From the mind of Stephan Pastis who is the only reason I even look at the comic strip page, something I have not done since The Far Side folded:

In Socialist Venezuela:

In the City that Never Stops Sinking in Stupid.

DeBlasio managed to beat Maduro for the biggest dictator asshole in this side of he Atlantic. Quite an achievement of which I am sure he is proud.

Of all the things that make me want to be a better practicing Jew, it’s not the Rabbinate, especially the Reform Rabbinate that seems to think the 613 Mitzvot come out of Das Kapital.

It’s Mandy Patinkin saying the Motzi (the prayer beforea meal) before feeding his dogs and saying the Mourner’s Kaddish for strangers.

(Dust warning)

City Manager Art Noriega moved to fire embattled Police Chief Art Acevedo Monday night, ending weeks of speculation and tumult at City Hall and after a pair of circus-like public hearings in which commissioners lashed out at the chief for everything from a misguided statement he made about the “Cuban Mafia,” to the tight jumpsuit he wore during a fundraiser in another city. Technically, the manager suspended Acevedo pending termination, giving him the choice to resign or have a hearing before the city’s five commissioners, the majority of whom have publicly questioned his brief six-month time at the helm.

Miami decides to fire police chief Art Acevedo and end a tumultuous but short tenure

He was the former Chief of Police of Houston and was hired back in March by the City of Miami to lead its police force. Although Cuban, he was never a Miami Cuban but more Californian RINO than anything else and firmly planted on the side of Gun Control.

Acevedo seems could not help himself but become an asshole and insult everybody he could in the city. There might be some other things going on because heads of LEOorganizations do not get kicked oout so hard and fast. Not even Ken Jenne after he got caught doing his fraudulent stats cooking and assorted mischiefs was sent packing fast.

And as Jeremy Clarkson puts it:

https://twitter.com/CasperFox/status/1447169211500048389

I feel inclined to remind them that are only three or four actual Blue states.

The big “Blue states,” e.g., New York, California, Illinois, Michigan, are merely Blue metropolitan bubbles inside of Red states.

Where will the Central Valley of California, upstate New York, downstate Illinois, etc. go?

Will the farms and factories stay with the urban bubble or will they join the adjacent Red State?

What sort of economic sanctions can LA, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City impose on the rest of America that won’t be reciprocated by cutting off the urban bubbles from food and electricity?

We wouldn’t need to fire a shot to end NYC.  Just block the bridges and tunnels, cut the power lines, and wait for them to starve in the dark.

I’d give them a week.

"Obviously it's an incredibly complicated situation,” @SecretaryPete said on Morning Joe on Friday about the ports problems.

Noted his department was taking it seriously and “held roundtables bringing together everyone connected with the ports."

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) October 11, 2021

So we are having A real life national transportation crisis and our Harvard educated, McKinsey trained Secretary of Transportation can’t do fuck all about it but have a meeting.

Remember when I posted this:

I was so fucking right it wasn’t funny.

It’s still not funny.

Our government is in the hands of people with the most credentials and least qualifications of any time in history.

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a device was stirring because of the brownout.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, a dead zero emissions electric vehicle.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.

And he whistled, and shouted, and cursed them by name;

“Fuck Biden, fuck Newsom, fuck Pelosi the same.”

“I have no toys, the supply line is fucked, the gifts are sitting in ships, trains, and on trucks.”

“I’ve the chip shortage means no video games, Christmas is going to go down in flames.”

“The prices of metals have shot up the sky so mom can kiss the idea of that necklace goodbye.”

“Dad’s ride on lawnmower, it ran on gas, so now he’ll just have to push cut the grass.

“The reindeer were outlawed because of their farts so now I’m stuck with this piece of shit car.”

“Eight hours to recharge the battery from dead means by time I can go again kids have got out of bed.”

“Inflation and shortages are outrageous this year, Build Back Better has killed any and all Christmas cheer.”

“For their meager haul under the tree the kids will blame jolly old me.”

“It wasn’t my fault, I swear, I’m not lying. It’s that senile old pervert at fault, fuck Joe Biden.”