Donald Trump is in the Corrupt Presidents Club with Richard Nixon.
Donald Trump is in the Impeached Presidents Club with Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton.
Donald Trump is in the Twice-Impeached President Club all by himself and now…
He’s in the Indicted Presidents Club all by his lonesome.
The Manhattan grand jury voted today to indict Donald Trump. Inside sources say there will be over 30 charges and an arrest is expected this coming Tuesday.
This may not be the case that lands Trump in prison but it’s the case that makes him our nation’s first indicted president. Today was historic.
Now for everyone who’s upset about this, get over it because Donald Trump never should have been president (sic). Donald Trump is a corrupt person. He has zero values. He’s never truly been held accountable. For example, while he was president, he violated the Emoluments Clause daily. Now the people who closed their eyes to Trump’s corruption while enabling it are upset he’s going to be held accountable.
The news of the indictment came out late Thursday afternoon and I watched coverage of it until around 10:30 when I started drawing this cartoon. I have three other ideas on my tablet that I’ll send to CNN tomorrow. I like all three of them but I wanted something that I felt would mark the historic occasion. I hope I chose correctly.
And since it’s after midnight, this is all the blog you’re getting with this cartoon.
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In the awesome movie “Wreck-It Ralph,” Ralph is the villain in an old 80s arcade game destroying the building that is constantly being repaired by our hero, Fix-It Felix Jr, which he does with a magic hammer gifted to him by his father. Ralph admits that Felix is good at fixing things, but also says, “If he was a regular contractor carpenter guy, I guarantee you, you would not be able to fix the damage that I do as quickly.” But Felix does fix things and it’s entirely what he’s about. But if Felix was a Republican, he wouldn’t be Fix-It Felix. No, he’d be Fuck-it Felix.
Fuck-It Felix would be in Congress and after seeing another American school shooting, this time in the state he represents, he wouldn’t say, “I’m gonna fix it,” which is what Fix-It Felix would say. Nope. Fuck-It Felix would say, “We’re not going to fix it.” In fact, Fuck-It Felix isn’t even going to try beyond “thoughts and prayers.” But hey, at least Fuck-It Felix is finally admitting that not only can’t he fix it, but he’s also not even going to try.
Talking to reporters, Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett said, “It’s a horrible, horrible situation, and we’re not going to fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals. And my daddy fought in the second world war, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese, and he told me, he said, ‘Buddy,’ he said, ‘if somebody wants to take you out, and doesn’t mind losing their life, there’s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.'”
What? By that logic, we shouldn’t have fought World War II. But ya know, go tell the families that when a lunatic with an assault rifle wants to murder their children at school, “there’s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.” I guess you just gotta accept it.
He also said, “I don’t see any real role that we could do other than mess things up, honestly … I don’t think you’re going to stop the gun violence. I think you got to change people’s hearts. You know, as a Christian, as we talk about in the church, and I’ve said this many times, I think we really need a revival in this country.”
I’ve been to revivals when I was a kid and for a fifth-grade atheist, they were horrible.
Fuck-It Burchett has an A rating from the National Rifle Association and a 95 percent yay rating from the Heritage Foundation, probably because of shit like proposing more revivals to stop mass shootings over programs that actually work, like a ban on assault weapons. Mr. Fuck-It opposed a bipartisan gun control bill and universal background checks for gun purchases. He’s also one of the 125 House members who signed a brief backing the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and make the United States a fascist dictatorship.
Tennessee is also represented in the House by Republican Andy Ogles, a former mayor who claimed he was the “most conservative mayor in Tennessee”. His district includes parts of Nashville. He offered “thoughts and prayers” to the victims of this week’s school shooting in Nashville but stands by the gun-fetish Christmas card he sent friends, families, and supporters that was very similar to the bang-bang Christmas cards issued by the Boebert and Massie families. Yes, the Ogles family Christmas card featured wife, husband, and kids…most of whom were armed with assault rifles. I guess they’re ready for the War on Christmas if it ever shows up. I think we should at least be thankful that they didn’t show us the boners their guns gave them.
