Every time I see smug Ms Leavitt with her prominent cross, I get an immediate and intense gag-response. But the way she asserts that calling the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of America is a FACT, is so patently absurd that I choke and do an inevitable spit take. Oh, for the days of Jen Psaki!
Is this triviality the hill on which AP will die? At least, make it a good death. Please. Fight them every step, every day, in every way. Do NOT concede: be memorable in your resistance.
Great 'toon and commentary. The AP must fight this in the courts, they must not allow this assault on the 1st Amendment right to a free press stand, for if they do, others will follow and soon we will only know that which Felon Trump wishes us to know.
The regime was always going to find a reason to kick out any mainstream or liberal media that they view as a threat. Remember, Trump labelled the media as the enemy of the people and referred to most mainstream outlets, except for his favorites Fox, OAN & Breitbart, as "fake news". Since Trump can't control the garbage he utters, anyone in the press corp not willing to suck up directly to him and his minions will lose their seat in the White House Press room and Air Force One to other right wing outlets chomping at the bit for elevation and validation in Magaland. It makes it easier for White House Press Secretary and her staff to sane-wash the regime's crap because there will be few, if any, real journalists with integrity, to fact check in real time or to ask meaningful follow-up questions for clarity let alone identify inconsistencies, contradictions and outright lies. The propaganda machine wants to have direct unfiltered access to most of the public via compliant media. Sadly, too many of our fellow citizens have been conditioned for decades to be passive, lazy, consumers with low attention spans to whatever is marketed to them as news, neatly packaged between commercials for more products and services to consume. MAGA wants to "Make Americans Gullible Again" by ensuring that they have little resistance to the destruction of our free speech, free press and all the others rights that our Constitution is supposed to guarantee to us citizens. The AP could walk away from this fight because there's enough news on the rest of planet Earth to keep them employed. I'm glad that the AP is not backing down because they are at least showing that they are willing to defend our Constitution instead of coughing up millions in supplication to the shakedown like WaPo and Disney, whose subscriptions I canceled upon learning their complicity in enabling the propaganda and wealth of fascists. The Gulf of Mexico is as good a hill to die on as is anything that threatens the independence of a news organization. Once journalistic integrity is damaged then trust in that source for honest, reliable information is gone and all that remains is another propaganda mouthpiece in the echo chamber of a dictatorship.
The donkeys are not green. Musty picked a sick one with great big green balls to suck. Dude is also very sick. The donkey will get sicker, Musty won’t. Free speech about a public figure, there. There is a loophole about satire there in libel law. It has been used.
Great toon and blog post. We all need to stand up to these bullies. As I have no senators and only a nonvoting delegate in the House, I'm happy to tell my friends what a great cartoonist you are and how good it is to subscribe to this Substack. In other news, every editor of every paper across the nation needs to hear that people are laughing and standing up -- especially against the richest man in the world who is happy to let the poorest kids in the world starve and go without meds. Plus a lot of the food under USAID contract is grown by US farmers.
Thanks for this, Clay. Laughter is so rare it seems now. You help bring it forth by taking the cruel shit-show and making it visually brilliant.
New Yorker interview with Anthony Romero, Pres of ACLU, talked censorship, other issues on which the ACLU is working. (Help support them if you can.)
Joyce Vance in her substack tonight informed about an horrific draconian voter suppression bill call the SAFE Act on which we need thinking House members then Senators VOTE NO. It is one of the most classist, ableist, misogynistic, racist, nationalistic possibility to keep people from registering & voting.
We only can try to ensure policies change by voting for the people who are curious, compassionate, and ethical.
Every time I see smug Ms Leavitt with her prominent cross, I get an immediate and intense gag-response. But the way she asserts that calling the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of America is a FACT, is so patently absurd that I choke and do an inevitable spit take. Oh, for the days of Jen Psaki!
Is this triviality the hill on which AP will die? At least, make it a good death. Please. Fight them every step, every day, in every way. Do NOT concede: be memorable in your resistance.
