Women

Just His Type

When E. Jean Carroll’s allegation that Donald Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s first emerged, his first defense was that she wasn’t his type.

Trump told a news outlet in 2019, “I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened.” It seems like “it never happened” should be number one.

Days before Trump was to testify in a deposition in Carroll’s lawsuit against him for defamation, he posted on his shitstorm of a social media site, “this woman is not my type,” and he wrote that statement was “a great statement.” Then came the deposition….which turned out to be a great deposition…for the other side.

During the deposition, Carroll’s lawyers handed Trump a black-and-white photograph showing Trump at a social event at some point generally contemporaneous to the time of the alleged rape. Naturally, Trump identified himself because he loves photos of himself, identified one man as former television anchor John Johnson, and then he pointed at a woman on the left of the photo and said, “That’s Marla.” He was referring to his second wife who he cheated with while married to his first wife and is the mother of his fourth kid, Tiffany, Marla Maples.

Carroll’s lawyers paused, probably relishing the moment because it was just tooooooooo good, and then asked Trump, “You’re saying Marla is in this photo?” The attorney asked question successfully without snickering.

Trump said, “That’s Marla, yeah. That’s my wife.” It’s his ex-wife, but we’ll give him that. Ivana, his first wife was actually in the photo, but Trump wasn’t pointing at her.

That’s when one of Trump’s attorneys, Alina Habba, jumped in like she was spoiling a joke, and said, “Nooooooooo, that’s Carroll.” This is another reason why Donald Trump has problems hiring good lawyers. He’s the worst client EVER.

Later in the deposition, Carroll’s attorneys asked him whether “the three women you’ve married were all your type.” Trump said they were, you know, just like his daughter, Ivanka, who he once said he’d be dating if she wasn’t his daughter.

Trump later said the photo was too blurry for him to differentiate between his second wife, who is his type, and E. Jean Carroll, who he claims is not his type. But, the photo wasn’t too blurry for his lawyer. Trump does require glasses which he never wears, but at the very least, a blurry E. Jean Carroll is Trump’s type.

Using Trump’s argument that someone is not his type as a defense against a rape accusation is ridiculously stupid. It’s like saying if she was his type, then he may have raped her. Perhaps Carroll’s lawyers should have asked Trump how many women of his type he has raped.

But using Trump’s own insane defense, it’s perfectly logical that he raped E. Jean Carroll because…wait for it…she is his type.

Creative note: I’m in Portsmouth, Virginia.

As I was finishing my CNN cartoon late yesterday afternoon (Friday), my friend Christian called me, told me he was coming through town, and asked to have dinner. I had plans but I shoved them aside because the last time he asked me to dinner, I couldn’t do it. During dinner, his wife Patty called and said I should come down to Portsmouth with Christian since they’re having a coronation party and I’ve been promising to visit for over a decade and haven’t done it yet. Why a coronation party? They just got back from a long English vacation and I think they’re still horny for England, and I probably would be too. So here I am. In Portsmouth.

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Alito’s Leaker

Before the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a leak of the majority opinion, written by Associate Justice Samuel Alito, was published by Politico. This leak greatly upset the court, especially the conservatives.

The case was over the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi state law that banned abortions after 15 weeks. Instead of ruling about the constitutionality of a state banning abortions after 15 weeks, the court took the opportunity to use its brand new shiny 6-3 fucknut majority to overturn not just one previous Supreme Court ruling, but two…and ruled that there is no constitutional right to abortion.

The irony in this is that the Supreme Court was upset over their privacy being violated while they were stripping away all women’s rights to privacy.

After investigating the leak for months, Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley said the court could not determine with certainty “the identity of any individual who may have disclosed the document or how the draft opinion ended up with Politico.” Boo-hoo. But Alito thinks he knows who leaked it.

In an interview with a conservative editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal (aren’t they all conservative?), Alito said, “I personally have a pretty good idea who is responsible.” Fortunately, he acknowledged that a “pretty good idea” is “different from the level of proof that is needed to name somebody.”

I respect that and it’s why I haven’t outed the “anonymous cartoonist.” Yeah, I know who he is but since there’s no official proof, I feel it’d be unethical to out him without it. I need to be as ethical and certain as possible to out someone for being unethical. There’s at least a one percent chance that there’s another cowardly spineless cartoonist out there who stole Jeff MacNelly’s style, is a lying gaslighting conspiratorial idiot, and can’t comprehend the issues he’s talking about.

