Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "What If He Loses?"

"What If He Loses?"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3942

For the past month or so, MSNBC has been clutching every available 
pearl over how Donald Trump and his deformed minions will handle the 
possibility of losing the "election". Will they pitch a fit, scream 
"fraud" and try to lay siege to Capitol Hill to disrupt the electoral 
vote count and stage a putsch as they did in '21?

Personally, I can't help asking the same question about the 
Donkeycrats: how will THEY handle losing to a dude who resembles a 
villain from an old "Columbo" episode and whose followers are some of 
the most intensely stupid beings walking upright on Earth; how will 
THEY roll with a well-deserved ass-paddling at the polls after 
spitting in the faces of every Muslim-American and every American who 
actually cares about piddling shit like genocide.

Will the Democrats, on facing defeat, do some institutional 
soul-searching, self-examination and self-evaluation, accept 
responsibility and get to work on solutions or — as they've always 
done — pitch a fit, scream "fraud", blame the Left, blame Russia, 
create a climate of good old-fashioned McCarthyist bullying, fear, 
suspicion and suppression and try to litigate and investigate their 
way into power, as they did in '17?

Bwah ha ha ha ha ha hah, d'ahh, hell, man; who are we kidding?


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"Trump's planned visit to Springfield, Ohio: An incitement to 
violence", Patrick Martin at World Socialists Web Site 09.20.2024 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/20/nypv-s20.html

"As protests mount, Cornell University VP of Student Life rejects 
Momodou Taal's appeal of suspension", Kevin Reed at World Socialists 
Web Site 09.26.2024 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/27/zwlq-s27.html

"Happy Putsch-aversary!" editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock, 
01.04.2022 http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3369

"The Democrats' Baggage" editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock, 
11.10.2016 http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2107

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "America's Favorite Fascist"

From Mike Flugennock, DC anarchist cartoonist...

"America's Favorite Fascist"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3568

So, a few days back, a follower on Mastodon (spit) posted this article from the Union Of Orthodox Journalists from May 2018, about a Ukrainian postage stamp series honoring great thugs — uhh, soldiers — of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) on its 75th anniversary. Yeah, that's right, Ukraine fought proudly on the fascist side, and venerates these filthy bastards to this day.

Then, I had to ask myself — why no stamp with Zelensky? God only knows they still loves them some Nazis over there, and I've pretty much lost track of how many times Mr. Z has been busted doing happy-snap foto ops with Azov Battalion and Right Sector thugs showing off their cool 3rd SS Panzers and Waffen SS gear.

The guy is hanging with Nazis, stomping all over the Left, beating  down the working class, walking like a duck and quacking like a duck.

If you're going to #StandWithUkraine that's your business, but at least take a good, steamy gawk at what you're standing with and own it.

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"Chaplain of SS Galicia featured on postage stamp", Union Of Orthodox Journalists, 05.03.2018
https://spzh.news/en/news/53086-kapellana-ss-galichina-izobrazili-na-pochtovoj-marke

"14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)" via Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)

"Ukrainian Collaboration With Nazi Germany", via Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany

"Nothing unusual, just the President of #Ukraine #Zelensky publishes a selection of photographs on #VictoryDay over fascism, the first of which shows a #Ukrainian #Nazi with the chevron of the 3rd SS Panzer Division"
—Peter Pobjecky @Peterpobjecky on Twitter, 05.09.2022
https://twitter.com/peterpobjecky/status/1523654575429144576

"Ukrainian President Zelensky posts image of soldier wearing Nazi patch", Financial Assets, 05.09.2022
https://fa.news/articles/ukrainian_president_zelensky_posts_image_of_soldier_wearing_nazi_patch-185833/

"Zelensky Suspends 11 Left-Wing Political Parties", Paul Knaggs at Labour Heartlands, 03.20.2022
https://labourheartlands.com/ukraine-zelensky-suspends-11-left-wing-political-parties/

