"Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.”

~ Benjamin Franklin, 1773

Please. Did Eisenhower ever serve in the armed forces? Because I’m pretty sure Donald J. Trump understands that war is necessary when you’re facing an existential threat like the release of documents tying you to raping minors.

There is no greater illusion than fear,

no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself,

no greater misfortune than having an enemy.

Whoever can see through all fear

will always be safe.

~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 46

2/2

When a country is in harmony with the Tao,

the factories make trucks and tractors.

When a country goes counter to the Tao,

warheads are stockpiled outside the cities.

1/2

More of a shriveled worm than a man, writhing in a muck of gnarled ego and petty grievance.

We don’t need to watch the State of the Union. We’re living it.

The State of the Union in one drawing.

Thank you.

Cartoon for @fightthefire.bsky.social

The firehoser

Trump is a monster, but don’t sow confusion. The last thing this world needs is more deception. Blocked.

Let us prey.

Our nation needs a disinfectant.

Medical term is “turns you into a dick incapable of empathy or self-awareness.”

Why are billionaires a thing? Under (Republican) President Eisenhower, we had a 90 percent tax bracket. The middle class exploded, we built the interstate highway system and public college tuition was subsidized.

True: When he talked with Putin last year about how to stay in power, Putin said, “Start by getting rid of mail balloting.”

Of course he has no power to this, and knows it. Note the convoluted “Remember, states are an AGENT of the federal government blah blah twisted lunacy lies projection ME ME…”

Road trips with no emissions or legal consequences. Power trips too.

Spoiler alert. The giant loses.

Thank you!

Thank you. The protesters are the best of us.

Spoiler alert.

Spoiler alert.

Spoiler alert: the giant loses

Under construction

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

It Is I Who Must Begin - Linda Graham The Czech playwright Vaclav Havel wrote this poem during the activist protests and uprisings that toppled communist rule in Czechoslovakia in 1989. He was the first democratically elected president of...

This ratfuckery wears on you. Remember: The trail is blazed.

“I suddenly discover
to my surprise, that
I am neither the only one,
nor the first,
nor the most important one
to have set out
upon that road.
Whether all is really lost
or not depends entirely on
whether or not I am lost.”

Vaclav Havel

I’ll always remember the 2016 debate: “No YOU’RE the Russian puppet!!” 😂

America getting a glow-up. ☢️

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10,000 Maniacs - Like the Weather YouTube video by Natalie Merchant

Listen 10x for moderate relief of weather-related malaise. Repeat as needed.