Just look at Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, San Fran, NYC, Portland, etc. Look at the permissive crime, homelessness, drug abuse, the failing schools, the lack of law and order. Look at the mob of teenagers who looted in Chicago last weekend and violently attacked a bi-racial couple as one example.
All in a state of urban decay……all run by leftists for decades.
Check the facts bub….every major city that has been Democratic run for the past 50-60 years is a crap hole. Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, Newark, etc
The mayor of my city has been in office for several years. Our downtown has gone through a wonderful transition creating a vibrant place to live and work. Do you really think it made a difference what party he’s affiliated with?
I will give credit. This is a clever cartoon. Sure it is based on willful ignorance and deliberate avoidance of any information that contradicts the author’s dogma, but it is clever…in a small minded way.
He can’t even get the terms right; It’s either “the Black Death” or “Bubonic Plague”. And by the way, it’s CJD not “mad cow disease”. No I’m not spelling it…
one thing I think contributing to the problem is something called TIF districts…. These ironically were supposedly designed to alleviate urban decay in very specific instances, but because cities (and towns, and counties) abuse and overuse them, using them merely to hand out grift to developers and financiers, they end up hurting the areas that use them. Studies have shown that areas that use them grow slower than areas that dont.
Animals causing disease? Really? This is so patently ignorant that there is really no point in continuing. Varvel should stay away from subjects about which he clearly knows nothing, which includes zoonosis. An infectious agent is not the cause of the disease, just a carrier (like unvaccinated humans).
Cities are the economic engines of the states. In GOP led states, there is a fundamental disconnect regarding that fact. Yet, their constituencies flock to the cities for their jobs, entertainment, etc. Then when the underfunded police can’t prevent Suzy Suburbia from having her phone stolen, it’s “see look at those cities run by Democrats”.
It would behoove the GOP to recognize this, they might only have CRT, trans people, Hunter Biden, etc. have to scare people.
In four years, Republicans couldn’t get a bill passed to help rebuild the country’s crumbling infrastructure. President Biden got it done in his first year with bipartisan help. Varvel couldn’t tell the truth, even if he was under oath in a court of law. In other words, he is the perfect spokesperson for today’s crop of Republican office holders.
True that. The Republicans gut programs and reduce taxes on the wealthy, then complain when the the lower class and diminishing middle class don’t do better, all the why complaining about the deficit that their party created. It is the Wizard of Oz party; pay attention to what we are saying, not what we are doing.
Still waiting on solid plans from Republicans to fix this problem (or any problem). The former President kept promising things “in two weeks” but never delivered.
as opposed to repulselicans who are too busy licking the derriere of a porn-star-porking-while-your-wife-is-pregnant… pu$$y grabbing…tax dodging….top secret docs hiding…obese orange piece of excrement…..
gary has been carrying a terrible disease for the past 3-4 years and I don’t believe there’s a cure for….limp- vacuum brain disease….they might find a cure for it, but I wouldn’t count on it.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 1 year ago
Another example where the repubs cause the damage and blame the democrats.
Erse IS better about 1 year ago
Oh for gawdsake. Does Varvel really believe this? Or does he just lie for the paycheck? Both?
braindead Premium Member about 1 year ago
The ever increasing wealth inequality for the last several decades has had no effect on America, right Varvel?
GiantShetlandPony about 1 year ago
This cartoon is another example of Repub brain rot.
zerotvus about 1 year ago
“It’s nothin’ dangerous, I feel no pain”….
Durak Premium Member about 1 year ago
So many levels of ignorance. Too bad Varvel doesn’t have friends who can tell him when he is making a fool of himself in public.
monya_43 about 1 year ago
Not only is he wrong about the cause of urban decay, but it was the fleas on the rats that carried and caused the plague not the rats themselves.
DC Swamp about 1 year ago
Just look at Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, San Fran, NYC, Portland, etc. Look at the permissive crime, homelessness, drug abuse, the failing schools, the lack of law and order. Look at the mob of teenagers who looted in Chicago last weekend and violently attacked a bi-racial couple as one example.
All in a state of urban decay……all run by leftists for decades.
2AndFour about 1 year ago
That urban decay disease caused by the blue and red donkey is a dangerous one. No technology can be created to cure it.
JackReecher about 1 year ago
Check the facts bub….every major city that has been Democratic run for the past 50-60 years is a crap hole. Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, Newark, etc
Uncle Joe Premium Member about 1 year ago
Take away people’s hopes for a fair system & give ’em gun & what you expect? Oh, you thought that was only for the white folk?
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 1 year ago
The Red States are poster children for decay.
Odon Premium Member about 1 year ago
The mayor of my city has been in office for several years. Our downtown has gone through a wonderful transition creating a vibrant place to live and work. Do you really think it made a difference what party he’s affiliated with?
