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2025-06-10 02:27 pm

"CSotD: To Live and Die in LA"

Some relevant political cartoons and commentary about them.

Articles from The Daily Cartoonist started showing up in my Google News feed a few months ago, and it was usually just silly, innocuous stuff, but today is when I finally saw one that convinced me to officially add it to my "followed sources" thing and share it here.

I don't often see "newspaper" comics like this, because I stopped regularly reading physical newspapers over two decades ago. I did keep up with the The Comics Curmudgeon for a while (mostly for the commentary), back in the 2010s or so, but my interest in even that much eventually slid off into oblivion as well. Time will tell how long my interest in TDC holds up.

(And yes, I am aware that websites like GoComics exist... I just don't much care.)
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2025-06-09 08:13 pm

"Donald Trump and ICE Invade Los Angeles - EVEN MORE NEWS"


"Hi. In today's episode of EVEN MORE NEWS, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan discuss the LA ICE raids and protests, their implications for people living in LA and beyond, the escalation of anti-democratic tactics in the Trump Administration, and the tools available to fight them."



Not even two minutes in, and I'm already throwing up a middle finger at a screenshot of a tweet. (Or whatever the hell they're called on """""Truth""""" Social, if that's what the image was from, I don't know. Later, they show a screenshot of some filth that Trump spewed on the actual """"""""""Truth"""""""""" [which also got a double middle finger from me] and it looked a bit different from the earlier thing, so the first one was probably Twitter? [Or I guess I should say 卐, rather than Twitter.] In any case, it's probably safe to say that Pete Hegseth is not using Bluesky or Threads [is Threads even still a thing?], regardless.)

Centrist libs trying to concern troll protests, meanwhile Donald Trump is about to send has already sent in Marines and LAPD was already shooting rubber bullets at reporters.

I've been asking for a while when will it get to the point to where (sane, non-Trump-fart-huffing) people just get fed up and start saying, "no, fuck you, we're simply not going to do what you say because what you're saying is bullshit" to all the dumbfuckery that Trump's been ordering, and I think we're seeing that happen now. And... we really are going to end up in a literal Civil War again, aren't we. Assuming we aren't already in the thick of it, even now.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller and everyone else who is all gung ho about this horseshit, as usual.
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2025-06-09 03:00 pm

"How narcissism became everyone's obsession"

"A once-obscure psychological disorder threatens democracy and haunts the internet"

I kind of miss the days when the only thing I knew about narcissists and narcissism was that the WWF gave Lex Luger the weird gimmick of "The Narcissist."


(And, of course, mentioning the WWE brings things full circle again back to Trump.)
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2025-06-09 04:43 am

"Gaza aid ship with Greta Thunberg onboard diverted by Israeli forces"

"The country's defence minister says the activists will be shown a video of Hamas's 7 October attacks."

Right, okay, and who's going to show that assclown a video of all the Palestinian children who have died since October 7, either instantly via bombs or bullets, or horrifically slowly via hunger and/or disease, as a direct result of the actions of Israel?

Oh, who am I kidding? The fucker probably has all that already saved to his personal spank bank folder.
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2025-06-07 02:05 pm

"Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates"

It's like Trump just says a bunch of random shit (e.g. "ThE rEpUbLiCaN pArTy Is EvEn MoRe UnIfIeD tHaN iT wAs ThReE dAyS aGo," and "I hAd NoThInG tO dO wItH ePsTeIn. ThAt'S oLd NeWs.") that is obviously not true that he just expects to magically be true or become true, simply because he said it. And, too often, it actually works, because he has thousands or even millions of lickspittles working around the clock, either openly or in secret (perhaps even unbeknownst to him), to make as much of the bizarre shit he says become as true as it possibly can, or at least to have enough of a veneer of "truth" that too many people just accept it as "true," even if that's to the detriment of everyone not named Donald Trump.
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2025-06-06 08:16 pm

"Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with data on millions of Americans

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Hey look, it's the Supreme Court doing what the Supreme Court does best these days, i.e. bending over, letting Trump do whatever fucking dogshit he wants, and not even pretending to give a fuck anymore.

