Willie and Joe Get the News.

[Norbert]

Kind of sad for these famous cartoon characters.

— LyndaGood (@lyndagood.bsky.social) 2025-08-15T01:27:58.768Z

[BoRaGard]

1. I don't trust that he was "elected"

at all

[Abstractartist]

2. I totally agree

And the very first thing the newly elected democratically controlled congress needs to call Elon Musk under oath and examine him on the interference he and trump admitted to.

[Botany]

3. That election was as honest and real as his assassination attempt.

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70 % of Americans support a woman’s right to choose but that voting block that turned out
consistently post the overturning of Roe v Wade to vote for women’s rights to health care but
in the Presidential election of 2024 that vote just disappeared.

[Harker]

4. I'll go with "installed". Like a toilet.

[Clouds Passing]

6. He said he had to cheat to win. Always brags about his crimes.

[Botany]

8. Yup Musk was into the data..... Musk told Joe Rogan that he had a special app that let him see the voting data early

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the

You can check the veracity of the article by googling

Eaton and Tripp Lite

Eaton and Palantir

Doge and ballot proof

Eaton and Musk

Palantir and digital janitor

Starlink and D.T.C.

[Hornedfrog2000]

11. Wait for posters to tell us we are crazy

Dont believe your eyes, or ears. Just like they were saying in 2015 when he wreaked of Putin.

[annielion]

17. I totally agree. He was not elected.

My hopes are in the research of SmartElections.us and ElectionTruthAlliance.org (ETA). The statistical data shows strong evidence of a great deal of vote manipulation. On August 29 SmartElections' lawsuit against Rockland County, New York continues. ETA states they hope to file their first lawsuit by the end of August (probably one county in Pennsylvania). The evidence of vote manipulation in many states is extensive. The proof is in successfully suing a relevant county to allow a forensic audit with the actual ballots.

I think when an audit proves vote manipulation in one county things will begin to snowball towards proving a stolen election.

[popsdenver]

23. Little difference between 2024

and 2016, 2000, 2004........................

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Would Rec a thousand times if possible.

I met Mr. Mauldin in the late 1980s in Chicago. One truly great human being -- and he would forgive the appropriation and approve the message.

A sampler:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/warletters-cartoons/

[Wounded Bear]

7. K&R...in sadness...nt

[barbtries]

9. One of the saddest cartoons I've ever seen.

I'm going to Hawaii! for my 70th birthday! (surprise from my wonderful children) for the first time, and I'll be visiting Pearl Harbor to memorialize my father, who was there that day in in 1941 on the USS California.

Although it was first thought that he had perished in the attack, he was alive and well and went on to serve throughout the Pacific for the rest of the war. Later he was on the USS Lexington when it was sunk in the Coral Sea.

He saw a lot and he did a lot during that war. Dad I promise you it wasn't for nothing.

It was for democracy and freedom. It was for the United States of America, not the disunited states of Dystopia.
#BeTheOpposition #SaveDemocracy

[Evolve Dammit]

25. Happy Birthday Barb! Here's to your Dad. ED

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[WestMichRad]

10. Jeez.

My parents and nearly everyone of their generation would be so disgusted, angry and sad at what ill-informed Americans have brought upon us.

[GoneOffShore]

12. Just reposted on FB, Bluesky, and Threads. I'm not on Shite Social or the other one.

And I added this - “If we don’t make it dangerous to be a Nazi, they’ll make it dangerous not to be.”

[Hekate]

14. Query....

Is there any way I can actually copy the pic myself? All I get is the clickable link

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:swtxmqmmr6zf23wz2mf7jqrp/bafkreichbmbyrd5fyajgdrokmfzdxwuiqktwco4wfyfzkhruzdydvd6hae@jpeg

[CloudWatcher]

15. Copy/paste worked for me

Just copy the image and paste into a picture editor app, or click and drag from the browser window to your desktop (in macOS; idk for windows). It doesn't appear to be particularly hidden.

[Hekate]

13. Mauldin was one of the greats, and KonoPacki captures Willie & Joe perfectly...

[Woodwizard]

28. I read the Brass ring as a kid.

He really put the ridiculous in perspective.

And I just read up front he published that book at 24. He had a really good take on human nature.

Highly recommend his books.

[dedl67]

31. Absolutely;! And one should consider the Preface to Mauldin's book "U'p Front"

"Up Front" Preface

"Some say the American soldier is the same clean-cut young man who left his home; others say morale is sky-high at the front because everybody's face is shining for the great Cause."

"They are wrong. The combat man isn't the same clean-cut lad because you don't fight a kraut be Marquis of Queensberry rules. You shoot him in the back, you blow him apart with mines, you kill or maim him the quickest and most effective way you can with the least danger to yourself. He does the same to you. He tricks and cheats you, and if you don't beat him at his own game you don't live to appreciate your own nobleness."

As must always be in fights with Fascists.

[Mysterian]

16. We'll beat em' again, Willie and Joe

We'll beat em' again.

[PJMcK]

18. Here's the weird part

About 30 years ago, I moved to Long Island, a suburb of NYC. There were lots of military vets and most of the ones I met loved Rush Limbaugh and they were solid conservative Republicans. I actually lived in the district that elected George Santos!

These veterans did not reflect the soldiers in the cartoon. Not by a long shot. Glad i moved back to NYC where we’re Democratic and liberal!

[czarjak]

19. My Dad & five Uncles fought.

P-O’ed bigly.

[soldierant]

20. I absolutely believe that

Secretaries of State, and other election officials, down to the Election Day volunteers, did as good and honest a job as possible.

THat's not to deny there was cheating involved by oter means.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Great cartoon

[Blue Owl]

22. K and fucking R

[ificandream]

24. Post of the day, the week, the month, the year!!

[sop]

26. I clicked on this thinking it was about Geist and Scarborough making up news.

[RandiFan1290]

29. Same

2 republicon scumbags

Willie loves his daddy trump:

[oasis]

27. Wake up America

[Norbert]

30. Dad went to war

He father got him two deferments. When the military came calling my dad told my grandfather, "All my friends are serving. It's time for me to go." It was one of the last times they spoke face to face as my grandfather died less than a year later from a brief illness.

Dad never regretted his decision. He fought and slogged through the Battle of the Bulge. He was proud to serve. Rarely would he talk about his was experiences and I imagine what he saw would be too much for me to handle. I think he told me he came home on the Queen Mary.