A recent report by Rania Khalek at Breakthrough News got me inspired to find out just how much each of the tanks cost which were smeared by Russia in Zelensky’s recent “Duck Soup” Offensive — and subsequently redesign the European Union flag.

Whooaaa… that much, huh? So, just how much of the value of your average European’s labor was stolen from them to build a bunch of these bad boys to arm up gangs of Nazi hillbillies? How much more of their healthcare and other social programs will they be giving up in order to #StandWithUkraine?

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This is a piece I’d sketched out earlier but originally tossed for being too complex, too obscure an issue… but then, a couple of weeks ago I was reading about how BRICS was strengthening, “de-dollarization” was spreading, how the spread of de-dollarization was starting to get people shook on the Hill and how this means the issue might finally break out into public media, and about how the BRICS countries were contemplating creating an alternate reserve currency and  — and suddenly, that goofy-ass dollar-bill parody gag was starting to look pretty good…

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And so, yet another Debt Ceiling Wrestlemania comes to a close — and as predicted, the ruling class gets the payoff, Zelensky gets new toys, and we get austerity.

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It is with anxiety, chagrin and dread that I present this, my first cartoon of the 2024 Presidential “election” slog…

…and despite the massive disappointment and lack of enthusiasm of huge swaths of Democratic voters, Gropin’ Joe announced his re-election campaign kickoff with a promise to “finish the job”… at which point yours truly, like millions of others, is cringing and asking themselves: what job would THAT be — immiserating the poor and the working class? Terrorizing immigrants and bullying our next-door neighbors? Fattening up the war profiteers and Wall Street? Beating down anti-war dissent in public media? Dragging us into World War III?

Lotta big jobs to finish there, Joester; guess you’re going to need four more years to thoroughly fuck shit up, huh?

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