Chip Bok for November 17, 2021

What scares me is the Bok probably believes what he draws., and they probably let him out without a keeper.

Article in the BBC today pointing out that conspiracy theorists seem to be migrating from “the vaccine conspiracy” to “the climate change conspiracy”. Because both of them promise to make “me” uncomfortable and all for reasons that “I” don’t understand or care about. Apparently.

No. I blame the polka dot shorts.

Grandpa Whifflepants sure managed to do a lot of climate change in just 10 months, probably because of all the methane he generates.

“If you don’t think increasing demand and cutting supply makes stuff cost more, you just might be an Economy Denier.” -CB

Bok, how exactly, did Biden cut fuel production? Be specific and show your work.

Or, maybe you are just LYING. Like always.

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After that, maybe you can explain how tax cuts for the rich helps the economy — and ANYONE except the rich and the Republicans* who get their bribes.

Bok, like so many other Republicans is a deranged idiot.

Yep, that’s the ticket. Econ 101 for failing law students along with science for dummies!

Watch another cherry picking from a corporate cartoonist. Take a simple idea and beat it to death.

I didn’t know POTUS controls energy production. I learned from Mr. Bok, yet somehow I feel stupider.

Another great ’toon, Chip! Tell it like it is!

No reasonably sane person would really believe the stuff Chip draws. This defense worked for Tucker!

What production “cut”? US domestic oil production, August 2021, 11.14 million barrels. August 2020, 10.56 million barrels. #Chip Can’t Count.

He is lost without a teleprompter!

In panel one, Biden has taken a page from the Reagan playbook and spent money to stimulate the economy. In panel two, I thought Repubs would hound Joe for wanting to increase fuel production. That’s what got my Dem goat’s hair on end. In panel three, Joe would love to keep inflation at bay, but there’s little that presidents can do about prices. Biden keeps touting the inflation as a temporary fix, which is what most economists are saying, too. And it could well be, since we don’t have pandemics that often, thank goodness. And, as for panel four, Joe will most likely blame the pandemic, not climate change. Fortunately, Joe Biden isn’t into the blame game, anyway.

I don’t watch Fox but did the government take over all the oil companies?

That is exactly what is going on.

Without fossil fuels we would all be naked, hungry and cold. Everything we eat or use daily involves fossil fuels. The growing, manufacturing and transporting everything involves fossil fuels.

“Climate Change” is the convenient catch all for everything that ails the world. The real problems like pollution or overpopulation just don’t get the research funding or tax payer junkets.

To Old Guy, seversmerle and Alberta Oil, until you can explain the C12/C13 isotope distribution in the CO2 increase of the atmosphere, as well as the increased acidity of the oceans, to say nothing of the thermal and salinity threats to the oceanic circulatory patterns, you have no basis for your positions on climate change. BTW, the excess CO2 is pollution, and the overpopulation will disappear very rapidly as the environment further degenerates. The canary in the coal mine is the accelerating rate of species extinctions. It looks to me as if we are on the way to remediating the effects of human activities by setting up our own extinction.

Maybe he will give us some of what he is smoking.

What a life some of you live. Agree with me! You’re okay. If not you’re a worthless piece of shiza. He’s paid to believe this? Wow…..

Just such vitriolic prose. Take a breath.

The First Commandment in the Cartoonist’s bible is “Be Controversial, not Sage, Wise or Observant” Second Commandment is “It’s fine to be Stupid, Inaccurate and Irrelevant.” Bok’s doing a fine job…

Bok combines stupidity with dishonesty….

Do point out that the chief cause of the nasty inflation in the US right now is decades of corrupt gutting of anti-trust regulations and laws by Republican officials since Ronald Reagan. Robert Reich had a brilliant article on this topic in The Guardian so it needs little elaboration here, except to stress the need to condense Reich’s points into simple language which American voters can understand. From there, point out that Democrats are working to strengthen anti-trust laws and unions to fight back against corporate consolidation and wealth inequality that is the primary driver of the monopolies driving this inflation. Hopefully, 2022 will also see a reconciliation budget bill reinstating taxes on the super-wealthy and tackling the carried interest loophole as was part of the Democrats’ 2020 platform—this more than anything would go a long way towards tackling deficits and breaking up some of the power concentrations causing these monopolies.

