Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "...in the headlights"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -

"...in the headlights"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3352

Yep, that's right, kiddies. You heard right — they actually looked us 
right in the face and said they didn't see it coming. Cripes, 
everybody else and their dog saw it coming; it was on the TV and the 
papers and the Internet for weeks, months. Same with Delta.

Really — the leaders of the most powerful nation on Earth, with a 
metric buttload of information and resources at their disposal, didn't 
see the latest'n'greatest Covid variant coming? Y'mean, they couldn't 
get hold of somebody at the WHO, the CDC, the NIH, the Salk Institute 
who actually knew a thing or two about virology who could've thrown 
them a heads-up? If there's nothing else Anthony Fauci ever did that 
was worth a yard sign, this was it.

So, they didn't see it coming? Uh huh. I'm thinking there's something 
else that bunch isn't going to see coming, either.

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"Kamala Harris, in interview, says administration did not anticipate 
Omicron variant", Noah Bierman at the Los Angeles Times 12.17.2021
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-12-17/kamala-harris-in-interview-says-administration-did-not-anticipate-omicron-variant

"Fauci Contradicts VP Harris Comments, Says Scientists 'Warned About 
COVID-19 Variants'", Alexandra Kashirina at Sputnik International 
12.19.2021
https://sputniknews.com/20211219/fauci-contradicts-vp-harris-comments-says-scientists-warned-about-covid-19-variants-1091654507.html


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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's Latest'n'Greatest: "Stealing Our Souls"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Stealing Our Souls"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3301

There's a new strain of Covidiot virus going around among healthcare 
workers — proof that Stupid can strike any of us, though if you 
consider how long it takes to become a doctor vs. how long it takes to 
become a nurse, it all makes sense.

There have been a couple of outbreaks of the new Stupid Variant in the 
past week, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and in New York. A 
close read of the thread in which Max Blumenthal tweets the NYT 
article tells me, personally, that Blumenthal is about to dive down 
the anti-vax rabbit hole if he hasn't already. He seems to imply at 
one point that PhD's were among the most reluctant to take the 
vaccine, which proves nothing except that having a PhD doesn't make 
you immune to the Stupid Variant — nor does not being a Trumpster.

But, back to the outbreaks of Covidiot Virus. You know how back in the 
1970s and '80s you'd read every so often about some National 
Geographic documentary crew going deep into the Amazon jungle or 
someplace and encountering some tribe that's lived in isolation for a 
thousand years, and they see the cameras and video images of 
themselves for the first time and freak out because they think the 
cameras are stealing their souls? Well, how different is that from 
these doorknobs who think that Bill Gates is putting microchips in 
vaccines, or that taking cow dewormer and shitting out your stomach 
lining will cure Covid-19?

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"A Hospital Finds an Unlikely Group Opposing Vaccination: Its 
Workers", Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura in the New York Times, 08.24.2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/22/nyregion/staten-island-covid-vaccine-workers.html

"The stereotype of The Unvaccinated as MAGA neanderthals is falling 
apart almost as fast as the Pfizer efficacy rate" — Max Blumenthal 
@MaxBlumenthal on Twitter, 08.24.2021
https://twitter.com/maxblumenthal/status/1430355070235860997

"A July 2021 Carnegie Mellon study revealed 'the most educated group' 
consisting of PhD's to be the most strongly and consistently reluctant 
to take emergency use Covid vaccines..." — Max Blumenthal 
@MaxBlumenthal on Twitter, 08.24.2021
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1430375565387878401




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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Up, Up, And Awa-aayyy!"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Up, Up, And Awa-aayyy!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3279

Alright, just so I'm straight, here... we're being thrown out of our 
homes, we're losing our jobs, there's a new COVID-19 wave hitting, 
fascists are terrorizing our streets, the cops are mass murdering us — 
not to mention that millions of us all over the country still don't 
have broadband service — and Mr. Counterinsurgency Big-Shot at the 
White House wants to fly balloons over Cuba to "provide internet 
service" while they hijack connections to broadcast US State 
Department propaganda, including the Voice Of America.

Christ, I hate this goddamn country. I really, really fucking do.

