{"id":14599,"date":"2023-03-19T05:30:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14599"},"modified":"2023-03-19T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T19:35:26","slug":"the-con-in-silicon-toons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14599","title":{"rendered":"Sunday ‘Con in Silicon’ Toons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>Mark Fiore’s hilarious animated video “Freedom-from-Woke Bank” is here<\/a>, where he also writes…<\/p>\n

Somehow, right-wingers were able to turn news of a bank failure (or two) into a conversation about “wokeness.”<\/a><\/p>\n

As you’ve probably heard by now, a combination of too many treasury bonds, greedy bankers, dumb tech bros “\u201d and bipartisan legislation that weakened banking regulation “\u201d turned into a big scary bank failure that sent shockwaves through global financial markets.<\/p>\n

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank<\/strong> can be explained by reviewing actual numbers and examining a paper trail of poor financial decisions<\/a> made at SVB and in the halls of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Instead of talking about that, right-wing media and politicians are pointing the finger at Silicon Valley Bank’s supposedly excessive (and financially risky) wokeness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If that makes no logical sense to you, don’t worry, it’s not supposed to. It’s just another example of Republicans trying to distract you from uncomfortable facts<\/a>. Nothing more than another load of linguistic misdirection from the right.<\/p>\n

Think of them like a deep sea anglerfish, only much uglier.<\/p><\/div>\n

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As cartoonist Jen Sorenson writes<\/a> with the above toon, commemorating this week’s grim milestone…<\/p>\n

I was only a few years into my cartooning career at this point, and cannot overstate how appallingly one-sided the news coverage was during the buildup to the invasion. I didn’t have cable at the time, so I watched a lot of NBC, which featured an endless parade of hawkish “experts.” For those who’ve forgotten, or weren’t old enough, Phil Donahue was a rare TV personality who dared to criticize the invasion. MSNBC fired him, citing low ratings — even though his was the highest-rated show on the network.<\/p>\n

Later, memos surfaced<\/a> that he was in fact canned because NBC execs considered him a “difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.”<\/div>\n

Finally, one more worth clicking for toon fans this week. 1922: Origins of the Sunday Funnies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please consider supporting a disappearing craft <\/a> with a subscription to the work of one of these excellent political cartoonists.<\/p>\n

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\nPerry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs<\/a>,
\nusually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics.
\nHe’s also on Twitter @PDiddie<\/a>.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toons","bb-type-toon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14599"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}