Thursday Cartoons: But I don’t want to be a Pirate!
Posted: December 11, 2025 Filed under: just because 12 Comments
Pissing on the moon…
Hello. I don’t know what will happen next year, when things are getting so desperate these days. Before we get to the disgusting mess Trump has made of late…take a look at these images:
Well, the biggest WTF from yesterday has to be this shit:
Yeah…so now we are pirates?
No shit! It’s because you are murdering them…you fuckwad.
In other news:
Cartoons via Cagle:
The last cartoon is really great…
This is an open thread.
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This post seems a bit scattered…just think of my threads as comic relief…stream of consciousness.
I found your post very entertaining.
hey:
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-orleans-immigration-raids-operation-catahouls-crumch/
The Stagecraft Behind the New Orleans Immigration Raids
In a text exchange, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino calls his operation a “massive disturbance” in the making.
Amanda Moore
““Operation Catahoula Crunch is making New Orleans safer by finding and arresting illegal aliens who have been endangering this community,” Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino posted on X shortly after his roving corps of immigration enforcers arrived in the city. In a similar PR offensive, the Department of Homeland Security recently launched the Worst of the Worst website, which features some of the arrests that the federal agents implementing the Trump White House’s mass deportation policy have carried out across the country. (The legal resolution of these arrests, like the 13 cases dropped in court after Bovino’s Operation Midway Blitz campaign in Chicago, are not featured.)
And despite the online efforts to portray the Trump raids as heroic peacekeeping exercises, Commander Bovino’s New Orleans team seemed to be operating by a different set of rules, to judge by its conduct this past Saturday. A caravan of Louisiana state troopers escorted three rental cars full of federal agents, including Bovino himself, to an apartment complex in Kenner, Louisiana. A secondary caravan, made up mostly of journalists and protesters, followed close behind. State police blocked off a road in the complex, driving both groups out of their vehicles and into the street, where Bovino and his agents could move in on them. The federal agents slowly drove down the road, stopping for minutes at a time. The small group of protesters grew, bolstered by neighbors who lived in the apartments.
Safe inside an SUV, surrounded by agents with weapons, Bovino texted away on his phone from the parking lot of an apartment complex. The messages, recorded by journalist Ford Fischer, offer some insight – both into Bovino’s mind, and the state of the Louisiana operation.
“Kind of cool we are a massive wrecking crew. The idiots can’t do anything to us….I can’t understand why DHS is hiding us when we are handing them strategy on a silver platter,” Bovino wrote to a contact listed as “Diz.” Minutes later, Bovino followed up with a summary of their on-the-ground strategy that afternoon: “Massive disturbance at apartment complex in Kenner. We are running tags and such.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/new-orleans-restaurants-immigration-workers-border-patrol.html?smid=url-share
“Eateries with a largely Hispanic customer base are choosing to close down temporarily. Cooks and dishwashers are staying home out of fear. Delivery drivers are sitting out shifts. And customers are finding that some menu items are no longer available, because somewhere along the supply chain someone was afraid to report for work.
As Border Patrol agents have fanned out across New Orleans over the past week to enforce the Trump administration’s deportation agenda, their presence has had a particularly chilling effect on the city’s many restaurants and their suppliers.
Amarys Koenig Herndon, a co-owner of Palm and Pine, an upscale restaurant in the city’s French Quarter, said that a few of her employees had chosen to stay home, regardless of their immigration status. “They’re working legally, but they’re hunkered down and not coming to pick up their paychecks,” she said.
The restaurant is struggling to keep offering all the items on its menu. “With the cuisine we do, we’re very dependent on our Latin markets for a lot of ingredients,” Ms. Herndon said, but many of those suppliers are short of staff and running out of inventory.”
Adam Wren / Politico:
Indiana GOP rejects Trump’s map in major blow to his gerrymandering push
NBC News:
Justice Department fails in its 3rd attempt
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans —
We are all so fucked. This has got to stop some where or we’re headed back to the dark ages.
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GOP is disgusting.
Today, the Indiana State Senate voted 31-19 against Trump’s attempt to redistrict the state’s congressional map to eliminate its two Democratic districts. A majority of State Senate Republicans (21) joined all 10 Democrats in voting no. State Senate Republicans who expressed opposition to redistricting prior to today’s vote received death threats and experienced swatting attacks but refused to bend the knee to Trump. The redistricting plan was opposed by a majority of citizens in Indiana. Now Trump is threatening to cut off all federal funding to the state.
He’s a monster.
This is home around the courthouse square on a very cold winter day. Don’t mess with us. We don’t like fascists.
I just had to leave this: