CSotD: Quick Draw Reactions
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Kristi Noem’s sudden fall from grace called for some quick reactions from cartoonists and I think they acquitted themselves well as a group. Not every take was brilliant, but several were quite good, particularly from a cold start. I’m sure there will be some others landing in the next day or two, but you snooze, you lose, and with things coming at us so fast lately, you’ve got to be quick on the draw.
Dogs figured in a lot of cartoons, but I particularly like McKee’s, because the reason Noem’s shooting of her puppy was so astonishing was, first, that she seemed proud of it and bragged about the leadership it showed. Well, McKee shows Trump finally stepping up to his duties here, though he isn’t bragging about it.
In fact, not only did Trump take her out to the gravel pit, but then he told us the governmental equivalent of that old story that she’d been adopted by an old couple in the country where she’d have lots of room to run around. To scale it up, he said he was naming her “special envoy for The Shield of the Americas,” which drew a lot of Marvel Universe jokes but didn’t fool many people.
Ohman throws in the goat that she also took pride in shooting that day, apparently for no reason beyond his acting like a goat. I think the goat deserves a place at the hearings, too, but they don’t get nearly as much sympathy as puppies, mostly, I think, because so few people encounter them on a regular basis. Note the halos, by the way: These are the actual slaughtered animals, speaking from the grave.
In the hearings that sealed her fate, Tom Tillis berated her for taking a 14-month-old, largely untrained puppy on a hunt in the first place, and added that her incompetence as a dog trainer and cruelty as a human being were what cost poor Cricket her life.
I think you could level the same charges at Trump for assembling an entire Cabinet of poorly trained puppies.
I think Cousineau fails by suggesting that Trump is cold-blooded, and by showing other heads on stakes. This is the first firing in his current administration and, as said, he softened it with that ridiculous story about making her a special envoy to the Justice League of America.
I think the country, and the world, would be better off if he were more inclined to lop off heads, though her side piece, Cory Lewandowski, also got the gate.
Still, there’s plenty of blame to be shared among the Senators who confirmed the appointments of these dabblers and incompetents. At least Noem chose an excellent breed as the gun dog she never knew how to train.
Telnaes was among several cartoonists who portrayed Cricket’s revenge, and she kept it simple, though Cricket was female and probably more inclined to squat. However, my little female does add to markings, and, besides, we don’t know that this good dog is Cricket anyway.
Anderson, for instance, portrays Cricket’s revenge as being carried out by her friends and relatives. He also makes it into a dumping of Noem and her bankie, which carries a mafia-like message about screwing up and embarrassing Dear Leader.
Pope criticizes Canadian PM Mark Carney and Australian PM Anthony Albanese for their failure to stand up to the bull(y) the way Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez did, refusing to allow the US to use the jointly run bases at Morón and Rotafor to strike Iran, saying
Spain opposes this catastrophe, because we understand that governments are there to improve people’s lives, to solve problems, not to worsen them. And it is absolutely unacceptable that leaders who are incapable of fulfilling this task use the smokescreen of war to mask their incompetence and line the pockets of a select few.
Trump has threatened to cut off trade with Spain in revenge, but Sanchez remains unmoved and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz advised Dear Leader that trade with Europe is an all-or-nothing proposition.
Kelley takes a different view of the war, but he may have stumbled into a logical flaw by noting how happy ex-pat Iranians seem to be about the American attacks. There are reasons that people choose to leave the land where they, and their ancestors, were born, and the bulk of ex-pat Iranians aren’t likely to be fans of the current government.
Given the demonstrations that have rocked Tehran in recent weeks and earlier than that, it shouldn’t be hard to find jubilant Iranians there, too, but there are reports that the Republican Guard is on edge, and going out to publicly celebrate is definitely not advised.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of people there, particularly out away from Tehran itself, who are loyal to the current government and don’t want to have Dear Leader choose their next head of state.
Juxtaposition of the Day
Gas prices have already risen in response to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes about 20% of the world’s petroleum. It’s certainly true that this cut in supply has not yet been felt at the pumps, or even, yet, at the refineries, and both Hudson and Davies accuse the companies of profiteering.
However, in all fairness, gas prices are traditionally based on replacement cost, and it has always been more than an issue of LIFO or FIFO, but, rather, a longer view of anticipated cost. You are not required to approve of this, but it is how the industry has always operated.
Though if Dear Leader takes over both Venezuela and Iran, he’ll have access to plenty of petroleum and he’ll probably cut prices down to pure cost rather than take any sort of profit. After all, as Karoline Leavitt has explained, he makes no profit from being president and, indeed, has lost money while in office.
And if you believe that, I know a guy who will sell you a seaside condo in Gaza.
Anyhow, here’s a song for Kristi, who should have been nicer to Cricket, who I’m sure would have given her and Cory a place to crash, as long as they brought their own blanket:
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