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"We are exploring various options, including balloons" to provide 
internet service to #Cuba, @WHNSC Western Hemisphere Sr. Dir. Juan 
González tells @VozdeAmerica @JorgeAgobian.
—Steve Herman, Voice Of America @W7VOA on Twitter, 08.11.2021

https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1425548860886294533


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Pigs On The Wing"

DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock's latest -

"Pigs On The Wing"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3515


     ...Smerconish then asked, "What about our role as liberators?," 
to which Waters replied, "You have no role as liberators." When 
Smerconish pointed to the US intervention in World War II, Waters 
observed, "Thank God, the Russians had already won the bloody war 
almost by then. Don't forget 23 million Russians died protecting you 
and me from the Nazi menace."
     — Pink Floyd's Roger Waters vs. CNN's Michael Smerconish, 08.06.2022

--

In the past fifteen or twenty years I've seen some pretty sick-ass 
bastards'n'bitches drop some sick-ass takes right out in the open, not 
giving a damn who heard or cared and thinking that they were just the 
hottest goddamn shit on two legs. I've seen George W. Bush sending 
thousands of Americans to die for his lies and goading the Iraqis to 
"bring it on" from the safety of the Oval Office. I've seen Hillary 
Clinton gloating over the death of Gadhafi, burbling "we came, we saw, 
he died" and cackling like a goddamn witch, and I've seen Hillary 
melting down over the 2016 email leaks and demanding the assassination 
of Julian Assange.

Nothing, however, matches the absolute rock-bottom bloody filthiness 
of a US-funded Ukrainian neo-Nazi outfit called Myrotvorets, which has 
also apparently claimed responsibility for the car bombing 
assassination of Russian journalist Daria Dugina, about which the 
Washington Post made a right snotty show out of how few fucks they 
gave about it. These scum have compiled a friggin' dossier on Roger 
Waters — y'know, Pink Floyd, that Roger Waters — and included him on 
their "kill list" for speaking out on Ukrainian neo-Nazism and human 
rights abuses, and the hypocrisy of US/NATO imperialism in Ukraine. 
Yeah, a goddamn kill list, f'crissake.

Above and beyond the comic-book bluster of Hilldawg and Dubya, the 
bastards at Myrotvorets are actually claiming credit for 
assassinations of dissident journalists, with the funding and blessing 
of the US, and are doubling down with threats against some of the most 
prominent dissident artists of their generation.

As an artist and political dissident myself — and as someone who's old 
enough to remember the night John Lennon was stolen from us — my 
disgust is off-scale. Seriously, man. Roger Fucking Waters. Bastards.

If you #StandWithUkraine then THIS is what you stand with. Enjoy it.

"Hah, ha, charade you are...!"

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"Roger Waters named on far-right Ukrainian hit list", Erik Schreiber 
at WSWS, 08.24.2022
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/25/wwmt-a25.html

"Roger Waters added to Ukrainian govt-sponsored hit list", Deborah 
Armstrong at Grayzone, 08.25.2022
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/25/roger-waters-ukrainian-govt-hit-list/

Myrotvorets dossier on Roger Waters:
https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/uoters-rodzher/

"Nina Byzantina shows that Mirotvorets was hosted on NATO servers for 
years.", 'Fearless John' on Telegram, 08.24.2022
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/8901

"Roger Waters refutes US war propaganda in CNN interview and World 
Beyond War webinar", Kevin Reed at WSWS, 08.10.2022
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/11/bamn-a11.html

"Washington Post reveals aims behind US-approved Ukrainian 
assassination of Daria Dugina", David North at WSWS, 08.23.2022
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/23/nbgc-a23.html

"Car-bomb killing sows unease among cheerleaders of Putin's war", 
Robyn Dixon and Mary Ilyushina at the Washington Post, 08.22.2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/22/russia-putin-bomb-cheerleaders-fear/

"DNC Leaks", cartoon by Mike Flugennock, July 2016:
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2010

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Grand Bargain" (NSFW)

From: mike flugennock: (and passed through unedited - MR)

Grand Bargain
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1234

You know that when politicians and pundits start throwing the phrase "grand bargain" around on TV, it's time to look the fuck out.

Speaking of which, I'd love to find the Liberal think tank hack who came up with the phrase "grand bargain", so I can beat the shit out of him/her/it. The GOP's transparent, cheesy euphemisms -- like "job creators" -- are bad enough; just imagine that bullshit with an extra added helping of smarm, and you've got the Democrats' transparent, cheesy euphemisms.

Of course, El Presidente will have his sycophantic minions out beating the drum for the Grand Bargain™, trying to convince us that we have a duty to give up our Social Security and Medicare benefits and bend over for austerity -- as if putting up with those zombie clowns during two Presidential campaigns wasn't bad enough. I can just see them down at Busboys'n'Poets now, buttonholing all those Liberals who paid way too much for their burgers and Sam Adams, flocks of so-called Progressives shilling for right-wing policies. Just makes you want to smack the shit out of them, huh?