Do point out how Republicans’ anti-PoC and esp. anti-Asian hatred has also been promoting inflation and supply chain problems. Their hatred drove out many Chinese-Americans and other Asian-Americans with decades in the import-export business who were essential for delivering critical goods from Asia—filling our ports here in Florida and other major ports across the country. Here, again, the chief culprits are Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, Tucker Carlson and their Yellow Peril hate-spewing. Certainly for us in Florida, as well as in Texas and even parts of California, the anti-Asian hostility has been measurably damaging our import-export flows.

Do point out how Trump in all his 4 years, and despite his campaign promises, failed to pass an infrastructure bill and left us unable to maintain our supply chains. The Democrats have addressed this head-on and already delivered for the American people.

And so it begins: House Republican takes credit for infrastructure funding he voted against

A spokeswoman defended Palmer against completely accurate charges of hypocrisy by saying he would have voted for it as a stand-alone bill, but wasteful spending blah blah blah. Yeah. Palmer would have voted for his priority if he could have voted for just that—but how many other people would have voted for Palmer’s priority if he wasn’t going to vote for theirs? Just think, instead of getting a majority of members of Congress to vote to pass an infrastructure bill that funds a bunch of different things, Congress could have held votes on a couple hundred stand-alone bills, each of which would have gotten support from the handful of lawmakers whose districts would benefit. Nothing would have passed, but it would have been so pure! Truly the Republican way: Get nothing done, but be able to say that at least you didn’t do anything about climate change.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/17/2064784/-And-so-it-begins-House-Republican-takes-credit-for-infrastructure-funding-he-voted-against

It makes sense to talk about the Republican’s world as animating a “Culture of False Accusation.”

In so many ways, such False Accusations make things worse in so many ways:

They degrade the American Constitution: “Stop the Steal!” when there is no steal, undermines the Constitution by sowing baseless doubts about the validity of the outcome of our elections. Respect for the elections is at the very foundation of our American Covenant: Everyone agrees to respect the outcome of a fair constitutional process, win or lose. That agreement is what allows us to have a society where the assignment of power is determined peacefully, and not by war.They further the pernicious strategy of “Divide and Conquer”: It divides the American people against itself, enraging one side at the “Thieves.” Which makes things worse by preventing the American people from living with each other in more spirit of peace and goodwill, and working together to achieve their common good.

They extend the detrimental impact of a most broken human spirit: This whole theme of “stolen election” originates in the mind of a man whose conduct, in the wake of his losing a legitimate election, will surely be recorded in the pages of infamy; a man who’d willingly incite an Insurrection to keep himself in power even though it was clear –as even his servile Attorney General declared — that he’d lost fair and square; how displayed a level of selfishness and lawlessness unprecedented in the history of the American presidency.

It helps paralyze the nation at a time of crisis: This False Accusation – by falsely labeling as a thief the man the American people legitimately hired to do the important job of President – generates popular support for a pernicious policy of across-the-board obstruction. It disables the ability of Americans to cooperate for the common good.

Baghdad Bok’s been into Al Goodwyn’s Shroom stash again.

Excellent editorial

Took off his wrap around coat years ago.

Blame Puppet Biden, he’s ruining America.

Probably the most effective thing the government could do right now to curb inflation would be to increase interest rates. But big political donors do not like that, because it’s “bad for business” (which translates to “bad for short term profits”).

Meanwhile, Biden has no power to increase oil production. Keystone XL is not as relevant as folks think; it matters a lot to oil companies wanting to make more money, but that oil isn’t going to the US market — it’s just passing through. Biden could use emergency powers to allocate funding to pay refineries to increase capacity, assuming they can get the staff to ramp back up from their early pandemic cuts (which happened under Trump, but were not really his call either). But this would be a band-aid at best. He could also release oil from the strategic petroleum reserves or ban the export of US oil, but again, this is band-aid at best. What’s hurting us more is the fact that OPEC is refusing to increase production to meet demand. THAT is what is driving up the price of oil and there is absolutely bog-all that Biden can do about that. Well, he can ask nicely, but he’s tried that already and they said no.

It may be concerning that Chippy’s artwork is getting sloppier. I wonder what his excuse about THAT is?

Biden cut fuel production?

Wait, Chip – you forgot to also add “blame Trump – for EVERYTHING (the Demoncrats have done).”