Two Party Opera by Brian Carroll for July 24, 2020

There comes a point where the Secret Police no longer answer to any authority but their own.

How soon before there is open conflict between local police and the Feds? At this rate tRump and Biden may both end up as presidents of the Divided States of America.

It’s unfolding right before us, in plain view. Where are all the good men?

Wow! They took Grant, Sherman, & our rights away in one fell swoop!

Please, if you have never read it, look up a poem by Martin Niemöller…..It may be that time again. If you don’t speak now, by the time they come for you it will be too late.

The “police” look strikingly similar to the redcoat soldiers….. different uniforms, same tyranny….. and it seems it’s being treated as just another form of infotainment to watch on TV. Feeling rather helpless, hoping that sanity may finally reappear, then realizing I’ve had that hope for years.

How to divide a nation against itself and end democracy to benefit those who feel [in their gut] that they were born to rule over others.

And when we tell others to resist, what do we expect them to do? What do we do ourselves? How do we resist something like this?

i ain’t feeding no trolls this morning.

Suggest the same to everyone else.

BTW, good work today, Mr. Carroll.

-or not

Some thoughts on one of the founders …

http://thomaspaine.org/aboutpaine/was-thomas-paine-a-socialist.html

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/03/thomas-paine-american-revolution-common-sense/

Nice ’toon.

Well done! Let’s ask the Navy vet with a broken hand and all the Portland Moms about it.

i like it !!

You know all those private citizens who say they need to stockpile guns and ammo in case the government gets tyrannical?

I haven’t heard any of them speaking up against this.

Remember, if you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear. It couldn’t sound any better if it was true. (TOTH to S.L. Clemens, attr.)

Say good night America, it was nice knowing you. The stupid elected the fascist and he destroyed it with permission from the corrupt cowardly Republican senate.

The voters are our only hope, god save us all.

Bring the Jubilee—we’re Marching Through Georgia!

Looks like the troll factory is in action again. I really, really, really hate to see a troll at the leader board position. Why? Well, for several reasons. To start with is the fact that the troll is probably a paid propagandist and so is probably getting paid for inciting reactions to that propaganda. The factory tells them the trigger points for each day. If you think that you are arguing with a real human, that you can influence that trolls comments…it won’t work. The best way to deal with trolls in the comments is to stop replying under the troll’s post. I get it….he makes you crazy mad and you want to shut him down. So say what you want in your own post, not his…why pump up his paycheck? Here’s another point…by not replying…by basically ignoring him…he’ll go away…hopefully.

Personally, I think Trump recruited them from the drug cartels down in Mexico.

Decency? We ain’t got no decency. We don’t need no decency. I don’t have to show you any stinking decency.

Once again:

If you’ve ever wondered what you’d have done in 1930s Germany, you’re doing it now.

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#TraitorTrump

For God’s sake people, DO NOT FEED THE TROLL. The algorithms on this site automatically show only the answer with the most replies. Ignore it, flag it, and it will disappear.

The problem, of course, is that Trump is INCAPABLE of decency, and he therefore surrounds himself with people who are also incapable of it. Then again, imbeciles and/or lunatics who rant and rave about “Marxists” and “Bolsheviks” don’t have any decency (nor logic, nor the tiniest grasp of objective reality).

Suggestion to those who replied to Pain: Why not copy your post, delete it and repost it independently in the main thread?

“Tom Pain” cannot distinguish cartoons from reality, apparently. Typical ALL-CAPS Trump devotee.

If the feds are there to protect federal buildings, fine. If in the course of a protest a protester or rioter crosses the police line or does actual vandalism and is detained and arrested, also fine. But that’s not what’s happening, is it.

Quick! Where’s the leaf blower!?!?

How often does this strip change? I’m new to it, but like it so far.