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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 declaring good work can be “criticism” and that’s extra in step with my intentions.
However the knife cuts each methods, and, whereas I usually 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 should combat draft dodgers, and never solely did Donald Trump lie his manner 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 army 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 on this one as a result of our anti-fascist troops in WWII didn’t should combat towards cowards and draft-dodgers.
Hitler had his faults, however no less than he had served his nation earlier than looking for to guide it. Not each authoritarian wannabe could make that declare.
On a associated be aware, I do know what Bob Gorrell (Creators) meant in celebrating Youngkin’s victory over Crucial Race Idea and whatnot, however I needed to look him as much as verify that Virginia is certainly his house base.
Therefore, nevertheless you’re feeling about his politics, he can maybe be forgiven for not realizing that, for many of us, “Sic semper tyrannis” just isn’t remembered because the motto of Virginia however because the cry of John Wilkes Sales space after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Aside from a small-but-vocal crew of SJWs, most of us nonetheless consider Lincoln as having been a fairly good fellow.
We’ll get into the Yankee/Accomplice divide on the finish of at the moment’s posting.
I additionally needed to verify Michael Ramirez (Creators)‘s house base, however figuring out 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 known as in when the officers wished to rejoice an enormous 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 dangerous on the a part of the smugglers.
You would possibly examine it to a sieve, which lets the good things by way of and catches the dangerous stuff, although I notice — 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 army to its borders to maintain refugees from getting by way of en path to the European Union.
I’m undecided there may be such a factor as a safe border, even among the many harshest regimes. I had a buddy in grade college who had moved to America from Hungary through the uprisings of the 50s.
Her dad and mom instructed her crawling underneath barbed wire was a sport, and that the flares have been merely fireworks.
Nevertheless it’s a free nation: You possibly can sympathize with whichever type 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, reasonably, distraction.
I don’t know that Garland has something distracting him from smiting Bannon with the complete majesty of the regulation, although I’d wish to assume possibly he’s getting the whole lot lined up for a significant blow of some kind.
I’d wish to assume that, however it’s turning into more durable 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 a little bit concern 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. Should you’d wish to see the place you stand on the Pew Analysis Middle’s scale of political sorts, 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 fuel pump, however in listening to the jokes about taking out loans to purchase meals and fuel.
There’s additionally loads of deja vu in blaming the president, however that’s how we’ve at all times achieved 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 meanwhile than it ever was underneath Trump, the purpose being not that Biden is an financial genius a lot as it’s that folks largely bitch about issues not out of logic or information however merely out of political loyalties.
As for the worth of meat, in case you bear in mind the Nixon years, you might also bear in mind 1973, when buyers received collectively and boycotted meat over excessive costs.
After all, in these days, buyers have been already used to supporting the Farm Staff Union by refusing to purchase lettuce and desk grapes.
It was a distinct 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 Every day Star from 1959.
It’s extra proof — as if we would have liked 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 refined!
Why on the planet 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
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