Tuesday Political Cartoons: Midnight Hags
Posted: June 9, 2026 Filed under: just because 14 Comments
Hello and good morning…my other son came back to the states from Kuwait this week. It is such a relief to have him away from all the bombs.
I’ve got some BlueSky post to share with you, if the Instagram post do not embed correctly…just reload the page.
About the Knicks game:
And Trump fell asleep…during the game:
Cartoons via Cagle:
Well, as always Trump gets away with everything…
Stay safe out there…
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#FARTUS needs to be in a nursing home and away from as many people and decisions as possible. He should be forced out of office and some one should be brave enough to do the 25th amendment on him.
wow
if there was any doubt:
A huge majority of the people in this country hate him. If they don’t get out and vote him out they’re just all hot air. He needs to be booted.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/08/albania-jared-kushner-protests-europe
Look at the protests Jared Kushner has caused in Albania. This could be a shining light for Europe
Lea Ypi
The slogan ‘Albania is not for sale’ reveals a nation that respects itself, and will not sell its soul for investmentMon 8 Jun 2026 06.39 EDTShare
“That’s how we found it. We swam to the island, we went on a hike barefoot to the top and we were just captivated. And over the course of many years, we developed the opportunity to help realise its potential.”
If the woman sharing her desire to improve a foreign island had disembarked from a smugglers’ boat, her dream would have been crushed in one of those migrant detention centres that the Albanian government has recently built with Italy. But the boat in question was a multimillion-dollar yacht, and the woman hiking barefoot to the top was Ivanka Trump. Realising the dream merely required summoning the country’s prime minister, Edi Rama, and volunteering her husband, Jared Kushner, and one of his companies to turn a protected wildlife zone into luxury real estate.
The Albanian government insists no deal has been finalised. But nor has it concealed the enthusiasm. Who could blame it? After decades of transition from communism to capitalism, and protracted EU accession negotiations, Albania has lost more than 1.2 million of its citizens to migration. It has low levels of manufacturing, an agricultural sector in dire need of modernisation, and a higher-education sector in crisis since the universities privatisation of the 1990s. With no industrial, financial or human capital to offer on the global market, the only thing left to sell is nature. Even tourism, recently on the rise, has required a concerted government campaign to improve the country’s image.
Sustainable development and environmental protection are easy to call for, but expensive and hard to deliver. Under competitive globalisation, real estate and luxury tourism generate growth faster, even if they increase inequality and deplete natural resources. The models on offer are those that richer countries tried 30 years ago and now regret.
Albanians know that real-estate speculation without state support means ordinary citizens will struggle to buy a flat or pay the rent. They know that luxury tourism means holidays in your own country become a privilege for the few. With no unions to speak of and a labour movement that only appears in communist-era footage of May Day parades, work conditions are so exploitative that only those from countries even more desperate are willing to take the jobs that arise. Albanians simply pack their things and move to other countries, met with abuse and xenophobia. They keep their heads low, knowing that it’s the price to pay for a future for their children.
In May 2025, the ruling Socialist party won elections for the fourth time. At roughly 44%, the turnout was a historic low, despite the extension of the vote to diaspora Albanians for the first time. There was no electoral manifesto, no principled debate with the opposition (whose leader, Sali Berisha, mostly appeared depicted as an owl on government social media). In a country where more than 90% of citizens support European integration, it was enough to paper billboards with photographs of European passports and hammer away with one date: accession by 2030.
This is the other side of European integration: criticism of the government becomes opposition to Europe itself. There is no choice between competing visions of society, only between different managers of the same inevitable trajectory. With politics reduced to technocratic rule, the only lens through which to read political conflict is “corruption”: as though postcommunist societies carried it in the blood, as though the problem were individual transgressions and not the rules themselves.
For many years Albanians accepted this with the same fatalism one accepts a natural disaster. Now, young people are pushing back. The current protests involve a recent law on strategic investments, which entrenches the oligarchic capture of the state. It escalated when heavy machinery moved into a protected coastal wetland and a viral video showed private security guards beating a protester while state police stood by.
A generation taught to think that the only questions are how fast to build infrastructure for tourism, how quickly to integrate into the EU, how efficiently to attract investment, now asks: does it have to be like this? Does democracy have to be the rule of a handful of the super rich?
It is an inspiring example of civic activism that I had not seen since the fall of communism, whose international visibility is no doubt helped by media attention on the Trump family. But why now? The opposition tried in vain for years to mobilise the public against, well, “corruption”. Fires have been lit in parliament and molotov cocktails hurled at government buildings. But, in the case of Kushner, the opposition is at one with the government. Perhaps this is what enabled thousands of young people to flood on to the streets: the certainty that disobedience won’t be captured. It is moving to see them sing, dance, clean the street after the protests and hand flowers to the police. Unlike the old opposition, they are not giving up on the state, but insisting that it belongs to them.
https://apnews.com/article/albania-kushner-trump-development-protest-tourism-sazan-8d7d0e216c28d23fe1b2e51cbb05b926
Why is the US stock market crashing today? S&P 500 erases all gains and wipes out $1.3 trillion in 2 hours as Nasdaq and Dow turn sharply lower – Tech stocks and chip sector collapse
Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/why-is-the-us-stock-market-crashing-today-sp-500-erases-all-gains-and-wipes-out-1-3-trillion-in-2-hours-as-nasdaq-and-dow-turn-sharply-lower-tech-stocks-and-chip-sector-collapse/articleshow/131615964.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst