I think Tom Tomorrow is being sarcastic here.
I tried to think of what we, the resistance, could be sincerely grateful for, and one happy phenomenon is that MAGA seems to be weakening. They’re going through a fair bit of civil strife, Trump is becoming so incoherent that even some of his fans are noticing, I am hoping that he will die of natural causes sometime soon. See, that’s something to be optimistic about.
ICE is horrible. AI is horrible. You don’t suppose…
Judge Says ICE Used ChatGPT to Write Use-of-Force Reports
Meanwhile, in Iowa,
ICE tried to deport a native American
“Go back where yo came from.”
I’m sure Dan is being perfectly straightforward. No irony at all. Sarcasm is so unlike him. Note that I asked the DuckDuckGo AI if Dan Perkins writes satirical material and it responded:
See, AI lies again. (This message was not written by AI.)
I’m already 5 minutes into Thanksgiving dinner and I want to kill all these MAGA old farts my father invited.
And again:
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles says ICE called her tribal ID ‘fake’
Not just satire.
Juvenalian satire (scathing, morally indignant) and Menippean satire (critique of attitudes and ideologies).
(And a hearty serving of lampooning as a side)
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Allso, for some reason, the intrinsically lazy use of recaptioning works really well.
Good strip.
I’m not so sure about that. The thought that he’ll be replaced by somebody competent is pretty scary.
Jan 21 2027 is the day DJT will be replaced. By JD Vance.
What I know is that for 3 days Trump did not nominate the news cycle, and instantly rumors spread about his demise.
I cannot remember a POTUS that was in the news anything like as much, by a large margin.
cf. https://shorensteincenter.org/resource/news-coverage-donald-trumps-first-100-days/
(I very much doubt he is moribund)
@Reginald Selkirk:
Sadly, I can’t be surprised. With the current overfunding and massive recruitment in ICE, not only are they getting a lot of people explicitly joining because they want to be part of Trump’s mass deportations, but they’re apparently hiring a lot of people who either failed to get into or actively failed out of other police organizations. Meaning your average modern ICE agent likely isn’t even going to be up to the ethical standards of your average American police officer.
Let that thought sink in for a bit.
The thing is, there is nobody in the Trump administration who is competent, so he’s not going to be succeeded by anyone better able to implement the fascist program.
I’m thankful I’m not at a Thanksgiving gathering listening to toxic brain farts. I feel for Akira‘s @3 plight but not the temptation expressed. A coworker used to invite me to her Thanksgiving dinners to keep her family well behaved as an outsider.
Today I had a sad microwave “turkey” dinner. More plastics ingested. Not thankful for that.
I did do some hip opening attacks on the floor like a new way to lunge a deepish squat across the floor alternating between hands and feet and also recently discovered frog pose. So I’m thankful for that in a very self-oriented way.
Also today is one of those very rare moments I am rooting for the 🤢Cowboys🤮. I despise the Chiefs.
His corpse could be a HUGE source of revenue to apply to the added debt he has burdened the country with. The magats would pay to kiss it, while the rest would pay to desecrate it in some way. Revenue from both sides!
The big risk in the collapse of MAGA is that when extremist oppressive regimes are collapsing they become even more violent and oppressive. You have several million MAGAt goobers with guns who will believe to everyone elses last breath that everyone else is responsible for their downfall and start shooting.
White House Defends Donald Trump for Calling Female Reporter ‘Ugly,’ Insisting Americans Like His ‘Transparency’
This is probably just a misunderstanding. We don’t actually want him to be ‘transparent,’ we want him to go away.
garydargan, by implication, if it collapses it would lose the current endorsement of Congress, the Courts, or the Executive; without that support, what would remain would be scattered constituents instead of a bloc, and the dynamics would change rather significantly.
I honestly don’t see roaming gangs of urban warriors wrecking havoc.
(ironically, that’s the same dystopian scenario MAGA propagandists attribute to their opponents)
Trump sure is looking tired, old, weak and confused these days. His mental decline is ever more obvs as noted in the OP.
As the Doctor put it in 6 words at the 3 mins 7 seconds or so mark here..
(Under 5 mins long in total.)
StevoR, you know the Struldbrugs? Kept aging, became ever more decrepit, but didn’t actually die.
That is to note, infirmity need not equate with near death.
The off year elections should be interesting. Democrats are estimated to sweep the U.S. Congress. If so, we should all take that as a mandate to roll back MAGA policies. And to demand an activist Democratic party. The 20th century was full of horrors. Fascism, Nazis, Japan’s militarism, Stalin’s terror and gulags and more. We need to nip MAGA cruelty before the U.S. slides into something worse. An insane president shrieking he has the right to issue illegal orders and to execute Democratic politicians who oppose those orders should be impeached for such an assault on U.S. civilization. No GOP politician who has not loudly opposed this madness from Trump should be seen as fit to run in 2028 for president.
Well, as a You-Kay-nian, I’m currently focusing on news from the USA for a bit of optimism when I want relief from what’s going on in the world and especially the You-Kay itself (where Starmer is apparently bent on smoothing the way for our mini-Trump, Nigel Farage, to win a clear majority at the next general election, and giving him a head start on persecuting migrants and transgender people, and the suppression of free speech and protest rights). Both the apparent revival of the opponents of fascism from their stunned silence in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s victory, and the splintering of MAGA, raise the spirits in the morning.
