Wings Over Scotland

Looking at the Twitter feed from the tents on the White House Lawn after Trump had addressed the rally, this cartoon is afair representation of what was happening in there.

Vanilla ISIS is an apt description for yrump supporters

Despicable. Trump = Hitler, the lowest of the low accusation, doesnt stand up to any scrutiny, and shits on 70+ million people who voted for him.
At a time when this site is correctly showing up the immorality of Sturgeon apologists trying to taint Alex Salmond with innuendo to deflect from their hero(ine)’s criminality, I would have expected you to aim higher.
But as long as you lot feel superior to Trump voters or Brexit voters, then more power to you! Tiny things please tiny minds.
Btw, none of these cartoons have ever made me laugh.

Has noone done a meme of the Bunker film yet?

Class Chris .

Nice one Chris, Trump supporters have done (storming the Capitol) what consecutive US administrations do all the time in other countries, by sponsoring regime changes.

I wonder if Sturgeon will attempt to cling onto power as ungracefully as Trump has, once its widely known that’s she’s broken the Ministerial Code, among other serious improprieties.

Great cartoon. you have the orange hitler to a tee.

I see the brexiteers are demanding new negotiations with the EU.

And the BBC are saying nothing more on the FM’s plotting. Proving beyond all doubt that the vile yoons see the FM as a yoon asset.

Who gives a fuck about Trump.

Stu has built up a head of steam against the lying Unionist bitch who is Sturgeon.

We must keep that momentum going.

Please try to keep on message Chris.

Trump us America’s problem, Sturgeon is our problem.

Funny.

If you’ve kids of fighting age they will soon be heading off to fight the next US war and then you’ll be all like ‘That Trump fella was the devil though’ while your child bleeds to death on the battlefield in a shithole country you cant even point to on a map.

and when people ask you why you hated Trump, you’ll have nothing, nada, not a War, not a policy, not a jot, all you will be able to do is repeat what CNN tells you to say.

Hitler was responsible for some 30 to 50 million deaths, including the holocaust, Trump put in place a middle east peace treaty, halted an aggressive Iranian nuclear policy and walked in to N Korea to shake hands with a loose canon in a clear move towards peace in the region. Back home, he reduced unemployment (particularly among minorities) and made the US a net exporter of oil, reducing reliance on imports.

But y’know……Trumps a racist…..and when mud slinging is all you’ve got, then you’ve nothing.

The arm bands are also funny.

Everyone who eats fast food is a Nazi fascist sympathiser – nice one Chris….or is it just McDonalds?

People who live in the West and hate it, should just fuck off and let the rest of us live in peace, with our free market fascism and our far right views.

Woke as fuck garbage.

Great cartoon.

@ Dorothy Devine

‘OT has anyone else seen this?’

OT. Yes I saw the video when it came out and now seen reports via news. The video didn’t look good but gave no background though I still found police response excessive.

Brilliant cartoon and arm band – add on ‘Donald wheres yer twitter’ to tune of Donald wheres yer troosers.

Sad state of affairs for America – I hope he is impeached to save us from any further notions of his or his family for political power.

I still blame the Republicans for their idiocy all the way through as his enablers as I do all the old guard, the tax evaders and hedge fund gurus and the tory conference crowd for Boris.

The storming of the Capitol building is going to serve the same sort of purpose that the attacks of 911 served. Where 911 was used as a pretext for attacking and neutralising external enemies, the Capitol building attack is going to be used as an excuse for attacking internal enemies, primarily Trump’s militant support-base.

Trump was finished politically but the problem of his aggressive supporters remained and they weren’t likely to stand down when Biden took over. Now, of course, they’re going to hammered in a new dirty war that will be waged quietly in the background for the next few years.

You can see this coming. They’re going to de-platform everyone that stands in the way as they imprison tens of thousands of people and come down like a tonne of bricks on anything resembling militias. The Trump support base marched right into this with their guns, confederate flags, thinly veiled racism, and threatening behaviour.

Oh well.

Ahundredthidiot: “ Trump put in place a middle east peace treaty”

He couldn’t have done more to support Israel, the most destabilising force in the region.

Chris, the defenders of America’s (shaky) democracy appear to be rallying to impeach Trump. You and I know how long that takes and what can be used to wreck it.

Another matter: adding dialogue, does it enhance fine images?

