Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Karmageddon"

"Karmageddon"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4133


I'll be absolutely 100% honest with y'all — I couldn't pretend I didn't
enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their
foot down, rise up and hit the bully back. And after a year and a half
of relentless US-backed oppression and genocide, Israel — like your
standard-issue bully — instantly starts screaming victim and runs crying
to the teacher.

I couldn't pretend not to enjoy the footage of Israelis nervously lined
up at airports, scrambling aboard buses and boats, running all over each
other to get out of "their" country. What'sa matter, gang? That land was
promised to you by god. What are you running for?

Trump's remarks were real class, too — the more he bragged, the more you
knew Israel was getting a first-class ass-paddling. So goddamn MUCH
winning, there, Donster.

Hats off to Iran for having the strength and courage to teach Israel
that actions have consequences.

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"Trump: 'Very hard' to ask Israel to cease Iran airstrikes" NewsBytes,
06.21.2025
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/world/trump-very-hard-to-ask-israel-to-halt-iran-airstrikes/story

"Iran Missile Attacks Shake Israel", Jon Elmer at Electronic Intifada,
06.20.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77w9LPtzpYc

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "'Iron' Dome"

"'Iron' Dome"

Almost as if somebody threw a switch someplace, Western media were
suddenly awash in fotos and video of bombed-out buildings and people
weeping for lost and missing loved ones and agonizing over the trauma of
having to hole up in basements all night in... Tel Aviv.

Yes, that's right, the capitol of the most reviled nation on Earth, led
by a skeezy cabal of psychotic genocidal fascist murderers, trained and
funded by an equally skeezy cabal of psychotic genocidal fascist
murderers — is begging us to "not remain silent" and stand with Israel
as they get some well-deserved payback  at last.

All my pals and I are hashtagging this happy fun time #Karmageddon.

Cry me a goddamn river, motherfuckers. Iran's got yer number.

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"Tel Aviv blocks evacuation flights as tens of thousands of Israelis
stranded abroad", The Cradle, 06.16.2025
https://thecradle.co/articles/tel-aviv-blocks-evacuation-flights-as-tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-stranded-abroad

"Iran's ballistic missiles cause extensive destruction across Israel"
The Cradle, 06.16.2025
https://thecradle.co/articles/irans-ballistic-missiles-cause-extensive-destruction-across-israel

"Netanyahu says Israel 'in control' of Teheran skies" China Daily,
06.18.2025
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202506/16/WS68503024a310a04af22c696a.html

"Tel Aviv miscalculates: Why Israel's shock strategy failed against
Iran" Ali Salehian at The Cradle, 06.16.2025
https://thecradle.co/articles/tel-aviv-miscalculates-why-israels-shock-strategy-failed-against-iran

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Resistencia California"

"Resistencia California"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4127


In solidarity with our freedom fighters in the Battle Of Los Angeles.
Time to support OUR troops.

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"Protests continue in Los Angeles in response to fascist immigration
raids" Jacob Cross and contributors at World Socialist Site 07.06.2025
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/07/tebb-j07.html#903286324

"Nationwide protests multiply against fascist ICE raids and military
deployment in Los Angeles", Jacob Crosse at World Socialist Site
07.10.2025
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/10/fxqc-j10.html


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Making Life Interplanetary"

"Making Life Interplanetary"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4112


"Some may focus on the lows, but behind the efforts of Starship – and
other programs like New Glenn, Neutron, Vulcan, Terran, Stoke, etc – is
a massive space economy taking shape: tens of thousands of jobs,
billions in private investment, all aimed at truly opening the last
great frontier.

When these capabilities arrive, they will spearhead a new era of
exploration and discovery – and the lows will become a chapter in a much
longer story."

– Jared Isaacman, Trump NASA Administrator Nominee,
   05.28.2025


I saw the news of the latest SpaceX Starship explosion with a complete
lack of surprise a few days ago, and it had me somehow flashing back to
Musk's performance at that post-Inaugural shindig, and his bluster about
putting boots on Mars... and a joyful, iconic moment on the Moon,
waaayyyy back when I was an awestruck kid of 15.

