Wednesday Reads: Flynn Splayed
Posted: December 19, 2018 Filed under: morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, U.S. Politics, Wednesday Hump Day Cartoons 15 CommentsWell, yesterday Judge Sullivan kicked Michael Flynn’s ass…it was a beautiful thing.
Take a look at the following links to get caught up if you missed it:
Rachel Maddow 12/18/18 | MSNBCΒ the full episode from last night!
Judge shocks court with harsh rebuke of Flynn; sentencing delayed
Was Michael Flynn Still Working For Turkey While He Worked In The White House? | Crooks and Liars
Flynn sentencing postponed | Suburban Guerrilla. Susie Madrak
HullabalooΒ What the hell is it?Β by Tom Sullivan
What did Flynn Know about Russian ties to Trump and When did he Know it?Β Juan Cole
The Trump Foundation was also forced to shut down yesterday. (Leaving the 900+ bucks left in its accounts to be divided up among charities per the NY Attorney General’s discretion. Via MSNBC)
Corruption allegations force Trump to dissolve charity foundation
And…Chris Cuomo released a letter of intent on the Trump Moscow Tower:
CNN obtains Russia documents signed by Trump
In response to the massive breaks yesterday, the headlines today…especially the last hour, seem to jump out like:
Hey, what do you know?
Trump claims U.S. has defeated ISIS in Syria | Reuters
Trump Admin Reportedly Preparing to Pull Out of Syria
Trump Blasts Off on Twitter as His Charity Dissolves
Anyway, here are your cartoons for the day:
12/19/2018 Cartoon by Joel Pett
12/19/2018 Cartoon by Jimmy Margulies
12/18/2018 Cartoon by Jimmy Margulies
12/18/2018 Cartoon by Jimmy Margulies
Maria Ressa and the Freedom of the Press: 12/19/2018 Cartoon by Angelo Lopez
Images and stories fromΒ Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugshave shocked audiences worldwide, as bodies have stacked up in cities across the country, many of them victims of extrajudicial and vigilante killings.
While the government has hardly been shy about its intention to go after both dealers and users, hard data on the number of killings has often been tough to come by. One indispensable source of information, both for the international media and readers in the Philippines has been the upstart news site Rappler, which is now facing a reckoning with the government it has been a dogged check upon.Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and her companyΒ were formally indicted on multiple counts of tax evasionΒ last week, charges critics say are politically motivated and designed to silence independent media in the southeast Asian country.
12/18/2018 Cartoon by Matt Wuerker
12/18/2018 Cartoon by Steve Artley
12/18/2018 Cartoon by John Cole
12/16/2018 Cartoon by John Cole
12/13/2018 Cartoon by John Cole
Face melt: 12/17/2018 Cartoon by Ed Hall
Melania sees Santa: 12/15/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
Maria Butina guilty: 12/14/2018 Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
12/14/2018 Cartoon by Signe Wilkinson
12/19/2018 Cartoon by Signe Wilkinson
12/19 Mike Luckovich: Flag on the side
This is an open thread.
Wednesday Reads: Bawk, Bawk. Wait, I mean…Gobble, Gobble.
Posted: November 21, 2018 Filed under: morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, U.S. Politics, Wednesday Hump Day Cartoons 40 Comments
And that cartoon above…was drawn before tRump’s statement yesterday:Β Trump signals Saudis won’t face severe punishment for Khashoggi killing | TheHill
Trump refused to blame Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for Khashoggi’s killing even though the CIA has reportedly concluded that the crown prince ordered his assassination.
Too much going on in the news…I’m just going to hit you with the cartoons. For now…
Questions: 11/20/2018 Cartoon by Rob Rogers
Facebook Denial: 11/16/2018 Cartoon by Rob Rogers
Oh, and btw,Β Child bride in South Sudan sold in Facebook auction – CNN
I hate Facebook. (I don’t know, but it took me a couple of times to type out Facebook. I kept typing Fuckbook.)
