The Sword of Donaldcles I’ve had a break, been visiting some family. I haven’t been able to avoid the news, but took a long vacation from drawing. At least I didn’t entirely miss Trump’s war. Whatya know. It wasn’t over in two weeks. And Dear Leader’s reckless threats keep on coming.

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections. snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

Cosplay Barbie

Kristi Noem was deservedly removed as Secretary of Homeland Security. Dear Leader is nominating another likely incompetent sycophant to replace her, Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin, the only sitting US Senator whose education has not even attained a bachelor’s degree. Some of my Noem stuff:

The ridiculous variety of justifications from the Trump Administration for the unprovoked acts of war against Iran might even be funny if it wasn’t costing people their lives.

As Dear Leader is now hanging his ugly mug on Federal buildings, you have to wonder if these MAGA clowns have bothered to consider how bad this looks, how thoroughly un-American. Here, I’ve extracted a drawing I did four years ago as the 2024 campaign 1/2

A remembrance drawing of the great American actor Robert Duvall who passed on Sunday. Here he is as Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove.

DHS Checklist A particularly unflattering piece in the February 13 issue of the Wall Street Journal about Kristi Noem and her alleged FWB Corey Lewandowski relates a particularly absurd episode illustrating Noem’s diva-like behavior in running the Department of Homeland Security.

Ape Shit He’s really disgusting, isn’t he?

Conway: If you want your lives to be better and you want this country to persevere for your kids, we need to impeach and remove this fascist fucker now, as soon as possible. And I know that language is tough, but that’s where we are.

Groundhog Sues His Shadow Of course he does. Happy Groundhog Day!

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Assassin Nation A sunny, cold Saturday in January became a day of rage. The vile slanders spewed by the leadership of the American government today about the murder of Alex Pretti this morning is beyond infuriating.

Stephen Manipulator As bad as Dear Leader can be in his own right, as his seeming growing dementia progresses, I’m getting an increasingly uncomfortable impression that Stephen Miller is largely driving the bus.

Con Jabba I’m sure that we are all equally comforted by the notion that the only thing that constrains the Mango Mussolini is his “high grade morality.”

Scott Adams has passed, after battling cancer. There was a time, years ago, when I found his work quite entertaining, but in his later years, he took a pretty sour turn, at least from my perspective. Here are three panels that he “inspired” me to draw over the last several years.

Little Big Man

Klaus Play Barbie

The Brain The arrogance of the Deputy White House Chief-of-Staff is astonishing as this unelected humorless hack acts as if he is setting the foreign policy of the United States.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Unthinkable?

He gets so excited thinking about all that Venezuelan oil! And I bet you’re not thinking about those Epstein files! So, is our Congress going to sit idly by and allow the madman to invade other countries at will?

This Shit is Really Getting Old Swollen cankles and all, are we Great yet? Happy New Year, Bluesky!

No Class

Turning Points JD had a lot to say at the Turning Point USA gig over the weekend , this is but a sample. It’s clear that he’s angling to be the go-to guy to lead the far right after the inevitable sunsetting of Dear Leader. JD is one hell of an opportunist and as phony as they come.

Saucy Susie

Truth: POS Yes, the Mango Mussolini’s post about Rob Reiner was vile. But, consider the source.

Make America Pirates Of course, he’s keeping the oil. And isn’t it comforting that they say they got a warrant to seize the oil tanker in international waters. Our nation has been tarnished in so many ways by this regime, why not be pirates?

Not Falling For It Kegsbreath can dodge and weave, but it looks like even some Trumpublicans are not falling for it.

VETTING The incompetence of most all the cabinet secretaries in this administration makes just about anything possible. Here’s another dress-up option for Cosplay Barbie.

SLEEPY DO’ Or, should that be Sleepy, Doh!? It’s all so ridiculous.

EYE ROLL When the world is going to shit, why not indulge in some obscure literary humor? Please post a comment below if you get the reference. My wife tells me that nobody’s gonna get it.

We go to maybe 1 or 2 games every year, but I couldn’t help but get sucked into the playoffs this year with the Seattle Mariners making a good run at it. Game 7 of the ALCS was painful. I’m not even a huge fan, but have to admit I got a taste of what the true fans must’ve been feeling this week.

One of my impressions from Saturday’s No Kings march.

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now. YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday. Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms. While you still can. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021."

The charlatan posing as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services made some typically stupid statements the other day that pretty much got lost in the noise that is the Trump Administration. I was particularly struck by his statement that they were doing studies to “make” the proof 1/2

Blondie What a show this incompetent women put on for the nation on Tuesday. Representing “the most transparent administration in history,” she refused to answer questions posed by US senators performing their constitutional role in overseeing the executive branch.

I’ve been struck by how much enthusiasm is being expressed in the MAGAverse for Dear Leader setting the military against “we the people,” with absolutely no concern whatsoever for compliance with laws like the Posse Comitatus Act or constitutionally protected state sovereignty, that pesky 1/2

Camouflaged agents. Ziptying women and kids. In the middle of the night. Many were US citizens. This is Trump’s America—and next it could be YOU.

N Words I spent some time Tuesday wondering what those senior officers must have been thinking during that spectacular clown show.

War Game Are we sick of this crap yet, America?

This is a particularly interesting discussion on the Coney case with the unique insights of Andrew McCabe as a podcast co-host.

Another craven institutional capitulation to creeping authoritarianism as Disney takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air. And the freakin’ fascists hadn’t even started to push very hard yet. This is what Timothy Snyder warns not to do in “On Tyrrany.”

Dontcha Just Hate Speech? More massive Trumpist incompetence on display this week as Pam Bondi totally steps in it with some impassioned remarks inspired by some of the tasteless Charlie Kirk mockery. She bravely bragged about how she will gladly crush such “hate speech” “on both sides of the 1/2

Saint Charlie For verily he said unto them, “Readeth between my lines…” The sanctification of Charlie Kirk has really been something to behold.

The moment when it becomes most difficult, perhaps even impossible, to tell the truth, is the moment when it is most critically important to tell it. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

In the rush to be first, mainstream media has been false. America deserves only the facts and accurate reporting from its journalists.