Michael Ramirez for January 29, 2021

“Eliminate energy jobs”?? WTF is Ramirez smoking? The plan is to INCREASE energy jobs… though of course when Ramirez says “energy” he means coal or petro and when Biden (and I) say “energy” we mean renewable “green” forms.

PS: Petrochemicals have so many more uses than just burning them to move large machines around fast. Lets save some for lubrication, eh?

I think you mean “replace dwindling petroleum jobs with renewable energy jobs”.

And while you’re pondering that edit, Mike, perhaps you can tell us what caused that black hole in the first place…

Michael Ramirez demonstrates the role of his political/economic ideology as both the symptom and the cause of the rampant social, economic, existential and yes, toxic plague that is both caused and perpetuated by his myopic failure.

The earth is under attack. Not by space creatures or black holes, but by a virulent strain of its most invasive species: conservative humans in a toxic parasitic invasion. A milder and more benign strain, PROgressive humans, is able to devise ways to not only live in harmony with its host and the other species that share its domain, but help it thrive in a symbiotic, mutually-beneficial relationship.

PROgressives understand that good jobs that pay well and strengthen the economy from the bottom up instead of a failed “trickle down” mythology of proven failure can replace hazardous, toxic jobs in dying dirty energy industries that are dying out (and killing the planet along with those disappearing jobs) that destroys communities, environments and ultimately the world and breeds disease and squalor with clean, HIGH-PAYING plentiful jobs that are sustaining to both humans and the world we live in and provide long-term economic and environmental security.

Myopic conservatives are too short-sighted to see where the future is headed and how to make it better for everyone, not just a few advantaged elites at the top.

That “super massive black hole” was caused in part by giving the super massive rich holes super massive tax breaks from that super massive orange hole in the previous administration.

I wonder where unemployment would be if sleazeweasle had worked to help control the pandemic. You know that “hoax” that has killed almost 500,000 Americans. I wonder where we would be if we had had a leader?

The black hole is the republican sense of morality and honesty. There are many “energy jobs” which don’t pollute the environment, but aren’t makin money off of them.

Trump Disciples like Ramirez flat cannot produce a cartoon that is not based on a lie, or a direct lie.

Pathetic.

There you go again, Mike. Stop getting your notes from Al Goodwyn, he doesn’t reside in this reality.

Some sucked into the Black Hole of Unemployment: Trump, Pence, former White House Administration, Trump’s followers at The Capitol Building that were recognized by their employers. Worse yet, Pence and ‘Mother’ are Homeless and couch surfing with friends. SAD, It brings tears to my eyes when I laugh.

The problem with people like Ramirez is that they can only look backwards, preserving 19th century jobs in the 21st century. Maybe we should bring back coopers, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, ice cutters and lamplighters.

Remember, there were people who feared electric lighting and cursed Edison.

Good grief. Eliminate energy jobs?

Perhaps we ought to restore the whaling industry? Or hire woodcutters to wander the countryside, trusty axe over their shoulder?

We can allow the world to move forward. We can retrain men and women for better job in a better industry.

Or we can be cowards, locked in our own ignorance. Ahab is Ahab. Ramirez is Ramirez.

. . . except that renewable energy jobs far outnumber those in oil, gas, and coal combined, are growing by leaps and bounds, and are unlikely to become antiquated for a long, long time.

Trump has the worst jobs record in modern history, but Biden is a threat to jobs?

It is shocking that Ramirez uses the newfangled internet. Mike you’re taking jobs away from NEWSPAPER COMPANIES, YOU COMMIE!!

Don’t even know whereto start with this pile of steaming horse sh*t. 30 permanent jobs to monitor Canadian shale oil on it’s way to being exported? A living wage? Oh the horror.If you can’t pay your employees $15 an hour, there’s something wrong with your business model.

Research shows that raising the minimum wage does not result in job loss https://equitablegrowth.org/research-shows-raising-the-minimum-wage-does-not-spell-job-loss/

Some cartoonist have a weird nonsense of humor

Michael Ramirez cannot be this dumb.

Under Trump, the TRU rate of unemployment has been about 24%.

https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/technology-business-government-business-and-finance-labor-economy-covid-19-pandemic-6b9fbaeaab3a49d6466dca5c2798a1a5

Oh, and why are you whining about the rising cost of a sammich at Burger Doodle if the single mother running the deep fryer gets $15/ hour, when the CEO gets takes in about $15,000/hour?

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James 2:24

I’m getting tired of subsidizing the wages employers pay with my tax dollars. Kicking my money in to cover housing, food, medical, etc. because they won’t pay a livable wage.

