2022-08-04 20:44
This is a followup to my last post about the ballot initiative in Kansas. Stephen Colbert gives us a more in-depth look at the other elections that happened at the same time:
He also wa… Read More
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2022-08-03 21:36
This is what overreach looks like.
For years, Republicans courted Evangelicals by giving lip service to right-to-life zealots, homophobes, racists, and other right-wing social issue voter… Read More
2022-07-10 15:20
Texas is definitely hypocritical! From NBC News:
Pregnant Texas Woman Cited for HOV Violation Told Cop Her Fetus Is the PassengerA pregnant Texas woman who got a ticket for driving alone… Read More
2022-06-29 20:39
On Sunday, two days before her primary election, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) campaigned during a religious service in Colorado. She said:
The church is supposed to direct the government. T… Read More
2022-06-26 22:55
On Saturday night, congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL) appeared at a rally with Donald Trump, and spoke to the crowd, saying:
President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America… Read More
2022-06-24 12:54
Stephen Colbert sums up the state of the Jan 6 hearings, hilariously. And yet scary as hell.
Colbert makes this funny, yet heed the warning from Charlie Sykes in The Bulwark:
On Thur… Read More
2022-06-14 23:03
A message from Vice Chair @RepLizCheney about Thursday’s hearing. pic.twitter.com/SsnOOEnyVq— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) June 14, 2022It is so ironic that Donald Tr… Read More
2022-05-21 16:28
George W. Bush just admitted that he is a war criminal.
Note how after Dubya corrects himself, he doubles down and says “Iraq, too” and laughs.
Will anyone be held accoun… Read More
2022-05-11 17:20
I have nothing to add to this. When did we all in America become so stupid?
© Tom Tomorrow
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Vaccines are Coming!
Eerily Prescient? Read More
2022-05-09 20:13
Saturday Night Live takes on the Supreme Court. When Donald Trump said “Make America Great Again” I didn’t realize that he wanted to take us back to the 13th century! Ameri… Read More
2022-05-05 16:25
Whatever happens to Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has lost all credibility as a non-partisan entity.
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WHCD
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2022-05-04 05:36
Today, Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) responded to the leaked document from the Supreme Court, saying that if accurate, it was “inconsistent” with promises that were made to her… Read More
2022-05-02 16:05
Biden did a great job giving his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He even made some hilarious jokes.
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More Cancel Culture
Trump is a Sup… Read More
2022-04-20 20:06
Mallory McMorrow is a Democratic state senator in Michigan, who brilliantly stood up to right-wing hatred today. I hope everyone watches the (under 5 minute) video of her in the Michigan sen… Read More
2022-04-20 05:55
I swear, you can’t possibly make shit like this up. According to The Guardian, Florida has rejected “54 math textbooks because they contain ‘prohibited topics’ includ… Read More
2022-04-13 01:31
SNL welcomes Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court with a quick trip through history.
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2022-04-06 05:47
Obama gave a speech today at the White House, the first time he has been back there since he was president. The occasion was celebrating the passage of the ACA (also known as Obamacare). But… Read More
2022-04-05 14:44
It seems like Donald Trump’s main purpose in life now is to repeatedly claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him (in particular by evil Democrats). But here’s more evidenc… Read More
2022-03-18 00:40
I usually take a very dim view when celebrities try to stick their noses and personal views into politics, especially celebrities who are famous mainly because they are actors. But two separ… Read More
2022-03-16 22:08
Russia announced that they are sanctioning top US administration officials, including Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Mark Milley, Jake Sullivan, William Burns, Jen Psaki, Daleep Si… Read More
2022-03-15 16:46
Apparently, I’m not the only person who noticed that the Republican story is, um, evolving rapidly.
© Tom TomorrowAnd Critical Race Theory to combat in our schools, even though… Read More
2022-03-11 09:21
First, two quotes from former ambassador Nikki Haley. I can visualize her talking out of both sides of her mouth simultaneously.
Putin knows it’s costly, and he knows he can’t… Read More
2022-03-10 18:09
This is a photo taken during a recent protest in Berlin, in front of the Brandenburg Gate. The gate itself is showing the Ukrainian flag colors.
There is some irony here, since when he k… Read More
2022-03-04 21:51
© Ruben BollingVladimir Putin is being blasted by almost all of the countries of the world, including people in Russia. But here in the US there are a few (seemingly insane) people who… Read More
2022-03-02 09:36
Not with a bang, but a whimper. SNL discusses the ultimate Covid questions.