Cartoonist Michael Ramirez is on board with the Fuck-Its, claiming the problem is there are not enough thoughts and prayers. If thoughts and prayers are the solutions to gun violence, then why isn’t it working yet?
Republicans don’t want to do anything about gun violence. They don’t want to try to “fix it.” They would rather use mass shootings to put more guns into the populace and with the recent shooting in Nashville, use them to attack LGBTQ. Never mind the fact that 99.99 percent of all mass shootings are done by white guys.
Fundamentalists love to say “prayers work” while not offering statistical evidence that they do, but statistical evidence shows that while we had a national assault weapons ban, mass shootings were down by 25 percent. Republicans refuse to reinstate the assault weapons ban while knowing it worked and saved lives. Another stat Republicans need to look at is that mass shootings on a daily basis only happen in the United States of America. Another fun fact is that no school shooting was ever prevented by a gun-humper Christmas card.
Republicans offer no solutions to real problems. It’s like when they voted to repeal Obamacare over 50 times without ever offering a replacement. Their replacement for the assault weapons ban is thoughts and prayers.
At least one Republican admits they’re not going to fix it. But if you’re not even going to try to fix major problems in this country, then what the fuck are you doing in Congress?
OK, you guys want to fuck your guns. I get it. But how about you stop posing up a storm with your assault weapons and do something that will actually stop mass shootings.
You’re not owning the libs, Fuck-It Felix…you’re helping gun fuckers murder children.
Music note: I listened to Soundgarden.
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The Israeli Supreme Court has 15 judges who are all appointed by the president after being nominated by the Judicial Selection Committee. The extreme Right in Israel, which includes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wants to change that.
Netanyahu has proposed to “overhaul” the courts which would enable the Knesset (Israel’s Congress) to override Supreme Court decisions, diminish the ability of the court to conduct judicial review of legislation and of administrative action, prohibit the court from ruling on the constitutionality of basic laws, and change the makeup of the Judicial Selection Committee so that politicians could influence the makeup of the court. By the way, Netanyahu is facing multiple corruption charges that could make their way to the Supreme Court.
Until recently, the Supreme Court of Israel was the only government body that had a majority approval rating from both Jews and Arabs in Israel. Not so much anymore. Conservative extremists have a solid majority in the Knesset, which would totally control the nation if they control the courts. The proposed changes to the court system have rocked Israel and protests have taken over the nation.
Israelis have been protesting against these changes and on Monday, protesters surrounded the Knesset as it was preparing to vote on the “overhaul. Protesters have blocked highways and Israel’s largest trade union, Histadrut, called a national strike for Monday. That prompted shutdowns in schools, hospitals, and government buildings. It even shut down Israeli embassies including the one in Washington, D.C.
And then, Netanyahu put the plan on hold.
This shit hit the fan on Sunday when Netanyahu fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, who is the only government minister who publicly opposed the judicial overhaul. The rest of the Israeli government ministers, much like Republicans in this country, are cowards. Roads were blocked by protesters immediately with bonfires being set throughout the nation.
Netanyahu plans to hold more “discussions” before holding the vote in April. Note, he has not canceled the fascist plan at all.
In Florida, Governor Ron DeFascist is firing elected prosecutors he disagrees with. He’s banning specific topics from education and has even created a board to control Disney’s content. There are bills in Florida, Missouri, Indiana, and Pennsylvania to remove “woke” prosecutors that the legislatures (Republicans) don’t like.” A bill just passed the Georgia House that will create a commission to discipline and remove wayward prosecutors, like the one in Atlanta currently investigating Donald Trump’s election interference in 2020 (“find me 11,780 votes”).
This is fascism. This is democracy dying. Protesters shut down their nation in Israel to save democracy. So far, I haven’t heard of any protests shutting down the governments in Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Indiana, and Pennsylvania to save democracy. But we did have huge protests that turned into riots on January 6, 2021, designed to murder democracy. Americans need to save America. We need to save the United States from Republicans.