StackableContainers about 1 year ago
I will give credit. This is a clever cartoon. Sure it is based on willful ignorance and deliberate avoidance of any information that contradicts the author’s dogma, but it is clever…in a small minded way.
Radish the wordsmith about 1 year ago
Only dems live in cities? The tax dollars republicans stole could have fixed cities.
brit-ed about 1 year ago
He can’t even get the terms right; It’s either “the Black Death” or “Bubonic Plague”. And by the way, it’s CJD not “mad cow disease”. No I’m not spelling it…
codak about 1 year ago
one thing I think contributing to the problem is something called TIF districts…. These ironically were supposedly designed to alleviate urban decay in very specific instances, but because cities (and towns, and counties) abuse and overuse them, using them merely to hand out grift to developers and financiers, they end up hurting the areas that use them. Studies have shown that areas that use them grow slower than areas that dont.
martens about 1 year ago
Animals causing disease? Really? This is so patently ignorant that there is really no point in continuing. Varvel should stay away from subjects about which he clearly knows nothing, which includes zoonosis. An infectious agent is not the cause of the disease, just a carrier (like unvaccinated humans).
Havel about 1 year ago
Cities are the economic engines of the states. In GOP led states, there is a fundamental disconnect regarding that fact. Yet, their constituencies flock to the cities for their jobs, entertainment, etc. Then when the underfunded police can’t prevent Suzy Suburbia from having her phone stolen, it’s “see look at those cities run by Democrats”.
It would behoove the GOP to recognize this, they might only have CRT, trans people, Hunter Biden, etc. have to scare people.
IndyW about 1 year ago
Another great toon, got that one right!
bravo_coolest_0y about 1 year ago
Except covid was from a lab leak
The Nodding Head about 1 year ago
Democrats have not cured racism. Republicans continue at best to deny and at worst promote it.
Dapperdan61 Premium Member about 1 year ago
And then there’s the Elephant representing Democracy decay
ShadowMaster about 1 year ago
The Elephant stands for Moral Decay
Al Fresco about 1 year ago
With Chicago and Portland as the examples of trashed cities, where are all the Republicans in these overwhelmingly Democrat cities.
Carthago delenda est about 1 year ago
So you’re admitting that coronavirus didn’t come from a lab?
rs0204 Premium Member about 1 year ago
In four years, Republicans couldn’t get a bill passed to help rebuild the country’s crumbling infrastructure. President Biden got it done in his first year with bipartisan help. Varvel couldn’t tell the truth, even if he was under oath in a court of law. In other words, he is the perfect spokesperson for today’s crop of Republican office holders.
Jack7528 about 1 year ago
Good one!
Saurischia Premium Member about 1 year ago
So, large cities run by Republicans are thriving paradises? Please give some stellar examples.
tpcox928 about 1 year ago
True that. The Republicans gut programs and reduce taxes on the wealthy, then complain when the the lower class and diminishing middle class don’t do better, all the why complaining about the deficit that their party created. It is the Wizard of Oz party; pay attention to what we are saying, not what we are doing.
Free Radical about 1 year ago
Takes a book to expose your ignorance quite obviously. No wonder all you extremist know-nothings want to get rid of books and libraries
charliekane about 1 year ago
So GV came down on the side of Covid from bats? For shame![;^)
PaulGoes about 1 year ago
Still waiting on solid plans from Republicans to fix this problem (or any problem). The former President kept promising things “in two weeks” but never delivered.
thegreat.gildersleeve about 1 year ago
in all those democrat run city halls, there is REAL decay if not odoriferous rot
steveconkey2003 about 1 year ago
29 of the 30 largest cities in America are run by democrats. Fact.
Rich Douglas about 1 year ago
Classic Nazi move to term your opponents as non-human.
jjhouten about 1 year ago
EVERYONE OF THESE ARE PROVABLE TANGIBLE FACTS
Woodstock Generation Premium Member about 1 year ago
Encouraging whites to move out to white only suburban developments and making guns easily available were always supported by Republicans.
Valiant1943 Premium Member about 1 year ago
Who was it that passed an infrastructure bill?
kennnyp about 1 year ago
as opposed to repulselicans who are too busy licking the derriere of a porn-star-porking-while-your-wife-is-pregnant… pu$$y grabbing…tax dodging….top secret docs hiding…obese orange piece of excrement…..
DIF20 about 1 year ago
gary has been carrying a terrible disease for the past 3-4 years and I don’t believe there’s a cure for….limp- vacuum brain disease….they might find a cure for it, but I wouldn’t count on it.
Dave Ferro about 1 year ago
Urban decay. Also, socialism.
tpcox928 about 1 year ago
Varvel does not like facts, does he?
ElwoodP about 1 year ago
Chicago,Portland , St Louis, San Francisco, Detroit, etc.