Comic: It's Mercy Otis Warren vs. The Blockheads

Early America's greatest propagandist?

Peter Bagge | From the February/March 2026 issue

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GroundTruth 1 month ago

Good job!
Rick James 1 month ago

Good lord, I hit my youtube feed this morning and the middle group of Youtube-approved, forced links in my feed all say there's a new video released in the Ashtifa Babbitt shooting... And every news source had an identical headline.
1. JesseAz (RIP CK) 1 month ago
  
  False corporate narratives work on people like Jacob Sullum. So they will continue to do it.
2. GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND 1 month ago
  
  This one? (You know you want to watch it)
  
  https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/2010037103665787019
  1. Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?) 1 month ago
    
    Cant you see she was turning her car around while writing poetry?
SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad 1 month ago

Apparently the Minneapolis police abandoned the riot zone there. Which is now under the control of leftist radicals. It appears Tampon Tim will let the city burn, again.
1. JesseAz (RIP CK) 1 month ago
  
  Well antifa and the commie groups trying to break into hotels looking for ICE also attacked police, so of course they do nothing.
2. Rick James 1 month ago
  
  Zzz...
3. Gaear Grimsrud 1 month ago
  
  Insurrection Act incoming.
  1. SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad 1 month ago
    
    A number of blue cities should already be under martial law. In any event, I expect the democrats to start a vicious war this year.
JesseAz (RIP CK) 1 month ago

Rich McHugh
@RichMcHugh
Millions of dollars were raised for the survivors and victims families of a 2023 shooting in Maine that left 18 dead & 13 wounded. Now, those families say a large chunk of that money went not to them, but to 29 nonprofits instead, 7 of them Somali-linked nonprofits

https://x.com/RichMcHugh/status/2009084003861901582

Sarc approves.
1. Rick James 1 month ago
  
  And people say immigration doesn't generate economic activity.
2. SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad 1 month ago
  
  We really need to deport all the Somalis.
JesseAz (RIP CK) 1 month ago

Glories of ignorant and blind multicultural societies.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
BREAKING:

The UAE announces it will cuts funds for citizens who want to study in the UK out of fear of Emirati students being radicalized by Muslim Brotherhood Islamists on British campuses.

An Arab state now views a European state as a dangerous Islamist radicalization hotspot

So Islamic countries are now scared of Islamic propaganda of western countries. Amazing.
1. SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad 1 month ago
  
  It’s the Islamist/marxist radical hybrid they fear.
2. DesigNate 1 month ago
  
  What the actual fuck?
ML (now paying) 1 month ago

These Bagge cartoons always good.
Gaear Grimsrud 1 month ago

Debunking Cato/Reason
https://cityjournal.substack.com/p/yes-somali-immigrants-commit-more
Yes, Somali Immigrants Commit More Crime Than Natives
Widespread statistics use a misleading comparison; apples-to-apples shows a two- to fivefold difference.
1. JesseAz (RIP CK) 1 month ago
  
  Obviously false statistical analysis is now CATOs bread and butter.
  
  This is all they do now.
  1. SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad 1 month ago
    
    Indeed. They’ve lost all credibility. I assume they’re taking Soros money?
    1. JesseAz (RIP CK) 1 month ago
      
      Since 2014.
Rick James 1 month ago

Oh, also, what in holy hell happened to the Democrat/left reflexive support of Hamas? Man, that dried up faster than a puddle on Texas asphalt. We've got public statements running from Chuck Schumer, Zohran Mamdani, Kirsten Gillibrand, AOC (AOC!!!) to Kathy Hochul all 'reminding' their constituents that Hamas is a terrorist organization, should not be supported and we stand with the Jews as they're part of our community too.

It's like someone sent out some marching orders over the last 96 hours...
1. SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad 1 month ago
  
  They’re up to something. Is it just throwing out lies ahead of the midterms so they do t lose the Jewish vote? Or something more sinister?
  1. Rick James 1 month ago
    
    I don't actually know. There was a flurry of tweets sent out by all of the above and considerably more, and someone collected them all into a single screen shot. It's one of those things that if one person said it, you'd be, "Ok, whatever" but when they all say it incredibly similarly and at once, you know something's going on. It's like in Hunt for Red October when the U.S. satellites spotted heat plumes on every ship in the Russian naval fleet. It kind of makes you say, "Huh... something's up".
    1. Gaear Grimsrud 1 month ago
      
      Weird. But the Jews are apparently either evil or stupid depending on the calendar. Evil when they genocide helpless Palestinians, but still stupid enough to vote for Mamdani. Both things can be true until the midterms. After that they'll be of no consequence for a couple years.
2. Nobartium 1 month ago
  
  Iran getting overthrown might have something to do with it.
  1. JesseAz (RIP CK) 1 month ago
    
    Amazing none of the democrats are saying a word about Iran.
3. JesseAz (RIP CK) 1 month ago
  
  Hamas support isnt polling well. So they changed. But they keep adding qualifiers hamas support is only bad when they march into Jewish neighborhoods.
4. InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude) 1 month ago
  
  It's like the memo went out to them.
  
  https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/2010049768551264499?s=20
  
  Guys, something is happening.
  
  All the pro-Islam Democrats are all the sudden, in unison, posting pro-Judaism and anti-Hamas posts, after their followers have been screaming “free Palestine” all day every day for years.
  
  They are getting in front of something.
InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude) 1 month ago

I think this may be the real deal as the 2026 Iranian Revolution.

https://x.com/DimitrisSoudas/status/2010130222147108881?s=20

This ain’t no protest.

It’s a revolution.

1.5-1.85 million Iranians are in the streets fighting.

- 512 locations
- 180 cities
- All 31 provinces

And they're chanting for the return of the Shah, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, who has been involved with talking to these rebels and helping direct them. They could do a hell of a lot worse than constitutional monarchy when all is said and done.

https://x.com/i/trending/2009209561409048745?s=20

Protests sparked by economic collapse around December 28 have spread to over 170 cities, with demonstrators chanting against Supreme Leader Khamenei, burning regime symbols, and waving pre-revolution flags. Pahlavi, son of Iran's last shah ousted in 1979, praised the turnout in a video and called for transportation, oil, gas, and energy strikes starting Saturday, plus street rallies at 6 p.m. on Persian dates 20 and 21 Dey. Amid a regime internet blackout since January 8, human rights groups report 45-65 protester deaths including children and over 2,000 arrests, as Pahlavi vows to return soon for what he calls an imminent national revolution.
1. DesigNate 1 month ago
  
  My Iranian friends are very hopeful, even the communist ones.
2. Gaear Grimsrud 1 month ago
  
  I don't have any idea how this will end but the Iranian resistance is begging Trump to step in and he's drawn a line in sand. I don't support regime change or spreading democracy but I can't argue that the planet wouldn't be better off with the old monarchy in power. I suspect that there is a lot of communication going on between the middle east states and the Trump administration. This could be a very big deal.
  1. SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad 1 month ago
    
    Hopefully all we have to do is give a little push or two. It also helps when any intervention has widespread grassroots support.
Benitacanova 1 month ago

Mercy me, great cartoon.

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