I sit here remembering how he'd exhort his MAGA goons with "vote for me and you'll never have to vote again." He did slip in the truth now and then. I heard it and I know you did, too.
They've done a very good job of that in North Carolina. Every time a Democrat does win, the Republicans in the legislature start tearing away the powers of that office. Nearly half the voters are Democrats, but 10 of 14 US House districts are occupied by a Republican. They've taken gerrymandering to a fine art.
Remember how they "knew" the 2020 election was "stolen"? That's the clue that tells us what THEY DO, because they always project their evil actions on their foes.
I'm 77 and my Little Old Man is 97. He doesn't completely comprehend what is going on but he mostly knows it's an attack on We, the People. We wonder if we will see the remediation that must follow such an extreme pendulum swing.
That's one of my concerns as well. If we emerge from this with a shredded but still intact democratic republic, can anything be fixed? Trump needed less than a couple of WEEKS to set the country and the world on its ear. He deliberately destroyed, obliterated (a word he likes), essentially everything that Biden accomplished, and, being utterly unfettered, is working his way back into Obama's years. He viscerally hates both men, and now, rapidly becoming an absolute dictator, with hordes of minions bowing and licking his, um, boots to do his bidding, he has nothing but time to destroy whatever he likes. Further, even if he dies in office, no one should imagine that JayDee won't be as bad or even worse, considering that Vance still has a working brain, and so on down the line of succession. Sorry to be such a pessimist, but I AM.
This won't help you at all, but ... when Trump is removed for being past his pull date, Steven Miller will remove his withered claw from Trump's ass and insert it into Vance's. I apologize if this made it worse, or even if it didnt'. It just keeps getting worse.
Oh, the Goebbels Channeler? Yep. This Corrupt Clown Car Cabinet would be funny if they weren't real. Ann may be making a mistake by making them funny. They are as funny as a heart attack, which I have had.
Oh, my!! I don't want to know what having a heart attack is like. I'm glad you made it though! But without mockery and ridicule, we have no weapons at all. We have Ann here because she told WaPo to stuff it. That is one handshake away from Trump.
We are headed for what the European Parliament determined Hungary to be: a "hybrid regime of electoral autocracy." There will be elections and they will mean nothing. We may even have a majority in the House. We may elect a Democratic president. But MAGA has the levers of power and are not about to let them go
I think we are right to be worried. I could see where Trump could find some national "Trumped up" emergency in 2026 and order postponement or cancellation of elections in order to keep his majority in the Congress. The Supreme court granted him immunity from all of his "official" actions
Except that what he's learned from Orban, Putin, and Erdogan is that he doesn't have to cancel or postpone elections as long as he controls the outcome
I am thoroughly convinced that there will never be another fair and honest election. Trump has made it perfectly clear; there is no need for more elections. He is working now on gutting the election process. What is most worrisome is that Democrats are carrying on as if it were politics as usual and winning elections will rid us of Trump and his MAGA Republicans and everything can get back to normal. Nothing less than a rebellion or a civil war will out Trump and given that he has usurped all of the power of government and the military it is likely futile.
In every stage of these Oppressions, We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
A Sociopathic Cruel Boy, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
The Founders took action against the King, but they also replaced the monarchy with a different kind of tyranny.
Many wealthy, light-skinned businessmen now had all the power. They controlled who could and couldn’t vote, and they determined how the wealth was to be redistributed (mostly all back to themselves).
Our socio-economic system does indeed reward sociopaths. As long as we have the battle between the Haves and Have-nots, it will always be this way.
So now that the faults of the current system are so evident, we create a better system.
The 99% Have-nots have the power of numbers and morality over the greedy, selfish 1% haves.
The oligarchs have made it clear that they expect us to die and stop taking up resources that they think they can make better use of. We either fight for the common good or perish.
