Bad Operator

Today's cartoon poses a serious question:

Has Rip van Cankles done anything even remotely Presidential during either term of office?


The answer is a qualified "nyet!"

Should we at this point begin searching for a suitable replacement for the title of "president"? Maybe we ought to stick with "Chief Executive" as it's more accurate and generic enough we can ditch it later for something with more sex appeal. Like "Top Banana".

I, for one, have never (to my meager recollection) written the word "president" in front of "Donald Jessica Trump". For the very same reason I never wrote it before the word "dog turd".

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Why is Persident T-rump trying to start a war with Venezuela?

Because the whole country is floating on a shit-ton of oil and if ginning-up a reason to invade a sovereign nation in order to steal its oil was good enough for George "Watch This Swing" W. Bush then it's good enough for another nit-wit like Taco Man.

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Okay, so now Persident MRIdiot is trying to roll back CAFE standards, for the benefit of the oil companies. Sure, why not? MAGA reckons the air has kept itself magically clean over the past 50 years all by itself so why do we have to drive cars that sip fuel. This is 'Murca, goddammit, and 'Murcans are entitled by their biglyest God to waste all the natural resources then can as fast as they can. Hoo-rah!

More seriously, do you recall that 30 years ago you could buy a car that got over 50 miles to the gallon? It was the 1999 Honda Insight. Some hyper-milers claim over 60MPG.

The car was light, it was innovative, but it looked funny, so Honda had to "improve" it for the American market and so it grew larger, grew three extra doors, and became less fuel efficient.

You can still buy a car that gets over 50 MPG...used, anyway. It's the Honda Insight, which they quit selling in America by 2022. Too damned efficient for 'Murcans who aren't happy unless they can complain about the price of gas.

What I'm getting at here is that if we all drove such efficient cars the air would be cleaner, Big Oil would be measurably poorer, and oil wars wouldn't have to be fought any more.

(BTW, there's a big difference in what Trump says and what Trump achieves. So we'll wait and see how this works out.)

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Pete Hegseth is a murderer and a war criminal. Burn him!

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Below is an actual photo, not AI-assisted, of Rip van Cankle's creepy Lego-block portrait the White House deems "Christmas-y" enough to decorate the joint with. When I first saw the image I thought it was created in needlepoint and I immediately thought that crewel would have been the more appropriate medium. Because, as they say:

"With Trump, crewelty is the needle-point".



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Apologies for not posting a Wednesday 'toon. It's the holiday season and my figgy pudding just wasn't coimng together properly. I'll be back tomorrow, Friday, with a new 'toon. Cheers!

- Lefty