GET READY FOR A GOOD LAUGH:
These recent finds on the web had me ROFLMAO!
A lot of good ones here - I loved the penguin. Loved seeing Biden at the end. But, I have to say, my favorite was the hot shirtless Canadian prime minister I'm so sad is no longer his country's head of state.
Late-night hosts reacted to market panic over Donald Trump’s tariffs and the new Maga party line that money actually isn’t important, anyway.
“Our economy is in the midst of a beautiful metamorphosis, turning from a simple caterpillar into … a dead caterpillar,” said Jon Stewart from his usual Monday night perch at The Daily Show. Watch this great segment where he goes after the Republican spin on a disaster in the making.
In the days since Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on nearly every country, the stock market saw its worst downturn since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. “This turmoil could have lasting effects on the global economy, on everyday Americans, and most worryingly, the stock portfolios of members of Congress,” said Stewart. “Mr President, now is the time to soothe a worried nation!”
Stewart pointed to Trump’s attempt, a Truth Social post that read: “Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid. Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!).”
“‘Panican?’ The genius who gave us classics like ‘Sleepy Joe’ and ‘Crooked Hillary’ just shit out: ‘You’re a Panican?’” Stewart laughed. “Did the overseas factory you had been sourcing your nicknames from get shut down during the tariff war?”
“But for those of us who have been tricked into believing that an economic crisis is a crisis, Trump’s people have an answer.” Stewart then ran with a litany of conservative broadcasters in the past week suggesting that "it's not about our money."
That would be the new Republican line that actually, money doesn’t matter. As the Fox News host and Trump booster Jeanine Pirro put it: “I don’t really care about my 401(k).”
“When did the right become so chill?” Stewart wondered. “Aren’t you the ‘Bud Light is turning my kids trans’ folks? But economic meltdown and you’re getting all philosophical?
My favorite part: when Stewart pulls out The Art of the Deal and reminds us all what a fantastic businessman Trump is.
I read a recent hypothesis last week that suggests Trump's numerous misadventures led him in the past to frequently blame Wall Street investors who bailed on him rather than provide the bailouts he desperately needed. And that this is part of his grand plan to get back at Wall Street. Hmmmm...I wonder.
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The suggestion, made Thursday in Vienna, aligns with growing European anger over what many leaders see as politically motivated economic aggression..."
One would think it would cause some amount of self-examination among the GOP that not only Americans but the rest of the world recognize this "politically-motivated" insanity for what it is!
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The corruption escalated in the Trump administration this week with a happy spree of clemencies for white-collar criminals.
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| Trevor Milton; Convict. |
Among them, Trump pardoned Trevor Milton—an electric car company CEO who was convicted of fraud.
If you don’t know who he is, here’s a quick summary: Milton founded Nikola, an electric truck company he named after Nikola Tesla. He was convicted of fraud in 2022 for lying to investors.
Here’s another fact about Milton: shortly before the election, he and his wife donated $1.8 million to a Trump fundraising committee.
Milton said Thursday in a post on social platform X that he spoke to Trump over the phone and that he signed his pardon of “innocence.” “The prosecutors can no longer hurt me,” Milton said in a video accompanying the post.
Can I throw up now?
How many Trump donors are going to be let off the hook as a result of Trump's pardons and purges of government agencies like the CFPB, DOJ and IRS?
April 1, 2025
China’s Counterattack:
Economic Warfare
China is strategically responding to Trump’s tariffs with its own set of countermeasures, leveraging its vast market to hurt American manufacturers, tech firms, and farmers. As China strengthens its global influence, the U.S. risks losing access to one of the world’s largest consumer markets, further straining the American economy.
Mexico and Canada:
North American Pushback
Mexico and Canada, once cooperative trade partners, have already implemented retaliatory tariffs, targeting key U.S. exports. They are also diversifying trade relationships with Europe and Asia, leaving the U.S. isolated. American farmers and manufacturers are bearing the brunt, and the economic damage is mounting.
Europe’s Strategic Response
The European Union is not only retaliating with tariffs, but is also expanding its trade ties with China, India, and Latin America. The U.S. risks becoming sidelined as Europe works to create alternative trade networks that exclude American influence.
The Global Shift:
A Dangerous Isolation for the U.S.
Countries around the world are recalibrating their trade policies to bypass the U.S. In response to tariffs, they are seeking new economic partnerships, and the U.S. is being left behind. The global economic order is shifting, and the U.S. risks becoming isolated—struggling with higher prices, lost market access, and a diminished role in the world economy.
Too bad, so sad
for America's local farmers.
USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks
USDA had previously allocated $500 million in deliveries to food banks for fiscal year 2025 through The Emergency Food Assistance Program. Now, the food bank leaders say many of those orders have been canceled.
The halting of these deliveries comes after the Agriculture Department separately axed two other food programs, ending more than $1 billion in planned federal spending for schools and food banks to purchase from America's local farmers.
The halting of these deliveries comes after the Agriculture Department separately axed two other food programs, ending more than $1 billion in planned federal spending for schools and food banks to purchase from America's local farmers.
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| Money that had been earmarked for the USDA to purchase produce from local farmers to support America's food banks has been diverted instead to Trump's pet projects. |
Terry's Thoughts:
Well, how else are we going to make up for the planned tax cuts for the wealthy? Diminished revenue for the federal coffers will necessitate a reduction in the dole, or "bread and circuses" -- well, at least the bread.
I'm quite sure the circus will move foward.
Musk's DOGE
(Dept. of Government Efficiency)
takes aim at Social Security
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| Horsey, The Seattle Times; March 23, 2025 |
"Claiming the need to cut SSA in the name of efficiency, DOGE has targeted the agency's field offices, workforce, and telephone services. These are critical touch points for people with Medicare.
DOGE led with announcements that it would be closing down SSA field offices as well...." [Read more]
Don't Cut Our
Social Security
Social Security didn’t cause the nation’s debt; we pay for Social Security through every one of our paychecks. However, some are calling for a commission in Congress that could potentially cut Social Security and Medicare in order to reduce our country’s debt.
This is outrageous and we won’t let lawmakers take the money we’ve earned after a lifetime of work.
Message your members of Congress
reminding them that Social Security SHOULDN’T be cut in order to reduce the nation’s debt.
March 16, 2025
Republicans Remain Silent
as Crazy Nero Wreaks Havoc
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| Kal, Baltimore Sun; March 16, 2025 |
If you’re still flummoxed by the abject servility of congressional Republicans, by their refusal to confront Trump and stand up for actual conservative American values, check out last night’s primary election in South Carolina. The purging of Mark Sanford says it all.
Sanford is a long-serving conservative lawmaker (and former governor) who typically votes with his party, but on a few public occasions, he has actually dared to suggest (gasp) that Trump is not the supreme very stable genius that the deluded Republican base deems Trump to be. The result: Sanford loses his job.
For the inexcusable sin of speaking his mind about factual reality, the Republican base voters in Sanford’s House district threw him out last night, handing the GOP nomination to a far-right Trumper who repeatedly denounced Sanford as “disloyal.”
Recommended article:
- The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump's Purge;
Mar. 14, 2025; The New Yorker Magazine.
Shortly after Donald Trump took office, a disturbing pattern emerged. C.D.C. web pages on vaccines, H.I.V. prevention, and reproductive health disappeared. Reports on bird flu transmission vanished within minutes. The Census Bureau’s public records went offline, and when they returned, crucial directories were gone. The Department of Justice scrubbed its website of references to the January 6th insurrection, and even WhiteHouse.gov removed an explainer page on the Constitution.
More than 130,000 government webpages have been erased in what one scientist described as a “digital book burning.” These deletions weren’t accidental. They weren’t glitches. They were part of a systemic effort to control public knowledge, rewrite reality, and shape a narrative that favors power over truth. And if history has taught us anything, it’s that when information is erased, accountability soon follows....
(Read more)
March 9, 2025
Today's Top Story:
"It's gonna take a little time,
but I think it should be great for us."
He thinks it should be...
sure is making America great again!
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Things Are About To Get Ugly
How ugly, America? Well now....
Let's hear from the Canadians first.
Make that make sense."
It doesn't make sense, Mr. Trudeau...
except when you have a Russian asset in the White House now orchestrating the collapse of the United States of America.
Trudeau said that Canada would plaster retaliatory tariffs on more than $100 billion of American goods in response to Trump's tariffs on Candian goods.
Well now...that's certain to be great for the American economy.
And now, let's hear from Mexico.
Marcelo Ebrard, head of the Mexican Ministry of Economy, warned that these taxes would represent an approximate cost of $20.5 billion for about 89 million American families. He also warned of the possible inflationary impact on products such as computers, televisions, refrigerators, agricultural goods, auto parts, and vehicles.
Mexico is a key trading partner for the United States. Between January and November 2024, Mexican exports totaled $466.6 billion, while American exports reached $309.4 billion.