*weary goddamned motherfucking sigh*

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump and the RWNJs on the current, Trump-stacked SCOTUS, as usual.
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2025-06-06 03:27 pm

"Donald Trump and Elon Musk Might Be Friends Again By The Time This Comes Out - EVEN MORE NEWS"


"Hi. What a day for Cody Johnston to have jury duty! On today's episode, Some More News head writer Dave Bell joins Katy and Jonathan to talk about all the angry, petty, childish tweets sent by two people who also happen to be the most powerful person and the richest person on the planet. (Also: Cody shows up for five minutes on his juror lunch break to join in the fun!)"



Good hedge of bets to posit that they might be friends again by the time this video was released. However, fortunately for the rest of us, Trump and Musk are still not friends anymore. Hell, even I didn't know it had gotten quite so bad between these two gargantuan manbabies. But then, I don't have an account on either """""Truth""""" Social or on 卐, so... *shrug*

Here's something that occurred to me as I was watching this (and I kind of expected them to actually mention it, too, but they never did): rather than fighting Mark Zuckerberg, maybe Phony Stark could cage fight Dumbshit Jackass instead? I'd much rather see that fight than any Musk vs Zuck one (as long as it ended in permanently debilitating, possibly fatal injuries for both combatants).

(EDIT) And for all the liberals/Democrats writing "think" pieces about should we accept Musk "back," now that he's on the outs with Trump... hell to the fuck no on that one, good buddy. The Left never "had" Elon to start with. He's always been a shitheel. He just used to do a better job of hiding it. Let his ass twist in the wind. (/EDIT)

Also, guys, you do know you could do an episode specifically about Peter Thiel and Palantir[1], right? You're saying here that "nobody knows who Peter Thiel is" and that "maybe the guy backed by Peter Thiel probably shouldn't have been the vice president" and all that, so... make an episode explicitly about that shit. I mean, you've already mentioned it as asides in several other episodes, but do a whole-ass episode just about that topic. Granted, the eyes and ears that really need to see and hear it would never do so, but still, it's better than just lamenting that "nobody knows who Peter Thiel is."

[1] - Seriously, what is it with right-wing kooks and directly naming their asinine horseshit after easily corruptible and evil magical artifacts from fictional stories? What's next, Trump or Musk or somebody unveiling a literal Torment Nexus? (I mean, Trump just being the president is already a Torment Nexus in its own way, in all but name, but still.)
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2025-06-06 01:53 pm

"Trump tells CNN he's 'not even thinking about Elon' and won't speak to him 'for a while'"

So, what this really means, given that Trump is an inveterate, pathological liar, is that Trump is continuously seething and malding about Elon Musk.

I'm almost surprised that Trump didn't trot out the usual "I barely know the guy"/"I never even met the guy" thing, like he usually does when he's had a falling out with someone (despite the copious photo and video evidence to the contrary). Or is that more something that he saves for when one of his obvious crime buddies gets caught irrefutably committing a crime on his behalf? Or is it more for women he's raped? It happens so much that it's difficult to keep track of the who's who of all the people that Trump "never even met" or "barely knows."
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2025-06-03 04:37 pm

"In a break with Trump, Elon Musk calls the GOP megabill a 'disgusting abomination'"

For once, he's not wrong. Stopped clock, and all that.

That said, if this is what begins Elon Musk's descent into obscurity, that would be a silver lining. Just wish he could drag his (former?) co-President down with him, though.

Or, conversely, if this is what finally begins to remove the sheen from Trump himself, especially in the eyes of Congressional Republicans, all the better. It's pretty unlikely that they would start backing Phony Stark over Dumbshit Jackass, though.

