Lucky timing from RAM: This strip ran the morning after Dear Leader announced the tariffs, before the markets could react — Trump had delayed his announcement until after closing — and so was drawn even earlier than that.The markets were already shaky, but nowhere approaching the thundering crash we’re still experiencing, thanks to the jaw-dropping […]
It’s a pleasant fantasy, to imagine each bizarre, disturbing development coming along in a separate day. If it did, we could brace for it as Katauskas suggests. But, of course, that’s not how a firehose works, though the unbearable daily terror she posits would be an improvement on the flood that actually occurs.As it is, […]
Remember that brief moment during the campaign, when progressives began describing Trump and his coterie as “weird”? It had tangible impact, but it seemed unpleasant and unconstructive so they quit saying it and focused, instead, on arguments that were more pleasant and constructive.And that had no tangible impact.Jones points out the number of people who, […]
I don’t envy political cartoonists, working in an atmosphere of “Baffle’em with B*llsh*t,” as Matt Davies (AMS) indicates. It should be obvious that Trump has backed out of the kitchen-table promises that brought so many voters to his side, but he’s following Bannon’s advice to flood the zone in order to keep critics from focusing […]
Walt Handelsman sums it up: The demolition crew is here to begin taking apart America.It may be metaphorical, but it’s not theoretical: Trump has already begun spinning and, to use an old phrase from Jonathan Swift’s era, “to say the thing that is not.” To accuse him of lying requires reading his mind. But his […]
RJ Matson offers his version of Train Kept A-Rolling. Matt Gaetz was sacrificed so that others might pass through the portals. There was a time when the revelations surrounding Gaetz would have cast him into obscurity, but those days are long gone and he may become the next governor of Florida. And why not?The issue […]
Dave Whamond offers a thought-provoker that would make a good prompt for a government seminar.The Founders took steps to prevent an immigrant from heading the government, but they assumed a nation guided by the votes of responsible citizens. They made no law about race, gender, age or wealth of voters, though individual states subsequently did. […]
There is such a thing has having too much good material, and while Pat Bagley was able to squeeze in seven examples of supremely unqualified Trump appointees, cartoonists strain to keep up.Like a magician pulling rabbits from a hat, just when you think there can’t possibly be another in there and that there’s no way […]
Time Person of the Year cartoons are piling up, as are social media posts pointing out that Adolph Hitler also made the cut, but I think Dave Granlund hit the combo with this collection of Dubious Heroes. Though he missed this one from 1979. It’s not intended as an honor. It’s supposed to reflect the […]
I suspect Biden’s decision to let Ukraine fire US-supplied missiles over its border, and his decision to supply the Ukrainians with anti-personnel mines, were an effort to shore up their defenses before Trump comes into office and begins catering to his great good friend Putin. He may well choke off their aid, but it would […]
Rabbits Against Magic addresses a current Sophomore-Dorm-At-2-AM plan with the only way this silly idea might be worthwhile.There seem to be a lot of SD@2 plans floating around on social media, and as much as I appreciate idealistic concepts, and as much as I favored lowering the voting age to 18, there are times I […]
Michael deAdderBen GarrisonWe won’t get through all the emerging political cartoons about the election today, but here are the bookends: de Adder sees it as the monster returning, referencing Poltergeist, the 1982 horror film about a gateway opening up to the other side, while Garrison cites the Magnificent Seven, in which a group of heroes […]
While we wait for Tuesday, how about a break to look at some other things happening in the world?Glenn Fleishman has released How Comics Were Made, a Kickstarter-funded in-depth look at production through the years. It’s a beautiful book and, while it’s pricey at $73 in print, it’s also 280 pages deep and well laid-out […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) offers a yes-but-no discussion of our situation. There certainly are a lot of people siloed in their own little belief centers, and that’s a problem in a democratic system where people are supposed to make informed decisions.But there is such a thing as truth, and there is such a thing as […]
Ann Telnaes shares the ebullience flowing out of the DNC, adding a dash of feminine pride to the contrast between joyous celebration and the sourpuss dread driving the GOP campaign. And she’s not wrong to show Justice and Liberty as boosters for Harris, given that we’ve seen Justice denied amid a flurry of hostility directed […]