Matt Wuerker for July 13, 2021

Left panel: Depends on which state you live in. Right panel: The SCOTUS has ruled.

When Republicans foisted “Citizens United” on America, what they meant was “Citizens united in reducing voter access for ‘those people’”.

White Wealthy Men hated losing “The power” to anyone else, which I find interesting. White women did not rank, less wealthy white men did not rank, black or brown men did not rank and black or brown women obviously did not rank.

So a wealthy old white man of power like Mitch McConnell finds it very “rank” that black women are becoming a voting block with power. More power to them. And to all the groups that could not vote before.

Now if we can just let them vote we might have a democratic republic.

—) Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud theorized the concepts of Ego, Id, and Superego. I wonder if he ever thought of the “Super-ID”? I guess it took psycho-anal political analyst Sigmund Fraud for that. (—

One of the dangers to democracy always was money in politics.

https://daily.jstor.org/two-hundred-thirty-nine-years-money-politics/

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte

Well, the sums it up. Sad.

Well done, Mr. Wuerker

“united” in helping that there policeman hold open the door, is our Justice Roberts. “Don’t shoot” until you see the gunman has clean got away before you arrest all the customers and fleece them once more just cause you can in a GOP run store.

NAILED IT AGAIN, MATT!!! ABSOLUTELY 100% CORRECT!!

Hence, we have the phrase; ‘’The best man, money can buy.’’

I luve usin ’’hence’’ … makes me feel reel smart.

Mama Panda, this morning, told me ‘’You are the stupidest man who ever lived’‘. I’m going to take that as a compliment.

Remember, “Equal justice for equals.”

Is this Summer Repeat Season?

This comic heartily approved by the GQP party and the U.S. Supreme Court.

We don’t??? There seems to be a wheelbarrow full of “ID” in that panel…

I’m guessing that if Mitch McConnell ever lost an election, he would probably try to pull a Trump and claim his opponent stole his election.

[insincere apologies for trotting out this old song parody of mine—but it’s as relevant now as it was years ago when I first wrote the dang thing!]

The Supreme Court decided that a bribe can be nice

Only IF it’s a corporate bribe

They attack with their PACs and other such-like vice

But I don’t belong to that tribe

I don’t have the money

To buy polit’cal honey

Or give Congress my shirt and coat

My bribing funds are lacking

From pollution I am hacking

Oh, you can’t buy a vote with a vote

Without enormous bank loan

No candidate shall I own

So he can my burdens tote

Corporations don’t borrow

They buy (much to our sorrow)

Oh, you can’t buy a vote with a vote

With a vo-ote, with a vo-ote

Oh, you can’t buy a vote with a vote

A PAC’s love is epic

Though it makes me feel dyspeptic

And it gets both my sheep and goat

My resources for bribing

Are rapidly subsiding

Oh, you can’t buy a vote with a vote

They’ll spend a few U.S. mints

On TV advertisements

Each attack we will learn by rote

But in my dejection

I’ll sit OUT this election“Cause no power can I wield

In this uneven playing field

No, you can’t buy a vote with a vote

Makes sense.. one of them could be cheating

The Greedy Old Pricks will do anything to win an election except get more votes. They know they’re dying off and unpopular amongst younger voters.

A Texas man was arrested on charges that he voted in the 2020 Democratic primary while on parole. He could face as much as 20 years in prison.

More than a year later, Rogers was arrested on charges that he voted in last year’s Democratic primary while on parole. Under Texas law, it is illegal for a felon to “knowingly” vote while still serving a sentence, including parole.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/11/texas-voter-arrested-parole/

Dark-money GOP fund funneled millions.

The group Donors Trust poured millions of dollars to organizations that pressed claims of voter fraud after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.

I don’t understand the resistance to showing your ID to vote. In Idaho we have had that law for quite some time and I cannot think of a more proud moment than when I get to show my ID to vote. I’m happy to participate in keeping our elections legitimate. I have to show my ID many times in a regular day… why would I be offended to show it to vote?

Here’s a thought experiment, and I know that the basic premise is quite a stretch—but the logic is airtight once that basic premise is accepted. WHAT IF Black (and brown) people tended to vote Republican, whereas white folks tended to vote Democratic? Would the Republicans try to suppress the votes of the aforementioned white folks? Why, of COURSE they would! The interesting thing to speculate upon would be what forms the voter suppression would take. Discuss amongst yourselves.

The the catoonist thinks blacks are not smart enough to know how to get identification.

How ‘anti-Black racism’ makes Trump supporters ‘uniquely drawn’ to him

https://www.rawstory.com/how-anti-black-racism-makes-trump-supporters-uniquely-drawn-to-him/

yeah right the GQP is making it harder people to vote than it is for “other” people to buy elections

We are not politicians or public thinkers; we are the rich; we own America; we got it, God knows how, but we intend to keep it if we can by throwing all the tremendous weight of our support, our influence, our money, our political connections, our purchased Senators, our hungry Congressmen, our public-speaking demagogues into the scale against any legislature, any political platform, any presidential campaign that threatens the integrity of our estate. —Frederick Townsend Martin 1888

Citizen’s United: Corporations lack consciousness. How can they be people?

Funny stuff. Before Citizen’s United the name on the wheelbarrow was UNIONS.

All this did was level the field. Unions have been buying elections for 80-90 years, maybe longer.

I would be perfectly willing to stop ALL contributions from ALL groups, companies, unions, advocacy organizations, etc. But it has to be all or none. If corporations are not “people”, then that rule must be applied to ALL entities other than individual citizens.

^It’s a good thing The GQP came along to fight for the rights of poor, maligned billionaires!

The Billionaires understand what Desert Pete meant about Priming the Pump if they want that money to flow.

You’ve got to prime the pump, you must have faith and believe

You’ve got to give of yourself ‘fore you’re worthy to receive