...and given Isaacman's background in — what, some kind of Internet
payment system or some shit — I'm also not surprised at the complete
lack of any mention of science, exploration, the expansion of humanity
into the solar system in his remarks... nahh, fuck that noise; there's
money to be made — once Elon can stop blowing those goddamn things up.

Speaking of blowing up giant rocket-powered dildos, apparently Elon was
supposed to have delivered a company-sponsored TED-ish talk entitled
"The Road To Making Life Interplanetary", but his plans kinda... shall
we say, "blew up in his face":

"...Ahead of the Starship Flight 9 mission, Musk said he would host a
company talk, which was dubbed "The Road to Making Life Multplanetary,"
which he said would be live-streamed. However, that was originally
scheduled before the launch, then shifted to after and now appears to be
off the table for the time being..."
– Will Robinson-Smith, reporting at Spaceflight Now, 05.28.2025

...so, I guess Making Greed Interplanetary will just have to wait, for
now.

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Isaacman quoted in Spaceflight Now, 05.28.2025
https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/05/28/spacex-launches-first-flight-proven-super-heavy-booster-loses-control-of-starship-mid-flight/

"Starship tumbles back to Ocean after reaching a nominal orbit", Moises
Avila, with Issam Ahmed in Washington
South Padre Island, United States (AFP) May 28, 2025
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Starship_megarocket_blows_up_over_Indian_Ocean_in_latest_bumpy_test_999.html

"How did Jared Isaacman, billionaire behind first-ever private
spacewalk, make his money?" Tom Sanders at Metro UK, 09.12.2024
https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/12/jared-isaacman-billionaire-behind-first-ever-private-spacewalk-21591723/

"No, Elon Musk Did Not Perform a Roman Salute at Trump's Inauguration"
George Liapis at Roman Empire Times, 01.20.2025
https://romanempiretimes.com/no-elon-musk-did-not-perform-a-roman-salute-at-trumps-inauguration/
https://romanempiretimes.com/content/images/size/w2000/format/avif/2025/01/Elon-Musk-using-a-Salute-towards-the-crowd-of-Donald-Trump-s-inauguration--a-move-some-called-Nazi-salute--and-others-Roman-salute.jpg

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Donald's Drive-Thru"

"Donald's Drive-Thru"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4107

Though actually quite grim and cringe as hell, I found this news
sickeningly funny somehow, in ways reminiscent of the big-ups drum
beating Sept 2005 BLS jobs report the month after Hurricane Katrina.
Y'think Microsoft was hoping Mickey D's would pick up some of that
layoff headcount?

Then, of course, is the cringingly upbeat economic hard-sell in the
Mickey D's announcement featuring the new Labor Secretary, and the
obvious clumsy-ass tap-dancing they're going to have to do around our
new quack-ass Health & Human Services Secretary – especially seeing as
Big Mac's is one of El Presidente's favorite brands.

You deserve a break today!

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"McDonald's announces plans to hire 375,000 workers with Trump Labor
secretary", Amelia Lucas at CNBC, 05.12.2025
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/mcdonalds-to-hire-375000-workers-trump-labor-secretary.html

"Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce",
Jordan Novet at CNBC, 05.13.2025
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html

"169,000 New Jobs!", editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock, 10.19.2005
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=381

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Retro Kitsch"

"Retro Kitsch"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4101

Many of my readers of a certain age may have had Dads or uncles who were
enthusiasts of a certain style of rec room bar lighting. Here's my
backhanded tribute to classic Mid 20th American cheese.

