Mike Luckovich for January 06, 2023

Appropriate cartoon with which to remember what happened exactly two years ago: REPUBLICAN Trump supporters carried out an extensively planned attempted ARMED, VIOLENT OVERTHROW of a full, fair and free election.

The plans for the insurrection had begun to be developed even before the election, as phone calls, testimony by insiders and even VIDEOTAPE conspiring to claim victory even if they clearly lost. They even had T-shirts and sweat shirts printed up in advance, touting “Civil War II” and other slogans in their plan for an ARMED VIOLENT INSURRECTION to overthrow the U.S. Capitol.

This week, they are observing the anniversary of their attempted ARMED VIOLENT COUP by again obstructing the U.S. Congress, only this time the call is coming from inside the House. Literally.

Today’s Republican fringe extremists, who have taken over the party, are even echoing Donald Trump’s plea from two years ago, when his ARMED MOB refused to go through the metal detectors after the saw firearms being confiscated at the magnetometers, as House Republicans have already voted for a rule change to remove the metal detectors that keep members safe from workplace violence from the House chamber.

Just as the Trumpublican armed violent attempted coup two years ago shocked the American people to the point that Republicans lost several state legislatures, several governorships, several secretaries of state, several attorneys general, lost numbers in the U.S. Senate and failed to produce the “Big Red Wave” that everyone expected, so once again the Republican fringe is going to remind the American people that they are incapable of competent governing.

Funny, Sad and has a great deal of truth in it – the best cartoon the day.

RIP USA

Short version: If you hate democracy, vote Reptilican.

Remember , Remember the 6th of January and the Insurrection Plot and Treason, There is no reason to ever forget the Insurrection Plot and Treason !

You nailed this one, Mike. Nice!

Chaos and other threats to our Democracy can come in many forms.

Fitting tribute to the mess that started the day Sarah Palin was made a VP candidate. That was the most visible beginning of the end for the GOP. This is just evidence that the cancer was ignored and allowed to grow. That party represents the ugliest part of America and it needs to be exorcised.

One of many things they will fail to do.

You’ve caught it, now what are you going to do with it?

I saw an interesting piece from Beau of the fifth column on YouTube. Dems could go, as a group, to McCarthy. tell him that if he makes a public speech on the house floor that he will, eliminate ALL the concessions he made to the insurrection caucus, promise to work towards bipartisan legislation, raise the threshold for a vote of no confidence to 25 members(undercutting the insurrection caucus’s hold on him) then the Dems will give him the votes he needs to be speaker. Now, my first reaction was “like he’d keep his promise” but here’s the thing. First by making his promises public if he fails to keep them he looks even weaker than he does now. With the 25 member vote of no confidence the dems could pull the rug out from under him at any time, and the best part is the insurrectionists become the outliers rather than holding McCarthy and the house hostage. After the current debacle MC has no incentive to appease them much less support their insanity. The war between the “sane” republicans and the insane ones would give the Dems enormous leverage which they would not have if the repugs remain a solid block. Sure he takes some heat from the Reich but with the Dems dangling their support he only really needs to keep about 10-20 repugs to keep his power making working with the moderates on the left a much easier a call for him.

Anyway it’s just a thought. if you’re interested here’s the videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA2tPK4-7Ok

Or, get a bunch of sane Republicans to walk out when it’s time to vote and let Jeffries be voted in by a majority of those in attendance.

Nincompoops vote for nincompoops.

The republican party continued to support the kooks that caused the Jan 6th insurrection for two years.. and now, surprise, they are still there. You reap what you sow guys.

Who knew that on and about the anniversary of such a heinous day in our history that so many of the party that instigated and still has members who support the insurrection would effectively be lynching themselves?

Lawless republicans want to destroy the USA and make themselves dictators.

Rob Rogers and Mike Luckovich have really nailed it today.

Until all the participants are culled from federal, state, and local government positions, these nihilists will continue trying different ways to fulfill their ultimate goal… the end of our democratic republic.

“Plan? Don’t talk about — plan?! You kidding me? Plan?! I just hope we can win an election! Another election!”

—with apologies to Jim E. Mora, whose response to a question in 2001 about the Indianapolis Colts’ post-season chances after a loss in which his offense turned the ball over 5 times has become a classic

Sponsored by the Party that made “I take no responsibility” famous again. 8>)

They’re a joke, just not a funny one . . .

What a bunch of stumblebums.

“It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people’s minds.” Samuel Adams

“We can’t organize village life to suit the village idiot.” Frank Schaeffer

“What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.” Robert F. Kennedy

If you cant be a good example you’ll just have to be terrible warning.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire

Wait, let me get this straight. They can’t swear in new members until a speaker is chosen, but those new (presumably unsworn) members get to vote on who’s supposed to be speaker? Isn’t this some kind of logical fallacy?

Ouch. You nailed it, sir.

Hey Kevin how does it feel too be the 15 th choice To lead a bunch of other mostly. losers!

An alphabet for the new Congress, spelled out by outgoing Speaker Hakeem Jeffries:

But I also want to make clear that we will never compromise our principles. House Democrats will always put:

American values over autocracy.

Benevolence over bigotry.

The Constitution over the cult.

Democracy over demagogues.

Economic opportunity over extremism.

Freedom over fascism!

Governing over gaslighting.

Hopefulness over hatred.

Inclusion over isolation.

Justice over judicial overreach.

Knowledge over kangaroo courts.

Liberty over limitation.

Maturity over Mar-a-Lago.

Normalcy over negativity.

Opportunity over obstruction.

People over politics.

Quality of life issues over Q-Anon.

Reason over racism.

Substance over slander.

Triumph over tyranny.

Understanding over ugliness.

Voting rights over voter suppression.

Working families over the well-connected.

Xenial over xenophobia.

“Yes we can” over “You can’t do it.”

And — Zealous representation over zero-sum confrontation.

No big deal here. Just another fake crisis dreamed up by the Dems. Their pick lost every vote.

Is John Baggett trying for the Most Delusional MAGAt trophy?