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I knew someone was going to do this, but if it’s not surprising, it is well done, because Jones had the sense not to clutter it up with additional images or unnecessary commentary. And I don’t like labels, but he made it a headline instead, which works for me.
And he always adds context at his website explaining his thinking about his chosen subject, which is helpful in this case for those who haven’t picked up on the blanket story.
Brief version: Kosplay Kristi and her main squeeze associate Corey Lewandowski had to change planes, and the pilot failed to bring her blanket to the backup plane, so she fired him on the spot. And then realized there was nobody to fly the new plane and rehired him.
Which is what happens when you hire loyalists instead of qualified experts to run things.
Ostrove also commented on the story and, yes, he misspelled a word, but spelling flames are for people who have nothing interesting to say.
Pilots really do go through a checklist, because it’s easy to forget something and not so good if you’re about to take off.
I’m glad he had the pilot say “blankie” instead of “blanket,” which emphasizes the petty silliness of the entire kerfuffle. If I’d been that pilot, I’d have declined the job offer and let them walk the rest of the way.
In other News of Nitwits, our Fearless Leader has declared climate change such a hoax that American industry no longer has to concern itself with pollution controls. This happens to benefit the petroleum industry, which was promised great benefits if they donated a billion dollars to Trump’s reelection campaign.
The Emperor Caligula was said to have made his horse a consul, though it was said by Suetonius, a noted gossip, and historians doubt it really happened. That makes for an even better comparison, given that Dear Leader loves making pronouncements and issuing executive orders that don’t really happen either.
His loyalists are applauding anyway. You’d think that, even if they disagree with the people who study climate change, they’d want to control smog. But supporting Dear Leader apparently matters more.
And others will wonder how a fellow who majored in business but doesn’t understand tariffs could know more about climatology than climatologists do. But nobody has given climatologists a billion dollars in order to help them clearly see the facts.
The Tobacco Industry Research Committee would be jealous of this breakthrough.
Other observers are less impressed with America’s change of direction,
particularly as other countries move away from fossil fuels.
There are other things the rest of the world doesn’t understand, though it seems clear enough to Emmerson, who looks on from New Zealand: We’ve decided victims don’t matter, and if there were any doubt before, Pam Bondi’s cruel, deliberate refusal to even acknowledge their presence in the room should seal the issue.
Other countries have punished those who cavorted with Epstein. Davey points out that, while PM Keir Starmer fired his top aide, Morgan McSweeney, that hasn’t preserved his own job. And the dominos continue to topple, adding to the pull on that chain Davey envisions.
Meanwhile, in the United States, Dear Leader continues to deny and, while American cartoonists draw cartoons featuring the redactions in the public version of the Epstein Papers, Aussie cartoonist Peter Broelman cuts to the chase. In his view, Trump is caught in the web.
Though I remember when Watergate was dismissed as “a third-rate burglary” even after John Dean’s testimony. If the existence of the White House Tapes had never been revealed, Nixon might have denied long enough to serve out his term, and let’s remember how he fought the tapes’ release.
Though he didn’t redact them. He just had Rosemary Woods “accidentally” erase the worst parts.
It makes me wonder how the Brits seem to have more information than we do. Assuming that’s the difference.
Juxtaposition of the Day
Australia is going through a pair of interlocking crises, with the government putting limits on free speech and Israeli President Isaac Herzog making a four-day visit, which was marked by protests.
As noted in that article, Australia was still mourning the antisemitic murders on Bondi Beach, but, while public relations suggested Herzog’s visit was a sympathetic response to the killings, that’s not what he said himself.
Herzog told The Associated Press in a statement last week his visit would “reinvigorate” bilateral relations and “dispel many of the lies and misinformation spread about Israel over the last two years.”
“Now that means his visit is not a visit to mourn, but it’s a visit that is political, that is in fact propaganda,” Australian human rights lawyer Chris Sidoti said.
Herbert suggests that the goodwill among Australians of all religions that followed the murders has been destroyed by Herzog’s visit, while Grace Tame, named Australian of The Year in 2021 and pictured in the Nordacious cartoon, was absolutely having none of it.
Also in Australia, First Dog held off on satirical commentary (mostly) in order to memorialize his friend and fellow cartoonist Jon Kudelka, who died of brain cancer at 53. I suppose if you’re hoping someone will remember you like this, you should try to be like this.
That seems quite a task, though riding around with a friend drinking whisky seems all right. And it looks as though the “e” was crossed out of the word “whiskey” on the cover, but the Aussies are prepared to explain.
Like a prayer answered, Paul Noth explains something that I wondered about recently. I had said that while stand-ups get to improve material over different appearances, cartoonists only get one shot, but added that perhaps they can rework rejected material.
Noth explains that they can, and he does. Interesting insider stuff with several examples.
If you haven’t been following him, you’ve missed a lot of funny cartoons, and this well-crafted rant about idiots and thieves who alter cartoons or put them through the AI slop machine and claim them as their own.
Now here’s a song about Dear Leader’s glorious commitment to coal, petroleum and pollution:
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