When Donald Trump said there will be “death and destruction” if he’s prosecuted, he wasn’t kidding. Donald Trump and Republicans will be the death and destruction of our democracy.
It was reported today that President Biden will not invite Netanyahu to the White House in the near future. Good.
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Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.
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There’s a lot to be concerned about the day after Ron DeSantis wins the presidency…if he is ever to win it. There’s a lot of time between now and election day, 2024 so it’s very early in the race despite the fact we already have two official candidates, and DeSantis isn’t one of them. But, it doesn’t look like DeSantis will be the GOP nominee in 2024.
A Harvard University poll has Trump over DeSantis by 12 points but a poll by Morning Consult has him up by 25. Neither of those has him as high over DeSantis as Trump’s favorite pollster which he touted at his recent Waco hate rally, Catturd2, a Twitter account that has Trump 45 points over DeSantis. I’m sure we’ll all be keeping our eyes on Catturd’s prognostications throughout the presidential race.
But time can change perceptions. For example, there were a few minutes in 2008 when some people didn’t see Sarah Palin as a raving lunatic shooting wolves from helicopters. Maybe between now and November 2024…or 2028, DeSantis will develop some charm and a personality. Maybe people won’t see him as much of a high white boot-wearing goose-stepping knee-jerk fascist asshole pointing his finger in the faces of high school students. Maybe people other than Nazis will have warm gushy feelings deep down inside when they hear the name “Ron DeSantis.”
But whether you have warm gushy feelings for Meatball Ron or not, he’s a fascist. He’s looking to turn Florida into a dictatorship where he chooses the kind of education your kids have, tells Disney what content they can create (only Herbie movies), and a place where he fires elected officials. Also, no images of penises allowed which is ironic since the state resembles a flaccid penis.
So if Meatball becomes president, will there be a national ban on black history, science, math, or any education on LGBTQ?
For example: After it was revealed that yesterday’s shooter was a transgender person, I had fucknuts tweeting at me that my cartoon was wrong because trans is the same as drag. Those people need to be educated that trans and drag aren’t the same thing, but under a Meatball regime, that education won’t be available.
Ron DeSantis is smarter than Donald Trump and his legislative record is more successful than the Former Guy’s. Ron DeSantis as governor gets things done, sure they’re all horrible things, but he gets them done. The only thing saving us from a Ron DeSantis dictatorship is his lack of a personality. Florida is not the rest of the nation and Pudding Fingers has a steep hill to climb to win over the rest of the nation. Spoiler alert: He will not charm the country.
Donald Trump is an entertainer. Sure, it’s only appealing if you have the maturity of a stupid racist 12-year-old, but he wins over those people. People like what DeSantis does while not really liking him. He’s not a cult leader the way Trump is.
DeSantis has huge obstacles preventing him from defeating Trump in the Republican primaries. He has to win over Trump’s voters. He can’t do that by telling the truth and saying Trump lost the 2020 election and he can’t do it by attacking Trump. And if he flatters Trump, then he’s telling primary voters to vote for Trump. So far, he’s doing a weird tightrope walk by defending Trump from the Manhattan Attorney General while saying, “I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair.” Be careful what you stick your fingers into there, Meatball.
Oddly enough, I don’t believe Trump can win the general election as he’s lost the popular vote in two straight elections, but he will probably win the nomination. While I don’t think DeSantis can win the nomination, I think he would have a better chance than Trump to win the general election if he were to win the nomination.
Trump needs to be careful too because he’s criticizing DeSantis’ record as governor but even Trump supporters like the job Meatball’s done as governor. They are fascists. Trump should stay away from policy because he’s not good at it, and stick with what he does best, which is create juvenile nicknames.
