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History repeats | Michael de Adder

#black history #censorship #history repeats #gop #michael de adder #the washington post #cartoon

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Michael de Adder, Washington Post :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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Letters From An American

Tonight, just before midnight, the state of Georgia indicted former president Donald J. Trump and 18 others for multiple crimes committed in that state as they tried to steal the 2020 presidential election. A special-purpose grand jury made up of citizens in Fulton County, Georgia, examined evidence and heard from 75 witnesses in the case, and issued a report in January that recommended indictments. A regular grand jury took the final report of the special grand jury into consideration and brought an indictment.  

“Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost” the 2020 presidential election, the indictment reads, ”and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump. That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and in other states.” 

The indictment alleges that those involved in the “criminal enterprise” “constituted a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities including, but not limited to, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, forgery, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, computer theft, computer trespass, computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, acts involving theft, and perjury.” 

That is, while claiming to investigate voter fraud, they allegedly committed election fraud. 

And that effort has run them afoul of a number of laws, including the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which is broader than federal anti-racketeering laws and carries a mandatory five-year prison term. 

Those charged fall into several categories. Trump allies who operated out of the White House include lawyers Rudy Giuliani (who recently conceded in a lawsuit that he lied about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss having stuffed ballot boxes),  John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, and Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. 

Those operating in Georgia to push the scheme to manufacture a false slate of Trump electors to challenge the real Biden electors include lawyer Ray Stallings Smith III, who tried to sell the idea to legislators; Philadelphia political operative Michael Roman; former Georgia Republican chair David James Shafer, who led the fake elector meeting; and Shawn Micah Tresher Still, currently a state senator, who was the secretary of the fake elector meeting. 

Those trying to intimidate election worker and witness Ruby Freeman include Stephen Cliffgard Lee, a police chaplain from Illinois; Harrison William Prescott Floyd, executive director of Black Voices for Trump; and Trevian C. Kutti, a publicist for the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. 

Those allegedly stealing data from the voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia, and spreading it across the country in an attempt to find weaknesses in the systems that might have opened the way to fraud include Trump lawyer Sidney Powell; former Coffee County Republican Committee chair Cathleen Alston Latham; businessman Scott Graham Hall; and Coffee County election director Misty Hampton, also known as Emily Misty Hayes.  

The document also referred to 30 unindicted co-conspirators.

Trump has called the case against him in Georgia partisan and launched a series of attacks on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Today, Willis told a reporter who asked about Trump’s accusations of partisanship: “I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. That's how decisions are made in every case. To date, this office has indicted, since I’ve been sitting as the district attorney, over 12,000 cases. This is the eleventh RICO indictment. We follow the same process. We look at the facts. We look at the law. And we bring charges."

The defendants have until noon on August 25 to surrender themselves to authorities.

Letters From An American

Heather Cox Richardson

#Robert Scott Horton #Washington Post #Michael de Adder #political cartoon #Letters From An American #Heather Cox Richardson #Fani Willis #RICO #Georgia #Indicted #TFG

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Michael de Adder | Drowning their sorrows | Nov. 11, 2022

#us politics #trump #elon musk #putin #russia #cartoon #michael de adder #drowning their sorrows #the washington post

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Michael de Adder

#michael de adder #art #plastic #plastique

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Michael de Adder  [web]  [facebook]  [instagram]  [twitter]         

#Michael de Adder

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The winning team in the Philippines.

Filipinos need to boycott and even quit Facebook. Frankly, everybody should leave Facebook.

And with Elon Musk taking over Twitter soon, it’s time to ditch that platform as well.

Tech oligarchs with their unregulated media should not be allowed to exercise unlimited influence on democratic societies.

#philippines #election #bongbong marcos #mark zuckerberg #facebook #fb #facebook disinformation #quit facebook #leave facebook #delete facebook #regulate social media #michael de adder

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Michael de Adder's THE deEP STATE.