Here’s your essential weekend reading, a critique of Peter Murrell:

‘Unfurling Murrell’: link to wp.me

Hatuey

I am not disputing your point re Israel, but he put in place a ‘start’ – which no one else has been able to do.

The Middle East can only be sorted incrementally, over at least a generation. The ball is now rolling and many decades from now, unless history is written by the wicked, his achievement will stand.

…certainly more than Blairs – as a comparison – and how many on here voted for that cunt in 97?……fucking plenty.

Great cartoon Chris. In a year where our own Alex Salmond gets hounded and tried for trumped up charges and cleared the moron ‘the idiot’ trys to defend an absolute tyrant. That’s funny.

When someone shows you who they are the first time- believe them.I give you – ‘the idiot’

The yoons love him(trump),
I hate the fecking grifter twat that is Trump!

‘the idiot’

Sentences always start with a CAPITAL LETTER ya illiterate.

Oh and ‘CNN’ is great.

@Muscleguy,

Its actually Ahundredtheidiot !!

Hatuey , looking at the rally on the videos, you can actually see trump supporters trying to stop and pull the antagonist that tried breaking into the White House back, to stop them, and the antics like vandals seem to have infiltrated the trump supporters,
It pretty much looked like a further opportunity to discredit trumps and his support base,
Wether you believe in trump or don’t, the issue is the here is the set up and only one line of propaganda news allowed to circulate.
When big tech and media get together in agreement to silence and censor any or all alternative news to political opposition, or to replace it en masses with one view, you are looking at the beginning of nazi Germany before wwii. Or any other dictatorship regimes across the world, this is how all dictatorship begin.
Then you arrest citizens for having a different opinion. If fact it was on television that some democrats were calling for trump known trump supporters to be locked up.
That is not democracy. I would have the same view if either side were going along this routes. It’s dang for the ordinary citizens,
When you see lock downs being bought into law and no longer solely advisory, you begin to worry, in our own country, your not even allowed to sit down on a park bench or have a warm flask of coffee down south, even when you are on your own, the police have been filmed arresting people for exactly that,
When a cure for a problem becomes more dangerous to a citizen by a government than the original symptom, it says that those in power are power crazy and want total control over its citizens or nation,

James Che

Don’t give us that Fox news guff there were infiltraters amongst them -Antifa and all that.What absolute hogwash. They were all trumpians goeded on by a twat and his family.

Oh forgot and that wee deviant Rudy G.

Ayrshire Roberta

Your definition of tyrant must be pretty low. I might be happy to put that down to todays wokeness and how easily offended everyone seems to get.

Granted, I sound like I am defending Trump. but I am actually defending what he tried to stand for. He was no fan of China or the CCP and had a grudging respect for Putin. Same as myself. And as an ex-soldier I appreciate his approach to getting out of war zones – as he said in his 2016 election campaign.

But please, other than schooling me in my Grammar, please outline your actual, factual reasons for why the man is a Tyrant?

From SNP constitution and “The Constitution,Rules and Standing Ordersof the Scottish National Party”

25The Leader— (a)sets the political direction of the Party;(b)leads election and other campaigns;(c)approves manifestos for parliamentary elections;(d)articulates the argument for an independent Scotland; and(e)is Leader of the Scottish Parliamentary Group if a Member of the Scottish Parliament.

26The Depute Leader— (a)is next in seniority to the Leader;(b)is responsible for directing the Party’s policy-making processes and for the preparation of manifestos for parliamentary elections;(c)acts as Leader if the office of Leader is vacant until such time as a new Leader is elected by the Party;(d)is Leader of the Scottish Parliamentary Group if the Depute Leader is a Member of the Scottish Parliament but the Leader is not; and(e)is Deputy Leader of the Scottish Parliamentary Group if the Depute Leader and the Leader are both Members of the Scottish Parliament.

(e)prepares the agenda for meetings of the National Executive Committee.28The National Treasurer— (a)ensures the sound management of the Party’s finances;(b)convenes the Finance and Audit Committee;(c)reports to the National Executive Committee and National Conference on the finances of the Party;(d)provides any necessary guidance and directions to other Treasurers in the Party; and (e)maintains the Party’s Financial Scheme and ensures proper reporting of donations and regulated transactions to the Electoral Commission.29The Business Convener— (a)is appointed by the Leader, with the appointment being approved by the National Executive Committee;(b)chairs the National Executive Committee and National Conference, or nominates a person from the National Executive Committee to do so; and(c)oversees operational matters of the Party, including membership, campaign co-ordination and internal affairs.