So far, we have “Ron DeSanctimonious,” which DeSantis has said he kinda likes. There’s also “Meatball Ron” and I hear Trump is workshopping “Ron DisHonest,” “Ron DeEstablishment,” and “Tiny D” which could bounce back on Tiny Donald. How about “Boots DePudding Fingers?” Ron claims he never finger-banged that pudding, but Trump also lies about where his fingers have been. Has Trump tried “Ronald McSantis?” What about “Ron DeDumDum?” I got it! “Ron DeDumbass!”
Either way, a Trump or DeSantis presidency would be ruinous for this nation. Maybe the Washington Monument isn’t as much of a phallic symbol and more of a middle finger to Republicans.
Creative note: I wrote this last Friday and was drawing it yesterday (Monday), but I put it aside to cover the school shooting in Nashville.
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Three students and three school staffers were murdered today in another American mass shooting, this time in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the Gun Violence Archive, this is the 129th mass shooting in the United States this year. That’s 129 mass shootings in the past three months, and we still have four more days before this month is over. Hell, the day’s not over. For one person at the scene, it was her second time witnessing a mass shooting. Only in the United States can a person be a witness to two mass shootings.
And this happened in Tennessee where out of “concern” for child safety, the Republican-controlled state legislature just banned public drag shows. Last year, they banned Critical Race Theory even though it didn’t exist in any schools in the state.
There have been no mass murders in schools or anywhere else in this nation by drag queens or Critical Race Theory. But school shootings happen. They happen a lot. So why is it so easy to ban drag shows and a black history course that doesn’t exist yet we can’t talk about gun control? Why can’t we talk about a ban on assault weapons?
Republicans became very comfortable with kids being murdered by assault rifles several years ago. Guns are more important to them than the lives of our children. So is homophobia and racism which is why they’re so eager to act against drag queens and black history which multiple states are now banning.
And the thing is, I’ve already written this blog. I’ve already drawn this cartoon. And I’m going to write it again and I’m going to draw it again. I’m tired of drawing dead bodies. And, a lot of Republicans are going to tell me “too soon” with this cartoon.
Within minutes of posting this cartoon on Twitter, a goon tweeted a meme at me about Nazis and gun bans. It’s “too soon” for me to talk about gun control on the day of a school shooting, but the goons can go ahead and lie about Nazis and gun bans.
So if the day of a mass shooting is “too soon,” when does “too soon” expire? When can I talk about gun control after a mass shooting? With 129 within three months, it better be a short window. There have been more mass shootings than days which would mean we can never talk about it.
Mass shootings have become a Republican industry.
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Donald Trump is going to make as much money as he can off this arrest…if he’s arrested. But I think everyone who’s donated after his prediction that he would be arrested last Tuesday should ask for a refund. But then again, they’re dumb enough to give him money in the first place so they’ll probably be dumb enough to do it again.
By the way, calm down. Don’t get too excited if he’s indicted in New York. Yeah, giggle and laugh about his perp walk and mug shot because I know I will, but don’t expect much more after that. This is the weakest criminal case he’s facing. The worst that can possibly happen to him with the Manhatta case is a fine and maybe some weak probation. Manhattan isn’t scaring Trump.
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Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.
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I went to sleep with the radio on when I was a kid. For a couple of years in the early 80s, I lived in Ellaville, Georgia (I hated it) and the station I listened to was in Columbus and every Sunday night right around bedtime it played the Dr. Demento Show. Dr. Demento introduced me to Weird Al Yankovic and lots of other novelty songs. Obviously, I didn’t fall asleep during the Dr. Demento Show. I bet every political cartoonist listened to Dr. Demento.
One of the songs that seemed to play every Sunday was “They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” by Napoleon XIV. There’s no actual singing in the song and the only music is rhythm from drums and hand claps. The speaking is at a normal pace but increases in speed and pitch during the chorus. It comes off as a guy going insane over his girlfriend dumping him but you discover in the end that it’s actually his dog who dumped him. It’s hilarious and a timeless classic.