11/20/2018 Cartoon by Jimmy Margulies
11/20/2018 Cartoon by Jimmy Margulies
Bruce Plante Cartoon: Uncle Sam and Facebook: 11/18/2018 Cartoon by Bruce Plante
Bruce Plante Cartoon: Roy Clark: 11/16/2018 Cartoon by Bruce Plante
Attacking the press: 11/20/2018 Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
11/20/2018 Cartoon by Gary Varvel
Emergency response: 11/14/2018 Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
Clay Bennett editorial cartoon: 11/20/2018 Cartoon by Clay Bennett
Clay Bennett editorial cartoon: 11/18/2018 Cartoon by Clay Bennett
Clay Bennett editorial cartoon: 11/17/2018 Cartoon by Clay Bennett
11/20/2018 Cartoon by Kevin Siers
11/18/2018 Cartoon by Kevin Siers
11/20/2018 Cartoon by Joel Pett
11/20/2018 Cartoon by John Cole
At the BORDER—- caravan??: 11/19/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
MAKING CALLS: 11/18/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
AT the BORDER…… still: 11/18/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
Georgia Governor Race: 11/17/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
11/20/2018 Cartoon by Joe Heller
Rake the Floor: 11/19/2018 Cartoon by Ed Hall
11/20 Mike Luckovich: Slight the troops
11/18 Mike Luckovich: Pussies galore.
11/16 Mike Luckovich: The enemy!
11/15 Mike Luckovich: Still counting
11/16/2018 Cartoon by Joe Heller
Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving…this is an open thread.
Wednesday Reads: Worst Responder
Posted: November 14, 2018 Filed under: morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Republican politics, U.S. Politics, Wednesday Hump Day Cartoons 10 Comments
Worst Responder: 11/13/2018 Cartoon by Rob Rogers
Yeah, I’m just diving in with the cartoons:
Vet friend: 11/13/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
Yup….
California Fires: 11/12/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
Press Caravan: 11/09/2018 Cartoon by Rob Rogers
A Higher Caliber: 11/13/2018 Cartoon by Steve Artley
11/10/2018 Cartoon by Steve Artley
11/09/2018 Cartoon by Steve Artley
Poppy: 11/11/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
Matt “the Gavel” Whitaker: 11/09/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
BIGGEST win: 11/07/2018 Cartoon by Deb Milbrath
Sailing Away: 11/13/2018 Cartoon by Paul Fell
11/11/2018 Cartoon by Signe Wilkinson
11/08 Mike Luckovich: Thatβs an order!
11/09 Mike Luckovich: Sarah Lietome
11/11 Mike Luckovich: Again and again
11/14 Mike Luckovich: Walking wounded
11/13 Mike Luckovich: SuperStan
Oh, there was so many cartoons this week….
I can imagine more will come from the latest crap breaking last evening, or as someone on MSNBC called it, Tuesday night.
As he jetted to Paris last Friday, President Trump received a congratulatory phone call aboard Air Force One. British Prime Minister Theresa May was calling to celebrate the Republican Partyβs wins in the midterm elections β never mind that Democrats seized control of the House β but her appeal to the American presidentβs vanity was met with an ornery outburst.
Trump berated May for Britain not doing enough, in his assessment, to contain Iran. He questioned her over Brexit and complained about the trade deals he sees as unfair with European countries. May has endured Trumpβs churlish temper before, but still her aides were shaken by his especially foul mood, according to U.S. and European officials briefed on the conversation.
For Trump, that testy call set the tone for five days of fury β evident in Trumpβs splenetic tweets and described in interviews with 14senior administration officials, outside Trump confidants and foreign diplomats, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1062562903474298880
Ugh…this is an open thread.
Wednesday Reads: Tank Girl Says It…Dems Got The House
Posted: November 7, 2018 Filed under: 2018 elections, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Congress, corruption, Democratic Politics, Donald Trump, Elections, House of Representatives, legalizaton of drugs, morning reads, open thread, Political and Editorial Cartoons, racism, Republican politics, right wing hate grouups, the GOP, U.S. Politics, Voting Rights, Wednesday Hump Day Cartoons, white nationalists | Tags: Georgia voter suppression, Stacy Abrams 67 CommentsWe can turn this shit around!
Hey, I know…that is a little too positive, coming from someone like me…but even I have to grasp at some rays of hope.Β Yesterday, on my way to practice I took a picture of the sunset. It made me think of the future, in this way:
I said a little prayer, may this setting sun be the last of “tRumpian unaccountability”…and will tomorrow’s morning sun bring hope for our democracy.
