MAGA can take over CNN, but I honestly believe that educated people will simply stop watching the shitshow and move on. I mean really, how stupid do you have to be to believe what comes out of Karo-Lyin’s mouth? Look at CBS’s ratings after they bribed the orange-a-tang.
I stopped watching any US network or cable programming about 15 year ago now, and don't miss it at all.
I subscribe to a number of individual 'content providers' on Substack, Daily Kos, Wonkette, and watch streaming news content from a number of international news sources, the latter of which I learned to do almost 50 years ago when I first got ahold of a short-wave radio and realized that what US media was telling us bore little resemblance to what the rest of the world's news was reporting.
You too? Shortwave is a good deal of an eyeopener, or was. Not nearly as much on the bands as there used to be. OTOH, RTL-SDR has made shortwave reception very cheap, and that may bring some of it back.
Some CEOs and their boards have no qualms about contributing to the Let's Do Autocracy effort. Hey, since it looks like Trump's going to go ahead and convert this democratic republic into an autocracy, I guess that we should pledge our fealty, and consider it an opportunity to increase the benefits to our shareholders. Which (along with hitting goals that trigger bonuses) is all that counts, right? How could this ever come back to bite us?
It's like these corporate CEOs can't read a room because they are too greedy to be able to smell the end of Snoreleone crime family. I can't believe all these corporations want their names engraved on the albatross that is Orange Foolius' golden balls-room. Can they really not see that when the bubble bursts, no one is going to want to be left kissing the bag?
The late capitalist view is incredibly short-sighted. The contemporary capitalist thinks in quarterly increments. By the time there is regime change in America, the environment will have passed several thresholds, aka tipping points. On a sigmoid curve, it's the phase of exponential growth. It may or may not lead to human extinction, but certainly populations will decline. Many of the amenities we have grown accustomed to - indeed, to depend upon, will disappear. Barbarism and its consequences seem inevitable. So: who will win the bribe wars? Not the survivalists among the Silicon Elite. They will be among the second to go. Like the Little Boot. As a response to kakistocracy, the world will shake off its tics and parasites, like a spaniel. Their enablers will identify the perpetrators and the masses will not treat the ostentatious nor their lackeys kindly. I hate to sound like an apocalyptic cynic and will continue to struggle against the exploiters. In some respects, I am a cockeyed optimist, but I am less and less certain that the sun will come out tomorrow.
When I started to write my response to your cartoon (bleakly amused) I was thinking to tell you an anecdote about the then small children of some old friends. I was writing my dissertation and, of course, learning to juggle. I took some time away from work to visit several friends near Boston and juggled for their kids. Their immediate response: "can you do four?" I remembered this quite vividly and was motivated to recollect the event by you saying in your commentary that you drew with your right hand and colored with the your left and my internal query had to do with lettering, perhaps with a pencil clenched between your teeth. But the little kid inside still would have asked, "Clay, can you do four?" (And, yes, I can.)
And I apologize for my diatribe about winners and losers and the state of the planet. It won't be instantaneous, but it will be sooner than I would have thought. Mike Johnson and his millennialist Christian nationalist movement, I fear, will successfully eradicate the Enlightenment and all the good stuff we are only now beginning to appreciate. Cue Joni Mitchel.
I won't be around for too many more years (I'm 77), but I'm glad I won't be around to see the outcome of all of this. I pray for my children and grandchildren to survive all of it, along with those that come later. I hope to see Trump drop dead, which will make me happy.
Perhaps my musical cue should have been for Kris Kristofferson. Beware those with nothing left to lose. (I'm also a septuagenarian.)
Anyway, I met a girl in a bar and made a cultural reference that caused her to ask my age. Foolishly, I told her the truth. She said: "wow! you're really old." I admitted the truth of her statement, but said in reply: "yes, but I'm really immature." Needless to say, it didn't help.