But Alito really wants to leak the leaker and says the leak “was a part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft … from becoming the decision of the court. And that’s how it was used for those six weeks by people on the outside — as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court.” Once again, conservatives portray themselves as the victims while victimizing people.

But one could argue the leak was done to allow yee-haw states time to prepare to ban abortion as soon as the ruling was issued. Many states had so-called trigger laws, which meant abortion would be banned immediately when a SCOTUS ruling was issued that overturned Roe.

Alito said the theory that the draft was leaked by someone on the right to lock in the five votes necessary to overturn Roe “is infuriating to me.”

He said, “Look, this made us targets of assassination. Would I do that to myself? Would the five of us have done that to ourselves? It’s quite implausible.” He also said, “It was rational for people to believe that they might be able to stop the decision in Dobbs by killing one of us.” With that statement, Alito isn’t accusing a clerk, janitor, security guard, or other support staff to the court. He’s implying one of the three liberals on the bench is responsible for the leak.

And then, Alito whined about the court being criticized for its lack of ethics. Without mentioning Clarence Thomas, or the gifts lavished on him by his billionaire buddy, Alito said he believes reports about ethical violations by justices are attempts to damage the court’s credibility now that conservatives are firmly in control. He said, “We are being hammered daily, and I think quite unfairly in a lot of instances. And nobody, practically nobody, is defending us.” Again, boo-hoo. The court’s credibility hasn’t been damaged by its critics but by its conservative justices, the Republican senators who stole seats from Presidents Obama and Biden, and the Russian puppet president (sic) who nominated three of the justices.

Alito defended overturning legal precedent with Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey, and said those SCOTUS rulings “are so egregiously wrong, so clearly wrong, that that’s a very strong factor in support of overruling them.” But during his confirmation hearing nearly 30 years ago, he said didn’t use the phrase “egregiously wrong” and instead, said, “Roe v. Wade is an important precedent of the Supreme Court. It was decided in 1973, so it has been on the books for a long time. “It is a precedent that has now been on the books for several decades. It has been challenged. It has been reaffirmed.”

What’s been reaffirmed is that Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is a lying whiny crybaby. He’s whining that people don’t like him for restricting women’s rights.

Music note: I listened to the Foo Fighters.

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Heifer Halftime Show

I’m old. I know less and less about pop culture the older I get even though I need a healthy enough knowledge of it for my work.

Let’s use Rihana as an example. I know who she is. I know she’s a singer with a great voice. I know the song “Shut Up and Drive” is hers because I heard it in “Wreck-It Ralph” which I’ve seen at least a dozen times. I like it. I also recognized a couple other of her tunes during her performance in the Superbowl Halftime Show. I didn’t know she had a baby or that she had taken several years off. Don’t ask me who ASAP Rocky is. I’m old and white.

First off, girl…how can you perform levitated in the air while pregnant? I can’t even climb a ladder without getting violent shakes.

So, I was watching the Super Bowl down the street from my apartment at a local bar which unfortunately closes at 9 P.M. every Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday be damned, which meant I had to leave near the end of the third quarter and race home in time to catch that shitty ending. Great game, shitty ending thanks to the refs. But, I digress.

During Rihanna’s performances, I noticed the bulge. The girl next to me whose boyfriend didn’t appreciate me talking to her until 9 P.M. said it was Rihanna’s post-baby bump. I didn’t even know Rihanna had a baby, but I thought it was really cool that she wasn’t hiding it. I found out later that it’s NOT a post-baby bump but a pregnancy…her second. And, this was a pregnancy reveal. I should call that girl to make sure she knows since I got her number. Anyways…

You know what? I think Rihanna is a badass. She performed the Super Bowl Halftime show on a levitating platform that was high enough to collide with Chinese spy balloons, she kicked ass, she exhibited confidence throughout, and she used the Super Bowl Halftime show for a pregnancy reveal. To everyone who watched her performance who said, “Meh,” go screw yourself. You get your ass up there on that platform and pull it off as well as Rihanna.

And, yes. There were critics. Not surprisingly, they’re old and white too.

Donald Trump “truthed,” “EPIC FAIL: Rihanna gave, without question, the single worst Halftime Show in Super Bowl history — This after insulting far more than half of our Nation, which is already in serious DECLINE, with her foul and insulting language. Also, so much for her “Stylist!”

