Monday, January 15, 2024

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Us And Them"

The latest from DC's anarchist cartoonist...

"Us And Them"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3774

"Haven't you heard? It's a battle of words!" the poster bearer cried;
"Listen, son," said the man with the gun, "There's room for you inside!"
— Pink Floyd, "Us And Them" (1973)

Throughout MSNBC's nonstop, never-ending, ceaseless, mind-numbing, 
soul-crushing, forever-grinding-on coverage of Trump's little bullshit 
real-estate fraud trial, they pretty much paused only to scream and 
yell and bitch in befuddlement about how the Donmonster could possibly 
still be the goddamn GOP front-runner and bitch bitch bitch above the 
law and whine whine whine rule of law and snarl growl yell democracy 
is at stake, followed by a pivot to their illustrious GOP primary 
coverage in which their chirping mutant anchortarts just couldn't shut 
the hell up about how Trump and the GOP's rhetoric is about "us vs. 
them" and the Democrats are all about "us".

...and all I could think of in that moment was how thoroughly the 
Democratic Party groundlessly scapegoated and demonized Russia for 
their own ineptitude and general suckage in the Easiest Slam-Dunk 
Election Ever In All Of Recorded Human History Including The Lascaux 
Cave Paintings, and how just how much of the Democratic Party's 
attitude and general M.O. involves demonizing, scapegoating and 
otherizing — whether it's people calling out their Russiagate sham, 
their idiotic policy decisions or their collaboration with fascists, 
or pretty much anyone on the left calling out their poor record with 
ethnic minorities, students, the working class, the poor, or pointing 
out their long-established reputation for warmongering, you can pretty 
much count on the Democrats to stand on their record, no matter what.

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"Joe Biden arrives in Middle East on first trip as US president; US 
leader will visit Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia 
during four-day trip", Al Jazeera 07.13.2022 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/13/joe-biden-on-way-to-middle-east-in-first-trip-as-us-president

"Bone Deep", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 07.16.2022
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3484

"We Shall Return", cartoon by Mike Flugennock 06.20.2023
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3658

Pink Floyd, "Us And Them", 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLhKJuGhK0

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Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

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