Eric Ouellette

YouTube video by DRM News Veterans Day 2025: VP JD Vance Delivers Heartfelt Veterans Day Tribute at Arlington Cemetery | AC1G

What about the other 364 days?

Actions, not words.

WTF did I just watch? It's possible he's twice as dumb at double the playback speed, but I honestly feel dumber for having watched.

Photo of the State Banquet at Windsor Castle as King Charles delivers his speech. Pres. Trump is seated with Catherine, Princess of Wales, seated to his right.

This is who we chose to represent us?

Photo credit to the Economist.

Free Speech and Me Speech A helpful distinction

An important distinction

Where are the 2A people now?

Where are the free-market proponents now?

Where are the states' rights people now?

China looks to Africa as testing ground for global roll-out of yuan A growing list of African nations have made deals to explore or implement use of the Chinese currency for trade and financial transactions.

Not much to be surprised about here. China thinks in terms of thousand-year dynasties while we here in the US can't get past two-year election cycles.

Venn diagram on Epstein List. Circle 1: if it doesn't exist... Circle 2: if it exists & he doesn't want to publish, it's because he's on it, therefore... Circle 3: if it exists & only perceived enemies are on it but he doesn't want to publish though he made you believe your enemies are his enemies, then... Overlap: Trump lied to you.

Cartoon by Pedro X. Molina. I'd say it's accurate.

Trump administration eviscerates maternal and child health programs Alarm over ‘the health of the nation’s children’ follows federal workforce cuts by health secretary RFK Jr

So much for the "pro-life" party.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just gonna refresh this.

Photo of an advertising kiosk in London. Shows Elon Musk giving his "Roman" salute (we all know what it really is). Copy reads "X marks the rot, delete your account" with "X" being the X/Twitter logo.

Spot on

Comic by Mike Luckovich for 13 Match 2025. A man and a woman are standing, each holding a large egg labeled, "401(k) Nest Egg." The man says, "Under Trump, eggs have declined."

Yesterday, FOTUS said "We're going to take back our wealth.." in reference to his tariffs. I think this is more what he meant. Privatize govt functions, tank the economy so his oligarch cronies can swoop in and gobble everything up at fire sale prices, transfer the "wealth" from the 99.99% upwards.

Please tell me that's not a photo of F-Elon giving FOTUS a handie. Pass the eye bleach, please

Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller, 8 March 2025. A family of 4 is in a park, looking at a statue of a man in a business suit holding a lit torch. The base of the statue reads "Tomb of the Unheralded Congressman." The father, reading the placard, says "Ah, ok, here's why we never heard of him. It says he actually adhered to his oath of office." Another man walks his dog nearby.

A rare breed, indeed

... Removing books from public institutions isn’t a violation of freedom in their eyes because the people most affected – the students who lose access – don’t count in their equation."

"It’s a remarkable double standard – one that only makes sense when you realise that, for these people, “freedom” isn’t a universal principle but a selective privilege. They don’t want free speech; they want speech that aligns with their own worldview to be dominant and uncontested...

Trump and the Book Ban Deniers For Donald Trump and his allies, 'freedom' is no longer a universal right, but a selective privilege, argues The Bear

open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

Non Sequitur comic by Wiley Miller for 5 March 2025. A family of four are in a cave, the boy and the girl are sitting on rocks while the father, dressed in a suit, sits on another rock nearby with his head in his hands and his briefcase at his side. The mother stands next to the children while turning a spit with a small animal over a campfire. She says, "Long story short, your daddy thought handing everything over to the billionaires to solve all our problems was a great idea."

Seems an accurate prediction to me

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Bob Rogers comic for 28 February 2025. Shows Jeff Bezos dressed as a 1920s-era newsboy holding a copy of the "Washington Post-Truth" (motto: "Democracy Dies Here") with a photo of Trump, "the best president ever." A couple looks on, with the gentleman saying, "I miss Katharine Graham!"

#Krasnov

Pearls Before Swine comic for 7 February 2025. Rat, Goat and Pig are having a conversation. Rat theorizes that the Cybertruck is the perfectly designed car because whenever you see someone driving one, you want to punch him in the head. "And in that big tank, you can't get to them!"

Rat has a point.

Arlo and Janis comic strip for 6 February 2025. Arlo is speaking about cryptocurrency, "virtual money", existing only digitally with records encrypted and kept on a conglomeration of computers. In the final panel he quips, "Sounds like Schrodinger's piggy bank to me."

That's my understanding.

Auschwitz memorial holds observances on 80th anniversary of death camp's liberation by Soviet troops Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during World War II.

“As the last survivors fade, it is our duty as Europeans to remember the unspeakable crimes and to honor the memories of the victims,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

Black Square by Kazimir Malevich, 1915.

Entering blackout mode. See you on the other side.

No, we can't agree to disagree. This isn't sports. This isn't us rooting for 2 different teams and the winner of the game has no impact on your life, my life or our kids' lives. You support someone who promises to hurt me and people I love. As Charlie Chaplin said, "I don't shake hands with Nazis."

Sentient potato