"President Zelenskyy Bans Opposition Parties in Ukraine", Juan Andrés Gallardo at Left Voice, 03.21.2022
https://www.leftvoice.org/president-zelenskyy-bans-opposition-parties-in-ukraine/

"Zelensky and NATO plan to transform post-war Ukraine into ‘a big Israel’", Alexander Rubinstein at The Grayzone, 09.17.2022
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/09/17/zelensky-nato-ukraine-big-israel/

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Opening Bell" Inbox

 

from DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Opening Bell"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3522


"...freedom has many manifestations but the most important for many is 
the ability to work for your benefit, for the benefit of your children 
and the want of your country. Ukraine is a story of a future victory 
and a chance for you to invest now in projects worth hundreds of 
billions of dollars to share the victory of us… This will be your 
victory and a new success story for your companies."
—Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, 09.06.2022

I've seen some pretty goddamn unctous fotos in the news in my time, 
but none quite as revulsive lately as this tableau featuring US stooge 
and Neo-Nazi Volodymyr Zelensky "virtually" ringing the opening bell 
via remote video link at the New York Stock Exchange — and none quite 
as apropos, given that shares in US "defense" industries are hitting 
the stratosphere, and Ford and IBM's infamous collaboration with the 
Nazis.

As reported at Grayzone and Multipolarista, Zelensky's economic 
"victory" is being won through the abolition of labor protection in a 
program not unlike that instituted by Pinochet in Chile in the 1970s, 
combined with some of that good old-fashioned globalized IMF/WorldBank 
"shock treatment". Ukraine is "open for business", the sonofabitch 
says — I don't know about you, but when I hear one of these bastards 
talk about how his country is "open for business", it's time to look 
the fuck OUT.

This crass stunt — along with Zelensky's suppression of Left 
opposition parties and his repeated foto ops with Nazis — would 
actually indicate that this is pretty much par for the course on Wall 
Street, which never met a war (or a fascist) it didn't like.

"We are pleased to welcome President Zelensky virtually to the NYSE 
bell podium, a symbol of the freedom and opportunity our U.S. capital 
markets have enabled around the globe. We are honored the President 
has chosen the NYSE to mark the kickoff of Advantage Ukraine and 
engage with the world’s business community."
—Lynn Martin, president, NYSE Group, 09.06.2022


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"Zelensky is literally selling Ukraine to US corporations on Wall 
Street", Benjamin Norton at Multipolarista, 09.09.2022
https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/09/zelensky-selling-ukraine-wall-street/

"Zelensky rings New York Stock Exchange bell as Euro dips below 
dollar", Alexander Rubinstein at Grayzone, 09.07.2022
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/09/07/zelensky-new-york-stock-exchange-euro-dollar/

"President Zelenskyy Bans Opposition Parties in Ukraine", Juan Andrés 
Gallardo at Left Voice, 03.21.2022
https://www.leftvoice.org/president-zelenskyy-bans-opposition-parties-in-ukraine/

"Ukraine's Zelensky shares image of soldier with Nazi insignia", RT, 
05.09.2022
https://www.rt.com/russia/555202-zelensky-nazi-ss-insignia/

"How IBM helped the Nazis" book review at World Socialist Web Site, 05.2001
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2001/06/ibm-j27.html

"Nazi documents reveal that Ford had links to Auschwitz", UK Guardian, 
07.09.1999
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/aug/20/julianborger1


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Listen To The Science"

 From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Listen To The Science"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3158

(shown: full-length and "short mix";
Washington Post clipping 02.27.2021)

Oh, sweet jeeeeeezus, where do I even start with this? What, are they 
taking a break from slagging on Maduro? It's almost breathtaking, the 
way the Post is so obviously, openly mortified that the poor are being 
vaccinated first in Mexico...

Not to mention that they're basically taking this whole article to 
simply bleat "Listen to the science!" like everybody and their 
freakin' dog who's trying to shoehorn their goddamn agenda into 
someplace where it doesn't belong (usually people trying to whip the 
kids back to school so they can whip their parents back to work). 
"Listen To The Science" hit my Top Ten Bullshit Alarm List even faster 
than "Existential Threat". Why am I not the least surprised to see 
that clunker so quickly and clumsily weaponized?

