And you know the fucking sheep will elect another retarded Republican soon enough & you'll be screwed again. (Hope it's not too soon; & that I won't be here when it does happen.)He [Trump] believed it because conservatives believe stupid, simplistic things about how the capitalist economy works. They believe that if you just let the free market do its thing, wonders will arise and all will be well. They believe this first and foremost because their big-money donors tell them to believe it. But they also believe it because the economists—or more precisely, the economists they prefer to listen to—say so, and they must know what they’re talking about.
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But longer term, the Democrats need to do much more. It would be great if they nominated a presidential candidate in 2028 who had the guts and the rhetorical skill to indict not just Trump but conservatism and traditional economics more generally. It’s not an accident that the last three (now four) GOP presidents have wrecked the economy: Bush, Bush, Trump, and Trump. It’s not a coincidence that the last five recessions, and seven of the last eight, going all the way back to Richard Nixon, have hit during Republican presidencies. Republicans screw up the economy, and they screw it up because they believe in economic fairy tales that fit on a bumper sticker and sound plausible to most people but that ignore the world’s deep complexity and irrationality, and the constancy of the reality that no one, not even a president of the United States, has perfect information.
Monday, September 14, 2026
The G.O.P.: Ignorant Fools
Why you're broke & in debt (and why you deserve to be if you vote Republican):
So Much For Free Speech: "The Joos"
& The NFL Do Control The Media!
None Dare Call It Genocide
Note that everything is reduced to a "Stunt", "Unhinged Anti-Israel Tirades", "anti-Israel rants", "Washed-Up Rapper Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Pro-Islamic Terrorist Rant", "Anti-Israel, Anti-ICE Rant", yada. Apparently Macklemore couldn't possibly be sincere. Screw alla these fake news dilrods & prostitute-user Bob Kraft, each one of whom is a lying sack of crap.Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone:
Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage ‘Free Palestine’ Statements — “We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup,” promoter says
Herb Scribner / Axios: Macklemore pulled from Ed Sheeran's tour over “Free Palestine” outcryTeri Christoph / RedState: Macklemore Gets Brutal Reality Check After ‘Free Palestine’ Stunt Blows Up in His FaceWarner Todd Huston / Breitbart: Macklemore Dropped from Ed Sheeran Tour After Unhinged Anti-Israel TiradesEllie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic: NFL Owners Conspire to Get Macklemore Booted From Ed Sheeran's TourLeena Nasir / The Daily Caller: Macklemore Ousted From Ed Sheeran's Tour After Alleged Pressure Campaign From Pro-Israel Robert KraftEthan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter: Macklemore Responds After Removal From Ed Sheeran Tour: “The Victims Are the Palestinian People”Patrick Reilly / New York Post: Macklemore yanked off Ed Sheeran's tour after anti-Israel rants anger venuesAmanda Harding / The Daily Wire: Washed-Up Rapper Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Pro-Islamic Terrorist RantDaniel Welsh / HuffPost: Macklemore Dropped As Ed Sheeran's Opening Act After Pro-Palestine Comments On StageAhmad Austin Jr / Mediaite: Macklemore Breaks Silence After Being Removed from Ed Sheeran's Tour — Claims New England Patriots Owner Threatened to Bar Sheeran from StadiumMargaret Flavin / The Gateway Pundit: Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour Following Anti-Israel, Anti-ICE Rant
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Sunday Supercut
I know Lindsay Graham is dead, but where'd all the others go?Every one of these lying bitches & sons-of-bitches will tell you to your face that they are big Xians, even as they ignore every one of the Ten Commandments.
Don't qualify as Xians or Mohammadeans.
Friday The Thirteenth, Two Days Late
Worst-Case Scenario
In The New Republic, retired Federal Judge Michael Luttig clearly illustrates the possibility of "Moses" Johnson & House Republicans not seating elected Democrats come January.What? The "Dep't. of War" can't defend us w/o Congress?Judicial review of the House’s decision not to seat Democratic representatives-elect in the 120th Congress would take weeks, if not months, during which time the United States would be in the throes of a paralyzing constitutional crisis, helplessly vulnerable to all the world’s evil, as it would have been in January 2021 had Mike Pence not thwarted Donald Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.It is not difficult to imagine the many possibilities, some of the most critical being entirely realistic. It would be the ideal moment for China to move against Taiwan, by way of military blockade, attack, or even invasion. It would be the perfect moment for Vladimir Putin to complete his conquest of Ukraine, and perhaps even to move militarily against Estonia. Every passing day could bring a deepening economic crisis, worsened by our angry allies around the world who would welcome the opportunity to requite Donald Trump for his belittling mockery of their countries and presidents. Without the Congress, the United States would be powerless to respond to any of these crises.