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"Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu", Owen Jones at
Substack, 05.07.2025
https://www.owenjones.news/p/gaza-will-be-concentration-camp-declares

"Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire
efforts", Mitchell Plitnick at Mondoweiss, 05.02.2025
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Private Astronaut"

"Private Astronaut"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4096

OK, US media – and aerospace-related trade media, I'm especially looking
at YOU – it's time to cut the goddamn crap and quit calling these knobs
"private astronauts" and call them what they are: "rich-ass
motherfuckers who can afford to have themselves shot into space",
especially this Isaacman clown who could afford to have himself shot
into space twice, and on the second flight performed the most
useless-ass excuse for an EVA ever. Even Alexei Leonov was out longer,
and actually managed to gather significant scientific and engineering
data while in the process of getting back into the spacecraft without
accidentally killing himself.

But yeah, sure... the standard-issue tech entrepreneur who has near-zero
training or experience in aerospace engineering or program management or
flying high-performance jet aircraft at all but who made himself a
massive pile off a payment processing company he supposedly started as a
teenager in his parents' basement (your standard tech-bro rags-to-riches
saga) and so was able to pay to have himself shot into space twice and
who is best buds with Elon Musk is, according to the Donster, the ideal
choice for NASA Administrator. Yeah, that's right — the goddamn "private
astronaut".

We're fucked on Earth, and fucked in space.


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"Become An Astronaut" basic astronaut qualifications at NASA:
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/become-an-astronaut/

"Katy Perry, Gayle King and 4 other women are headed for the 'edge of
space.' Here's what that means", Jackie Wattles at CNN, 04.13.2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/13/science/blue-origin-karman-line-space-mission/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

"SpaceX launches private astronauts on first crewed polar orbit", Space
Daily 04.01.2025
https://www.spacedaily.com/afp/250401021019.vm4h5rsn.html

"How did Jared Isaacman, billionaire behind first-ever private
spacewalk, make his money?", Tom Sanders at Metro UK, 09.12.2024
https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/12/jared-isaacman-billionaire-behind-first-ever-private-spacewalk-21591723/

"Demystifying Jared Isaacman, Trump's NASA nominee", Jeff Foust at
SpaceNews 01.22.2025
https://spacenews.com/demystifying-jared-isaacman-trumps-nasa-nominee/

"Jared Isaacman makes first public remarks since nomination for NASA
Administrator" Will Robinson Smith at Spaceflight Now, 12.12.2024
https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/12/12/jared-isaacman-makes-first-public-remarks-since-nomination-for-nasa-administrator/

"Alexei Leonov: Spacewalk Pioneer" bio by Kimberly Hickok at Space.com
10.11.2019
https://www.space.com/alexei-leonov-bio.html

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "GOP + DNC = ZFG"

"GOP + DNC = ZFG"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4091


If you're a Liberal or Progressive who, at this point, is still
furiously bitching about why the Democrats won't "do something" about
all this, then you're as stupid as you look.

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Stop Overreacting!"

Latest'n'Greatest:

"Stop Overreacting!"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4086

So — exactly how comically bad ARE Liberals, Centrists and other mutant
beasts in the Democratic Party Zoo going to get about this shit?
Schumer, Pelosi, AOC, "and the rest" are basically selling us out and
handing us over to the Fascists, like "m'eh, waddya gonna do…?" right
out in front of Jah and everybody, and the Liberal/Centrist crowd tells
us to stop "overreacting".

Well, hell — they aren't the ones who are being criminalized and
terrorized for merely existing, so of course.

Assholes

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "No Coherent Message"

"No Coherent Message"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4082

Yeah, that's right — a wannabe Mussolini has just bullied his way into
the White House and is terrorizing the country, his Seig-Heiling
rocket-powered dildo-building buddy has basically stolen the keys to the
Treasury and is getting ready to loot the place, and the Democratic
Party... has no coherent message.

No coherent message. Like, not even "fuck you". Like, they got nothing.
Nothing.


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Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Fashionably Fashy"

"Fashionbly Fashy"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4076

"Not a single Roman work of art — sculpture, coinage, or painting —
displays a salute of the kind that is found in Fascism, Nazism, and
related ideologies... It is also unknown to Roman literature and is
never mentioned by ancient historians of either republican or imperial
Rome. The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other
ancient cultures that is attested in surviving art and literature had a
significantly different function and is never identical with the modern
straight-arm salute."
— Martin Winkler, in "The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology"

...just in case you run into any fashy apologists or Musk symps trying
to explain it away by saying it's a "Roman Salute".

