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🧵2/2 Trump is a Commie 2) Trump is a Fascist whose historical playbook includes controlling their nation's important corps. (eg, Hitler & Volkswagen: encyclopedia.ushmm.o... ) as Trump is trying to do now with Intel, Nvidia, etc. And free marketer R's & Wall Street don't care.
Trump is a Commie #ABlueView🧵1/2 If Mamdani is a Communist as Trump claims, then Trump is too. Of course neither are: 1) Mamdani is a Democratic Solicialist (like the main parties in European democracies & who would therefore never say what the cartoonist has him say).
Trump is a Commie #ABlueView🧵1/2 If Mamdani is a Communist as Trump claims, then Trump is too. Of course neither are: 1) Mamdani is a Democratic Solicialist (like the main parties in European democracies & who would therefore never say what the cartoonist has him say).
Enjoy Labor Day; While You Still Have A Job #ABlueView🧵1/3 I've been reposting Labor Day cartoons for nearly 20 years but this year there's a revealing change: a very high proportion of this year's editorial cartoons are about AI's potential to massively destroy American jobs.
🧵3/3 Democrats, This Is Our Moment. Will We Seize It? There's a growing, existential fear about AI job loss in America. Dems should be messaging & campaigning on how massively disruptive AI will be to white & blue collar workers if AI's oligarch owners aren't checked:
🧵2/2 Enjoy Labor Day; While You Still Have A Job The fact that so many politically attuned Cartoonists see an impending tsunami of AI-induced job loss coming & chose to editorialize about it now, is a sign AI is a potent, popular issue. Can the Democratic Party read the room?
Enjoy Labor Day; While You Still Have A Job #ABlueView🧵1/3 I've been reposting Labor Day cartoons for nearly 20 years but this year there's a revealing change: a very high proportion of this year's editorial cartoons are about AI's potential to massively destroy American jobs.
It's The Guns Stupid #ABlueView 🧵1/3 #GunWorship #GunsProtectMyth #GoodGuyMyth #BanWeaponsOfWar #GunControl
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It's The Guns Stupid #ABlueView 🧵1/3 #GunWorship #GunsProtectMyth #GoodGuyMyth #BanWeaponsOfWar #GunControl
🧵3/3 Netanyahu's Govt Lies About Why It Murdered 5 Journalists
🧵2/3 Netanyahu's Govt Lies About Why It Murdered 5 Journalists The NY Times agrees with Reuters:
Netanyahu's Gov Lies About Why It Murdered 5 Journalists 🧵1/3 197 journalists have been killed by Israel in Gaza including 5 intentionally killed by the Israeli Army, claiming a Reuter's camera was used to "direct terrorist activities against them” (Reuter's denies it). tinyurl.com/4m35bzh8
Sunday Funnies #ABlueView 🧵1/3 #SomethingDifferent #MakesYouThink #PoliticalHumor #SundayVibes #SundayFunday
#BlueStateOpposition: Will Fall's COVID Vaccines be Limited by RFK Jr? #ABlueView🧵1/3 16 states require pharmacists to get a CDC-panel's clearance before administering vaccines & it's not clear RFK's CDC will ever do so. Without it, even people with a Rx can't get a vaccine at a pharmacy.
Exactly!
🧵2/3 How Many Americans Will RFK Jr Kill? How many Americans do you think will die as a result of what RFK Jr is doing to vaccines & medical research?
🧵2/3 Blue States Move Toward Independent Vaccine Board Consequently, MA "is in discussions with CT, ME, NY & RI to coordinate vaccine recommendations without input from the CDC panel, instead relying on... medical groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics." www.bostonglobe.com/...
#BlueStateOpposition: Will Fall's COVID Vaccines be Limited by RFK Jr? #ABlueView🧵1/3 16 states require pharmacists to get a CDC-panel's clearance before administering vaccines & it's not clear RFK's CDC will ever do so. Without it, even people with a Rx can't get a vaccine at a pharmacy.
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🧵5/5 Saturday's Best Editorial Cartoons of the Week
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Saturday's Best Editorial Cartoons of the Week #ABlueView🧵1/5 #BestOfABlueView #BestOf2025 #BestEditorialCartoons
more than one thing can be true at once.
AI Will Destroy More US Jobs Than Globalization Ever Did #ABlueView🧵1/3 We have Trump because Dems were too slow to "get" how disruptive globalization was to blue collar workers. Now, Dems should "get" (and message & act on) how massively disruptive AI will be to white *and* blue collar workers.
Is Your Blue State Fighting Back? #ABlueView🧵1/3 States have a lot of power in our federal system & Blue States are our most effective way to fight Trump & his policies: #BlueStateOpposition The latest example: "MA Launches Clean Energy Grant Programs Amid Fed Cutbacks"
🧵3/3 Have You Been Paying Attention to Your Blue State Government? "...these grants could go a long way toward making MA more appealing to fast-growing startups." “I see this as catalytic. I really do think it can help fill the gap " from Trump's cuts.
🧵2/3 Is Your Blue State Fighting Back? MA "recently started... 2 new grant programs aimed at stoking the state’s clean-tech sector & encouraging startups to stay & grow here." "The money pales in comparison to what’s been lost on the federal level... But supporters say..."