A few years ago, my daughter was talking to me about people who'd be displaced by rising waters. So we talked a bit and she said something about where they'd all go and how they'd get there. And I explained to her that this "migration" some keep talking about simply was not going to happen. She said then, "What do you think they'll do then?" And I told her, simply, "Die where they are. And they'll do all they can to take the rest of us with them."
The world is a harsh place. Americans have been insulated from that for a while. Maybe we can learn better without megadeath, but I would not bet on it.
People have this freakish tendency to forget the nuclear powers are "Russia, the United States, China, France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea", and at least three of those are going to be badly affected by rising waters. And I'll add that at barest minimum two more countries can rapidly acquire nuclear weapons, and that number should probably be more like five.
It's now grow up or die. So we elected a toddler that loves to throw tantrums for attention.
David Ellison and Eric Trump both appear to have been cloned from the same cheap knock-off play-doh material... (Don Jr. appears to have been engineered from a line of badly-cut meth.)
I support the flies! I've read the rumors and really don't want any inside knowledge or facts but the rumors that Donnie carries a certain stinkiness about him all day long, just seem right, very right.
Good job. If there was such a thing as a corruption meter, it would explode in the presence of Trump. Corruption is the very essence of Trump.
Democrats better prepare for hostile media in all directions come ANY election wins or any moves they make. They can either go to battle with the billionaire bros, or they can simply surrender and let them take it all. It's a choice, and they can't put it off any longer.
I find it funny that the editor focused on the flies and stink lines. I barely notice them, there is so much more to take in. This is a tough morning for me but just like you all, I'll keep on truckin'.
I didn’t know Bob Andelman died! I’m stunned to learn and so much later. He and I met years ago - he had a connection to hospitality publishing. So bribers aside and the tsuris of all the Saudis/Kushners/networks, all of which - Saudis & Kushner esp - aside I’m so sad about Bob. May his memory be for a blessing.
Your work is always spot on.
You really are keeping on SO well. Great toon. Yep, there are loads of evil folk involved here. The corruption is unbelievable. Keep on!!!!❤️
MAGA can take over CNN, but I honestly believe that educated people will simply stop watching the shitshow and move on. I mean really, how stupid do you have to be to believe what comes out of Karo-Lyin’s mouth? Look at CBS’s ratings after they bribed the orange-a-tang.
I stopped watching any US network or cable programming about 15 year ago now, and don't miss it at all.
I subscribe to a number of individual 'content providers' on Substack, Daily Kos, Wonkette, and watch streaming news content from a number of international news sources, the latter of which I learned to do almost 50 years ago when I first got ahold of a short-wave radio and realized that what US media was telling us bore little resemblance to what the rest of the world's news was reporting.
You too? Shortwave is a good deal of an eyeopener, or was. Not nearly as much on the bands as there used to be. OTOH, RTL-SDR has made shortwave reception very cheap, and that may bring some of it back.
Some CEOs and their boards have no qualms about contributing to the Let's Do Autocracy effort. Hey, since it looks like Trump's going to go ahead and convert this democratic republic into an autocracy, I guess that we should pledge our fealty, and consider it an opportunity to increase the benefits to our shareholders. Which (along with hitting goals that trigger bonuses) is all that counts, right? How could this ever come back to bite us?
On the flies: I noticed that Ann Telnaes put what looks like flies all around the “rotting red meat.” The flies are breeding like … flies. Good on ya.
It's like these corporate CEOs can't read a room because they are too greedy to be able to smell the end of Snoreleone crime family. I can't believe all these corporations want their names engraved on the albatross that is Orange Foolius' golden balls-room. Can they really not see that when the bubble bursts, no one is going to want to be left kissing the bag?
