Never Forget

Why vote for terrorists who have attacked our country?

Remember after 9/11 when it was revealed that the George W Bush administration was informed that al-Qaida was planning a terrorist attack? W’s administration knew something was coming and didn’t take it seriously. They didn’t do anything about it beforehand. Afterward, they invaded the wrong country funded with tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.

Now, we have another chance to stop a threat to our national security yet for some reason, that threat is currently tied in the polls with the person trying to save our nation. Weird right?

Donald Trump is an internal threat to our national security. He’s a threat to our democracy. This is not an opinion.

Donald Trump invited white nationalist MAGA terrorists to Washington to disrupt the certification of the Electoral College which Joe Biden had won. The terrorists brought weapons, attacked police, broke into the Capitol, threatened members of Congress, and chanted to hang Mike Pence.

Donald Trump invited these terrorists and waited hours to call them off, telling them that he loved them in the process. Today, he’s talking about giving them all pardons, which he could have done before he left office. Trump calls them patriots.

Trump is the first president (sic) to refuse a peaceful transfer of power. He still denies he lost the election.

Today, Donald Trump threatened election workers, threatening to send them all to prison if he doesn’t win the election. In his threat, he accidentally revealed he’ll run for a third term (if he wins or steals this election).

Trump has also threatened to send all his enemies to special camps. He’s called his enemies “vermin.” He’s using Hitler’s language and says he wants to be a dictator. He literally said he wants to be a dictator. He praises dictators and other authoritarians because he wants to be one. Trump has said he wants to “cancel” parts of the Constitution.

Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy and JD Vance is along for the ride. When Trump, JD, and other MAGAts talk about patriotism and democracy, they mean the opposite.

What makes me sick is seeing a MAGAt with his hand over his heart singing along to the national anthem because he doesn’t love what that song stands for. What makes me sick are MAGAts who don’t get the irony of wanting someone fired or deported for kneeling during the national anthem. The national anthem represents our freedom, right? Aren’t MAGAts going against constitutionally guaranteed freedom when they want people punished for saying something they disagree with? These are the same fuckers who want college kids deported for protesting against Israel on campus while also screaming at colleges that won’t give Nazis a forum to speak to students. It’s like wanting a new constitutional amendment to ban flag burning which would be the Constitution contradicting itself. You don’t need a new amendment to ban flag burning…you just gotta get rid of the First.

For Trumpers, stealing the election for him is patriotic. Overturning an election, stealing votes, and sending people to prison for voting against Trump is democratic.

If you really want to stop terrorists from attacking our nation, then vote against Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is a greater threat to our nation than Al-Qaida.

Note: I told my proofers that if I don’t get yelled at for this cartoon, then I’m going to be greatly disappointed. Good news, I’ve been yelled at.

Drawing this cartoon reminded me of my time at The Free Lance-Star. As many of you know, I hate commemorative and memorial cartoons. I will draw them now and then, but I hate them. My editor at FLS LOVED them. It was his favorite thing to put on the editorial page. He used the word “kudos” way too much in his pieces because he loved kissing ass. (sometimes, you were in danger of getting a rebound ass kiss because you were standing too close to the original target of the ass kiss). And, he would always forget to be careful when assigning a “nice” subject to me.

The thing he hated most was when he’d make a request and I’d use it to make a point. He didn’t want points with this kind of stuff. He wanted sweet and sticky. My editor screamed at me…a lot. He even yelled at me on my very last day at the paper for a cartoon questioning the city getting a minor league baseball team, which he took personally. Most editors would say a simple “no,” but not mine.

He once tried to fire me for questioning an ass-kissing assignment (and yelled at me), and then I was put on probation with about three monthly quotas of ass-kissing. They also assigned me to take a personal interest in a subject that would better the community and draw about it monthly. They said the subject was my choice. See? Ya gotta be careful. I chose to use the assignment to fight racism, which got me yelled at again because they had something more in mind like anti-littering or ladies shouldn’t get tramp stamps (my editor did once request I do a cartoon against lower back tattoos. He was from West Virginia). Oddly enough, what saved my job and made FLS forget about the quota was tramp stamps. No, seriously, it was 9/11. 9/11 saved me from being fired. It all came back again when I opposed the Patriot Act and the invasion of Iraq. They hired the wrong cartoonist.

Today’s cartoon is the freedom of being independent and thanks to my paid subscribers, I don’t have to care if an editor screams at me. I can scream back or better yet, ignore it. Thank you.

My former editor at FLS would NOT have approved this cartoon.

Speaking of editors, I picked up a new client yesterday (yes, on a Sunday…on a Sunday night even) and this is the first cartoon they’re getting from me. Well, having that new client was nice while it lasted.

Drawn in 30 seconds:

Timelapse with a voiceover:

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