30Election of National Office Bearers

30.1The National Office Bearers, with the exception of the Leader, the Depute Leader, and the Business Convener, are elected at Annual National Conference.30.2If a National Office Bearer’s post falls vacant before Annual National Conference, the vacancy may be filled by the National Executive Committee.

30.3 The positions of Leader and Depute Leader— (a)are available for election in advance of Annual National Conference;(b)are filled following a ballot of all members of the Party (c)require nomination, except for incumbents, by at least 100 members, who must be drawn from a minimum of 20 Branches;(d)when vacant, are filled under a timetable and process fixed by the National Executive Committee

7.4 The announcement of the result of an election for Leader and/orDepute Leader shall be at National Conference, along with theannouncement of the results of elections for the other National OfficeBearers, unless that election is caused by a vacancy.

Election of Leader and Depute Leader [Paragraph 30.3]

48.Paragraph 15.7 of our current constitution states that the Leader and Depute Leader are to be elected on an annual basis. This is more reflective of the position before the 2004 Constitution when the Leader was elected by delegates to Annual National Conference. The better way of stating the reality is that the office of Leader and the office of Depute Leader are both open for election each year in the run up to Annual Conference if a challenger has collected the required signatures by the close of nominations. This is the drafting approach now adopted.

49.Neither the current version of the constitution nor the Leadership Election Rules deals with the situation of a Leader or Depute Leader being elected otherwise than by a vote in the run up to Annual National Conference. The proposal is to amend this to require the National Executive Committee to set out a timetable and process when a vacancy arises, in accordance with current practice.

10 For a recent example of the courts in Scotland interpreting the rules of a party see Asim Khan v Scottish Executive Committee of the Scottish Labour Party[2018] CSOH 68 (challenge to Labour Party selection processes in Glasgow South West). For a more general case on the rules of an unincorporated association see Crocket v Tantallon Golf Club[2005] CSOH 37, 2005 SLT 663. For a discussion of the some of the principles which applies to interpreting party rules see Evangelou & Others v McNicol [2016] EWCA Civ 817(case on the 2016 Labour Party Leadership election) at paragraphs 18-24.

Trump and morality do not fit in the same sentence, unless the term “lack of” is included.

I love your work Chris, but the “Trump is literally Hitler” meme is superficial, trite and glib.

Being a vulgar oaf who once said something about grabbing a pussy doesn’t make you literally Hitler. Of all the leading US politicians this century, Trump is probably the least literally Hitler.

When you find yourself on the same page as the Guardian, the BBC, and Sturgeon, it’s probably time to take stock. I don’t ascribe to the old saw that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”, but the friends of my enemies are almost certainly my enemies too. Who is Sturgeon’s political hero? (Hint: not Alex Salmond…)

Oh he’s a tyrant alright.You never seen the future correctly.

But, luckily he lost BIGLY

Walks like duck, quacks like a duck.He has all the trademarks.
But let’s just call him a cunt for now.

Communism and fascism have many parallels. One way to indicate which-is-which is to ascertain which market model is being championed by a movements leaders. Command economies by communists, market economies by fascists. Under that simple light, it’s clear that what we have in the US is a strain of fascism. Both terms, however, have been abused to the extent that we now have a situation wherein what we don’t like or approve of is labelled as one-or-the-other in accordance with our political beliefs.

Ayrshire Rob

You are literally brainwashed by MSM. One day you’re going to wake up and have a ‘fuck me’ moment.

Until then, people like you are simply in the way.

@Ahundrddtheidiot,

His staff have noted he kedps it as a reference in controlling opinion. All very innocent

Bob Mack

As innocent as your use of the German language up thread?

Do you see where that type of nonsense goes? and btw, which Staff? cos I smell bullshit on that – that would literally be shooting yourself in the foot/handing sweeties to your enemies and Trump was very cute about that (for the most part), so please, can you refer me to this solid piece of evidence? or are you just mud slinging as per your programming?

Thanks again Chris for all your excellent cartoons , You keep us laughing all through the year with your excellent work . Wishing you all the best for 2021 .

