Monty by Jim Meddick for January 30, 2024

Better stop your fact checking.

I hate to tell you this, Sedgewick, but………

Ask it what was the US doing during the first two years and three months of WW2

Contumacious: stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority.

And Bidenomics has reduced inflation by several hallucinations.

ask it about the dot com boom.

I didn’t like Clinton, but the economy was booming during his presidency. One of his slogans was “it’s the economy, stupid”

Digging into history and facts can derail the right-wing populist’s fantasies quickly.

Uh oh. Politics. He’s deliberately making it harder for us to defend our liking Sedgwick.

It was the Newt Gingrich House that was responsible for the almost balanced budget. Bill Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming to comply due to enormous poitical pressure. It was a single Democrat senator that prevented a Balanced Budget amendment to the constitution from passing. The Payroll tax had to be raised due to Jimmy Carter’s inflation.

Ignoring the rise of Herr schickelgruber. (AKA Adolph Hitler)

My computer shows ASI ED instead of ASKED – looks like half the K got dropped- anybody else’s look like that?

Is it just me or is the “K” in “ASKED” in the second panel blurred out? It looks like “THIS CHAPGPT! I ASIED FOR HELP …”

Somebody pick that kid up and take him out of his safe little bubble. That might save him from being indicted one day.

and Ronnie added income taxes to social security checks, what a sweetheart

FAKE NEWS! MURRICA!

yes, raw facts do seem to irritate conservatives, that’s why we’ve been getting so many proposals to ban books and whitewash history classes

A lot of people would try to deny these undeniable facts.

Statistics can be made to say anything you want them to say. The data may be accurate, but the interpretation rarely ever is.

Wanna hear another eyebrow-raiser, my lad? Republican President Richard Nixon not only signed legislation creating the Environmental Protection Agency, he actually advocated for it before it was passed.

Well, to be clear, it was the NEWT GINGRICH, GOP CONGRESS that finally passed spending bills that would not add to the debt. And yeah, Reagan is the one who prolonged the pyramid scheme known as Social Security. Even then they knew he was just punting the collapse point down the road, and here we are staring at it.

In both cases you have to look at congress – The group that actually decides and passes the bills that do the deeds. For Reagan, it was Democrat and for Clinton it was the Republicans. Presidents can only sign it – or veto it. No other option.

Okay. I’ll admit it. I had to look up “contumacious”.

Maybe have Jarvis write your paper. :)

The kid learned history in Florida

“Contumacious”. Wow. Points for Sedgewick! I’ve got a better-than-average vocabulary, and I still had to find out that it means “obstinate”, “obdurate”, “recalcitrant”, and a bunch of other words I actually do know.

Ah the surplus myth. The use of intragovernmental transfers was a shell game to make the budget look better by paying down public debt but didn’t reduce the national debt at all. It just transferred the debt from outside to the government as the holders of it.

Taxes are the domain of congress. Presidents can do nothing but recommend.

That’s a hallucination Sedgie. Unfortunately it’s yours.

Perhaps one of Sedge’s wealthy uncles can buy ChatGPT and set the record straight, that it was GOP presidents who balanced the budget.