Joe Biden


Democratic Convention BINGO

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The DNC started last night and only real sickos are watching the whole thing. I’m one of those sickos.

This year’s actually has some relevance, since the Harris/Walz campaign is on a much more abbreviated schedule than the usual presidential campaigns that go on for years before any ballots are cast. There will be corny stuff, because this is a convention full of party die-hards, but the contrast with the RNC’s weeklong hate-a-thon is striking, and hopefully normie voters who don’t follow all this stuff notice.

I did a similar BINGO card for the 2016 DNC for The Nib (RIP) if you’re curious. It is definitely pleasant to be drawing some new faces this time around, and hopefully I can be done drawing Trump come January 2025.

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This a large cartoon, and ALT-TEXT can’t cover all the panels, so here is a transcription:

(comic – A grid laid out like a BINGO card.)
Democratic National Convention BINGO
(panel 1 – Hillary Clinton and Al Gore consoling each other.)
Electoral College Support Group
(panel 2 – A hand holding a “CEASEFIRE NOW!” protest sign.)
Pro-Palestine Protester
(panel 3 – Kamala Harris speaking.)
Patronizing the Protesters
Harris, “VOTE! And you might be heard!”
(panel 4 – Laura Ingraham being angry.)
Fox News Freak-out
(panel 5 – An editor crying.)
The Chicago Tribune throws a tantrum for an exclusive interview
(panel 6 – Obama parachuting in vacation gear.)
Obama Returns from Vacation
(panel 7 – A silhouette of a crowd with someone crowdsurfing.)
Abortion Mentioned without no qualifiers
(panel 8 – Front page of the New York Times.)
New York Times Misrepresents Something
headline, “Balloon Drop Flop Good News for Trump”
(panel 9 – Tim Walz with microphone in front of a brick wall.)
Tim Walz Tells a Dad Joke
(panel 10 – A Chicago riot cop.)
Chicago Cops Behave Chicago Copishly
(panel 11 – Cameras surrounded George Clooney.)
Celebrity More Famous than Hulk Hogan
(panel 12 – A camcorder shot of Jimmy Carter)
Jimmy Carter Cam
(panel 13 – In the Harris/Walz campaign font.)
Free Space
(panel 14 – A man in MAGA hat rewrittend to spell KAMALA.)
Token Republican Convert
(panel 15 – A text exchange.)
Fundraising Text Interruption
text, “Donate now to pay for some consultant’s vacation home!”
reply, “STOP!”
(panel 16 – Kamala Harris wearing a Wisconsin cheese head.)
Swing State Pandering
(panel 17 – President Biden looking confused.)
Biden Sundowns
(panel 18 – President rakishly peeking over aviators.)
Dark Brandon Rises
(panel 19 – JD Vance peering over a couch.)
Couch Joke Humped to Death
(panel 20 – Jake Tapper making a paper airplane.)
Cable News Wastes Your Time
(panel 21 – Bill Clinton speaking.)
Bill Clinton Courts the Youth Vote
Clinton, “Hawk Tuah?”
(panel 22 – The word “weird” in a word cloud.)
“Weird” Used So Much It No Longer Sounds Like a Word
(panel 23 – A delegate wearing a novelty t-shirt.)
Random Delegate Becomes Viral Sensation
t-shirt, “I (heart) BOFA DEEZ DEMS!”
(panel 24 – Trump angry and holding a phone.)
Ex-Prez Shares a Deranged Thought
(panel 25 – Kamala Harris emphatically dropping a microphone in front of a backdrop.)
Harris Makes Her Case
backdrop, “No More Trump”


Pleas from the President

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It’ll soon be six months since Israel’s revenge campaign in Gaza began with the US government funding and cheering it on the entire time. Now that the horrors and atrocities are starting to be reflected in the polls, the calls of “Trump is worse!” to deflect criticism of Biden are getting louder.

Of course, Trump is worse than Biden. But genocide is happening now. Waiting for an election to be over before demanding an end to a slaughter is a sign of a craven politics brain.

