Let’s start this Sunday out with the week’s best political cartoons from TokyoSand over at Political Charge, shall we? Many topics to tackle this week … the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Russian war in Ukraine, fuel prices, the emails between Clarence Thomas’ wife and Mark Meadows … whew … it’s enough to wear us out, but the political cartoonists are at their best! Thank you, TS!
Here’s some of the great cartoons I saw this week about the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the war in Ukraine, and more.
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Thanks, Michael!!!
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When it comes to commentary of the antics of the US Right I’ve having a trouble distinguishing betwixt Cartoons and Editorials.
It’s like looking in the mirror (sarcasm warning…sarcasm warning) of the Martyr’d Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters antics.
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Agreed … more often than not, it’s hard to see the humour, but I still admire those cartoonists who can say as much in one picture as a 1,500-word essay. And let’s face it, with half the nation unable or unwilling to read and comprehend that essay, perhaps this is the only way to educate them!
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Good point Jill.
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Jill is sharing some very relevant cartoons again this week! The Clarence Thomas one was my favorite!
xoxo, E.M.
PS: Thank you, Jill for always keeping me in the loop!
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Thank YOU, my friend, for sharing this post!!! I appreciate it!
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You’re most welcome!
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We get it, you’re a Democrat.
But, as a Gold Star parent, I do not want us in another war.
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No GP, I’m actually not registered with either party and I have voted for candidates in both parties before. Like you, I do not want us … or anybody … in another war. However, we cannot close our eyes and simply allow a dictator with a desire to build an empire by killing millions have his way. It’s rather like, if you see someone beating a woman on the street corner, you’re going to have to step in and try to stop it, right?
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Yes, indeed. It just seems to me that Biden is “egging on” that dictator. Putin at this point really needs to find a way to back down gracefully and he isn’t going to do that while ‘losing face.’ He can’t allow it to seem that Biden’s inept sanctions did the job.
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This is part of the long European Drama 1,500 years old. The USA linked by myriad and subtle ties to Europe keeps out of it at its own peril.
Roosevelt 32nd President and the majority of his military staff understood this, so did the presidents and attendant staffs during the Cold War.
Putin is the one who decided to ride the tiger.
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Oh that he did – no question about that.
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You make a good point, that Putin is not going to ‘lose face’ and he must be given a way to bow out with his ‘dignity’, such as it is, intact. I hadn’t really thought of it like that before. Still … we cannot simply sit back and do nothing. I don’t know what the answer is … I suspect nobody is quite sure at the moment.
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It’s very touchy.
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From one of the grim European perspective…..
As long as Putin wants to stay we keep the Ukrainians supplied with sufficient weapons for air defence, anti-tank, and low level guerrilla warfare. And there’s the economic squeeze, harder.
And then see what goes on in the more shadowy corridors of the Kremlin….Wouldn’t be the first time.
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True … those of us who simply want Putin to tuck his proverbial tail between his legs and slink off home leaving the rest of us to live our lives in peace are living in a dream world. Real life doesn’t always work out as the fairy tales once led us to believe. Eventually, Putin will be gone, but what devastation will have been wrought in the interim? How many lives lost? How many families destroyed? And how many billions of dollars wasted that could have been used to build and create rather than to destroy?
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All very pertinent questions Jill.
And there is damage done by association such as the disruption in exports from both nations…Like grain supplies to North Africa, and I think some of the little parts which go into computes- Ukraine is in the supply chain there.
Mostly importantly will be the re-building of Ukraine practically, socially, economically and so forth. Ideally all those assets which have been seized should be channelled there….tough luck guys who lose them….an’t war a kicker?
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Ah yes … we tend to forget the “collateral damage” if it doesn’t directly affect us, at least visibly. No doubt the world will be changed by all of this, and much as I try, I cannot see how it will be changed in any positive way. But perhaps that’s just the cynic in me.
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Cause and effect Jill. One event leads to another and there are ripples in the pond.
The antics of the USA Right, Brexit, Yemen, Syria and now Ukraine to name but a few, all linked in some Bad Karmic thread.
We let our guards down and think that liberal and rational ways will win over, forgetting corrosion never rests.
More than ever I believe at all levels be they social, political home and international……If you want Peace. Prepare for War*
*War in this case does just mean Military Conflict but the willingness to meet Intolerance and Ignorance head on, crushing the latter- Intolerance of Intolerance is the only justifiable Intolerance.
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Our generation, born in times of (relative) peace, became complacent. But then, we didn’t look far from our own homes, for if we had, we would have noticed that ‘peace’ is not the norm in most of the world. And now? It seems to me as if we’re determined to destroy ourselves from within … why wait for somebody else to do it when we can do it ourselves more quickly and permanently? And we don’t even need a war! Just evil, corrupt politicians and an under-educated, mindless citizenry! Sigh. Forgive me … my mood is dark today.
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I can relate to that Jill.
Each solution brings its own set of challenges and problems, and you can find yourself going around in circles.
Looking to the Ukrainian Example but taking guns out of the equation (for the present ……) if folk want the USA they knew they are going to have to fight for it.
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Yes, let’s leave guns out of the equation, preferably forever. You’re right, of course, but the problem is that those who believe in democratic principles, in truth and honesty, don’t seem willing to fight very hard. They seem to just … sit down and shut up, cross their fingers and hope for a better outcome. I include myself in that, to a large degree, for I talk the talk, but I don’t exactly walk the walk. I’m not out there protesting, financially supporting good candidates, or even throwing rotten tomatoes at the likes of Ted Cruz!
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We all do what we can, as best we can, how we can Jill, as for the rest they will have to learn the lessons, the hard way.
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Ayup … that’s what I just wrote in a comment to emkingston … we do what we can given the resources we have and every little bit matters.
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See … I’ve learned from you!
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…And Keith…don’t forget Keith.🙏
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Oh yes … how could I forget Keith, for it’s his face I see every time I use a bad word of rant a bit while writing my posts!!!
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He’s the master of the quiet accusation and difficult questions. Read the style of his letters to editors and politicians. It’s all there.
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Yep, I agree! I tell him sometimes that he’s my “gold standard”, but one I mostly fail to live up to.
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Us ranters will just have to sit in our corner and say ‘Gee, I wish I could write like that,’
Add…’Well, mebbe next week’
Then go back to our ways
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I think that it takes both kinds … the Keiths and the Jill/Roger type. We probably get through to some people and Keith to others. Just a difference in style, but we all are who we are, and at our age, we ain’t likely to change much!
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All true Jill 😀.
Thanks for that perspective.🤝
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Thank you, Ned!!!
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