Either way, I'll just be glad when I can stop hearing about the goddamned "big, beautiful bill." It's certainly big, I'll give it that, but there is absolutely nothing beautiful about it. If Sissy SpaceX shitting on it is what ends up killing it, then great. Incredibly tepid hurrah for Musk, I guess, if it actually dies as a result of this.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with both Elon Musk and Donald Trump (and with everyone who voted yes on this dumbfuck bill), as usual.
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2025-06-01 10:24 pm

Another movie to MAGA comparison...

Like the previous one, but shorter.

Donald Trump (and everything and everyone directly involved with and connected to and one step removed from Donald Trump, either visibly or behind the scenes) is like the aliens from the movie Independence Day.

MAGA is like those people throwing rooftop parties welcoming them.

The rest of us are like the ones trying to evacuate the cities. Some of us just can't help but stop and stare in horror.

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2025-05-30 04:07 pm

"Why The Supreme Court Keeps Letting Trump Break The Law - EVEN MORE NEWS"


"Hi. Katy, Cody, and Jonathan are joined by Leah Litman, author of the new book 'Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes.' They discuss how the Supreme Court is making it up as they go and allowing Donald Trump to do pretty much whatever he wants while they maintain a facade of legitimacy."



Before even starting to watch the video: a big part of why that is the case is because three of the six RWNJ justices were explicitly appointed by Trump, during his first reign as SCROTUS IMPOTUS, and (at least) one of the other three pre-existing RWNJ justices was a flagrantly corrupt pile of shit even before Trump came along and is an even bigger corrupt pile of shit now. And, of course, the three non-RWNJ justices are basically irrelevant now, since the RWNJ justices outnumber them (by design), thus making the RWNJ word of the RWNJ majority, literally, the law of the land now (also by design).

Now to actually watch the video.

Okay, right off the bat, why would anyone with even a single working brain cell believe that the Supreme Court are "the heroes who are going to save us from Trump," when they (aside from an extremely rare few noted exceptions) have been doing literally the exact polar opposite of that since even before Trump became the SCROTUS IMPOTUS a second time? Hell, their direct actions and rulings are at least part of why Trump even is the SCROTUS IMPOTUS again.

Yeah, Republicans, hypocritically, have been expressly doing for the past several decades the very thing they've been whinging that Democrats have been trying to do, i.e. politicizing the court system and stacking the courts (not just the SCOTUS) with judges favorable to their RWNJ positions. And Democrats have mostly just been sitting there with their thumbs up their asses, harrumphing about the sanctity of the courts or whatever, and doing little to nothing to stop them.

Also, yeah, the fact that Supreme Court justices are just openly taking a shit ton of bribes now doesn't help, either, and the fact that so very few people seem to care about this is just mind boggling. (But then, look at Trump. He just accepted a bare-ass, glaring bribe in the form of a jet from Qatar, he isn't even trying to make it not look like a bare-ass, glaring bribe, and Trumpanzees seem to be perfectly fine with that, so why should they care about Clarence Thomas or whoever accepting similar, only ever so slightly less bare-ass, glaring bribes? I mean, sure, anyone who isn't a Trump-fart-huffing sycophant is calling it out for what it is, but who cares what we think, anymore?)

Katy makes a good point. Taunting the 700-pound gorilla in the White House and calling him a chicken or a taco or whatever is more likely going to cause the 700-pound gorilla to start smashing things with his giant 700-pound gorilla fists, rather than acting in anything remotely resembling a reasonable human manner.

Oh, they're talking directly about Trump's own acceptance of blatant bribes now. Yeah, well, what I said two paragraphs up remains the same.

I am pessimistic enough to believe that we will never see a moment where die hard Trumpanzees see something that Trump did and say "He did what?! No! He's gone too far this time!" or whatever. They'll simply perform whatever mental gymnastics, same as they always do, that are required to allow them to say that whatever Trump does is always good, actually, and it's all the Democrats' fault, somehow, even up to and including a hypothetical scenario where Trump literally knocks on their door and tells them that their homes are going to be bombed on his orders with them locked inside. I'm only being maybe 51% facetious there.