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Grouse Beater @ 1.39 pm

Can i just say here thank you for an excellent blog post re Peter Murrell .

It’s just as well that we have yourself , Rev Stuart , Barrhead Boy , Iain Lawson and others to get the news that the MSM ignore .

@Ahundredtheidiot,

Do you know how to Google? Its freely available.online from many many sources

As this site often implies, with so many issues and aspects of life there are the facts and evidence and then there is the narrative.

A year of two back there was an attempt to pressurise social media and the internet to deplatform and ban, via at least two lists, of what was labelled “leftwing” or “progressive” (whatever that means these days?) alternative media sites and blogs.

Naturally, there was some degree of fuss and push back and then things seem to go quite around the time Alex Jones got de-platformed as attention was focussed on cheering the banning of a right wing site. The notion of this being a two edged sword apparently lost as the narrative took over from the facts.

To a degree its understandable for a certain amount of schadenfreude to be expressed over the event in Washington given the long record of the USA organising and supporting actual coups and colour revolutions for well over a century going back to the time of at least Smedley Butler.

However, the facts suggest the narrative of this being some kind of coup to be yet another official conspiracy theory. A small proportion of a far larger number of on the ground protesters/wing nuts/Fascists (pick your own label. Why not? Everyone else is) taking selfies in the Capitol building with no backing whatsoever from the military, the security services,the corporate media, any section of the political class, Wall Street, any part of the business or financial communities etc etc fits no known or accepted definition of a coup.

Certainly there was no autonomous zones set up. Nor months of riots, looting, arson, shootings, stabbings and a break down in both order and law across scores of cities and urban areas. Events which appear to have triggered an increased exodus of populations away from those areas and, in terms of the facts rather than the narrative, far more representative of such a description than what was, in comparison, a days vandalism by “insurrectionists” who were not even organised enough to be armed and carry through anything resembling a coup.

But why let the facts spoil a good narrative? Behind the fact of numpties like Trump (who despite being POTUS failed miserably to ‘drain the swamp.’) getting permanently banned from social media lies the fact that not only leading members of the Trump administration or those associated with it receiving the same deplatforming/cancelling we are now already seeing this being rapidly rolled out.

The Big Tech companies who dominate the internet and World Wide Web and associated Neo Liberal and Neo Conservative politicians are now rolling out the deplatforming and cancelling from the net and web of any one who was in Washington for that purpose (not just the small proportion who entered the Capitol building).

Their children and neighbours are being encouraged to report them. Employers are already sacking employees who attended. Calls are even being made for anyone who is/was a Trump “supporter” (on past precedent of such purity spirals that will rapidly change to “voter”) to publicly seek redemption in a Neo-Liberal and Neo-conservative tribute act to Mao’s Cultural Revolution or the Khemr Rouge’s Year Zero.

Leaving aside the very obvious point that the infringement of the Amendment on free speech by Big Tech outside a very narrow window of what is acceptable and unacceptable discourse providing a template for every authoritarian group from Governments to political factions whether it’s in Kazakhstan to Scotland, other pertinent issues arise.

Firstly, it’s a two edged sword. It might be Trump voters today – all 70 odd million of them.* Tomorrow it is just as feasible to anticipate the usual mission creep incorporating anyone who believes in biological sex; or moving the definitions of, say for example, ‘ anti-vaxers to include those who question the efficacy of administering a two jab vaccine twelve weeks apart which is outside the manufacturers scientifically arrived at recommendations of three weeks.

These kind of feeding frenzy actions tend to take on a life of their own.

*And secondly: This is divide and rule on a massive scale. Another example of Klein’s concept of the Shock Doctrine.

A lot of those Trump voters had once voted Obama. And, after three decades of cant and hypocrisy in which the industries their livelihoods depended upon were shifted abroad and they were promised retraining in high tech industry which never appeared Obama, rather than representing a change, continued the Democrats divorce from it’s working class base in favour of its Big Tech mistress, Wall Street and more overseas wars than the Republicans.

The Democrats, just like their counterparts in New Labour, and now the SNP, thought their base had ‘nowhere else to go.’ Consequently, Trump may be gone but what gave rise to him has not. Just as the Scottish Working classes abandoned New Labour for the SNP whilst the English Working Class tacked rightwards towards UKIP/Brexit Party (who came a close second in both seats in Scargills old heartland) the reasons for their existence is not going away.

