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Joel Pett

"The Koch cabal of billionaires invested million$ in the far-right Federalist Society.... when they finally had a 5-4 SCOTUS majority in 2010, the Koch's pushed their Citizens United think tank case before the SCOTUS, and received their "GIFT" .... corporations are people, and can spend unlimited amounts on campaigns. Welcome to the Plutocracy ...

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There are usually plenty of clues, but most people prefer to go out of their way to remain clueless about them.

For example: Russia has been at war with Ukraine in the Donbas region since 2014 using two puppet states there as proxies. 2014 was also the year Russia illegally seized Crimea. Yet many people were caught by surprise when a full-blown war erupted in February with Russia’s invasion. Some of those same idiots are the ones now saying that Ukraine should “compromise” with or appease Putin. Of course when your enemy is out to eradicate the existence of your country the only compromise is for you to surrender and commit self-genocide.

Another example is the Supreme Court. A lot of people find recent SCOTUS rulings repulsive. Yet many who claim to be on the left failed to vote in presidential and US Senate elections over the decades or wasted their votes on unelectable imbeciles like Ralph Nader and Jill Stein – permitting George W. Bush and Donald Trump to fill the court with activist reactionaries.

Being a citizen of a democracy requires an always alert mind and an abandonment of the illusion that everything will turn out fine without your active participation in making reality-based choices. And making those good choices means being well informed locally, nationally, AND internationally.

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The christo-fascist Taliban.

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Cartoon by Joel Pett

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Joel Pett

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Suspend/Fire Joel Pett for Insensitive Cartoon Making Fun of EKY Flood Victims https://chng.it/5FVks6ssHc https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg25Q1FsU1N/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Joel Pett Lexington Herald-Leader/kentucky.com

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Joel Pett, Lexington Herald Leader

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An early assessment of the legacy of Mitch McConnell. Brutal, frank and correct. "No one has done more to destroy the federal judiciary than Mitch McConnell. This is the guy who, under Obama, decided to block as many judicial nominations as possible, for no reason other than to leave the seats open so Trump could come in and fill them. This is the guy who violated every known norm to hold open Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat, ostensibly because it came open in an election year, only to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat when people were already voting in the 2020 election. I think he made a lot of Americans wake up and realize that this was all Calvinball, that he had no principles to begin with. But even more than that, Mitch McConnell was the guy who realized you don’t need to win elections to enact Republican policy. You don’t need to change hearts and minds. You don’t need to push ballot initiatives or win over the views of the people. All you have to do is stack the courts. You only need 51 votes in the Senate to stack the courts with far-right partisan activists like Aileen Cannon and Matthew Kacsmaryk. And they will enact Republican policies under the guise of judicial review, policies that could never pass through the democratic process. And those policies will be bulletproof, because they will be called “law,” and Democrats will need at least a century to win back the courts. Anyone who believes in an independent judiciary with any integrity should loathe McConnell to their bones."

[How Mitch McConnell Destroyed the Independent Federal Judiciary :: McConnell realized you don’t need to win elections to enact GOP policy. You just have to stack the courts. ::: BY DAHLIA LITHWICK AND MARK JOSEPH STERN]

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How to throw a monkey wrench into the thinking of a Trump astroturf anti-science demonstrator.

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Uh, yeah.

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Cartoon by Joel Pett

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Climate change, di Joel Pett, vincitore del premio Pulitzer.

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