Office of U.S. House Speaker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In memory of Mike Wilmington: 1946-2022 Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter I have a couple of questions that I feel the Brain Trust of Bots may be well-equipped to answer: 1. What are the benefits, …
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Category:Politics
Kickass Resists the Big End
U.S. Army Signal Corps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, points out to the keeper that it is shortsighted, selfish and arrogant of him to look at old age as a positive that will spare him being around to witness just what kind of stupidity the human race uses …
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Kickass and Mar-A-Lago Documents
Mwinog2777, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that among the documents confiscated at Mar-a-lago was one that began: “Four score and seven years ago,” and which had been labeled by Mar-a-lago occupants as nothing more than an old sports story having no current relevance. Investigation reveals that the …
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Kickass and Republican Governor Candidate
I. W. Taber, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting that the Wisconsin Repubs have chosen a millionaire candidate for governor who spent $12 million of his own money to get on the ballot and whose construction company has 8,000 employees, and who holds such narcissistic …
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Kickass and NYT Anti-Johnson Questions
Lisacheese at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the Monday edition of the NYT devoted the better part of an inside page to a column by Michelle Cottle headlined: “Why Is Ron Johnson Still a Competitive Candidate?” After a lengthy run-down of Johnson’s “MAGA-crazy” brand, …
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Kickass and Mar-a-Lago Pie Safe
Mbrickn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that through his unfailing source of inside information, the keeper has learned that upon opening the safe at Mar-a-Lago, FBI agents found a piece of apple pie. Several bites had been taken from the piece of pie, and an accompanying slice …
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Kickass and Wisconsin Inventory
Richard Hurd from Green Bay, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper in a partial Monday morning inventory of Wisconsin: *Minority-representative government firmly controlled by narcissistic, gerrymandered Repub Legislators who preach that there is a pony buried under all their horse—-! *An out-of-state bear hunters group …
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Kickass and News Dumpster
Justus Hayes from Vancouver, Canada, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that the real negative aspect of someone like Alex Jones being thrown into the daily news dumpster is that it is already full of the denial/conspiracy crowd garbage, and it is really beginning to smell …
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A Patch of Blue
By Geoff Carter Artwork by Michael DiMilo These past few years have not been good for America. A deliberately planned insurrection at the Capitol Building on January 6th, 2021 nearly resulted in a successful coup. A million Americans died (a significant number of them needlessly) during the Covid pandemic—which is even now still lingering in …
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Kickass and Bigmouth
Gnashes30, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in replacing the ubiquitous “Bigfoot” stream of nonsense with one called “Bigmouth” which will be headquartered in Wisconsin with unlimited expansion possibilities to other states …
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Kickass and Steel Pan Band
Photo: The original uploader was Andrewa at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis considered the history of it, and then did their own interpretation of the Toco Beach Steel Pan performance at the East Side Club grounds on the Lake Monona …
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Turning Tail
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter The Trump era has not been the Republican Party’s shining hour. Perhaps the most emblematic instance of Republican shamelessness occurred during last week’s January 6th hearings. At a key point during testimony, Representative Elaine Luria began describing the dangers faced by members of Congress and Vice-President Pence from rioters—as …
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