Bob Gorrell for July 03, 2023

Very true; progresion in the U.S. is not only being stopped, it is being reversed.

Hey mister cartoon man, please tell me the material difference between Affirmative action and Legacy admissions?

Gorrell is the biggest fan of outlawing all abortions.

How’s that state legislature election control going? And the gerrymandering? Seems the fascisti lost a couple of cases this session, too.

Good news Monday.

About time.

Yes, with a relatively young conservative high court, we’re likely to see many progressive gains get pushed into the gutter. Mores the pity. Just when we need progressive thinking to actually do something about climate change, we’ll end up doing next to nothing.

The Supreme Court is determined to set America back to the 1950’s. When they’ve completed that, their next target is the 1850’s.

Very shocking that a hand-picked conservative majority is conservative.

Great cartoon; justice used as a weapon.

The pendulum will swing back. Progress is inevitable, even if it comes in fits and starts, and setbacks occur. Soon, all the old conservatives and their archaic values will die off, will fade away. The clock cannot be turned back for long, Bobby…

A paraphrase of something I saw elsewhere sums it up: the Court majority, appointed by a President that did not win the popular vote, confirmed by a Senate “majority” that represents maybe one-fourth of the population of the country. This is the minority-rule gift that keeps on giving; even if there’s a blue wave in the future, these guys will be able to torpedo their agenda for a generation.

You may think that your ideology is so right that this is just, but that’s not how America was designed, and continuing down this minority-rule road will lead to authoritarianism like Russia and China could only dream of.

I suspect that the writers of the Constitution, some of whom were thinking in terms of 50 years before revisions, would be astounded that there are people are following what they wrote almost a quarter millennium ago, without more amendments.

Either we need term limits so each president can choose his/her justices, or we need to expand the Court so these minority-rule bozos can’t prevail forever.

When we get back to the good old days, we will realize they weren’t that good. I know—I lived through the 50’s That’s why progress was made. Now for some reason, some don’t want to go forward but somehow think that if we just go backward everything will be wonderful. So sad and so wrong.

Conservatives won’t be happy until we all are sitting in damp caves drawing pictures on the wall with squashed berries.

The right wing courts prejudiced hammer wants to take away all of your rights.

Lines have been drawn in the sand. Now it remains to be seen if the future brings compromises between the 2 philosophies or bloodshed.

4.5/55

exact same giant gavel and donkey holding a piece of paper cartoon as:

https://www.gocomics.com/bobgorrell/2018/07/03

Another win for the American oligarchs.

No thanks to a packed Supreme Court

I repeat the quotes that explain conservatives the best (IMO):

“Conservatism, then, is not a commitment to limited government and liberty – or a wariness of change, a belief in evolutionary reform, or a politics of virtue. These may be byproducts of conservatism, one or more of its historically specific and ever-changing modes of expression. But they are not it animating purpose. Neither is conservatism a makeshift fusion of catalysts, Christians, and warriors, for that fusion is impelled by a more element force – the opposition to the liberation of men and women from the fetters of their superiors, particularly in the private sphere. Such a view might seem miles away from the libertarian defense of the free market, with its celebration of the atomistic autonomous individual. But it is not. When the libertarian looks out upon society, he does not see isolated individuals; he sees private, often hierarchical groups, where a father governs his family and an owner his employees… the conservative position stems from a genuine conviction that a world thus emancipated will be ugly, brutish, base, and dull. It will lack the excellence of a world where the better man commands the worse… Each in his own way subscribes to this typical statement, from the nineteenth century, of the conservative creed: To obey a real superior… is one of the most important of all virtues – a virtue absolutely essential to the attainment of anything great and lasting.” The Righteous Mind by Corey Robin

In hindsight American history has been given labels like McCarthyism, Jim Crow.. wonder what the period will be called in ~ 10.. 15 years.

A fake company by a fake plaintiff, represented by the wife of a fake senator who doesn’t live in the state he claims to represent, got fake justices to issue a fake opinion that will cause REAL discriminatory harm to millions of Americans? Got it.

I thought the law was equal for all.

On Monday, June 26 , 2023, SCOTUS ruled that the lawsuit brought against Ohio State University by hundreds of athletes who claim sexual abuse by trainer Richard Strauss can go forward. Part of the lawsuit directly implicates Jordan, as it states that he not only turned a blind eye to this abuse, but also states that Jordan obstructed justice by tampering with witnesses. Jim Jordan’s days in Congress are numbered. It is just a matter of time, as the trial against Ohio State moves forward.

The conservative court is reminiscent of the conservative courts in 1930s and 1940s Germany. conservatives are the enemy of the U.S. and have been since 1774.

Progress happens. That’s why conservatives are always so angry. Trying to undo progress, whether you like the results or not, is a fool’s errand.

If you don’t like where progress is taking you, find a better way to use that progress; you can try to make it vanish, but it will not.

The rightwing fascists are continually moaning about the “deep state”, but they’re the people who have built and are maintaining one.

Needed more of them to get out of their shell and vote Democratic during the midterms. Much as more voted in the midterms than has been the case, there were still far fewer that voted than could have. Don’t get me wrong, illicit gerrymandering played a role in many so-called Red States. Hopefully, we can undo that damage in the elections next year, and any that are to be held this year locally. Not voting isn’t a protest, it’s just plain stupid.

Yes, real progress towards freedom has never been more heavily under threat from the right wing extremist agenda as it is today

Gorrell would probably love living back in the ‘Gilded Age’ … the 1890’s!

Close, bobby… draw (or steal) one depicting an iron fist and a sign that says PROGRESS.

Welcome back to 1954, America.

great, luv it!

Welcome to 1954, just as the Federalist Society directed SCOTUS to do.

Good to know where you stand.

It is easy for SCOTUS when the Federalist Society tells it what the ruling will be and all the justices have to do is cherry-pick facts to support it, or make up new legal theories.

After being “off” of GoComics for a week, this piece of ‘crap’ is the “Best” that Gorrell can deliver…