#derp #trump vader #GOP Empire #Star Wars #Michael de Adder #political cartooon

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Photo ID: Political cartoon showing a façade (fake front) to the Supreme Court of the United States, and behind the façade is a Christian church.

Cartoon by Michael de Adder

#scotus #stop forced childbirth #feminism #feminist #politics #political cartoon #political cartoons #supreme courts #dobbs

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Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million more in damages, jury awards

Cartoon by Michael De Adder

#lyinking #liarinchief #traitorinchief #traitortrump #covfefe

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Rather than truth, give me ratings | Michael de Adder

#fox news #the big lie #trump #rupert murdoch #tucker carlson #sean hannity #ratings #pandering to a right-wing audience #cartoon #michael de adder

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Michael de Adder :: @deAdder:: All the King's men

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

April 28, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

APR 29, 2024

On Friday, in an interview with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, Trump’s former attorney general William Barr brushed off the recent news that Trump, furious that the story he had taken refuge in a bunker during the Black Lives Matter protests in summer 2020 had leaked, called for the White House leaker to be executed. 

“I remember him being very mad about that. I actually don’t remember him saying ‘executing,’ but I wouldn‘t dispute it, you know,” Barr said to Collins when she asked him about it. “The president would lose his temper and say things like that. I doubt he would’ve actually carried it out.”

Collins followed up, asking if Trump would call for executions on other occasions. “He would say things similar to that on occasions to blow off steam. But I wouldn’t take them literally every time he did it,” Barr answered.

Why not? Collins asked. 

“Because at the end of the day, it wouldn’t be carried out and you could talk sense into him,” Barr said. “I don’t think he would actually go and kill political rivals and things like that.” Barr said he intends to vote for Trump. 

“Just to be clear,” Collins said, “you’re voting for someone who you believe tried to subvert the peaceful transfer of power, that can’t even achieve his own policies, that lied about the election even after his attorney general told him that the election wasn’t stolen.… You’re going to vote for someone who is facing 88 criminal counts?”

“The answer to the question is yes,” Barr said. “I think the real threat to democracy is the progressive movement and the Biden administration.”

The contention of the former attorney general—who had been responsible for enforcing the rule of law in the United States of America—that a man who has demanded the execution of people he dislikes is a better candidate for the presidency than a man who is using the power of the federal government to create jobs for ordinary people, combat climate change, protect the environment, and promote health and education, illustrates that Republican leaders have abandoned democracy.

In November 2019, in a speech to the right-wing Federalist Society, Barr ignored the Declaration of Independence, which is a list of complaints against King George III, to argue that Americans had rebelled in 1776 not against the king, but rather against Parliament. In the modern world, Barr argued, Congress has grown far too strong. The president should be able to act on his own initiative and not be checked by either congressional or judicial oversight.

That theory is known as the theory of the “unitary executive,” and it says that because the president is the head of one of the three unique branches of government, any oversight of that office by Congress or the courts is unconstitutional, although in fact presidents since George Washington have accepted congressional oversight. 

The theory took root in 1986, when Samuel Alito, then a 35-year-old lawyer for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice, proposed the use of “signing statements” to take from Congress the sole power to make laws by giving the president the power to “interpret” them. In 1987, president Ronald Reagan issued a signing statement to a debt bill, declaring his right to interpret it as he wished and saying the president could not be forced “to follow the orders of a subordinate.” 

In 2004, when Congress outlawed the newly-revealed U.S. torture program at remote sites around the world, President George W. Bush issued a signing statement rejecting any limitation on “the unitary executive branch.” In April 2020, to justify his demands for states to reopen in the face of the deadly pandemic, Trump told reporters, “When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total….” Now, in 2024, Trump’s lawyers are in court arguing that the president has criminal immunity for his behavior in the White House, possibly including his right to order the executions of those he sees as enemies. 

As Republicans have embraced unlimited power for the president, they have also turned against the right of American citizens to have a say in their government. Beginning with so-called ballot integrity measures in 1986, they embraced methods to knock voters off the voting rolls. That policy intensified after Democrats passed the so-called Motor-Voter Law in 1993, making it easier to register to vote. 