The automotive industry has shown significant regional integration under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). This agreement allows foreign companies that produce in Mexico or Canada and use locally sourced materials to export their products to the United States at low tax rates.
Trump is now violating the agreement that he pushed for and signed with our closest neighbors.
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| Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, U.S. president Donald Trump, and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau signed the USMCA agreement during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 30, 2018. |
Mexico's National Auto Parts Industry has warned that the imposition of tariffs on Mexican imports will weaken trade, reduce competitiveness in the region, and affect economic stability.
In a statement, it stressed that the automotive and auto parts sector is a pillar of North American exports, with the capacity to generate more than 11 million jobs in the USMCA countries. The association foresees that assemblers in Mexico could reduce production by as much as 1 million units this year due to the new taxes, which would affect product availability, job creation, and the supply chain.
88 percent of the pickups sold in the United States come from Mexico and are assembled by companies such as General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis. The minister of economy emphasized that the tariffs would represent the United States shooting itself in the foot, as it would directly impact its own automotive companies, which depend on Mexican production to supply their domestic market.
The electronics and appliance sector will also be affected. In November 2024, Mexican exports of electrical and electronic equipment reached $8.9 billion, 89 percent of which was destined for the US. The production of these devices is concentrated in Baja California, Chihuahua, and Nuevo León, where thousands of jobs and assembly plants could be at risk.
Trump's tariffs will have significant implications for US consumers. An SEC study estimates that the additional levy would cost an extra $7.1 billion for 40 million families purchasing computers. Likewise, it is expected that around 32 million households would pay up to $2.4 million more when purchasing new monitors, and around 5 million families would assume an extra expense of $817 million when purchasing refrigerators.
An analysis by the US Congress warns that the unilateral imposition of these tariffs could violate the USMCA agreement, which would unleash a trade war with serious economic consequences for the countries involved. “The tariffs would be a violation of the USMCA, which would allow Mexico to file a trade dispute. This could affect US exports valued at billions of dollars,” the report states.
The impact will not only be seen in domestic spending, says Gutiérrez. “The US market buys many raw materials from Mexico. A product that is produced in the United States and that would not be affected by the tariffs directly, will see changes in its production price due to the cost increase in the supply chain.” She adds that Trump's tariff measures “jeopardize the production chain in North America, one of the most integrated at a global level. They threaten jobs and make us less efficient and resilient to compete with other economies, such as China.”
Economic analyst Roberto Aguilar told WIRED that Mexico will be the main loser, since the US strategy seeks to strengthen its local production. “The nearshoring is on hold and will wait until certainty returns, both externally and internally. A recession in the Mexican economy is highly probable, since, beyond the trade threat, the country began a downward trend last year due to the lack of certainty and investment,” he says. The consequences of a severe recession in Mexico will include increased instability and threaten the progress made by Mexico in the recent decade to retain its labor force.
Well now...that's all certain to be great for the American economy.
[Plus, he's so dang hot, is he not?]
with your dog, Mr. Putin!
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| Bill Bramhall; New York Daily News, 2025. |
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Today marks one month since Donald Trump began his second term as president.
It’s been thirty one days of chaos, conflicts of interest and lawbreaking.
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| Deng Coy Miel, Singapore News |
Thirty-one days of Donald Trump and his billionaire cronies moving fast and breaking things (in this case, the law, the Constitution and crucial government agencies), hoping that the American people will be so overwhelmed that they’ll simply tune them out.
So just to review what Trump has spent the last month doing:
- He illegally fired 18 inspectors general, who worked in federal agencies to catch fraud, corruption and wrongdoing in the government.
- He paused the disbursement, probably illegally, of federal funds authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
- He illegally tried to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right, by executive order.
- He is trying to illegally reclassify non-partisan federal employees, apparently in order to fire them and replace them with political loyalists.
- His Justice Department has fired dozens of career prosecutors and FBI agents, while also creating a new working group to probe officials who investigated his crimes.
- He gave Elon Musk and DOGE virtually unlimited access to sensitive information and allowed them to offer a potentially illegal “buyout offer” to 2.3 million federal employees.
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| Join me in supporting CREW in their efforts to halt the insanity! |
FAVORITE POLITICAL CARTOON
OF THE MONTH
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| Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News |
Two months ago,
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| Terry's Political Cartoons |
self-designed political cartoon
in which I predicted
our Russian asset
in the White House
would waste no time
giving Putin exactly what he wanted.
"It Took Trump Only 24 Days To Sell Out Ukraine"
"Christmas came early for Putin this year."
