As always on Saturday, our friend TokyoSand has picked the cream of the crop in this week’s political cartoons. She also shares a story of one of those cartoons that appalls me and I think it will you, too. Thank you, TS, for all your work on this. By the way … I did go follow Luckovich on Twitter and re-tweeted this important cartoon!
As a lifelong admirer of editorial cartoonists, I love looking for the cartoons that grab my attention throughout the week and compiling my favorites for all of you. This week, the cartoonists were primarily focused on the GOP convention and the ongoing fallout from the police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
In a slight departure from what I normally do on Saturdays, which is to let the cartoons speak for themselves, I do want to point out that I picked Mike Luckovich’s “Active Shooter Drill” cartoon as the header for a very specific reason. That story is at the end of today’s roundup.
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The other day I chanced upon an anti-Democrat blogger. He posted up the opposition cartoon view.
Odd thing is they were all personal attacks, didn’t seem to be able to land any blows on policies.
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Personal attacks are Trump’s, and now the Republican’s, trademark. They have no platform, no policies, and most don’t understand such things well enough to attack them, so they attack the person instead. And by the same token, since they have no policies or platform, we can only attack their person, behaviour, and LACK of policies. And thus, it becomes a giant mudfest.
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I have heard they’ve realised that and so have drafted in an intellectual with a firm grasp of policy.
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Oh thank goodness, there will finally be some common sense in the White House! And thank YOU … a chuckle was just what I needed!
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Glad to supply the chuckles;
Foghorn Leghorn and this guy are probably the only other acceptable candidates to the current majority of the GOP:
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That’s one I had never seen before! Yes, just perfect! 🙃
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Even got the right flag
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Quite the cartoons.
Also, speaking of platform, I assume you heard the Republicans have none?
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Oh yes, I heard. I wrote a bit ago that their only platform seems to be ‘anti-abortion’, but even that wavers depending on who they are talking to. Trump thinks he doesn’t need a platform for his … cough … charisma … cough … choke … is all he needs.
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These made me smile and shake my head at the same time.
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I’m never sure any more if they make me laugh or cry. Both sometimes. Glad you got a smile, though … now you won’t be a grumpy ol’ sod! 😉
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Dear TS,
Have you come across an edtoon blogger at https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/84640675 from Northern Territory, Australia? A lot of his jokes are local, but many are universal. I enjoy his blog.
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Jill, good toons. David Brooks said it well last night on PBS Newshour. He observed Trump is positioning himself as the insurgent, not the incumbent. Trump is saying hire me again to solve these problems, but as Joe Biden said these things are happening on your watch, Mr. president. Keith
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Heck, he created or at the very least exacerbated most all of the problems! If he couldn’t ‘fix’ them in the first four years, there is no reason to think he could in the second four years. In fact, he would almost certainly make them worse, for it seems his goal to completely divide the people of this nation.
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another great set of cartoons; and those are a couple of crazy responses to Mike Luckovich’s cartoon…
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These days, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the ‘toons. Yes, it was crazy! I read some of the responses and … the racism is so blatant, so … in-your-face! Sigh.
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our country is not in a good place…
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No, we really aren’t. Sigh.
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