Brilliant! Putin is having him for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Wonder how much he is getting for betraying Ukraine and our Allies. Keep up the good work Ann.
My group of Democrats Abroad in Germany is having a preparing for WWIII discussion, as we in Europe are all taking the aggression against the countries we live in seriously.
I like this discussion between Anand Giridharadas and Stephen Wertheim about Ukraine and the USA. Wertheim points out what Putin got from Trump the first time around. While it may be different, I feel his discussion is measured and gives us some things to think about.
I have been thinking about how Germany is now being told by Trump to rise up and be well armed and have a strong military, something that Germans have been told for 80 years not to be. I am living in Germany getting ready to prepare for a spreading war from Russia that might hit us here, and that just last year I read in Foreign Affairs why the rest of Europe would not want Germany to become a military power again, but perhaps Trump is indifferent.
As the US's fired former Intelligence community is being openly recruited by China and Russia, see CNN discussion of that, he is oblivious to how the US's strength is ebbing away by his replacing the capable with "Yes, Sir!" BUFFOONS! Same with our military which will also be recruited. I myself have recommended that European countries should do that.
Will Trump ever hit a point where he will regret this? I don't know. What I do know is that some of the others might. Oh the naive belief in the powers of the White Christian Nationalist Male, to the exclusion of all else as a job requirement.
On second thought, Trump began his Presidency with an ethics-washing visit to Arlington Cemetery, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Melania, also, once praised the work of USAID, before its current dismantling.
I can only hope that Putin totally consumes Trump, and Europe wakes up and fights back! Americans need to wake up too, but sans Trump the spell may be broken.
It feels to me that we are lacking the means, and perhaps the wherewithal, of taking the country back from Trump. He seems to own Congress and the Supreme Court, and many of the lesser courts, perhaps law enforcement and the military. And we are waiting to see what is going to happen while what IS HAPPENING gets worse by the day. I don't see how time is on our side. And the entire world waits for clarity while darkness gathers.
I feel you, Jim! My kids tell me to stay away from the news because it affects my health, but I have to know what's happening. I am 83 and a profound student of the first half of the last century. I KNOW what happened, and I perceive it happening all over again, except the bad guys is US.
Charles- Until we invade Canada/Greenland/Panama, I don't know if we are THE bad guys, but sure as hell we won't be the Good Guys that helped save the world in WW II and the Cold War. To be clear, Trump et al are evil and a threat to our democracy, but he also prevents us from being the Good Guys that stop the Bad Guys.
I was born in May 1942, as our almost pathetic little fleet whupped the bejeebers out of the IJN at Midway. We had three carriers, they had four, but we sank all four of their leading fleet carriers and turned the tide right there.
My pals and I always swelled with pride over how we, the Good Guys, had defeated the Axis Bad Guys and saved the world from Fascism.
Now, I hate to confess that I am ashamed of the country that I fought for. I cannot believe what is happening, yet there it is, complete with open Fascism gutting us. I despise those who voted for the Mango Menace. I am appalled at Muskrat, unelected, unvetted, unhinged, poleaxing his way through what was left of our government, leaving nothing but chaos in his wake. Evil they are, and Evil they do, and I am horrified and scared.
When we are providing “moral” cover for the Russian invaders and their friends in various other parts of the world, I think we have become the bad guys.
83 here,too, Charles and I feel such dismay that indeed we are the bad guys this time. This fascism on steroids that we see unfolding before us will eventually burn itself out. We can only hope fewer of the scapegoats die before it does. I feel some hope in the numbers of people out in the rest of country who are already speaking up and organizing. If only more of our politicians grew spines instead of thicker knee pads.
I saw a cartoon that for some reason I can’t copy and paste here. The top half shows a big fish chasing a large group of little fish. The bottom half shows the reverse—the large group of little fish about to swallow the big fish. The caption is “don’t panic; organize.” Each of us individually can’t do much, but together we are formidable. We have a lot of collective power; let’s use it.
To this I add Jamie Raskin’s “a protest a day keeps the fascists away.” I think we can throw the bums out if we all protest—if we give up we will fail for sure, so let’s not do that.
It's been obvious for a long time that Trump is at least a Russian asset and perhaps also an agent. He's been laundering Russian oligarch money for years. I've always viewed Trump as the head of the Trump Crime Family, an American subsidiary of the Russian Mafia.
Ann, sorry I missed you here in Santa Barbara. Love your work - your fierce political cartoons say a helluva a lot more than a 1000 words! Keep on drawing!
Comments are temporarily back at WaPo. At least for David ignatius column ripping apart the dotards anti Zelensky comments. The AI algorithm says the comments are overwhelmingly anti dotard. We'll see how long Bezos will let the algo go this time before he's ordered to remove it by the dotards henchmen.
