Cartoons Wednesday!

Plus Kimmel, Krugman, more Bad Bunny fallout, a Hitler protest song, more.

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The Jimmy fun:

More laffs here, from NY Post. This nut is joined by several other GOPers. Some have cited the Bad Bunny horrors as worse than Janet Jackson’s clothing malfunction, causing one wag to post: “But the Jackson incident only revealed ONE boob.”

WASHINGTON — A Florida Republican is demanding a federal probe into Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny’s “dangerous” and “offensive” Super Bowl halftime show performance over the weekend, The Post has learned. Rep. Randy Fine accused the rapper of encouraging children to use cocaine and faulted him for dropping F-bombs in Spanish, while calling the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate how NBC Universal and the NFL allowed that “indecent material to be broadcast.”

More wild stuff, here from Senator Brian Schatz:

This is absolutely obscene, disgusting. Unamerican at the most basic level. The stuff of dictatorships.

“The Trump administration tried and failed on Tuesday to secure an indictment in connection with a video featuring six Democratic lawmakers urging members of the military and intelligence communities not to comply with unlawful orders, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.”

And on the Epstein front:

Paul Krugman:

While MAGA-world’s fantasy villains like George Soros are brilliant and subtle, MAGA’s real villains are uncouth and dim-witted. Yet they carry out their sinister schemes in broad daylight. For all they need to flourish is utter shamelessness, along with the backing of a corrupt administration and a corrupt political party.

So it’s worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s observations about the architects of Hitler’s genocide, which led her to coin the phrase “the banality of evil”. As Arendt noted, the horrors of Nazism were not inflicted by brilliant geniuses, but through the normalization of thoughtless, amoral behavior that eventually turned into evil. Thus while Lutnick appears on the surface like a dim-witted backroom grifter, he is a warning of something far more sinister and malign lurking below.

Steve Brodner comments:

Today’s music pick via Paul Krugman, the Irving Berlin 1941 protest song “When That Man Is Dead and Gone,” re: Hitler.

From Tunes to Toons

Luckovich;

Horsey:

Ohman:

Noth:

Photo Finish

From my camera to you, “The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge,” New York City.