F-Bombs Over Broadway

Shush Yo Mouths

I gotta be honest with you. I didn’t think Trump’s F-bomb was anything unique or scandalous in the New Normal. Sure, it’s not presidential for a president to say, “They don’t know what the fuck they’re doing” to reporters while standing in the White House driveway, but none of this has been presidential.

So, I didn’t think it was cartoon worthy, but then I saw one yesterday, and another one today, and then another one, and then another one, which means there are going to be at least 12 more by the end of the day. I decided to use it myself in doing a cartoon on the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, but put a little twist on it.

Political Cartooning 101 lesson: Use the F-bomb in your cartoon as a tool, but don’t make the cartoon about the F-bomb…unless it’s too funny to resist.

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was and maybe still is trying to resurrect his political career after resigning in disgrace after being accused of sexual harassment by at least 11 women, which is less than half the number of women who have accused Donald Trump, yet his political career is still going. And former senator Al Franken is now playing a fictional senator in a limited Netflix series.

Cuomo was the favorite to win the Democratic primary, but unfortunately for him, it was rank-choice voting, where voters rank candidates for office in order of their preference. This system gave the nomination to young upstart Zohran Mamdani, an Islamic democratic- socialist state assemblyman with very few legislative accomplishments. And this is what I meant when I said Cuomo was/is trying to resurrect his political career.

Of course, Cuomo’s bid to become the Democratic nominee for NYC’s mayor is over, but not his bid to become mayor…unless he changes his mind and removes himself from the ballot, as Cuomo is now running as an Independent.

Previously, victory in the Democratic primary all but guaranteed a move to Gracie Mansion, as Democrats outnumber Republicans 6-1 in the Big Apple. But now, it may be a five-way race.

Rank-choice will not be implemented in the general election, where Mamdani will have to compete once again against Cuomo, but also against current mayor and bribe-taker Eric Adams (who will have Donald Trump’s support), Guardian Angels founder and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa (who had no opposition for the nomination), and former federal prosecutor Jim Walden, who is also running as an Independent. And I’m sure there are a few dozen other never-heard-of-before dingbats on the ballot.

While some pollsters may predict that Mamdani will win the general election, you can’t be too sure with his socialist platform, that Cuomo’s still in the race, and NYC has the largest Jewish population in the world outside Israel. If Cuomo does drop out, I’d predict Mamdani to win.

One thing you can expect during the race is chaos, and more of this…

So this is going to be fun. One of the president’s (sic) sons retweeted this, and that’s something that would have been scandalous years ago. The president’s kid is openly bigoted and racist, yet nobody’s apologizing for it.

I kinda expect one of the racist Garys in my industry (Varvel or McCoy) to draw Iran giving Mamdani a bomb.

I think a better way to drop an F-bomb right now is to say “Fuck all Trumps.”

California note: I’m still here. I saw there’s a heat advisory back in Fredericksburg, and currently it’s 96 degrees there. Hey, isn’t that the name of a boy band? Here in lovely Carlsbad, it’s 70. 70 degrees versus 96. Holy flipping Fucknuts, I might have to stay in SoCal all summer.

Creative note: This type of cartoon isn’t my favorite. It’s like a cartoon where someone’s sticking their head out of a window and saying, “It’s an angry mob. I can’t wait until the GOP gets here to defend us. And someone replies, “That is the GOP.” shit like that. You may see the style used in political cartoons more than cliffs. Rob Rogers used it today. There should be a name for it.

But anywhosies, I’m not a big fan of it. But I always maintain that I’m allowed to break my own rules.

Also, I wanted to get away from Trump, and I still kinda did with today’s cartoon, even though it does mention him.

Music note: I listened to Paul Simon today.

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