Friday 30 June 2023: Pardon me, y’all, I’m a little new to the re-blogging game and didn’t realize how it would turn out. Yesterday, I added the cartoon as the featured image and today, I’m adding it to the post itself and a bit more explanatory text. My apologies for any confusion or inconvenience. Growing pains and all.
I stumbled upon the brilliant blog, Claytoonz, by political cartoonist Clay Jones. It is an intimate look at the process of making his drawings and his thoughts on the events of the day. This cartoon probably won’t be widely published in the media world because death, but it is brilliant.
No one defends the cartoon better than Clay his own self:
I don’t have any concerns about “wishing death” on the justices. It’s a cartoon and not everything is to be taken literally. It’s a joke. But, I had concerns about doing something funny after lives were lost. I do feel bad for those lives, especially the 19-year-old who reportedly was afraid of going but was pressured into it by his father. One of the founders of Oceangate, Stockton Rush, was one of those on board and the only explorer among the five. The other four were tourists who paid $250,00 to see the Titanic.
I’m OK with readers having a problem with this cartoon. I won’t argue with you over it. But it goes after two things I’m not OK with, making the Titanic a playground for the rich and Supreme Court justices allowing themselves to receive gifts from the rich.
Don’t yell at me. Go yell at some rich people.
SUBMERSIBLE SCOTUS
Would that this had happened, not that I am wishing harm on anyone… still, a part-time blogger and full-time citizen can dream, can’t he? Would that the seas still teamed with that much life, too.
Let me know what you think of the tastefulness or lack of taste in the comments, please.
The Psy of Life 
Reblogged this on cabbagesandkings524 and commented:
Calico Jack reblogs a cartoon.
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It always seems to be “too soon” for things that really bite.
I’ve been thinking about Alito not reporting that fishing trip. It’s simple. To him, it was just part of a normal social life, nothing remarkable, nothing political, nobody’s business, just hangin’ with the homies. Ever since showing real conservative promise in an elite law school (if not before), he, like others on The Court, was invited to events like presentations at the Heritage Society and introduced to up and coming young men of wealthy and powerful families, set on track for clerkships and such with SCOTUS justices and partnerships in top law firms. Now, these are the people they belong with, are comfortable with, and agree with. No discussion of cases is needed, nor any taint of tit-for-tat. None of that needs to be said. They all know what is right and true.
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Howdy Bob!
It is an insular group which produces a sense of normative behaviors in its members. That is the best argument for a diversity of views and experiences in the judiciary. In some ways it is comforting to see the diversity that Biden is promoting since it suggests that the phenomenon of stacking the court with white conservatives to advance white supremacy and anti-democratic views is known and being countered. It seems a little late in the game, and it isn’t widely embraced by the entire party, but there it is.
The deliberateness of the the right’s decades-long sustained attack on civil liberties really gets to me.
Huzzah!
Jack
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When an organized category of people with resources believe that they are entitled, or even divinely mandated,to rule over all others, that is what happens.
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