Keep in mind that the entertainment at his inauguration was Three Doors Down while the parade consisted of tractors and bagpipes. Also, keep in mind that Donald Trump has insulted at least half of our nation.

Ronny Jackson, a Republican congressman from Texas who’s literally been up Trump’s ass, was upset even before her performance accusing her of making “a career of spewing degenerate filth while badmouthing America every chance she gets.” He asked, “Why is the NFL showcasing this crap? Rihanna SHOULD NOT be the halftime performer!!” 

How are Republican congressmen supposed to be fixing the border, economy, inflation, and everything else they howled about if they’re too busy fixated on Rihanna and the Super Bowl halftime show?

I don’t know what Rihanna said that “badmouthed” America, but maybe he was referencing the time she tweeted, “Fuck Trump,” or that time she said Trump is the “most mentally ill man in America.” Well, shit. I’ve said worse… much much worse about the pussy grabbing grifting bleached tangerine shitweasel with shit for brains.

Maybe Ronny “Fingers” Jackson was referencing the time Rihanna rejected the NFL’s invitation to play the Super Bowl Halftime show, citing solidarity with Colin Kaepernick and his protests for racial justice.

Other conservatives, like Ted Cruz, were too busy being outraged and flabbergasted from seeing Satan at the Grammys. He’s never had deviled ham in his life.

But just as conservatives are trying to force women to be birthing factories,and be barefoot in the kitchen, Rihanna’s doing the Super Bowl Halftime show. Maybe now they’ll try to outlaw pregnant women from showing pregnant belly bumps during football games.

What they should do is pass a law that bars can’t close during the Super Bowl.

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Aborting Bare Arms

Why do Republicans have a hang-up about women exposing their arms and shoulders? Unless it’s Marjorie Taylor Greene or sexy Green M&M, they don’t like women to go sleeveless.

During the Obama administration, they all flipped out anytime Michelle Obama exposed her toned biceps. New York Times columnist David Brooks referred to Ms. Obama’s arms as “thunder and lightning” and that showing off her arms at White House events was “ostentatious.” Rush Limbaugh called her “fat.” Seriously, Rush Limbaugh said that.

Now, as a Trump-appointed federal judge is looking at banning abortion pills nationwide next week (really), don’t look for the protection of women’s rights in yee-haw states where Republicans are instituting dress codes banning bare arms. You know, fucknut states like Missouri and Florida.

House Republicans in Missouri used their very first session to create a rule banning bare arms, requiring all women to wear blazers, cardigans, or jackets while on the house floor. They did not create any new rules for men.

And since Florida Republicans don’t like being out-gooned by other states (like when DeSantis shipped migrants from Texas to Massachusetts so he wouldn’t be out-viled by Greg Abbott), they too have created a new rule requiring women to wear sleeves in the state capitol building. To be fair, they also enacted a new dress code for men too, banning the showing of ankles.

Bare arms and shoulders, Green M&M, men’s ankles…what kind of fetishes are we dealing with here? I still don’t understand the foot fetish a lot of guys have, so I’m never going to understand any of these Republican turn-ons.

I do predict that like banning Critical Race Theory in schools despite the fact it’s not an actual thing, the word “gay,” drag queens, and “woke,” other GOP-led state legislatures will follow suit with their own rules banning bare arms and shoulders, especially if Tucker starts talking about it. Just make sure you don’t go after Green M&M. She’s special.

What all this comes down to is just another white conservative male attempt to control women. Now that’s a fetish.

Creative note: I knew I wanted to put these two subjects into one cartoon but couldn’t figure out how to do it. I spent last night and this morning trying to write but brain no worky good. I drew out three ideas before I found it. Me smarty after all.

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Hey, Ladies

Here’s your cartoon for this week’s CNN Opinion newsletter. Please sign up to get these in your inbox every Sunday

I can’t remember the last time I got to draw a crowd scene for CNN.

Creative note: This was roughed out at home, then drawn and colored at Starbucks.

Music note: I listened to the B-52s.

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Burqa, Hijab, Handmaid

Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman was detained for allegedly failing to adhere to hijab (headscarf) rules in Iran. She died at a morality police detainment center. Protests have broken out in Iran following Amini’s death with thousands of women burning their veils and hijabs.