The minimum wage was established during Roosevelts 1938 administration. It has been raised 22 times since then. I probably became aware of the arguments over minimum wage around 1960. In this cartoon and in political discussion Today the same arguments are being used as were used in 1960 and every other minimum raise attempt since then. Republicans seem to latch onto a phrase that they like And keep using it and using it because they haven’t the imagination to come up with any other arguments. 29 states so far have instituted a $15 minimum wage, and the studies on those States have proven that the economy does not collapse because you give poor people more money for doing the basic jobs of society.

Why bother to comment? Ramirez will never change.

with all the money being pumped into the economy maybe it should be $20 an hour

Like clean coal and a handful of permanent pipeline positions…..get real. GM is moving to an electric lineup

America’s banks just had maybe their best year ever, raking in $125 billion in underwriting fees at a time when the rest of the country is dealing with record unemployment, thanks entirely to massive Federal Reserve intervention that turned a crash into a boom.

If you’re going to rake in $33 million as Gorman did last year captaining a firm that just siphoned off billions in essentially risk-free profits underwriting a never-ending bailout, should you really be worrying about someone else getting a “rude awakening”? There are 19 million people collecting unemployment who might be reading those profit numbers.

JFK: “A rising tide raises all boats”. Unfortunately, it has become “a rising tide raises some boats, mostly yachts”.

Covid spreader Trump left the country in miserable shape with two million less unemployed than when he inherited a healthy economy from Obama.

The dems want the economy to move, but anti democracy republican covid spreaders will do everything they can to ruin the economy as long as a dem is president.

The Republicans set the course into that black hole long before Biden started driving.

Insofar as truth is concerned, Ramirez has once again bettered Chubby Checker.

This won’t all seem so funny to you of the opposing ideology once it kicks in. I’ll check back with you in a year.

Hey Michael, GM has promised no more gasoline vehicles by 2035. Get with the present. Did you consider buggy whip manufacturing “Energy Jobs”? Now energy jobs are in clean energy.

Greedy Moscow Mitch has voted down every attempt to raise the $7.25 min wage,

for 15 years. Arrogant lying republicans don’t care about the American working class at all.

Millionaire Mitch has voted every time to raise his own salary.

Everyone is talking as if we are going to wake up tomorrow morning and have the entire country converted to renewable energy, and a bunch of oil field and coal mine workers standing around with nothing to do. It’s a process. The coal mines and oil fields will have to hire fewer people as we convert to renewable. There will be more jobs in those fields, but the guy who has been in the coal mine for 20 years is probably not going to be a top candidate for those jobs. However, his son or daughter could. I would be willing to pay you $100 for every coal miner who can honestly say that his highest hope for his children was that they would make their livings crawling around in a hole in the ground, getting filthy and risking cave ins, anyway.

Apparently Ramirez is uninformed as Newsmax did not report this, but Lowes alone is adding 50,000 jobs over the next few months. Apparently Ramirez has a case of space fever.

Space Fever makes it deeply uncomfortable to be in the present moment. Whatever environment you find yourself in, you want to be somewhere else.

Sure, continuing to subsidize a few old polluting oil industry jobs while suppressing an alternate energy industry that has much more upside potential… and also keeping people from earning enough to live on… are so much better for the economy…

The black hole is distorting the time-space continuum…make the occupants of the space vessel go back in time and/or think things are what they were like 40 years ago. Or the intense gravity is effecting the circulation of blood to their brains.

By this logic, you would recommend lowering the minimum wage to $3.35 like it was under Reagan? Just think of how many jobs that would create… Maybe we could hire people to run in huge squirrel cages to generate energy as well. Create jobs and energy at the same time!

The Republican talking points are incredibly lame right now. It’s hard to talk meaningfully about anything other than, oh, the growing wing of the Republican party who wish to destroy democracy because they can’t think of any other way to gain power and entrench racist and corporate interests.

If Ramirez was paid an amount commensurate with the value of his “efforts”, $15/hour would represent a YUGE raise for him.

Now that Sheldon A. is dead, Mike is picking up the ball as the resident trumper.

But sir, that’ll just make the, you know, the thing, bigger!

Each time one thinks these CONservatrive cartoonists have reached the bottom of the “intelligence” SWAMP, they happily show your mistake. Speaking of intelligence, it’s nice of The Repulsican Crime Cult to keep reminding America of its lack thereof.

Alternatively Michael, let’s keep people poor and downtrodden. Then we can BMW (bitch, moan, whine), about how the ‘unwashed’ broke into my home and stole all my goodies.

i know let’s fire all the right wing cartoonists and replace them with oil workers !,

Off hand I think Obama and Carter are privately pleased that Biden is making a move to supplant their mantels as the worst POTUSes ever.

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