CSotD: Current Events Pop Quiz
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I came across a half-dozen or so cartoons about adding ballrooms to elementary schools, and it’s a fair point but I gather one of those fair points so obvious that it occurred to everybody. As noted yesterday, the ballroom is an absolutely stupid idea and the events at the WHCA dinner didn’t change that.
But McKee made me laugh, because he comments on both the childish reasoning and the childish person doing it.
And speaking of lots of cartoons on more or less the same topic, British cartoonists have, for the past week or so, been drawing cartoons of poor Charlie trying to wiggle out of his planned trip to the US, and Adams dropped this one just before he arrived, indicating all the wrinkles and tripping-spots in the red carpet that would be laid out for him.
The Starmer thing is a little esoteric: Their PM is self-destructing, but I doubt it will be an issue for Dear Leader. But the other stuff is right on target, Trump having suggested that he’s not so sure he wants to support Britain’s ownership of the Falklands, which raises the question “Who asked you?”
Which somewhat explains the week of cartoons about Charlie not wanting to make the trip after all.
And far be it from me to lecture a Brit on the topic of his majesty’s opinions, but while I got a chuckle out of Hudson’s cartoon — including his viciously wonderful caricatures — something pinged in my memory of Prince Charles, back when that was his name, defending George III as having been quite sane through much of his reign, including the part where we left.
Didn’t stop me from laughing, mind you. The whole world is watching and they’re not wrong, either.
And Morten Morland, noting Charlie’s arrival while we’re still cleaning up from Sunday’s WCHA banquet, wonders about those 250 years of freedom and the hornets’ nest of paranoia that the king has wandered into.
Well, buck up, folks: We’ve only got to make it to July to claim the anniversary, and, given the way things have been going, how better than with an MMA match on the White House lawn?
Juxtaposition of the Day
Lisa Benson poses the issue, and I don’t think Espinoza and Whamond provided the insight she was seeking. It’s not that there hasn’t been hostility from the left, of course, but there’s certainly been plenty from the administration itself, including threats of hanging political opponents on fanciful, one might say “trumped-up,” charges of treason.
Not to mention killing people in the streets and declaring them terrorists before their blood dries, except I just mentioned it.
Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about an old, overweight guy with lousy eating habits and burgeoning health issues — “Our First Lady Melania is here looking so beautiful. Mrs. Trump you have a glow like an expectant widow.” — and Melania got on her high horse, demanding his head on a silver platter. To which Telnaes responds with a reminder that one should never miss a good chance to shut up.
I mean, come on, Melania: He’s zeroing out in front of the cameras and don’t tell us he was resting his eyes. It seems that even Dr. Jesus can’t stay up all night posting on social media and then stay awake through his actual job. And it certainly isn’t good for him, though perhaps Kimmel was cruel to point it out.
Though nobody’d remember the wisecrack if the First Lady hadn’t hooked up her amplifier and publicized it.
Here’s something that deserves a little amplification: It may well be that Iran is responsible for shutting down the Strait of Hormuz and cutting off a large portion of the world’s supply of petroleum, and Hands is right that our reliance on fossil fuels makes us particularly vulnerable to such things.
But it wasn’t Iran who just strongarmed energy producers into abandoning their plans to build wind farms off the American coast and spending all that money, instead, on expanding our reliance on oil.
Nor did the Iranians help finance the invasion of Ukraine by temporarily lifting oil and gas sanctions on Russia.
It’s getting hard to tell our friends from our foes, but Xi Jinping probably doesn’t mind.
And Golding points out that Dear Leader may have been the only person in the whole wide world who didn’t expect Iran to shut down the strait in response to an unprovoked attack.
It’s been long known that Trump doesn’t read his briefings and has been known to wander out of the room or start talking about drapes or Sharpies in the middle of meetings. But in his first administration — according to both Michael Wolff and Bob Woodward — he was surrounded by people who sought ways to keep him from ghastly errors.
They’re gone now.
I’m glad Golding added fertilizer to the list of things in that snow globe, because I’ve seen a couple of haha jokes about it, and I think there should be a rule that, if you think a fertilizer shortage is funny, you aren’t allowed to also complain about rising grocery prices.
And here’s your language lesson for the day: It took me a second to wonder why the mullah and Dear Leader were dancing and singing about opening and closing Detroit until I thought about the map, and realized that Motor City is across from Windsor, or, to put it another way, just over the strait, or, in the language of the original settlers, le détroit.
It’s also a funny cartoon, BTW: “The meaning of the holiday” or cause of the celebration. Whoop-de-doo indeed.
Well, not to worry. It will all be over in two weeks. Or sooner. Or later. Or sometime, anyway. Even without the mullahs as dance partners, we’re able to keep the story alive. Or dead. Several people have repeated the Schrödinger’s Strait joke.
We’ve also seen quite a few “painted into a corner” cartoons, but Milbrath’s concept of Dear Leader faking an exit for himself freshens it entirely, and she’s even indicated some of the things he’s painted over in his disastrous project.
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