President Ebrahim Raisi warned that protesters would be dealt with “decisively” after days of nationwide unrest. Over 35 people have died during these protests that have broken out in over 40 cities. Protesters are demanding an end to violence and discrimination against women as well as an end to compulsory wearing of the hijab.

Women in Iran and Afghanistan don’t want to be suppressed any longer by their ultra-conservative governments. Here in the USA, ultra-conservatives are also working hard to subjugate women and take choices away from them. It’s all about control.

Republicans want the United States to be governed like Iran and Afghanistan, with religion. They want to force their “values” on the rest of us. First, they take away the right to choose, then the right to vote, and ultimately, the right to choose what to wear.

The morality police in all three nations need to be done away with.

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Apple Watching You

Full disclosure: This cartoon was drawn on an iPad. All of my cartoons have been drawn on an iPad since June 2021, and I believe I only have 11 payments left until I officially own my Ipad.

I love my iPad and my iPhone. I love how easily they make everything. I love how they sync together. I love that when I bought my very-outdated AirPods, I didn’t have to sync them to my devices. They automatically knew each other. I like that when I take a photo, it knows where I took the photo and will later present me with a gallery of the photos taken at that location. Hey, here’s your trip to Las Vegas or your trip to New York City. To me, that’s some fun tracking.

Apple unveiled the latest versions of its iPhone and watches last Wednesday. It’s the iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Series 8. I never buy the latest newest most up-to-date tech, but I did last year when I got my iPhone 12 and iPad pro 12.8. For about seven minutes, I was up to date with the latest technology. I don’t see any reason to update again for a while. But, there are people who bought the iPhone 13 and will now rush to own the 14, and in a few months the 15, then the 16…yeah, get out of here.

And while I do like Apple stuff, I realize they screw over the people who are loyal to them. You would think that someone who spends $2,000 on an iPad wouldn’t have to shell out another $130 for the Apple Pencil (and in my case, you’d expect the pencil to actually work and not crap-out and force you to wait several days for Apple to send you a new one). Microsoft’s first few versions of its Surface Pro included its Surface Pen until they got smart and started selling it separately. The iPhone used to come with EarBuds you could plug into your device. Now, not only do they not include the free EarBuds, but the newer iPhones don’t even include the input for your old EarBuds, forcing you to purchase AirPods if you want to listen to music privately. Nobody wants anyone else to know they’re listening to Cold Play.

As usual, there are new features to these products with one for the watch being a fertility tracker. The thing tracks women’s periods and fertility and will tell her when she’s ovulating. This feature can be very cool or very scary. Some people haven’t been this upset with Apple since that time they hid a U2 album on iPhones.

I think a watch that tracks your steps can be very cool. And it’s cool that it can track your heartbeat and warn you of palpitations and stuff like that. I’m not afraid of this stuff because I’m concerned about being tracked, but because I kinda get the feeling the watch will be like, “Are you sure you want to be eating all that pork?” But some people are concerned about how Apple is tracking them and where and how they’re storing the data. Hopefully, it’s better than the system of hiding shit in a basement at Mar-a-Lago.

It’s like when the vaccines came out and a lot of people were afraid of being vaccinated by the government. White people with concerns were mostly lying conspiracy-driven fucks believing the vax contained itty-bitty tracking chips, but black Americans had a better right to be concerned about what was in the vaccines and how it’d affect them. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Google “Tuskegee Syphilis Study.”

You might think we shouldn’t be too concerned about Apple storing data about us or Alexa sending all our personal deets back to her masters at Amazon, or another device tracking your sleep farts, though it does sound kinda Orwellian that not only are corporations tracking us, they’re selling us the products used to do the tracking.

That’s kinda like Nike selling you a shirt that advertises their product, and don’t get me started on my beef with YouTube showing me a commercial before I can watch a trailer to a movie. They’re forcing me to watch a commercial before I can watch a commercial. You motherfuckers, you.

But women have every right to be concerned with a corporation tracking their fertility after Republicans have wiped out abortion in nearly half the nation and working on banning legal abortion in the rest of it. And now, Apple will know when you’re ovulating and Amazon will know what tampons you’re buying. Getting ahold of this information is a Republican’s wet dream. Also, “Republican Wet Dreams” would be the worst-selling erotic novel on Amazon. Others would be “Ted Cruz comes into Bloom,” “Lindsey’s Night of Georgian Passion,” “Rand Paul: Just a Gigolo,” and “Trump’s Moist Misadventure in Moscow.” By the way, which word do women find the most disturbing? “Moist” or “Ted Cruz?”

