CSotD: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatheads
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One can hope, along with Ohman, that Senate Republicans will at least have their staffs read the Big Beautiful Bull and highlight the irrelevant, dangerous parts the House snuck in, like the part that says local government can’t pass bills limiting artificial intelligence.
And it wouldn’t hurt to examine some of the relevant but cruel parts about Medicare and feeding children, but maybe we need to leave those in to spark voter turnout for the Midterms.
Another optimistic viewpoint: Rogers thinks the poor will realize they’ve been screwed.
If he’d put this fellow in a red hat, I’d disagree entirely, because I don’t think the True Believers can be turned around. The question is whether “the poor” can muster the self-respect to believe that their votes matter and that they have the power to change things.
This is where a “Yes, we can!” message could be of value, and visions of what could be might get through in a “Sunrise in America” way, painting a picture of our nation’s potential.
Not sure an attacking “Look what they’ve done” campaign would necessarily get people on their feet rather than just sinking them lower in their chairs. But perhaps that would depend on what else “they” do between now and 2026.
You can be right without being helpful. That little girl states the obvious without offering a real solution, because it is indeed complicated and difficult.
The first step should be breaking the “They Both Do It” despair approach by showing how the deficit has risen and fallen under different party leadership.
Then add a pie chart showing how little we spend on the parts everyone thinks should be cut, and how much the sacred cows cost, though you’d need someone pulling out the pie pieces and explaining each one, since charts and graphs tend to make people’s eyes roll back.
Then, when people insist that it’s just like setting a family budget, remind them that “stop feeding the kids” is not a solution to running short each month, but taking a second job (raising taxes) often is.
Bearing in mind how few people really do sit down and craft a family budget, much less stick to it.
I like Matson’s state-of-the-union landscape, in part because of the depth of the hole and the intent of Congress to keep digging with more tax cuts, but moreso because the tourists gazing into the abyss don’t seem upset or frightened or at all negative about what they can see. Mostly because they’re focused on the tax cuts and not the gaping hole.
They see Congress, but they don’t seem to recognize its role in creating that canyon.
Wiley, however, takes a more journalistic approach, making a gag that celebrates the growing segment of the public that is not passively gazing into the abyss but has begun holding elected officials responsible.
Nice timing, given the town hall meeting where the congressman admitted having not read the bill before voting for it.
I don’t expect legislators to read every word of every bill that crosses their desk. That’s why they have staffs
But as Yogi put it, “You can observe a lot by just watching.” The press has been full of examples of irrelevant, unacceptable tagalong proposals in the bill, and if you can’t be bothered to follow the news, you should at least have staffers who will.
Juxtaposition of the Day
“O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown.” A pair of comments on how Dear Leader’s view of his great good friend Vladimir has changed.
Blower is content to show Trump’s faith in Putin kind of petering out, while Baron depicts Dear Leader as a jealous, rejected whiner. IMHO, she’s closer to the mark, because Trump has also just turned on Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society, which burnishes his TACO reputation for never following a consistent, logical line.
The White House is no longer posting transcripts of Trump’s remarks, possibly because people have been quoting them, gasping and then bursting into laughter. Someone dubbed them “taco salad.”
Reynolds captures the Putin situation very well. As long as Trump was benefiting him, Putin was happy to indulge the fellow and pretend they were buddies, but when it’s no longer to his advantage, he has no problem with turning on Trump and, instead of exploiting his loyalty, capitalizing on his foolish ego.
Juxtaposition of the Day #2
Well before the TACO nickname emerged, Dear Leader was widely known for his inability to remain focused and consistent. As Turner notes, it’s raised chaos for businesses, and it’s also added to the volatility of a stock market that can’t know what tomorrow’s news will bring.
Walsh, meanwhile, plays with the idea that a million monkeys with a million typewriters would eventually produce all of Shakespeare’s works by random happenstance, showing the level of literature that can be produced by a roomful of monkeys.
Though I suppose we could add a third comic to the juxtaposition, since the Head Monkey has left the building:
The local council in Marion, and yesterday’s Oval Office Love-In not withstanding, there are a lot of people who don’t like Elon.
I’ve seen cartoons complaining that people used to love Elon but now they hate him because they’re hypocrites. No, they used to like him and then they got to know him.
That’s not hypocrisy, it’s good judgment.
Juxtaposition of the Day #3
Dear Leader’s war on Harvard reminds me of a line from The Importance of Being Earnest: “Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”
It’s been awhile since Trump bragged about graduating with honors, perhaps because, while he could threaten to sue schools for releasing his grades, he couldn’t stop people from hunting up the program from his commencement, which lists those who really did graduate with honors.
His latest bit of stable genius is saying that he wants to stop Harvard from admitting so many foreign students because they take up spots that should go to Americans.
Though, Sheneman suggests, maybe not to Trump’s fanbase.
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