A message from Dan/Tom accompanied today's 'toon:
The Mueller indictments, and the Papadopoulos plea bargain agreement, suggest that there’s more on the way. Trump, of course, knows whatever it is that might be revealed, but he’s spent 40 years blustering his way past inconvenient laws and annoying media reports, and thinks he can do the same now. The system has constrained his authoritarian impulses more than I expected, but the main thing holding him back has been his own incompetence. We could easily slide into autocracy, and a shocking number of Americans would be just fine with that. It’s a dangerous (and exhausting) moment, and I hope democracy survives it in some recognizable form.
Until next week,
Dan (aka Tom)
This comic opera reminds this blogger of "Star Trek's" "Deflector Shields" for protection from natural hazards and enemy weaponry. The idiot minions in the White House attempt to provide cover for the Moron-in-Chief with a variety of deflections. If this is (fair & balanced) criminal incompetence, so be it.
[x TMW]
Crisis Management
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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