After voters nonetheless elected Democrat Barack Obama in 2008, the Supreme Court handed down the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, permitting unlimited donations to political campaigns, and corporate money flowed into them. In that same year, Republican operatives launched Operation REDMAP to elect Republicans to state legislatures ahead of the redistricting required after the 2010 census. Operation REDMAP resulted in extreme partisan gerrymandering that would make it virtually impossible for Democrats to win elections even if they won a majority of the vote. 

Then, in 2013, the Supreme Court decided Shelby County v. Holder, which gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That law had required states with a history of racial discrimination to get clearance from the Department of Justice before they changed their voting laws. The court said that preclearance was no longer necessary. Within hours of the decision, Republican-dominated states proposed new laws that discriminate against voters of color.   

In 2019, Barr explained to an audience at the University of Notre Dame the ideology behind the strong executive and weakened representation. Rejecting the clear words of the Constitution’s framers, Barr said that the U.S. was never meant to be a secular democracy. When the nation’s founders had spoken so extensively about self-government, he said, they had not meant the right to elect representatives of their own choosing. Instead, he said, the founders meant the ability of individuals to “restrain and govern themselves.” And, because people are willful, the only way to achieve self-government is through religion. 

Those who believe the United States is a secular country, he said, are destroying the nation. It was imperative, he said, to reject those values and embrace religion as the basis for American government. 

The idea that the United States must become a Christian nation has apparently led Barr to accept the idea that a man who has called for the execution of those he sees as enemies should be president, apparently because he is expected to usher in an authoritarian Christian state, in preference to a man who is using the power of the government to help ordinary Americans.  

Saturday night, journalists, politicians, and celebrities gathered for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, an annual fundraiser for the White House Correspondents’ Association, which protects press passes for journalists who regularly cover the White House, assigns seats in the briefing room, funds scholarships for aspiring journalists, and gives awards for outstanding journalism. It is traditionally an evening of comedy, but last night, after a humorous speech, President Joe Biden implored the press to take the threat of dictatorship seriously. 

“I’m sincerely not asking of you to take sides but asking you to rise up to the seriousness of the moment; move past the horse race numbers and the gotcha moments and the distractions, the sideshows that have come to dominate and sensationalize our politics; and focus on what’s actually at stake,” he said. “Every single one of us has…a serious role to play in making sure democracy endures….  I have my role, but, with all due respect, so do you.” 

George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s This Week apparently took this reminder to heart. “Until now,” he said in the show’s opener on Sunday, “[n]o American president had ever faced a criminal trial. No American president had ever faced a federal indictment for retaining and concealing classified documents. No American president had ever faced a federal indictment or a state indictment for trying to overturn an election, or been named an unindicted co-conspirator in two other states for the same crime. No American president ever faced hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments for business fraud, defamation, and sexual abuse….

“The scale of the abnormality is so staggering, that it can actually become numbing. It’s all too easy to fall into reflexive habits, to treat this as a normal campaign, where both sides embrace the rule of law, where both sides are dedicated to a debate based on facts and the peaceful transfer of power. But, that is not what’s happening this election year. Those bedrock tenets of our democracy are being tested in a way we haven’t seen since the Civil War. It’s a test for the candidates, for those of us in the media, and for all of us as citizens.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Letters From An American #Michael de Adder #kings #Corrupt SCOTUS #Opus Dei SCOTUS #Shelby County v. Holder #voting rights #democracy #anti-democratic #religion #William Barr #Unitary Executive #divine rights of Kings

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Opinion | Untruth social | Twitter under Elon Musk 

A cartoon by Michael de Adder

This is pretty much how I imagine Twitter will be once Elon Musk takes over. 😬

#twitter #elon musk #untruth social #twitter under elon musk #cartoon #michael de adder #the washington post

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Cumpleaños 🎂

Feliz 69 aniversario Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (Consett, Durham, Inglaterra, 6 de enero de 1955) es un actor, comediante y escritor británico.

