudolph decoration light in the family room with my dad holding me tight I was so miserable with the measles My oldest and I had such a bad time from chicken pox plus with both have scars to prove it that I rushed to get the youngest one into the final trial test of the vaccine. She just had one little scab by the injection area. We were moving into a new house and I had to put the oldest one in a baking soda bath. She had them every where including near her labia. She was miserable. We both have a scar at the same place on our left eyebrow.

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