Attribution: Stiller Beobachter from Ansbach, Germany, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter “I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” –Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Admiral Yamamoto said this after the Japanese sneak attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor—the strike he himself had planned. The …
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Category:Politics
Kickass and Phyllis Demonstration
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper assists Phyllis in celebrating the liberal victory in her Canadian birth country, which speaks to the bald buffoon POTUS’s recent boast that he “runs the country and the world.” “Right into the ground, Baldy. Right into the ground! Meanwhile, back …
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Kickass and Correspondents’ Dinner
Attribution: The White House from Washington, DC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Having been permanently identified by the current POTUS as “enemy of the people”, the White House Press Corps did away with the traditional appearance of a comedian at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, previously saying it was an effort to …
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Kickass and Joan and Bill
Attribution: Photo by Derek Otway on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in welcoming Phyllis’s sister Joan and her husband Bill as they visit from their home near Saskatoon, Canada. In speaking of their border crossing into the US, Joan and Bill said it was necessary to delete from their phones …
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Kickass and Trickle Down
Attribution: Photo: Graeme Main/MOD, OGL v1.0OGL v1.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as they become more familiar with the orange POTUS’s “trickle down” economic plan patterned after the dogs’ system of marking territory, the keeper and Phyllis try to live less like a fire hydrant or a tree …
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Wellness Check
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I spent last Saturday night in the emergency room, sitting with a family member who wasn’t in dire shape but still needed immediate treatment. Because it was a Saturday night, things were busy. There were probably about twenty people in various stages of distress waiting for care. A …
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Kickass and Old North Church
Attribution: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper and Phyllis joining in the 250thanniversary celebration of Paul Revere’s famous ride, and the keeper remembering when he traveled the country in doing a bicentennial series for the Milwaukee Journal and talked a young sexton into …
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Out of Order
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter “What do you call ten thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?” –“A good start.” “What do you throw to a drowning lawyer?” –“His partners.” All right, all right. I’ll stop, but people tell these jokes for a reason. They hit a nerve. We’ve all watched the …
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Kickass and Old Protests
Attribution: uwdigitalcollections, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries not to get in the way as Phyllis and friends work out an introduction to the city bus system so they can get to the Capitol for such things as political demonstrations. The keeper, in the meantime retreats to a …
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Kickass and the IRS
Attribution: https://www.irs.gov/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting that it is “Tax Day” offers to eat the following note the keeper was planning to send to the IRS: “Hi Tax folks: “If you have not yet been fired or downsized to outhouse dimensions by the chainsaw hole-diggers, let …
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Dialogues on MAGA Economics: A Tariffying Spectacle
Illustration by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., and Geoff Carter Good am, members of the resistance: Comms channel: reminder to follow protocols and scramble all correspondences. Idea for political cartoon: Then and now axis of evil. Trying to understand how tariffs might trickle down, not just …
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Kickass Asks Questions
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has never eaten anyone’s homework nor chewed the cover off a banned book, but he is volunteering to assist the keeper and Phyllis in dealing with their current list of outrageous questions which includes the following: *Is there no stopping the utter madness of …
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