Scott Pollok

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing a mother and primary-school-aged daughter sitting on the porch of a suburban house. Their backs face us and the mother is consoling girl, who is wearing a patched school uniform and whose discarded school shoes, broken and with holes in the soles, lay next to her. Next to the mother is a newspaper announcing an interest rate rise, and two overdue bills tucked beneath it, indicating this household is under financial stress. The mother says to the girl, "Well sweetheart, we would buy you new shoes but high income families have been spending more, and increasing pressure on low income families is the only way to make them stop. Cheer up! It's good for the economy."

Smile for the economy.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social

It should have ended with the Access Hollywood tape

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The *things* russians are doing: invading a sovereign state, murdering civilians, creating a humanitarian disaster in extreme cold, abducting children, razing towns to the ground, raping, torturing, looting

RAND PAUL: What if a country indicts our president for violating a foreign law -- should we extradite him or be okay if they get him by force?

RUBIO: We're always going to act in our natl interest

PAUL: What I'm saying is our arguments are empty. It's a ruse. We do what we do bc we have the force

Obligatory reply to cut & paste when the whine about Kosovo. It was a genocide, the international court found it so. As anti imperialists we find this awkward cos we pretend to be against the genocide of Muslims.

Unless it means NATO doing something to stop it. Then we prefer to let them die.

What's pulled CPI up over last 25 years? Basically the cost of services and property. Now look at what's pulled CPI down (image 2). Thanks world! Now, what happens if world stops selling us ever cheaper stuff *and* prices rise to reflect infra catch-up cost (rates) and climate risk (insurance)?

This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.

Apparently people are surprised that a man whose only friends on the world stage are a KGB agent & a North Korean Stalinist planned to unleash a murderous secret police on his population.

Looking back, there were signs.

Liberalism is a radical idea of universal liberation, even if most of its modern-day adherents are squishy opportunists who are simply echoing what they perceive as the prevailing ideology of their friends

It means: we’re not going to identify or correct easily verifiable falsehoods expressed by right-wing actors on our programs, and we’re going to spin this as “trust” rather than an abdication of our most basic function as journalists.

Just spitballing here, but I think the founders probably wouldn't have approved of a President putting the entirety of a highly militarized federal government on a war footing against a state because he didn't like how they voted in the last election. But I'm sure John Roberts knows what he's doing.

If I wanted to permanently cripple NATO, divide the USA and help Russia and China, I could think of nothing better than the US using military force to seize Greenland.

The funniest part of the “we need Greenland to defend the Arctic from Russia” argument is that the U.S. already has a far more practical and effective way to limit Russia’s threat, and it is actively choosing not to use it.

I kept saying in 2022 that leaving Pu's anachronistic, age-of-empires conquest to fester, pretending Ru has security concerns rather than imperialist goals, and drawing shallow parallels to the US Iraq war, which made Pu's land grab appear to be less of a watershed, will backfire. It has backfired..

The federal government claimed that the states have no jurisdiction to prosecute murders committed by its agents is the kind of thing the Founders would probably have done a whole entire revolution over

Macron: “There are two paths that do not suit us: blindly following the return of the law of the strongest—this is the choice of happy vassalisation—and the moral posture of saying we can do nothing while claiming righteousness.

“Neither serves the interests or the values of France and Europe.”

The flood of German transshipments to Russia continues unabated. It's been over three years of this now and this stuff is just deeply shameful. The new government needs to make a decisive break from the past and shut these transshipments down. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Today. No more excuses...

The pro States Rights people were lying. They just wanted your fool ass to write a bunch of political theory op eds about fed vs state govt until they were in control and they made you look like a goddamn idiot. Debate me is such good bait for idiots who read one book and lots of pundits ate it up

Russia: We want peace

Also Russia: We will attack any peacekeepers in Ukraine.

THE MACHINE - BY DESIGN - IS ALLOWING PEOPLE TO REMOVE WOMEN'S CLOTHING WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT AND TO MAKE CSAM.

How are we at 'good sides to it too, you know?'?

Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."

You know something I’m sort of idly realizing, this is going to convince everybody that they gotta get nukes. Do you want to prevent your leadership from getting kidnapped by delta force? Build nuclear weapons

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

Good that Gen Z gets to experience what Iraq was like for older generations, but somehow dumber.

Btw, the big story overhanging all of this is that US government is deadly serious in its stated plans to dominate and control the western hemisphere. Take the threats against Greenland very seriously indeed.

ah yes, the best way to explain and understand the world is by ignoring experts and practitioners and turning our attention to the “average American,” whatever that means

I cannot stress this enough: the "pro-Russian" warlordism of 2014 Donbas was completely inorganic and staffed by Russian citizens with no links to the Donbas to an almost hilarious degree. It's actually incredibly rare to find something that inorganic in insurgencies anywhere in the world.

Funniest BRICS moment is China becoming more supportive of Russia in 2022 than they were in 2014 because they were uncomfortable with the ‘separatist’ charade but 100% fine with imperial conquest

Pu's cheap lying stunt exposed the uselessness of any US security guarantees to Ukraine (or to NATO members fwiw). If Trump believes the aggressor immediately and unconditionally without any evidence, Pu can accuse Ukraine of violating the terms of any peace settlement and voila, no help from the US