George III, in the view of the English (not in our view to be sure, but still), was a decent king. King Demento is not, in anyone's opinion but his own, considered so. The word "decent" and Demento do not belong in the same phrase, the same clause, the same sentence, the same paragraph, the same chapter, the same book, or the same library anywhere in the known or unknown universe.
The coronation has been officially endorsed by the Republican Party. If these Republicans were in power in 1776, we would still be bending our knees to King Charles III.
It's NOT a monarchy we should be worried out. In the Weimar Republic, the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act of 1933 were used in the PERCEIVED state of emergency to effectively grant the new Chancellor broad power to act outside parliamentary control. Hitler promptly used these powers to thwart constitutional governance and suspend civil liberties, which brought about the swift collapse of democracy and the creation of a one-party dictatorship under his leadership.
Until the end of World War II in Europe in 1945, the Nazis governed Germany under the pretense that all the extraordinary measures and laws they implemented were constitutional. Nevertheless, Hitler's seizure of power had effectively ended the republic, replacing its constitutional framework with Führerprinzip, the principle that "the Führer's word is above all written law".
Kate...what you say is horribly true. Remember WWII well....as a.grade schooler can take in...feel !
I take some.hope now watching.the momentum rise up.in.spirit...protesting the wrongs which surround us today. .. the waves of change perhaps at long last??
Change comes slowly...painfully .
Remember.back to that WWI time.in history....the denouement. Mussolini & his mistress hanging.upside down from poles above cheering.Italians.. Hitler in his bunker dead by his own hand...unable to meet his fate.at thought of capture / vilification of the World.
All.I personally.can do is to.keep fighting in whatever way I can at my age....my legacy, if you will, to my grandchildren, greatgrandchildren....progeny yet to come. Will never give in to fascism, cruelty, dictators or kings.....but that's just me. As so many have proclaimed....
It is all the same. We are witnessing Hitler's rebirth here in the United States. All of the components of Naziism and the madness of Hiller are emerging in the Trump dictatorship.: hatred, racism, authoritarianism, intimidation, militarism, violence, amorality, criminality, inhumanity. We freed the Germans who will free us.
Do credit Wikipedia. I lifted most of it from there! Or reword it and make it yours. I had been reading about the Weimar Republic and went to Wiki for a quick timeline. Then these sections absolutely smacked me upside da head.
Democracies die from within, when the people can no longer see its value, because they have been decoupled from the - no longer - common wealth. They clamor for a "savior", and any huckster hearing that call will make them feel listened-to, while accumulating wealth and power, and deliberately accelerating the demise of the "system" (i.e. checks and balances).
Bill passed. Time for another Revolution??
I'll drink to that.
As sage Thornton Mellon once said, "Bring us a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until one of us passes out. Then bring us one every ten minutes."
Yes!!!!!!
I know I stashed my musket somewhere.... I'll get it ready.
It is with heavy heart that I view the future. Dems optimistically think there will more elections. I’m consumed by doubt about their thinking.
I sit here remembering how he'd exhort his MAGA goons with "vote for me and you'll never have to vote again." He did slip in the truth now and then. I heard it and I know you did, too.
Oh there'll be elections. Dems just won't win any because Republicans have figured out how to rig them so they never lose.
Just watch.
They've done a very good job of that in North Carolina. Every time a Democrat does win, the Republicans in the legislature start tearing away the powers of that office. Nearly half the voters are Democrats, but 10 of 14 US House districts are occupied by a Republican. They've taken gerrymandering to a fine art.
Remember how they "knew" the 2020 election was "stolen"? That's the clue that tells us what THEY DO, because they always project their evil actions on their foes.
And how to get a zillion lawsuits filed to delay things for years,
Per Putin et al.
My wife checked out in 2016 right after the election. I am 83 and not well. I am horrified by ALL of this. 🤨
Am 91 , Charles....hear you loud and clear, sir ! Horrified right along with you !
