Within the e-mail that brought today's TMW 'toon to this blogger's In Box, Tom/Dan also wrote
-It seems like ancient news now that the news cycle has been consumed by Donald Trump’s declaration of a state of emergency, but early in the week the right wing was freaking out about the Green New Deal. Fox News was telling its viewers that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez personally wanted to ban all air travel and take away your cars, not to mention your cows. The talking points just got dumber from there — how can you take a train to Hawaii or Europe???!!! they asked, as if the plan is to literally eliminate all air travel. And as for the cows — there was a throwaway line in the talking points that were initially posted online, an obvious joke, something to the effect that “we probably can’t do much about cow flatulence.” And somehow that became LIBERALS WANT TO TAKE YOUR COWS!!! As usual, pity the poor cartoonist, who has to find ways to make the living absurdity of our world … more absurd?
Dan/Tom
And so, we have entered the loony bin of Faux News and the blather that the Horse's A$$ in the Oval Office spews to trigger absurdist fake-news. The Big Lie becomes The Big Absurdity — the ultimate deflection/distraction. If this is a (fair & balanced) demand for the joint-removal of the Horse's A$$ from the Oval Office and.the revocation of the FCC license held by Faux News, so be it.
--x TMW]
It Can't Happen Here
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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