Mike Luckovich for February 07, 2023

Cute. True enough for a ’toon point.

You’ll notice it’s held up by hot air just like the real thing.

Anyone have a sharp pin?

Dumbo?

Republicans HATE democracy and are doing everything they can to rid America of it.

What a perfect cartoon.

desantis is a Psycho, and should seek help from a professional before inciting any further discord between people and further damaging our educational system.

pop it, Pop It, POP IT!!!

Nice “twist” on a classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Balloon

All that hot air…

Someone’s inflated ego

Now the Chinese know how not to have their balloons shot down. . . . /s

Fer sure, red like russians.

Did Charles McGonigal sabotage the 2016 election?

The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is pressing the Department of Justice for details about a former FBI agent who was indicted for working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch and laundering the proceeds. Charles F. McGonigal retired as special agent in charge of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York office in 2018. McGonigal allegedly began cooperating with an agent of aluminum baron Oleg Deripaska while he was still working for the FBI. Deripaska is under indictment for allegedly evading sanctions and obstructing justice.

Did McGonigal do anything to tip the scales of justice in favor of anyone he’s now linked to in the indictments? What roles did McGonigal play in the 2016 FBI’s Trump-Russia probe and the Mueller investigation? Is there any chance that McGonigal compromised sources, methods or evidence? How did one of the most elite counterintelligence operations not notice that one of its main guys was allegedly doing favors for a sanctioned Russian oligarch while he was still on the FBI payroll.

Deripaska’s history with the FBI is long and bizarre. The FBI has investigated Deripaska for links to Russian organized crime.

Two months before Donald Trump was elected, FBI agents reportedly visited Deripaska in New York City and asked him whether the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia. Deripaska put on his best innocent face and insisted that the agents were making something out of nothing.

By this point, campaign manager Paul Manafort had been feeding sensitive campaign and polling data to Deripaska’s associate for months, information that made its way to Russian intelligence.

The new red menace.

Absolutely.

Big Lie Republicans want to investigate why the majority of Americans did not vote for their terrible candidates.

Republicans like Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, Kari Lake and Rep. Paul Gosar on social media have posted pictures of themselves pointing guns at the sky or shooting guns as a response to the Chinese balloon flying over the U.S. Joe Scarborough shares his thoughts on the empty gesture.Feb. 6, 2023

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Omigod! Is that a penĭs with a tiny scrōtum on the face of that piglet? And are those giant swollen vagīnas on either side of its head? (Yes, this is exactly what dirty-minded would-be censors would see if an 11-year-old kid did the balloon sculpture. See for yourself: yahoo.com/entertainment/child-drawing-pig-bow-tie-181017549.html)

Too right.

Full of enough hot air that it can float at 60,000 feet?

Check out worldview.space, high altitude balloon rides, near space tourism. Probably a way more fun and safer ride than a billionaire’s rocket. Real republicans would capitalize on this. Instead they’ll just try to impeach Biden. (for something)

Very Well Done, Mike — LOLOL

No doubt full of hot air