I wrote this cartoon Friday for CNN but didn’t think they’d take it and I didn’t think I’d draw it for my newspapers either. I was thinking that at this point that the song is too obscure and no one would know what I was talking about. But I had second thoughts this morning with one of those being, “Fuck it. It is a classic.” I know my fellow weirdos will get it instantly and they’ll love it. But maybe it’s not that obscure.
In fact, the song reached number three on the charts in 1966 which comes as news to me because when I was listening to this in 1982, I thought it was new.
Napoleon XIV was actually Jerry Samuels and he didn’t make a career out of novelty songs. He was a singer, songwriter, studio producer, engineer, and talent agent. While working for a record label in New York City, he put together “They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” and he made a hit and became a one-hit-wonder. The B-side was the song in reverse, titled, “”!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er’yehT” Rock critic Dave Marsh called it the “most obnoxious song ever” and claims it once cleared out a diner of 40 people in under two minutes.
As I was trying to decide between this cartoon and a few others I wrote on Friday, I did some Googling about the song, wanting to know who Napoleon XIV really was and I discovered that Jerry Samuels died two weeks ago on March 3, 2023, at the age of 84. That nailed it for my choice of which cartoon to draw today. This cartoon is dedicated to Napoleon XIV.
And in case you’re curious, Napoleon XIV died from dementia.
You gotta be a little crazy to write a song like “They’re Coming To Take Me Away! Ha-Haa!” and really crazy to draw cartoons or at least good ones. But you gotta be totally deranged and out of your fucking mind if you’re Donald Trump.
Ha-Haa! Ho-Ho! Hee-Hee! Hoo-Hoo! Ha-Haa!
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Yesterday, someone commented on my Facebook post about my roughs, telling me to “be careful” because some cartoons could land me in Facebook jail. Seriously? I don’t already know that? I’m the king of being thrown into Facebook and other social media jails. And how am I supposed to be careful with posting my cartoons on Facebook? Maybe I should post them quietly. Fuck that…I will post everything thing I draw on Facebook and other social media accounts. I’m not afraid of Facebook jail and REFUSE to allow Facebook or any other platform to dictate (I said “dick”) how I work or what I can publish. Facebook doesn’t pay me. But, at least I know who’s been reporting my cartoons now. Fuckers from Florida.
How do I know it’s Florida fucks? Because a school principal in Florida was forced to resign over students seeing a photo of Michelangelo’s “David.” David is naked and his uncircumcised penis is in full view for all to see. It’s like Ken Jeong in one of the Hangover movies, but not as tiny.
Hope Carrasquilla of Tallahassee Classical School in Leon County is now the former principal after being forced to resign. What did you expect to happen in a Florida county named “Leon?” Barney Bishop III, the chair of the school board and a lobbyist (wanna take one guess which party he lobbies?) said Mrs. Carrasquilla voluntarily resigned after they gave her an ultimatum of resigning or being fired. I guess if she had chosen option B then Barney would say she was voluntarily fired.
Barney also said she wasn’t fired for showing the kid’s “David,” but she was shit-canned, I mean, asked to “voluntarily” resign after complaints from three parents who believed the material on David was “controversial” and not age-appropriate for their children.
Barney said she “wasn’t let go because of the artistic nude pictures. We show it every year to our students. The problem with this particular issue was the lack of follow-through on the process.”
They claim the problem is that she didn’t inform parents before educating the kids on “David.” The former principal said two parents were upset about not being bothered and another said it was pornography. But, Barey said they show it to the students every year…so don’t the parents already know this? Since Barney knows this and parents don’t, he should be fired for not “following through.”
Tallahassee Classical follows a curriculum from Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian institution in Michigan that has helped launch dozens of “classical” charter schools nationwide and is required to teach Renaissance art to sixth graders. Clarence Thomas called Hillsdale College a “shining city on a hill” and his wife and insurrectionist Ginni is a lobbyist for the school. The lesson featuring “David” also included images of “The Creation of Adam” fresco painting and “Birth of Venus” by Botticelli.