So just cut the crap already, 'cos all the wide-open fash are wide-open
loving it and — like the original — the Early 21st sequel also features
craven-ass collaborators, in the form of the Democratic Party.

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"Senate Democrats provide key votes to fast-track Trump's mass detention
plan", Jacob Crosse at the WSWS Web site, 01.19.2025
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/20/vyfg-j20.html

"Elon Musk Gets Most Outrageous Ally Over His Nazi Salute", Ellie
Quinlan Houghtaling at The New Republic, 01.23.2025
https://newrepublic.com/post/190584/elon-musk-benjamin-netanyahu-salute-defend

"The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology" by Martin Winkler, listing
at Bookshop.org
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-roman-salute-cinema-history-ideology-martin-m-winkler/17389156

"The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology" Michelle Borg in the Bryn
Mawr Classical Review https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009.08.45

"No, Elon Musk Did Not Perform a Roman Salute at Trump's Inauguration",
George Liapis at the Roman Empire Times, 01.20.2025
https://romanempiretimes.com/no-elon-musk-did-not-perform-a-roman-salute-at-trumps-inauguration/

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Hooray For Gazawood!"

"Hooray for Gazawood!"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4071

I was peeping the news from L.A. along with Kathleen Wallace's recent
Substack column about Boss Media hand-wringing over the fate of film and
TV stars whose homes were lost in the fires which got my brain sizzling,
but the final inspiration was overhearing some smarmy, plaintive woman's
voice on MSNBC talking about people whose homes and neighborhoods lay in
smoking ashes, burning schools and playgrounds, people who'd lost
everything and had to evacuate with nothing but what they could shove
into a bag, living in their cars, living in tents — and it sounded for
all the world as if she were describing Gaza, except she was talking
about goddamned L.A. ...and I thought of News Nation, CNN, the L.A.
Times and Associated Press clutching their pearls and moaning OH, WON'T
SOMEBODY THINK OF THE STARS...?

Y'mean, the Hollywood stars who pimp and symp for Israel and Zionism,
who gladly, gleefully support the incineration and destruction of
neighborhoods like theirs on the other side of the Earth by the Chosen
People™? Y'mean, THOSE stars?

Hooray for Gazawood!

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"Janice and I lived in our home since 1979. We raised our children and
grandchildren here. Every inch of our house was filled with love.
Beautiful memories that can't be taken away. We are heartbroken of
course but with the love of our children and friends we will get through
this..."
— Billy Crystal in a statement released via Associated Press, 01.09.2025

"The Empathy Inequality Index", Kathleen Wallace at Substack, 01.12.2025
https://kathleenlwallace.substack.com/p/the-empathy-inequality-index

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Can You Hear Us NOW? (Happy New Year '25)"

"Can You Hear Us NOW? (Happy New Year '25)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4063


"...the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet
we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable]
largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google,
Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the
reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and
they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the
American public has allowed them to get away with it..."

—Luigi Mangione, Statement of 12.04.2024 as posted by Ken Klippenstein

For some time now, even the clods on MSNBC and in the Democratic Party
have acknowledged that yes, there is a class war going on. I'd just been
wondering how long it was going to be before the working class got off
its ass and started shooting back.

Cripes, man... how many years now — since at least the first Trump
Regime — has the U.S. Left been pummeling us silly with academic jargon
like "praxis" and hardly ever at all actually showing us "praxis" in
action (as it were)?

Now, you vegan-potlucking clowns want to talk PRAXIS? Luigi served us up
some praxis, sizzlin' hot and spicy.

Happy New Year, MUTHAFUCKAAAHHHHS.

