Gary Varvel for June 18, 2021

Public knowledge is hardly state secrets. But I guess when you’re constantly grasping at straws, like Varvel is, all you can come up with is a strawman!

Hey, Varvel, what’s the weather like in St. Petersburg, or do you live in Carlson’s back pocket?

Hey Gary, I live ALOT closer to Russia than you do (or not – RAGs might be on to something…) and I would love to see nordstream2 cancelled, BUT what you again and again fail to do is look at what you have come up with and COMPARE to what the Orange Dictator-Wannabe actually did. In this situation Trump would be sitting in Putin’s lap showing him his full hand…

I’m not sure where this is coming from. It was nice seeing Putin unsure of himself. It was even nicer seeing a President that’s not afraid of Putin.

Will Riker and Captain Kirk would have a field day playing poker against Biden.

Watch each card you play and play it slow. Biden is doing it right.

“Here’s a list of logical targets, and here’s a heads up that if attacked in any way I’ll be countering… bigly”.

Varvel prefers Putin over Biden, typical republican.

Everything else is fair game. Go nuts, Putin!

RW meme on the Biden-Putin summit is that Biden gave away the farm on infrastructure. Of course, the fact that the systems mentioned are all public record in the US does not particularly impact on the consciousness of RWers like Varvel. Like Putin doesn’t know we have a power grid? Really?

Big lie Trump was giving murderous Putin all of the aces.

GOP drawing from ‘authoritarian playbook’ by trying to make everyone forget Trump’s behavior toward Putin

GOP lawmakers are trying to wave away Trump’s fawning over the Russian president, and now the ex-president and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy are even trying to claim President Joe Biden “gave Vladimir Putin a pass” in their first meeting this week, reported CNN’s Stephen Collinson.

“McCarthy didn’t mention two intelligence operations by Russia to meddle in US elections to help Trump win,” Collinson wrote. “Nor did he mention Trump’s notorious press conference in Helsinki when the then-president threw U.S. spy agencies under the bus on live television and embraced the denials of Putin, a former KGB officer, on election interference. Trump’s former top Russia adviser, Fiona Hill, told CNN this week that she considered faking a medical emergency to stop the press conference in 2018 since it was so excruciating and damaging to US interests.”

“Trump’s critique of his successor was especially ironic, because the key criticism of his meetings with tyrant Kim Jong Un was that he ceded the prize North Korean leaders have craved for decades — recognition on a platform alongside the U.S. leader — while failing to slow Pyongyang’s nuclear program,” Collinson wrote.

Republicans are trying to rewrite the history of Trump’s four-year term, which ended only months ago, with the same lies and false realities that marked his presidency.

“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” Trump said in 2018, giving away the game.

Now the entire party is engaged in spreading the “alternative facts” that Trump’s White House once used to mislead Americans.

“It is a chilling reminder of how a totalitarian government rewrote every book, changed dates and falsified every record in George Orwell’s novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four,’ to such a point that ‘history has stopped’ and nothing exists except a present in which the Party is always right.” Rawstory

Gotta admit, when Biden gave Putin a list of U.S. infrastructure systems that should be off-limits to ransomware and cyberattacks, I wondered if Putin would use it as a priority list… but then I figured Putin already knew (and had plans for) everything on that list…

@Fflashbang – I agree!!

This a STUPID cartoon.

Gary, you’ve failed to mention how easily Trump won the trade war with China without having a full deck of cards or winning at Chinese Checkers without having any marbles . .so to speak. Trump always came in second place in any contest making him the FIRST LOSER.

Biden: You’d best not mess with anything on this list, Putin.

Trump: You’d best do everything you can to help me win the election or you’ll have to deal with a President who won’t tolerate your meddling, Vladimir, my friend and bestest buddy (next to Kim Jong)

Varvel does not even try to be “the Best and the Brightest” — Not even in Indiana!

We needed a pro, instead, we got Joe.

Go Fish Joe. Captain Pike is playing Checkers & Vlads playing Chess and is 6 moves ahead of the Old Guy. Joe is a JOKE and so far out of his depth, just shuffle off to the Buffet it’s 3:30 somewhere.

Y’all gotta go check out the Fathers Day comment Ammosexual left on the 17 June Fathers Day comic Varvel did.

Take a look at it and tell me if you don’t think that’s one of the most openly racist comments ever made here. Maybe I just took it wrong.

I may disagree with Varvel, but no one should make a comment like that on his work.

Varvel prefers a “president” that hands Russia secret intelligence that he received from Israel.

Gary, are you so naive that you think that Russia doesn’t know the VERY basic, non-detailed information that Biden provided? For crying out loud, you or I could get it from Google Earth.

This makes no sense! How does Varvel come up with this?

Joe needs Dr. Jill to show him which cards to play.

Meddling in our elections was an act of war. Drop mic.

I’m hoping those cards represent where all the honeypots have been placed….