CSotD: Here we go!
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I've never worked at an amusement park, but somewhere I picked up the fact that it takes about three days before you get thoroughly sick of hearing people say "Here we go!" as the ride starts.
And yet "Here we go!"
I don't have much use for metal rollercoasters that simply jerk you around. They're uncomfortable without being scary.
Give me a wooden coaster, with a lot of clickety-clack and some swaying and please let the paint fade and peel a bit so it looks like nobody has been maintaining it. Even though I know they are inspected, even though I know they are purposely fitted out to feel rickety, they inspire a sense of terror that those well-engineered metal coasters can't, even with their higher speeds, deeper dives and overhead twists.
Just as I'm pretty sure the wooden coaster actually is safe, I'm pretty sure the Constitution will protect us from the worst that seems about to happen.
But, in any case, here we go!
It's only 5:45 as I'm writing this, so it's still pretty dark out there anyway, but the world is still there and if the sun doesn't come up as usual, you probably will have other things to do than read this.
The coaster is poised at the top of the first hill and it's too late to get off.
But, hey, so far, so good.
I'm going to be sending you to other places a lot today, and that Portuguese cartoon was included in a roundup assembled by Canadian cartoonist Bado, though I have bookmarked Henrique Monteiro to watch in the future.
Bado's collection of POTUS cartoons is extensive and includes some I had seen and quite a few I had not.
The same can be said of the roundup at the Telegraph, which includes this New Yorker cartoon by Paul Noth, and, while I'm pulling out examples that I like, there are cartoons in each of these collections with which I would disagree, as well as some from either side of the aisle that I don't think are particularly well crafted.
That's a good thing, though a departure from my normal approach. On this occasion, I'd rather show the range than cherrypick my favorites.
Though Ann Telnaes has posted her sketches from the event and that's a collection with a consistent point of view and level of quality.
And David Horsey offers a single piece but with a brilliant column to go with it.
It's worth noting, by the way, that some of these cartoons were done before the event and some after. Telnaes and Horsey are commenting on the actual Inauguration while most seem to have been anticipating it.
(One of the clues seems to be whether FLOTUS has her hair down, as we normally see it, or up, as it was on that occasion. Not that Horsey is depicting the event as it actually happened.)
David Rowe's cartoon is a one-off as well, and I include it because I used to think Telnaes had a gift for graphic abuse until I came across this guy, and also because plenty of cartoonists have depicted Dear Leader as a baby, but those fat little legs dangling from the chair totally cracked me up.
He's also not the first to play with the presidential seal, nor the first to replace the eagle with a Twitter logo, but the fact that he only uses it as an element in the cartoon redeems it, as does the motto, which translates roughly as "God Help Us."
The turds are a nice touch, too. There are several things to either love or hate tucked around this piece.
Africartoons is full of takes on our new president, most but not all from that continent, this one being by Cuan Miles of the Daily Dispatch, which is from the Eastern Cape.
It's interesting to note, in both this collection and the one from the Telegraph, that comments suggest the whole world is not appalled and yet, unlike in this country, Trump fans overseas seem to express their support in relatively coherent terms.
Either they're genuinely more mainstream as a group or else those sites are more vigilant in excluding trolls.
The newsroom at Cartoon Movement is where member cartoonists post their own work, which makes it particularly useful for seeing what issues are gaining the most attention around the world.
There's a lot of Trump there right now, most of it negative, though it's not necessarily clear that a particular cartoonist from a particular country would be any kinder to some other American president.
Now here's your video juxtaposition of the day
(Note the editorial prejudice in the title: The assumption that
political cartoons are funny. Sigh. Only in America. Also,
if you don't hit stop at the end it will play another video.)
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