"Wish in one hand, crap in the other. See which piles up first."I don’t intend to be overly sanguine about this Supreme Court. This is the court that shattered the one constitutional truth in the U.S. since 1789 that “no man is above the law” and placed Donald Trump of all presidents above the law in Trump v. United States. This is the court that betrayed the Constitution by refusing even to decide whether Trump was disqualified from the presidency under the Fourteenth Amendment because of his insurrection against the Constitution, which he clearly was. This is also the court that has cynically authorized Trump’s lawlessness for the past two years through its aptly named “shadow docket,” without so much as briefing, argument, or written opinion.But surely by now this court must understand what it has wrought for the U.S. and the Constitution, and is aghast as we all are, even if it is not penitent. Surely, surely, it will understand the signal moment in American constitutional history that would be presented, and this time understand its supreme obligation to the nation.
& brought it to our attention. Hizzoner summarized himself as well.As if to illustrate Luttig’s warning, House speaker Johnson told attendees at Trump’s convention in Dallas on Thursday: “We cannot and will not allow them to take the majority in the Congress. We’re not gonna do it.”
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Gentrificaton Is Genocide
Killing for Moses, the Kushners & Trump's other slumlord buddies. Proud of yourselves? (Apparently no one was killed in this example, just shot in the leg.)
Some resist.Just not Americans or Israelis.
Actually, Should Read
"Twice-Convicted Sex Offender"
Kee-rist on a kee-rutch, how many times do I have to embed a version of "Hypocrites" here? Haven't heard this one.
[The AP]
Rapists under color of authority, yet.Convicted sex offender offered opening prayer at rally for GOP Senate nominee in North Carolina
A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement.”The prayer was hardly unusual by North Carolina political standards. What was surprising was the man who delivered it. Pastor Daimon L. King is a registered sex offender, twice sentenced to prison for convictions involving children, according to state and court records.
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Some 30 years ago, King was a marching band assistant at a high school outside Raleigh when he was charged with statutory rape and indecent liberties with a 15-year-old student, The News & Observer reported at the time. King, then 31, was convicted in 1998 and served nearly five years in prison before being paroled, according to state department of corrections records.
In 2010, he pleaded guilty to having sex with an underage female relative and served close to three years in prison, state records show.
King is required under North Carolina law to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
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Democrats have blasted Whatley over association with another convicted sex offender
Since March, Whatley has been dogged over his ties to West, who served as a congressional district committee chair in the state GOP when Whatley was chairman.
West, a former small-town police officer, was convicted of five counts of indecent liberties with a child and served six years in prison, corrections records show.
Friday, September 11, 2026
Exhaustion & Enervation
It's not the heat, it's the existential agony. But let's be honest: There is sweet-fuck-all in your miserable world of shit & pain for which it's worth staying awake.
Get Over It Already!
No Phony Patriotism Here
Many other cartoonists' first cartoon was of a weeping Statue of Liberty. As one of the few who lived in Manhattan on 9/11, this was mine.
As if the oilagarchy would have put up w/ that for even a minute.The basic American policy response to 9/11 should have been to liberate ourselves from fossil fuels. Without our dependence on oil, we would never have been entangled in the Middle East in the first place. Most of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis, citizens of an oil kingdom that we helped to build, our “ally.” The right reaction in September 2001 -- as I wrote to a friend in the White House -- was to fund fusion and other clean energy sources. Had we done so, we could have headed off global warming, prevented further Middle East wars -- and indeed prevented the rise of Vladimir Putin’s hydrocarbon oligarchy and his invasions of Ukraine.Today we face the reality of rising oceans, vast fires, and resource conflicts. We were given a chance to halt all of that.
But we did not take it. George W. Bush became president of the United States, despite probably losing an election to Al Gore, after the Supreme Court stopped the counting of ballots in Florida. Gore was an environmentalist who cared deeply about global warming. Had 9/11 happened during a Gore presidency, he would have intensified the search for safe energy. Gore was also a more experienced and competent person than Bush, who came from a political oil family and had done nothing notable himself. Had Gore been president, 9/11 might well not have happened. But it did happen, on the watch of the inexperienced oilman. Bush’s White House was never going to link the terror attack to its basic causes.
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Please Nominate This White Nationalist Hillbilly!
More Nazi hick tools of the billionaires in office!!
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Suuure He Will
No one who wouldn't be voting Republican anyway believes a word of this. Getting a bit desperate there, fellers?Ashley Ahn / Politico:
Trump pledges a $5,000 ‘dividend’ to all US adults if the GOP wins the midterms — President Donald Trump has pledged to send $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms, a payout that would dwarf the amount distributed during the Covid pandemic and likely explode the deficit.
Matt Dixon / NBC News: 'I'm on the ballot': Trump tries to energize his base by placing himself front and centerDamian Paletta / Wall Street Journal: Trump's $5,000 ‘Dividend’ Promise Is His Biggest Election Gambit Yet
Republicans Vs. Modernity
Mental Illness On Parade
Delusional paranoids, sex criminals, & racist pigs, every last one. It's long past time to commit them to the asylums & throw away the keys.Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century
We read the legislation introduced across all 50 states this session and pulled out the worst of it. 1,182 bills, 48 states, everything from abortion bounties to studying chemtrails to a proposal to legalize cockfighting against robots.
