Gary Varvel for February 09, 2021

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    LookingGlass Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Just some more of his kuhscheisse from an ULTRACREPIDARIAN!!

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    cdward  about 3 years ago

    So, Gary seriously thinks Keystone was key to our economy in any way? And Gary thinks that moronic border wall had any impact on the economy? And he thinks businesses have been closing at a faster rate since Biden took office? Well that explains a lot.

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    monya_43  about 3 years ago

    Gary has no concept of reality. He is out of his area of knowledge. He is full of bull hockey.

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    Zev   about 3 years ago

    I can’t believe you actually brought up the border wall, the biggest, stupidest, and saddest failure of the Trump era.

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    Kurtass Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Blaming Biden for job losses three weeks in, is like blaming the hurricane Katrina response on Obama. Wait, the teabaggers did that also.

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    walfishj  about 3 years ago

    Most were in Canada, none would last more than two years. None of the sludge would be used in the US. So, what’s his point?

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Gary, you forgot to blame him for Covid!! How about the deficit. Why not blame him for Benghazi which was worse than the Capitol invasion by Trump loyalists!

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    gopher gofer  about 3 years ago

    gary wouldn’t recognize a fact if it punched him in the nose…

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    Gen.Flashman  about 3 years ago

    The Keystone would transport tar sands from Canada to the US to be refined for export. Even now with the price of oil at around $50 it is not economically feasible to process the tar sands. Fracking is also threatened by the high cost to produce it. Saudi oil can be produced for pennies on the $ compared to Keystone/fracking.

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    brit-ed  about 3 years ago

    Gary, really. You need help if you think not building a wall we were hardly building anyway is going to damage the economy and the only industry seriously harmed by keystone being cancelled is in environmental cleanup.

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    Tralfaz Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Mr. Varvel, a hot air balloon is a clever metaphor for the economy, so good on you for that, but claiming that the Keystone Pipeline and border wall construction is keeping the economy afloat, well that’s just you being full of hot air…

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    guyjen2004 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Job Killer Joe, making China great again. Hehehe!

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    JoeBabbs  about 3 years ago

    Re-draw needed. Replace Uncle Sam with a big elephant. Biden tosses elephant overboard. Balloon basket rises higher..

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    Addled Brain  about 3 years ago

    Some balloons have been added : green jobs, stimulus package

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    thelordthygod666  about 3 years ago

    Gary must live in Canada, because that’s where the Keystone jobs are being affected (and Gary, Canada quit building the wall on their southern border when Trump was defeated).

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    DonnyTwoScoops  about 3 years ago

    Due to Trump’s incompetent response to the virus Americans have filed for unemployment 65 million times since last March, but Keystone is the problem? Varvel has lost it.

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    walfishj  about 3 years ago

    Did Gary Varvel cry for the buggy whip, kodak, Atari and tin miners when they lost their jobs? Will he cry for the Republicans who will lose their jobs? I think not.

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    wirepunchr  about 3 years ago

    Forcebucket99 apparently has time on his hands. I’ve seen this same post on multiple comment boards. At least he knows how to use copy and paste to save his fingers. (He even posted twice under the same cartoon to two different posters.)

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    WCraft Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Time will tell

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Joe is good, but he can not walk on water.. Expecting him to right the 4 years of trump is just a tad unrealistic.

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    librarylady59  about 3 years ago

    Gotta give it to Varvel. He never disappoints. Thinking he could be a qanon quack.

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    Radish the wordsmith  about 3 years ago

    The poor dictator loving covid spreading right wingers, they have to suffer the rebuilding of the country they destroyed.

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    d.davies0809@gmail.com  about 3 years ago

    Gary Q Varvel!!

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    clayjonz creator about 3 years ago

    To be fair, the border wall does stimulate the personal economies of conmen like Steve Bannon.

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    ferddo  about 3 years ago

    Trumpers really think that the U.S. economy is supported by the border wall and Keystone pipeline projects, as well as that suddenly businesses are closing due to shutdowns since Biden took office? No wonder their Dear Leader’s inept 2020 policies crashed!

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    Woodstock Generation Premium Member about 3 years ago

    American and other international companies invested a great deal of money and expertise in developing Canadian Oil and Gas operations and deserved to have a large portion of the production as the largest consumer on the planet. Canada should have built pipelines to tidewater and to major Canadian centres to ensure a fair price was received for their product and domestic security of supply. The US still needs foreign supply of oil and why not support a close neighbour and friendly country.

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    StackableContainers  about 3 years ago

    So is anything is justified and sanctified if it creates some jobs? That seems to be part of the message here. Regardless, any engineering and construction jobs lost on those specific projects will be replaced. Those are skills that have a lot of uses and demand throughout our society.

