CSotD: With Liberty & Justice & Whatever
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Granlund offers attractive art and an odd concept, which is how readily, and how quickly, we have allowed ourselves to be dragged back into another interminable, self-destructive war in the Middle East.
After all, we haven’t finished killing our allies from our last glorious overseas adventure.
But, of course, we didn’t get into this war in the usual way, as Garth German notes. Our priorities may be the same as ever, but we used to wear a fig leaf or two in order to make it seem as if we were following the law, though sometimes the fig leaves turned out to be just that:
When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?
Kearney notes that a high school in Maine is being sued for not having the kids say the Pledge of Allegiance each morning, and the kids in his cartoon are correct that it was written by a very progressive socialist who drew criticism then and certainly would today.
It is a slightly bogus lawsuit. The law in Maine is that schools allow every student the opportunity to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at some point during the school day, which reminds me of all the jokes about kids finding time to pray before taking a test.
The father of a high school student is suing because they don’t lead the Pledge over the loudspeakers, and his kid apparently isn’t patriotic enough or bright enough to remember to do it on his own. Or something.
I’ll admit I lost my reverence for the Pledge early. A lot of South American kids at Camp Lord O’ The Flies were there to spend eight weeks speaking English, and every morning at flag raising, they put their hands over their hearts and recited the Pledge along with the rest of us, proving — at least to me — that it was possible to rattle it off without incurring any actual moral debt.
But as You Damn Kid suggested more than a decade ago, requirements to say the Pledge are generally kept.
Perhaps when Joe McCarthy Brendan Carr begins hauling in network executives and station managers for interrogation on suspicion for failing to support government policy, he should ask “Is it not true, that, when you were six years old, you took a solemn oath of loyalty …”
Hudson is Australian, so he can make unpatriotic comparisons about the amount of investigation that ensues if you shoot kids in a school here or kidnap an American woman, while the bombing of an elementary school in Tehran gets a “whoops” at best and may even be dismissed as Iran blowing up its own kids.
What Hudson doesn’t understand is that our Pledge, and FCC regulations, forbid us from criticizing our own country. In the words of Benjamin Franklin, “I’m not going to spend the rest of my life writing in Europe.” (I heard a recording of him saying it.)
Besides, we don’t care about other people’s little girls. What we care about is gasoline, and New Zealand Finance Nicola Willis says they’re in relatively good shape down there, while Emmerson further suggests that she holds an advantage by virtue of national cinematic experience.
And she’s in no danger from Brendan Carr because not only is she not American but he wouldn’t understand a wood she sid.
Different Nicola, different nation, but also less than loyal to Dear Leader: Jennings suggests that, given his country’s dependence on oil, he’s shot himself in the foot. Being British, she’s in no danger from the FCC, and she’s also not the only observer who thinks Dear Leader has overplayed his hand.
Body isn’t nearly as polite as Jennings about the bollix Dear Leader has made of things, and he has a unique and most evocative way of suggesting it’s entirely Trump’s own fault.
He’s also mocking Dear Leader’s cunning plan, which is to invite other nations to send their warships around to fix the Strait of Hormuz that somehow got blocked by somebody’s foolish actions.
Wolterink suggests that Dear Leader was outplayed from the start and now would like to find an exit, since he couldn’t possibly have foreseen either the willingness of Iran to accept blows or the possibility that a narrow band of water which has been a stress point in Middle Eastern flare-ups for at least the past half century might possibly become one now.
According to the polls, Dear Leader’s getting down to the point where only the MAGA loyalists remain in support of him, and while he could probably still shoot a couple more protesters without losing MAGA votes, he did promise them cheap gasoline, and at some point they’re also going to notice not only the 40% leap in gas prices, but that the cost of living in general has continued to rise.
And you could blame that on Joe Biden, except that Dear Leader promised solutions “on Day One” and we’re already a ways past Year One.
Karoline Leavitt still thinks it’s all Joe Biden’s fault, but she believes things that even Brendan Carr wouldn’t expect anyone to accept.
Davies sees Dear Leader and the Boy Blunder as a pair of kids repeatedly inserting more and more money into the claw machine and repeatedly failing to come up with anything. This is particularly fitting if you know that those machines are set to only grip every x-number of times, no matter how skilled the person operating the claw and wasting money.
It’s a lovely metaphor for attacking Iraq or, as a wise man once said, “Ha-ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders – the most famous of which is ‘never get involved in a land war in Asia.'”
There is a solution, which is to launch a new distraction, so that just as Iran was a distraction from the Epstein Files, an invasion of Cuba will distract from our excursion into Iran.
Then all he’ll need will be a distraction from the war in Cuba, though he may get to a point where he needs more soldiers than are motivated by having taken the Pledge in grade school.
I predict heel spurs.
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