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"Exclusive: Luigi's Manifesto", posted by Ken Klippenstein at Substack,
12.10.2024
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "God Bless Us, Every One"

"God Bless Us, Every One"

https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4057

When I first caught the news about the Brian Thompson shooting, I didn't hear it all — just "United Healthcare CEO" and "shot in NYC", and that was about it. I assumed it was your standard-issue random street crime until I started getting the details — especially the word "targeted" yelled over and over — and thought "whoa, man, shit's gettin' real...!"

Predictably, the Wall Street Journal treated it like the JFK assassination; splashed that CCTV frame over the front page like an Abraham Zapruder frame. The New York Times was surprisingly factual as the shooter really did go to the trouble of stalking Mr. Big Shot and it was, in fact, a pretty goddamn bold assasination.

Gotta love the Washington Post, though; they say the police are looking for a motive — a motive, f'crissake. Hell, gang, if you want a goddamn' motive, you might want to ask around the huge-ass numbers of people who had to go to an ER and were dinged for a $10,000 ambulance ride.

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Banana, Banana, Banana, Banana, no. 2"

"Banana, Banana, Banana, Banana no. 2"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4051


"By pardoning his son, Joe Biden has reneged on a public promise that 
he made repeatedly before and after dropping out of the 2024 
presidential race. The president and his top White House spokesperson 
said unequivocally, including after Trump won the 2024 election, that 
he would not pardon Hunter Biden or commute his sentence..."
—CNN, 12.02.2024

Still waiting for the Liberal chatterers at CNN and MSNBC to unload 
with two solid hours of screeching about how nobody is above the Rule 
Of Law™.


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"Banana, Banana, Banana, Banana," editorial cartoon by Mike 
Flugennock, Feb 18 2018
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2430

CNN "This Is An Apple" spot, 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vckz6EAn30Y

"President Biden his son Hunter Biden", Marshall Cohen and Betsy Klein 
at CNN, 12.02.2024
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/01/politics/hunter-biden-joe-biden-pardon/index.html

"Biden's pardon of his son pours fuel on Trump's claims of politicized 
justice", Stephen Collinson at CNN, 12.02.2024 
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/politics/hunter-biden-pardon-analysis/index.html

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Hair Of The Dog"

"Hair Of The Dog"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4030


Yeah, yeah, I know... but the only way to properly express the mood of 
this piece was to set it in a dark, grim mid-20th dive, with a 
permanently-circulating ceiling haze and ashtrays you could cave 
someone's head in with.

Dude should know by now that that old wives' cure never works. He's 
heading for a king-size Trumpover.
It's a quarter to three.


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Frank Sinatra, "One More For My Baby (And One More For The Road)", 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m121tmJzcAc

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Garbage no.2 (...garbage out)"

"Garbage no.2 (...garbage out)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4024

So, that was the "October Surprise" this time around, huh? That was 
really it? Old Uncle Joe, movin' kinda' slow, suddenly decides to pipe 
up about some of Trump's throwaway trash talk and immediately shits 
out a Basket Of Deplorables moment, right out on live TV in front of 
god and his cat and everybody, less than a week before the "election"? 
Well done. Even if MSNBC immediately changed its format to All 
Abortion Rights Horror Stories All The Time, it probably still 
wouldn't be enough to save the DNC's asses.

Just trying to imagine the scene around the DNC campaign offices right 
now... imagining Uncle Joe, still and quiet for all these weeks — they 
really thought they had him buried this time — suddenly clambering 
clumsily out of the grave like Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space 
to drop a big, hot steaming Gaffe From The Beyond.

Mind you, I'm not arguing with the truth of El Presidente's blabbage 
about Trump supporters being garbage, here; that's as maybe — but, 
still, when you're a sitting President of the United Snakes Of Amerika 
who's had to drop out of a re-election campaign after your brain fried 
out on live national TV, and who's proudly facilitating and defending 
the brutal, venal crimes of two of the most garbage human beings 
walking the Earth at the moment, and whose actions in the past year 
have at last fully revealed American/Western traditions and 
institutions to be complete garbage... you might want keep a lid on 
that name-calling shit.