Is Your Blue State Fighting Back? #ABlueView🧵1/3 States have a lot of power in our federal system & Blue States are our most effective way to fight Trump & his policies: #BlueStateOpposition The latest example: "MA Launches Clean Energy Grant Programs Amid Fed Cutbacks"
🧵3/3 Dems: Seize the AI Job Loss Issue! Dems should champion all workers but focus on the impact on 2 of their natural constituencies: white collar workers (who are a majority of workers) and the young. Why I think AI should be a top economic issue for the Dems: open.substack.com/pu... Thoughts?
🧵2/3 AI Will Destroy More Jobs Than Globalization “AI is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the US" Ford's CEO "More than 4M [trucking] jobs will likely be lost" to autonomous vehicles tinyurl.com/2jdx5y9f AI is taking entry-level jobs NOW: tinyurl.com/mppz7czf
AI Will Destroy More US Jobs Than Globalization Ever Did #ABlueView🧵1/3 We have Trump because Dems were too slow to "get" how disruptive globalization was to blue collar workers. Now, Dems should "get" (and message & act on) how massively disruptive AI will be to white *and* blue collar workers.
They've sort of fallen away but it doesn't matter. The NRA was never that powerful itself politically; what's held back progress is that way too many Americans have been indoctrinated by the NRA's gun ideology & myths.
Thoughts & Prayers Again and Again and ... #ABlueView🧵1/3 #ItsTheGuns #BanWeaponsOfWar #GunControl
🧵3/3 Thoughts & Prayers Again and Again and ...
🧵2/3 Tired of waiting for the government to act? YOU can help implement @Everytown's 38 data-driven solutions to reduce gun violence now! 100% of your donation goes to @Everytown:
Thoughts & Prayers Again and Again and ... #ABlueView🧵1/3 #ItsTheGuns #BanWeaponsOfWar #GunControl
The Richest 0.0002% Pay Less Tax Than You #ABlueView🧵1/3 "The country’s tax code is regressive, not progressive, at the very top... the country’s billionaires pay lower tax rates than many of its millionaires. Indeed, they pay lower tax rates than many middle-class professionals"
🧵3/3 The Richest 0.0002% Pay Less Tax Than You "They paid 1.3% of their total wealth to the IRS in those years, down from 2.7% from 2010 to 2013. THEIR TAX RATES WERE LOWER THAN THE AVERAGE PAID BY ALL AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS." www.theatlantic.com/...
🧵2/3 The Richest 0.0002% Pay Less Tax Than You The Forbes 400, which includes "Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, & Trump... have a minimum net worth of $3.3B. [They] paid an estimated 23.8% of their income... down from ~30% before the passage of [Trump's] Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, in 2017."
The Richest 0.0002% Pay Less Tax Than You #ABlueView🧵1/3 "The country’s tax code is regressive, not progressive, at the very top... the country’s billionaires pay lower tax rates than many of its millionaires. Indeed, they pay lower tax rates than many middle-class professionals"
Trump, the Master Distractor #ABlueView🧵1/3
How ICE Determines Who to Deport And ... #ABlueView🧵1/3
Trump, the Master Distractor #ABlueView🧵1/3
Oh now I understand you were reacting to the ad’s text!
Not sure how that is relevant … its message is still true and maybe even more so than when it first came out. Btw, some of the cartons in this thread are from Trump’s first term.
🧵3/3 ... Who to Welcome With Open Arms The last cartoon illustrates that the FBI uses the same system as ICE to determine whether mass murderers are terrorists or mentally ill.
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How ICE Determines Who to Deport And ... #ABlueView🧵1/3
The Trump Pot Calls the Flag Burning Kettle Black #ABlueView🧵1/2 #FreedomOfSpeech
🧵2/2 The Trump Pot Calls the Flag Burning Kettle Black
The Trump Pot Calls the Flag Burning Kettle Black #ABlueView🧵1/2 #FreedomOfSpeech
Surprise, the Convicted Perjurer Swears the Man Who Can Pardon Her Isn't a Pedophile #ABlueView #GhislaineMaxwell #EpsteinFiles
Surprise, the Convicted Perjurer Swears the Man Who Can Pardon Her Isn't a Pedophile #ABlueView #GhislaineMaxwell #EpsteinFiles
Putin Owns Trump #ABlueView🧵1/3 #TrumpIsPutinsBitch #StandWithUkraine
Putin Owns Trump #ABlueView🧵1/3 #TrumpIsPutinsBitch #StandWithUkraine
Careful What You Cheat For GOP, It Could Comeback & Bite You #ABlueView🧵1/3 Trump & the TX GOP are shifting R voters from R to D districts, making each more purple. Further, these districts are heavily Latino & most were just won for the first time ever. They might be making a losing bet.
