Vib Rib posted:

Also at least before they had the pretense of Winslow and Mouthpiece being different characters. This is literally their dialog swapped.

Tindalos posted:

And just to test that, I flipped them (lazily) in each panel.



I think they might work better like this.

Manuel Calavera posted:

Ted Rall posted:

At the Brett Kavanaugh Hearing, Democrats Make a Not-So-Bold Stand for the #Resistance

Democrats interrupted Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee during confirmation for right-wing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But they weren't willing to go to the mat. The minute Republicans expressed their annoyance they went quiet. So much for the glorious fight against Trump that Democrats dare to compare to the French Resistance of World War II!

Tags: Brett Kavanaugh; Supreme Court; SCOTUS; Kamala Harris; talking over; interrupt; cowardice; Democrats; Democratic Resistance; parliamentary procedure; quorum; impotence; farce; charade; confirmation hearings; Senate Judiciary Committee;

Pants Donkey posted:

Republicans alone have the votes needed to confirm, so would a walkout be just as performative?

Washington Times posted:

Senate Democrats closed down the chamber floor Wednesday to protest the confirmation hearings of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh.

The hearings were able to continue, but only after the GOP agreed to quit floor business for the rest of the day.

Under Senate rules, committees need consent from both sides of the aisle to meet into the afternoon when the floor is also in session. Consent is almost always granted — but on Wednesday, Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer refused, saying he was fed up with the push to confirm the judge to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court.

“We will not consent to business as usual on the Senate floor today,” he said.

Trapezium Dave posted:

US Constitution, Article 1, Section 5 posted:

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business.

Tobermory posted:

A quorum for the Senate is a majority of the Senate, in other words 51. There are 51 Republicans in the Senate. Rall hasn't put much thought into this.

Tobermory posted:

A quorum for the Senate is a majority of the Senate, in other words 51. There are 51 Republicans in the Senate. Rall hasn't put much thought into this.

Technowolf posted:

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VitalSigns posted:

The Man from Lickspittle is fascinating to me because even more than the usual conservative cartoonists, it's so frank that the author has no consistent political ideology, just a persecution complex fueling endless grievances which are all pinned on some nebulous mental image of the liberal oppressor, even the grievances that contradict other grievances, even when the grievances result from something conservatives do it's all liberals' fault.

• Pollution don't real it's all something liberals made up to oppress the self-made businessman, also Washington liberals hate small towns and designate them as dumping grounds for all the pollution in the country.
  
• There's secret communists everywhere undermining America, also McCarthyism is a liberal plot to blacklist conservatives as communists and lock them up.
  
• Liberals love terrorists and accuse anyone of wanting to secure and protect the American homeland of racism and Islamophobia, also the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act and the TSA and the police state are all liberal plots to subject Americans to big government control.
  
• Science is all a liberal plot, but actually liberals are the anti-science ones and the only true scientific authority is a professional politician with an engineering degree from West Buttfuckville Arkansas
  
• Racism is completely made-up, except for racism against white people which is real where's the NAAWP?
  
• Man it really sucks that all these racists and new-Confederates and Klansmen are showing up to protest against the black president, they must be liberals conducting a false flag!
  
• Liberals bus schoolkids to protest for liberal causes that they don't understand and aren't old enough to critically examine, this is terrible, because schoolkids ought to be bussed to protest for conservative causes that they don't understand and aren't old enough to critically examine!
  
• Banks are being bailed out by the government to reward them for massive financial fraud that wrecked their companies, by the way that fraud shouldn't even be illegal and corporations should run everything because business is best!
  
• SNL is horrible, dishonest, and an utter disgrace for trying to make politicians look stupid with inaccurate comedic portrayals, now enjoy my cartoon where liberals and scientists want to redefine the speed of light and round off pi trolololololol.
  

Alhazred posted:

That's a lot of words about the most blandest and dullest comic being posted here.

Alhazred posted:

That's a lot of words about the most blandest and dullest comic being posted here.

loquacius posted:

Yeah I straight-up don't read Lickspittle because I can't muster the attention-span to make it all the way through a megapost of them

Garrison posted:

No Jocelyn, these things do NOT deserve our attention when we tune into a football game. Football used to be a welcome escape from politics and during the National Anthem, all Americans left and right came together for a moment—we already had the ‘unity’ you claim you’re after, but you allowed kneelers to foul that up, too. Football is not meant to effect ‘meaningful and positive change in our communities.’ It’s entertainment.

Faustian Bargain posted:

Poor baby lost his safe space

Sandpuppy posted:

VitalSigns posted:

The Man from Lickspittle is fascinating to me because even more than the usual conservative cartoonists, it's so frank that the author has no consistent political ideology, just a persecution complex fueling endless grievances which are all pinned on some nebulous mental image of the liberal oppressor, even the grievances that contradict other grievances, even when the grievances result from something conservatives do it's all liberals' fault.

• Pollution don't real it's all something liberals made up to oppress the self-made businessman, also Washington liberals hate small towns and designate them as dumping grounds for all the pollution in the country.
  
• There's secret communists everywhere undermining America, also McCarthyism is a liberal plot to blacklist conservatives as communists and lock them up.
  
• Liberals love terrorists and accuse anyone of wanting to secure and protect the American homeland of racism and Islamophobia, also the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act and the TSA and the police state are all liberal plots to subject Americans to big government control.
  
• Science is all a liberal plot, but actually liberals are the anti-science ones and the only true scientific authority is a professional politician with an engineering degree from West Buttfuckville Arkansas
  
• Racism is completely made-up, except for racism against white people which is real where's the NAAWP?
  
• Man it really sucks that all these racists and new-Confederates and Klansmen are showing up to protest against the black president, they must be liberals conducting a false flag!
  
• Liberals bus schoolkids to protest for liberal causes that they don't understand and aren't old enough to critically examine, this is terrible, because schoolkids ought to be bussed to protest for conservative causes that they don't understand and aren't old enough to critically examine!
  
• Banks are being bailed out by the government to reward them for massive financial fraud that wrecked their companies, by the way that fraud shouldn't even be illegal and corporations should run everything because business is best!
  
• SNL is horrible, dishonest, and an utter disgrace for trying to make politicians look stupid with inaccurate comedic portrayals, now enjoy my cartoon where liberals and scientists want to redefine the speed of light and round off pi trolololololol.
  

Sandpuppy posted:

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duz posted:

Just one correction:

loquacius posted:

Yeah I straight-up don't read Lickspittle because I can't muster the attention-span to make it all the way through a megapost of them

Pyromaniac Ida posted:

Same. I only have the energy for one comic and I save that for First dog on the moon.

duz posted:

Just one correction:

throw to first drat IT posted:

Next two dumps will be real doozies, tune in for them.

duz posted:

Just one correction:

throw to first drat IT posted:

I could post Diversity Lane for you two, it has less words.
I'm not actually going to post Diversity Lane.









Maggie's grandfathers appeared in this strip. I would love to tell you more but even archive.org hasn't indexed her character profile and so all that deep, meaningful backstory has been lost. Rip.
Next two dumps will be real doozies, tune in for them.

duz posted:

duz posted:

Just one correction: