Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for June 20, 2024

Divide & conquer!

Start by creating what you’ll call the “second amendment”, but keep it vague!

Divide and conquer is an ancient recipe.

“I’ll give you my pitchfork when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!”

“Good advice, Donald.”

Chariot racing in the Easter Roman Empire. Green team versus Blue team.

“Blue versus Green: Rocking the Byzantine Empire”

“But the two remaining teams were wildly popular in the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire, which had its capital at Constantinople, and their supporters were as passionate as ever—so much so that they were frequently responsible for bloody riots.” – Smithsonian Magazine

Oldest trick in The Book. Already used extensively by the Romans: „Divide et impera“.

Sounds like the DNC platform, NAY IT IS THE DNC PLATFORM!!!

Divide and conquer

“… that’s how the idle rich have kept their wealth for centuries. Divide and control”

Well, as history shows from time to time, in the long run they will all want to remove you at some point.

If the Republicans were really smart. they would find a way to amend the second Amendment, to read: “The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.”

This is the zero-sum philosophy of politics. The only way a disenfranchised group can get a freedom, or a right, or justice is to take it away from YOU.

I’m so lucky that my side doesn’t do this. It’s all that evil other side

“Cut the…country in half; my view is that we would have far the larger half.”

—Pat Buchanan, in a memo to Richard Nixon, 1971.

Uh… I have a copy of this meme from years ago.

Can we get Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to attack each other?

Turn the people against each other and away from the REAL PROBLEM MAKER.

the plan of the ruling class since time began

You’ll have to pry my pitchfork from my cold dead hands! LOL

Pit the vaccinated against the unvaccinated, and no one will notice what our leaders did …

Or you buy up all the news outlets, and preach all your disinformation!

And there you have the truth.

All conflicts – national, religious, gender, race, all of them – are manufactured by the 1% to distract us from the real conflict – class. If the rich guy up on the hill can convince us that we have a problem because our skintone, etc., is different, we’re less likely to get together and say “Let’s go up the hill, f*** him up, and take our share!”

“I can hire one-half the farmers of the United States to shoot the other half to death.”

—attributed to 19th century railroad magnate Jay Gould

There was a guy that worked a torch into his pitchfork that was rejected by both sides.

The ol’ “Lets you and him fight” gag.

Never bring a pitchfork to a torch fight.

This is a great comic. I found it on June 15, 2022. Nothing changes.

Yup, divide and conquer.

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” —Thomas Paine (1737-1809) American revolutionary, pamphleteer, and atheist