Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for December 15, 2023

Cruelty is the point.

This is like a sadistic fairytale, but it’s real. America the free my A**.

Tfg better be careful. Ken Paxton’s getting way ahead of him in the misogynistic sadism department.

With that bad eye, it’s no wonder he can’t see straight.

Paxton is another Republican hero. How long has be been out on bail? Six years?

Too real to be funny. I know, not meant to be funny. Scary. In the civilized countries of Western Europe, people look on with dismay, even horror, at these developments. I know, as I have a double nationality (Dutch, American) and a French driving license (for life) , so international! And scared and sickened by the story behind this strip.God have mercy.

The objective of republicans is to exterminate or otherwise prolong the suffering of women, children, and all people of colour. The objective of democrats is to go high when republicans go low, even if that means giving the alt-right whatever they want, because it’s more important to “trust the process” than to help people or accomplish anything.

’merica sucks.

“Handmaid’s Tale” is a work of dystopian fiction, not a manual for governance.

I’m past worrying about an accidental pregnancy, for myself at least, but that isn’t even the point. If the Republican agenda begins with taking away a right we have had for fifty years, what rights are they coming after next?

Today republicans like Paxton target women’s reproductive health rights. Tomorrow they’ll be coming to take away all our civil rights. Vote blue or say goodbye to your rights and freedoms as an American. What happened to Hong Kong after China cracked down on their rights can happen here to. In some ways it’s already begun

Ruben really captured the lazy eye!

TX Taliban in action!!

I wish this were some dystopian cautionary tale, but it’s dystopian reality in 2023.

Careful, Ruben. You’re messin’ with Dictator For Life Trump’s new Federal Attorney General. When The Great Prevaricator returns to wreak havoc and revenge on the nation, it’ll be ole Sleepy-Eye Ken in the vanguard of Fascist … er … Federal Prosecutors.

Hi, I’m Ken Paxton from the state that seceded from Mexico so it could keep slaves, seceded from the US so it could keep slaves, and now threatens to secede from the US again so it can keep slaves. All that has changed is the basis for slave qualifications.

Paxton is all hat—and all cattle (manure).

That’s actually pretty funny, Reuben. Touché!

Compassion for the living must be paramount.

You better believe if a man’s life were in danger there would be no issues in providing the necessary medical care. Republicans say they don’t want government control when it suits them. Women deserve better than this puke. This isn’t about abortion. It’s refusing a woman a life saving procedure.

The stars at night show evil’s blight, deep in the heart of Texas.

A sick individual no doubt, almost as sick as the ones that protect him and keep him in power

Happening all the time around the world in third world countries. Ugly stuff.

Add to that, the Catholic church is against contraception and some right-wing Catholics (I’m looking at you Clarence Thomas) would like to ban contraception. Freedom to right-wing Christians is the freedom to do what they tell you to do. America’s Taliban.

And that’s the way it is in the One-Star state.

“You can’t have an abortion. You’re not dying enough yet.” /s

Someday we will find a way to get hypocritical men pregnant.

Too close to the truth to be funny.