So maybe when the government is doing all it can to erase privacy, and the Supreme Court saying the Constitution doesn’t guarantee a right to privacy except for where they live, it might be a rotten time for a corporation that’s worth over $2 trillion to sell a product made to stalk your periods.

What’s next? Is Apple going to charge us to name our children after them? Actually, Cold Play’s Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow did name one of their kids “Apple.”

I love my Apple stuff. I love my iPhone, iPad, and Air Pods, but they need to be careful about what they force upon their customers. If the new stuff includes an ebook titled, “a Moist Ted Cruz,” I’m throwing my shit out the window.

Creative note: This is from the batch drawn up before the Queen’s passing, which put everything else on hold. The rough for this was drawn up Wednesday evening after Apple released the new series. I wasn’t sure I was going to make a real cartoon out of this.

Music note: I listened to some Coheed and Cambria.

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Follow Kansas

The Wizard of Oz is a brilliant movie, especially when you factor in the time it was made. From top to bottom, with the script, music, performances, costumes, and color, it’s nearly a perfect movie. And for cartoonists, it’s full of metaphors. Who hasn’t used flying monkeys in a cartoon? I usually stop at flying monkeys, but most other cartoonists mine the entire film for references in their work. The late great Dick Locher, who drew Dick Tracy and was an editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune, once wrote a column about his love for using the Wizard of Oz in his cartoons. He had no shame in it, nor should he have. But, I have never really connected with using it in my cartoons, other than with the flying monkeys.

The flying monkeys are perfect for MAGA so I got a lot of use out of that metaphor. But I’ve never been able to connect to the rest of the movie. Honestly, for cartoons, it’s always bored me. So I struggled a bit with drawing this because I had a hard time getting into it. While I felt it was a good cartoon, I had doubts because of my anti-Wiz instincts. So I felt some relief when Laura, one of my proofreaders told me she liked it (without my having to fish for a compliment).

I told Laura about my doubts (I have them often), and she reassured me by saying, “Hey, who belongs in abortion commentary more than a teenage girl who spends a lot of time with men into cosplay? I’d say Dorothy has a stake in the issue.”

I told her that was going into the blog because it made me literally laugh out loud.

And Kansas seems to understand that Dorothy and all women in that state have a stake in the issue. Last night, Kansas voters resoundingly decided against removing the right to abortion from the state constitution.

It wasn’t a close victory either with the vote coming down to 59 percent in favor of keeping abortion as a right to 41 percent who opposed. This is a solid rejection of the United State Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that had protected abortion rights throughout the country. 

Republican lawmakers across the nation are in a frenzy to ban all abortions in yee-haw states, even when the life of the mother is in danger. Even in the case of rape and incest. Kansas is the first time it’s been given to voters instead of fundamentalist fucknut lawmakers. Kansas voters said no.

Here’s the thing, kids. Kansas is a yee-haw state. Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Kansas in 2020, 56 percent to 41 percent. In that election, Kansas was 19 percent more Republican than the national average. Abortion got a higher percentage last night than Trump got in 2020.

How bad is it for this nation that Kansas is more liberal and reasonable than the Supreme Court?

Kansas is not pro-abortion. It’s not liberal about abortion. It’s not a liberal position to want abortion to remain legal, despite what Republicans tell you. Republicans are the ones who are extreme on this issue. Forcing a ten-year-old to have her rapist’s baby is the extreme position.

It’s safe to say that the majority of Kansas voters would allow restrictions on abortion, but they don’t want it banned outright. Today, abortion is legal in Kansas up to the 22nd week of pregnancy. Other Republican fucknut yee-haw states are trying to ban it outright. Who knew Kansas was more liberal than Ohio?

Republicans put this measure on the ballot believing they were on the right side of the issue. They thought Kansas voters would send a message to the nation on banning abortion. They were right. The right-wing conservative majority of Kansas said to keep abortion as a constitutional right. Oops.

In 2017, Gallup found that 70 percent of Republicans wanted abortion to remain legal. It said 56 percent wanted it legal in some circumstances while 14 percent said all. In 2018, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 52 percent of Republicans did NOT want Roe v. Wade overturned. A study by the Pew Research Center published June 13, 2022, found that 61 percent of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases

Republicans learned something last night. They learned not to give the issues to voters again. While I’m sure all the yee-haw states would love to restrict the hell out of abortion, I bet the majority of voters in every state would vote to keep abortion legal. I bet the majority of voters in every state think it’s a really horrible position to force a child to give birth to her rapist’s baby. The fact is, the majority of this nation is pro-choice.

