Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for October 09, 2022

Well, that’s politics…..

It’s a free and fair election as long as I win

Is counting or maybe it’s miscounting votes the only arithmetic that he is good at?

In another frightening development, the GQP is now saying this very same quiet part out loud. The mid-terms are the most important vote ever. Vote like it’s you’ll never get to vote again.

Oh, ronnie desantis is in the comix. . .

The GQP Way

Biting tongue ….

One could easily argue that those millions of alleged fraudulent excess votes in the 2020 election were actually cast for Trump, and he still lost because there weren’t enough.

Exactly. I wonder what they will try to do this time.?

Defeat is one thing. Not being able to live the rest of ones life comfortably is yet another.

He must be a democrat.

No kidding! See, humor is not pretty!

Spoken like a true republican!

Senator Belfry is honest, for once, and I’m surprised the cigar did not fall out of Shoe’s mouth!

This cartoon endorses the untrue GQP assertion that fraud is anexistential issue in the American voting system, when everyinvestigation which discovers wrongful voting the instances areeither almost always misfeasance resulting from explainable votererror or, and statistically very rarely (far < 1%), deliberate andintentional malfeasance by individual actors.

Thus this cartoon – quite unintentionally, I have no doubt – feedsinto and succors the attempt by one single politician in particular (anarcissistic person of a peculiar orange hue who once held thehighest political office in our nation) to retain/regain/expand upon hispersonal power, and also the party he is nominal leader of who daily(and increasingly) demonstrate a perversion of personal and politicalparty morality in single-minded pursuit of demolition and otherquashing of political opposition.

The cartoon, even if by accident, supports those who would impose their autocracy.

Pretty well trumps position, he know there was fraud because he had his henchmen do it.. but is p****ed because there was not enough of it.

And yet the party that insists there was voter fraud in 2020 did so by showing they did it themselves and they STILL lost.

Unless the republicans win this next election by a landslide you/we can be assured it is 100% due to fraud.

Two camps.

Anyone notice the orange tint in Belfry’s hair?

Innumeracy runs amok in the right-wing universe. SYSTEMIC fraud does not occur. Catching individuals who cheat is actually proof that the system works. These individuals are equally GOP and Democrat; none of the “extra” voting amounts to anything near the number needed to overturn an election. Scanning the comments above, the GOP argument boils down to, “It’s true because I say it’s true.” Provide some PROOF, CITE your sources; here’s some for you to ignore:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2103619118

Besides reality, tell me how do you keep secret 1000s and 1000s of fake voters? Nobody talks? (What did Ben Franklin say about 3 people keeping a secret?)Why did none of the post-election court cases present ANY proof? More broadly, doesn’t it concern you that accepting the word of one individual who literally admits he lies (see his autobiography) at the expense of our constitutional norms and faith in our institutions is the anti-thesis of democracy?

Can you believe it? A politician with an honest answer!

Lyndon Johnson 1948 Senate race.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1990/03/04/the-mystery-of-ballot-box-13/70206359-8543-48e3-9ce2-f3c4fdf6da3d/