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Mike Peterson Published: March 4, 2017 1 minute 0 comments

Okay, gang: Who's up on their movie quotes?

Here's our cinematic juxtaposition of the weekend. Spot the references:

From Matt, the backstory being that PM Theresa May has, indeed, announced that she's giving up crisps (potato chips) for Lent. Either she's got a serious junk food habit or a less than serious concept of "sacrifice."

In any case, can you name the movie being referenced?

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And from Barney & Clyde, this reference to a movie that has been much discussed in recent weeks and which, by the way, if you haven't seen it, you should, and not the remake but the real deal.

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Bonus non-cartoon question:

Trump's ongoing obsession (yes, it's multiple choice) with what movie star does this headline seem to reference?

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Only here's the story behind that headline. It's not a movie: It's real life.

Though I'm not an undocumented alien, so, of course, I'm doing nothing.

Priorities:

Just as Trump has never explained what is wrong with our current system of vetting travelers, and just as the GOP has never explained exactly how the Affordable Care Act has failed, neither has anyone explained why we need to increase military spending.

But Drew Sheneman explains how the plan works. It's simply a matter of setting priorities: Do we want to help our own people or go blow up some other people?

Better take some time off to think about it. Fiscal responsibility matters, after all.

Getting confused? A handy chart:

Here's but a fragment of Scott Bateman's exhaustive explanation of how President Putin's administration is structured, as seen on the Nib. 

It stands in stark contrast with a pair of current cartoons by fairly mainstream conservative cartoonists that mock Democrats for being obsessed with the Russian connections.

In deference to the Prime Directive, and in the spirit of damnatio memoriae, I'm not linking to them, but it should come as no surprise that they were, short months ago, obsessed with Benghazi, with the IRS's sorting of potentially fraudulent 501c4 applications, and, of course, with that email server that could have been hacked by the foreign hackers they now no longer feel are worth investigating.

Besides, I don't want to be mean to them. They're the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human beings I've ever met.

A short post today. Nothing much to add.

Except that this Kirk Walters cartoon seemed a lot funnier when it ran a decade or so ago than it does today.