Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for June 30, 2023

Brilliant!

Lobby your favorite GQP members to cut your taxes so you can keep even more money.

Are you really a billionaire if you don’t own a Supreme Court Justice?

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That’s a keeper.

Are you really a billionaire if you have to ask non-billionaires to send you money?

Deals like those are hard to pass up! It’s better than an Amazon Warehouse clearance.

The social media company is probably the saddest of these. And I think the most expensive, unless private armies have gone up since last time I was in the market.

I remember those mail order subs. Never had the money to buy them when I was a kid, but always wondered if they were real. And now that comic books don’t have ads anymore, I’ll never find out.

“The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.” Andrew Carnegie

In an 1889 essay, steel magnate Carnegie told his fellow business leaders, “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.” Carnegie believed that the wealthy should repay their debt to society. True to his beliefs, by his death in 1919 he had divested himself of more than 95 percent of his fortune.

Tell that to some of today’s “Billionaires”, and they would keel over from a massive coronary!!

Bumper sticker: “He who dies with the most toys wins”.

Acerbic, pointedly candid, wickedly witty, timely, and absolutely spot on! Well done, Ruben!!

Oh, man — yet another very painful direct hit, Ruben.

Congrats… and OUCH!

Re “Blood of the Young” photos: I’m not certain who’s on the far left and far right (Liam Neeson?) of the line up, but the mid-left looks like Robby Benson, and mid-right looks like Barry Livingston.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y828Q_WmrNk

Carbon fiber has 8x the strength of steel under expansion. It only has the strength of the glue under compression, about 10% of steel’s strength.

Billionaires are just greedy pieces of S#&T! Wastes of skin, they bribed GOP politicians to rob you, so they can get even richer through tax breaks. Imagine being distracted by endless fearmongering while the GOP picks your pockets CLEAN and give to a tiny minority who doesn’t really need it because they were already fabulously wealthy to begin with.You can claim that you’ve been mugged, AND YOU HAVE. But who you gonna call? The police? Nope, they OWN the Police, they only exist to protect the lives and property of the wealthy! The only way to fix it is to VOTE!

Upper right panel reminds me of a game I used to play back in the day called “Machiavelli the Prince”. You were the leader of a trading faction in Renaissance Venice. It wasn’t just buy and sell. You could increase your popularity by various (mostly) nefarious means. You could “buy” a cardinal to influence your faction’s position in the Vatican. You could also bribe a senator to support your faction. You could even have an arson set fire to your opponents warehouses. Wait, it gets even worse! Assassination (of a senator, the Doge, or… I’m not kidding, even the Pope) was possible. All of this for a price, of course. You could even blame one of the 3 other computer controlled factions for the dark deed and have them thrown under the bus. If it worked, great! You’d severely decrease their popularity. However, sometimes the person you hired failed to do it. And other times you’d get caught, resulting in a deep drop in your popularity.

Our supreme court justice can do amazing tricks. He’s so cute when he begs for judge treats.

Thank you Neo-liberal economics. Make the rich richer and the middle-class poor. It doesn’t “trickle down” folks. Just a lie from President “It”

A common catchphrase among socialists is “Eat the Rich”, but I don’t particularly like the taste of scum. I’d settle for a bonfire with some special guests in the centre.

Also, the supreme court recently got rid of affirmative action (for minorities, not for legacy rich white people). Anybody got a meat thresher?

Is the young blood thing really something that happens?

Have an answer when someone asks you, “You, and what army?” Freaking hilarious!

Nice one!

Who could ever have predicted that laissez-faire capitalism would bite someone on the a$$?

Brilliant. One minor quibble, however: the price of the “pointless trip to space” seems to be closer to the price for an extended trip of a few days (e.g. with Axiom), but the “seven minutes in heaven” seems to imply the Blue Origin/Virgin Galactic type of flight, which is considerably cheaper, though still beyond the means of the vast majority of people. Also, the latter type of flight is arguably pointless, since it’s essentially like a real expensive amusement park ride, but the former isn’t necessarily, depending on what is done during the flight. But it’s a great cartoon otherwise.