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Thursday Cartoons: R-E-S-P-E-C-T

The latest exhibition from Hegseth and his buddies is just yet another example of the level of dickhead these assholes fuckwads will stoop to…

wow — CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE … PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-11-11T19:55:34.539Z

That makes me so mad. If anyone has been to this part of Arlington, the area is so solemn. You can’t help but feel sadness. For these idiots to begin laughing like they do in the video is beyond disgusting and so disrespectful.

It is like a cherry turd on a huge sundae of shit that is the Trump administration.

In yet another attempt at intimidation:

The warning is rich, considering how the Trump administration has pushed sham prosecutions against members of Congress who told military and intelligence personnel not to follow illegal orders or who protested against ICE. https://mrf.lu/27Rbv

— The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) 2026-11-12T01:11:24.031Z

The White House is threatening Democrats in Congress, warning them that investigating President Donald Trump could cross the line into criminal action.

Punchbowl News reports that White House counsel Will Scharf sent a letter on Monday to Democratic Representative Robert Garcia, the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, saying that congressional investigations “must further a legitimate executive task; Congress cannot employ them to exercise powers of criminal prosecution assigned to the Executive and the Judiciary.”

Garcia and his fellow Democrats have made “it abundantly clear that any forthcoming investigative processes will be deployed to harass and aggrandize, rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end,” Scharf claims, citing statements by incoming Democrats calling for the prosecution of ICE agents, trials for tech executives, and hearings for Cabinet secretaries like embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The letter is an extreme attempt to intimidate House Democrats into backing off Trump and his legally questionable actions, and it makes a mockery of the constitutional separation of powers, as well as checks and balances between the three branches of government. Scharf is taking a questionable Republican position that effectively says that Congress has no critical oversight over the executive branch.

They have finally called it:

It’s incredible. Black representation in the Senate (7) and in governor’s houses (5) today exceeds all of Reconstruction and the 20th century.

— Theodore R. Johnson (@drtedj.bsky.social) 2026-11-11T22:36:01.514Z

Colom: "For months and months, I've been telling everybody everywhere I go, that we're going to win this election. But every time I said it, I pointed out that people were going to give me too much credit for it. Because it's not something that I did, y'all. It's something that we did."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-11-12T03:22:08.761Z

And one last thing:

Decades of immunization progress is backsliding, a continuing NBC News data investigation reveals, threatening the safety of children in America, burdening schools and hindering public health.Read more: nbcnews.to/4BMNObY

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2026-11-11T00:20:05.680Z

Cartoons via Cagle:

What a mess…this is an open thread.

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  1. dakinikat Avatar

    I am so mad at those Democratic Congress Critters who couldn’t show the fuck up and vote for the impeachment of Hegseth. I mean, really, WTF?

    Democratic lawmakers apologize after absences on Hegseth vote

    Some lawmakers were delayed returning to the Capitol from events, while others were out of town.

    Absent House Democrats and Stated Reasons

    • Julia Brownley (D-Calif.). She told The Washington Post that she and other lawmakers were rushing to the floor, but Speaker Mike Johnson closed the vote before they could arrive.
    • Lou Correa (D-Calif.). He announced in advance that he remained in California for a medical procedure after his doctor advised him not to travel.
    • Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.). She stated on X that she was stuck behind a police escort blocking access to the Capitol when the vote closed.
    • Steven Horsford (D-Nev.). His office stated he missed the vote due to a personal emergency.
    • Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.). He stated on X that a traffic incident and a police-escorted bus delayed his arrival until after the vote closed.
    • Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The former House Speaker was in San Francisco attending a Veterans Day event.
    • Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.). According to Newsweek, her office had not issued a public explanation for her absence by the following morning, though other coverage noted she claimed Republicans closed the vote before she could cast hers.
    • Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.). Her office stated she was blocked from entering the Capitol due to a traffic incident and a police-escorted bus, arriving just after the vote was gaveled out.
    • Haley Stevens (D-Mich.). According to First Coast News, she has not provided a public explanation for missing the vote.
    • Marilyn Strickland (D-Wash.). Her chief of staff told Politico that she was caught behind a motorcade and missed the vote by one minute.
    • Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.). According to First Coast News, she

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