In the e-mail that brought today's 'toon, Tom/Dan also wrote
Hey all,
I am firmly of the opinion that Democrats should be using every arrow in their quiver. I understand that the Senate will never actually vote to remove Trump, but impeachment hearings will give added impetus to the subpeonas and requests for documents that the Administration is currently ignoring, it will keep Trump’s malfeasance firmly in the center of the news cycle, and it might conceivably shift public opinion. I’m old enough to remember watching the Watergate hearings as a kid, and Nixon had a 68% approval rating at the beginning of that process. And as for the argument that impeachment will hurt Democrats in 2020 — just look at the eight years following Clinton’s impeachment, and remember who ran government during that time. I’m so very tired of the eternal cautiousness of Democrats, and at this particular moment in time, we just can’t afford it. As someone, I don’t remember who, pointed out on Twitter, if Trump loses in November 2020 then the three months following the election will be the most dangerous three months in American history. We can’t afford to be cautious right now. We just can’t.
Until next time,
Tom/Dan
In 41 AD, the horrendous Roman emperor, Caligula,was so odious that he was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy by officers of the Praetorian Guard, senators, and courtiers.who were driven to this act by Caligula's cruelty, sadism, extravagance, and sexual perversion, Does the description of Caligula's behavior sound familiar. In fact, The Viper (MIchelle Goldberg) late last week offered an Op-Ed essay in the NY Fishwrap that was entitled: "Acosta Resigned — The Caligula Administration Lives On about one of the latest adventures in perversion during the current presidency of The LK (Lyin' King). The Constitution of the United States offers an alternative to assassination in Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 — impeachment. If this is a (fair & balanced) constitutional alternative to assassination, so be it.
[x TMW]
Twelfth Dimensional Chess
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[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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