Cartoon: Vote Republican for Lower Taxes!

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Wednesday May 08, 2024 · 6:00 AM PDT

2024/05/08 · 06:00

no image description available — Men need reproductive rights, too.

This is my second cartoon, ever. Since I can’t draw to save my life, but I can write, I use description to create the images with AI.

If you like my work, please (rec, tip, and comment) and then go support the Patreon of a Kos cartoonist who can actually draw. My favorite cartoonists on DK are Pedro Molina and Jen Sorenson.

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Women need reproductive rights because:

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Women need reproductive rights because:

Rape

1 vote

Incest

0 votes

Birth defects incompatible with life

1 vote

Life threatening pregnancy outcomes

4 votes

It's none of my $#&*#^ business, it's HER LIFE.

125 votes

Cartoon: Hope Hicks Testifies!

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Monday May 06, 2024 · 8:54 PM PDT

2024/05/06 · 20:54

Hope Hicks testifies cries crocodile tears — You know what they say about crocodiles crying...

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I think Hope Hicks is...

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I think Hope Hicks is...

A victim

0 votes

A villain

6 votes

A traitor

17 votes

Complicit in her own abuse

32 votes

A young woman having a seriously creepy relationship with a seriously deranged old man

74 votes

Pie

7 votes

Cartoon: Kristi Noem's Political Fantasy...

PrivateIce

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Sunday May 05, 2024 · 6:00 AM PDT

2024/05/05 · 06:00

I’ve always wanted to make political cartoons, but I will admit, I cannot draw to save my life. Just not a talent I’ve ever had. But I can manipulate AI, and that gives me an outlet for expression I would not otherwise have. I created these images with AI, but they are my concept and captions (and post production stuff). Instead of telling me how I’m cheating and this is not real cartooning (I know, it’s not), please subscribe to the Patreon of your favorite cartoonist on DK and show some love (and some money) to our talented artists.

Adventures in AI imaging: one of the drafts came out with four paws AND two arms. Classic.

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I love:

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I love:

Dogs

39 votes

Cats

22 votes

Horses

4 votes

All of the above...

159 votes

Pie

19 votes

Mew, mew--I'm just a tiny kitten!

PrivateIce

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Sunday March 10, 2024 · 3:51 PM PDT

2024/03/10 · 15:51

I was reading this post about Sen Britt’s response to the SOTU… and I thought my response might better make a diary than a comment.

I never thought about it before, but I have heard the fundie baby voice, but didn’t know it had a name, or that it meant something particular. It’s familiar and yet deeply irritating.

And...

I have a “cute” voice. My voice is such that on the phone, I have been asked if the caller can talk “to my mommy.” That tends to piss me off, my voice drops two octaves and I answer, “I am the mommy.” Although, if it’s a bill collector, sometimes I pretend that I am as old as I sound and tell them my mommy can’t come to the phone and I’m not supposed to talk to strangers.

I attended a fundie school for a few years as a child, and I have plenty of prior trauma, but I doubt that is what makes me sound the way I do on the phone. It’s pretty surely an instinctually protective thing… against people who would attack or bully me for having a large, deep voice, for laughing too loud, for being too strong, too funny, too expansive, having too big a personality, telling stories, for being good at math, science, and engineering, for being competent and good at what I do—for being female and not being small.

The Fundie baby voice is self-preservation against patriarchy. It is a voice that says, “I’m weak and unthreatening, please… don’t hurt me.”

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What do you think?

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What do you think?

Bread

5 votes

Soup

8 votes

Pie

25 votes

A whole butt ton more pie!

70 votes

They were Blackguards and Heroes, but they are mine

PrivateIce

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Friday December 29, 2023 · 6:32 PM PST

2023/12/29 · 18:32

No, I disagree with this.

Some people are welcome to feel this way, but I don’t. Yes, some people are assholes. No, all people are not assholes. Just like the ex is an asshole and I am not. It does not make someone an asshole because they lived when and where they lived. What you do is what makes you an asshole. Everyone else is not “guilty by association.” We all came from the past, we all hold a debt payable by the future.

