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JHB

(37,158 posts)
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 07:29 AM Jul 2019

Tuesday TOONs - P-Tape: Pusillanimous Pair of Puppets Propping and Preening

Pusillanimous Pair of Puppets Propping and Preening






















Crow-Magnon Men














World’s Greatest Defective






His small, twitchy hands











Trump Detention Policy






Unless






Refuse






Support your local political cartoonist. Someone has to.






Malaise Speech, 2019






Meanwhile, 17 years ago…

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Tuesday TOONs - P-Tape: Pusillanimous Pair of Puppets Propping and Preening (Original Post) JHB Jul 2019 OP
and Kick! planetc Jul 2019 #1
Thank you. murielm99 Jul 2019 #2
K & R MFGsunny Jul 2019 #3
Great toons - love this fat ass one malaise Jul 2019 #4
Oh my .... 17 years ago ... UpInArms Jul 2019 #5
Change was off the table FiveGoodMen Jul 2019 #12
That saw is old and rusty UpInArms Jul 2019 #20
Yeah, because the truth has an expiration date FiveGoodMen Jul 2019 #21
Hmmm UpInArms Jul 2019 #24
Thank you for the cartoons Gothmog Jul 2019 #6
Thank you treestar Jul 2019 #7
good ones, thanks steventh Jul 2019 #8
Great collection, but this one's downright scary El Mimbreno Jul 2019 #9
And somewhere, Putin is smiling. Kid Berwyn Jul 2019 #29
K & R...nt Wounded Bear Jul 2019 #10
K & R and thank you. mountain grammy Jul 2019 #11
Excellent cartoons!Thank You! demigoddess Jul 2019 #13
Kick! Kick! and KicK!!!!! burrowowl Jul 2019 #14
Humor has taken a very dark turn. lunatica Jul 2019 #15
Wow! So many great ones. cp Jul 2019 #16
Kicktoons and Thanks Hekate Jul 2019 #17
K&R and thanks! Especially for this one: tblue37 Jul 2019 #18
K&R smirkymonkey Jul 2019 #19
Me too. BHDem53 Jul 2019 #22
I think we all experience the waking first thought one...glad someone tooned it! Karadeniz Jul 2019 #23
Great toons! PatSeg Jul 2019 #25
This one really hits home: The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2019 #26
That's exactly how the right-wing brain trust want us to be... KY_EnviroGuy Jul 2019 #27
Whew! The tooners have been busy! Thanks for the goodies!❤ Karadeniz Jul 2019 #28

UpInArms

(51,280 posts)
24. Hmmm
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 09:18 PM
Jul 2019

I think my post came out all wrong ...

Am in complete agreement with you ..

Am hating that we continue to hear that old saw ..

The truth has no expiration date ... and it is on our side

treestar

(82,383 posts)
7. Thank you
Tue Jul 2, 2019, 08:54 AM
Jul 2019

The one about the nuts, hahaha.

The one about sticking your next out as a cartoonist - very good.

Kid Berwyn

(14,869 posts)
29. And somewhere, Putin is smiling.
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 06:08 PM
Jul 2019

Last edited Wed Jul 3, 2019, 06:42 PM - Edit history (1)

PUTIN’S PAYOUT: 12 WAYS TRUMP HAS SUPPORTED PUTIN’S FOREIGN POLICY AGENDA

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Here’re twelve ways that Putin has received his payout:

Putin’s Goal: Weaken and divide the transatlantic alliance.
Putin’s Payout:Trump undermines US relationships with European allies and calls the US’s commitment to NATO into question.

Putin’s Goal: Degrade the European Union and foster pro-Russian political movements.
Putin’s Payout:Trump attacks the EU and actively supports anti-EU, Kremlin-backed parties.

Putin’s Goal: Disrupt American leadership and dominance of the global economic order.
Putin’s Payout: Trump is eagerly pushing for an all-out trade war with Europe

Putin’s Goal: Build global resentment and distrust towards the US and stoke anti-American sentiment.
Putin’s Payout: America’s closest allies are explicitly suspicious and distrusting of the US because of Trump’s rhetoric and actions.

Putin’s Goal: Relieve economic and domestic political pressure from US sanctions on Russia.
Putin’s Payout: Trump tries to roll back, impede, and blunt the impact of sanctions at every step.

Putin’s Goal: Legitimize his regime in the eyes of the world.
Putin’s Payout: Trump repeatedly praises and defends Putin, lending the credibility of the US presidency to Putin’s standing.

Putin’s Goal: Revive Russia’s status as a great power and gain international recognition for its illegal seizure of Crimea.
Putin’s Payout:Trump publicly says that Crimea is part of Russia and calls for Russia to be welcomed back into the international community with no concessions.

Putin’s Goal: Continue to sow discord in Western democracies and avoid repercussions for interfering in American and European elections.
Putin’s Payout: Trump dismisses Russian interference and has done nothing to prevent future interference, putting him at odds with his own intelligence community.

Putin’s Goal: Soften America’s adversarial stance toward Russia.
Putin’s Payout: Trump is shifting the Republican Party’s generations-long hawkish views on Russia.

Putin’s Goal: Destabilize the US from within.
Putin’s Payout: Trump attacks US institutions while driving divisive politics and eroding democratic norms.

Putin’s goal: Advance the Kremlin’s narrative to shape global perceptions.
Putin’s payout: Trump has repeatedly, and inexplicably, parroted Kremlin talking points across a range of global issues.

Putin’s goal: Undermine international norms and democratic values abroad.
Putin’s payout: Trump has repeatedly failed to respond to human rights violations or support democracy abroad, creating a more permissive environment for autocrats to crack down.

Details...

BY MAX BERGMANN, JAMES LAMOND, AND TALIA DESSEL (from a year back)

https://themoscowproject.org/reports/putins-payout-10-ways-trump-has-supported-putins-foreign-policy-agenda/

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,489 posts)
27. That's exactly how the right-wing brain trust want us to be...
Wed Jul 3, 2019, 06:28 AM
Jul 2019

Distracted, delusional and disgusted every day. Hence, no time for truth and reason.....

Thank goodness for those few breaths of fresh air like DU.....

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