The bumblin', stumblin', fumblin' antics of the Gang Who Couldn't Govern Straight seems endless (and bottomless). Of course, the current occupant of the Oval Office lurches into the deepest, darkest thicket of his governance by proposing the avoidance of the due process provision in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution that provides due process protection to "all persons," not just citizens. How vexing when Adolph Hitler could make immigration law by decree in the mid-1930s that the emulators of the Third Reich would enforce on the southwest US border. Today, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) wrote about the "Baby Snatchers" 'toon:
Hey all,
Well I feel like I say this every time, but man — *that* was a week.
Probably most of you are familiar with most of the various outrages referenced in this cartoon. But, at the risk of redundancy, I’ll point out a couple things.
FIrst panel: John Kelly famously said that it was no big deal to separate kids because “They’ll be taken care of — put in foster care, or whatever.” The dead-eyed guy in the middle is, of course, Stephen Miller.
Second panel: I was originally going to call this one “INEXHAUSTIBLE APOLOGISTS,” but kept playing around with it, trying to come up with some play on the right wing noise machine — because they’re not apologizing so much as trying to obfuscate with a wall of noise. Pretty happy with what I eventually came up with, to be honest. Laura Ingraham really did compare the internment camps to summer camp, Tucker Carlson really went on a racist rant declaring that our very nation is in peril from illegal immigration, and Ann Coulter really did suggest that the kids are crisis actors.
Third panel: Corey Lewandowski made a sad trombone noise on CNN in response to the plight of the children.
Fourth panel: The New York Times ran one of their patented false-equivalency articles about the terribly uncivil tone of the debate — blaming both sides, obviously. Protesters booed DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of a Mexican restaurant, Stephen Miller received similar treatment (also at a Mexican place — you have to wonder if they’re deliberately trolling us here), and as I’m typing up these notes, I see that Sarah Sanders got 86’d from some bar because she’s, well, Sarah Sanders.
Fifth panel: The administration couldn’t get its story straight, as to whether there was an actual policy of separating kids from parents. Jeff Sessions quoted the Bible to defend it. Kirstjen Nielsen said there was ABSOLUTELY no such policy. And of course Trump spent the whole time blaming everything on some non-existent law that only Democrats in Congress could fix, until he finally took action.
Sixth panel: Trump’s “solution” to the mess he created is for kids to stay with parents in detention — indefinitely. Since this conflicts with the Flores rule limiting the custody of migrant kids to 20 days, this sets up a legal battle which likely, as Trump himself has openly acknowledged, leads back to separation.
Not shown: Melania’s “I really don’t care, do U?” jacket. I mean, WTF??
Until next time,
Dan (aka Tom)
And, with that Tom/Dan rides off into the sunset.
[x TMW]
Invasion Of The Baby Snatchers
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 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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