(Oh, and Dreamwidth seems to be having issues at the moment, because nine times out of ten that I hit the "Preview" button on this post, it just goes to a white page with "Sorry, there was a problem" at the top of it. Hope this post doesn't get eaten when I actually try to post it.)
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2025-05-28 07:37 pm

"Trump's not happy about Wall Street's name for tariff flip-flops"

"He bristles at the acronym TACO, which stands for 'Trump always chickens out.'"

Poor widdle manbaby.

That photo of him at the top of the article depicts how everyone else feels about still being the SCROTUS IMPOTUS (at least those of us who aren't among his lickspittles, and maybe even them, at this point).

Anyway, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual.
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2025-05-28 02:23 pm

"The Next Generation of MAGA Influencers - SOME MORE NEWS"


"Hi. You may have noticed a new crop of influencers like The Nelk Boys and Bryce Hall taking over online spaces. Today we’re looking at who these people are and how MAGA influencers garnered so much... well, influence."



"The extremely partisan and vindictive crime president, looking to wet his thick beak as sloppily as possible, is now lording over every social media platform, which now happens to be one of the primary ways in which Americans get their information, the youth of which specifically following individual influencers, who may or may not be getting paid by political operatives working directly for that president to put out misinformation."

(My only minor quibble with that italicized quote from Cody Johnston there is that he used the world "misinformation" when he clearly should have used "disinformation.")

This is just dystopian shit. All of it.

It's frustrating and sad and horrible and disgusting that MAGA has been around long enough for there to be a "next generation" of anything related to it.

Also, I'd just like to state, yet again, that I loathe the entire concept of "influencers" in general. The only consolation for me is that I'd never heard of any of those "next generation" MAGA assholes, prior to this video. But then, there were a whole lot of mentions in this video of the current/old generation of MAGA assholes, too.
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2025-05-20 01:11 pm

"Joe Biden Has Cancer, FEMA Has Problems - EVEN MORE NEWS"


"Hi. In Today's episode of Even More News, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan discuss Joe Biden's cancer revelation. They also discuss Trump's big boy birthday Army parade, FEMA's failures during Disaster season, and MAGA turning on Kash Patel and Dan Bongino."



Joe Biden was a bad president, for myriad reasons.

Joe Biden was also a better president, by many orders of magnitude, than Donald Trump is, ever was, and ever will be.

Both of those statements can be (and are) true. (And really, the second one admittedly isn't saying all that much, because, as I've pointed out a bunch of times, a literal wet sack of dogshit would be a better president than Donald Trump. Joe Biden was better than a literal wet sack of dogshit, at least.)

And yes, dementia and cancer both suck egregious amounts of desiccated, encrusted asshole. Only one of the two mentioned above are human beings upon whom I would wish both cancer and dementia, and it's not the human being who was already recently diagnosed with at least one of those.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual. And may he possibly suffer the worst of cancer and dementia in this world before arriving there. Said conditions can afflict even the best of people. Why should Donald Trump, who is the worst of people, be spared?
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2025-05-19 12:33 pm

"Trump & The Press: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)"


"John Oliver discusses how Donald Trump is attempting to reshape coverage of him in the press, how he's using his power to threaten media outlets he doesn't agree with, why this signals a slide toward authoritarianism for the U.S., and whether or not you guys can also see this twink we're pretty sure is a ghost. Seriously. We are so scared."[1]



All anyone needs to know about Trump and the press is this: If Trump likes a given news source, then that news source is probably utter dogshit and should be ignored entirely. If Trump hates a given news source, then that is probably one of the news sources to which you actually should be paying attention.

It really is that simple.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual.

