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Fair Blighty makes the news, yet again. They don't want 16-18 year-olds to go onto (certain) social media, namely the ones where you are most likely to find the truth. But there's a far more nefarious reason for the charade. Remember the digital ID fiasco? Well, this is a way to sneak it in through the back door. To prove your age, you have to have an ID. Ot must be digitized to be usable. No bueno. I swear, these dudes could hook a turbine to Orwell's grave, 'cuz he could power London for the next three centuries. Got a few more in store this week, but lemme know if you want a particular cartoon, and I'll see if I can do it.

So, everyone's up in arms over the latest scare, hantavirus. It's the viral sensation-a-sweeping the nation, with the usual gang of idiots scared "tharn" over it. The same fools scared over this hootenany are the ones still wearing masks over the last overexaggeration. This one has extended so far as to have three deaths on the good ship Hondius, a cruise ship that no longer has a friendly port to call in, due to their brush with the en vogue communicable disease of 1993. Now, I was there, in New Mexico, when the Four Corners Outbreak occurred. There was quite the panic then, along with some extensive, Dalek levels of exterminations of the rodent population, as it is caught through their excrement. If this is the next pandemic to come down the pike, it doesn't bode well for their plans. Hantavirus has been with us in America since the outbreak in 1993, and we have weathered the storm. This, too, shall pass, I think. Now, they claim it is a strain that passes between humans, but how long has this disease been around? This would be something that Toni-Tone Fauchi would be grinning ear to dopey ear over, yet it's something we peeps have been dealing with for a looong time. But I suppose we can call the plague ship "The HANTIUS," eh? Suggestions for future cartoons are welcome in the comments.

This one is liable to ruffle feathers. Something that I have been noticing in recent months is the proliferation of bad blood posts on here, full of spite and vitriol. I noticed it first on @RazorFist 's replies, but these attacks extend to my Instagram friend Melina (melinasconservativeclubhouse) with a moderatesized following, where someone accused her of being A.I. I don't get much hate, for the most part, as I am too small , but I do catch some flack when I respond positively to those folks that are on the zeitgeist naughty list. Then I started doing some delving and saw something peculiar. I would check out their profile and see that their follower count was almost invariably small, only dozens to single digits. It seemed odd to me. While there are legitimate reasons for puny numbers, my theory is that many of them are sock puppet accounts, for the sake of anonymity due to their vileness, and also to falsely inflate the contra-stance's numbers. What is their endgame? Do they hope to drive them off the internet? Do they expect them to run away like craven cowards? Not likely, as these are seasoned campaigners, all. Due to my alignment with these folks, I am certain that people will get angry. I just hope that it is merely disagreement, and not friendship ending. Suggestions for future cartoons are always appreciated in the comments.

I was trying to figure out a way to put a twist to the headline of the day, that being Eric Swalwell vacating his congressional seat, when @RubenGallego dropped this pearl in my lap. Gallego claims that he was "deceived" by Swalwell, stating that his flatulency was leading a cunningly hidden double life, carousin' and a-whorin' with reportedly dozens of female staff. Lemme posit this query: Do you buy that line? 'Cuz I sure don't. Dudes were best buds, enacting a bromance for the ages. Running campaigns, contributing to said campaigns, attending weddings, riding camels shirtless in the Qatari desert (no, really!). These bosom buds are so linked, I can't help but wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes, what the man from Galicia really knows. Recommendations for tomorrow's cartoon are welcome in the comments.

Saw this one from @SebGorka , and couldn't resist. The folks that track oil tankers have noticed an interesting occurrence. Many have changed their headings, and instead of going to the Persian Gulf, they're heading to OUR Gulf. Now why on earth would that happen? Suggestions for future cartoons are welcome in the comments.

Now, I don't want you to think that I am a regular peruser of @politico , but a headline from Google caught my eye, stating that Brian Cole, the (alleged) January sixth bomber, was trying to get out of prosecution by, get this, claiming the aegis of the blanket pardon to the J. sixers, who were rounded up, railroaded, and jailed for years for being ushered through the Capitol Building. Of course, this is as re-re-ridiculous as the kid that eats paint for fun. Several discrepancies exist with this, chiefest of which is that Cole's misdeed was done on the FIFTH, not the sixth, and he was charged AFTER the pardon was issued. Now, I understand that the defense lawyers have a fiduciary responsibility to their client, and must attempt all avenues to clear their client, but this tactic is laughable, it screams "last ditch" to me. One cannot blame the defense of at least not trying. Suggestions for tomorrow's cartoon are welcome in the comments.

This one is courtesy of reporting by @TheQuartering , so thanks, Jeremy. AOC is under investigation for misuse of her campaign war chest. She spent over $20K on "leadership training," with a psychiatrist. Thing is, this particular psychiatrist has no training in leadership, but PTSD and anxiety. He's also notorious for his extensive prescribing of ketamine, a substance that Cortez mocked @elonmusk for using. So, do we have a prairie dog called irony poking his nose out of a hole in some remote pasture in the Great southwest? It might be chittering a tune that spells discomfort for the squadette, though since I know how congress works, fingers will wag, but not much else. Suggestions welcome in the comments.

Someone on X said that "MAGA didn't win the Civil War." Maybe. Maybe. But they sure weren't Democrats! Make suggestions for tomorrow's cartoon in the comments.