I’m descended from the Founders. Despite that sounding a bit DS9ish, I’m not under any illusions that some of them were anything but, as I’ve often put it, “durned cussed.” My 10th great grandfather arrived in Newport, RI in 1637, when the population was 200 white people and no slaves. His mother was already there. He married a widow and a couple years later as the first Englishman to carve a farm out of the wilds of what is now Andover, MA. As far as I can tell, he never held slaves, nor did his family or descendants. He refused to pay church taxes or attend Meeting, and was punished, and forced to support religion he did not believe. He and his son saw 17 of our relatives indicted, tried, and acquitted at the Andover Witch Trials. He lost everything, including a large part of his family who were slaughtered wholesale when Native Americans wiped out their whole village. It was a war, both sides of the war did terrible things, like slaughtering women and children. He built a homestead that still stands today. It took someone who was that stubborn, that durned cussed, to survive. I have a little bit of that durned cussedness today. I don’t see anything to be ashamed of, or to fail to be proud of.

His great-grandson married the grand-daughter of an illustrious family. Her grand-mother was the First American Poet—yes, America’s first published poet was a woman. Her father was one of two founders of the Massachusetts Bay Company. As colonial governor, he signed Harvard University’s Charter creating the first university in North America. He prohibited slavery in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. There’s no evidence that he ever personally held slaves. Yet his name has been removed from historic landmarks as if he was somehow guilty just by living in a time when bad things like slavery were widely accepted by other people. What exactly, among their legacy should I not be proud to claim?

In another line, my great-great-great-grandfather refused a commission in the Union Army which his social standing would have gotten him. He rose from Private to Captain, with honor, bravery, and hard work. He was nominated for the Medal of Honor (or whatever it was called then), but did not receive it because he merely risked his life to save others. He didn’t die doing it. He fought to preserve the Union and free enslaved people. I’m damned proud of that.

I’m also the 8th-great niece of Aaron Burr. He was an asshole and a traitor. I’m also a cousin to Helen Keller, Robert E. Lee, and 41 presidents—some assholes, some heroes. A substantial portion of my cousins are black, having taken our surname from the Southern plantation where they undoubtedly had their heritage forcibly mixed with distant cousins of mine. When I meet them, they are always somewhat shocked that I embrace them as family, however distant, because people who are assholes made them and people who are assholes refuse to count them as family.

None of what we have would be in the US today would be here without my ancestors. OP would not be here without theirs. None of us would even be here period! And somehow I should not be proud of—or should be ashamed of—what my people achieved because some people who also lived then were assholes? Because they were less morally evolved than us and tolerated or benefitted second or third hand? We would not be morally evolved except for the moral evolution that occurred while they lived.

The poster talks about having a sense of history. This isn’t history to me, it’s personal. No, we are not our our ancestors. Their crimes, shortfalls, and guilt is not ours, but that doesn’t mean that OP gets to tell me what my identity is or should be. I am the descendent of heroes and blackguards. It’s part of me and I’m proud to own my people… even the assholes.

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When did your earliest ancestors emigrate to the Americas?

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When did your earliest ancestors emigrate to the Americas?

Recently--after 1950

8 votes

1900-1950

20 votes

After the Civil War (1860s) to 1899

21 votes

After the Constitution (1789) to the 1850s

19 votes

Late Colonial era 1700 to pre-Constitution

17 votes

Early Colonial - Before 1700

50 votes

20,000 to 15,000 BCE

13 votes

Trump's Uncontrollable Sh_t...

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Saturday December 23, 2023 · 4:38 PM PST

2023/12/23 · 16:38

Shelves of Huggies diapers — They come in adult sizes, too

I don’t write a lot of diaries, so I certainly don’t write the preachy kind, which tell people what to say and what not to say and who to make fun of and what can’t be joked about. If you’ve ever seen the classic Venn diagram meme: things that should not be joked about (intersect) things I find funny—that’s me. I am going to hell. None of which explains why I feel strongly about this. But I do. So here it is.

My late brother had fecal incontinence in his 40s after a failed repair for rectal fistulas (DO NOT Google this if you don’t know what they are, you do not want to know). The rate of incontinence after surgical repair of rectal fistulas is about 35% Or it was in 2010 or so), but the alternative is even worse. Rectal fistulas appear to run in my mother’s family but can be exacerbated by a sedentary lifestyle (such as the computer programming for a living).

In the last years of his life, my brother often had the dirty diaper smell that any mother recognizes immediately. It could be overwhelming. It made it difficult, if not impossible to work outside the home. He was horribly ashamed that he smelled like sh_t all the time. People were not forgiving or understanding. Their lack of empathy made a difficult condition even more difficult. Their shaming made the shame even worse.

