In the e-mail that brought today's 'toon to this blogger, Tom/Dan wrote:
I understand that there are multiple Trump crises in any given week, but I thought that “Crisis of the Week” was punchier than “Crisis of the Last Day and a Half,” or maybe “Crisis of the Last Twelve Hours.”
The buried joke in this one is that Ryan and McConnell are standing in front of the statue of Jefferson Davis in the US Capitol.
Steve Bannon jumped-or-was-pushed Friday afternoon as I was finishing up work. Reporters and Breitbart types on Twitter all started tweeting immediately that he is now ready to declare war on Trump from the right. Shortly after that, Bannon released a statement insisting that he's going to war *for* Donald Trump.
When Americans were studying where each apparatchik was standing on the observation deck on Lenin's Tomb during May Day parades for clues as to who was in or out of favor, we called it Kremlinology. We are all Kremlinologists of our own government now....
Until next week!
Dan (aka Tom)
Just when you think it can't get any worse..., it does. This is the state of the nation after 6 months of the scumminess: more and more scum with each passing week. If this the most nauseating (not fair & balanced) prospect for the United Sates of America, so be it.
PS: Here's a photo of the Jefferson Davis statue in the US Capitol for comparison with the image in the fourth panel of the 'toon (Tom/Dan's secret joke):
[x TMW]
Crisis Of The Week
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow." His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]
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