Sunday Reads: Mastodon Migration
Posted: November 6, 2022 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: 2022 Elections, corporate greed, Elon Musk, Free Press, Free Speech, hate crimes, morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, right wing hate grouups, social media, the GOP, the internet, Twitter, U.S. Politics, White Christian Nationalism, white nationalists | 40 Comments
Cartoons first…via Cagle:













































A few more things…







As for Mastodon…

I’ve sign up with mastodon and it seems cool so far…
Follow me on Mastadon: https://t.co/arKVhOqKsB The Great #TwitterMigration
— Minkoff Minx (@MinkoffMinx) November 5, 2022
If you would like to give it a try: https://mstdn.social/invite/diPNC9x2
And if you want to follow your Twitter people just use this tool: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ or https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/
Journalist are signing up…you can find them some of them here: https://journa.host/explore
You use the same hashtags as you do on Twitter. If you sign up with the link I have shared, there is moderation on that server…
If you want to cross post from twitter to Mastodon: https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/

For more information on Mastodon: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
THIS IS FUCKING DELICIOUS https://t.co/OfTRLRy5c5
— first of all, bitch, … (@thejournalista) November 4, 2022
it's funny how nobody is talking about going to Facebook even as a joke
— blaine capatch (@blainecapatch) November 5, 2022
Maybe “Dear newly jobless person who trusted me, I shouldn’t have hired you.” isn’t really the message to send right now.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 5, 2022
My lord, you are an insufferable penis.
I’m going to call it the asshole badge. https://t.co/TiLWtJGhQW
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 6, 2022
Just a reminder that $8 a month is more than trillion-dollar Tesla paid in taxes some years.
— Vote now, if you can (@LOLGOP) November 5, 2022
Meanwhile, in a town not far from Banjoville:
How Pickens County, Ga. election skeptics lost fight to make ballots open records – The Washington Post https://t.co/qcywDNBODN
— Minkoff Minx (@MinkoffMinx) November 4, 2022
Make a plan to cast your ballot: https://t.co/Hy8C4mJiSk. pic.twitter.com/apHZVLhHah
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 3, 2022
Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune @Patbagley pic.twitter.com/iZX5a6bU2J
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) October 31, 2022
I continue to be amazed at the number of gobsmackingly stupid people there are in America … and how astoundingly easy it is to take full control of them! They give up free will seemingly without a struggle. @Patbagley pictured this so well.#ChristoFascism https://t.co/gy11WnG8MJ pic.twitter.com/G99B3zBvtR
— John Moffitt 🌊🌊🧢🧢 (@JohnRMoffitt) October 31, 2022
"Storm the ballots like they stormed the Capitol." #cartoon by @Patbagley pic.twitter.com/a8ujd7LCFj
— Jürgen "jkr" Kraus (@jkr_on_the_web) November 1, 2022
It's not just Exxon profits … it's corporate profits in general … protected extensively by Republicans! After you get past all the misogyny, exhaustive lying, cruelty, treason, corruption, perversion and hypocrisy … the Republican Party is ALL ABOUT corporate profits! https://t.co/TD2egygxDK pic.twitter.com/WW2GXk60wH
— John Moffitt 🌊🌊🧢🧢 (@JohnRMoffitt) October 30, 2022
Or rather pic.twitter.com/LdGXUqYRgn
— Edgeoforever 🖖 🗳 (@edgeoforever) November 1, 2022
Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune @Patbagley pic.twitter.com/iKqUMZWl0m
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) November 1, 2022
https://t.co/2FqirRklxz pic.twitter.com/vvGi56m4QM
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) November 4, 2022
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) November 2, 2022
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) November 4, 2022
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) November 3, 2022
So if you go to Mastodon…I will see you there.
This is an open thread.
Wednesday Reads: Dog Lips
Posted: October 5, 2022 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: 2022 Elections, abortion rights, Abusive Relationships, child sexual abuse, children, court rulings, Crimes against Children, Discrimination against women, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, ethics, Injustice system, January 6, Judge Shopping, morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Rights, Republican politics, Russia, SCOTUS, social media, The Big Lie, the GOP, Treason and Sedition Republican Style, Trump Documents Scandal, Violence against women | Tags: Clarence Thomas, Herschel Walker, Ohio, Twitter | 12 Comments
Morning all…I forgot it was my turn to post the thread…so this is going to be a quickie.
Cartoons from Cagle:


