Listening to Superchunk: I HATE MUSIC.
“And it is a fact that the body of water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America.”
And it is also a fact that Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. I mean, Eurasia. I mean....
GREAT cartoon, Clay.
Your toons are so awesome...including so many facts through humor...excellent blog.
Burrito? You deserve a chimichanga!! This is going on my FB page, even it Zuckie limits it to a handful of my FB friends.
Given a choice, I always go with chimichanga, though many of the frozen foods seem to think they're the same. :-)
Great 'toon and commentary. The AP must fight this in the courts, they must not allow this assault on the 1st Amendment right to a free press stand, for if they do, others will follow and soon we will only know that which Felon Trump wishes us to know.
The regime was always going to find a reason to kick out any mainstream or liberal media that they view as a threat. Remember, Trump labelled the media as the enemy of the people and referred to most mainstream outlets, except for his favorites Fox, OAN & Breitbart, as "fake news". Since Trump can't control the garbage he utters, anyone in the press corp not willing to suck up directly to him and his minions will lose their seat in the White House Press room and Air Force One to other right wing outlets chomping at the bit for elevation and validation in Magaland. It makes it easier for White House Press Secretary and her staff to sane-wash the regime's crap because there will be few, if any, real journalists with integrity, to fact check in real time or to ask meaningful follow-up questions for clarity let alone identify inconsistencies, contradictions and outright lies. The propaganda machine wants to have direct unfiltered access to most of the public via compliant media. Sadly, too many of our fellow citizens have been conditioned for decades to be passive, lazy, consumers with low attention spans to whatever is marketed to them as news, neatly packaged between commercials for more products and services to consume. MAGA wants to "Make Americans Gullible Again" by ensuring that they have little resistance to the destruction of our free speech, free press and all the others rights that our Constitution is supposed to guarantee to us citizens. The AP could walk away from this fight because there's enough news on the rest of planet Earth to keep them employed. I'm glad that the AP is not backing down because they are at least showing that they are willing to defend our Constitution instead of coughing up millions in supplication to the shakedown like WaPo and Disney, whose subscriptions I canceled upon learning their complicity in enabling the propaganda and wealth of fascists. The Gulf of Mexico is as good a hill to die on as is anything that threatens the independence of a news organization. Once journalistic integrity is damaged then trust in that source for honest, reliable information is gone and all that remains is another propaganda mouthpiece in the echo chamber of a dictatorship.
I feel sorry for the green donkeys whose balls are being slobbered on by Elmo
The donkeys are not green. Musty picked a sick one with great big green balls to suck. Dude is also very sick. The donkey will get sicker, Musty won’t. Free speech about a public figure, there. There is a loophole about satire there in libel law. It has been used.
Hmm. You sure about green donkeys? Back in high school the big insult was 'you sux green donkey dicks'.
I prefer “you suck dead skunks…”
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Go Clay! 🫂
Great toon and blog post. We all need to stand up to these bullies. As I have no senators and only a nonvoting delegate in the House, I'm happy to tell my friends what a great cartoonist you are and how good it is to subscribe to this Substack. In other news, every editor of every paper across the nation needs to hear that people are laughing and standing up -- especially against the richest man in the world who is happy to let the poorest kids in the world starve and go without meds. Plus a lot of the food under USAID contract is grown by US farmers.
Thanks for this, Clay. Laughter is so rare it seems now. You help bring it forth by taking the cruel shit-show and making it visually brilliant.
New Yorker interview with Anthony Romero, Pres of ACLU, talked censorship, other issues on which the ACLU is working. (Help support them if you can.)
Joyce Vance in her substack tonight informed about an horrific draconian voter suppression bill call the SAFE Act on which we need thinking House members then Senators VOTE NO. It is one of the most classist, ableist, misogynistic, racist, nationalistic possibility to keep people from registering & voting.
We only can try to ensure policies change by voting for the people who are curious, compassionate, and ethical.
Great job today! Thank you, Clay!