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Unfocused Groups

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Ever since the 2016 election, the New York Times has been doing Trump Voter Safaris for their ostensibly liberal audience to either gawk at or empathize with. They are a sideshow from the people with real power. And now they’re being moderated by Frank Luntz, which is especially gross for any of us old enough to remember his role in shaping Republican messaging in the early aughts.

Scrutinizing Trump’s supporters individually is a waste of time while authoritarianism runs amok and time runs out to stop it. But those daffy bastards sure are fun to goof on online.

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White House Approved Programming

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Paramount needs federal approval for a merger, so they’re bending over backwards to appease the administration (it won’t work, they’ll just demand more obedience) by neutering CBS’s autonomy in its news coverage. Other corporate media giants have done the same to pre-emptively appease an administration that barely squeaked out a win and is already underwater in every conceivable poll.

That might work for some industries, but the media requires appealing to audiences bigger than one demented individual in the White House.

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Fascism Career Fair

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We’re now three months into the regime and citizens are being detained and deported. It was already fascism when it was legal residents being shipped off to gulags in El Salvador, but now it’s “it could happen to you” fascism. That this is happening during the week most procrastinators did their taxes and kept acting like this is normal doesn’t bode well for the next three and a half years and beyond.

I’m still posting my useless little cartoons, so I’m not excepting myself from that criticism either. The Democrats are obviously not going to do anything except wait for the midterm elections, so it’s up to the rest of us to figure something out.

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Republican Economic Innovations

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While the Trump administration makes headlines wildly tearing down the federal government, Republicans in Congress are making sure nothing will be left except for tax cuts for the rich.

This has been the case since I was a tiny baby, blissfully unaware of the cult of supply-side economics.

If Trump Take Condiment, snack-motivated Americans might finally riot.

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Elon Musk’s Suck-cess Seminar

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Elon Musk’s preferred candidate in a Wisconsin Supreme Court election ate shit on Tuesday, and even oblivious people are starting to notice this guy sucks. Unfortunately it took the complete collapse of the federal government, the economy, and the international order for those ding-dongs to notice.

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Hegseth’s Texts

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After two month’s of what would be the end of any other administration’s scandals, the one that seems to have stuck is Pete Hegseth communicating war crimes through insecure channels. The war crimes themselves are the same stuff we’ve been doing for a quarter century, but the Department of Defense at least tried to wait a while before letting the media know about it.

Hegseth was grossly unqualified from the get-go, and his boozy stink should be on every senator who voted to confirm him, or anyone in this fascist cabinet. Another thing this leak illustrates is how little Trump is involved in his own administration. These goons are free to do whatever freak shit they want while the demented president golfs or watches TV.

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Department of Failed State Travel Advisories

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We’re just two months into this administration and the horrors at the border and within continue to escalate. Tourists from close allies are getting sent to the gulags we’ve previously reserved for refugees who are desperate to get here to seek asylum. Residents with green cards or visas are getting arrested, detained, and even deported for their speech. And others are being rounded up without due process and sent to slave labor camps in El Salvador.

This is not a great environment for jokes. My mind keeps going to the fact that all that separates myself from these current victims is my tacky little U.S. passport. Any CBP or ICE thug can take it and instantly render me and anyone they don’t like a stateless individual with no rights.

I don’t have plans (or the budget) for international travel any time soon, but I don’t have to go anywhere for them to claim jurisdiction over me or two thirds of the population. The War on Terror has come home, we’re all the targets, and if you can’t call it fascism, you won’t until you’re the one getting stripped and hosed down in a cage.

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Democratic Defense

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Chuck Schumer announced that he’d vote for cloture (which is effectively a yes vote for its passing) on a continuing resolution to avoid a budget shortfall. He and other feckless Senate Democrats will claim this is necessary to avoid a government shutdown. But those of us with eyes and two brain cells to rub together know the federal government is already shutdown due to the illegal withholding of congressionally appropriated funds by the White House and Elon Musk’s DOGE. Causing a budget impasse was the Democrats’ best shot at having any leverage and they blew it.

To Hakeem Jeffries’ credit, he called out Schumer’s move as complicity with the Trump regime. Not sure what else he’s been up to for the past two months that disproves his depiction in this cartoon, though.

Before anyone gives the ol’ “They’re the minority! There’s nothing they can do!” razzle dazzle, there’s plenty of parliamentary shenanigans that can gum up the works of the Republican bulldozers. These two are choosing not to use them for reasons that get more dubious as one crisis after another happens every week of this nightmare administration.

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