Asteroid struck by Nasa probe leaves 10,000km trail – BBC News https://t.co/apkaH8arpL
— JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx (@jjlopezlat) October 5, 2022















So since the Christian right considers abortion murder then it's ok to murder Herschel's baby as along as the GOP wins the Senate? https://t.co/Uc47gQDXFE
— Agolf Twitler Slayer (@bblock29) October 5, 2022
The good news is we can finally drop the BS pretense that the abortion fight was ever about babies. It was always about power & the right’s loathing of liberated women (who they view as “skanks”-Loesch’s word) for refusing to do their patriotic duty in the kitchen & the stirrups. https://t.co/HCLCsUH1tZ
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) October 5, 2022
And sadly, a lot of women and some people of color will help them, even if they get nothing in return, besides some coins here and there and the knowledge that they helped to cripple the ascendancy of some other feared group. The cruelty really is the point.
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) October 5, 2022
A disturbing story from the @AP reports Paxton's failure in managing sex trafficking cases and even a donor-turned-staffer who showed child pornography in a meeting.
— Rochelle Garza (@RochelleMGarza) October 4, 2022
I'm calling on the Texas Rangers to investigate Ken Paxton's mismanagement of the AG's Office. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/H01UvpHREo
Oopsies! https://t.co/nbTWwuMrW5
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) October 5, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk averts trial, agrees to $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) October 4, 2022
The Mar-a-Lago case arrives at the Supreme Court. Here's an explainer on today's filing from @katieleebarlow, who notes that this isn't the first time Trump has asked the justices to intervene in fights over sensitive documents. (Both other times, the court ruled against him.) https://t.co/MqCOSXCKIq
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) October 4, 2022
And here's @AHoweBlogger's story on what Trump is asking for from the justices: https://t.co/DKn1yLPfxL
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) October 4, 2022
Clarence Thomas gives DOJ til next Tues at 5 to respond to Trump’s motion to bar them from accessing the classified docs
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) October 4, 2022
Thomas should’ve recused himself since Ginni was a Jan 6 insurrectionist & is still pushing the Big Lie
You can always count on Thomas to do the wrong thing
5 days ago: Ginni Thomas repeats the Big Lie to the Jan 6 panel
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) October 5, 2022
3 days ago: Trump praises Ginni for her loyalty, at his Klan rally
Today: Trump asks Clarence Thomas & Supreme Court to bar DOJ from accessing classified docs
Nothing to see here. Just our judiciary going to shit
The fact that an actual Supreme Court Justice (Clarence Thomas) would even consider this Trump nonsense Application to Vacate the 11th Circuit’s Stay and demand a response from the DOJ is yet another scar on this Supreme Court, regardless of what the outcome ultimately is.
— Ben Meiselas (@meiselasb) October 4, 2022
Mike Huckabee’s son killed a dog. Sarah Palin’s son stood on one. Tomi Lahren kicked hers. Mitt Romney drove with his on the roof of his car. Ted Cruz abandoned his. Dr. Oz’s “experiments” killed hundreds. I’m not saying all Republicans are dog-hating monsters or anything, but…
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) October 3, 2022
Dog Gone.#DrOz #Puppies pic.twitter.com/H9BZCBcCns
— Pia Guerra (@PiaGuerra) October 3, 2022
From a few months ago. pic.twitter.com/XBGQL1U8tZ
— John (repeat1968) Buss (@repeat1968) October 4, 2022
Anyone remember the Howard’s Handjob episode of Big Bang Theory?#ElonMusk #Wanker pic.twitter.com/7L634p4lWe
— John (repeat1968) Buss (@repeat1968) October 4, 2022
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) October 3, 2022
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) October 4, 2022
This is an open thread.
Wednesday Reads: A gift to someone.
Posted: April 27, 2022 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: Afternoon Reads, corruption, Elon Musk, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, social media | 16 Comments
Good afternoon, running late today…I forgot it was Wednesday. So that cartoon above by Pat Bagley is just about perfect…as are several of the other cartoons below from the Cagle website:























































— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) April 25, 2022
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) April 26, 2022
— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) April 27, 2022
My latest cartoon. #twittersold #ElonMusk #ElonMuskBuyTwitter pic.twitter.com/YEaT4wXbue
— Randy Bish (@Bishtoons) April 25, 2022
— Michael L. Martin (@mmandmm1967) April 26, 2022
— Mike Peters (@mikebpeters) April 25, 2022
New Toy.#ElonMusk pic.twitter.com/QsuVJXqNWt
— Pia Guerra (@PiaGuerra) April 26, 2022
Fighting Oppression#ElonMuskBuysTwitter #44Billion #Ukraine #twittersold #socialmedia #FreeSpeech #FreeUkraine @IndianaJournos @EandPCartoons @NatPress pic.twitter.com/r3MnbTOg0i
— Tim Campbell (@tc2oons) April 26, 2022
Tuesday’s @EveningStandard @standardnews #TwitterTakeover #twittersold #Twitter #ElonMusk #ElonMuskBuysTwitter #ElonMuskTwitter @elonmusk #cartoon pic.twitter.com/xzZDiwtQmX
— Christian Adams (@Adamstoon1) April 26, 2022
@cohencidents #ivealwayshadcontempt pic.twitter.com/H2PDvx1f6x
— David Cohen (@cohencidents) April 25, 2022
Michael de Adder, The Washington Post @deAdder #ElonMusk #twittertakeover pic.twitter.com/dXmSqFobwK
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 26, 2022
Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star Tribune @ThatSteveSack #StartTheSteal pic.twitter.com/KZYDNAIHT8
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 26, 2022
Paresh Nath, https://t.co/mCDBfqTnQr #ElonMusk #twittertakeover pic.twitter.com/uFi9nouqTx
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 26, 2022
What Elon Musk will do with Twitter – © Chappatte in Le Temps, Geneva > https://t.co/3QhBhiweJT pic.twitter.com/jEpYFlRxOT
— Chappatte Cartoons (@PatChappatte) April 26, 2022
Behold, your new God-King: pic.twitter.com/aFzXhKCrAi
— Bob Moran (@bobscartoons) April 26, 2022
Steve Breen, The San Diego Union-Tribune @sdutBreen pic.twitter.com/9pgJMbixZI
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 26, 2022
Michael Ramirez,The Las Vegas Review-Journal @Ramireztoons #ElonMusk #TwitterTakeover pic.twitter.com/6BZGx9WS2N
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 27, 2022
Please enjoy my #twittersold cartoon for Wednesday's @TorontoStar pic.twitter.com/HFHGLhvXZh
— Theo Moudakis (@TheoMoudakis) April 26, 2022
https://t.co/p0Xf0ULgKQ pic.twitter.com/odv2bF8TJa
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) April 22, 2022
Clay Bennett, The Chattanooga Times Free Press @BennettCartoons #TuckerCarlson pic.twitter.com/EKTC0HrEQl
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 27, 2022
Jon Richards #7HourGap pic.twitter.com/ZiuFtzRWiS
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 27, 2022
Adam Zyglis @adamzyglis #TuckerCarlsonRussianAsset pic.twitter.com/lNZ9MNk4ro
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 27, 2022
Dave Whamond @DaveWhamond #TuckerCarlsonRussianAsset #IngrahamAngle pic.twitter.com/i6Z1Mf99pO
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 27, 2022
Michael de Adder, The Washington Post @deAdder pic.twitter.com/Fx6QUadFvK
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 27, 2022
David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Daily Star @DWFitzsimmons #TuckerCarlsonRussianAsset pic.twitter.com/u7XzxEkhR0
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 27, 2022
My cartoon @TheTimes Wednesday. Be afraid, be very afraid… #DonaldTrump might run again. And be back on #Twitter if #Musk buys it. pic.twitter.com/eQ6ogTcfnB
— Peter Brookes (@BrookesTimes) April 27, 2022
Back to our regular programming.#PerjuryTraitorGreene pic.twitter.com/pJgyP8kspu
— John (repeat1968) Buss (@repeat1968) April 26, 2022
*Matt of course will still be wearing a bullet proof vest like he did to her court appearance.
— NoelCaslerComedy (@caslernoel) April 26, 2022
The wait is over @caslernoel #HumpDay pic.twitter.com/IyLIaYqYnf
— John (repeat1968) Buss (@repeat1968) April 27, 2022
#ElonMusk #TwitterTakeover pic.twitter.com/iB95UmZyrb
— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) April 26, 2022