Your cartoon captures the perfidy of Trumphuk and his treasonous abandonment of Ukraine and NATO.
LETS CALL THIS TREASONOUS, TRAITOROUS TREACHERY
We must not let this go unanswered
We must use everything at our disposal to stop this
- Protests at the State Department and the White House NOW!
- Calls to all of the Congress NOW!
- Street demonstrations filling the DC mall, NYC Times Square, Boston Commons and city centers across America
- Massive donations to aid Ukraine withstand Russian assault
- Boycotts of everything Musk and Trump
I call on every American of Eastern European decent (former Russian occupied Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian, White Russian and former Soviet Bloc countries) to take to the streets to protest and inundate Congress with calls and letters demanding that this insanity be stopped.
😀 Keep your eye out for journalist Marvin Kalb’s book “A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course”. Attended a class today where Kalb, a spry 94 years old, talked about the book and his take on the Putin-Trump-Musk relationship. He is not happy about it. One key point: If Putin had been in charge during the Cuban missile crisis, he would not have backed down and there would have been a nuclear war.
At the time, I was permanent party at Fort Riley, Kansas. We tried to sleep on top of our bunks with our boots on. We knew our base was critical, and therefore, there was a big, fat, Soviet missile programmed to take us out. It was a very scary time. I was twenty.
Thanks, Lynn. The plain fact is that I joined up as my way of evading the draft. I have always openly confessed that I was scared, and had there been no draft, I would never have served. I was (and remain) a wuss.
In 1961, when I volunteered, Vietnam was not a thing. I was such a naif I didn't understand that I would be on the front lines of the lukewarm war. Later, in 1962, I was ordered to Germany. I have many stories about that, but the main one is that I was there when Kennedy was murdered. We went to full alert because no one knew whether the Soviets had been involved. We stared down Soviet officers in watchtowers across the fence in Czechoslovakia (we knew they were Russians by their enormous flying-saucer hats).
I didn't want to be there, yet there I was, unlike a guy a couple of years younger than me, a military school graduate who pulled every conceivable string in his rich kid's arsenal to duck the draft, has openly called service members suckers and losers... Well, you know.
Right off the bat, my dear Charles...you are NO WUSS in.anyone's language, sir ! Frightened..??? Yes...but YOU didn't turn tail.and run...nor hide behind your father's trousers & fraudulently forsaking all honor & decency scream " bone spurs!" You ...in spite of being scared...and what any sane person would feel & admit loudly...you marched off into the unknown!. That is true ...honorable...bravery, my friend. djt has a familial history of.males shirking their duty when it comes time to serving their country. His grandfather left Germany to avoid mandated military service..No male in.the family has EVER, to my knowledge, served in the military. The knew they would be thrown out of the family coffers if they served at all.. The males in.that family may have a hundred " college" degrees...but I wonder, if past is prologue, I wonder if any one of those.pieces of paper are as phony as " bone spurs...not worth the paper they're printed on.To paraphrase an old lawyer joke.." How can you tell if a trump is lying...??? his lips.are moving!". What a sad legacy to leave to the world, heh?
You, Charles...you are the real thing!.God Bless you...and all those like you, who served with honor and distinction!. You are the true Americans this country looks to everyday ...caring, and courageous...the salt of the earth,
Thank you, Lynn. I hardly know what to say. I had forgotten that the original Drumpf dodged the draft in Germany by fleeing to the U.S. Friedrich Drumpf was a triple draft-dodger who lost his citizenship because of it. He changed his name to Trump to hide his German roots in the U.S.
Brilliant! Putin is having him for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Wonder how much he is getting for betraying Ukraine and our Allies. Keep up the good work Ann.
I picture that with Trump as a suckling pig, Apple in mouth with Putin, napkin tucked in shirt collar, knife and fork in hand.
More likely is Trump on the ground outside Mar-a-lago after having fallen out of a window.
If only
My group of Democrats Abroad in Germany is having a preparing for WWIII discussion, as we in Europe are all taking the aggression against the countries we live in seriously.
Obviously Putin is holding a bagful of KGB dirt.
The subservience is obvious when Trump meets Putin in Helsinki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lazgWZpQa8s
I like this discussion between Anand Giridharadas and Stephen Wertheim about Ukraine and the USA. Wertheim points out what Putin got from Trump the first time around. While it may be different, I feel his discussion is measured and gives us some things to think about.
https://the.ink/p/live-america-and-the-world-with-stephen-wertheim?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
I have been thinking about how Germany is now being told by Trump to rise up and be well armed and have a strong military, something that Germans have been told for 80 years not to be. I am living in Germany getting ready to prepare for a spreading war from Russia that might hit us here, and that just last year I read in Foreign Affairs why the rest of Europe would not want Germany to become a military power again, but perhaps Trump is indifferent.