What kind of monster would force a child to give birth to her rapist’s baby? A fundamentalist fucknut Republican monster.

Pro-choice is not pro-abortion. Pro-choice people don’t love abortion.

Years ago when my little sister was a teenager, I asked if she was pro-life or pro-choice. She said she was pro-life as she thought abortion was wrong and she could never see herself getting one. So I said, “So, you believe abortion should be illegal.” And she said, “God, no. That option should be there, especially in the case of rape and incest. I just wouldn’t get one.” Then I had to give my little sister the horrible news that she was pro-choice. Now, she may have changed her mind since then since she’s gone full MAGA, but my point is, pro-choice is not pro-abortion.

The fact is, abortion should remain legal, even if you hate it.

Republicans can click their heels all they want but it won’t stop their anti-abortion position from always being the wrong position. Republicans know this too. You can bet they won’t put any more abortion questions on red state ballots again.

Music note: No, I did NOT listen to the Wizard of Oz soundtrack while drawing this. I listened to Weezer.

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Pro-Birther Priorities

Republicans’ first talking point after learning a ten-year-old girl had to cross state lines to get an abortion after being impregnated by a rapist was to say it wasn’t true.

A child was raped and impregnated. She couldn’t get an abortion in her home state of Ohio because the GOP in that state banned abortions after six weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest. She was pregnant for six weeks and three days. So, she went to Indiana for the procedure. Republicans said this story was “too good to be true” for Democrats.

In saying the story was too good to be true, in that Democrats could use it politically against the GOP’s stupid backward knuckle-dragging cave-dwelling anti-women policies, Republicans were admitting that forcing a ten-year-old to give birth to her rapist’s baby is fucking horrible and an outrage. That’s the policy they support but they don’t want you to talk about it.

It is Republican policy to force children to have their rapists’ babies. They didn’t respond to this story by arguing for the fetus. They argued it was a lie. After learning it wasn’t a lie, they changed their focus to the rapist and the doctor who performed the abortion.

They did argue that the rape and abortion weren’t reported, except they were. After that, they went after the immigration status of the rapist. After all, it was Donald Trump who said Mexico was sending us rapists and murderers. They claim that this rape never would have happened if we didn’t have open borders so obviously, the blame should fall squarely on President Joe Biden.

Yeah, except we don’t have open borders. If we had open borders, immigrants wouldn’t be dying in the back of tractor trailers after being smuggled into the country. Our borders are closed which is why there is smuggling. If your local movie theater allowed you to bring your own snacks, you wouldn’t be smuggling Goobers in the pockets of your cargo pants.

Also, has anyone asked when this undocumented rapist immigrant entered the country? Did he sneak in during Biden’s presidency…or Trump’s (sic)? According to GOP logic, no one entered our nation illegally during the Trump presidency (sic).

Then, they focused on the doctor. Their first excuse was that they didn’t believe the story because the doctor is an activist and has a history of campaigning for abortion rights. That’s an excuse? Gym Jordan’s other excuse is that President Biden talked about it and you can’t ever believe anything he says. Keep in mind that Donald Trump, the guy who told over 30,000 lies during his presidency (sic) is the leader of the Republican Party.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita went after the obstetrician-gynecologist who performed the abortion, threatening her with “criminal prosecution and licensing repercussions” if his investigation determined she didn’t file the required paperwork within three days of the abortion. Rokita sent a letter to the governor detailing his investigation and then went on Fox News to continue screaming about it despite that it was already reported in multiple news outlets that the required paperwork had been filed and the entire procedure was legal.

The Associated Press, Politico, and The Indianapolis Star obtained copies of the reports showing the doctor did submit them on time. But, the state AG continued his campaign of defamation. Now, the doctor has sent him a cease-and-desist telling him to stop “making false and misleading statements” about her or face a potential defamation lawsuit. Good. I hope she sues his troglodyte balls off.

Republicans would rather focus on the bullshit than the facts because the facts will highlight that they believe rape victims, even children, should be forced to give birth.

