Michael Ramirez for May 31, 2021

Ramirez is grateful for the freedom to draw lies every day. I’m glad he has that freedom, too.

Trite. But true.

But geez, Ramirez, as YOUR GUY wanted to know, ’What was in it for those suckers and losers?"

They spent their sacrifice dearly. Don’t waste it.

TX just voted to get rid of mail in voting. They don’t seem to understand what these heroes died for!! Republicans hate the whole idea of democracy. The only use they have for the military is to send them to useless wars.

Ah, the people Trump called suckers for dying in a war and whom he refused to visit because he didn’t want to get his hair wet.

The GOP Leadershit gives lip service to the above Memorial Day sentiment PROVIDED it does not apply to the federal officers injured and murdered by imaginary blunt-force traumas inflicted in the U.S. Capitol by the 06 January 2021 Trump insurrectionists.

The GOP Leadershit’s filibuster decided that those federal officers do not merit any Congressional investigation to confirm their imaginary injuries and deaths.

So much for the injuries and deaths incurred by our service members in World War I, World War II, the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam boondoggle, and the eternal Middle East adventures to protect the oaths of office routinely disdained, scorned, and violated by the GOP Leadershit’s knee-jerk sycophants.

There are also heros that wait in line for four hours to vote. That demonstrate against police brutality, at risk of injury or arrest. That work every day wearing a face mask. We got lots of heros.

AMEN. And to the the commenters before me and after me who use this day of remembrance for political comments and hateful rhetoric, shame on you.

Yup, let’s now honour those who died. And ignore those who survived and still live. Caring for them is too expensive.

Some couldn’t leave the smart-ass anti-Trump comments out EVEN TODAY!

All of you should stop, and remeber what this day is really about. If you can’t do that get off your computersnd go buy a new car, new furniture or that newmatress you’ve been needing for so long.

High priced freedom which Ramirez and his ilk are willing to give to the GOP for “free-gratis”, even to pay them through the nose to take it from them. You’d think they’d have enough brains to at least sell there freedom for cheap instead.

Today, there are far too many who don’t know the meaning of serving their country. Loyalty, and love of country has eluded many. I lost all the heroes in my life, except two! My heart hurts.

Sadly in vain given the amount of “freedom” that survives today.

Mr. Ramirez, your pandering cartoon “honoring” our veterans and war dead is not acceptable. You support, on a daily basis, a political party that is determined to and working hard at destroying the democracy they fought and died for. Your hypocrisy is noted, and likewise that of people like you.

I do know Ramirez will get and has gotten criticized for these sorts of strips. I suggest reading yesterday’s ‘Pearls Before Swine’ as it is in the same vein as this. Happy Memorial Day, one and all.

No disrespect to the veterans or those who died. They gave their lives to make the world a better place.

But, when was the last time an American soldier actually fought for American freedoms? They might in theory fight to help free other countries, but American freedom hasn’t been threatened… since the war of independence.

“…the last full measure of devotion —”

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham LincolnNovember 19, 1863

Lincoln: At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? — Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Fox News: We’ll get right on that.

What is sad is the Republicans that have wasted the fight for freedom and turn it into a fight for fascism.

We grew up pledging Liberty and Justice for all, and Republicans are fighting against that pledge.

All gave some, some gave all, one had bonespurs.

Fly the flag today. They deserve it, and a lot more.

Regardless of your political point of view, this cartoon is appropriate and meaningful for today.

Excellent Michael ♥

May you all have a MEANINGFUL Memorial Day!

It’s also the high price of having a perpetual war across the planet.

I wonder just how many people here even remember who started “Decoration Day” and why? It might surprise a few of these conservatives to learn that it was a bunch of freed slaves marking the graves of Union Prisoner of War Soldiers in South Carolina.

The high price of imperial stretch. Troops being in over 120-150 countries of the world with little fanfare.

Tucker Carlson ‘casually accuses the troops of betraying their country’ — on Memorial Day

https://www.rawstory.com/tucker-carlson-troops/

moron or clutz best describes most of these comments