Tuesday TOONs - Lost His Marbles

[JHB]

Lost His Marbles

Consistent right from the start

The Trump Show

Open Up the Cemeteries Too

The “ayes” have it!

I, for one, welcome our new orange overlord

In case you missed them, we present Monday's TOONs
Monday TOONs 1 - ProTrumpkin Village

Monday TOONs 2 - Release and Catch

[abqtommy]

1. All good stuff but I especially like the Bloom County panel. Thanks!

[Maeve]

2. I know why the caged bird dies....

That one made me laugh out loud.

[planetc]

3. Yay! Toons!

[NewJeffCT]

4. good toons - thank you

I've even temporarily changed my Twitter handle to Jeff - who has not been treated worse than Lincoln

[dalton99a]

5. Great collection

[NCjack]

6. Yes, it is ironic that Trump is sending workers back into Smithfield's

to die for a company owned by the Chinese.

[Gothmog]

7. Thank you for the cartoons

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Favorite sign in cartoon: "This China hoax is from Mexico"

[2naSalit]

9. Thank you!

[cp]

10. Heck of a job, Orangie! and Don't Tread on Me--THUNK

Two great ones out of many!
Thank you.

[malaise]

11. What a collection

Thank JHB

[mountain grammy]

12. K & R

[CrispyQ]

13. Smithfield Foods is owned by China?

Thanks for the collection!

[scarletwoman]

17. Smithfield was sold to a Chinese company in 2013.

https://www.revealnews.org/article/how-china-purchased-a-prime-cut-of-americas-pork-industry/

How China purchased a prime cut of America’s pork industry

Smithfield Foods, producer of the iconic holiday ham, was one of America’s flagship food companies, steeped in centuries of U.S. tradition.

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But in 2013, a Chinese firm bought this quintessential slice of Americana – Main Street and all. The takeover, valued at $7.1 billion, remains the largest-ever Chinese acquisition of an American company.

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But behind the usual flag waving and Red Scare antics lies a stark new reality: Chinese companies, at the urging of their government, have launched a global buying spree, a new phase in their unprecedented economic experiment. And they’re targeting a resource that climate scientists, economists, the U.S. government, even Wall Street, all forecast will become dangerously scarce in the coming decades: food.

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The Center for Investigative Reporting helped launch an initiative called Food for 9 Billion in 2011 that set out to answer some of these questions. As part of that effort, I spent nearly a year examining the Smithfield Foods takeover. What I learned goes far beyond pork.

The world is set for a geopolitical struggle over food.

The Chinese government already is dealing with looming food shortages within its own borders as tens of millions are eating more as they move from poverty into the middle class. The government is pushing Chinese businesses – both state-owned and privately held – to gobble up agricultural resources from around the world, including Africa, Europe and the United States.

With the Smithfield purchase, a Chinese company now owns 1 in 4 pigs raised in the U.S. (much more at link)

[Hekate]

19. Thank you, scarletwoman

A capitalist is someone who will sell you the rope with which you hang him.

[scarletwoman]

22. We are all being sold.

Saudi Hay Farm In Arizona Tests State's Supply Of Groundwater

Outside of Phoenix, in the scorching Arizona desert, sits a farm that Saudi Arabia's largest dairy uses to make hay for cows back home.

That dairy company, named Almarai, bought the farm last year and has planted thousands of acres of groundwater-guzzling alfalfa to make that hay. Saudi Arabia can't grow its own hay anymore because those crops drained its own ancient aquifer. (my bold)

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This is occurring in a part of Arizona that is unregulated for groundwater. So there are no limits on how much water they can pump.

...the United Arab Emirates (is) doing something similar nearby

We had gone out to the desert to look at Almarai. We had found them in this cactus-filled valley in the very remote part of Arizona, and as we're driving down the road, all of a sudden we see a sign for a company from United Arab Emirates, Al Dahra, and we realize that another company has come out here and essentially replicated the exact same thing. They are growing hay. They are using the groundwater. And they are shipping it overseas — in this case, we were told, to China.

(More at link)

[CrispyQ]

23. No words.

[erronis]

25. Wow. Absolutely wow. The kleptocrats from around the world are working hard to kill the US

and probably any other place where there is any sense of democratic rule.

Once these aquifers are depleted it is literally thousands of years to replenish - without further withdrawals.

[Hekate]

32. Quite a few years back I read that the prevailing Asian attitude toward the US is not how hi-tech...

...we are, but that we are an agricultural resource for their part of the world. Japan, for instance, buys their lumber from our Pacific Northwest. And there's lots more. Now you tell me Dubai et al. are sucking up our desert water. I didn't know China had decided to buy up pork processing plants here, but it makes sense from their perspective, as they are far-thinkers.

Of course, it's all legal. What infuriates me is that it IS legal. Some things, like water in aquifers, are non-renewable resources; and human beings being treated like shit should not happen regardless of the owner of the business they work for, but much less should a totalitarian country be allowed to set terms and conditions for American workers.

"America First" my rosy Irish ass.

[Hekate]

30. I just now saw that Toon, as it refused to load for me the first half dozen times I tried...

So, double thanks.

[scarletwoman]

31. Glad you finally got to see it!

Probably makes Crispy Q's original question make more sense now, too.

[Hekate]

33. Yes indeed

[Wounded Bear]

14. K & R...nt

[El Mimbreno]

15. That's one...

My exact first thought as well!

Thanks for another dandy collection.

[burrowowl]

16. Kick!

[Hekate]

18. Kicktoons.

[LudwigPastorius]

20. "Strategic Blame Stockpile"

Love that

[murielm99]

21. Thank you.

[crickets]

24. Love me some Bloom County - thanks, JHB! K&R

[steventh]

26. Thanks for the Tuesday TOONS

The "I'm ok with YOU dying" sign gotta be the mindset of the demonstrators demanding premature opening up of businesses.

[Nitram]

27. Hurrah for the toons!

[Karadeniz]

28. Lincoln with a pistol...what we're too dainty to say out loud...

[dustyscamp]

29. Gib-Faced Zounderkite

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