CSotD: Even Our Closest Allies Won’t Tell Him
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Wilcox sums it all up. Thanks for coming and don’t forget to tip your wait staff.
However, there are several ways of explaining where we’re at, though the most cogent seem to come from overseas. Perhaps a little distance helps with the focus.
Whether it works that way, clicking those links to see where the cartoonists are from reveals that there are certain nations where the newspaper owners have this odd idea that giving readers what they want is good for circulation.
And that there are certain nations where the cartoonists don’t always punch above the belt, and where readers would be disappointed if they did.
Camley offers a bad pun and a good observation, that Trump is up Shi-ite Creek and his paddle, which in normal times would be in hand, appears to have drifted out of reach.
Camry does a lovely job of making Fearless Leader look both helpless and out of ideas.
And if you think Camley is hard on Fearless Leader, at least he gave him credit for getting up Shi-ite Creek before things went bad.
Derenne depicts him as outmatched from the start, the sort of nitwit who would visit Pearl Harbor in his first administration and have to ask what happened there, and then, having thought it over for four years, would somehow think it was an event to joke about with Japan’s Prime Minister.
Some people should not be trusted with munitions, in the Middle East or anywhere.
And if you wonder if word is getting out, note that Bunday is well aware of the TACO nickname, and applies it here to an American boast of victory that seems, well, premature.
Yeah, they know about the bone-spurs, too, though I don’t think that’s what they look like. However, when something never existed, I think the artist has the right to depict it any way he wants.
Point being that by now you may have noticed a pattern, and while I’ll admit to being selective, I haven’t passed up any foreign cartoons proclaiming Fearless Leader to be a triumphant genius.
However much the nations of the world disagree on some points, they appear to be united on that one.
Baron suggests that Vladimir Putin is all in favor of how the wars are going, though just perhaps it has to do with Trump ending the sanctions on Russian oil that have been starving the poor bear.
Note that he’s on the phone with the US and Iran simultaneously, encouraging both to keep fighting the good fight. Or at least a fight that’s good for the bear.
I suppose that, if overseas cartoonists seem to have a uniform view of how things are going, it could be because we’re projecting not just a TACO policy but one that changes at least once a week.
And it’s not a message that inspires a lot of confidence except among those who were already loyal and just needed some reinforcement.
The question is where the red lines are drawn for these folks, who seem willing to live with secret police as long as they are picking on brown people but may start having a few doubts when they see their kids coming back from the Gulf in a flag-draped box.
Which could happen, because the families of six military members killed this past week asked for privacy at the dignified transfer of their remains, so Dear Leader brought his own photographer and posted photos of the event on-line.
At least he didn’t wear his golf cap this time. Baby steps!
Juxtaposition of the Day
The interesting part of all this is that he may honestly not think far ahead enough to realize that his insults and bad-mouthing of our allies just might influence how they respond when he asks for help with something like keeping the Strait of Hormuz open.
For that matter, he apparently didn’t understand that dropping bombs on Iran might just possibly motivate them to choke off the Strait, despite the fact that we have, fairly recently, had ships there doing VBSS inspections and facing down threats from the Iranian Republican Guard’s gunboats.
Now he’s ready for his next exciting adventure, because we care so much about the citizens of Cuba and their ability to distract people from the Iran war which distracted people from the Epstein Files but doesn’t seem to have distracted Uncle Sam from all the wasp stings he’s been absorbing.
But we’re the good guys, and we’ll prove it if we have to cut off every drop of oil they have and plunge the entire island into chaos, darkness and despair until they love us as their liberators.
It’s been more than 25 years since we liberated little Elian Gonzalez from the heartbreak of living with his father, and today, he’s grown up to be … lemme look … an industrial engineer who serves in the national assembly and has vowed “to fight from whatever trench the revolution demands.”
Boy, will he be surprised to see us!
Now, after breaking his “no new wars” promise and having stopped boasting about deserving the Nobel Peace Prize, he’s got the USA bogged down in Iran and Ukraine, playing footsie with Russia, meddling in Venezuela and doing God knows what about Greenland.
And, having not finished any of the hostilities he started, he’s now ready to find out if the Cubans will give up without a fight.
Small wonder, then, that when he looks for help, he finds the room dark, silent and apparently empty.
I’d like to listen in on some of these conversations. They can’t refuse the calls forever, but what then could they say?
I mean besides Angela, who, alas, has retired.
A century ago, Listerine made advertising history with the slogan “Even your best friends won’t tell you,” but that was about bad breath, not bad behavior. What do you say to someone who has nuclear weapons and no sense of judgment?
How long can you smile and agree with him before you just say “no?”
Mike Peterson has posted his "Comic Strip of the Day" column every day since 2010. His opinions are his own, but we welcome comments either agreeing or in opposition.
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