For Memorial Day, I thought I’d just post some cartoons, and remind everyone to always remember the true purpose of the day.
Memorial Day 2021
Groups who had a part in the mob attack
Things I’m tired of saying to my clients
“No, I cannot get the charges thrown out simply because the cop said your car was blue when it’s really maroon.”
“No, I can’t get the charges thrown out simply because the cop didn’t read you your rights when he arrested you. They only have to do that when you’re being interrogated. Yes, I know it’s different on television.”
“So you want to believe one of the other inmates at the jail as to what should be done in your case over me? After all, what do I know with my eight years of degrees and my 35 years of practice?”
“I am not your employee. You hired me for my knowledge and experience, not for me to file whatever frivolous motion you think you need.”
“Why did you hire me and pay me all this money if you’re just going to ignore every bit of advice I give you?”
“No, you can’t sue the cops if you’re found not guilty.”
“The fact that things are bad for you right now and people should understand what you’re going through is, amazingly enough, not a defense against the charges.”
“No, I am not interested in taking a case where you are claiming that the government doesn’t have jurisdiction over you because you’re a sovereign citizen.”
“Yes, I know I told you that this was what the law said and I know the judge ruled against me anyway. The judge is wrong.”
From the “Jewish Space Laser” lady
Fake polls!
Rassmussen is known for polls that always favor Republicans to the point where legitimate pollsters consider them unreliable — but Fox News and right-wing sources constantly report them as factual despite their variance from every other poll.
So now they’re reporting Biden’s high approval rating. Suddenly, the right wing is claiming the pollster they’ve always loved is “fake news.”
Honestly, I’d be shocked if they had reacted differently. That’s always their response to any news that contradicts their already-held beliefs.
The real thief
What if you never could tell a person’s sex?
Sometimes I see people complaining when they see someone who is transgender or where you can’t tell if they are male or female. There was a tremendously unfunny character on Saturday Night Live named “Pat” where the entire skit was about people trying to figure out if Pat was male or female. Has that happened to you?
Imagine for a minute if everyone was like that. Imagine you couldn’t tell from someone’s looks or their name or the clothes they wore whether they were male or female.
Would that change the way you treat them?
“But I’m single and I want to find a partner,” you say. Okay, fine. So does that mean you’ll only be friends with potential partners? Maybe you should get to know the person better first. If it turns out that they are not sexually compatible with you, what’s the problem? You have a new friend!
And if you treat someone thinking they are one gender only to find they are another, does that make you reconsider how you treat that gender?
This is not easy. We’ve been ingrained to place people into categories and have certain expectations from them, and it’s a hard thing to overcome, admittedly. But it might be a good idea every once in a while to think about people you know and work with and ask yourself if you would have treated them differently had they been a different gender.
(BASED ON COMMENTS HERE AND ON FACEBOOK, LET ME CLARIFY:
This is a thought experiment about how we treat people differently whether they are women or men, and how if you didn’t know, how would you act. I’m not really talking about going somewhere like a party or a bar where sometimes the purpose is indeed finding someone you might want to be attracted to physically.
And for God’s sake, I LIKE looking at pretty women, so I don’t want that to go away. I don’t WANT everyone looking asexual, nor do I want to shame women who like to dress sexy.
I’m mostly talking about thinking about how you may treat women differently from men for things that have nothing to do with wanting them as a sexual partner. Do you treat female coworkers differently from male coworkers, for instance?)
The Cheney heritage
Bamboozled
I am not making this up.
Arizona Republicans are doing another ballot count in one of their largest counties, convinced that the election was stolen because of the Big Lie. This ballot count follows previous ones that found zero evidence of ballot fraud, but since these QAnon idiots believe anything, they’re convinced that there is some vast conspiracy out there and they alone can find it.
So one of the things they’re looking for is bamboo.
I am not making this up.
Somehow, some crazy person suggested that the ballots were all forged and sent in from China for some reason and everyone knows that in China, they use bamboo in all of their paper. (No, they don’t.) And of course, there is no bamboo in America. (Yes, there is.)
So the Arizona Republicans, convinced that the Democrats were cheating (in a county where the election board is run by Republicans), demanded another recount. And it’s not going well. The state’s Republican governor has recently had to call in protection for the Secretary of State, who had the gall to declare that the election was fair and who has been receiving death threats for reporting the truth.
So these Republicans, not content to look absolutely foolish before, decided to hire a professional group with lots of experience to oversee the recount. I’m kidding, of course. They hired a group called Cyber Ninjas, who have absolutely no experience in doing this. They’re led by a conspiracy theory nut who is just looking for fraud, and how much you want to bet he’ll find something that will look real to him and that everyone with any brains will laugh at? (This group also has been promoting the theory that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rigged voting machines so Biden would win, despite the fact that Chavez has been dead since 2013.)
I am not making this up.
Oh, and did I mention that all of this appears to violate federal law?
ventrellaquest.com 