CSotD: Not in a Log Cabin, But in a Barn
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I’m disappointed that more cartoonists didn’t leap on Dear Leader’s appalling reaction to the death of Robert Mueller, though Wexler offered both this commentary and a traditional obituary piece.
A brief discussion of a country expression: “Were you brought up in a barn?”
It can be semi-affectionate, said to a kid who wore his hat to the dinner table. But when it’s said seriously, it actually refers less to the barn than to the pigsty out back, in which a pig or two wallow in their own filth and mire. And it wouldn’t be said to Ma and Pa Kettle, who for all their lack of refinement are kind people and good neighbors.
It might likely be said of this pig:
I don’t think we use the word “pig” enough, but then again it’s good to save it until it fits, and that’s what Wexler was referring to in regard to this particular insult to humanity.
There have been, after all, so many opportunities to wonder just how low Donald Trump can sink, how utterly insensitive he can be, and this Guardian article has a good listing to refresh your memory.
Part of understanding this sociopathic man is knowing that his mother, who raised his siblings in their Queens home, finally gave up on the little monster and shipped him off to military school.
Slyngstad leapt to his drawing board, though I’d append a couple of editor’s notes:
First, both men were born with silver spoons in their mouths, and, if anything, Mueller’s family was likely more patrician while Trump’s parents were nouveau riche. But class will out.
The other is my chance to return to a favorite hobbyhorse of mine, and to start by complimenting Slyngstad on only noting the phony bone spurs. Many others — too young to know how the draft worked — have called Trump a five-time draft dodger. That’s wrong.
Mueller also took four II-S deferments as an undergraduate, then completed a masters degree, which gave him at least one, likely two more. So he was a “six-time draft dodger” in their eyes, but he then not only enlisted but volunteered for combat in Vietnam and served with distinction.
Mueller was a mensch, Trump is a schmuck.
There in eight words is what I just took nearly 400 to say.
I gather Ramirez is in favor of the SAVE Act, and I guess this is one of those “you have to show ID” arguments. And I know there are games for “mature” audiences, but I don’t know that the clerks are particularly strict about checking ages. I do know that if I try to buy beer from a young grocery clerk, an older one has to come ring up the sale. Do video stores work like that?
Thirty-six states require ID to vote, but all fifty require ID to register. I spent nine hours last week looking at drivers’ licenses, and we didn’t hand anyone a ballot who didn’t show proper ID.
I’d like to see states retain electoral control, and the courts have consistently held that elections are to be run by the states, not the federal government. We’ve had three amendments that specifically forbade the states to keep minorities, women and young people from voting, and it should take a fourth for the feds to impose restrictions on voting.
However, we know what happened the only time an amendment restricted freedom, rather than extending it. It’s why we know the name of Dear Leader’s hero, “the late, great Alphonse Capone.”
And shouldn’t we be a little embarrassed to have a Canadian — even a newly-minted member of the Order of Canada — able to see through the flimsy cover so many Americans apparently cannot?
Though I don’t think anyone is trying to tell the CBC or CTV that they have to be positive in their coverage or they’ll lose their licenses.
Nor do you have to look between the lines to detect those threats. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has specifically said that broadcasters are required to operate in the public interest, which means reporting the news as Dear Leader wants it reported.
“Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions – also known as the fake news – have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up,” he said on Xitter, citing reports with which the president disagreed.
Juxtaposition of the Day
Nor have any of their networks been sold to friendly owners who will install loyal news executives to make the news more palatable to the nation’s ruler, the way CBS did. Not that it’s all that palatable to anybody else, and this article includes a ghastly comment:
“If they can’t retain an audience in the middle of a war, God help you when the war ends.”
Mind you, it’s hard to slant bad news, and apparently when the Supreme Court slapped down Trump’s tariffs, the best CBS could do was lead with the weather instead.
As for the war, having a loyalist in charge of the FCC doesn’t help steer coverage when the administration can’t decide how to spin things to begin with. Sometimes it’s to stop them from building the nuclear bomb, sometimes it’s because they’re threatening other nations, sometimes it seems to be to distract people from the Epstein Files.
Bonehead claimed he’d talked to an ex-president who agreed with him, forgetting that there are only four of them and reporters still have their phone numbers. And he doesn’t have a dog to eat his homework.
And it’s not the only time he got caught lying. This week.
Is anybody surprised that the valedictorian of his college class whose honors don’t appear on his graduation program is still having a daily tussle with facts?
Though Ruben Bolling has got to love the guy. It’s hard to fill eight panels, but it helps if you can choose from so many explanations. It’s like the old joke about the kid who said, “I worked out the arithmetic problem five times. Here are my five answers.”
It’s hard to believe this all began over the price of eggs.
Mission accomplished.
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