Personally, I wish more people had worn masks and been fully vaccinated. Considering that around 6 million (a… Read More
2022-03-01 07:04
Lauren Boebert is a Republican far-right congressperson from Colorado who loves Donald Trump, QAnon, conspiracy theories. She is famous for insulting people who hold religious beliefs differ… Read More
2022-01-30 18:35
Who knew that the latest arms race would center around social media disinformation?
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Defund Your Social Security?
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2022-01-21 09:49
© Jen SorensenSometimes, you just can’t make this stuff up. Here is the first section of a model bill produced by the American Legislative Exchange Council.
1) fossil fuels cur… Read More
2022-01-19 03:18
If I can post a comic comparing us to a Monty Python skit, surely we can be compared to a fictional parallel earth where they actually try to do the right thing.
© Tom TomorrowAlthou… Read More
2022-01-14 02:12
© Jason Adam KatzensteinHow many people recognized the source of this joke? With an updated caption to make it about the pandemic.
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2022-01-10 03:56
I mean, what’s the point of a pandemic if you can’t make lots of money from it?
© Tom Tomorrow
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Visualizing Covid-19
The Columbia C… Read More
2022-01-02 20:59
© Nick AndersonAt the end of last year, Los Angeles County released the following data:
Unvaccinated people in the county are 14 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those tha… Read More
2021-12-29 06:33
This may not be humorous, but how ironic is someone doing an interpretive dance about their own PhD research on the proteins in SARS-CoV-2. This will make all you science nerds dance with jo… Read More
2021-12-22 17:36
This would be even more hilarious if it weren’t so true!
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2021-12-13 22:28
I’ve been waiting for something that makes me laugh out loud to post. And SNL provides the goods.
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2021-11-01 12:43
Mark Twain once proposed that human kings and queens should be replaced with feline monarchs. Cats are easy to worship and obey, but they don’t cause major problems like most human sov… Read More
2021-10-31 13:49
This map has been making the rounds, showing the highest paid public employee in each state. And in 80% of the states, that employee, who is often pulling down multiple million dollars a yea… Read More
2021-10-22 15:04
With a bang and a whimper. I just can’t get enough of this little animation. It concisely wraps up all my fears for this country.
© KALAxios says about the 2024 Republican nomi… Read More
2021-10-21 15:42
A few days after the presidential election when Joe Biden was declared the winner, the Lt. Gov. of Texas, Republican Dan Patrick, offered a bounty of up to $1 million to anyone who could sup… Read More
2021-10-19 14:41
Lobbyist Grover Norquist famously said that he wanted to “Starve the Beast” to reduce the size of government “down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”… Read More
2021-09-29 18:11
The Atlantic has an interesting article about the fact that the US — despite being the world leader in developing and manufacturing Covid vaccines — is falling way behind in actu… Read More
2021-09-22 04:24
A subreddit — r/HermanCainAward — chronicles people who were against vaccinations and masks, but succumbed to the coronavirus. Slate has posted an article about the subreddit, wh… Read More
2021-09-17 20:14
Stephen Colbert gives you the big news about Nicky Minaj’s Cousin’s Friend’s Testicles:
But wait, there’s more!
Joe Biden recently encouraged private companie… Read More
2021-09-16 17:39
The California recall election shows dramatically that you can only cry wolf so many times before people stop believing you. Trump-loving Larry Elder spent most of the election day claiming… Read More
2021-09-10 13:40
Stephen Colbert cheers on Biden’s speech, getting tough on requiring people to get vaccinated.
Electoral-Vote also has a good story about the hypocrisy of people who think the Pre… Read More
2021-09-08 22:27
At a school district board meeting in Texas on Monday, a father used irony and sarcasm to make the point that there are rules that we all should follow for the good of our country and our fe… Read More
2021-09-06 06:00
How ironic is it that today is the day that just under 9 million Americans lost their unemployment benefits. On “Labor Day”. These are special benefits enacted because of the Cov… Read More
2021-08-25 20:12
I’m getting convinced that unless a significant portion of the people who believe the coronavirus is a hoax suddenly wake up and decide to get vaccinated and wear a mask, the pandemic… Read More
2021-08-13 01:03
There have been a couple of really good opinion pieces in the Washington Post recently about Tucker Carlson and his trip to Hungary (or was it Mordor?).
For example, Michael Gerson writes… Read More
2021-08-07 17:15
According to a few sources, Donald Trump has decided to run for president again in 2024.
Is it time to start planning a move to another, more sane country?