Moreover, I have three kids. For years, every time I coughed or sneezed, I’d pee myself. It was humiliating. I used to carry “emergency panties” in my car glove box. But that’s not unusual. Women struggle with urinary incontinence at epidemic levels: 50% of all women, 75% of women over 65 have incontinence! If you know a woman with 3 children, she struggles with incontinence—the rate is almost 100%. If you are a man with 3 children, that woman is your wife. If you have an elderly mother, she’s likely partly or fully incontinent, even if you don’t know about it. There are few effective treatments, and often not covered by insurance.

This is reality for—just throwing out a number—50 million Americans.

Laughing at _rump and making fun of his stink and his diapers makes life harder for regular people like my brother. My brother was not a wealthy man, or a powerful one. People did not make allowances, curry favor, or dance attendance on him. He would be hurt to hear how people make fun of adult incontinence. Most adults who have it can’t help it. Women can’t help it. Old people cannot help it—AND WE WILL ALL BE OLD ONE DAY.

Making fun of _rump for wearing diapers is friendly fire. We fire our jokes at “the enemy,” but we hurt those in our own ranks who already live with debility and shame. We are hurting a lot of innocent people. I’m not going to ask you to be better people and not make fun of _rump. I admit, the jokes are funny, even if they hit close to home. But let’s be sure that we are hitting the target. Who else you are hurting and shaming, when you make fun of _rump for the sh_t he can’t control. I’m all for excoriating and making fun of _rump—the funnier the better—but only for the sh_t he CAN control.

Make fun of Trump for the sh_t that comes out of his mouth.

He does that on purpose.

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Do you know someone with incontinence?

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Do you know someone with incontinence?

My mother is 80+ years old

200 votes

I have or know someone with bowel disease

256 votes

I am/know a woman with 3 or more children

210 votes

I know two women (chances are, one has incontinence issues)

153 votes

My child was late potty training

27 votes

I know an adult who wears diapers for some other reason

230 votes

A Little Parody I wrote: "I Love Arraigny Night!"

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Friday August 25, 2023 · 12:10 PM PDT

2023/08/25 · 12:10

This is my first blog post ever (if a new poster posts something cool, will anyone see it?). I’ve been on DK for years, first lurking and then commenting. I’ve also mentioned that I occasionally write song parodies. I originally wrote this as a comment. I can sing, so maybe I’ll follow up with a recording… Randy Rainbow, I am not.

I Love Arraigny Night

Well, I love Arraingy Night,
I love Arraigny Night,
I love to see the thumbprints,
And the mugshots of The Former Guy.

You know it makes me feel good.

Well, I love Arraigny Night,
Such a beautiful sight,
I love to see the scowl on his face,
And the terror he hid,
When he faced that camera.

Fani says she can make him pay,
For his crimein’ outside the beltway!

Cause I love Arraigny Night!
Yeah, I love Arraigny Night,
Well, I love Arraigny Night,
Well, I love Arraigny Night,
Ooo, ooo!

Well, I love Arraingy Night,
I love Arraigny Night,
I love to see the thumbprints,
And the mugshots of The Former Guy.

You know it makes me feel good.

Well, I love Arraigny Night,
Such a beautiful sight,
I love to see the scowl on his face,
And the terror he hid,
When he faced that camera.

Gets on his phone ‘n’ he starts to whine
Pilin’ lies up on top of lies!

Cause I love Arraigny Night!
Yeah, I love Arraigny Night,
Ooo, I love Arraigny Night,
Yeah, I love Arraigny Night,
Ooo, ooo!

(Guitar Solo)

Fani says she can make him pay,
For his crimein’ outside the beltway!

Cause I love Arraigny Night!
Yeah, I love Arraigny Night,
Ooo, I love Arraigny Night,
I love Arraigny Night

Well, I love Arraigny Night,
You see fear in his eyes,
I love Arraigny Night,
Thirty-thousand lies!
Well, I love Arraigny Night,
And I know you do,
Yeah, yeah, I love Arraigny Night!
Ooo, ooo!

(repeats ad infinitem)…

((Also, it’s my birthday this weekend. Birthday wishes appreciated.))

Edit: I do love this song… sadly, Eddie Rabbitt is a Republican.

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