Prickly City by Scott Stantis for March 26, 2025

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No one wants to swallow it, so the repugnicans see it as a suppository to be rammed up your unwilling butt.

trump needs one more cabinet member after watching the Senate hearings today…Sgt Schultz would be a natural!

Magats will swallow anything Trump tells them to.

They all believe there was NO classified information on the call.

And Ukraine started the war.

And tariffs are because Canada and Mexico and all trading partners are ripping us off.

I suppose a story that will be the expression on Winslow’s after Skrump puts the medication where it is needed.

Everyone, per the last two days’ Andersons, tomorrow I will sending out a secret message on Tiktok. It will be encoded in an interpretive piece of Swan Lake……………..performed during a square dance. Be on the alert.

Man, right-wing populists, pert near every decent editorial cartoonist is on this underqualified JA secret leak, huh?:

Hey, right-wing populists, you can even get some pointers on secrecy today from Calvin & Hobbes.

Krugman, to paraphrase: Incompetent or Evil? Yes.

Are we looking at … what Dan Drezner, using the technical language of international relations theory, calls “the dumbest m0therf***ers alive”? Or are we looking at a sinister plot to destroy America as we know it?The answer is “yes.” These people are both incompetent and evil.

The cons in office, by and large, don’t WANT government to work for The People – they want to drag it into the bathtub, blah blah.

maga voters want the government to fail too. They’ve never dealt with poisoned water, entire industries legally blocking them out for looking different, rivers catching on fire because of all the pollutants, the factory manager demanding sex with their wives so they can keep their jobs, banks refusing them access to money until a husband signs off, and the many other atrocities that resulting in our current regulations.

They think those things only happened because “that’s just how things used to be” and refuse to recognize that government regulations are what forced those things to change.

There is a giant cognitive dissonance by the GOP that they think the government is incompetent and useless, so they intentionally vote for people who are incompetent and actively work to make the government more useless.

Thereby, creating a more useless government with each iteration. Idiots top to bottom.

While we have to keep fighting, the more PINO Trump and #PresidentMusk fail, the better the midterms look. Watch the special elections. Just flipped a legislative seat in Pennsylvania. And if you in Wisconsin, make sure to vote for Susan Crawford for state supreme court next week.

DJT only knows how to adminisiter things by telling people to bend over and spread their cheeks. Dosen’t even supply the K-Y.

A large bitter pill.

Again, every Republican/conservative president since 1929 has had a depression or recession, some had two. tRump’s 2nd recession is likely to come by mid-year.

You’ll notice how silent the magats are these days.

It’s almost as if they realize that Their Messiah really does want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and to turn the country into a Russian style oligarchy — while helping Putin and the Saudis.

Maybe a small glimmer?

Oh great, not just stinking politics on my comics page, but politics disconnected from reality. Inflation Feb. 2019: 1.5%… Inflation, June ’21: 9.1%… Inflation Feb. ’25: 2.8%….

“Signal: Where Clown Car meets Department of Defense.” This would be a real knee-slapper if it weren’t so dangerous. Late night monologues just couldn’t make this up. This is more like “Dr. Strangelove…” but without the wit.

BOHICA

Signal was a unique product of Germany’s high-powered propaganda machinery: a nearly folio-sized magazine created in an effort to rally other European nations under the Teutonic banner, and to promote and justify German hegemony over Europe. It reached a maximum circulation of 2,500,000 copies per issue and was published fortnightly in a total of 25 different languages.

Based on the layout of LIFE, Signal utilized an exceptionally modern blend of articles and pictures. It was lavishly illustrated, including full-page color plates. Outfitted with an elite of staff authors and war correspondents, and partly independent from the rigid censorship of Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry, Signal quickly established itself as the number one propaganda publication in wartime Europe.

In its March 22, 1943 feature on Allied and Axis propaganda LIFE conceded: “The Chief U.S. foreign propaganda magazine Victory is but a pallid imitation of the German Signal. Victory has less than half the circulation of Signal, contains no terrific propaganda sock like its Nazi counterpart.”

Three issues of Signal from 1944In a War of Words, Signal was a most effective weapon which the German propaganda experts succeeded in putting to maximum use. The magazine had a significant impact on the European volunteer movement against Bolshevism. By downplaying social and political differences among the various European nations, and by attempting to line them up behind Germany in its “struggle for freedom”, Signal promoted a “New Order” of Europe, designed as a Pax Germanica.

That there isn’t a similar MAGAzine today is due to two reasons:

1. The internet is far cheaper and widespread, and

2. Fewer people that can read – will . . .

(© 2002 – 2010, Alexander Zöller)

Italics mine.

March 26, 2026

AG Brown urges legal professionals to stand strong in the face of bullying and political retribution

OLYMPIA – Attorney General Nick Brown, as part of a coalition of 21 attorneys general, issued an open letter to the legal community warning of illegal attempts by the Trump administration to deter lawyers from challenging the administration’s actions or representing clients disfavored by the administration. The attorneys general call on the legal community to resist attempts at bullying or retribution and uphold the values of their profession.

“The legal community is a key pillar in our system of checks and balances, and helps protect people from tyranny,” Brown said. “The president attacking some law firms and demanding loyalty from others is clearly meant to bend the justice system to his will. I urge attorneys across Washington state to resist this attack on the rule of law.”

Brown and the other attorneys general argue that the administration’s unconstitutional actions are a gross abuse of authority and an attack on the practice of law. The attorneys general note in their letter that President Trump issued executive orders against five law firms, seeking retribution over ideological differences and punishing firms for the actions of individual attorneys representing clients adverse to the president or his supporters. The president also issued a memorandum last week threatening all law firms and lawyers that engage in litigation against the federal government.CONTINUED

CONTINUED Trump’s actions cancel all government contracts with the targeted firms, strip all of the firms’ attorneys of their security clearances and threaten the same against any firm that dares to step out of line. The orders bar lawyers from the firms from public buildings and violate client privacy, including mandating that clients disclose their contracts with the targeted firms. President Trump also singled out individual attorneys for condemnation because the attorney represented clients who challenged his administration’s actions.

In addition, one of the orders calls on the U.S. attorney general, in consultation with state attorneys general, to “investigate” law firms that have programs or policies focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.

The chilling effect of these actions was quickly demonstrated as one targeted firm has already given into the administration’s demands by agreeing to, among other things, abandon diversity, equity and inclusion practices, and provide $40 million in pro bono work on causes supported by President Trump.

In their letter, the attorneys general note that lawyers have an obligation to uphold the rule of law and should not give in to intimidation by dropping clients or refusing to take on certain cases due to fear of retribution. They encourage firms to stand strong and support their colleagues. The coalition also makes clear that they will not allow their offices to be used for political attacks against law firms that hold viewpoints unfavored by the administration.

Finally, Brown and the attorneys general condemn the administration’s baseless attacks on federal judges who have ruled against President Trump and his allies. The coalition urges the entire legal community to speak out against such attacks, including calls for the impeachment of judges who rule against the administration’s actions.

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Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul led the coalition. Joining them in sending the letter are the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Reminds me of an old Futurama joke. It’s pretty much where he wants people to shove anything up to these days.

Is gas under $2/gal yet like Trump promised he would do before the election? This question has nothing to do with Biden and only with the actual words that Trump said when Trump made the promise.

It’s a yes or no question. I have to explain the type of question it is because some people don’t understand the word YET. And the only answer that is required to a yes or no question is “Yes” or “No.” And if you say “Yes” then say where, city and state in the U.S., it’s under $2/gal or else your answer is a resounding “No.”

Let’s see who actually knows how to read.

Don’t swallow it,it’s poison