Of course, this is probably… Read More
2021-08-06 19:31
According to FiveThirtyEight, the popularity of Covid vaccination mandates is now increasing (probably in response to the Delta variant). These mandates can come from the hospitality industr… Read More
2021-07-29 17:51
SeditionTracker.com tracks people who are suspected of participating in the January 6 Capitol riot. This includes:
559 suspects, who have been charged with a crimeOf those charged, so far… Read More
2021-07-26 16:35
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2021-07-25 17:00
This comes from J.L. in Los Angeles, via Electoral Vote.
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2021-07-21 22:33
In this case, SOS stands for Save Our Snopes. I’m sure all my regular readers know who Snopes is. But do you know that Snopes has been under attack? There is a chance that we could los… Read More
2021-07-20 04:31
Comics don’t need to make anything up anymore, because reality is more bizarre than anyone can actually imagine. Trump’s base has absolutely gone off the deep end, and because th… Read More
2021-07-13 04:48
Last week, Newsmax host Rob Schmitt was talking with a Texas A&M professor on the air, and got philosophical:
You know, one thing I’ve always thought, and maybe you can guide me… Read More
2021-07-10 05:14
Was it ever in doubt that as soon as we started getting vaccinated, that people would get complacent and the first holiday weekend that came along would cause a spike in Covid cases? What&rs&hell…Read More
2021-07-07 14:06
I want to wish a happy 75th wedding anniversary to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. That’s the longest marriage in presidential history. There is a lovely story in the Washington Post about… Read More
2021-07-02 06:01
First, Tucker Carlson claims that the Biden administration is spying on him, in an effort to get him off the air on Fox News. Seriously? You need to spy on Carlson, when he never stops spewi… Read More
2021-06-25 07:36
This is not anything new. Remember Benghazi? How about Pizzagate? Don’t worry, as fast as we debunk one conspiracy theory, they come up with another, more terrifying one. In fact, to t… Read More
2021-06-23 16:41
I’m back from my vacation in Iceland, where I got up close and personal with a volcano, and spent more time than you can imagine hanging out in hot water. I had a wonderful time.
So… Read More
2021-06-06 09:59
Today there is a story that is pretty much a canonical example of irony.
The story comes from CNN, who note that one of the people charged in the January 6 insurrection and riot was caugh… Read More
2021-06-04 17:53
Republicans seem hell-bent on passing off the January 6 insurrection as a normal day of tourism. They will pretend it never happened.
And now Donald Trump is claiming that not only did he… Read More
2021-06-02 09:33
Vernon Jones used to be a Democrat, serving in the Georgia House of Representatives twelve years until 2021. He switched to the Republican Party in January 2021 after endorsing Donald Trump… Read More
2021-06-01 11:01
All federal elected officials swear or affirm an oath to support the constitution before they can assume their office. This includes the President, Senators, and Representatives to Congress… Read More
2021-05-29 15:29
I’m very disappointed, very frustrated that politics has trumped — literally and figuratively — the good of the country.
— Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), quoted by the W… Read More
2021-05-23 12:29
Just how many investigations did Republicans in Congress do over the 2012 Benghazi attack (that killed 4 Americans), which morphed into investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails, and on… Read More
2021-05-17 18:38
In the 1990s, Mississippi added a voter-initiatives process to their constitution, and since then has passed a number of initiatives. This includes an initiative passed last fall, approving… Read More
2021-05-15 09:47
This is even funnier if you remember Snoopy fighting the Red Baron and sneaking around behind enemy lines. But like the Republicans, it was only a fantasy. Insurrection, what insurrection?… Read More
2021-05-14 09:25
I guess it means that we really are putting the Covid quarantine behind us, if comedians are starting to make fun of what we might have to talk about when we finally get to interact with oth… Read More
2021-05-13 09:57
All the evidence says that we can beat Covid-19 if we get vaccinated.
For example, here’s new evidence from the Cleveland Clinic hospitals. Note that Cleveland Clinic is the second… Read More
2021-05-12 12:53
While the name sucks, the ideas behind “Defund the Police” make perfect sense. When will we stop debating semantics and come to our senses?
