Loon Star State

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Loon Star State: Send in the Clowns

Utter Fantasies a cartoon describing the fictional Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, a Leprechaun and lastly the success of the secession movement.

Loon Star State: Utter Fantasies!

This is fine.

A cartoon of firefighters accessing a burning building via a window, only to discover a Republican elephant inside. The fire is labeled "Climate Collapse." One firefighter turns to another and says, "Forget it—he insists fire is just a hoax."

Loon Star State: Hoax

This is fine.

A cartoon depicts Ken Paxton watching The Godfather on TV, wearing a mafia-style ostentatious purple suit and fedora hat. On TV, Michael Corleone is saying, "Today, I settled all family business..." As Ken Paxton reacts with utter glee, "Yes! Oh YES!" Caption: Ken Paxton's favorite! The line in "The Godfather" in which Michael Corleone announces he has just had all his enemies whacked ...

Loon Star State: Whacked

"A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."—Vito Corleone

A cartoon image of water (labeled "Rule of Law") dribbling down the holes of a Texas-shaped drain plug.

Loon Star State: Rule of Law

Accountability goes down the drain, too.

A cartoon image showing Ken Paxton in the Attorney General's private bathroom at the Texas legislature or similar governmenrt building. He whistles a cheerful tune as he dries his hands on shreds of paper labeled "The Law" as a substitute for paper towels from his bathroom's wall dispenser.

Loon Star State: In Ken Paxton’s Bathroom

We don't want to know what he uses for toilet paper.

An older man in a Texas flag cap is reading a newspaper, confronted by a dictatorial looking person labeled "Legislature." Man: Wait, you're gutting local control ... Lege: You can't be trusted with local government ... Man: And public education? Lege: Or public education ... Man: Yeah welll ... You just wait 'til th'next election— Lege: ... And certainly not elections.

Loon Star State: Gutting

The people can't be trusted.

A cartoon of humorist Mark Twain sitting up in his coffin, reading the Texas Observer as he declares one of his most famous quotations in a speech bubble: "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

Loon Star State: Reports of Our Death …

The Texas Observer lives!

An image of a mother standing with her back to the door as her son comes back, declaring, "Home from school, Ralphie?" But Ralphie, apparently a middle school age boy, is holding an AR-15 and a bible, and wearing a NRA button and a Ku Klux Klan hood.

Loon Star State: Republican Education

The little Christofascists grow up so fast.

Apr 02, 2023

The Texas Observer Lives!

After a terrifying near-death experience, we live to muckrake another day.

by Gabriel Arana