Midnight Meme Of The Day! Remember When John Edwards Talked About "Two Americas?"

by Noah

Your Saturday Cartoon:

The current situation regarding Republicans being completely unconnected to reality wasn't quite what former Sen. Edwards was talking about, or, before him, Martin Luther King, but, as illustrated in today's cartoon, we definitely now have, even more than 50-60 years ago or even 20, an additional permutation of two distinct Americas. One is inhabited by normal people, or "normies," as Republicans call us. The other one is a freaky twilight zone world where Republican minds live. What else can you say about a party that claims that their violent, cop-killing attempted J-6 coup was just a bunch of tourists and screams "Woke!" "Groomers!" at any group they don't like? Remember when Republican icon Rudy Giuliani said, "Truth Isn't Truth?" He just might have coined the current motto of today's GOP full of domestic terrorists and insane asylum escapees, not to mention whatever "George Santos" is, plus the Louie Gohmerts, Lauren Boeberts, Sean Hannitys, Marjorie Traitor Greenes, etc.

Need further proof? How about Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders who cemented all this insane "truth isn't truth" gibberish in place (as if that was necessary) with the Nazi Party's Bizarro World up is down-down is up-freedom is oppression-oppression is freedom response to President Biden's State Of The Union address. In her speech, Gov. Huckabee Sanders had the bold-faced nerve to accuse Democrats of attacking law enforcement when it was the administration she was a part of that sent its red-hatted, white supremcistst terrorist thugs into the Capitol Building to attack, maim and kill those protecting democracy itself.

The Huckabee Sanders speech amounted to a catalog of projection and all the things republicans fear. Her face twitched. Her eyes flickered, barely. Her voice quivered, all betraying her compulsive lying as she spoke of our children being under attack by mysterious liberal ("Marxist") policies of "indoctrination" in schools that, in her mind, clearly smacked of witchcraft as she went on about the protection and force of faith (ie. let your guard down and let us Nazies take care of everything for you). Whatever, Sarah. Did she mention the attacks on our schoolchildren by nuts like her or at least encouraged by her wielding AR-15s? Go ahead, guess.

Then, it was on to the Republican "Help, I'm being oppressed!" resentment of flags; you know, the rainbow ones. She mentioned something about rituals, too, but God knows what the hell she was talking about there and God probably gave up on her long ago and started thinking about planning another great flood. On and on she went like the primitive, malfunctioning vintage 1953 robot that she is, closing with the one truth of her diatribe as she warned us that the choice for America is now clearly the choice between "normal and crazy" just like the above cartoon shows. Of course, she had zero inkling of the irony of her all too perfectly unwitting statement.

And, no, no matter what our current president says, you can't talk to these people. There's no reaching them. They are gone, gone, gone. I know this first hand, Everytime I speak with them, they might, at first, seem like nice sort of normal people except that their eyes instantly glass over when the subjects of schools or guns or race come up. You wanna see how fast the glassing over can happen? Just walk up to any Republican and say the word Obama; even after all these years. It's not just like they've been hypnotised to respond a certain way to certain words, it is that they have been hypnotised to respond that way to certain words. Go ahead, try it. Or, try saying "Black Lives Matter" or "Trans" or "Drag Queen." Just last Saturday, I was out in New Jersey and some poor lost republican soul was standing in the same room as I was. He was loudly berating a middle-aged hispanic woman for wearing a mask, telling her that COVID was a hoax just like FOX "News" and the rest of his wacko party had instructed him. She was one of only 3 women in the room and the only one with brown skin. She managed to position herself on the other side of an 8 foot table. He then noticed that a couple of largish young men had moved in behind him just in case and he told her they were Illuminati agents which meant that she must have been sent to America by "them."