Prickly City by Scott Stantis for September 18, 2020

Not exactly Howard Keel and Doris Day.

Well, by Winslow’s disposition, I suppose we can guess Carmen is not voting for Biden.

Queue up the Freddy Mercury.

“Another vote goes to Trump”

Check out Darrin Bell’s cartoon for today!

Peace in the Middle East – just not Palestine and Israel

Covid 19 down – just not in blue states

Or, as Colbert put it in his monologue: Just not in states that have a lot of people in them.

The same states that watched their blue votes get turned red in the Electoral College in 2016.

Yes, yes, yes, I know that CA, IL, and NY still cast their EC ballots for HRC, but the 51:49 margins of error in states with a fraction of the population overrode the majority of voters in the United States.

National Popular Vote!

(I’ll bet you Trump is more afraid of that than he is mail-in ballots!)

How do you think you’re going to get along

Without him when he’ gone?

Took us for everything that we had

And kicked us out on my own

Are you happy, are you satisfied?

How long can you stand the heat?

Out of the booths all the voters trip

To the sound of twitter feeds

Another vote bites the dust

Another vote bites the dust

And ones in the mail, one walks in, another is absentee

Another vote bites the dust

Hey, I’m gonna vote for you

Another vote bites the dust

Apoligies to John Richard Deacon

Food for thought: With Scott (Eric?) still using Saint Bernie and Hillary Bunny as his avatar (upper left-hand corner), along with the two week delay on these daily strips, why do any of us expect anything relevant from this ‘toon anymore?

I don’t expect anything relevant from Stantis, just hackneyed right wing talking points that signify stupidity and ignorance laced with a bit of desperation!!

Mapping America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic compared with other countries hasn’t been a simple task, not least because of the densely obscuring smoke issuing from the Trump White House. But a new analysis points to an inescapable conclusion.

How much worse than other rich countries has the U.S. done in fighting COVID-19 and protecting its economy? Much, much worse. Incredibly worse.

The analysis comes from Harry J. Holzer, a professor of public policy at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Brookings Institution, which published his report on Wednesday and an earlier version in June.

It’s not like the virus is completely beyond our control. We did a bad job. It’s that simple.

Here’s Holzer’s bottom line: “Both employment and health outcomes for the U.S. during the pandemic have been worse than in almost any other high-income country in the world.”

Had the U.S. merely matched the average unemployment rate changes among the richest members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, “at least 8.6 million more Americans would be employed today.”

An equivalent record on COVID-19 deaths per capita would have resulted in the saving of 112,540 American lives.

About 13.6 million Americans were unemployed in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. About 190,000 people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.

Holzer doesn’t delve too deeply into the factors underlying this dismal record. He does observe, however, that “other countries have made much greater use of payroll subsidies that keep workers connected to their jobs.”

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https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-09-16/u-s-vs-rich-countries-covid-19

Russian state media happily poked fun at the Trump campaign’s use of a stock photo of Russian-made fighter jets, but aside from an occasional jab, Moscow’s coverage of the Trump presidency closely resembles that of Fox News.

State-controlled media’s slant is a telling indicator of the Kremlin’s leanings.

To imagine the relationship between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his massive media apparatus, one may reference the coziness between Sean Hannity and Trump—and magnify that intensity tenfold, with directives flowing only from the top down.

Obsessed with retaining his dominance and fully realizing the power of propaganda, Putin leaves nothing to chance.

Russian lawmakers, state media experts and pundits on tightly-choreographed TV shows openly reveal that the Kremlin is still rooting for Trump.

But Moscow has a growing concern that this time around, their preferred candidate might lose.

Appearing on a state TV show The Right To Know, Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Kremlin-funded propaganda networks RT and Sputnik, said about Trump’s chances of re-election:

“I think Trump will lose, but then I think there will be a major blow-up from the standpoint of accepting or not accepting the outcome of the election.

They’ll be battling over that for a long time, who knows how it might end.”

Having openly wished for Trump to drive the United States into civil war, Russian state media figures are now relishing that idea with renewed enthusiasm.

They believe it would destabilize America to such an extent as to undermine its very sovereignty, thereby untying the Kremlin’s hands to wreak even more havoc upon the Western world.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-media-is-rooting-for-civil-war-in-america

No, you can’t. I’ve looked up the 3rd party candidates. They are, for the most part, buffoons.

Please don’t promote John Adams.

I’m not sure she’s old enough to vote anyway.

Wow. “John Adams 96” is either a troll or someone who has drunk the Trump Kool-Aid, or marinated his brain in it.

The thing about ’i’m voting for a 3rd party’ is.. .you must be fully accepting of either of the other 2 candidates winning. You cannot complain that Trump is SOOOO horrible if you didn’t legally do what was needed to elect someone else.Sometimes elections come down to ensuring the worst possible case doesn’t get elected or re-elected. Yes, that does mean you don’t get all you want… but that’s life. sometimes you compromise for the benefit of the group (the country).

Putin pays John Adams a bonus when he gets the most replies.

Fred Knott here: Looks like we done dood it again!

Tom Pain, John Adams, or who some ever he is just made comment of the day once again!

When are we ever going to stop feeding the trolls?

Just because someone has a differing opinion does not make then a troll.

Is she a child…as she appears to be drawn? She isn’t old enough to vote. The point is moot.

What have you been drinking? What world are you living IN?

NOTE: Ruth Bader Ginsberg as died. A dark day for our republic.