Michael Ramirez for May 15, 2020

Yep. It’s going to be seriously painful. But not seriously dead. IF we keep our heads.

There must have been some kind of mix-up. This one wasn’t supposed to be published until there’s a Democrat in the white house.

Thanks to Bonespurs and the Republicans, and Mitch’s gold plated shovel.

Easy peasy – reinstate taxes. Tax 90% on income over $500 million – even if stashed overseas. Tax 0.01% on gross (NOT net, NOT profits) on business income over $1 million regardless of location of headquarters. You want to do business in the US, contribute. NO subsidies for oil corporations. No subsidies for industrial farming. This one might be tricky as many sensible small farmers incorporate, but there has to be some way to make the Tysons and others cough up. Cut the military budget and get out of the perpetual wars anywhere in the world. “Peacekeepers” we are not and never have been. Never, ever sink money in the stock market. Give up your dreams of tinkle down economics. Has never worked, doesn’t work now, and will never work.

The wrong wing nuts have finally realized that their chances of keeping the white house and the senate are gone, time to ramp up the “Loyal opposition” dog whistles.

What do you call a hole that size? The Greatest Depression you’ll ever see.

I’d say that the true chasm is the denial, the lack of responsiveness, and the refusal to trust and act on the recommendations of those who really know what the hell they are doing.

Again with the debt stuff. NOT A PEEP when Trump and the Republicans passed the Tax Cut and Spend Scam for Billionaires and Corporations, which lost trillions of dollars and weakened our resources when it comes to something like this. Only when someone wants to the regular people does Ramirez squeal like a stuck pig.

Now “they” care about the national debt?? Wasn’t VP Cheney fond of saying, “Deficits don’t matter??” How quickly “they” forget………

Just a big enough hole for all the dead from a back-to-work initiative!

Fill that hole with GOP politicians, and overlaid with supporters.

HA! It’s ok when GOP spend and raise the ceiling…there’s no qualms….but let a DEM do ANYTHING and they blow a gasket… double standard….its in their evil playbook of dastardly deeds! Clueless bastards! (To say the least! )

Look at the debt hole the Republicans racked up, most of it went to their rich friends.

No money for testing so 90,000 die and 33 million are out of work.

All due to Republican lies.

Note some trumpers are beginning to worry they might lose both the senate and the trump in the next election. So they are starting to mention the debt as a bad thing and.. wait for it… something the democrats better deal with.

Don’t tax you, don’t tax me – tax that fella behind the tree. Old saying. Now is has changed to Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that Billionaire as we go free! I noticed that since Bernie Sanders became a millionaire his talking point changed from “tax millionaires and billionaires” to “tax billionaires”!

Let’s see now; over 85,000 deaths, new cases already spiking in some areas, almost 1 in 4 Americans unemployed, and shortages in everything from meat to (unbelievably still) toilet paper and medical supplies. And the president’s response. “It’s a great job we’ve done!” Like that other Great Leader, Pyrrhus of Epirus, is reputed to have remarked, "Another victory such as this, and we shall be utterly ruined.”

I find it interesting that the right is only concerned about the debt when democrats are in office or they propose we spend money to help people who are not rich. 2 trillion dollar tax cut that mostly benefits the rich? No problem. 500 billion to bail out big business that benefited from that tax cut. Of Course!

And if that isn’t interesting enough, wait until we hear their proposals to close that debt.

In Canada someone said the T$ word. We’ve been pretty good at on and off balanced budgets and paying down deficit. And with a percentage of GDP being resource based royalties its going to be tough. So if we don’t buy the overpriced F-35 we can spend $18 B at home. Its a start.

It’s time to quit joking about Trump’s tax cuts for the rich. We’re drowning in the “trickle-down” benefits.

Con man Trump promised to eliminate the entire national debt. Instead this years deficit will be the worst in American history. No wonder he calls himself the “King of Debt”.

Trump’s policies have deepened the national debt hole… but by Republican definition, that is all the fault of Democrats…

And to think, that chasm outside the front door is the one caused by Republican tax cuts.

Wow! I didn’t know we had a national debt? Surely if we did, it would have been a topic of political discussion for the past 40 years. Well, it’s obvious what happened. That darn Obama didn’t leave a plan explaining how government works. There is a quick fix though. All Trump has to do is say that national debt is freedom and that evil liberal/Democrats want to eliminate debt so they can eliminate freedom.

Whether overwhelmed, bored or just plain lazy, it looks like Trump’s done fighting the pandemic

Trump has forcefully put the fighting in the hands of governors, taking no responsibility for government missed efforts toward testing, workplace safety, even aid to states

His daily, repeated remarks

Refusal to wear a mask

Refusal to physically distance

Insistent support for protests to lift state lockdowns

Effective disbandment of a supervising task force and shelving of workplace guidance from the Centers for Disease Control

These all contribute to an unmistakable conclusion that he is done with disease.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/whether-overwhelmed-bored-or-just-plain-lazy-it-looks-like-trumps-done-fighting-the-pandemic/

You didn’t seem at all concerned with the trillion dollars added for tax breaks for the 1% that didn’t spur any growth.

This cartoon seems to be a pretty good summation of Trump’s infrastructure plan.

No, no, you’re getting ahead of the game! The “deficit” is only a problem when a Democrat is in the White House. Ronnie and George spent money like drunken sailors and there was never a peep out of anyone. George even spent hundreds of billions that “didn’t count” because they weren’t on the books, somehow. (Imagine the uproar if a Democrat were to try such a sleazy trick.)

Oh, now the national debt is an issue.

Hey, Ramirez, wail about your “debt concerns” to all the Americans who don’t live in mansions!

Now that the billionaire class and their corporations got there trillions it’s time to worry about the debt. I guarantee there will be no further “welfare” for the people. Horde that $1200 crumb carefully, that’s all your gonna get. By the way, don’t expect a job soon, and you better not get sick.

By the way, this should be the platform for the dems, an appropriate response to the covid pandemic, learn from what other countries did right, respect scientists, help people for a change. Canada bailed out “we the people” first, and when business came calling help came with strings attached.