As the US's fired former Intelligence community is being openly recruited by China and Russia, see CNN discussion of that, he is oblivious to how the US's strength is ebbing away by his replacing the capable with "Yes, Sir!" BUFFOONS! Same with our military which will also be recruited. I myself have recommended that European countries should do that.
Will Trump ever hit a point where he will regret this? I don't know. What I do know is that some of the others might. Oh the naive belief in the powers of the White Christian Nationalist Male, to the exclusion of all else as a job requirement.
More like AF1
On second thought, Trump began his Presidency with an ethics-washing visit to Arlington Cemetery, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Melania, also, once praised the work of USAID, before its current dismantling.
I can only hope that Putin totally consumes Trump, and Europe wakes up and fights back! Americans need to wake up too, but sans Trump the spell may be broken.
Here is the view from Europe about what is going on.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/germany-prepares-for-war-updated?r=f0qfn
Hillary Clinton said it in the debate with Trump; she called him a Putin puppet. She was right then and it’s even more obvious now.
He isn't just a puppet. He is a Russian agent.
It feels to me that we are lacking the means, and perhaps the wherewithal, of taking the country back from Trump. He seems to own Congress and the Supreme Court, and many of the lesser courts, perhaps law enforcement and the military. And we are waiting to see what is going to happen while what IS HAPPENING gets worse by the day. I don't see how time is on our side. And the entire world waits for clarity while darkness gathers.
I feel you, Jim! My kids tell me to stay away from the news because it affects my health, but I have to know what's happening. I am 83 and a profound student of the first half of the last century. I KNOW what happened, and I perceive it happening all over again, except the bad guys is US.
Charles- Until we invade Canada/Greenland/Panama, I don't know if we are THE bad guys, but sure as hell we won't be the Good Guys that helped save the world in WW II and the Cold War. To be clear, Trump et al are evil and a threat to our democracy, but he also prevents us from being the Good Guys that stop the Bad Guys.
I was born in May 1942, as our almost pathetic little fleet whupped the bejeebers out of the IJN at Midway. We had three carriers, they had four, but we sank all four of their leading fleet carriers and turned the tide right there.
My pals and I always swelled with pride over how we, the Good Guys, had defeated the Axis Bad Guys and saved the world from Fascism.
Now, I hate to confess that I am ashamed of the country that I fought for. I cannot believe what is happening, yet there it is, complete with open Fascism gutting us. I despise those who voted for the Mango Menace. I am appalled at Muskrat, unelected, unvetted, unhinged, poleaxing his way through what was left of our government, leaving nothing but chaos in his wake. Evil they are, and Evil they do, and I am horrified and scared.
When we are providing “moral” cover for the Russian invaders and their friends in various other parts of the world, I think we have become the bad guys.
83 here,too, Charles and I feel such dismay that indeed we are the bad guys this time. This fascism on steroids that we see unfolding before us will eventually burn itself out. We can only hope fewer of the scapegoats die before it does. I feel some hope in the numbers of people out in the rest of country who are already speaking up and organizing. If only more of our politicians grew spines instead of thicker knee pads.
I saw a cartoon that for some reason I can’t copy and paste here. The top half shows a big fish chasing a large group of little fish. The bottom half shows the reverse—the large group of little fish about to swallow the big fish. The caption is “don’t panic; organize.” Each of us individually can’t do much, but together we are formidable. We have a lot of collective power; let’s use it.
To this I add Jamie Raskin’s “a protest a day keeps the fascists away.” I think we can throw the bums out if we all protest—if we give up we will fail for sure, so let’s not do that.
The worst of it is Elon is controlling the computers. When Trump said you’ll never have to vote again he meant it.
It's been obvious for a long time that Trump is at least a Russian asset and perhaps also an agent. He's been laundering Russian oligarch money for years. I've always viewed Trump as the head of the Trump Crime Family, an American subsidiary of the Russian Mafia.
Trump is so freakin' stupid I doubt if he even realizes he's being played. He probably thinks HE is playing Putin, not the other way around.
He’s more than stupid. He’s evil and cruel.
Let me amend that. Stupid AND egotistical. He cannot comprehend or accept that anyone COULD outsmart him.
Trump thinks he's a great negotiator, and Putin will use that to get all that he wants. It's just terrible to watch.
Excellent!! Keep it up!!!
Ann, sorry I missed you here in Santa Barbara. Love your work - your fierce political cartoons say a helluva a lot more than a 1000 words! Keep on drawing!