So if you are in Georgia…please get out the vote for Warnock in the primaries!
Now, I’ve been on Twitter since 2008..and that is a lot of years of me posting personal comments and statements.

I don’t think I want those things I say in the hands of some asshole dickwad tRump loving fuckhead who decided to takeover Twitter. So I am asking you to please follow my new Twitter account.

Here is a link:
Now that Elon Musk has taken over Twitter…I will have to start to use my backup account @PeggyDickover so if you would like to follow me…please follow me at: @PeggyDickover
— JJ Lopez (@MinkoffMinx) April 27, 2022
This is the backup to my main Twitter account …since that twat #ElonMusk had his #TwitterTakeover I am going to be using this as my primary account. It does not have any personal information…
— PeggyDickover (@PeggyDickover) April 27, 2022
I originally had this album cover as my @PeggyDickover Twitter header…but I thought it may be pushing things too far:

Who knows, maybe I will change it back again once the Musk takeover is complete. Why the fuck not? This is an open thread.
Monday Reads: Darwin Award Issue
Posted: November 8, 2021 | Author: dakinikat | Filed under: Afternoon Reads, COVID19, Right Wing Angst, social media, The Insurrection Fallout | 12 Comments
Masks, 1911, Emil Nolde
Good Afternoon Sky Dancers!
The state of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans opened up right before Halloween dropping some of the mask mandates. I’m not sure how smart of an idea that was given that we’ve seen the same pattern of plague rat invasion as tourists come back to the city from places where vaccine adoption is low. The 4th of July comes to mind. However, we did have good numbers, and I’m now starting the countdown to Thanksgiving to see if we surge again. I’m still masking and staying my fat ass home mostly. I’ve come to enjoy having things delivered. Halloween should have been a big party with best mask awards.
So, anyway, today’s New York Times and David Leonhardt have some startling–but not surprising–statistics to report. “U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder. The partisan gap in Covid’s death toll has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.” This is essentially why I worry when we just invite the surrounding parishes and states to let their people out of the state to aim a deadly cough at anyone. The differences in death rates between this year and last are astounding.
Then the vaccines arrived.
They proved so powerful, and the partisan attitudes toward them so different, that a gap in Covid’s death toll quickly emerged. I have covered that gap in two newsletters — one this summer, one last month — and today’s newsletter offers an update.
The brief version: The gap in Covid’s death toll between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.
In October, 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump counties died from Covid, more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Biden counties (7.8 per 100,000). October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the death rates in Trump counties and Biden counties widened.
Some conservative writers have tried to claim that the gap may stem from regional differences in weather or age, but those arguments fall apart under scrutiny. (If weather or age were a major reason, the pattern would have begun to appear last year.) The true explanation is straightforward: The vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing severe Covid, and almost 40 percent of Republican adults remain unvaccinated, compared with about 10 percent of Democratic adults.
And while we’re on the subject, how can you possibly get triggered by Big Bird?
Big Bird got 'vaccinated' against COVID-19, drawing outrage from Republicans https://t.co/dYpGn8whGB
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) November 8, 2021

