[ED NOTE: See below this week’s collection for a bit of troubling Tooning News that broke on Friday night… –BF]
I’m late to the game…But so was he…
TOONING NEWS: On Friday night, Washington Post‘s Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, the great Anne Telnaes — whose work has been featured here from time to time — announced she was quitting the Post. In a brief column explaining her reasons, she cites a recent cartoon idea submitted for publication that was spiked by her editor, for the first time since joining the paper in 2008, “because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at.” In this instance, her pen was aimed at, among others, Amazon founder and Post owner Jeff Bezos, as well as other billionaire media and tech bros and the Disney corporation for bending the knee (and giving millions) to the incoming President before he takes office…
See Telnaes’ full explanation and a rough draft of her spiked toon is here. The Post‘s response to Telnaes is reported here.
As The BRAD BLOG’s former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: “With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered species, please consider supporting them if you possibly can.”
The BRAD BLOG is looking for someone — other than me — who may be able and available to post our weekly toons here! Interested? Let me know!
It must never be forgotten that the DNC elevated Trump as their handpicked pied piper. This “existential threat to democracy” was put in position because the Democratic leadership played chicken with the fate of the nation in their pursuit of power… and lost!
That albatross needs to be hung around their collective necks in perpetuity.
[sigh]
Kamala Harris, what do you say to your disempowered voters?
What do democrats say to their disempowered voters?
What do disempowered voters say to GOP devotees of criminal, anti-democracy, Russian asset, & predatory psycopath Trump? They intend to tank the U.S. dollar and economy to enrich themselves and empower Russia, and ruin all the rest of us.
I think that rural conservatives and even maga devotees wouldn’t go along with losing Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and the GOP tanking our dollar for cryptocurrency while raiding Fort Knox as some predict, which would cause money inflation and a great depression.
We could all be impoverished in a flash. Left dumbfounded.
I like what Greg Palast is doing:
https://mastodon.online/@GregPa...65389784244409
GregPalast
@GregPalast@mastodon.online
We’re working feverishly to get the data to calculate the effect of racist voter suppression trickery on the election’s outcome. Not unexpectedly, we are getting stonewalled by red-state officials about the number of provisional ballots uncounted (> 42.3% we find from well-hidden data), the number of mail-in ballots discarded (> 2 million), and the number of vigilante challenges to legit voters (> 852,000).
Here’s what the numbers are telling us so far : https://www.gregpalast.com/cart...nd-the-donald/
The U.S. media will write about vote suppression tactics during an election. But never would the media report on the effect of suppression on the November 5 vote count.
But the Palast Team does, with precision, based on data and facts. And here’s what the numbers are telling us so far. Absent vote suppression tactics,
“The wholesale attack on votes and voters cost Kamala Harris Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia “” which would have brought her to a winning 286 Electoral votes.”
As Gerald Griggs, President of the Georgia NAACP told me, “Vote suppression and voter intimidation won.”
March 1933 German federal election
Joe Biden has said that he would have won the election.
How, given that legitimate Democratic Voters were denied their right to vote and Kamala’s valid win.
According to Greg Palast, Jessie Jackson told Biden and Harris at a White House visit about the GOP’s plan to steel votes from Democrats and so from Kamala.
https://www.gregpalast.com/will...our-president/
Will Vigilantes or Voters Choose our President?
by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.For the Chicago Tribune Syndicate
November 4, 2024
“We’ve marched too long, we’ve worked too hard, and died too young. Don’t let them steal your vote.” “” Rev. Jesse Jackson
So informed, what plan did they or she have to thwart GOP anti-democracy theft of votes? Any plans for Nov 5th did not work, no communication, no remedy, or plans now, or upcoming plans?
https://donorbox.org/palast-vig...tes-inc-stream