I had a serious piece lined up for today … a re-blog … a dark, but important piece. But, I changed my mind when I woke with a dark cloud over my head this morning, and decided to go with TokyoSand’s excellent selection of political cartoons from the past week instead. As always, thank you T.S.!
Editorial cartoonists appear to be one of the last groups of people who speak out and say exactly what’s happening. They reveal what’s really going on behind all the pomp and circumstance in front of cameras and reporters, and entertain us along the way. Although to be clear, they’re not necessarily “funny.” Especially this week.
Here are our great editorial cartoonists on what they saw in the news this week.
Black Lives Matter
Elections Continue
Corona Surges
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Anndd here we are two days late. Sorry about that.
Powerful cartoons Jill. Some of those make me wonder whether there should be a site set up where folk can register how they tried to register, nationwide that might bring forth a very interesting figure.
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Ah yes, you were a little late to the party, but the ‘toons are still there! That’s not a half bad idea, Roger. It might well bring forth some interesting data.
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Anything to make the Flabmeister uncomfortable and annoyed
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Agreed!!! I think the interview on ABC Sunday morning with John Bolton will make him feel VERY uncomfortable and annoyed!!! 😉
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Annnndd another book comes out!
(I have a feeling executives from publishing outfits sneak into places of worship and say ‘Thank you for Donald Trump. Thank you,’)
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Ha ha … I can picture the publishing execs doing just that! As have the political cartoonists, the opinion writers, and … perhaps the weapon-makers. Sigh.
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Funnily enough Jeff Danziger did a cartoon of his himself reading a newspaper with the headline ‘Pat Robertson says something crazy’. Danziger is looking skyward saying ‘Thank You’ and the caption was something along the lines of ‘A Cartoonist’s answer to meeting a deadline’.
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Good ones!
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Glad you liked them!
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As you point out, the featured cartoons are not “funny,” but our editorial cartoonists have captured well the pulse of the pressing issues we must now face as a nation.
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Yes, they clearly sum up the situation(s) in a visual nutshell, don’t they? As I was telling someone else, if you compiled just one cartoon per week starting with Trump’s inauguration, you’d have a complete history of his term in office.
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Sounds like an interesting project you could undertake.
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Actually … it does! Now, if only someone would add an extra 4 hours or so to my day! 😉
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It’s possible Trump also hates that wall put up for him to hide behind because he knows rightly what people are thinking and it must hurt his ego. —- Suzanne
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I think it was he who wanted the wall … he thinks he’s so important that he must be protected, while the rest of us must risk our lives to jump-start “his” economy. But, yes, his ego is apparently wounded, and he’s seeking to repair that with his rally on Saturday. Frankly, I hope only about 20 people show up!
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I also hope not many will show for his rally but I then remember how many of his followers are as silly and ignorant as he is. They often decide to do the very thing that endangers them. ;( — Suzanne
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Well, we can only protect fools from outside troubles, not from themselves, so I guess they’ll just have to pay the consequences. Sadly, so will their families & friends.
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Jill, the president’s tone deafness on the racial injustice, partly because of his racist bent and partly because he calculated that it helps with his strident base, is beyond poor form. His team’s pepper spraying civil protestors for his photo shoot is criminal. His mishandling of the pandemlc has allowed more Americans to be exposed and die and has ground the economy to a halt. He is quick to blame others, but we lost six weeks to plan and his misinformation has caused an unwarranted cavalier attitude that has heightened exposure.
The cartoons make us laugh and think, but it is sad to think the US president is so chaotic, incompetent, indecent and unempathetic. Keith
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Powerful stuff! Thank you for sharing these. The wall Mexico didn’t pay for with the questioning BLM demonstrator is a telling twist.
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My pleasure! The cartoons say as much with few or no words as I can say in a 1200-word post!
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I like the We the People cartoon best. Editorial cartoonists appear to be one of the last groups of people who speak out and say exactly what’s happening but remember the other side have editorial cartoonists too though I hope they were as disgusted with the killing of George as the rest of the world.
Cwtch
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That’s my favourite, too, and I’ve used it a couple of times in the past week. I’m sure I’ll be using it again … it speaks volumes. You make a good point about the other side … I haven’t popped over there to see lately, but perhaps I will do so this week.
Cwtch
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These are great.
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Glad you liked them! xx
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