So the principal was required to teach about “David” but was fired for not telling parents beforehand? If the parents understand their children are going to a school with these requirements, then weren’t they basically already told beforehand? This sounds more like a failure on the parents’ part in understanding what their kids are being taught and what kind of school they’re going to.
A penis is not pornographic. Nudity is not pornographic. It depends on the context. “David” is a classical piece of art. The only people who could be upset over stuff like this are people who want to send their kids to fundamentalist fucknut charter schools.
Florida has enacted bills reshaping education with a Republican mindset, with one limiting education on gender identity and sexual orientation to fourth grade and above and another that prohibited certain ways of teaching about race. Don’t say “gay” and don’t say “black.” Now, there’s another bill that will make “don’t say gay” apply all the way to 12th grade. And then DeSantis is trying to remake colleges into fucknut troglodyte re-education camps with new courses like Goose-Stepping 101.
Now, there’s another bill in the state legislature that would grant parents greater power to read over and object to school instructional materials and even limit their child’s ability to explore the school library. The bill also bans teaching about health education, sexually transmitted diseases, and human sexuality before the sixth grade. It even bans girls from talking about their menstrual periods. Naturally, a man wrote this bill. His name is Stan and Stan the Florida Man thinks periods are yucky and girls should keep their mysterious lady parts to themselves.
Florida is turning into Afghanistan where talking about periods is also probably outlawed. Florida’s GOP is turning into the Taliban under Ron DeSantis’ leadership with the help of Stan the Florida Man. Hey, can we start calling Florida “Floridastan?”
The problem isn’t with parents having a say in their children’s education, but that parents are having a say over the education of other people’s children. Now, no child at this school will ever learn about classical art because one uptight nag thinks a penis is porn.
“Penis” isn’t even a bad word. Watch. Penis, penis, penis, penis, penis. It’s actually required now if you want to talk about Florida politics because the state is being governed by a bunch of dicks.
Creative note: This was a pain in the ass and I hope to never do it again.
I kinda jump on cartoonists who import art into their cartoons. A lot of them are now doing it with backgrounds and logos. I saw quite a few last week with the Silicon Savings Bank logo and I’m always seeing it with the Twitter bird. C’mon, guys. Just draw it. But I made an exception here because there’s no way anyone is going to believe I drew “David.” I’m not trying to trick anyone. I also wanted to use the actual image to show readers exactly what the fuss is about. Will Facebook remove it because of the penis?
I also think the ownership is fair use. I snagged this photo from Wayfair which is selling little statues of it.
I used to joke that editors are always afraid of my cartoons like I’m going to sneak a penis into one of them. I wouldn’t commit career suicide in such a way. I’ve vowed never to draw a penis in one of my cartoons, and guess what. I still haven’t.
My technical issue with this is that I couldn’t color in Procreate on a layer underneath the imported layer. I tried to figure it out and it just wouldn’t work. I even saved the entire cartoon and imported it onto a new canvas and it still wouldn’t work. So, I imported it into Corel which I haven’t used in a couple of years. I forgot how to use it. But it worked…and it was a pain in the ass. God, I hate Corel now.
This also means I couldn’t record the entire creation of the cartoon, so you may not get any video today.
Music note: I started to listen to Abba but turned it off after two songs to focus on how to color this thing. Why’d I have to do that? Read the creative note.
Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon on this site is available. You can pay through PayPal. If you don’t like PayPal, you can snail mail it to Clay Jones, P.O. Box 3721, Fredericksburg, VA 22402. I can mail the prints directly to you or if you’re purchasing as a gift, directly to the person you’re gifting.
Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.
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Ding dong! Roughs are here! All of these were drawn last Thursday, March 16, and Friday, March 17. I was already whipping up ideas for CNN when Donald Trump truthed that he would be arrested on Tuesday (which didn’t happen).
This is actually the second rough of this idea. I threw away the first as what you’re looking at here was the beginning of my making it an official cartoon…until I stopped. I pushed it aside and drew this instead.
This didn’t turn into anything.