The late capitalist view is incredibly short-sighted. The contemporary capitalist thinks in quarterly increments. By the time there is regime change in America, the environment will have passed several thresholds, aka tipping points. On a sigmoid curve, it's the phase of exponential growth. It may or may not lead to human extinction, but certainly populations will decline. Many of the amenities we have grown accustomed to - indeed, to depend upon, will disappear. Barbarism and its consequences seem inevitable. So: who will win the bribe wars? Not the survivalists among the Silicon Elite. They will be among the second to go. Like the Little Boot. As a response to kakistocracy, the world will shake off its tics and parasites, like a spaniel. Their enablers will identify the perpetrators and the masses will not treat the ostentatious nor their lackeys kindly. I hate to sound like an apocalyptic cynic and will continue to struggle against the exploiters. In some respects, I am a cockeyed optimist, but I am less and less certain that the sun will come out tomorrow.
When I started to write my response to your cartoon (bleakly amused) I was thinking to tell you an anecdote about the then small children of some old friends. I was writing my dissertation and, of course, learning to juggle. I took some time away from work to visit several friends near Boston and juggled for their kids. Their immediate response: "can you do four?" I remembered this quite vividly and was motivated to recollect the event by you saying in your commentary that you drew with your right hand and colored with the your left and my internal query had to do with lettering, perhaps with a pencil clenched between your teeth. But the little kid inside still would have asked, "Clay, can you do four?" (And, yes, I can.)
And I apologize for my diatribe about winners and losers and the state of the planet. It won't be instantaneous, but it will be sooner than I would have thought. Mike Johnson and his millennialist Christian nationalist movement, I fear, will successfully eradicate the Enlightenment and all the good stuff we are only now beginning to appreciate. Cue Joni Mitchel.
I won't be around for too many more years (I'm 77), but I'm glad I won't be around to see the outcome of all of this. I pray for my children and grandchildren to survive all of it, along with those that come later. I hope to see Trump drop dead, which will make me happy.
Perhaps my musical cue should have been for Kris Kristofferson. Beware those with nothing left to lose. (I'm also a septuagenarian.)
Anyway, I met a girl in a bar and made a cultural reference that caused her to ask my age. Foolishly, I told her the truth. She said: "wow! you're really old." I admitted the truth of her statement, but said in reply: "yes, but I'm really immature." Needless to say, it didn't help.
A few years ago, my daughter was talking to me about people who'd be displaced by rising waters. So we talked a bit and she said something about where they'd all go and how they'd get there. And I explained to her that this "migration" some keep talking about simply was not going to happen. She said then, "What do you think they'll do then?" And I told her, simply, "Die where they are. And they'll do all they can to take the rest of us with them."
The world is a harsh place. Americans have been insulated from that for a while. Maybe we can learn better without megadeath, but I would not bet on it.
People have this freakish tendency to forget the nuclear powers are "Russia, the United States, China, France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea", and at least three of those are going to be badly affected by rising waters. And I'll add that at barest minimum two more countries can rapidly acquire nuclear weapons, and that number should probably be more like five.
It's now grow up or die. So we elected a toddler that loves to throw tantrums for attention.
David Ellison and Eric Trump both appear to have been cloned from the same cheap knock-off play-doh material... (Don Jr. appears to have been engineered from a line of badly-cut meth.)
I support the flies! I've read the rumors and really don't want any inside knowledge or facts but the rumors that Donnie carries a certain stinkiness about him all day long, just seem right, very right.
Good job. If there was such a thing as a corruption meter, it would explode in the presence of Trump. Corruption is the very essence of Trump.
Democrats better prepare for hostile media in all directions come ANY election wins or any moves they make. They can either go to battle with the billionaire bros, or they can simply surrender and let them take it all. It's a choice, and they can't put it off any longer.
I find it funny that the editor focused on the flies and stink lines. I barely notice them, there is so much more to take in. This is a tough morning for me but just like you all, I'll keep on truckin'.
I didn’t know Bob Andelman died! I’m stunned to learn and so much later. He and I met years ago - he had a connection to hospitality publishing. So bribers aside and the tsuris of all the Saudis/Kushners/networks, all of which - Saudis & Kushner esp - aside I’m so sad about Bob. May his memory be for a blessing.