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Recommended Jan. 28, 2025:
Heather Cox Richardson's essay,
Immigration & Deportations:
Under Biden, Under Trump
January 20, 2025:
My thoughts on a Megalomaniac's Inaugural
AN EMBARRASSMENT
we're honest enough
to put this question
on our students'
U.S. History Final Exam:
Question:
What could be more embarrassing than
what a U.S. President
and a mob of sore losers
did on January 6, 2021?
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| A Minute-by-Minute Historical Account of The Events of Jan 6, 2021 |
Answer:
The same U.S. President
being returned to power
in order to
re-write that history
and pretend it never happened.
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Meet a U.S. Capitol Security Officer
who would prefer we didn't forget
Jan 6, 2021.
We all know that a Vampire
can not see his reflection
in a mirror;
and, apparently,
can not put his hand
on a Bible
when asked to swear
to defend the
Constitution of the United States of America.
about where their allegiance lies -
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| The wealthy industrialist, & member of our nation's Fascist Party, gave our new Fuhrer the NAZI salute. I suppose that this is what's actually in store for our U. S. History classrooms.  |
America the Beautiful.
Warner Bros. Cartoons'
wardrobe closet --
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| Enough said about January 20, 2025 |
a great Darkness fell over the land...
January 1, 2025:
Favorite Quotes
of 2024:
“No, I don’t think I’m judge and jury.
I’m just a little fed up.”
Luigi Mangione, 26, reportedly wrote the line
in a notebook that expressed
'hostility towards the health insurance industry'
prior to shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO
Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan.
“They’re eating the dogs.
They’re eating the cats.
They’re eating the pets
of the people who live there.”
Donald Trump, revealing what happens
when you’ve stooped to believing
what’s reported on social media.
“Why not? I paid for it.”
Elon Musk, ostensibly referring to
the reason he is currently crashing in
a small pad at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort
– although most believe
he was referring to much more.
“With my leadership women will be
happy, healthy, confident, and free
– no longer having to think about abortion
because it will now be decided for them,
with the States
where it always had to be.”
– Donald Trump,
long-time protector of women.
“Our war is not with the people of Gaza,
it’s with Hamas.”
– Benjamin Netanyahu,
Prime Minister of Israel,
speaking about the 15-month-old war
between Israel and Hamas in Gaza
where the death toll
has surpassed 44,000.
“The word grocery.
It’s a sorta simple word,
but it sorta means like
everything you eat.”
– Donald Trump, etymologist.
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December 1, 2025:
Terry's New
Political Cartoon Series
America's
Inglorious
Restoration
INTRODUCTION:
Welcome to my
"political commentary with humor" page.
If we must put up with him for another 4 years
(and, let's face it, we'll be damn lucky if it is
just 4 years given his past behavior)
then I say let us not allow an opportunity
to laugh go to waste.
Let's have some fun with it
(otherwise we'll go insane).
& the Rise of Trump
may not have been the future we envisioned
But let's not pretend this outcome isn't one long ago predicted.
The philosopher Aristotle warned us what would happen in a democracy where demagogues rose up and assumed immunity to the laws of that democracy.
"For in democracies where the laws are not supreme, demagogues spring up. . . . Demagoguery is to a democracy . . . what tyranny is to other forms of monarchy. The spirit of both is the same, and they alike exercise a despotic rule over the better citizens. The decrees of the [demagogues] correspond to the edicts of the tyrant . . . . Such a democracy is fairly open to the objection that it is not a constitution at all; for where the laws are no longer applied to a privileged few, including the demagogue, there is no constitution. The law ought to be supreme over all . . . .when that is no longer true, a constitutional republic no longer exists."
And so, my friends, being delighted that I will have four years of material falling into my lap courtesy of
the emperor who wears no clothes,
I humbly present to you:
America's Inglorious Restoration
Volume 1
"It's Christmas in Moscow"
Vol 1; Issue 2; Dec. 30, 2024
"The Inaugural" (8 panels)
Terry's November Endorsement
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| Who do I support? |
Enjoy looking through my Library
Terry’s “Good Living” Guide:
Avoid the 3 PsBsSs
Processed Foods, Phthalates, Plastics;
Beef, Butter, Breads;
you’ll be feeling better in no time!
Avoid the 3 F’s
misinformation, fear, anger and hate!
JOIN ME IN ENSURING AN EDUCATED CITIZENRY!
JOIN ME IN ENSURING AN EDUCATED CITIZENRY!
I drink it morning through late afternoon.
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| Best Bean Ever! |
While on vacation in Oregon I fell in love with the many varieties I discovered at Portland Coffee Roasters.
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