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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's Latest'n'Greatest: "Zombie Republic"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"Zombie Republic"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3257

California... prophet on the burnin' shore... where Gavin Newsom is whipping the kids back to school so he can whip their parents back to work, where new cases of COVID-19 are up 165% in Los Angeles County at least partially due to brilliance like this:

      "...Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva stated that the mandate will not be enforced as it is 'not backed by science' and contradicts the guidelines 
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which recommends only that the 
unvaccinated wear masks."

            — "COVID-19 cases rise by 165 percent in California since              lifting of restrictions in June", wsws.org 07.22.2021


The reputation of the LAPD and the L.A. Sheriff's Department was already so deep in the toilet they couldn't possibly make it worse — until the goddamn sheriff of L.A. County decided he was going to be their goddamn doctor, too.

A hundred and sixty-five goddamn percent.

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"New COVID-19 Cases Up 165% In Los Angeles County", KCAL/CBS Los  Angeles, 07.08.2021 
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/07/08/new-covid-19-cases-up-165-los-angeles-county/

"COVID-19 cases rise by 165 percent in California since lifting of  restrictions in June", Brian Gene at World Socialist Web Site, 
07.22.2021 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/07/23/cali-j23.html


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "A Great Day For America" (or, That Aged Well)"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist - [for the record, I don't necessarily agree w/ his cartoons]

"A Great Day For America" (or, That Aged Well)
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3266

Late this past spring, even while the Delta Variant was spreading in 
Europe and elsewhere, Gropin' Joe went on TV in the White House Rose 
Garden, pulled off his mask and declared the pandemic over, calling it 
"a great day for America" — following later this summer with what had 
to be the weakest, most pointless COVID vaccine policy ever. Regular 
testing and a mask  requirement? That's it? Not "get vaccinated or get 
fired"?

Needless to say, the Washington Post and crew were right on top of it, 
cranking out articles about how wonderful it is to be re-emerging, to 
go back to "normal", sometimes vaguely insuinuating that people still 
wearing masks in the grocery store were "the new weirdos" — as opposed 
to the knobs who thought they were being muzzled and forced to breathe 
their own CO2, who were last year's weirdos.

Yeah... that sure aged well, didn't it? Seems that Biden & Gang are 
employing the same strategy Trump did after the last election.

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"'Today is a great day for America': Biden removes his mask as CDC 
relaxes guidance – as it happened", The Guardian 05.13.2021 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/may/13/liz-cheney-republicans-trump-us-politics-live

"Biden announces COVID jab requirements for US federal workers", Al 
Jazeera 07.29.2021 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/29/biden-announces-covid-jab-requirement-for-federal-workers



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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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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Havana Syndrome"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Havana Syndrome"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3328

Well, at long last revealed: the source of that noise that's driving 
the staff of the U.S. Embassy in Havana — and the U.S. State 
Department — outta their goddamn skulls.

Why, it's the sound of a successful Socialist state right in our 
backyard, inventing a fistful of Covid-19 vaccines, being recognized 
by a major U.S. medical journal, helping to vaccinate the rest of the 
region, treating healthcare as a public good and beating down the 
pandemic — all while under continuous blockade, economic warfare waged 
by the U.S.

No wonder Gropin' Joe and Skinny Mike Pompeo are screaming "SOMEBODY 
MAKE IT STOPPPPP!!"

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"Cuba Reports Lowest Number of COVID Infections in Three Months" 
TeleSur English 10.06.2021 
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-Reports-Lowest-Number-of-COVID-Infections-in-Three-Months-20211006-0014.html

"Cuba's Soberana 02 Vaccine, Recognized by US Medical Journal" TeleSur 
English 10.18.2021 
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Cubas-Soberana-02-Vaccine-Recognized-by-US-Medical-Journal-20211018-0018.html

"Nicaragua Receives Over 1 Million Cuban COVID-19 Vaccines" TeleSur 
English 10.21.2021 
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Nicaragua-Receives-Over-1-Million-Cuban-COVID-19-Vaccines-20211021-0002.html


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Why The Fediverse Isn't All That"

As DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock explains why he's been shut down on Mastodon sm. So he probably is updating that sigline...

"The Mastodon In The Room: Why The Fediverse Isn't All That"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3429

They're non-binary, declare their pronouns, wave their trans flags 
high, wear their revolutionary cred on their sleeves — and they're 
ready to stomp down dissent at a moment's notice, and be "woke" as a 
motherfucker while they do it.

