Strange bedfellows make politics
According to the Washington Post, semi-recently Donald Trump openly embraced the conspiracy theory group QAnon and signaled that he was their ally and if you want to read more about how Trump did that, here’s a link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/19/trump-qanon-conspiracy-theories/
Just in case you’ve forgotten:
QAnon is the group that believes a Satanic cabal of cannibalistic pedophiles and cultural elites are running the government (which is completely ridiculous because as we all know, they actually run Hollywood) and they believe Donald Trump is working to stop the cannibalistic pedophiles which seems unlikely because generally speaking Donald Trump doesn’t seem to give a rat’s ass about anything that doesn’t affect him personally.
Now here’s another article that says Trump actually knows jackshit about QAnon and what they believe, but likes the fact that they like him and one of his advisers (and once again let me remind you that the very worst things we know about Donald Trump come from the insiders who worked with him) said all this QAnon stuff is way over Trump’s head and as long as they support him, Trump doesn’t really care what they believe.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/qanon-fans-donald-trump/index.html
So if the Ku Klux Klan or La Cosa Nostra or the Mongol Horde liked Trump, it sounds like he’d like them back.
Now here’s an article from Britannica.com that describes QAnon and reminded me that these geniuses believed a child sex trafficking ring was being run out of the basement of a Washington, D.C. pizza parlor that didn’t actually have a basement.
Details, details, details.
When one of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory believers showed up at the pizza parlor, armed with an AR-15, a shotgun and a revolver and fired his weapons, he wound up getting arrested and admitted his “intel” on the pizza parlor “wasn’t 100 percent” and got sentenced to four years in prison.
Say something batshit crazy like you need to “fight like hell” to stop an election from being stolen and somebody a couple lights short of a Christmas tree might believe you and go storm the capitol.
If you want to read more about the crazy stuff the QAnon people believe, here you go:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/QAnon
All of which poses an interesting problem for the Republican Party. They want to kiss Donald Trump’s ass because they think his followers might help elect their candidates, but do they really want to climb in bed with Trump and QAnon for a political three-way?
Also, I’m not sure if this cartoon crosses the boundaries of bad taste because I’ve never been precisely sure where those boundaries are located.
Anyway…
If the syndicate didn’t send this cartoon to client papers, at least you got to see it here, which depending on your personal politics and level of squeamishness, might not be a good thing.
This cartoon acknowledges the fact that not all Republicans are extremists or crazy, but that the GOP has shifted way over to the right and the Main Stream seems to have dried up which leaves a lot of semi-normal Republicans feeling like their party deserted them and if you don’t believe me, just ask Liz Cheney.
And if you’re the teensy, tiniest bit conservative and wondering just when I’m going to say something negative about Joe Biden, here you go…
After Biden announced the pandemic was over and we were ready to go to war over Taiwan, I read a CNN article about how often Biden departs from his prepared script and says stuff he wasn’t supposed to say and then some Democrat has to drag his or her ass out in public and explain what Joe “meant to say” and we didn’t really hear what we just heard.
If you read the following article, enjoy the Biden supporter who tries to paint confusion about our foreign policy as a positive: if we don’t know what the hell we plan to do, how could our enemies?
A position that would seem to indicate it would be a brilliant idea to hit Ozzy Osbourne in the forehead with a shovel and then send him out to explain U.S. foreign policy.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/biden-comments-covid-taiwan-walkbacks-analysis/index.html
As they have retreated from Ukraine (and I still want to call it the Ukraine, even if that’s wrong) it turns out the Russians have left military equipment behind and they’ve also discovered mass graves with bodies showing signs of torture which led to cartoon you see above and I can’t think of anything funny to say about any of this, so let’s move on.
So the pandemic kept kids from attending school and that screwed up math and reading skills, so if learning through teleconferencing and Zoom calls isn’t all that efficient, maybe we ought to question how bad businesses have suffered and what the economic consequences will eventually be from holding meetings you can attend without wearing pants.
Mike Lindell, MyPillow CEO and Trump supporter, accused a voting machine company of rigging the election and the voting machine company sued him and Lindell wanted the suit dismissed, but the above cartoon paraphrases what the judge said when she decided the suit could go forward.
As I’ve proven over and over, you can say pretty much anything you want on social media (unless they get tired of your bullshit and ban you and then you’ll have to start your own social media platform), but if you wind up in court they require actual evidence which is why claims of the election being stolen went pretty much nowhere.
But as we’ve already seen, having no evidence doesn’t stop people from believing Donald Trump won the election, Bigfoot exists and the Loch Ness Monster was the actual winner of last year’s Masked Singer.
OK, that’s it for today and I’m still catching up from my long trip to California which once again reminded me of the wisdom of my decision to live 1,719 miles away from my family.