Interpretó los papeles principales en las comedias "Blackadder" (1983-1989) y "Mr. Bean" (1990-1995), y la serie de películas "Johnny English" (2003-2018).

Atkinson saltó a la fama por primera vez en el programa de comedia de sketches de la BBC Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979-1982), recibiendo el premio de televisión de la Academia Británica de 1981 a la mejor interpretación de entretenimiento, y The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979), donde interpretó un sketch.

Las parodias posteriores en el escenario han presentado actuaciones en solitario y colaboraciones.

 El menor de cuatro hijos, sus padres eran Eric Atkinson, un granjero y consejero empresarial, y Ella May (de soltera Bainbridge), quienes se casaron el 29 de junio de 1945.3​ Sus tres hermanos mayores son Paul, que murió cuando era un bebé, Rodney, economista y político euroescéptico que perdió por un estrecho margen el liderato del Partido de la Independencia del Reino Unido (UKIP) en 2000, y Rupert.​

Atkinson fue criado como anglicano​ y estudió en la Durham Choristers School, St. Bees School, y en las universidades de Oxford y Newcastle, donde obtuvo el grado de Ingeniería Eléctrica, que completó posteriormente con un máster en el Queen's College de Oxford, la misma facultad de la que fue alumno su padre y de la que es Miembro Honorario desde 2006.

En 1983 escribió, en colaboración con el guionista Richard Curtis, la famosa comedia "La víbora negra"

Ha obtenido diversos premios, como el Emmy y el BAFTA por las categorías de programas televisivos de entretenimiento. Actuó en varias películas, como "Hot Shots 2", "Scooby Doo" y una de las secuelas de James Bond: "Nunca digas nunca jamás" (1983), y las diversas encarnaciones de la serie de televisión "La víbora negra" (1983), "Funny Business" (1992) y "Bean" (1997) le dieron el salto a la fama.

En 2001 formó parte de un reparto coral en "Ratas a la carrera", junto con John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg y Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Es un apasionado de los coches deportivos.​ Ha sufrido dos accidentes de tráfico: en 2008 chocó contra otro automóvil y en 2011 se estrelló contra un árbol cuando conducía su McLaren F1 en Cambridgeshire.

En 2012, participó en la ceremonia de apertura de los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres.

En junio de 2015, Atkinson vendió el McLaren por 8 000 000 de libras, tras haber sido el único propietario, con un recorrido de 41 000 millas y dos accidentes.

En 2022 protagonizó la serie de "Man vs. Bee" para Netflix con 9 capítulos.

Y en 2023 protagonizó "Wonka" la nueva adaptación del chocolatero más famoso de la historia y compartirá protagonismo con Timothée Chalamet, Keegan-Michael Key y Sally Hawkins.

En 1990 se casó con la maquilladora de la BBC TV Sunetra Sastry (1957), de padre hindú y madre inglesa, a la que conoció mientras rodaba su serie "Black Adder" en 1986.

El 9 de septiembre de 1993 nació en Londres su hijo Benjamin Atkinson, que actualmente es militar, ya que estudió en la Real Academia Militar de Sandurst de Londres. Dos años después, en 1995, nacería su hija Lilly Atkinson, actualmente actriz y cantante de burlesque, que tras el divorcio de sus padres adoptó el apellido de su madre, pasándose a llamar Lilly Sastry.

Actualmente es pareja de la actriz Louise Ford (nacida en noviembre de 1984), tras separarse de Sunetra Sastry en 2014. Tiene una hija con Ford, nacida a principios de diciembre de 2017 y llamada Isla Atkinson.

#Cumpleaños 🎂 #Rowan Atkinson

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/02/michael-deadder-cartoon-charles-saunders/

Here's a cartoon strip from The Washington Post by Michael de Adder about a dear friend of his, and how his friend went from being a John Doe to having a memorial stone set at his gravesite.

His friend was Charles Saunders, who wrote the graphic novel IMARO.

#great cartoons #Imaro #charles saunders #graphic novels