Battling Waste, Fraud, and Abuse — GOP Style
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Now that Markos has recently enabled image embeds on DK from Bluesky, I’ll use it to post as many editorial cartoons as possible from Bluesky in this diary.
Most editorial cartoonists are still on Twitter, several on both platforms. Until all editorial cartoonists have moved to Bluesky, I’ll use both sources for the diary.
“The Eagle Flies on Friday”
Few would have predicted it only a few weeks ago, yet here we are. The speed with which Elon Musk and his minions have started to dismantle the federal government has surprised many longtime political analysts.
Some change was to be expected, but still. Can anyone slow down Musk?
Stealing Our Secrets
Karen Tumulty: “To say that what is happening now is a constitutional crisis is to put it too mildly. Let’s call it what it is: a constitutional collapse.”
“Congress’s abdication of its constitutional powers and responsibilities to an executive branch run amok — or, you might say, run-a-Musk — would surely have horrified the Founders…”
“The framers clearly never envisioned a Congress that would be so supine in the face of such a barrage. Or a Senate majority that would, rather than advise, merely consent to such preposterously unqualified Cabinet choices as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Department of Health and Human Services, Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth to run the Pentagon.”
More to Come
Oh, Canada!
Unconditional Surrender
Attribution: Bill Bramhall, @billbramhall.bsky.social
“We Are the World” — The Trump Version
Manual Updates Posted Here
Someone Should Pay for This Outrageous Breach of Trust
Uncle Sam Needs Help
He Has No Right to Do This
Idiot
Intruder and Lap Dog
The Truth
They Can’t Even Make the Trains Run on Time
The Gig’s Up
Gaza Largo
Two Crooks Doing Crooked Things
Is He Serious About It?
Who Will Stop This Mad Man?
Who Elected This Guy?
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Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
No One
Very Bad Doggy
Thanos — The Supervillain
Partners in Crime
The Middle East Riviera Takes Shape
Click this link to see 24 editorial cartoons from cartoonists around the world — Trump's Gaza plans: Cartoonists shed their light on Trump's dangerous proposals for the future of Gaza and the Gazans.
by Ben Burgis
Donald Trump and his allies have often promoted him as antiwar. Yesterday Trump said that he wants the US to “own” Gaza and kick out all its inhabitants — which, in addition to being ethnic cleansing, would require more war to accomplish.
Getting Started
Jacobin: Almost exactly two years ago, J. D. Vance wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal endorsing Donald Trump on the grounds that Trump was antiwar. In that op-ed, Vance brought up the Abraham Accords between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates in a way that suggested that, by brokering that deal, Trump had brought peace to the Middle East...
Twenty-five miles long and six miles wide, the Gaza Strip now has the world’s largest population of child amputees. The scale of civilian death there, even in absolute terms, has dwarfed recent wars fought in places with vastly larger populations, like Iraq and Ukraine. As Netanyahu grinned from ear to ear, Trump laid out a plan for the United States to step in and finish the job.
The United States, Trump said, should “take over” Gaza. “We’ll own it.” Its entire population of around two million Palestinians would leave. The United States would raze all the destroyed buildings, “level it out,” and rebuild the territory from scratch as the “Riviera of the Middle East.” When pressed by reporters about whether Palestinians would be allowed to come back after the rebuilding was done, Trump asked, “Why would they want to return? That place has been hell.”
Coming Soon
They Deserve Each Other
Two Criminals, One Goal
MAGA Man to the Rescue
Surprise, Surprise!
Self-Inflicted Pain
Needed: A New Conductor
The World, As Seen by George W. Bush
This map was popular in the 2000s.
It’s What He Does
Diary Poll
Wrecking Ball
How does all this end? What will happen to Elon Musk’s efforts to dismantle the Federal Government? Will anyone pay a price for these unconstitutional acts? Will there be no accountability? Has the Democratic Party responded forcefully to this disaster? Can it? If so, what can it do?
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