Jackson Pollock, Mask,
1941
Plague rats indeed. Red is Dead. Meanwhile, the worst of them are triggered by Big Bird talking to kids about his vaccine. There’s a lot of a pearl-clutching about doing mass vaccinations in schools while many of us are old enough to have stood in line for a lot of those in the 1950s and 1960s. Many Republicans are acting like that never happened.
So, if they think public health actions are a governmental overreach, why are they down with authoritarianism? Is it because it wears a white face? This is from The Bulwark. ” Notes on an Authoritarian Conspiracy: Inside the Claremont Institute’s “79 Days to Inauguration” Report. Claremont’s post-election war game provides a window into the group’s ambitions.”
John Eastman has a prominent place in all of this along with all the white nationalist domestic terrorists. It’s a tough read but a necessary one.
My latest for @BulwarkOnline, on the Claremont Institute and Texas Public Policy Foundation's pre-2020 election wargame that turned cops into pro-Trump foot-soldiers… with help from the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three Percenters.https://t.co/LUptFuyKvy
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) November 8, 2021
The sun rises on January 6, 2021 while a nation is in crisis.
Michigan’s presidential electors are in dispute after a mysterious fire in Detroit destroyed thousands of mail-in ballots, ultimately throwing the election to Congress.
The nation’s capital is overwhelmed by riots organized by left-wing radicals.
A Republican member of Congress is attacked and critically injured in the violence, potentially depriving Donald Trump of the decisive vote.
However, the representative heroically insists on being taken to the House floor. “With IVs and blood transfusions being administered, the member casts the deciding vote, giving Trump 26 state delegations and the needed majority.”
This is the grisly climax of a report published in mid-October 2020 by the Claremont Institute and Texas Public Policy Foundation’s (TPPF) called “79 Days to Inauguration,” prepared by “Constitutional scholars, along with experts in election law, foreign affairs, law enforcement, and media . . . coordinated by a retired military officer experienced in running hundreds of wargames.”
Among these luminaries were figures such as John Eastman—lawyer for Donald Trump and author of a memo advising Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally block certification of Joe Biden’s win in order to buy time for GOP-controlled state legislatures to send competing slates of electors—and K.T. McFarland, who served as deputy national security advisor under Michael Flynn in the Trump White House.
Other participants include Kevin Roberts, then-executive director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (soon to be head of the Heritage Foundation), Jeff Giesea, “a [Peter] Thiel protégé and secret funder of alt-right causes,” and Charles Haywood, a fringe blogger who anxiously awaits an American “Caesar, authoritarian reconstructor of our institutions.”

Masks, 1925′ James Ensor
The MSM needs to be screaming a lot louder about this than talking about sausage-making behind any policy. Leave the latter worry to Nancy, Chuck, Kamala, and Joe. More from that Bulwark article:
Remember, this narrative is the result of a role-playing exercise in which the participants imagined themselves as key decision-makers in the federal government. The actions described, therefore, might be best understood as a combination of group therapy and suggestions for how they believe the federal government and law enforcement should behave in a moment of constitutional crisis.
Some of the report is revealing. Some of it is sad. Some of it is darkly funny. For instance, the authors’ recommendation for mass, politically motivated arrests “to remove the players from the picture” sits oddly next to the right’s outraged reaction to the prosecution of Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
There’s more irony in how the task force imagines right-wing gangs would operate during such a period: with quiet discipline and in cooperation with law enforcement.
A lack of social media activity and overt action by the rioting by members of the Proud Boys draws the attention of law enforcement officials suspecting they may be operating covertly on the ground in several major urban rioting areas, but their exact involvement is unknown. Reports of militias moving into suburban areas is being monitored. Several groups affiliated with the Three Percenters and Oath Keepers have openly offered to assist law enforcement in putting down the violence via social media, touting significant current and retired law enforcement and military membership.
Which is . . . not how the Trumpist forces behaved during the actual crisis:
Go read it and try to open a few eyes around you by sharing it. Then see who they really are when you read this.
Capitol rioter Evan Neumann applies for asylum in Belarus, says local media https://t.co/utU9K6eXM1
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 8, 2021
A man who allegedly participated in the Capitol riot Jan. 6 and is wanted by the FBI is now seeking asylum in Belarus, the country’s state media reported Monday, presenting him as a “simple American whose shops were burned by Black Lives Matter activists.”
Evan Neumann, who appears to have sat down for an interview with Belarusian state television in a segment titled “Goodbye, America,” is wanted in the United States on charges of violent entry and disorderly conduct on the Capitol grounds, as well as for assaulting, resisting and obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder.
Both Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his close ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin, have frequently referenced the Capitol riot, calling the prosecution of those involved an example of “double standards” by the United States because it frequently criticizes crackdowns on anti-government protests abroad.
When mass protests broke out across Belarus last year over its presidential election, which the international community has widely denounced as rigged, thousands of demonstrators were brutally beaten by police and arrested. Many said they were tortured in prison.
But Neumann could be welcomed in Belarus as part of the regime’s anti-Western propaganda efforts. Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, has said the United States stoked last year’s opposition movement to unseat him.
Tim O’Connor, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Belarus, which is based in Vilnius, Lithuania, said in a statement that the embassy has “seen Belarusian state media reporting about Mr. Neumann. Due to U.S. privacy laws, we are limited in what we can say about individual U.S. citizens.”
“The United States is a country where the rule of law is respected and where government is transparent and accountable for its actions,” O’Connor added. “Every citizen can count on an impartial and objective court system. There has not been a single case of transparent, accountable investigation into and prosecution of the actions of Belarusian police that resulted in deaths, systemic torture and the continued repression of Belarusian citizens, of whom over 800 remain in jail for peaceful protest against the regime.”