I see absolutely jack in the Post about China doing their part in the 
WHO's cooperative vaccination program all over Africa and the Global 
South, but ZOMFG, López Obrador is vaccinating the poor first...! No 
big surprise here, either, as it seems Obrador is "the new Maduro" at 
the Post these days.

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"Mexico's Poor Go First Despite Science", Washington Post 02.26.2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-coronavirus-vaccine-lopez-obrador/2021/02/25/81c28c50-76ad-11eb-9537-496158cc5fd9_story.html

"China joins WHO-backed vaccine programme COVAX rejected by Trump", 
Reuters 10.08.2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-covax-idUKKBN26U027

"Venezuela Receives 500,000 COVID-19 Vaccines From China", TeleSur 03.02.2021
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Receives-500000-COVID-19-Vaccines-From-China-20210302-0002.html



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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Hang In There, Baby!"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -

 "Hang In There, Baby!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3110

God, I miss Trump already — yeah, I said it, and I'd say it again if I had to. The sonofabitch isn't even out of office yet, and I already miss him. I miss the breathtaking, aggressive stupidity, the comical  blustering, and those tweets. Oh god, yeah, those tweets — every one a solid nugget of pure comedy gold.

I really was hoping for another four years of those little classics, but no luck. Instead, we're in for four years of banal, empty, platitudinous bilge  — like this little stinkburger, where he takes forever just to tell us that all we'll likely get for coronavirus relief is another measly-ass $1200 check, and that otherwise we can go fuck ourselves. Christ, it looks like something off an old 1970s cat poster.

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Kick Me Hard"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Kick Me Hard"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3097

Right about now, I'm sure most of you are laughing yourselves silly at all the Progressives out there who voted for Biden under the delusion that they could "push him left", when anybody with two brain cells to rub together could take a look at his record over the past 40 years — not to mention his lineup of Cabinet picks — and see that anybody who thought they could push that sonofabitch left is on some kind of weirded-out psychedelic voyage.

Take, for instance, this whiny-ass tweet from the knobs at DNC front group Sunshine Movement: "We elected you, Joe, now it's time you act"...

https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1328342256160485379

Oh, f'crissake, give me a big, fat break. The old bastard IS acting. He came right and said that "nothing would fundamentally change" and that he wouldn't ban fracking right out in front of God and everybody.

"Progressive" voters bought that horseshit like a bunch of ignorant-ass rubes, and now the DNC is doing the equivalent of taping a big "Kick me hard" sign onto their backs, like we used to do back in seventh grade — and I, for one, have sub-zero sympathy for those losers.

"Jacobin and Democratic Socialists of America promote illusions in a 'progressive' Biden administration", Gabriel Black at the World 
Socialist Web Site, 11.25.2020
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/25/jaco-n25.html

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "It's Da' Bomb!"

From Washington's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock:

"It's Da' Bomb!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2623

So, this is how it ends – not with a whimper, but with a bang.

All year, we've heard all manner of cocky smack talk out of the Democrats about a "Blue Wave" and how they're going to sweep back into a majority on the Hill... but here we are less than two weeks out, and suddenly they're getting all jittery and revising expectations downward, it seems. In the past couple of weeks or so, the cocky talk has been replaced by increased amounts of desperate scolding, hectoring, pleading, shaming, browbeating, practically screaming at us

to vote.

Mind you, the Democrats haven't given us anyone or anything to vote for since about 1972, and nowhere was this fact more glaring than in the past twenty-odd years since Bill'n'Hillary showed up and sucked all the oxygen out of the place.

So, here they are now, with no real record of progressive achievement in the past thirty years to point to, no real vision of a better future, pretty much nothing except to run against Russia and constantly scream at us to vote all friggin' day and night.