[1] - I really don't understand how they decide which "joke" to feature in the video description. John Oliver went on for like a full minute and a half about Doctor Odyssey (a show I'd never heard of prior to this video), with more mentions of it later in the video. The "twink ghost" thing was merely a short 15-20 second one-and-done "joke" roughly a third into it. That also has been the case for most of the previous LWT video descriptions, i.e. they pick some one-off "joke" to feature, when there were other "jokes" that were much longer and (arguably) "funnier." This may sound weird, but I really don't watch these Last Week Tonight clips (or episodes of Some More News, for that matter) for the almost entirely unfunny, tryhard "comedy" bits.
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2025-05-16 08:51 pm

"Grok's Meltdown, Donald Trump's Rampant Corruption, and Ms. Rachel w/Mehdi Hasan - EVEN MORE NEWS"


"Hi. Zeteo's Mehdi Hasan joins Katy, Cody, and Jonathan to discuss interviewing Republicans, Zeteo's new documentary about the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, Afrikaner 'refugees,' Ms. Rachel, and Trump's corruption tour of the Middle East."



Trump is literally "palling around with terrorists" now. When did we all get dimension-shifted to Bizarro World? And that's just one of several horrors they talked about in this episode. Go figure.

Everyone who is not a Trump anus-sniffer is just so done with all this shit already, and yet, we still have another 3.67 years to go (at best, assuming Trump's handlers don't figure out a way from him to get yet another term).
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2025-05-16 01:38 pm

"Ex-FBI boss James Comey investigated for seashell photo seen as threat to Trump"

Seems that Dumbshit Trump is not a fan of thinly veiled potential calls for assassination if they're aimed at him, rather than when he himself is making the same toward his political opponents. How hypocritical of him.

Also, whenever James Comey is mentioned in the news, I feel obligated to refer back to the True Pundit Hoax.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual. Or in other terms: 8647. ¬_¬
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2025-05-14 03:12 pm

"Why Is DOGE Lying To Everybody About Everything? - SOME MORE NEWS"


"Hi. Today we're looking at the Department of Government Efficiency and how Elon Musk and his goons spent the last several months dismantling our government and propping their actions up with embarrassing lies."



I'll answer the question posed in the video title before I even watch the video. The reason why the Department of Obnoxious Memelords is lying about everything is because Elon Musk and Donald Trump, the latter being a known pathological liar and the former being a sniveling sycophant... and also a huge fucking liar. Simple as that.

Now to actually watch the video and see what nuance Some More News may put on this in the course of an hour.

...yeah, okay, I had completely forgotten that Vivek Ramaswamy had been involved with the Department of Goofy Edgelords for about five minutes.

So... without going into the nitty gritty (which one can do, if one really wants to, by simply watching the above embedded video), about half of this video was example after example after example of Elon Musk (in that weird monotone he always uses), and Elon Musk toadies like "Big Balls," all lying their asses off and demonstrating to everyone just how incompetent and inefficient they really are, and then the other half of the video was describing the effects of how all that stupid horseshit will fuck over American citizens and also people who are not American citizens, and then a bit at the end about the real reasons why Phony Stark and Dumbfuck Jizzstain Trump are doing all of this.

Seriously, the fact that one of the staffers of the Department of Overflowing Kaka goes by the name "Big Balls" pretty much epitomizes all of this ridiculous nonsense.

Also, the promise (threat?) of another entire SMN video on the topic of the Department of Ridiculous Knuckleheads. Yay(?)

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Elon Musk and with Donald Trump, as usual.
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2025-05-12 03:38 pm

"Alliance Defending Freedom: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)"


"John Oliver takes a look at the Alliance Defending Freedom – the legal organization behind several landmark Supreme Court cases, including the Dobbs case that overturned Roe v. Wade. Plus, a five-star book review of a one-star book."



It's crazy how these shitty, hateful RWNJ organizations name themselves in the most ironically assbackwards ways.

I'll just say it again: Religion is not an opiate for the masses, it is a neurodegenerative toxin for the masses. Though I think maybe I used an inferior term and that "encephalopathic" might have been better than "neurodegenerative."