Prickly City by Scott Stantis for December 21, 2021

I’m sad and hurt…I stubbed my toe.

Status would, he has drank so much republigoon Kool-Aid, he doesn’t know what reality his anymore noe does he know how to think for himself.

Well the good news is that the Meadow’s texting releases may eventuate a real logical and proportional sentence of the traitorous trumpians who planned the coup!

Biden blames global warming. Well, that’s what his handlers tell him to blame.

The saccharine-sweet Holiday Season PLUS the Omicron variant: A double reason to have SAD — Seasonable Affective Disorder.

There may be another cause…

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By Jonah Goldberg

Screw it.

I’ve shown a good deal of restraint since news broke that I left Fox News.

I haven’t done any TV about it, and I’ve let a lot of nonsense go by without a response.

A major reason I chose to leave with more than a year left on my contract was that I felt conflicted about speaking freely. Fox understandably doesn’t like to pay people who criticize Fox or its talent, and there is something unseemly about it.

So that was one reason why I left.

Another was that I didn’t want to be complicit in so many lies.

That’s the thing. I know that a huge share of the people you saw on TV praising Trump were being dishonest. I don’t merely suspect it, I know it, because they would say one thing to my face or in my presence and another thing when the cameras and microphones were flipped on.

And even when I didn’t hear it directly, I was often one degree of separation from it. (“Guess what so-and-so said during the commercial break?”) Punditry and politics is a very small world—especially on the right—and if you add-up all the congressmen, senators, columnists, producers, editors, etc. you’ll probably end up with fewer people than the student population of a decent-sized liberal arts college.

Yes, yes, some people started to drink the Kool-Aid and actually came to believe their own lies, but that’s a subject for another time.

Suffice it to say, however: Just because you’ve come to believe a lie that doesn’t make that lie true.

I never deliberately lied on Fox, but over time I felt like I was becoming complicit in a series of lies of omission. I’ll come back around to explain that in a moment. But let’s start with the news of the day.

The Meadows texts.

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https://gfile.thedispatch.com/p/donald-trumps-megaphone

It seems a lot of Independents are having buyer’s remorse.

Weaklings blame others; take responsibility for our own lives, for pete’s sake! Take responsibility for our every action/word. Once we learn to do that, we get more comfortable with ourselves and our lives. Be kind.

If you can’t think up any ideas for your strip, it’s okay to give up on it, don’t let it get worse. Just look what happened with the Simpsons.

I noticed. You noticed. Everybody noticed. I get it. Won’t be reading the strip further.

I blame trump and his fellow terrorists who tried to kill democracy.

Shows how the GQPs have one repeating talking point: blame Biden.

That despite saying that it is unfair to blame a POTUS for anything during the previous administration…

“I BLAME BIDEN….”

(wishes to know what “BIDEN” was mentioned in this part of the dialogue of this cartoon)

Why not? Americans are like little kids refusing to eat their carrots. So, they blame the guy who’s telling it like it is, and will vote (again) for someone who will tell them the lies they want to hear.

What do you get when you add 47 to 45? 2024.

And it is all wonky from Stantis wibbily-wobbly truth fluid juxtapositions among the characters.

No, Stantis, you keep doing that.