Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 23, 2021

There might be an assignment for the Red Rascal in Florida.

He was kidding with a machine gun hanging on the wall.

His lawyer will get him off by saying he should be riding the short bus.

Doubt they’ll be reasonable, yes?

If you wiped out the MAGAtards in FloriDUH, they lose half of their electoral votes and 15-17 House seats….

As long as political lies are considered “acceptable” our government will be dysfunctional and a threat to democracy.

Just look for adults in “Short Buses”!

A flesh wound? “tis but a scratch”

You can’t tell the players without a scorecard.

WAIT! I thought those guys were just “touring the Capitol.”

Somehow, the WORSE the LEVEL OF TREASON THEY COMMIT, the LAMER the EXCUSES THE QPUBLICANS COME UP WITH… but their idiotic inbred minions STILL believe them!!!

If he comes back, bite his bloody ankles off!

“Many a true word are said in jest.”

The current defense is they’re so stupid, they believed their messiah’s lies.

And here I was, expecting it to be a real member of Congress!

Oh sure…. kidding. I wonder if he gave foreign terrorists the same benefit of the doubt.

A 2012 WA Post essay: The GOP has become “ideologically extreme, scornful of compromise, unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science, dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition”. It’s become even more extreme since then, leaving the U.S. with only a single functioning political party.

The insurrection left many seriously injured and some lost their lives. It went much further than sarcasm. Time for the enablers of trump as well as trump himself to pay for their actions (and lack of action once the mayhem started on the part of trump.)

DARN! THE ORANGE IDIOT keeps missing the deadline for reinstatement on his throne of fake gold. /s

I’m sure a lot of this stuff started out as sarcastic hyperbole. Then it is quoted by others in earnest. Then Earnest buys a few guns ….

This is really easy. Just look for the maga hat. It’s like a neon sign that says “I’m a terrorist”

Here we go gathering nuts in May, nuts in May, nuts in May… :D

“Sigh”…https://www.yahoo.com/news/lauren-boebert-stated-hadnt-single-153435239.html

Guy’s just a tourist. And, for the current definition of “tourist”, consult this handy-dandy right-winger-to-normal-English dictionary:

fake news = honest reporting

enemy of the people = free press

alternative facts = lies

tort reform = corporate protection bill

tax relief = billionaire enhancement program

right to work = kill unions

healthy forests initiative = chop down more trees

clear skies act = no more birds

patriot act = civil liberties farewell tour

patriot = vigilante

dangerous criminal element = young Black men

cost-effective corrections = for-profit prisons

enhanced interrogation techniques = torture

judicial activists = judges who’ve read the Constitution

secure elections = voter suppression

election integrity = preventing Blacks, Latinos, poor people, and students from voting

chain migration = family reunification

invaders = asylum seekers

rapists and murderers = Mexicans

security threats = Canadians

decisive leaders = authoritarian dictators

support our troops = more money for military contractors

socialism = Satanism

good people = racists and fascists

abstinence education = sexual ignorance

no child left behind = standardized testing for all

Satanic mind-rotting plot = evolution

just some egghead’s opinion = science

religious liberty = Christian fundamentalism for all

values voters = shameless self-righteous hypocrites

clean coal = dirty coal

(to be continued)

 (continuation)

world’s greatest hoax = climate change

that which may not be spoken = climate change

[obscenity redacted] = climate change

health-care system = health-insurance jungle

health-care plan = don’t get sick, or die quickly

Stalinism = Obamacare

Benghazi = Pearl Harbor

terrorists = pro-justice demonstrators

Black Lives Matter = Proud Boys

Antifa = QAnon

tourists = insurrectionist mob

people = corporations

speech = money

peace = war

slavery = freedom

strength = ignorance

This list is still under construction. Additions welcome.

come to Portland Oregon. Restore Sanity.

First defense when confronted with consequences for your rabble-rousing: “just kidding”… Trumpers used it to defend Trump, even while also claiming they liked Trump because he always says what he means… and even Trump said he never kids…

A flesh wound? That covers a lot of ground, so to speak.

Pound of

The MAGAts “go to” defense since becoming a 4th grade Bully:

“Hardy Har, can’tcha take a Joke?”

Good thing the guy’s not Black.

It’s going to be difficult because all white men look alike.