Abortion bounties, brass knuckles, chemtrail studies and a bill to bring back the gas chamber. All of it introduced this session.
Republicans are trying to make a case at their convention in Dallas this week that they’re responsible stewards of the government, while their opponents are extremist ideologues. However, a review of legislation introduced across all 50 states indicates that they are the ones with an extremism problem. From banning no fault divorce to studying chemtrails, the Republican Party has gone off the rails.
Please, Please, Please, Please!
At Last, Some Good News!!
Axios:
Anthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans — Three Anthropic researchers went public last night with chilling concerns about out-of-control AI, warning it could destroy humans this decade. — Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon wrote on X, after resigning Tuesday to sound the alarm
Mark Keierleber / Straight Arrow: ‘AI could kill all humans!’ Anthropic researcher claims 10% chance of a dystopian sci-fi future in the next decade
Troy Matthews / MeidasTouch: Jon Husted, ‘The Face of Data Centers,’ Pushed to Replace Ohio Workers With AIJoel Warner / The Lever: Newsom Killed The Kill SwitchChris Nesi / New York Post: Anthropic researcher abruptly quits, chillingly warns AI ‘could kill us all’ — and current team leader agreesMichael Shepard / Mercury News: Anthropic worker quits, says AI firms ‘gambling with our lives’Pieter Haeck / Politico: ‘Gambling with our lives’: AI researcher quits Anthropic with dire warning about safetySydney Carruth / MS NOW: Anthropic researcher resigns, citing fear AI could ‘kill us all’David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner: Anthropic researcher quits over existential fear of AI: ‘Gambling with our lives’Lucas Nolan / Breitbart: Anthropic Researchers Go Public with Fears AI Could ‘Kill All Humans’ Within a DecadeAlex Welch / The Wrap: Ex-Anthropic Employee Warns AI ‘Could Kill Us All by the End of the Decade,’ Prompting Agreement From Current StaffersAngie Orellana Hernandez / The Washington Sun: AI Researcher's Warning Goes Viral as Regulation Stalls in D.C.Josh Milton / Metro.co.uk: Claude safety researcher quits and claims they ‘believe AI could kill all humans’Diarmuid Pepper / TheJournal.ie: The AI industry is all worked up over a researcher's claim it could ‘kill us all’ in a decadeOmkar Godbole / CoinDesk: AI could kill us, Anthropic researcher says after resigningJack Wetherill / PinkNews: ‘More than 10% chance AI could kill all humans in next 10 years,’ says Anthropic researcher
Anything I can do to help?Politico:
Lawmakers urge Congress to act after AI researcher's dire warning — Lawmakers in both parties are escalating pleas for legislative action after an artificial intelligence researcher claimed late Tuesday that unchecked AI models could feasibly destroy the world by the decade's end — and AI developers know it.Andrew Stanton / Newsweek: AI Researcher's Dire Warning Sparks Calls for Regulation Ahead of MidtermsBenjamin S. Weiss / Courthouse News Service: Warning about ‘civilizational stakes’ of AI arms race refreshes calls for industry regulationsSiobhan Kennedy / Channel 4 News: Could humanity face extinction because of AI?
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Today In Mental Illness:
No Philistines At The Polls!
If this deluded sumbitch is telling people how to vote, he'd better not be getting tax-exemptions; this is all political.Do enjoy the end. He's quite a speaker.
Netanyahu Knew
Ooops. He lied, thousands died.
Democracy is a joke!
As all decent people suspected. And then he chumped Trump into starting a war w/ Iran. Lovely. Governments run by fucking con men & morons.Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn't Brief Israel's Security Chiefs
8647, Comin' Down The Line!
Won't even need to re-number it for the last train to Mar-a-Lago.
Bigger than life at the source.
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| BNSF Needles Subdivision at East Siberia, California - MP 674.3 30 January 2016 |
Get Away From Me,
You Loathsome Bastard!
Nowhere is safe. Can't even watch model railroading videos w/o this bullshit being shoved in my face.Much more appropriate transportation for his bruised lumpiness.
The pricks at UP have painted three locos to "pay tribute to our nation’s presidents". (Tribute* indeed: Apparently this 4547 abomination is the Union Pacific sucking up to Fats to get their purchase of Norfolk Southern approved.) The other two are "tribute" to Abraham Lincoln & oil man G.H.W. Bush, the one-term 41st Pres. who lost to Slick Willie. That's some accomplishment. F.D.R.? J.F.K.? Demoncrats, obviously. No more UP rolling stock on the layout; they're not getting a penny in licensing from me.
*Per Merriam-Webster: "Historical Payment: Wealth or valuables given by a weaker nation or group to a dominant power as a sign of submission or to ensure peace."
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| Can't wait to see his rotting corpse hauled to the boneyard in this coffin by the renumbered 8647 loco. |
*Per Merriam-Webster: "Historical Payment: Wealth or valuables given by a weaker nation or group to a dominant power as a sign of submission or to ensure peace."
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