Wanted

From one criminal to another

Today on GoComics, a very ignorant and vile person claimed “leftists” are in favor of forever wars. That pissed me off. I wasn’t pissed because he insulted us, or that he called us “leftists,” and not even that he’s wrong. He uses “leftists,” as though he’s describing Daniel Ortega and Sandinistas. If you think there’s a comparison between Daniel Ortega and today’s Democratic Party, then you should talk to my friend Pedro Molina. I guess “liberal” isn’t scary enough for the MAGAts anymore. What pissed me off is that because of his ignorance and inability to understand our position, he took it upon himself to assign one for us.

It’s not just him. This is a talking point, and I hate talking points. Yeah, both sides have them, but while liberals will use them out of convenience, MAGAts use them out of ignorance and laziness. It saves them time and effort from actually researching. All MAGA cartoonists would prefer to use talking points rather than understand an issue. It’s also a cover for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Besides all that, MAGA talking points are always bullshit.

I’m anti-war. I had a battle every day with my editor at The Free Lance-Star because I wouldn’t draw cartoons supporting the invasion of Iraq. If I’m not going to support an illegal invasion by my country, then why would I support one by Russia?

The idiots who claim we support forever wars support the guy who started the war in Ukraine. After Putin illegally invaded Ukraine over a flimsy excuse about Nazis, Donald Trump called him a “genius” for it. I wonder if Trump thinks he’s a genius for invading DC on a flimsy excuse that Big Balls was attacked.

Supporting Ukraine, that nation that did not start this war, and its right to defend itself from a much stronger aggressor does not mean I want the war to last forever. Supporting arming Ukraine for it to defend itself from an invading force stealing its land and killing its people doesn’t mean I want the war to last forever. Anyone who believes that is a lazy idiot. Speaking of lazy idiots…

Trump and Putin will sit down tomorrow in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss the war in Ukraine. Trump is already prepared to reward Putin for his illegal invasion. Trump is proposing that Russia be gifted portions of Ukraine, which won’t be good enough for Putin. Putin wants the entire nation. If Trump were around in World War II, he would have given Hitler Poland.

Trump is going to negotiate with a war criminal who‘s violated every agreement he’s ever made with Ukraine. It will be impossible to come out of this with a rational agreement.

What I expect is that we’ll get the usual in a Trump-negotiated agreement, an agreement to eventually have an agreement. Do you remember what was in the “treaty” with North Korea? We got some remains from American war dead, but North Korea is still making nukes, testing missiles, still threatening South Korea, is still a communist country, and is still starving its people while its leader is drinking expensive champagne while watching American films in extravagance. I’m sure Putin has studied this. After all, Vlad and Kim talk.

North Korea sent weapons and soldiers to fight with Russia in Ukraine.

When Trump sits down with Putin, he’ll be “negotiating” with a war criminal. Putin will also be negotiating with a criminal and a convicted felon.

Trump will be very comfortable in Putin’s presence because Trump has surrounded himself with the worst people this nation has to offer. Trump has asked rhetorically (I think) in the past, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” Cohn was a sleazy, corrupt lawyer who served as Joseph McCarthy’s lead counsel. Trump may not have ever found his Roy Cohn, but he found his Goebbels in Stephen Miller.

Since Trump has offered Putin portions of Ukraine and a promise that Ukraine will never become a member of NATO, and the war still isn’t over, what is Putin going to demand this Friday? Maybe he wants every first Ukrainian born. Maybe he wants Zelensky to wash his car every Thursday. Maybe he wants Alaska.

Maybe he’ll demand to be a Kennedy Center Honoree.

Creative note: I’m sick of Trump. Yeah, we’re all sick of Trump, but I mean, at this particular moment, I’m tired of Trump…creatively. I’m tired of drawing the bastard. I need a day off from Trump, but that’s hard. Just today, the top news was federalizing DC, the Alaska summit with Putin, and then the Kennedy honorees. It’s too much Trump fuckery. I would like a day off from Trump, and my newspaper clients might agree. But, shouldn’t I also be defending this nation from Trump fuckery?

What do you think?

Music note: I listened to Blind Melon.

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