Death and the Masks, 1897, James Ensor
Maybe Belarus could take all the Trumps and the Trumperz in and deal with them. That way we’d have a lot fewer problems. NBC reports on a poll that shows deep partisan differences in social media usage. Well, if they all went to Belarus they wouldn’t have to worry about social media at all.
Our most recent NBC News poll asked respondents about their social media consumption, and the results told a clear story that doesn’t require 280 characters.
Twitter isn’t real life — at least when it comes to party identification and political attitudes.
In the poll, 69 percent of adults say they have an account on Facebook, 28 percent say they use Twitter, 27 percent use TikTok and 27 percent don’t have an account on any of these social media platforms.
And those who use Twitter and TikTok are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans; are more likely to be Democrats who supported Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren than Joe Biden during the 2020 Democratic primary season; and are — not surprisingly — more likely to be younger than the general population.
That figures. Most people I know on Twitter use it to find breaking news. I don’t really look for news on Facebook other than that related to my friends’ cats, dogs, bunnies, and grandchildren.
So, I’ll leave all this to you to discuss. Are you still masking everywhere? I walk Temple sans mask but I don’t go near people without one in a building if I go at all. Like I said, I’m beginning to enjoy front door service.
What’s on your news and reading list today?
Wednesday Reads: Screw those virtual hugs.
Posted: January 2, 2019 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, social media, Trump, U.S. Politics, Wednesday Hump Day Cartoons | 28 Comments
Take your virtual hugs and fuck off….
I think that social media is turning everyone into anti-social assholes.
I went to a Christmas party this holiday season…it was a small party, when I got there I gave the people hugs. Why? Well…because it was fucking Christmas…and because I am an affectionate person and…being Latin, it is part of our DNA…you hug people you care about, especially if it is a fucking Christmas party.
Dammit, I could feel the animosity…
It seems as if the Facebook society has given people the excuse to become pseudo-Zuckerburgs. By that, I mean…adopting an emotionally inept attitude, lacking any sentimental bonds or real human connection that is not some kind of fake fucking virtual “like” or “love” emoji. In other words, behaving like a robotic asshole.
It is all bullshit….so damn sick of those “No Touch” memes:
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Welcome to a world where the only acceptable hug…is the virtual one you get over the fucking social network.
Here is my reply, via emoji:
#🖕🏻🖕🏼🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿
Sorry for the rant…
Now the cartoons:
2019..fingers crossed: 01/01/2019 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
The hangover: 01/01/2019 Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
12/30 Mike Luckovich: Happy New Year
01/01/2019 Cartoon by Charlie Daniel
Clay Bennett editorial cartoon: 01/01/2019 Cartoon by Clay Bennett
New Year Baby: 12/31/2018 Cartoon by Paul Fell
01/01/2019 Cartoon by MStreeter
Bruce Plante Cartoon: Happy New Year?: 01/01/2019 Cartoon by Bruce Plante
2019 eve: 12/31/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
WINDFALL: 12/30/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
And with that…I turn it over to you.
This is an open thread.
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