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Longtime Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers was fired for this Trump cartoon and a few others.
Hey, LA Times, and it’s new ownership! One of the best cartoonists in the country, with a sensibility very much in tune with Greater LA, was just fired from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for submitting a half-dozen cartoons that were more critical of Trump, Roseanne, and others than that skittish newspaper wanted.
His name is Rob Rogers. You can read about him on snooes.com. Snap him up.
You want to make a mark at this moment of taking over the West Coast’s “paper of record” — and this chance just fell into your lap. Don’t think twice: show your dedication to a free press and pounce on it!
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This is your Weekend Open Thread. Talk about that, or anything else you’d like, within reasonable bounds of decency and discretion.
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
That Caution sign showing our creepy criminal “president” stealing a child is almost as genius as when hackers remotely changed an electronic CalTrans sign in No. Cal. to say “TRUMP HAS HERPES”, which made international news last year (if you don’t recall).
Great suggestion.
Recently #23 scariest in OC wrote that he chose to leave his job at the Los Angeles Times. Prior to that statement for years there have been comments and postings that Gina (of course) “got him fired”. What is the real story? Thanks.
Some get thrown out of jobs some get thrown out of restaurants. Unusual for the politics to fall into movie theaters and restaurants and jobs.
We have to watch the political talk among friends and relatives.
So the world still revolves.
We are allies with North Korea, Russia and Saudi Arabia and enemies with Canada, France, England and Germany.
But is this an American choice? For all those people that don’t vote they sure do complain a lot.
My friend was in front of my house yelling, YELLING “if Obama gets elected there will be riots in the streets” – he was not registered to vote…
Some people at least stand up but not enough. Will standing up work? During the Vietnam war era there were riots in the streets almost daily for years. Yet it took several years of Americans getting shot and beat up and beat down on TV in the streets, to change the government direction.
What do we do?
You tell me.
“What do we do?”
WE FIGHT. THEN WE WIN. (It’s not rocket science.)