Yes, Liza, you did rise to a touching level with today's cartoon. As a cat lover, I always look for cats in your cartoons, and this one is especially good. What a dramatic contrast between you & your cartoons and the administration's horrors that you report on. However, I appreciate both from you. Keep on keepin' on!
For another point of view on that park in LA, from someone who knows it:
"Everyone in Los Angeles knows this. The squirrels know it. MacArthur Park is a dangerous, filthy, depressing shithole full of homeless encampments, drug dealers, gang members, drug users, and prostitutes, the latter two categories overlapping quite a bit."
Sure looks to me like Mayor Bass is gaslighting people.
Not a place you'd send children to play. Recent local press headline:
'Fentanyl grips MacArthur Park as officials talk cleanup'.
I guess that The Supreme Court can SOMEHOW justify their decisions. It's really amazing how their decisions further embolden Trump. I wouldn't have the conscience as to how they're making the majority of American lives more difficult.
In the letter shown how do ICE goons get away with no identification? How do they??
Thank you for being here Liza. And Michael. As measured and deeply human as anyone I have found here, authentically striving to mix art, reason and patient observation.
We are living a very dangerous time. We need one another if we are to stand up to the ugliness.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by this. But the demonization of federal law enforcement officers by elected Democrats is the bloody limit.
Since when have state and local politicians had a veto over the enforcement of federal law in their states and cities? Since when has it been okay for members of Congress, governors, and mayors to equate federal law enforcement officers with the Gestapo and the SS? Since when does anybody get a pass for violating federal law by interfering with federal law enforcement actions? That happens to be a federal felony.
And now we’ve had two terrorist attacks against ICE and Border Patrol installations. Why am I not surprised? After all the unhinged rhetoric from the Resistance, screaming about fascists and oligarchs, it was only to be expected. After all, when one of the comrades assassinated a health insurance corporation CEO, he was hailed as a hero. Ugh, just ugh.
Well, I guess that not all insurrections are created equal. January 6, 2021? An intolerable assault on “our democracy”! Pity those poor Capitol cops! But ICE? The Border Patrol? Fascists! Nazis! MAGA stormtroopers! Monsters of evil! They must be crushed out of existence by any means necessary!
gestapo acts of raids to confuse and terrify everyone. wasn't this supposed to be to rid us of criminals? the real result will come once the food starts to rot in the fields, and food prices double and triple. restaurants closing for lack of cooks and wait people. construction projects stop due to no laborers or carpenters. what a mess, in the name of making the country great again. (making the billionaires and millionaires richer and the poorest of citizens poorer and without healthcare)
There is little doubt left where he is going with this. And by "he", I am of course referring to Stephen Miller, the damaged mind behind so much of the intentional cruelty.
The cartoon is perfect. Seeking solace in companion animals while contemplating the void of human decency. Congress just funded the ICE Gestapo. Aid is stripped from the most vulnerable to enrich the rich. The hardest working people in the US (I've worked with immigrants and refugees for 30+ years, so I speak from experience) are being turned into a reality TV horror show. If this were a dystopian movie, I'd think it 'over the top'.
Would a Gestapo tolerate what has happened to that park? Would they tolerate the drugged out zombies, gang bangers, trashed-out tent enclaves, and prostitutes having taken over so that normal people in that neighborhood have lost out? Just thinking out loud...
if you came to my house, you would see the image of your cartoon. Me. Sitting. Mind agog. With cat on knee. Waiting for an update that reads: "He's gone." The good news is the senator who was shot nine times....NINE times is going home today. God bless and keep him.
A lap cat is most soothing. Am I the only one who missed the July 4 news on the attack of an ICE 'compound' in the Dallas - Fort Worth area?
Yes, Liza, you did rise to a touching level with today's cartoon. As a cat lover, I always look for cats in your cartoons, and this one is especially good. What a dramatic contrast between you & your cartoons and the administration's horrors that you report on. However, I appreciate both from you. Keep on keepin' on!
For another point of view on that park in LA, from someone who knows it:
"Everyone in Los Angeles knows this. The squirrels know it. MacArthur Park is a dangerous, filthy, depressing shithole full of homeless encampments, drug dealers, gang members, drug users, and prostitutes, the latter two categories overlapping quite a bit."
Sure looks to me like Mayor Bass is gaslighting people.
Not a place you'd send children to play. Recent local press headline:
'Fentanyl grips MacArthur Park as officials talk cleanup'.
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/lets-play-compare-the-headlines
and another one at the same substack. Lots of pics.
I guess that The Supreme Court can SOMEHOW justify their decisions. It's really amazing how their decisions further embolden Trump. I wouldn't have the conscience as to how they're making the majority of American lives more difficult.
In the letter shown how do ICE goons get away with no identification? How do they??
Thank you for being here Liza. And Michael. As measured and deeply human as anyone I have found here, authentically striving to mix art, reason and patient observation.
We are living a very dangerous time. We need one another if we are to stand up to the ugliness.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by this. But the demonization of federal law enforcement officers by elected Democrats is the bloody limit.
Since when have state and local politicians had a veto over the enforcement of federal law in their states and cities? Since when has it been okay for members of Congress, governors, and mayors to equate federal law enforcement officers with the Gestapo and the SS? Since when does anybody get a pass for violating federal law by interfering with federal law enforcement actions? That happens to be a federal felony.
And now we’ve had two terrorist attacks against ICE and Border Patrol installations. Why am I not surprised? After all the unhinged rhetoric from the Resistance, screaming about fascists and oligarchs, it was only to be expected. After all, when one of the comrades assassinated a health insurance corporation CEO, he was hailed as a hero. Ugh, just ugh.
Well, I guess that not all insurrections are created equal. January 6, 2021? An intolerable assault on “our democracy”! Pity those poor Capitol cops! But ICE? The Border Patrol? Fascists! Nazis! MAGA stormtroopers! Monsters of evil! They must be crushed out of existence by any means necessary!
What a disgrace.
gestapo acts of raids to confuse and terrify everyone. wasn't this supposed to be to rid us of criminals? the real result will come once the food starts to rot in the fields, and food prices double and triple. restaurants closing for lack of cooks and wait people. construction projects stop due to no laborers or carpenters. what a mess, in the name of making the country great again. (making the billionaires and millionaires richer and the poorest of citizens poorer and without healthcare)
That is me petting my cat, Rama. Several times each day. It’s truly comforting to feel him breathing and purring. Keeps me sane.
There is little doubt left where he is going with this. And by "he", I am of course referring to Stephen Miller, the damaged mind behind so much of the intentional cruelty.
lend me a cat. thanks for the letter-saw some of my favorite people had signed it. ICE gets minus points for chasing kids out of a park.
You mean chasing druggies and prostitutes out of the park, no?
The cartoon is perfect. Seeking solace in companion animals while contemplating the void of human decency. Congress just funded the ICE Gestapo. Aid is stripped from the most vulnerable to enrich the rich. The hardest working people in the US (I've worked with immigrants and refugees for 30+ years, so I speak from experience) are being turned into a reality TV horror show. If this were a dystopian movie, I'd think it 'over the top'.
Would a Gestapo tolerate what has happened to that park? Would they tolerate the drugged out zombies, gang bangers, trashed-out tent enclaves, and prostitutes having taken over so that normal people in that neighborhood have lost out? Just thinking out loud...
if you came to my house, you would see the image of your cartoon. Me. Sitting. Mind agog. With cat on knee. Waiting for an update that reads: "He's gone." The good news is the senator who was shot nine times....NINE times is going home today. God bless and keep him.