"Don't wanna be an American Idiot,
one nation, controlled by the media —
Information Age of hysteria
is calling out to Idiot America!"
— Green Day

In January of 2018, I found myself rooting around for alternative 
social media spaces shortly after receiving this note full of 
thinly-veiled threats from Twitter regarding my following and 
retweeting "Russian-influenced" accounts. All the cool kids got one.

That spring, after taking a quick peek at Gab (and a long, hot shower 
afterwards), I was turned on to Mastodon by a fellow "Russian dupe" on 
Twitter. It was during that first wave of Left voices and publications 
being bounced off of Twitter for "Russian influence" — i.e. 
contradicting the official US media party line. Of course, I got my 
ass over there pronto and set up a presence. I didn't mind that the 
traffic was a bit thin; it was basically what Twitter would've been 
without the trolls, bots, shills, spammers and Nazis — like, detoxed 
Twitter...

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Flugennocks Latest'n'Greatest: "Afghan Women's Liberation no. 2"

DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -

"Afghan Women's Liberation No.2 (or, Won't Somebody Think Of The Women?)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3298

When the US first set out inflicting two decades of destruction and 
misery on Afghanistan the Liberals, true to the old Phil Ochs song, 
were never more red, white and blue — and the Liberals' most 
appallingly cynical appeals for support for that debacle came from the 
"imperial Feminists" who tried to tug our heartstrings with horror 
stories about burqas, illicit nail salons, and no HBO.

So, it was no surprise when America's Imperial Feminists picked up 
where they left off, joining the chorus of bitching, pissing, moaning 
and sour-graping about their being run out of Afghanistan, reviving 
the tired old bromides about women's rights and how the US "left women 
behind" when it dragged its bloody ass out of the place after twenty 
years in the Graveyard Of Empires.

The most unctous of these was an article in The Atlantic which dragged 
out every one of those tired old arguments, hoary old horseshit so old 
it's got SCSI ports on the back. What was merely appalling twenty 
years ago is absolutely godawful today, considering the current abuse 
of working-class women in the US, and in US satellite states like 
Saudi Arabia:

      One reason that we stayed in Afghanistan so long with nothing to 
show for itexcept the safety of women, @CaitlinPacific writes, is that for 
all of our sins, our default position is freedom.
                                    —The Atlantic, @theatlantic on 
Twitter, 08.19.2021


Says on the author's profile that she traffics in "thought crimes for 
all occasions". I wouldn't know about that, but that article of hers 
sure is a goddamn crime, I'll tell ya that for free.

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"One reason that we stayed in Afghanistan so long with nothing to show 
for it except the safety of women, @CaitlinPacific writes, is that for 
all of our sins, our default position is freedom." The Atlantic, 
@theatlantic on Twitter, 08.19.2021
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1428368543058300937

Caitlin Flanagan, @CaitlinPacific on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CaitlinPacific

"The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights", Caitlin 
Flanagan in The Atlantic, 08.19.2021 
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/america-afghanistan-women/619828/

"Afghan Women's Liberation", cartoon by Mike Flugennock, February 2002
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=251


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "For All Pigkind no.2: To Oligarchy, And Beyond!"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"For All Pigkind no. 2: To Oligarchy, And Beyond!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3333

So, Jeff Bezos thinks he can tug at my old Boomer heartstrings by 
sending up 90 year-old William Shatner (and his toupee) on Blue 
Origin's latest suborbital joyride, while continuing to shit on his 
workers and dodge taxes. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has opened new vistas in 
whiny excuses for not paying taxes on his obscene wealth by puking up 
a bunch of balloon juice about Mars and "the light of consciousness". 
Nice try, guys — but, no. Also a big "no" to these guys at the Space 
Review trying to spin it as an important insight into the effects of 
microgravity on old rich and famous people.

And elsewhere in the Space Review, one of their regulars can't shut up 
about the "normalization of space tourism" — for anyone who's so 
goddamn rich they have the price of a long weekend at the ISS lying 
around under their sofa cushions.

