All too accurate
The cartoonist who created this is getting death threats. There was an event he was going to be a speaker at that had to be canceled.
The cartoon is true on multiple levels. Also, hello Saint Barbara.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/buffalo-cartoon-flood-threats-00448272
Republican vines have tender grapes.
Thatâs a great phrase. And so appropriate.
The part of the sedan chair pole handled by Gorsuch seems badly misaligned with the rest of the pole. Looks more in line with a long turd being issued from a very uncomfortable Trump.
Wrathful grapes, there.
Maybe the pole is just crooked, which would be appropriate.
From the article:
âWe can and must respectfully condemn the Buffalo News for its shameful and heartless decision to publish a cartoon that disrespected the victims and families in Texas âŚ" â Michael Kracker, the chair of the Republican Party of Erie County
Fuck you, Michael. What was shameful and heartless was the Republican ass wipes that have fallen all over themselves to destroy emergency services, the lack of which is what harmed those victims in the first place. That cartoon isnât disrespecting them, itâs calling you dumb fucks out for spreading that message and for harming them.
Also: Kracker? Really? You canât make this shit up, can you?
Iâll make one point of order here: Mr Kracker is completely correct.
He and his ilk can indeed condemn the Buffalo News, just as they can condemn the European Union, the International Jewish Conspiracy, the Dread Lord Melkor, or the second snowth (you know the one, the shifty looking one) in the Muppets song Mah-nah-mah-nah. They can condemn whoever they want to. And they can do it for whatever reason they want to. They can condemn Melkor because he never flossed, they can condemn the Elders of Zion because they worked to keep the secret of the perfect bagel from the eyes of the goyim, those are certainly things they have the ability to do.
And indeed, they must do so. As in, it is obligatory for them to do so. It is not a moral requirement, it is an ideological requirement. They demonstrate their faith and purity by doing so, and anyone who does not do so sufficiently has shown themselves to be suspect and impure.
Theyâre not doing it because itâs right, or even factually correct. Theyâre doing it because they were told to do it. And they believe it because they were told to believe it. They will believe anything they are told to, because thatâs how totalitarian cults work.
Everything else he said in that sentence is a flat out lie, but thatâs the point. That itâs a malevolent lie is irrelevant as to whether they can condemn the Buffalo News, and central to why they must condemn it.
This is MAGA. This is Putinism. This is Goodthink. This is fascism.
By the ever trenchant Clay Bennett:
(could even go up to 2025-1776 year catastrophe)
Being flatulence (Newtonâs 3rd law) propelled recalls of a long-ago school-yard discussion of Supermanâs various powers; and how he used to (~1939ish) fly entirely by jumping really hard. Then came the, quite delightful, Fleischer animated cartoons and multiple jumps were too hard to animate, and then it was off to the races with lifting a mere car wasnât enough and x-ray vision and and⌠hereâs an excellent coverage of the ramping process in the first answer here.
One quibble: the cartoon makes him look too much like Jimmy Carter, who does not deserve the inadvertent insult.
And I would love it if his own movement helped to take his ass down, too.