Abortion is not illegal in this country. The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, but it didn’t ban abortion. They just gave it to the states to decide which all the yee-haw states will now use to ban abortion. A lot of these will ban it even in the case of rape and incest.

Republicans don’t want to talk about this because most Americans, even a majority of Republicans, believe abortion should remain legal for rape and incest victims. But the Republican Party believes every woman, or child, should be forced to give birth.

Forcing a ten-year-old to give birth to her rapist’s baby isn’t pro-life. It’s child abuse. But since Republicans don’t do anything to stop fourth graders from being murdered during school shootings, we know they don’t really care about children. Their obsession is with control and fundamentalist religious zealotry.

Since Republicans don’t want to talk about it, and the majority of us believe it’s fucking backward, stupid, vile, and disgusting to force a child to give birth to a rapist’s baby, let’s make them talk about it.

Every Republican in this country from your local dog catcher to your congress to your senator to your presidential candidate should be asked, “Do you think a ten-year-old girl should be forced to give birth to her rapist’s baby?” Most of them will not give an answer. Most of them will deflect.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was asked by CNN’s Dana Bash if she’d work to change the law in her yee-haw state to allow exceptions to rape and incest, and Noem answered with, “Squirrel!!!!” Noem proceeded to lay a trail of bullshit as an answer saying the decision should be up to the doctor, family members, blah, blah, blah, etc, etc. But, how can the decision be up to the doctor and family members when South Dakota has already made that decision for them?

That’s why we need to nail every single Republican to the wall on this.

They want to force birth. We need to force answers.

Music note: I listened to Kaiser Chiefs.

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Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.

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Independence Day 2022

Is it ironic or coincidental that Independence Day arrives this year just as the Supreme Court destroyed independence for women to make decisions regarding their own bodies?

I don’t like holiday cartoons but I usually do one for Independence Day because it’s a great tool to make a point about freedom and hypocrisy in this country. Since I did a cartoon on Juneteenth, I feel I should do one for July 4th.

There’s a lot of hypocrisy that comes with celebrating Independence Day. For example, right-wing cartoonists who supported Donald Trump’s insurrection will publish red, white, and blue rah-rah flag-waving cheerleading bullshit on July 4th. These goons are the same goons who defend Ashli Babbitt and cry for her. This is like celebrating the Fourth of July while worshipping Benedict Arnold.

Come to think of it, if you’re a Trump supporter, you shouldn’t be celebrating the Fourth of July. You supported an insurrection against this nation. You supported the Big Lie that democracy doesn’t work and Trump had the election stolen from him. You supported motherfuckers who carried the Confederate flag through the halls of Congress. You support new election laws that take away voting rights from millions of Americans or at least make exercising their right much more difficult. You’re supporting new laws that give legislatures the right to decide who wins elections in their state, ignoring the vote tallies from local electoral boards. And today, you’re supporting destroying more rights for women. You’re advocating taking freedom away from citizens of the United States based on your religious mumbo-jumbo.

Trying to install the losing candidate as a fascist dictator isn’t done by people who love America. It’s done by goons who hate democracy. it’s unAmerican.

So on Monday, Magats, grill your hotdogs, drink your Skunky Lite, blow up fireworks, and scream “murica” despite the fact you’re a hypocritical traitor to this nation. I don’t want to see you two-face bastards displaying how much you love the country you’re trying to destroy.

A lot of people who’ve had their rights taken away are refusing to celebrate the Fourth this year. They feel this nation has betrayed them and they’re right. I think the MAGAts shouldn’t celebrate the Fourth. They should celebrate January 6, not because it’s Independence Day for MAGAts, but because it’s Treason Day.

I love the United States but it’s complicated. Despite all its flaws and times throughout history where she let me down as she’s doing today, I will still fight to save her from Donald Trump, Republicans, and MAGAts.

MAGA is unAmerican.

Creative note: I used Google images of steeples as my reference today but I don’t know why I didn’t just look out my window and use the two across the street.

Music note: I listened to The Cars while drawing today.

Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon on this site is available. You can pay through PayPal. If you don’t like PayPal, you can snail mail it to Clay Jones, P.O. Box 3721, Fredericksburg, VA 22402. I can mail the prints directly to you or if you’re purchasing as a gift, directly to the person you’re gifting.

Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.

Tip Jar: if you want to support the cartoonist, please send a donation through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com. You can also snail it to P.O. Box 3721, Fredericksburg, VA 22402.

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