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"How space tourism could affect older people" by Nick Caplan and 
Christopher Newman at The Space Review, 10.25.2021 
https://thespacereview.com/article/4269/1

"The normalization of space tourism" by Jeff Foust at The Space 
Review, 10.18.2021 https://thespacereview.com/article/4266/1

"Elon Musk criticized the billionaire's tax once again, and said he 
would use the money to get to Mars" by Ben Gilbert at Markets Insider, 
10.28.2021 
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/elon-musk-billionaire-tax-mars-2021-10?op=1

"How Much Elon Musk And Jeff Bezos Saved After Joe Manchin Scuttled 
Democrats' Tax Proposal" by Giacomo Tognini at Forbes, 10.29.2021 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2021/10/29/these-billionaires-might-have-just-dodged-a-333-billion-tax-bullet-thanks-to-revised-tax-proposal/

"Bezos Wants to Create a Better Future in Space. His Company Blue 
Origin Is Stuck in a Toxic Past" By: Alexandra Abrams, Former Head of 
Blue Origin Employee Communications, and 20 other Blue Origin 
employees, 09.30.2021 
https://www.lioness.co/post/bezos-wants-to-create-a-better-future-in-space-his-company-blue-origin-is-stuck-in-a-toxic-past

"Blue Origin sends William Shatner to the Final Frontier", William 
Harwood at Spaceflight Now, 10.13.2021 
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/10/13/blue-origin-sends-william-shatner-to-the-final-frontier/

"My plan is to use the money to get humanity to Mars and preserve the 
light of consciousness"
— Elon Musk @elonmusk on Twitter, 10.28.2021
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1453590715267788803

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "This Is Your Captain Speaking..."

I can't keep up with DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"This Is Your Captain Speaking..."
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3290

I present for you now, ladies'n'gents, my very first cartoon of the 
2024 Presidential campaign — and leave all hope behind...

      "Human remains were reportedly found in the landing gear of a US military plane after it departed Kabul airport, with harrowing unverified 
footage purporting to show a person trapped on the plane's exterior as it took off...

       ...In footage too graphic to publish, presumably filmed through 
a window by a passenger on board the plane, the person was seen trapped 
outside the craft in mid-flight, though it is unclear exactly when the video was 
captured or how long after the C-17 took off."

                                  — RT.com, 08.17.2021


...and the tweet in question has since been pulled for "violating the 
Twitter rules" — though, luckily, that evil, terrible old 
Russian-controlled media nabbed us a frame or two. I wish I'd jumped 
on it and downloaded a copy of the video as soon as I saw it — barely 
7 months in, and we already have a disgustingly apt visual metaphor 
for the entirety of the Biden Years.

This is your future, working-class America.

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"Shocking video appears to show body dangling from US plane out of 
Kabul, 'human remains' later found in landing gear", RT 08.17.2021 
https://www.rt.com/news/532251-human-remains-afghanistan-plane/

tweet deleted for "violation" with footage
https://twitter.com/sergeantsavage/status/1427452972238213122



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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "'Progressive' Sanders Loves Him Some Drones"

From Mike Flugennock:

"Progressive" Sanders Loves Him Some Drones
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1780

I was just checking out this short article in The Hill today about Pwogwessive hero Bernie Sanders and his declaration that he wouldn't end the US drone warfare program. Can somebody please tell me again why I should so much as lift a finger to support this brazen hypocrite? Check this out:

"I think we have to use drones very, very selectively and effectively. That has not always been the case," Sanders said.

No shit, Sherlock. Christ, is this clown really the Great Progressive Hope? Are you friggin' kidding me, man?

"What you can argue is that there are times and places where drone attacks have been effective," he added.

Oh, yeah, especially against weddings, funerals and schools. Now we know why Bernie doesn't spend much time discussing foreign policy, and prefers to keep beating the shit out of that old economic inequality riff. If Pwogwessive America found out too much too soon, they'd bolt the Donkeycratic Party and run like the place was on fire.

Basically, what we're got here is a warmed-over Obama, with the economic inequality rhetoric dialed up a notch or two for all the gullible bougie pwogwessives. Dude had to be dragged kicking and screaming into addressing the ongoing police reign of terror against Black America, and he'd probably still be ignoring the issue if #BlackLivesMatter hadn't publicly gotten all up in his shit about it.

This doorknob needs to stop referring to his sheepdog campaign as a goddamn' "revolution". It's really offensive.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/252270-sanders-i-wouldnt-end-drone-program

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "The Old Donkey And The Sea"

DC anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock's latest -

CW: Obtuse Hemingway reference.

"The Old Donkey And The Sea"
(original working title: "Old Donkeys Rule")

http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3338

Basically, Obamacare all over again. The Democrats threw out 
everything their constituents ever wanted in the "Build Back Better" 
bipartisan (spit) infrastructure bill in order to please President 
Manchin and the GOP, and the rest of us got nothing — and the 
Democrats and their mouthpieces on MSNBC will, of course, yell and 
scream about how awesome a bill this is until their nipples explode 
with delight.

Still, y'shoulda seen that whopper before the trip back, before the 
sharks got hold of it.

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"Biden, Democrats retreat on social spending as Congress passes 
pro-corporate infrastructure bill", Barry Grey at the World Socialist 
Site, 11.08.2021 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/11/08/bill-n08.html


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Look Out, Bibi's Redlining!"

http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1172

Mike Flugennock says:

Am I the only one here who saw those fotos of Netanyahu at the UN the other day and wondered "what the hell kind of pointy-haired middle-management dog'n'pony bullshit am I looking at?" Seriously, was the guy smoking crack on the plane to New York, or what?

Oh, and don't forget, folks -- you can't pronounce "Netanyahu" without "yahoo".

--
"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's Latest'n'Greatest: "Omicron Lights: They're MILD...!"

From DC's anarchist editorial cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Omicron Lights: They're Mild...!"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3376

Schoolkids and teachers in the UK, Chicago, Oakland and NYC are being 
clobbered, child infections are jumping, hospitals are being swamped, 
but the State and the media keep telling us that it's "mild" — over 
and over and over again, beating the word to death like a slow, 
painful mantra, kind of like "Weapons of Mass Destruction"... or, 
perhaps the end of a cigarette commercial in the 1950s or '60s — 
"...and, they are mild!"

Al Jazeera's just precious as hell, here. They really do think the 
Chinese are some kind of weirdos for actually trying to eradicate 
covid — they had what... two deaths last year? — while, back in The 
West™, we've thrown in the towel; State spokespeople have laughed in 
our faces on live TV, and thrown the working class to the wolves with 
a big, hot, sloppy slice of "learning to live with it".

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"Omicron is not 'mild'", Andre Damon at WSWS.org, 01.07.2022 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/01/07/mild-j07.html

"Omicron exposes East-West divide on living with COVID", John Power at 
Al Jazeera, 01.07.2022 
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/1/7/omicron-exposes-east-west-divide-on-living-with-covid

"Covid-19 Forecasts: Deaths" Centers For Disease Control forecast 
updated 01.05.2022 COVID-19 Forecasts: Deaths 
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/forecasting/forecasting-us.html


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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Happy Trails"

From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist on Sun, Sep 5, 2021

"Happy Trails"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3306

Is it just me, or has The Atlantic become our one-stop shop for 
tone-deaf shit takes? My current favorite clunker concerns the fascist 
abortion law in Texas, and its potential to turn out the vote for the 
Democrats. Yeah, that's right — Texas has gone full-on fascist with 
this shit, a fistful of other states are reportedly considering going 
that way, and the Democrats' number one priority is — exploiting 
encroaching fascism to rustle up votes and money for the midterms, and 
herd the Left back into the Party. Git along, little dogies. H'yahhh.

      if you are playing games with reproduction rights to stick it to 
the other side in the midterms then you're not fighting for anyone's rights, 
you're fighting for your own power.
      And while we see you doing nothing in power except offering 
empty promises for when you get more, no
      — vegan honk thinks it's fucked, @VeganHonk666 on Twitter

C'mon, Trigger, we can still ketch 'em...! Yippie Ty yi yayy!
Time for a song, now...

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"Happy Trails", closing credits to "The Roy Rogers Show", 1951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEqUyNaSdvg

"Is This How Democrats Break Their Midterm Curse?" Elaine Godfrey in 
The Atlantic, 09.03.2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/texas-abortion-law-means-midterms/619966/

"if you are playing games with reproduction rights to stick it to the 
other side in the midterms then you're not fighting for anyone's 
rights, you're fighting for your own power.
And while we see you doing nothing in power except offering empty 
promises for when you get more,
no" — vegan honk thinks it's fucked, @VeganHonk666 on Twitter
https://twitter.com/VeganHonk666/status/1434146247368052736

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Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Axis Of Resistance"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock -

"Axis Of Resistance"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3262

Cuba hanging tough, helping vaccinate the world, getting solidarity and help from all over; Bolivia bouncing that fascist hag Añez; Sandanistas standing firm against US-backed "SOS" astroturf; Venezuela clapping back at US-backed provocateurs and third-rate wannabe Jack Ryans; Peru tossing Fujimori... yeah, these are the kind of "red states" I like.

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