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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, September 19, 2025

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From Clay Jones:
From Clay Jones: “During his first term, Trump complained about people immigrating to the United States from “shithole” countries, and wondered why we couldn’t get more people from nations like Norway. You know, majority White nations. During the campaign last year, Trump held a fundraiser in Palm Beach with millionaires and bemoaned the lack of immigrants from “nice” countries. Trump said to the millionaires, “And when I said, you know, ‘Why can’t we allow people to come in from nice countries,’ I’m trying to be nice. Nice countries, you know, like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway?” You know, White countries. Except, people from the “nice” countries, like Denmark, Switzerland, and Norway, don’t want to come to an asshole country. These nations are ranked as some of the happiest in the world. Why would they want to come to the angriest? They know we have an ugly orange garden gnome as our leader. Guess what nation they’re talking about when they complain about immigrants from shithole countries. Trump also complained of criticism over his “shithole countries” comment, saying, “And you know, they took that as a very terrible comment, but I felt it was fine.” Of course, he felt it was fine. It was racist.” Read more at Substack.

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Today at a Glance:

Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s guests: Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly and Bunnell City Manager Alvin Jackson. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.

The Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) meets at 11 a.m. at the Tourism Development Office, 120 Airport Road, Palm Coast, in the 3rd-floor conference room. The meetings are open to the public. Contact [email protected] for additional information. See: “Over Mayor’s Objections, Palm Coast Signals It’ll Extend Agreement with Cultural Council to Manage $100,000 in Grants,” and “How Peter Johnson’s ‘Bullshit’ Trespass Led to Sunshine on FC3 Cultural Board and Its Accountability to Palm Coast.”

The Flagler County Legislative Delegation meets and hosts a public forum at 3 p.m. today at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The meeting is designed to give local officials, non-profits and others a chance to submit their wish lists to Flagler County’s House and Senate members ahead of the legislative session. The delegation consists of Sen. Tom Leek and House Rep. Sam Greco, both Republicans. The legislative session begins Jan. 13, 2026.

The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.

‘Avenue Q,’ at City Repertory Theatre, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m., 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast. Celebrate CRT’s 15th season with the Tony Award-winning hit Avenue Q! This laugh-out-loud musical blends puppetry, pop culture, and catchy songs to explore adulthood, love, and finding purpose. Don’t miss this unforgettable, irreverent journey through the ups and downs of post-college life—CRT-style. Tickets are $32.70 for adults, $17.17 for students (including ticketing fees). Book here.

‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. except on Sundays, 2 p.m. Tickets are $37.55 per person. Book here. Definitely “habit-forming”, this riotous show takes us through a fundraiser organized by the Little Sisters of Hoboken. They are trying to raise money to bury ​one of their sisters​ who was ​accidentally poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). Originating as a line of greeting cards, Goggin expanded the concept into a full musical that became the second-longest off-Broadway run in history.

‘All Shook Up,’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Box office: (386) 255-2431. Sept. 13, 19, 20, at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 14 and 21 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 for youth, $30 for adults. Book here. It’s 1955, and into a square little town rides a guitar-playing young man who changes everything and everyone he meets in this hip-swiveling, lip-curling musical fantasy that’ll have you jumpin’ out of your blue suede shoes with such classics as “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Don’t Be Cruel.”

Notably: From Statista: “According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 2.9 percent over the last 12 months before seasonal adjustment, up from 2.7 percent in June and July. On a monthly basis, prices edged up 0.4 percent with the indexes for shelter, food and gasoline accounting for two thirds of the monthly increase. Meanwhile core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, came in at 3.1 percent in August, up from 0.2 percent in July and also the highest reading since January.” Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017 (during the Obama years), in the Times: “The reasons this new normal would be so much lower than what we were used to are that the U.S.-born working-age population is barely growing and we are no longer making up for that with a large inflow of immigrants. There are other factors that suggest the slowdown is more about the supply of workers than weakening demand for them (or an impending recession). For instance, the pace of wage growth remains fairly steady, and employers are not cutting back on average work hours.” The emphasis, of course, is mine. Between tariffs, the war on migrants, if not on Americans, the banana republic attacks on the Federal Reserve, and the White House’s utter indifference to governance, even O’Henry’s banana republics look like a safer bet.

—P.T.

 

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George III’s ministers were no gang of unprincipled villains, subservient to a royal tyrant. Lord Dartmouth, for instance, who sponsored the Coercive Acts, was a kind and pious gentleman, patron of Dartmouth College and protector of the poet Cowper. But almost all were incompetent. The situation called for statesmanship of the highest order; and the political system which George III manipulated to his personal advantage put statesmanship at a discount, political following at a premium. In the end it was ignorance, confusion, and unresponsiveness to crying needs and issues, rather than corruption or deliberate ill will, which convinced the Americans that their liberties were no longer safe within the British empire. And these three factors – ignorance, confusion, and irresponsiveness – have brought down more governments than we can count, and will continue to do so in the future unless replaced by knowledge, order, and sensitivity. 

–From Samuel Eliot Morison, H.S. Commager and William Leuchtenburg, The Growth of the American Republic, vol. 1 (1930, 1980).

 

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  1. Laurel says

    Oh, Trump thinks he’s going to make America white again. Like one, walled off, inbred, single thought, single focused batch of morons. Diversity is what made this country, and the very folks, whose recent ancestors came from somewhere else, seem to forget that.

    Diversity brings cultures. I, for one, love Mediterranean food, and Caribbean food! I was raised with a Norwegian pallet (white bread, potatoes, vanilla ice cream and sugar cookies, and other easy to store during winter foods) and was very happy to learn about coconut, curry and green seasoning! Yah mon! Naan bread, olives and cheese, hummus, garlic spread and grilled veggies. You bet! I cannot wait to grow collards again, and cook ’em with garlic and a smoked turkey leg. I still love buttered lefsa with turkey and gravy, but there is more to the world, and I want to know it.

    I say “YES” to diversity!

    Now I’m hungry…

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  2. Skibum says

    Contrast this with the questions to be asked of white South Africans the U.S. wants to bring to this country. Oops, sorry… there are no questions. If they have light colored skin and look like they could have come from a European country, they’re good to go!

    The WH and Steven Miller waves the American flag and proclaims, “Welcome, fellow patriots!”

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