© Keith Knight
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2021-05-10 16:58
Do you remember when everyone was worried that there would be nothing scandalous for the media to talk about once the former occupant shuffled back to Florida and got kicked off of social me… Read More
2021-05-09 09:56
In the end, all they had left was their anger…
The governor of Minnesota had this to say about masks:
I just want to note on this. The politicization around masks, I think histo… Read More
2021-05-08 18:01
Make no mistake about it, this country is in danger. According to FiveThirtyEight, somewhere around 70% of Republicans believe — without any actual evidence — that Joe Biden stol… Read More
2021-05-01 15:19
To me, the biggest hoax is calling everything a hoax. When will the right get tired of it? Einstein is credited with saying “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and… Read More
2021-04-29 20:35
My posts have slowed down a little, and for that I apologize, but I am in the middle of moving and that is keeping me busy. I will continue to post when I can, but (perhaps luckily for me) t… Read More
2021-04-27 12:53
Your response when you see children wearing masks as they play should be no different from your response to seeing someone beat a kid at Walmart. Call the police immediately, contact child p… Read More
2021-04-26 02:13
During Trump’s entire presidency, after securing around $6 billion from Congress and commandeering another $10 billion from the Defense Department, Trump only managed to build a measly… Read More
2021-04-21 13:13
I gave a sigh of relief at the news of the verdict in the trial of policeman Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd. Remember that this is the case that elevated the Black Lives Matter movemen… Read More
2021-04-18 21:05
Because everyone is equal, but some people are more equal than others. Thanks to Citizens United and the Supreme Court, that includes corporations.
© Ruben BollingOne thing I’v… Read More
2021-04-17 09:37
…the more they stay the same.
There is a very interesting article in the Washington Post by George Will, titled “Technologies give velocity to stupidity, but they don’t… Read More
2021-04-16 09:43
The comic creators definitely noticed the hypocrisy of the GOP, with many fine comics being created. This is just a sampling.
© Jack OhmanThis one is even funnier. Castigating corpor… Read More
2021-04-15 09:25
The Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court decreed that money is speech, so you can’t deny Corporations the right to donate arbitrary amounts of money to politicians. Hypocritic… Read More
2021-04-14 17:47
“If it bleeds, it leads.” And when events conspire to be boring, they will just make shit up.
© Keith KnightIt used to be that News Departments were separate from Enterta… Read More
2021-04-12 08:56
So, I have been completely vaccinated against Covid-19, as have some of my friends. What we all have in common was that we had to spend a lot of time and energy finding a place to get vaccin… Read More
2021-04-11 09:32
Differences of opinion, even though they agree on the facts. Great skit from SNL.
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2021-04-09 10:37
Half of all Republican men refuse to get vaccinated against Covid-19. You might think that this could be a good thing because it might cause an extinction event for supporters of Donald Trum… Read More
2021-04-08 18:23
Jonathan Last has published a fascinating article in The Bulwark (an anti-Trump conservative website) about how Republican politics now follows the rules of an attention economy. To whit, po… Read More
2021-03-31 16:25
There are two pieces of potentially very good news that just came out, based on real-world studies of people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19. Mind you, these are preliminary result… Read More
2021-03-31 00:43
It has been a while since I posted anything about Donald Trump.
This weekend, Trump crashed a wedding reception, grabbed an open mic, and started talking. You can see the video here, but… Read More
2021-03-30 03:02
Garret Miller is one of the insurrectionists who stormed the US Capitol building on January 6. Like many in the mob, he thoroughly documented his actions on social media. This included a sel… Read More
2021-03-27 09:01
Why are people freaking out about a supposed immigration crisis? After all, there is plenty of evidence that the “Biden surge” is a media manufactured “crisis” starte… Read More
2021-03-26 08:07
How gay can you get? Because there is recent news that should make gay people even happier (you might say more gay!).
First, despite the fact that the Republican Party is losing moderates… Read More
2021-03-24 23:43
We’ve had two mass shootings in less than a week. In the first one, a white man shot up three different spas around Atlanta, where 6 of the 8 people killed were of Asian descent. The l… Read More
2021-03-21 21:54
I have to say that I don’t understand the whole GOP need to make voting harder. Yes, I understand that Republicans think they are keeping Democrats from voting, but there is plenty of… Read More
2021-03-19 17:06
Before you dismiss this as something that could never happen in America, just remember that it was only half a decade ago that nobody (including me) thought that a conspiracy-minded, washed… Read More
2021-03-18 04:54
You’ve probably seen reports that the southern border of the US is out of control, with masses of potential immigrants flooding into the US, including terrorists and people who have Co… Read More
2021-03-16 09:56
Donald Trump is trying to have it both ways, which is interesting because it looks more like Trump’s base is controlling him, rather than the other way around.
Consider that 72% of… Read More
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