Perfect! Thank you for your formidable wit! ⭐️
Can't find the knife to spread the condiments on the nothing burger because Trump has placed
in the back of American voters.
And in the back of Ukrainians
Comments are temporarily back at WaPo. At least for David ignatius column ripping apart the dotards anti Zelensky comments. The AI algorithm says the comments are overwhelmingly anti dotard. We'll see how long Bezos will let the algo go this time before he's ordered to remove it by the dotards henchmen.
Robert- Back in the previous format (thumbs up/down) or that stupid 4 word choice (Clarifying, thoughtful, etc)?
The four word choice thing but at least comments are back and the algorithm is compiling a synopsis.
Thanks Robert.
No doubts at all!! Super cartoon! Wonderful.
Trumph perfidy
Your cartoon captures the perfidy of Trumphuk and his treasonous abandonment of Ukraine and NATO.
LETS CALL THIS TREASONOUS, TRAITOROUS TREACHERY
We must not let this go unanswered
We must use everything at our disposal to stop this
- Protests at the State Department and the White House NOW!
- Calls to all of the Congress NOW!
- Street demonstrations filling the DC mall, NYC Times Square, Boston Commons and city centers across America
- Massive donations to aid Ukraine withstand Russian assault
- Boycotts of everything Musk and Trump
I call on every American of Eastern European decent (former Russian occupied Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian, White Russian and former Soviet Bloc countries) to take to the streets to protest and inundate Congress with calls and letters demanding that this insanity be stopped.
😀 Keep your eye out for journalist Marvin Kalb’s book “A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course”. Attended a class today where Kalb, a spry 94 years old, talked about the book and his take on the Putin-Trump-Musk relationship. He is not happy about it. One key point: If Putin had been in charge during the Cuban missile crisis, he would not have backed down and there would have been a nuclear war.
At the time, I was permanent party at Fort Riley, Kansas. We tried to sleep on top of our bunks with our boots on. We knew our base was critical, and therefore, there was a big, fat, Soviet missile programmed to take us out. It was a very scary time. I was twenty.
Thank you for your service, Charles...you and your brothers & sisters in arms.
God Bless you all for your courage in defending this beloved land of ours...with honor!
Thanks, Lynn. The plain fact is that I joined up as my way of evading the draft. I have always openly confessed that I was scared, and had there been no draft, I would never have served. I was (and remain) a wuss.
In 1961, when I volunteered, Vietnam was not a thing. I was such a naif I didn't understand that I would be on the front lines of the lukewarm war. Later, in 1962, I was ordered to Germany. I have many stories about that, but the main one is that I was there when Kennedy was murdered. We went to full alert because no one knew whether the Soviets had been involved. We stared down Soviet officers in watchtowers across the fence in Czechoslovakia (we knew they were Russians by their enormous flying-saucer hats).
I didn't want to be there, yet there I was, unlike a guy a couple of years younger than me, a military school graduate who pulled every conceivable string in his rich kid's arsenal to duck the draft, has openly called service members suckers and losers... Well, you know.
Right off the bat, my dear Charles...you are NO WUSS in.anyone's language, sir ! Frightened..??? Yes...but YOU didn't turn tail.and run...nor hide behind your father's trousers & fraudulently forsaking all honor & decency scream " bone spurs!" You ...in spite of being scared...and what any sane person would feel & admit loudly...you marched off into the unknown!. That is true ...honorable...bravery, my friend. djt has a familial history of.males shirking their duty when it comes time to serving their country. His grandfather left Germany to avoid mandated military service..No male in.the family has EVER, to my knowledge, served in the military. The knew they would be thrown out of the family coffers if they served at all.. The males in.that family may have a hundred " college" degrees...but I wonder, if past is prologue, I wonder if any one of those.pieces of paper are as phony as " bone spurs...not worth the paper they're printed on.To paraphrase an old lawyer joke.." How can you tell if a trump is lying...??? his lips.are moving!". What a sad legacy to leave to the world, heh?
You, Charles...you are the real thing!.God Bless you...and all those like you, who served with honor and distinction!. You are the true Americans this country looks to everyday ...caring, and courageous...the salt of the earth,
You.are the true heros!🇺🇸
Thank you, Lynn. I hardly know what to say. I had forgotten that the original Drumpf dodged the draft in Germany by fleeing to the U.S. Friedrich Drumpf was a triple draft-dodger who lost his citizenship because of it. He changed his name to Trump to hide his German roots in the U.S.
If methane gas wasn't enough to put me off eating cow, your piece today put me over the top--its vegan burgers from now on!
This is your best cartoon ever!!! The fat burger is a pickle
LOL!! Putin deserves the secret sauce. That Depends who you talk to.