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    Daeder  about 3 years ago

    First of all, the economy is subterranean, not airborne.

    Second, walls are just useless, money-wasting projects.

    Third, any problems with jobs, closed businesses and shutdowns were created by the last administration which flat out refused to put forth any national pandemic response!

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    lonecat  about 3 years ago

    This cartoon just shows how little Varvel knows about economics.

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    Madzdad the bard  about 3 years ago

    First, how does the border wall generate income for the economy? Second, Keystone would only support about 11k TEMPORARY construction jobs and 160 permanent ones, dozens of other pipelines that go north to south. Third, how are shutdowns Biden’s fault? Shall I go on? The economy has been off for a year, but Reps only consider the stock market. Almost 60% of Americans have no $$ in the market. I would venture to say 90% of the rest use it for the 401k, only.

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    ScullyUFO  about 3 years ago

    So you’re not a conservative?

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    grumpypophobart  about 3 years ago

    You’ve been in the medicine cabinet again, haven’t you Gary? One of President Donald Trump’s lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch. The financial burden that he’s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt.

    The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by a leading Washington budget maven, Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. And unlike George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln, who oversaw the larger relative increases in deficits, Trump did not launch two foreign conflicts or have to pay for a civil war. (ProPublica)

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    T Smith  about 3 years ago

    Keystone XL is all about shipping Canadian crude across the U.S. (because Canadians don’t want the environmental risk) to refineries in Texas so that the resulting refined products can be put on tankers and sold overseas.

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    Patjade  about 3 years ago

    A few hundred temporary jobs aren’t going to do much for the economy, especially when you provide for hundreds of thousands of new, modern, permanent jobs.

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    Concretionist  about 3 years ago

    You will note that Varvel failed to label any of the balloons that really DO support the economy. And he’s absolutely RIGHT† (of course) that Keystone is worth TWO whole balloons (all 20 full time jobs that it would have resulted in after construction)… though of course the insane vanity-wall has no long term (good) effect of any sort. For the hard of seeing (such as the artist…) that little red balloon is labeled “Jobs”.

    † That part is purest sarcasm, of course.

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    Radish the wordsmith  about 3 years ago

    The truck drivers and train engineers still have their jobs delivering that stuff.

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    Diane Lee Premium Member about 3 years ago

    The coal mines are going to close. They have been closing for decades. And, the guy who went to work in one right out of high school in 1990 is unlikely to qualify for one of the new clean energy jobs that will replace those jobs. However, we first knew that the coal mines were not an option with a bright future around 1960, so his kids should have grown up knowing that they would need to find other jobs, and the clean energy industry will be gaining jobs they can aim for. Coal miners being thrown out of jobs they expected to sustain their families isn’t a real thing going on. It’s just right wing propaganda.

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    Diane Lee Premium Member about 3 years ago

    The oil that would be transported by the Keystone pipeline is already being mined and transported to refineries, by truck. The people building the pipeline will be out of work the minute it is completed. The truck drivers, on the other hand, will have to keep driving the oil to the refinery as long as there is oil up there to drive to the refinery. So, when the pipeline builders lose their jobs by completing it, I hope they have plans other than driving a truck, because there are going to be a lot of truck drivers looking for work too.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Happy-go-lucky Old Joe at work!

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    TrulyTexan  about 3 years ago

    Hate to break it to you, but getting rid of pipelines helps the economy. The only thing it hurts is the oil companies bottom line.And of course all the bribe money they have supplied to republicans.The border wall was a boondoggle from the start. It would never work, Mexico would never pay for it, and it created no jobs. Only packed the accounts of the companies supporting it.Closed businesses and shut downs? Plenty of money to shore up struggling businesses. A fraction of what was giving to big corporations, wall street, and the MIC would have easily kept every small business afloat.And if trump and the republicans hadn’t intentionally downplayed the pandemic and response for their own benefit, the shut downs would have been weeks instead of a year or more.But yeah, somehow the economy is going to continue crashing because of Biden not pandering to special interest groups, not 4 failed years of incompetence and greed by the republican party.

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    DaleHopson  about 3 years ago

    The balloon basket will fly now without fat ol’ Donald Trump in it!

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    Jack Dawson  about 3 years ago

    Keystone would have been safer and more effective than the trucks and trains that will move the product now. Opening the border like a floodgate will be both a medical and financial disaster. As for the shutdowns and the closed businesses the not-so-slow leaks there are hurting massive numbers of Americans.

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    abraxas  about 3 years ago

    Yeah. Those things were never holding up our economy. Never.

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