🧵3/3 Latinos Are Abandoning Trump From the WSJ: "Hispanic Voters in TX Are Starting to Turn on Trump. There are signs Hispanic voters in TX & nationally are souring on Trump, which makes the party’s redistricting strategy a risk ahead of the consequential midterm elections" tinyurl.com/8sabk4am
🧵2/3 Latinos Are Abandoning Trump "Trump's Latino numbers have dropped to 2016 levels, erasing all of the gains since he first became President. At those levels Republicans would lose 3 of the 5 seats they are" breaking the redistricting rules to create. tinyurl.com/2e99u5ne
Careful What You Cheat For GOP, It Could Comeback & Bite You #ABlueView🧵1/3 Trump & the TX GOP are shifting R voters from R to D districts, making each more purple. Further, these districts are heavily Latino & most were just won for the first time ever. They might be making a losing bet.
Sunday Funnies #ABlueView 🧵1/3 #SomethingDifferent #MakesYouThink #PoliticalHumor #SundayVibes #SundayFunday
Are MA's (9 Dem - 0 GOP) or WI's (6 GOP - 2 Dem) District Maps Fair? #ABlueView🧵1/3 "It depends what you mean by fair. One of the most important debates in redistricting is if fairness should be judged based on whether it produces a fair partisan outcome, or ..." #Gerrymandering
🧵3/3 MA & WI Are Not Gerrymandered "There is no guarantee that a state’s population as a whole will be well represented by the winners of each of a state’s geographic areas" tinyurl.com/mvawzx5m TLDR: MA's & WI's skewed maps are due to where voters chose to live not politics.
🧵2/3 Partisan, Political Cheating vs Nonpartisan, Geographic Reality ... whether it should be judged based on nonpartisan criteria like compactness." "The problem is geography—or more specifically, the geographic distribution of a party’s voters across the state."
Are MA's (9 Dem - 0 GOP) or WI's (6 GOP - 2 Dem) District Maps Fair? #ABlueView🧵1/3 "It depends what you mean by fair. One of the most important debates in redistricting is if fairness should be judged based on whether it produces a fair partisan outcome, or ..." #Gerrymandering
I think they're propping him up since he's not a leader on his own
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What will be up to them?
Is Mamdani the Way Forward for Dems? #ABlueView🧵1/3 "Trump saw massive disruptions to BLUE collar workers & proposed big, fanciful solutions to lessen the pain... his supporters didn't care about their practicality, they saw them as signs he cared about them, so voted for him."
🧵3/3 Dems: Make AI A Core Issue AI will devaste jobs & "voters are already showing in NYC & elsewhere that they’re fearful & will vote accordingly. The AI threat will resonate w/the white collar majority of the workforce & put the wind back into the Dem Party’s sails." tinyurl.com/bdha6xvv
🧵2/3 Is Mamdani the Way Forward? "MamdanI sees massive disruptions to WHITE collar workers & has proposed big, fanciful solutions to lessen the pain... NYC’s blue & white collar Dems didn't care about their practicality, they saw them as signs he cared about them, so voted for him."
Is Mamdani the Way Forward for Dems? #ABlueView🧵1/3 "Trump saw massive disruptions to BLUE collar workers & proposed big, fanciful solutions to lessen the pain... his supporters didn't care about their practicality, they saw them as signs he cared about them, so voted for him."
🧵3/3 Editorial Cartoonists are Under Threat From Trump ... and Private Equity A great explanation about the power of editorial cartoons to skewer the rich & powerful: www.cartoonsfordemoc...
🧵2/3 Your Pushback Worked: Bob Whitmore Reinstated as Staff Cartoonist! I have no way to know for sure but I assume A Blue View readers reacting to bsky.app/profile/abl... had something to do with the reinstatement.
Your Pushback Worked: Bob Whitmore Reinstated as Staff Cartoonist! #ABlueView🧵1/3 "Creative Loafing Tampa reinstated Bob Whitmore today... after hundreds of readers flooded [their] email inboxes... over their decision to fire him last week.”
Epstein Just Won't Go Away #ABlueView🧵1/3 #Distractions #EpsteinTrumpCoverUp
AI Will Decimate White Collar Jobs. Democrats Should Make This A Central Issue. #ABlueView🧵1/3 “AI is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the US" - Ford's CEO “Up to half of the work at the company is now done by AI” - Salesforce's CEO
🧵3/3 Trump's Whitewashing of American History
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Trump's Whitewashing of American History #ABlueView🧵1/3
Did you read the Substack post linked from here?
UBI might be one element of a Democratic policy response but there are lots of other things that can be tried too. But when today art history grads can find a job much easier than a computer science major, the Dems need to start focusing on it!
🧵3/3 AI & White Collar Workers Are The Way Dems Win Dems were too slow to understand how disruptive globalization was to blue collar workers. But Dems can win big if they seize the issue of protecting white collar workers (a majority of workers) from massive AI disruption:
🧵2/3 AI Will Decimate White Collar Jobs. Democrats Should Make This A Central Issue. There will “be new hires only if managers could prove that AI couldn't do the job” - Duolingo's CEO “AI leaders… think they’re gonna put everyone out of work”
AI Will Decimate White Collar Jobs. Democrats Should Make This A Central Issue. #ABlueView🧵1/3 “AI is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the US" - Ford's CEO “Up to half of the work at the company is now done by AI” - Salesforce's CEO