I'm 77 and my Little Old Man is 97. He doesn't completely comprehend what is going on but he mostly knows it's an attack on We, the People. We wonder if we will see the remediation that must follow such an extreme pendulum swing.
That's one of my concerns as well. If we emerge from this with a shredded but still intact democratic republic, can anything be fixed? Trump needed less than a couple of WEEKS to set the country and the world on its ear. He deliberately destroyed, obliterated (a word he likes), essentially everything that Biden accomplished, and, being utterly unfettered, is working his way back into Obama's years. He viscerally hates both men, and now, rapidly becoming an absolute dictator, with hordes of minions bowing and licking his, um, boots to do his bidding, he has nothing but time to destroy whatever he likes. Further, even if he dies in office, no one should imagine that JayDee won't be as bad or even worse, considering that Vance still has a working brain, and so on down the line of succession. Sorry to be such a pessimist, but I AM.
This won't help you at all, but ... when Trump is removed for being past his pull date, Steven Miller will remove his withered claw from Trump's ass and insert it into Vance's. I apologize if this made it worse, or even if it didnt'. It just keeps getting worse.
Oh, the Goebbels Channeler? Yep. This Corrupt Clown Car Cabinet would be funny if they weren't real. Ann may be making a mistake by making them funny. They are as funny as a heart attack, which I have had.
Oh, my!! I don't want to know what having a heart attack is like. I'm glad you made it though! But without mockery and ridicule, we have no weapons at all. We have Ann here because she told WaPo to stuff it. That is one handshake away from Trump.
I'm 66 and I'm sorry I've lived this long.
We are headed for what the European Parliament determined Hungary to be: a "hybrid regime of electoral autocracy." There will be elections and they will mean nothing. We may even have a majority in the House. We may elect a Democratic president. But MAGA has the levers of power and are not about to let them go
I think we are right to be worried. I could see where Trump could find some national "Trumped up" emergency in 2026 and order postponement or cancellation of elections in order to keep his majority in the Congress. The Supreme court granted him immunity from all of his "official" actions
Except that what he's learned from Orban, Putin, and Erdogan is that he doesn't have to cancel or postpone elections as long as he controls the outcome
I am thoroughly convinced that there will never be another fair and honest election. Trump has made it perfectly clear; there is no need for more elections. He is working now on gutting the election process. What is most worrisome is that Democrats are carrying on as if it were politics as usual and winning elections will rid us of Trump and his MAGA Republicans and everything can get back to normal. Nothing less than a rebellion or a civil war will out Trump and given that he has usurped all of the power of government and the military it is likely futile.
There are those who will deny reality with their last breath.
Why are we being led by our fears to write a doom movie script??
Resist the present moment. Repeat.
Choose hope and action.
In every stage of these Oppressions, We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
A Sociopathic Cruel Boy, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Right. Agreed. Now what?
We keep working on electing better local and state representatives as well as better Congressmen and Presidents
We also ask why we have a system that rewards sociopaths?
We analyze what got us here and find solutions. The vision of a fair, just and equal economic and political system will lead us forward.
We have an Independence Day because the founders didn’t just sit around drinking and doom projecting King George’s plans. They took action.
We could start by reading the Declaration of Independence.
The Founders took action against the King, but they also replaced the monarchy with a different kind of tyranny.
Many wealthy, light-skinned businessmen now had all the power. They controlled who could and couldn’t vote, and they determined how the wealth was to be redistributed (mostly all back to themselves).
Our socio-economic system does indeed reward sociopaths. As long as we have the battle between the Haves and Have-nots, it will always be this way.
So now that the faults of the current system are so evident, we create a better system.
The 99% Have-nots have the power of numbers and morality over the greedy, selfish 1% haves.
The oligarchs have made it clear that they expect us to die and stop taking up resources that they think they can make better use of. We either fight for the common good or perish.