That image of Tank Girl, it is morning…she is having tea and putting on her boots…preparing herself for the day’s ass kicking. We can turn this shit around!Β Let’s see what comes from winning the House?
Meanwhile, in Georgia:
As of 8:45 this morning, only 75,386 votes separate Kemp and Abrams…
Brian Kemp’s Lead in Georgia Needs an Asterisk – The Atlantic
The Democrat Stacey Abrams, a black woman, made a valiant effort to win the governorβs race in Georgia, one of the original 13 states, whose commitment to human bondage ensured that the U.S. Constitution would treat slavery with kid gloves. A state that was part of the Confederacy. A state scorched by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War. A state that refused to accept the outcome of that war, treating its black residents as second-class citizensβif thatβuntil the federal government forced its hand, a century later, with the Voting Rights Act. She tried to write a new narrative for this state.
Although Abrams has not yet conceded, citing uncounted ballots, it looks as though the other side has won, and the narrative is the same as ever. Abrams didnβt have to fight just an electoral campaign; she had to fight a civil-rights campaign against the forces of voter suppression.
Indeed, I canβt quite bring myself to say that Abrams βlost,β because thereβs an asterisk next to her Republican opponentβs victory.
Brian Kemp, who billed himself as a βTrump conservative,β refused to step aside as Georgiaβs secretary of state; he ran for governor of a state while overseeing the elections in that state. Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgian with much experience monitoring elections abroad, stressed that this conflict of interest ran βcounter to the most fundamental principle of democratic electionsβthat the electoral process be managed by an independent and impartial election authority.β Kemp had no intention of relinquishing a post he has held since 2010, and often wields as a weapon to cull Georgiaβs electorate. He understood that he would need every trick in the book because he was up against a woman who, in addition to serving as the minority leader of the stateβs House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017, founded a formidable voter-registration organization, the New Georgia Project.[…]Under Kemp, Georgia purged more than 1.5 million voters from the rolls, eliminating 10.6 percent of voters from the stateβs registered electorate from 2016 to 2018 alone. The state shut down 214 polling places, the bulk of them in minority and poor neighborhoods. From 2013 to 2016 it blocked the registration of nearly 35,000 Georgians, including newly naturalized citizens. Georgia accomplished this feat of disfranchisement based on a screening process called βexact match,β meaning the state accepted new registrations only if they matched the information in state databases precisely, including hyphens in names, accents, and even typos.[…]Days before the deadline to register for the November election, the Associated Press reported that Kemp had put 53,000 applicants on hold due to exact-match problems. An analysis of Kempβs records found that 70 percent of those applicants were black. (Georgia is roughly 32 percent black.) Separately, the Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union found that some 700 absentee-ballot applications and almost 200 absentee ballots were rejected by county officials due to a law mandating that the signatures on absentee applications and ballots visually match the signatures on file. Thus, poor penmanship was added to the list of crimes that can lead to disenfranchisement in Georgia.[…] In the end, it looks like Kemp won. Itβs impossible to know if his attempts to restrict the franchise are what pushed him over the line. But if the Georgia race had taken place in another countryβsay, the Republic of GeorgiaβU.S. media and the U.S. State Department would not have hesitated to question its legitimacy, if for no other reason than Kempβs dual roles as candidate and election overseer. Of course, thereΒ wereΒ other reasons. As of this morning, he led by aboutΒ 75,000 votes; more thanΒ 85,000 registrationsΒ were canceled through August 1 of this year alone.
Stacy Abrams is vowing not to concede until all votes are counted. I think she should demand a recount…as well.
https://twitter.com/FredTJoseph/status/1060161036567957504
https://twitter.com/FridaGhitis/status/1060159265686601730
This is a good thread to round up the tRump effect:
From down along this thread:
Other observations:
This piece of shit is gone:
https://twitter.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1060167975150460928
And…
On that note, here are a few cartoons:
Blue Shadow: 11/07/2018 Cartoon by Steve Artley
I think Boston Boomer had this in one of her post, but it is so good I have to repeat it:
Election Sticker: 11/07/2018 Cartoon by Rob Rogers
11/06/2018 Cartoon by Signe Wilkinson
I wonder what the rest of today will bring?
See you in the comments…this is an open thread.
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