Their lack of power reflects the appalling fact that 50% of the electorate voted for Trump / MAGA.
Without a majority, there isn't some simple action they could do, but are deliberately refusing to take.
Being mentioned in the files is not the same as knowing what was going on, or participating in the vile abuse, or supporting Epstein AFTER his abuse convictions.
Where there IS evidence of the above, eg Chomsky and Krauss for the latter, then it's legit to go for the jugular.
'Influenced' isn't brainwashing.
You cannot brainwash people (or a whole culture) into doing things they don't want to do, or supporting things they loathe.
Stop using it as an excuse for a failure to convince and persuade.
You're not engaging with the points I made, so this is pointless.
Last try-
People are almost impossible to brainwash- it didn't work in the Soviet Union, it didn't work in Regency England.
It's just your mindless, knee jerk, safety net explanation for why people disagree with you.
This is now really boring.
Your smugness and arrogance, and your patronizing, condescending attitude towards your fellow citizens are all repulsive.
YOU are one of the reasons Trump won.
He sends his thanks!
I agree, the Jesus character says lots of vile stuff- an ambiguity typical of all 'revealed' religions. But what they mean that MAGA xians selectively ignore the bits of the character that are positive, eg when he talks about kindness and humility, etc...
And then the left scratches its collective beard and tearfully wonders WHY people drift to the right...
This is why we keep losing. THIS kind of smug condescention towards anyone who disagrees. It quite rightly repulses the voters.
The art of respectful political persuasion is dead on the left.
And given you think people (expect you, of course!) are all idiots unable to resist said 'brainwashing', and given you happily say that out loud in public... do you think that will persuade them to change their minds?
Or are they more likely to think you're an arrogant and patronizing lefty?
I'm very reassured by your knee jerk hostility to my entirely rational cartoon- I'm obviously really hitting a raw nerve.
Do please clearly & logically explain why it's 'deeply flawed'... in a way that doesn't sound like you're just sulking, because you feel challenged by its ethical clarity.
HA! I was drawing a portrait of her today!
Amazing woman.
Some of the vilification thrown at her for being a non-believer was hilariously vile... but so extreme I'm not gonna risk posting any of it here!
Social media slurs are nothing new...
Yes, BOTH are crap, authoritarian, dangerous, politicized religious delusions.
So we loathe BOTH... yes?
Gotta confess I thought that flyer was one of the genuinely quite witty attacks on Tom, sneakily referencing the wave of effigy burnings!
"Beloved Thomas... Beware of John Bull; for John will think for himself, and has burnt thee so repeatedly, that Hell absolutely swarms with thy Effigies."
What I hear, when the left says things like that, is "almost all those who disagree with us are stupid, gullible people who are easily brainwashed".
That seems really elitist, contemptuous and condescending for a movement that's meant to be OF the ordinary citizen..?
Timeline cleanse. Here's a little joy.❤️💜💙
Fuck, he's an idiot.
In a democracy, if you want to WIN, you have to appeal to the electorate. That involves pragmatic compromise. (EG no atheist can win. Outrageous but true.)
The left obsessing about the ideological purity of a candidate is a self-indulgent, echo-chamber, dead-end strategy. A sure way to lose.
It is an extremely rapid rise, and may go higher, BUT, as the graph shows, it's still lower than it was in 2022/3...
Screenshot The Washington Post United Airlines updated its contract of carriage the rules a passenger agrees to in order to fly - to specify that "passengers who fail to use headphones while listening to audio or video content" could be removed from a plane or not allowed to board. Below, a photo of a United plane with the headline: United Airlines has a new rule: Put on your headphones or get off the plane.
🧵 Societies have always given themselves rules, from the Code of Ur-Nammu to the 10 Commandments & today's legal codes. Those who shout 'freedom' ignore there are always some who don't do the 'right' thing, & as part of a group you need/seek to preserve, you can't do your own.
#GoodMorning, everyone
Circumcision has been classed as a potentially harmful practice in new official guidance for criminal prosecutors in England and Wales.
This is a welcome move following multiple recent prosecutions for unsafe and harmful procedures.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Also useful to remember islam is an IDEOLOGY, not an ethnicity.
Just like catholicism.
Or MAGA.
This has nothing to do with racism.
Trump claims (without any evidence) that Iran would have had a nuke in two weeks if he hadn’t dropped his Epstein Distraction Bombs.
The cult:
If you think Noem being sacked and replaced is some kind of victory to be celebrated, you're a seriously naive fuckwit.
It'd be good to see Humanists engage more with that age old point of contention: to what extent does nature limit the ethical potential of nurture?
Discussions about it to date have been simplistic and ideologically polarized... whereas 'human nature' is of course a MIX of altruism vs selfishness.
GOODLANDER: I want to give you an opportunity to truthfully answer a very simple question -- who won the 2020 election?
COLBY: I'm not gonna talk about that issue
GOODLANDER: ... You swore an oath to our Constitution
COLBY: I'm not going to be drawn out on an issue of political contention
Have we left avenues open for them to 'earn it'?
I'm not sure we have.
There is now a deep, poisonous, polarizing fracture running through society and politics, one that can only be defused if we all reject tribalized evangelical loyalty, and embrace the idea that our 'side' may not be infallible... nor exclusively occupy the moral high ground.
Toon c/o polyp.org.uk
He's reverting to his true form...
#Trump
Er... islamist fundamentalists are in NO position to claim this about another regime!
The religious seem to believe that people would make a decision like this in an almost flippant, trivial way.
No-one would end their life unless it had become profoundly unbearable, with no hope of improvement.