George III, in the view of the English (not in our view to be sure, but still), was a decent king. King Demento is not, in anyone's opinion but his own, considered so. The word "decent" and Demento do not belong in the same phrase, the same clause, the same sentence, the same paragraph, the same chapter, the same book, or the same library anywhere in the known or unknown universe.
Great miniature of 47--much better than his "official" portrait!
Is it my imagination or is he becoming more and more pig like?
And is his frame lined with Crypto coins?
Nice touch going from the cross on the crown to the T on the new religion of the Right.
Boy, if thot doesn’t hit it on the nose. Great cartoon as slways!
The coronation has been officially endorsed by the Republican Party. If these Republicans were in power in 1776, we would still be bending our knees to King Charles III.
Oh, Charlie's not so bad; it's William that worries me.
Agree
It's NOT a monarchy we should be worried out. In the Weimar Republic, the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act of 1933 were used in the PERCEIVED state of emergency to effectively grant the new Chancellor broad power to act outside parliamentary control. Hitler promptly used these powers to thwart constitutional governance and suspend civil liberties, which brought about the swift collapse of democracy and the creation of a one-party dictatorship under his leadership.
Until the end of World War II in Europe in 1945, the Nazis governed Germany under the pretense that all the extraordinary measures and laws they implemented were constitutional. Nevertheless, Hitler's seizure of power had effectively ended the republic, replacing its constitutional framework with Führerprinzip, the principle that "the Führer's word is above all written law".
Sound eerily familiar perhaps?
Kate...what you say is horribly true. Remember WWII well....as a.grade schooler can take in...feel !
I take some.hope now watching.the momentum rise up.in.spirit...protesting the wrongs which surround us today. .. the waves of change perhaps at long last??
Change comes slowly...painfully .
Remember.back to that WWI time.in history....the denouement. Mussolini & his mistress hanging.upside down from poles above cheering.Italians.. Hitler in his bunker dead by his own hand...unable to meet his fate.at thought of capture / vilification of the World.
All.I personally.can do is to.keep fighting in whatever way I can at my age....my legacy, if you will, to my grandchildren, greatgrandchildren....progeny yet to come. Will never give in to fascism, cruelty, dictators or kings.....but that's just me. As so many have proclaimed....
WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER .
It is all the same. We are witnessing Hitler's rebirth here in the United States. All of the components of Naziism and the madness of Hiller are emerging in the Trump dictatorship.: hatred, racism, authoritarianism, intimidation, militarism, violence, amorality, criminality, inhumanity. We freed the Germans who will free us.
We will.
There was a resistance in WWII and the resistance found allies.
Stand for the opposite of what you witness. Stand for morality, love, equality, truth, equal justice, non-violence, humanity, democracy, truth.
Ann Telnaes frequently depicts the Sociopath as strongly resembling Mussolini and Hitler. Her images are diverse and inclusive….😉
The Unk not sure if that to me because I was asking Kate Bell for permission. Ann’s work I know well and love it.
Steven, I was replying to Kate. My reply is directly underneath her post.
A reply to your post would be underneath your post and indented.
May I copy this for distribution with credit given.
Do credit Wikipedia. I lifted most of it from there! Or reword it and make it yours. I had been reading about the Weimar Republic and went to Wiki for a quick timeline. Then these sections absolutely smacked me upside da head.
Kate, thank you for your effort along with historians of Wikipedia. I’ll credit both and hope there are some readers left who can see the danger.
I enjoy all of the details that you include to make your art so interesting like the top of the crowns. We need your work so much.
Just noted the upside down US flags. Nice touch!
To paraphrase Dion and the Belmonts, “This is our story. It’s sad but true.”
Democracies die from within, when the people can no longer see its value, because they have been decoupled from the - no longer - common wealth. They clamor for a "savior", and any huckster hearing that call will make them feel listened-to, while accumulating wealth and power, and deliberately accelerating the demise of the "system" (i.e. checks and balances).
Perfect depiction!
Sigh.
Appreciated!!!!