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Hire me so I can destroy your company!

Republicans hate government and think it’s the problem. They then get elected and spend their entire time making government underfunded and inefficient, thus proving their point about how terrible government is. And that’s their reason for electing them.

Imagine applying for a job where you say “I hate your business and I want to destroy it from within, so please hire me.”

The latest GOP plan is to defund the IRS, which will costs us billions when the IRS won’t have the staff or budget to go after people who don’t pay their taxes.

But the GOP is fine with that, because the people who don’t pay their taxes are almost all the millionaire class that votes for them. And if the government becomes more inefficient because we don’t have the money, they can use that to complain.

(As an aside: October was a tremendously depressing month for me for many reasons and not just politics, so forgive me for not updating this blog regularly. I guess I needed a month off.)

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The Thomas Clown Affair

Chris Britt
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Fetterman and the dress code

Forget the terrible problems facing our country today. What has conservatives mad? That my senator John Fetterman doesn’t like to wear a suit.

Oh horrors! You all know that the Constitution demands that all politicians dress appropriately: Powdered wigs, knee britches, and long-tail coats only!

Anyway, political cartoonists had fun with this, so I thought I’d share these, along with a post from Fetterman referring to a certain Republican who was recently kicked out a play for vaping marijuana, talking during the performance, and groping her partner — and to which the Republicans have been amazingly silent about.

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Things Trump said over the weekend

As a defendant, Donald Trump has the right to remain silent.

He just doesn’t have the ability.

This weekend, he did an interview on Face the Nation where he admitted that he had been told by lawyers that there was no election fraud, but he ignored them and proudly proclaimed that he pushed the fake election lies anyway.

“You know who I listened to? Myself,” Trump said, explaining why he ignored the advice of people who know stuff.

Then later he criticized Biden for being out of touch, claiming that Biden would lead us into “World War Two.” That is not a typo. That’s what he said. In that same speech, he proudly proclaimed that in the polls for 2024 that he was ahead of “Obama” (who, of course, is not running) and then bragged about the “fact” that he had beaten Obama in 2016. (I shouldn’t have to remind you that his opponent in 2016 was Hillary Clinton, right?) He then claimed in another interview that he didn’t know that someone had given Dr. Fauci the Presidential Award. (It was him. He gave Fauci the award.)

Yes, this is the man who claims Biden is “cognitively impaired.”

But he didn’t stop there.

He celebrated Rosh Hashanah by tweeting a graphic claiming he had done wonderful things for the Jewish people while berating the vast majority who never voted for him: “A reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed false narratives! Let’s hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward!” Trump thinks if you didn’t vote for him, you are in support of “destroying America and Israel.” Remember that, my Jewish friends: Trump may constantly push standard anti-semitic conspiracy theories while claiming that Nazis and Klan members contain “good people” but he’s really on your side — you’re just too stupid to realize it.

I will give him credit for one thing, though: At the end of his tweet where he proclaims he’s done so much for Israel (as if that’s the only issue American Jews care about), he states that he is “Clearly, one of the greatest Anti Semites of our time!”

So I guess he does say the truth every once in a while.

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Bad aim

Clay Bennett
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“It’s only socialism if we don’t like it”

I’m so sick of right-wing politicians using “socialism” as a scare word — especially because they don’t know what it means. And sadly, neither do those who are scared by it.

Capitalism is when the economy has no government involvement. With capitalism, we have child labor, no minimum wage, no safety regulations, no regulations of food, no regulations of medicine — you get the idea. Almost everyone who hates “socialism” wants those things.

A scary socialist. Wooooooooo

And the vast majority loves socialism when it includes social security and medicare for our elderly, a national health care program, aid to those who need it, and other governmental programs that help the individual.

These right-wingers have no problem with things like subsidies to oil companies, tax breaks for businesses, government loans that don’t have to be repaid — if it restricts business, they scream “socialism” but if it helps business, well, that’s just good government.

They just don’t like it when government helps people.

Watch and see — next time some politician screams “socialism,” they probably won’t have any idea what they’re talking about, like when Mitch McConnell said getting rid of the Electoral College would be “socialism.”

Part of the problem, of course, is that there were some terrible repressive countries that called themselves “socialist” and people associate totalitarianism (where the people have no power in government) with a government’s economics. You can have a free, democratic socialist country (like most of Europe and Japan and Canada, for instance). And of course, it’s not a black-and-white issue. We already have socialism in America (as demonstated above). The only issue really is how much do we want.

So don’t be scared by the word. Socialism is already here. We can debate how much of it we want, but it’s not a scary monster, no matter how much conservatives want you to believe.

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Generation Gasp

Ruben Bolling
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A majority supports Trump’s arrest

Polls show that a majority of Americans support Trump being arrested, think the arrests are fair, and think he should go to jail if convicted.

This includes a majority of independents, who are needed to win any election.

But the GOP lives in a bubble, and they only talk to each other, and they all think Trump is popular among Americans.

I remember pointing this out to a Trump person on Facebook a while ago who said something similar. “No,” I replied. “A majority voted against him the first time; he never even reached a 50% approval rating his entire term; he lost the House and the Senate; and then he lost his second election by an even larger margin. He has never been supported by a majority of Americans.” I was unfriended immediately despite everything I said being true and not controversial.

Trump posts “Never Surrender” immediately after surrendering

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Winner of the Republican debate

Clay Bennett
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Nonbelievers growing in numbers

The number of Americans who are either atheists, agnostics, or claim “no religion” is almost a third of the population and growing very quickly.

So when you say things like “God Bless America” or want people to recite the pledge with the words “under God” in it, you are excluding a huge minority of people.

Maybe the pledge should say instead “One nation, except for a third of the population whose views are irrelevant and unimportant to me.”

And of the remaining religious folks, many do not want government involved in religious laws (such as banning abortion or gay marriage).

In fact, I think one of the reasons religious belief is dying in America is because of the fanatics who proclaim to love Jesus while hating everything he stood for. It’s no wonder people are turning away from religion.

cartoon by Robert Leighton