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CSotD: Analyzing the Analysts
Critiquing cartoons is the purpose of this weblog, however I attempt to be constructive, as a result of stating good work can be “criticism” and that’s extra according to my intentions.
However the knife cuts each methods, and, whereas I typically like Michael de Adder‘s work, this one appears to beg for somebody to level out that, no, WWII veterans fought Nazis however they didn’t must struggle draft dodgers, and never solely did Donald Trump lie his means out of the draft in Vietnam, however his father managed to keep away from service in WWII and his grandfather got here right here to keep away from navy conscription in Germany.
So, whereas de Adder is true to level out that being Anti-Fascist was thought of a mark of character again then, he slips a bit on this one as a result of our anti-fascist troops in WWII didn’t must struggle in opposition to cowards and draft-dodgers.
Hitler had his faults, however at the very least he had served his nation earlier than searching for to steer it. Not each authoritarian wannabe could make that declare.
On a associated observe, I do know what Bob Gorrell (Creators) meant in celebrating Youngkin’s victory over Vital Race Principle and whatnot, however I needed to look him as much as verify that Virginia is certainly his dwelling base.
Therefore, nonetheless you’re feeling about his politics, he can maybe be forgiven for not realizing that, for many of us, “Sic semper tyrannis” is just not remembered because the motto of Virginia however because the cry of John Wilkes Sales space after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Apart from a small-but-vocal crew of SJWs, most of us nonetheless consider Lincoln as having been a reasonably good fellow.
We’ll get into the Yankee/Accomplice divide on the finish of at this time’s posting.
I additionally needed to verify Michael Ramirez (Creators)‘s dwelling base, however realizing he’s lived largely in Southern California solely provides to my not getting this one, as a result of there’s a border there and it performs into native politics dramatically.
I hung out as a journalist on the opposite border and, whereas we have been typically referred to as in when the officers wished to have a good time a giant catch, we additionally realized that the border was very lengthy and fairly porous, and that these dramatic captures have been a mix of luck: Good on the a part of the Border Patrol and unhealthy on the a part of the smugglers.
You would possibly evaluate it to a sieve, which lets the great things by and catches the unhealthy stuff, although I understand — from hockey video games, not reporting — the metaphor is {that a} sieve stops nothing.
It’s an issue even in authoritarian nations, which is why Belarus is speeding the navy to its borders to maintain refugees from getting by en path to the European Union.
I’m unsure there’s such a factor as a safe border, even among the many harshest regimes. I had a pal in grade faculty who had moved to America from Hungary throughout the uprisings of the 50s.
Her mother and father informed her crawling below barbed wire was a recreation, and that the flares have been merely fireworks.
Nevertheless it’s a free nation: You’ll be able to sympathize with whichever fashion of presidency you like.
Juxtaposition of the Day
This can be a pretty innocent however amusing coincidence, although I’m keen sufficient to investigate them to the extent of preferring Luckovich’s take, as a result of it suggests incapacity, whereas Ohman’s suggests, moderately, distraction.
I don’t know that Garland has something distracting him from smiting Bannon with the complete majesty of the legislation, although I’d wish to assume possibly he’s getting all the pieces lined up for a significant blow of some type.
I’d wish to assume that, however it’s changing into tougher to take action. Charging Bannon with contempt of Congress wouldn’t solely be an indication to the nation that the federal government is critical about investigating January 6, however it would possibly strike somewhat worry into the opposite reluctant witnesses and conspirators.
Thoughts you, I’m not as fast on the draw as everybody, because it seems that I’m an Institution Liberal who needs change however retains belief within the system to convey it about. In the event you’d wish to see the place you stand on the Pew Analysis Middle’s scale of political varieties, here’s a quick test to place yourself.
Juxtaposition of the Day #2
Inflation has hit, as we knew it could, and people of us who dealt with household budgets within the ’70s are getting a little bit of deja vu, not simply within the grocery retailer and on the gasoline pump, however in listening to the jokes about taking out loans to purchase meals and gasoline.
There’s additionally plenty of deja vu in blaming the president, however that’s how we’ve all the time executed it, I suppose.
You solely have to recollect again to the Bush administration to recall a time when gas prices were worse than they are now. If it’s Biden’s fault now, it was Bush’s fault then.
In the meantime, the Dow is more healthy in the mean time than it ever was below Trump, the purpose being not that Biden is an financial genius a lot as it’s that individuals largely bitch about issues not out of logic or information however merely out of political loyalties.
As for the worth of meat, should you keep in mind the Nixon years, you might also keep in mind 1973, when consumers obtained collectively and boycotted meat over excessive costs.
After all, in these days, consumers have been already used to supporting the Farm Staff Union by refusing to purchase lettuce and desk grapes.
It was a unique world.
After which there’s this flashback
Whereas I used to be poking round for the artist of the “No Armistice Day” cartoon in yesterday’s CSotD, I stumbled onto the Anniston Day by day Star from 1959.
It’s extra proof — as if we wanted any — of my frequent complaints about cloth-eared editors who run cartoons they don’t perceive.
However my goo’ness gracious, it’s not like Herblock was being delicate!
Why on the earth did these white supremacist knuckle-draggers publish the piece within the first place???
The cartoon ran Sunday, August 16.
The letters, and the heartfelt retraction, ran on Tuesday.
Sic semper douchebaggis