However, I’m not sure Trump’s increasingly likely death or descent into end-stage dementia is something to be optimistic about. The prospect of President Vance is not reassuring. OK, he lacks Trump’s popular appeal (however implausible we find the latter) and consequent hold over the Republican Party, but he’s an acolyte of Peter Thiel, who is perhaps the most sinister and repellent of the tech bros, and a declared enemy of democracy. If he succeeded to the throne now, he’d be faced with the choice of dialling back the crazy and the overt fascist impulses in an attempt to hold the House or at least the Senate in more-or-less valid mid-terms, or accelerating the push to outright dictatorship and canceling or seizing full control of them. In either case, I fear he might succeed.
PZ wrote: there is nobody in the Trump administration who is competent
I reply: Of course, you are correct. However, their incompetence hasn’t, and won’t ever, prevent these magats and plutocrats from being as murderous, dishonest, inhumane and destructive as possible.
Also, in regard to thanksgiving:
https://truthout.org/articles/the-thanksgiving-myth-hides-the-uss-inability-to-reckon-with-its-own-history/
“I’m not against giving thanks. I’m against celebrating a falsehood,” says Choctaw historian A. S. Dillingham.
We furriners do not celebrate thanksgiving. I just had a disc-shaped meal of nominally Italian origin, in the company of the pizza workers, a cheerful and nice lot of immigrants from Iraq (I think most of them are Kurds).
Can I have them as a substitute for injuns? I promise to not steal their land.
[Yes, I know they are not called ‘injuns’, I am going for a rural MAGA vernicular.]
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Also, I am greatful our ruling coalition (who are dependent on the populist xenophobia party, and have given in to far too many of their demands) is unlikely to survive the election next year.
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We have an actual democracy; Every party that gets at least 4% is guaranteed proportional representation. And the idea of appointing judges and chiefs of police by election? ROFL! (I cannot take credit for this. A lot of decent people who did NOT take money from corporations built the system across several generations). I am very thankful for this state of affairs.
Henry Ford was a racist, anti-semitic POS. But when he said “history is bunk” he was mostly right.
The embarassing stuff has been swept under the carpet by the rulers of every generstion. Sweden has little to be proud of once you go back in time. Västerbotten County where I live was the scene of a witch hysteria 300 years ago that claimed a hundred lives. We would have welcomed the mild and enlightened rulings of Cotton Mather.
Funny, yet serious:
WKRP lives on
https://digbysblog.net/2025/11/27/as-god-is-my-witness/
waspy prayer: ‘thank you Jesus’ — photo of farm worker: ‘Da Nada’
https://digbysblog.net/2025/11/27/thankful/ Lalo Alcaraz
[shermanj, ‘Da Nada’ means ‘Give Nothing’, whereas ‘De Nada’ means ‘Of Nothing’ and is idiomatic for “you’re welcome”]
John, thanks for the correction. I found the incorrect phrase in a comic. I guess they don’t speak Spanish, either.
Before meals we recite this expression of gratitude:
We give thanks to this world for its live-giving resources and to those whose work sustains our lives Guess who that refers to!
No prob. Thanks for taking it in the spirit in which it was offered.
There are no scarves on men in magaland.
@27 shermanj
The sun, when it’s on the main sequence.
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beholder, nope. ‘the’ is not ‘those’, so that’s a remarkably stupid ostensible ‘guess’.
(Nor is the Sun a ‘who’, but of course your stupidities are fractal as ever)
@ ^ beholder : Nup. Wrong yet again..
@31. John Morales : Fractally wromg is an understatement where “beholder” ïs concerned.
(Crossposted)
The character traits of Henry VIII sound very familiar
.https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17UPEyEhiq/
I will be grateful when his current incarnation chokes on a Big Mac and goes to the sleazy golf courts of Tartarus.
I enjoy learning, if you stop learning, you stop living. Question for @25 John Morales: Is the phrase ‘De Nada’ similar to the english idiom ‘oh, think nothing of it’?
Also, to @30 beholder, to clarify for you, our gratitude to ‘those whose work sustains our lives’ refers to EVERY ONE of the hardworking people who help us, black, brown, white, female, male, EVERYONE.
Yes, shermanj.
beholder knows what you intended, obviously just trying to ‘get your goat’ by mocking your sentiment.
I’m pretty sure reasonable people are screwed if Trump suddenly croaks.
Trump is a senile old con man. He doesn’t do anything.
Trump is like an actor waving his hands in front of a green screen. All the CG magic comes in later and is added with a lot of hard work by a lot of other people. He’s not an ICE agent. He’s not in the US Congress ignoring his constitutional duties and letting the president steal his power. He’s not a justice on the US Supreme Court rubber stamping the president’s moves that are lurching and stumbling towards fascism.
If Trump dies, every person who’s actually doing all this harm to the country will take a page out of the MAGA playbook and blame someone else. They’ll blame the dead guy for everything. And the MAGA base and too many independents will believe it. How do I know? They elected the orange bozo to begin with. They already knew what he was like from his first term and ate up every lie he told anyway. And they’ll even be able to use every time people like us have called him a senile, incompetent asshole to back them up.
If Trump dies without being defeated at the ballot box, he’ll set us up for more MAGA. Because the next bozo can use all the same lies but blame the failures on Trump.
“Because the next bozo can use all the same lies but blame the failures on Trump.”
He’s more like the Mule in Foundation. Like the Gipper, a one-in-a-generation.
So, no.
I do not think it is competence of all in this current administration or the lack of that is significant factor in the after times of the asshole, dead or alive, he will be gone. I think he has the con-mans ability to appear appealing to the public at least some significant proportion of us anyway that is what none of his yes-men, suck-asses and toadies have at all. Like most despots he chose then with care being careful to avoid strength and competence instead chose subservience, greed and dishonesty with a distinct lack of awareness of anyone else’s pain .
still it is not going to be easy in the after time a lot of hard work ahead regardless of everything else