I liked this one and probably should have done it.
I kinda liked this one too. I would have offered it to my friend Joe Heller who lives in Green Bay, but like me, he doesn’t take ideas from other people.
I’ve been seeing other cartoonists pimping their Patreons (where you pay a fee to support the cartoonist) and by subscribing, they’ll show you their cartoons early, the roughs, and the timelapse videos of their creations. Some even add blogs. Am I an idiot for not charging for any of that stuff and just hoping people will be generous and donate? A few do and I really appreciate those supporters. But would I get the support financially that others get if I took my work into a subscription platform? Just thinking out loud.
Now, Which of these cartoons are your favorites?
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Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified for hours yesterday before the House Energy and Science Committee and was hammered from the left and the right. Washington observers came away with the impression that it was a huge disaster for TikTok. But content creators on TikTok were less impressed by the Washington establishment.
Full disclaimer: I’m a TikTok user and I love it. It’s a great tool to expand my audience and it’s fun to make 30-second timelapse videos of my cartoons to music. But I can see the concerns about it. Even when I was a smoker I was not a fan of tobacco companies.
During yesterday’s hearing, the representatives kept trying to pin Chew down on TikTok being a tool for China to spy on users in the United States. The best they could get was “no,” and the best they could do was, “Nyuh-huh.”
Daniel Castro, the vice president of a science and tech policy think tank tweeted, “Congressional hearings would be much better if Committee rules prohibited loaded questions. Not all questions can be answered with yes/no answers.” It’s like it’s the first time this crowd has ever watched a congressional hearing. And this committee didn’t feature the likes of Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, or Jim Gym Jordan.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, the senior editor at Reason, tweeted, “TikTok’s CEO keeps essentially saying he’s not an agent of the Chinese Communist Party and the lawmakers are like… BUT AREN’T YOU ACTUALLY? like he’s going to trip up Scooby Doo villain style if they keep saying it.” Will you admit to being a spy if I give you a Scooby Snack?
TikTok is a private company in China, but China is an authoritarian state. Is anything totally private in China? The government owns one percent of ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, and has placed a government official on the board. Financial Times describes the one percent share as a “golden share” investment, which is a nominal share that can outvote all other shares in certain circumstances.
Surely we need to protect our nation from China’s spying, but there’s a fine line between security and xenophobia. What information is China going to get from American users that are not already being data mined by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and maybe even LinkedIn (the most inept and useless app since MySpace)? Several representatives from yesterday’s hearing gloated over their performance and questioning of Chew…on Twitter. Couldn’t at least one of them detect the irony in that?
Eva, director of cybersecurity at Electronic Frontier Foundation tweeted, “If you think the US needs a TikTok ban and not a comprehensive privacy law regulating data brokers, you don’t care about privacy, you just hate that a Chinese company has built a dominant social media platform.”
The TikTok kids are right in that this was a bunch of old people screaming about something they don’t understand. The entire hearing was basically, “Get off my lawn.”
Olivia Julianna, director of Politics and government affairs at Gen-Z for Change was upset TikTok’s CEO wasn’t given much of a chance to talk, tweeting, “Watching the hearing on TikTok right now, and the amount of leading questions and interruption to the CEO trying to answer questions is so extremely unprofessional and irritating. This is a hearing— let us ACTUALLY HEAR him.”
I’m all for the government banning TikTok’s app on government-owned devices. Corporations can do the same thing. In fact, it’s probably smart to ban most apps on government and corporate-owned devices. Angry Birds knows where you live.
Both parties are coming down hard on TikTok. Both Trump and Biden have threatened to ban it in the United States. But I personally believe the Republican outrage is all Sarah Cooper’s fault.
Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon on this site is available. You can pay through PayPal. If you don’t like PayPal, you can snail mail it to Clay Jones, P.O. Box 3721, Fredericksburg, VA 22402. I can mail the prints directly to you or if you’re purchasing as a gift, directly to the person you’re gifting.
Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.
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