Your Saturday Cartoon
by Noah
As I write this on Wednesday afternoon, the first named tropical storm of the year, Alberto, is about to pound northeast Mexico and southern Texas while here in NYC, a major heat dome is settling over us, the air quality is going down, down, down, and the temperature is about to zoom past 90 just in time for the summer solstice. If I were to put on FOX-Pravda, they'd be telling me that the big problem with New York is crime, which, of course, simply isn't true. I've lived here most of my life. Crime is down and it's not at all like the 1980s when the streets were paved with crack vials courtesy of the Reagan-Bush CIA. In fact, the only crime problem we have in my neighborhood is the Russian gangs. Unlike their Sicilian predecessors, they have no rules, not one. No wonder Republicans love them. Talk about cultures made for each other!
So anyway, here we are. The season of ungodly heat, flooding, and wildfires is here. Embrace the future! And, yeah, every moronic Republican you know is about to stop decrying what they call socialism, but only for the length of time it takes them to whine about the local FEMA trucks not showing up the second the latest catastrophe destroyed their 96-inch TV and carried off their supply of crappy beer that not even a real pig would drink.
PS. I never imagined that first panel of Ruben's cartoon and I doubt that he did either. The other four panels? You bet, in spades!
When the time finally comes that some of these people admit that anthropogenic climate disruption is actually happening, they'll blame progressives for not having done enough to keep it from happening.