The Supreme Court has given Trump enough wins where it’s just dumb trying to spin them as being too scared to do their jobs. And just the other day gop senator Lisa Murkowski spoke about it being the gop being afraid of Trump. Trump lost the 2020 and his lies couldn’t stand up in court. For someone who goes after the law enforcement that got the shit beat out of them and hail the violent Jan 6 protesters as victims I don’t expect you to be fair. Just a waste of time and warning of how warped extreme partisanship can bend decency and justice.
While Trump is wreaking havoc on the markets, the gop is pushing through a bill that will add trillions to the deficit with tax cuts for the wealthy while making massive cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. The middle and lower class are going to get hit with higher prices while the richer find it easier to accumulate even more wealth.
Hyperbolic B.S.
Under JFK, under Reagan, under W. Bush, he loss of tax revenue under EXISTING jobs, has actually resulted in creation of vastly more businesses, more factories, and each creating thousands more jobs, that all create tens of billions more in taxable revenue, and therefore MORE revenue for he federal government, not less.
We’ve done trickle down economics as a nation for most of my life. It’s left us with a weaker middle class as more wealth is in fewer hands. To the point now we have someone like Musk buying power and influence right at the top. And the deficit keeps blowing up. At this point it’s obvious that republicans are trying to do massive cuts in Medicare and Medicaid. Even social security looks like it’s going to take a hit. All done while trying to get even more tax cuts for the wealthy. Trickle down economics have left us weaker and in even more debt. We are now a fading super power with Trump letting the world know we can’t be trusted any longer to lead.
Till then, I'd never heard of writer Ann Nocenti or Arthur Adams, and both became favorites. I especially like Nocventi for her run on DAREDEVIL, for several years following the end of Frank Miller's DAREDEVIL "Born Again" storyline in DD 226-233,
issue 236 by Nocenti (with art by Barry Windsor-Smith) in particular knocked me out. And then a long run after by Nocenti with artist John Romita Jr., in issues 250-282, particularly the last 5 issues. https://onemillioncomics.com/category/daredevil-1964/
Man, there was a lot to wade through at that link.
But in a nutshell...
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Ok, let’s step even more firmly outside the realm of plausibility.
The most powerful laser on Earth is the confinement beam at the National Ignition Facility, a fusion research laboratory. It’s an ultraviolet laser with an output of 500 terawatts. However, it only fires in single pulses lasting a few nanoseconds, so the total energy delivered is about equivalent to a quarter-cup of gasoline.
Let’s imagine we somehow found a way to power and fire it continuously, gave one to everyone, and pointed them all at the Moon. Unfortunately, the laser energy flow would turn the atmosphere to plasma, instantly igniting the Earth’s surface and killing us all.
But let’s assume that the lasers somehow pass through the atmosphere without interacting.
Under those circumstances, it turns out Earth still catches fire. The reflected light from the Moon would be four thousand times brighter than the noonday sun. Moonlight would become bright enough to boil away Earth’s oceans in less than a year.
But forget the Earth—what would happen to the Moon?
The laser itself would exert enough radiation pressure to accelerate the Moon at about one ten millionth of a gee. This acceleration wouldn’t be noticeable in the short term, but over the years, it adds up to enough to push it free from Earth orbit.
… If radiation pressure were the only force involved. [ etc., etc. ...]
So basically, a laser powerful enough to even be seen on the moon, let alone be viewed in a rocket ship flown by Batman and Robin in space flying near the moon, a laser light that strong would burn away the Earth's atmosphere and kill everyone on the planet.
And maybe push the moon out of its orbit as well.
Definitely stuff that could not have been even imagined at the time that cover was drawn in 1950. A Bat-signal visible on the moon is still a no-way scenario even in our era, but we at least have lasers now approaching that level of power, and can at least conceive what that level of power could do to the Earth's atmosphere, and to the moon. Which definitely ups the WTF-factor.
From what I can see, South Korea's government is on the cusp of a full-on communistt/socialist revoluion.
Up until now, Souh Korea haas been an economic miracle and a strong U.S. ally. Both its economic future and its close relationship with the U.S. are in jeopardy.
All the hate, all the anger, all the threat to democracy that they say Trump and the Republicans are, they show us every day it is THEM, THE DEMOCRATS who are exactly all these things.
And by the way, abortion and sterilization to eliminate racially and socially undesireable populations has for over a century been the dream of Margaret Sanger and the Democrat-Left.
"If you want to know what the Democrats are up to, just look at what they are accusing Republicans of." Ann Coulter, 2008
I think the mindset of that sign is to drive away homeless people that would turn their community into another San Francisco, L.A., or Seattle, where people poop in the street, crowd the streets with homeless camps, shoot drugs in the street near children and schools, and where the mentally ill homeless routinely assault normal people in the street. The homeless in these places aren't merely impoverished, there's an overwhelming element of drug addiction and/or mental illness among them.
I saw a small business owner in San Francisco interviewed about a year ago on Fox, and she says she needs to arrive at her small shop about an hour early every day, to pour bleach on the sidewalk, and hose away the urine and feces from the night before. Every single day.
So yeah, I can see where people wouldn't want that setting up camp in their neighborhood.
A few years later in 2011, wih a lot more detail. I don't recognize this one, so maybe done for an annual convention sketchbook, and/or maybe a variant cover.
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