6 Comments on “Sunday Cartoons: War War War”

1. Anonymous says:

   September 7, 2025 at 9:50 am

   Thanks for the cartoons and other funny stuff, JJ.

   Sometimes it feels like it’s wrong to laugh when the world is going to sh*t but your posts help me remember that humor is resistance! xoxo

   Beata

   • Mama Lopez says:

     September 7, 2025 at 11:43 am

     Thank you honey, I just can’t take the news anymore. We are no longer a democracy. Now all I can do is just try and get through the day, the best way possible.

2. dakinikat says:

   September 7, 2025 at 2:07 pm

   ​​Trump Tried to Kill the Infrastructure Law. Now He’s Getting Credit for Its Projects.

   Signs bearing President Trump’s name have gone up at major construction projects financed by the 2021 law, which he strenuously opposed ahead of its passage.

   In southern Connecticut, the federal government is replacing a 118-year-old bridge along America’s busiest rail corridor. The $1.3 billion project was largely funded by the 2021 infrastructure law that was championed by then-President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — and strenuously opposed by Donald J. Trump.

   These days, however, motorists cruising by the construction site might be forgiven for thinking that a certain famous New York developer was responsible for it all.

   “PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP” a sign by the road declares. “REBUILDING AMERICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE.”

   In recent months, a number of similar signs have popped up in front of major infrastructure projects financed by the bipartisan 2021 legislation, a $1.2 trillion package that Mr. Trump, who left office in January of that year, had passionately railed against. He called the bill “a loser for the U.S.A.,” and warned that Republican lawmakers who signed on could be thrown out of office by angry primary voters. “Patriots will never forget!” he wrote.

   The signs bearing Mr. Trump’s name now adorn bridge projects in Connecticut and Maryland; rail-yard improvement projects in Seattle, Boston and Philadelphia; and the replacement of a tunnel on Amtrak’s route between Baltimore and Washington, according to W. Kyle Anderson, a spokesman for the company.

   In an email, Mr. Anderson said the new signs “are a voluntary Amtrak initiative, updating outdated signage posted at the project locations listed previously, following the change in presidential administrations earlier this year.”

   The signs note, in a smaller font, that the projects in question are “funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,” the official name of the legislation that Mr. Trump tried to derail.

   Still, the signs, in bold MAGA red, strike some as misleading.

   Representative Joe Courtney, a Connecticut Democrat who represents the area where the Connecticut River Bridge is being replaced, said seeing the sign with Mr. Trump’s name there “is just, you know, very odd to me.”

   He added: “That bridge would never have gotten where it is today without that bill, which he opposed.”

3. dakinikat says:

   September 7, 2025 at 3:26 pm

   They only about care clumps of cells in a woman’s body that they can use to control her and not living breathing children. They can be shot and killed and die of preventable diseases when they’re actually children and they don’t give a damn.

   Megan Messerly / Politico:
   Conservatives have a message for Trump: We want more babies

   While Trump has advanced a handful of policies explicitly billed as “pro-family,” some conservatives are dismayed he hasn’t done more yet on one of his campaign’s most animating issues.

   Donald Trump this spring dubbed himself the “fertilization president.”

   But some conservative family policy advocates say he’s done little so far to publicly back that up and are pushing to get the White House in the remaining months of the year to prioritize family policy — and help Americans make more babies.

   A top priority is a pronatalist or family policy summit that spotlights the U.S.’s declining fertility rate. Other asks, which typically run through the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, include loosening regulations on day cares and child car seats, further increasing the child tax credit and requiring insurers to cover birth as well as pre- and post-natal care at no out-of-pocket cost.

   While the Trump administration has advanced a handful of policies explicitly billed as “pro-family,” some conservative advocates are dismayed that the president has not done more on one of his campaign’s most animating issues.

   The lack of movement threatens to dampen enthusiasm among parts of the Republican Party’s big tent coalition, including New Right populists, who worry about the erosion of the U.S. workforce, and techno-natalists, who advocate using reproductive technology to boost population growth, as the GOP stares down a challenging midterm election.

4. dakinikat says:

   September 7, 2025 at 5:40 pm

   This isn’t politics. It’s a freak show powered by lies and Aqua Net. Trump lies like a porn star faking an orgasm for store-brand lube, like a truck stop hooker promising she’s “totally clean” for twenty bucks and a Slim Jim…open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom…

   — JoJoFromJerz (@jojofromjerz.bsky.social) 2025-09-04T12:42:54.972Z

5. dakinikat says:

   September 7, 2025 at 6:47 pm

   reptedlieu

   20m

   Prices are up. Job market is down.A tax break for yachts is sure to help!