You may recall that the Biden administration had a plan to hire IRS staff, mostly to replace retired staffers and augment customer service personnel, but with an eye towards greater enforcement of tax cheating in the upper levels of income. This was immediately branded (i.e. “lied about”) as a plan to send jackbooted thugs after […]
Let’s start with the low-hanging fruit before we tackle more complex issues. Dear Leader has had another physical, and, while Telnaes suggests that you never know what you’re going to find when you look under the hood, we have once again heard nothing but good news. Unlike the Great Alphonse Capone, he’s apparently not syphilitic, […]
This isn’t China, though Bagley is right to compare the cult of personality that has risen around Donald Trump with the one that rose around Mao Tse Tung. Certainly, the two cults, the two revolutions, share several elements, including the condemnation of intellectual elites in favor of mindless loyalty and the elevation of mindless loyalty […]
Jen Sorensen starts us off with a plain statement: The Bill of Rights is no longer part of our government, or of our daily lives. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press can be restricted if people speak or write things that go against official policy, and freedom of religion means the freedom to […]
Well, nobody’s perfekt, and Mother Anderson couldn’t have seen how April Fools Day was going to play out on this continent. Whether Elon wanted to buy votes or buy friends, he came out of Wisconsin with neither, despite having spent $20 million hoping to put a Republican on the state supreme court and give the […]
Katauskas isn’t exaggerating by a whole lot, and while the current flood of insanity might make it hard for a fortuneteller to go off the rails, the resulting target-rich environment poses a different challenge for political cartoonists. There is, first of all, the question of which event to pick up on. You don’t want to […]
I was planning to use Sheneman’s cartoon this morning for a rant about defeatism and how cartoonists are running up a white flag with cartoons about feckless Democrats when GOP majorities in both houses give them no real leverage. But then there was an opening, and Senate Democrats were poised to vote against cloture and […]
The Great Creators Famine continues at GoComics and since your mix is likely different than mine, I’ll just send you to their Comics page and their Editorial Cartoons page so you can see what you missed. And you may have missed quite a bit among the editorial cartoons. When I ran through today’s crop, I […]
Clay Jones gets to represent the large number of cartoons decrying the Democrats’ silent protest at the SOTU for two reasons. One is that he’s a big boy and I’ve complimented him enough times that he won’t get bent out of shape if I disagree with him, and the other is that he attached, as […]
I hadn’t planned on featuring any more “list of accomplishment” cartoons, since, as said the other day, they were fairly identical and uninspired, but Matson has broken through with this piece, since we’ve entered a moment when the oligarchs seem to be losing their grip. Specifically, Republican lawmakers have been advised by their leadership to […]
Rod Emmerson offers this view from New Zealand, which is that he is gobsmacked that we put such an undeserving person in charge of our nation and, given America’s international standing, in charge of much of the world. While in Britain, Ella Baron is appalled at how Trump swooped in to turn a tragedy into […]
RJ Matson offers his version of Train Kept A-Rolling. Matt Gaetz was sacrificed so that others might pass through the portals. There was a time when the revelations surrounding Gaetz would have cast him into obscurity, but those days are long gone and he may become the next governor of Florida. And why not? The […]
This is one of those “Where do we begin?” moments. The torrent of horrifying, dishonest, ridiculous nonsense that has poured out over the past 48 hours or so seems overwhelming, and I ended up with so many links to so much argumentation that I had to sort through them to come up with a reasonable […]
Ian Boothby is right: Paying attention to what’s going on is not good for you. Unfortunately, failure to pay attention to what’s going on is even worse for everybody in the long run. And while there may be some dark satisfaction in schadenfreude, hoping for people to realize what they’ve wrought won’t stop what they’ve […]
I like David Cohen‘s take because it really does seem like Trump is grabbing random screwballs for his cabinet rather than carrying out some cunning plan. Granted, anyone who listened to his speeches during the campaign shouldn’t be surprised that his actions now are similarly incoherent and inexplicable, but it would be nice if he […]