Mike Luckovich for October 01, 2023

As I understand it the shutdown compromise had a a No aid to Ukraine clause. How low can you get? I hope the ones putting that in really get what they deserve.

Sting?

I hope the Russians love their children too

The 45 Day CR. (From HCR on September 30, 2023)

Still at stake is funding for Ukraine, but members promise to make sure that happens. “We will get the Ukraine funding next,” Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) wrote. “This is a 45-day bill to make sure government is open and troops/cops/air-traffic controllers etc get paid. With the same leverage we used to bear back MAGA, we will keep Ukraine in the fight.”

The issue of funding for Ukraine is not a small one. Former Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) noted that it was on September 30, 1938, that British prime minister Neville Chamberlain announced he would not stand in the way of Adolf Hitler’s annexation of the Sudentenland, a key move in Hitler’s rise. “Members of the House and Senate who are voting to deny Ukraine assistance on the 85th anniversary of Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 “peace in our time” speech should read some history,” she wrote. “Appeasement didn’t work then. It won’t work now.”

The votes should be there for Ukraine aid. Just two days ago, members of the House voted 311 to 117 for Ukraine funding, and the Senate, too, strongly favors Ukraine aid. But there is no doubt the removal of this funding signals that Trump and the MAGA Republicans favor a foreign policy that helps Russian president Vladimir Putin. 

The biggest loser in today’s vote was former president Trump, who had urged his loyalists to shut down the government until they got all their demands. He is an agent of chaos and recognized that hurting the nation—including our credit around the world—would make voters more likely to turn against the sitting president. 

The MAGA like Putin because he’s the type of no-nonsense authoritarian leader they want. He’s Trump’s hero and idol. He also one of their biggest financial donors. Gotta keep those Putin checks coming!

My only comment is that I think the size of the extreme MAGA and the extreme Woke crowds are far smaller than many suggest, especially among the general public. How seriously can you take people two-third of us disagree with no matter how loud and obnoxious they are?

At this point it’s obvious that the MAGA movement is a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin’s FSB.

I know some want to believe this but it isn’t true.

Ha ha, it’s Winnie the Putin!

Maga traitors support war criminal Putin.

Trump and ‘MAGA Republican extremists’ threaten US democracy, Biden says

President Joe Biden underscores risk to democracy in a speech dedicated to late Republican Senator John McCain.

“Democracy means rule of the people. Not rule of monarchs, not rule of the money, not rule of the mighty,” Biden told the audience at the Tempe Center for the Arts.

“Regardless of party, that means respecting free and fair elections. Accepting the outcome, win or lose.”

Trump has long maintained, without evidence, that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him through voter fraud.

He currently faces four criminal indictments, two of which pertain to his efforts to reverse his 2020 loss to Biden.

It’s worse than just bees. The Russian bear is being savaged by a Ukrainian wolverine.

Do you want your son or grandson to die for the corrupt Ukraine regime?

MTG has let it slip that Russia may not only be abusing the Ukraine children they have kidnapped, but they may be harvesting their organs for transplants. I certainly hope that is not true, and she was accusing Ukraine of doing that. More closer to home, I’m wondering if that may be what happened to some, if not many of the immigrant children that were kidnapped under the Orange Administration, that still can’t be accounted for? There is a pretty good track record of every accusation from a Republican is an admission of guilt.

Shouldn’t it be Winnie the Putin?

So not funding a war between two oligarchs is suddenly akin to cheering for the badder guy.

Biden’s Success’s – Historic Inflation – Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal – Supply Chain Shortages – Strategic Petroleum Reserves at lowest levels – Energy Dependence – Record High Gas Prices – Record credit card debt for Americans – Highest vacation rate of any modern U.S. President – Lowest K – 12 test scores in decades – 7 million Illegal Border Crossings – Weaponization of the D O J.

It just shows how wrong-headed the QOP can be.

The fundamental problem here is a twerp named Matt Gaetz, who represents a rump in northwest Florida – which should be part of Alabama (check the map). He’s a cheap molester of adolescent girls who should be in jail. Boebert and MTG complete the fecal trio who will very possibly hand 1/3 of Ukraine to Russia. They represent an abyss of ignorance which I visited twice annually for 40 years. As late as 1980, I saw de facto segregation there. The GOP can’t keep these malignant idiots under control. Who you send to Congress really matters- everywhere on Earth.

The magic of this cartoon is that it says so much with a drawing and a few words.

Putin undoubtedly decided to invade Ukraine to distract his own Russian people from how miserable their lives have been under his control, and MAGA Republicans are rooting for him to succeed because they think that nothing short of living under a dictatorship can possibly make their OWN lives less miserable.