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"Garbage In..." editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock 02.01.2019 
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2675

"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/

"Bill Clinton defends mass murder of civilians in Gaza genocide"
Jordan Shilton at the World Socialists Site 10.31.2024 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/11/01/rmum-n01.html

"Harris's Washington speech: Coverup and complicity in the face of 
fascism", Joseph Kishore at the World Socialists Site 10.30.2024 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/31/rbqh-o31.html

"Biden's 'Garbage' Remark Has Harris Seeking Distance", Washington 
Post 10.31.2024, page A1
https://www.sinkers.org/posters/garbage02/wapoA1_Oct3124_garbage.jpg

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Fluggenock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Cheap Groceries"

"Cheap Groceries"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4015


On top of this CNN Town Hall shartage, my regular "Random 15" from 
MSNBC included Kay-Kay speaking at a rally where she makes the big 
buildup to the working class, only to cap it with a declaration that 
she will ban price gouging on groceries... all in that classic 
delivery of hers, that sounds as if she studied public speaking under 
Hillary Clinton, like a foreign actress who had to learn her lines 
phonetically. Dear GOD, just listen to that scolding junior-high 
principal voice, so full of passion and conviction when she talks 
about goddamn CHEAP GROCERIES. ...and the crowd's going wild for that 
shit; just listen to 'em, as if cued by an electric sign, like a 
game-show audience.

This, apparently, is going to be her signature achievement if she wins 
the "election", if her hands aren't too full with the goddamn 
GENOCIDE. Yeah... not a Great Society, or voting rights, or going to 
the Moon... nahh, just cheap groceries.

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"In CNN town hall, Harris refuses to place conditions on Israeli 
military support, pledges to work with Republicans on border wall", 
Jacob Crosse at the World Socialists Site, 10.24.2024 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/25/vcsn-o25.html

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Choose Joy."

"Choose Joy"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4004

So, I'm out doing my laps earlier this week, and I spot this lawn sign 
in front of a house about 2 blocks around the corner from us — and all 
I can think is that somebody in the DNC's ad agencies isn't quite 
clear on the concept of "joy". Not just as an intelligent human, but 
as a designer and art director with 30+ years in the biz, I gotta say 
that this choice of color and typography does NOT bespeak "joy".

The sign glowers at me, dark and mean, telling me to "choose joy" as 
if issuing an order, as if implying "...or ELSE" — coming off like the 
latest in a long line of fascistic, authoritarian slogans: War Is 
Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength; Arbeit Macht Frei; 
Country Over Party. Choose Joy, or else.

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The Harris/Walz yard sign in question, spotted on Constitution Ave NE:
https://www.sinkers.org/posters/choosejoy/harriswalzyardsign_choosejoy.jpg
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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Welcome...! (Instant Karma no.2)

"Welcome...! (Instant Karma no.2)
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3997


I wish I'd screenshot or bookmarked the tweet I spotted on Facebook 
featuring a grinning Kay-Kay and Netanyahu shaking hands, with a 
headline announcing the latest amount of my tax money being shipped 
off to fund a genocide in Palestine. Not that it matters that much 
these days, as it's always such an insanely stonking amount of cash 
that remembering the actual goddamn number doesn't seem that important 
anymore.

Luckily, though, I did save this headline from the Washington Post a 
couple of days ago, about how the Small Business Administration's 
disaster relief fund is already tapped out. Tough luck, MAGA Boy, the 
money to rebuild your surf shop just went to bomb a bunch of people 
living in tents.

What goes around, America...

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"SBA's Disaster Funds On Fumes; Out Of Cash In Days As Demand Spikes, 
Loans For Victims Could Be Pushed Past Election" Washington Post, Page 
A1, 10.12.2024 
https://www.sinkers.org/posters/welcome/wapoA1Oct122_sba_on_fumes.jpg

"One year of genocide in Gaza", the WSWS Editorial Board 10.06.2024 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/07/dmhj-o07.html

"Hurricane Milton and the case for socialism", Bryan Dyne at the World 
Socialist Site, 10.08.2024 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/09/sarz-o09.html

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