The Question O'The Day — If The Horse's A$$ In The Oval Office Loses It Over The 2018 Midterm Election, What Will He Do If He Loses The Big Enchilada In 2020?

With the e-mail bearing today's 'toon, Tom/Dan wrote

Hey All,

Man, remember that time we had a midterm election? Feels like it happened in another century. Hell, Trump did ten crazy things after I finished this cartoon on Saturday.

Nonetheless, we now have at least some check on the orange rage monster. The biggest Democratic gain in the House since Watergate, along with seven governorships, all kinds of down-ballot victories, etc. — that's not nothing. Maybe we were all secretly hoping the Senate would turn as well, or to see some other overwhelmingly dramatic repudiation of Trump, but I do think this election qualifies as a wave. Or at least a flood, seeping in and rising at a deceptively slow rate, so that the significance of it is easy to initially underestimate.

Anyway Democrats have subpoena power now, which is going to make for an interesting 2019. I mean, Trump’s base clearly doesn’t care if he’s a degenerate, lying, adulterous, literal criminal, so it’s hard to know what will even matter anymore. But the worst thing about election night 2016 was the realization that Trump and his party held all the reins of power. At least we survived that, though I admit I remain uneasy about the Democrats' well-documented talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Looking forward to what his taxes finally reveal, though. At his latest unhinged press conference on Wednesday (i.e. fifteen years ago, in subjective time), there was an odd, mostly-overlooked moment in which he acknowledged that yes, he *could* release his taxes, but lawyers will advise against it. Also, he explained helpfully, that tax returns are very complicated and people probably wouldn't be able to understand them. I guess we'll find out!

Till next time,

Dan

And Dan/Tom leaves us wondering, what will happen if the Horse's A$$ loses the election in 2020. If troops were ordered to the Texas border in a comic-opera response to the frightening caravan of mainly women and children marching on the US from Central America. What order will the Horse's A$$ issue in the aftermath of losing the election? Drone strikes on the homes of the winning candidates for POTUS and VPOTUS? What will the Secretary of Defense do? Carry out an insane order? Stay tuned, for the next thrilling episode of this endless $hitshow. If the time has come to set the mechanism of removal in the 25^th Amendment, what will the quislings do? If this is a (fair & balanced) matter of national survival, so be it.

[x TMW]
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By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)

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 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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