...and, while inspired by the Post headline, here's the song that was stuck in my head as I drew this; everybody has sappy old tunes they  love in spite of themselves, and this is one of mine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOy7TPjfkE

Hey, there's a Flugennock documentary too

Flugennock (2016)
by Ron Douglas
alchemical media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gVgfzsQ6Vc

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "#F26"

"#F26"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1665

On February 26, the possession, use, sharing and growing of marijuana officially becomes legal in the District Of Columbia.

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Flugennock's "Carpetbagger Defeats Teabagger"

"Carpetbagger Defeats Teabagger!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1404

A political analyst interviewed on The Daily Show late last week referred to the two major party candidates for Governor of Virginia as the worst candidates he'd ever seen, remarking that Virginia voters were being asked to choose between "cancer and a heart attack". That summed it up perfectly, if you ask me.

So it was that this past Tuesday, Virginians chose former Donkeycratic Party honcho and Clinton money man Terry McAwful -- uhh, MacAuliffe -- over Tea Party loon Ken Cuccinelli to occupy the Governor's mansion... not that it'd make any difference in the long run, except for those of you concerned only about your uteruses.

God, I hate democracy.

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: Obama's "March On Washington" 50th Anniv. Speech, Condensed

From: mike flugennock


Obama's "March On Washington" 50th Anniversary Speech, Condensed
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1350

If you're like me, you've had it up to your ears with Liberal hack pundits comparing Barack Obama to Martin Luther King this past week. Still, when you stop to consider: King had a dream, and Obama has a "kill list" -- both pretty high aspirations, so in that sense, yes, they are similar.

If that isn't bad enough, it seems as if the media were packed to the gills this week with every opportunist Liberal politician who can get near a TV camera trying to tell us what King would've thought were he alive today. What really gave me a Hot Dog Burp Of Disgust was Obama himself trying to tell us that King would've supported Obamacare. Yes, that's right -- President Drone Strike looked us all right in the eye and said that Martin Luther King would've supported a big, fat pork barrel for healthcare and pharmaceutical corporations, a massive sweetheart deal forcing us all to pay a tithe to the insurance industry. I know the President Of The Largest Purveyor Of Violence has been cranking up the Obamacare hard-sell these days, but that's really jumping the shark.

Tuscon Citizen, 08.28.13: Obama says speaking in King's shadow like "following Jesus":
http://tinyurl.com/p33nlk9

London Daily Mail, 08.14.11: Obama compares self to Martin Luther King at $36k-a-head Democratic fundraiser:
http://tinyurl.com/omsgyjq

The Politico, 08.27.13: Obama says King would've liked Obamacare:
http://tinyurl.com/ofz3deh

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"Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few:
 Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!"

                                               --grateful dead.
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Flugennock latest cartoon: "Obama's AIPAC Speech, Condensed

Click through to see his thoughts on the cartoon -

http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=856

Obama AIPAC Speech, Condensed

Mike Flugennock says, "I'm on Al Jazeera!"

From: mike flugennock

 

Scroll down the page a bit at http://blogs.aljazeera.net/africa/2011/02/15/live-blog-eye-algeria

(it's the February 15th blog page or this cartoon, if you're reading this months later)

New Flugennock cartoon online

Flugennock checks in on Wikileaks and Twitter.

Flugennock on Obama

I haven't checked on Mike Flugennock's site for a while, but here's an Obama caricature that Google tossed up to me.

Flugennock drawing for debate party ad

From yesterday's Onion.

New Flugennock cartoon!

DC's own anarchist cartoonist is at it again - see "Mike Flugennock Presents Another Damn' Election Cartoon," by Mike Flugennock, Monday Apr 21st, 2008 4:36 PM. I just love his stuff - and unfortunately this one is right on target.

new Mike Flugennock editorial cartoon

DC's only (most likely) anarchist political cartoonist Mike Flugennock has posted a new piece. See the story and the art. The Fox News one to the left is from over the summer by the way.

And that reminds me - I should really mention Mike's site. It's great - I love his work.