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America’s Assignment Editor

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The NYTimes was never the bastion of the liberal media people claim it is, but it’s definitely taken a hard right turn since nepo baby AG Sulzberger took over the family business. He oversaw James Bennett becoming opinion editor, who let Bari Weiss and Tom Cotton run insane 4chan shit for a couple years before the normal employees put up enough of a stink to run him out. (With a few notable exceptions, the opinion section still sucks shit though.)

The rightward tilt of the “straight” news side were always there, with the Iraq War propaganda being the most blatant in my lifetime. But Trump has sent them over the deep end; either to appear neutral with both-sides bullshit, or actively targeting a minority to signal their willingness to work with fascists.

None of this will save them if they succeed in getting the second Trump term they want so bad. He hates their fancy high society guts and will send them to the camps with the rest of us.

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Beware of the Speaker

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As soon as Republicans squeaked out control of the House last November, I did a bunch of cartoons predicting this debt ceiling mess and ways to avoid it. Instead, the White House was high on their own supply and believed Republicans would magically become rational and not do the thing they campaigned on doing.

The solutions have been out there, being shouted by nobodies like myself, and “serious” people since the first time this happened during the Obama Administration. But arguments for the Trillion Dollar Coin and 14th Amendment hold little sway in a White House still enamored with the opinions of centrist toilet men.

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Scab Scripts

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The Writers’ Guild of America declared a strike early Tuesday after the executive side of the entertainment business refused to negotiate their modest demands. A lot has changed since the last writers’ strike in 2007, especially how media is consumed and compensated.

Netflix’s red envelopes were the big new thing back then, and now they’re a relic young people think coexisted with BETAMAX. Yet pay, residuals, and benefits are still stuck in that ancient time before we had to manage a dozen or so streaming logins.

All of these studios are making profits, just not enough to satisfy Wall Street’s maw. So they’re screwing writers and nickel-and-diming their subscribers by canceling shows and memory-holing their back catalogs to save a few cents on residuals, all to squeeze out more dividends and stock buybacks.

Joe “Union Guy” Biden broke a rail strike so the economy wouldn’t take a hit. If this writers’ strike goes on long enough to harm the studios’ bottom lines, I’m sure he’ll find a way to intervene.

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White House Sophistry Briefing

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With Title 42 coming to end (only because they’re ending the pandemic emergency declaration in May), the Biden administration has begun floating the idea of bringing family detainment back. That’s the same thing that caused all the good liberals with signs on their lawns to protest “kids in cages” when Trump did it.

The White House has also recently stymied any hope of D.C. self rule, refused to condemn Israel’s super-apartheid government fomenting violence in the West Bank, and generally doing everything it can to wipe out their 2020 campaign platform.

Now I get to sit back and wait for angry emails telling me how rude I am for criticizing this administration when Republicans are much, much worse.

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Busted Books

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A hodge podge of topical things.

The shitty contract forced onto rail workers by Congress and the President that contains zero (0) paid sick days is going to cause a lot of problems. Either immediately to the supply chain if a wildcat strike happens, or electorally when unions abandon Democrats for abandoning them.

“B-b-but it was Republicans who voted against it!” some might say. And that’s what Democrats planned on by decoupling sick leave from the rest of the bill. I typed a version of this on Mastodon, where I’ve been dabbling since my Musk-induced departure from Twitter. Hive Social is phone only, and not very secure, so I’m not doing much there besides parking my name.

Decoupling sick days from the rest of the rail bill was done by the Democratic House, so they could blame Senate Republicans while pleasing rail barons.

The antitrust thing could be about Ticketmaster flubbing Taylor Swift tickets, Amazon, cable companies, or almost literally anything else that sucks in this country.

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Bivalent Boosters

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I had a bivalent booster shot scheduled this week, but it was canceled the night before due to shortages. Fingers crossed that my rescheduled appointment has the booster juice next week.

The rollout for this round of boosters is atrocious. It wasn’t great last fall, with only 30% of those eligible getting one; and that winter saw omicron and a peak of 4,000+ deaths a day in January. Maybe the plan to let everyone get it and let eugenics do the rest will mean less death this time around, but whistling past a million dead to get back to “normal” has let out the sociopath in all of us.

Get the booster, wear a mask in enclosed public spaces, and get the flu shot too. There are still people who can’t do any that who are relying on the rest of society to create an environment that’s safe enough for them to return to.

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