First and Last – Li’l Abner
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2018/10/28/first-and-last-lil-abner/
S.W.I.N.E.
Posted on 05/05/2024 8:00:28 PM PDT by lightman
The Democratic Party is bracing for massive protests during the Democratic National Convention, comparing it to another chaotic event from the 1968 convention.
As pro-Hamas protests continue to rage through college campuses due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, concerns that similar protests will occur during the DNC convention this August in Chicago.
Former President Barack Obama’s chief of staff William Daley told the Washington Post that the chaotic college protests that have occurred in the past week have “taken the demonstrations to a different level.”
“It portends that you have the potential for big demonstrations. Whether they get violent — that’s more imaginable today than it was a year ago,” he said.
The DNC is reportedly taking no chances with the potential risk that pro-Hamas protesters will show up as they continue to harass President Joe Biden for supporting Israel.
“Peaceful protest is fundamental to American democracy, and has been a fixture of political conventions for decades,” DNC spokesman Matt Hill said in a statement. “While Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans stoke political violence, we support the ongoing security coordination at all levels of government to keep our convention safe.”
Despite the attempt to deflect the image of chaos onto Trump and the Republicans, strategists are increasingly concerned that protests at the convention could render the argument moot. The White Hosue has struggled to find an approach to the War in Gaza that would satisfy its traditional pro-Israeli cadres while also placating the younger liberals, who have been vehemently critical of President Joe Biden’s response. The scenes of chaos wrought by the latter have proven to be a major thorn in Biden’s side and threaten to tank his image as a figure of stability in contrast to Trump’s chaos. Via the Washington Examiner.
It is important to note that pro-Hamas demonstrators have already revealed plans to disrupt the DNC convention.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt is blaming Biden’s reckless policies for Democrat voters protesting in anger toward him.
Voters from both political aisles have wavered dissatisfaction with the president as the southern border continues to remain out of control and inflation sits at an all-time high. Add these issues to the violent campus protests, voters are increasingly abandoning the president’s side.
“It’s theatre. They all drink from one cup.”
And this particular production piece shall be henceforth known as The Cup of Destiny.
This may be the very first time I watch a DNC convention.
BTTT
If the police used tasers more often I bet there would be fewer protesters.
lol
I thought those protesters were part of the Biden Administration.
They’ll build a great big security wall....
“Walls don’t work”.
Exactly, the DNC doesn’t dare to squash the protests, it’s their base!
I love it when the bottom feeders have to play nice to get the scraps.
Get it while it’s hot!
Get it while it’s buttered!
Not before they all pee in it.
Biden admin are the angry confused ones.
1968. I remember those days.
Reminds me of the old Li’l Abner comic strip from 1968 in which the Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything (S.W.I.N.E.) take over the campus.
The terrified University Regents decide to sell the University! The only buyers were the Mafia who brings in the mob enforcers.
Here come the SWINE protesting!
I still get a thrill remembering how the leader of the S.W.I.N.E. used his front teeth to assault the brass knuckles of the mob enforcers. Who says brass won’t make a spark! These did. Big ones at that!
Anyone else remember that old comic strip? Could easily be reprinted today with no changes.
I’ve been saying for months about riots for the DNC Convention in Chicago like in 1968, but yikes Hamas was not even remotely part of it! The local gangs killing each other, the illegals, the protesters and other violent groups all coming together at the same time is a tragic thing of which there is no answer, sadly.
First and Last – Li’l Abner
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2018/10/28/first-and-last-lil-abner/
S.W.I.N.E.
aren’t they already doing that?
Since they’re on the same team when the convention rolls around they’ll have to make it look like they object to the protesters... to trick the public. They’re all liars.
What would the federal government have to do with funding or de-funding a local police force.
Story # 300,000 comparing DNC convention to 1968. One million more stories that are all the same in the hopper.
keywords: beating a dead horse
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Swinish malcontents are like walking volcanoes.
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