Cartoonists and other satiric commentators have been borrowing quotes from Orwell since the first Trump administration, but it has often meant finding general observations about dictatorships that could apply to most governments, or extreme examples that had to be toned down to apply to our current situation. Here Matson borrows the 1984 example of declaring […]
(It’s just a manly phase we’re going through.)Lieutenant Dangerous points out that we’re not at war with Iran, because, if we were at war, the president’s 60 days would have run out and he’d have to go to Congress to get permission under the War Powers Act to keep blowing things up.We were doing Operation […]
Cathy Wilcox brings some class to the topic of Lindsey Graham’s death. We’ve seen a flood of cartoons from cartoonists who didn’t like or respect him and were eager to depict him in the fires of Hell or being rejected at the Pearly Gates.Cartoonists could save some effort by creating a Pearly Gates template so […]
A little rough, but rough times call for rough cartoons, and it’s reasonable to ask whether Dear Leader is a clever, conniving genius or, well, what Sheneman has him call himself. Though after 10 years of wondering whether he is a deliberate liar or believes the non-factual things he says, the rational conclusion is “What […]
Jennings provides an overview of Trump’s adventure in Iran that emphasizes all the ways it was mishandled and winds up where most observers feel it did: With Iran at least “emboldened” if not actually stronger than before, though emboldened includes knowing they can turn the world’s economies on their heads by shutting down Hormuz.Though it […]
This being a where-to-begin moment, we might as well start with Trump arriving late at the G7 Summit and declaring “I’m the Boss!” to a response of laughter that was either appreciative or mocking, depending on which reports you read. Obviously, MacKay was among those who were not amused.Nor was du Bus impressed. French President […]
The knives are out for Graham Platner, the likely Democratic candidate (pending Tuesday’s primaries) challenging Maine Senator Susan Collins in November. Since Platner doesn’t have a legislative record to run on, it’s not surprising that his personal past is taking center stage.Varvel’s cartoon sums up the superficial aspects, with Collins the aging candidate who can’t […]
Today is Victory Day in Russia, though yesterday was VE Day elsewhere in the world. Russia marks the day the papers were signed, rather than the day the war ended. And today, as mentioned before, they’re marking the day with a parade that, Adams notes, doesn’t feature the usual display of weaponry, because their tanks […]
A simple cartoon can contain a lot of different messages, and Derenne doesn’t tell the reader what to think. She just gives us a visual poke to get the thinking process started.First of all, Trump does peddle a lot of fake news, whether it’s deliberate lies or cockamamie theorizing. By this time, we ought to […]
Today is Humpday, but it’s also Tax Day, and so since there are cartoons that will be out of date by tomorrow morning, we’ll take a hybrid comedy/politics look at the day.Matson seizes on a familiar approach, but while his “filing status” section is pretty much as seen before, his check-offs are specific political criticisms […]
The Secretary of Greasy Kid Stuff is hardly the first leader to pervert the message of Christ into a call for killing. As noted here before, while in the West the word “crusade” has come to mean pursuing a goal, in the days of the Iraq War we discovered that, in the Middle East, it […]
Ramirez captures the administration’s decision-making system, which is that there is no system and it all depends on how Dear Leader is feeling at the moment. It certainly seems like an odd way to run a country, but, then, it would be an odd way to run a casino or an airline or a university, […]
A few cartoonists joined in the general condemnation of Trump’s tasteless dismissal of Robert Mueller’s death. I remain disappointed in the number, but, then again, I didn’t see any cartoons about his jaw-dropping insult of the Japanese Prime Minister.Granlund skips the revulsion, however, and instead injects a bit of truth to counter Dear Leader’s claim […]
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 […]
I woke up in the mood for a Humpday this morning, until I started going through the cartoons and realized there were more laughs in the rest of the paper. Granted, it’s dark humor, but dark humor is how you get through dark times, as the cultures of many repressed peoples attest.I got a laff, […]