As a result trying to exorcise half your voting population from society because they’ve finally got pissed off with you after four decades of neglect and being taken for granted and set them up against the other half is not going to end well.

On the present trajectory one wonders how long sites like this are going to last?

“‘Thank you for an excellent blog post re Peter Murrell’ Maggie @3.24

Takes time to see the accumulation and wonder how it all came about. Anyhow, your mention in dispatches is much appreciated.

On all the good american sites, you know, the one’s that state the facts and show them, Mr Trump did not incite anyone to go and cause mayhem.
The american constitution allows anyone to protest peacefully and that is what most did, and that is what Mr Trump asked them to do.
Anyone that hears and see’s that differently needs to get their ears checked and book an appointment with an optician.
There are a lot of people I do not normally agree with, but when they do the right thing I will acknowledge it, being a perfect human being is not usually attainable for must of us, but there is something very gratifying about trying to be the best person you can be

Almost no-one in Scotland liked Trump. I certainly didn’t. But the difference between me and other “haters” was that – I didn’t like Hillary Clinton either; I thought she was (arguably) worse. Nor do I like the democrat party, nor Biden, nor Obama – who was NOT “Black Jesus” – he was a loyal servant of the empire and “O-Bomber” loved a drone strike as much as the next man, if the next man was a neocon stooge like Dubya.

– not a lot to get worked up about really; it’s a faction fight between 2 wings of the same party, the “business party” (CHOMSKY, VIDAL). It’s gangsterism, with little in it for the rest of us.

Carroll Quigley (written 60 years ago, there’s wisdom in old books, y’know)

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, THE TWO PARTIES SHOULD BE ALMOST IDENTICAL, SO THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN “THROW THE RASCALS OUT” AT ANY ELECTION WITHOUT LEADING TO ANY PROFOUND OR EXTENSIVE SHIFTS IN POLICY.”

What I did like about Trump was his shameless baiting and “triggering” of the worst people in the world, those we all love to hate – the identity politics, PC correct, woko haram, intersectionalist, bourgeois left, nutcases and idiots, whose latest wheeze is to make us all, even at the point of a gun, say a man with his dick cut off is a “real woman”; the independence movement is full of these fuckheads, with the support of the SNP hierarchy, but like all middle class leftists – they are not really your friends, and their support will disappear “like that” (snaps fingers) … just in passing, the chinese have created the best name for all these idiots, BAIZUO, which roughly means “white left” but with lashings of contempt and eye-rolling.

Being a Scottish Nationalist, the only thing which occurred to me at the time of Trump’s 2016 victory, and I expressed it on Wings – was that a half-scottish, golf-nut, with property interests here, in SCAATLAN – could “do a turn for us”, i.e. “hauners” against the hard power of London and their devious, dirty tricks; he could at least ensure fair play (- think of the way the British were slapped down by the Americans over Suez.)

– of course, being Scottish, we do like to make things hard for ourselves, and this kind of “realpolitik”, practised unashamedly by every other country in the world – China, Israel, the UK, … everyone! – is thought to be “morally unconscionable” by the independence movement because … why? – the man had boorish manners and once referred to vagina as “pussy”. So, you get a lot of sanctimonious bullshit from the vocal sector of the nationalists – the SNP, the Greens, the National, Bella – all the hand-wringing cringe merchants. Nicola Sturgeon even went to a Pride march (- what have the trannies ever done for us, and what do we owe them?) rather than talk to “the guy” who could really help us.

(- Sturgeon isn’t really a nationalist, but that’s another story. Devolution has provided us the BIG GAY TRANNY DISCO social agenda, so … why spoil a good thing; the Scots might reverse this if indy actually happens, better we then “agonise about it endlessly” without actually doing anything.)

But – that ship has sailed anyway and the other nights “capitol theatre” seems to have brought it to a close – won’t it all be a great laugh, when, 50 years from now, we learn on the “hyperweb” that all those MAGA boys were CIA and Homeland Security, while the Antifa, were FBI and NSA?

Confused, I don’t find your comment confusing at all. On the contrary, I find it most enlightening! And I also echo Alf’s comment above.

As my father always said, the two-party system serves one purpose and one purpose only – to maintain the status quo. In Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon serves that purpose!

What’s with the change to “tractor” Rev?

This is best cartoon on storming of the capitol I have seen – thank you!