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Here's someone who believes in dancing with the one who brung you but she's nice and OMFG awesome.

Watch "Dancin' With Them That Brung Me" on YouTubehttps://youtu.be/fw2_beU6rzk

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Yeah, but it has given former director Walt Shaub a whole new life on Twitter:)

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I realize it would be something that I could never unsee, but I'd still like to get that used mattress from the Trump International Hotel under a UV light in a darkened room.

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The basic cartoon is Garrison; the ethnic-stereotype heads are 4chan additions. Garrison is a libertarian who loves Trump, but 4chan alter his cartoons to make them out-and-out Nazi.

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this has been on the IL leg since rauner (aka 'bro kenilworth hedge fund governor') was elected. i thought the state legislature had to approve, but maybe it varies by state (we haven't and likely won't).

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"Do slaves really need to read?"

~ The GOP/1%

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Really? I hadn’t realized there was altering. Jesus, what a bunch of dirtbags. But on the plus (?) side, I guess Garrison isn’t as overtly racist as it appears. I guess.

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Great, then they'll just stop teaching anyone to read.

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A Ben Garrison cartoon "altered" to be more explicitly racist by those wacky scamps at 4chan

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He is bad at it. That is why he receives so much publicity. The course graduates, Elaine Chao, Wilbur Ross, Robert Lighthizer and Mick Mulvaney are major league grifters and they seldom are mentioned in the media.

Those are the ones that stayed awake in Crime School.

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Polar bears have better taste than to eat his filthy, coal-dust-caked carcass.

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Oh Wonk, a positive clickbaity sub heading (on the Facebook article) https://uploads.disquscdn.c... that I loved seeing. The Molly Ivins book is one of the best political books I've read for many years.

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He just can't get enough of that black stuff.

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You read my mind. I'm fantasizing about karmic retribution scenarios. Large hungry animals are a good one.

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he's using snail mail to reduce his carbon footprint, probably.

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At what point does Pruitt wind up laughing maniacally on the world's last iceberg, while a pack of polar bears descend on him and eat him alive?

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