Michael Ramirez for December 22, 2022

Unless the GOP thinks you’re too expensive, of course. Then they’ll just dangle you out in the wind. Besides, if Zelensky and Ukraine win, they GOP will lose their Putin checks.

Amazing art talent, Mr. Ramirez.

It appears Ramirez is trying to portray this comedian turned politician turned hero as a mobster. Ramirez should back off the drugs if that’s what he’s going for!

Who is that 300 pound character supposed to be?

Well done Michael.

Two great war-time leaders have addressed Congress. I am glad I got to watch one of them in real-time.

Best talk to your conservative friends, e.g., Landslide Lauren, Greasy Gaetz, Sucker Tiersome, etc.

Defund Ukraine will be the new GQP slogan. But sure. they admire that comedian Zelensky. The Biden’s involvement with the corrupt pre-war ukrainian govt. will be the new Benghazi.

Channeling Putin, just like Boebert the agent of Q

Never give up the ship….a coward he’s not!

The cowards are Pooty and Sir Lies A Lot…two schmucks in destroyer mode!

In the meantime we are depleting our arsenal and the ability to defend ourselves.

Creepy drawing, sinister, perverted….

Likely won’t be too long until US right wing propagandists like this comic start morphing Zelenskyy into a nazi character. Especially when Ukraine starts to see victory against the former president’s ally with the help of our current US administration.

Is this Zelensky drawn like Churchill ? Why is he made to look like a thug ?

Ramirez, see if you can get Hannity and Tucker to run your cartoon.

Just for grins.

I would like to see our NATO allies help to ease the financial burden off the U.S. At least a little bit. But then again, maybe that’s asking to much.If it wasn’t for the U.S. there wouldn’t be a NATO in the first place. Zelensky did say to Congress this was a battle for the worlds democracy. Are our NATO allies a part of the WORLD?

If you want proof of just how absolutely crazy Democrats are look no further than this 4,000-page Omnibus budget for 2023. “Operation and Maintenance, Defense Wide,” the omnibus will throw another $410,000,000 at the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to “reimburse Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman…for enhanced border security.” But for our border and our security? None of the $1,563,143,000 listed for “border management requirements” of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection can be used to “hire permanent Federal employees” or “to acquire, maintain, or extend border security technology and capabilities, except for technology and capabilities to improve Border Patrol processing.” If you vote democrat, you are N U T S ! ! !

How ‘unhinged’ MAGA Republicans ‘went full Putin’ during Zelensky’s White House visit: libertarian

On Wednesday, December 21, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Joe Biden in the White House and gave an English-language speech during a joint session of Congress. This was Zelenskyy’s first visit to the United States since Russian forces, on orders from President Vladimir Putin, launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine on February 21. During his speech before Congress, Vice President Kamala Harris and outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood behind Zelenskyy while holding up a Ukrainian flag in solidarity with his country.

But some far-right MAGA Republicans were not happy to see Zelenskyy getting a warm reception from Biden, Harris, Pelosi and other Democrats. And libertarian/conservative journalist Cathy Young calls out those MAGA Republicans in a biting article published by The Bulwark on December 22 and headlined, “Putin’s Useful Idiots: Right Wingers Lose It Over Zelenskyy Visit.”

Hammer, on December 21, tweeted, “Raise your hand if you are personally DONE with the Ukraine gravy train.” And Republican activist Donald Trump Jr., on Twitter, posted, “Zelenskyy is basically an ungrateful international welfare queen.”

“To top it off, Hammer, who shares Zelenskyy’s Jewish heritage, also accused the Ukrainian president of being a bad Jew — unseemly under any circumstances, but all the more so considering that only a few days earlier, Hammer had been spotted at a New York Young Republicans’ Club Gala in the company of various alt-right types with, shall we say, a complicated relationship to antisemitism,” Young writes. “Among them: Rep. Marjorie ‘Jewish Space Lasers’ Taylor Greene, the founders of the white nationalist website VDARE, and erstwhile Jew-baiting troll, Jack Posobiec.”

Young notes that the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh said of Zelenskyy, “Get this grifting leech out of our country please,” while Fox News’ Tucker Carlson mocked Zelensky

Sean Hannity — under oath — admits he ‘didn’t believe’ election lies ‘for one second’: deposition

When the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren handed down its unanimous decision in New York Times v. Sullivan back in 1964, it established a tough standard that plaintiffs have to meet in defamation lawsuits. Plaintiffs, according to the Warren Court, have to prove “actual malice.” And that is what Dominion Voting Systems is trying to prove in the defamation lawsuits it filed against Fox News, Newsmax TV, One America News (OAN) and others in response to the false claims they promoted about the 2020 presidential election. After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to now-President Joe Biden by more than 7 million votes, many far-right MAGA Republicans at Fox News, Newsmax and OAN promoted the false claim that Dominion’s voting equipment was used to help Democrats steal the election — a conspiracy theory that has been repeatedly debunked. Fox News, in response to Dominion’s defamation lawsuit, has maintained that its hosts weren’t saying the claims about Dominion were true, and that they were just asking questions.

Zelensky speech reveals ‘real cracks in the Republican Party’: Claire McCaskill

The Republican reaction to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech before a joint meeting of Congress reveals “real cracks” in the party, according to MSNBC’s Claire McCaskill. Some GOP lawmakers, including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), did not attend the speech, while Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and others did not stand up to applaud, although many Republicans expressed support for additional aid to Ukraine.

Conservative shreds Russia-embracing right-wingers: ‘Putin has embarrassed you in every conceivable way’

On Thursday, following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s historic address to the U.S. Congress, conservative writer Nick Catoggio tore into the wing of the Republican Party that has increasingly embraced Russia and Vladimir Putin rather than the cause of fighting for the preservation of global democracy, in a scorching article for The Dispatch. “If you’re a post-liberal populist, particularly of the Very Online variety, watching Putin go belly-up in Ukraine has dashed all sorts of political illusions,” wrote Catoggio. “Your faith that strongmen are the best, most competent instrument for achieving political prerogatives is shaken. Your belief that woke Western militaries are no match on the battlefield for fascist machismo looks silly. Your hope of a great authoritarian victory over Ukraine that might inspire Americans to embrace nationalism and reject the global liberal order has disappeared along with 100,000 or so Russian soldiers.”

Borderline antisemitism. This caricature could be published in a Russian newspaper. In very bad taste.

In the ‘60s Kennedy decided to put boots on the ground as advisers to the Vietnamese. The idea was to stop the spread of communism throughout SE Asia. Johnson escalated the war and 58,000 Americans were killed. Today we are trading partners with Vietnam and may become allies with China’s claim on the South China Sea.

Biden decided to supply a complex missile defence system to Ukraine which may need American advisors.

Will history repeat itself?