Today, The Electors Will Gather In Their State Capitol Buildings And Cast Their Votes For POTUS 46 & Ron Davies Said It Best In His Song, "It Ain't Easy"

In his email that brought today's 'toon to this blogger's In Box, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) also wrote:

I woke up this morning to the news that the Supreme Court will not be taking on the Texas AG’s absurd lawsuit to overturn election results in four other states, so it’s starting to feel like we’re going to get through this insane transition period more or less in one piece, albeit with millions of MAGAs convinced or pretending to believe that the election was stolen. I’m sure that will work out great.

A few notes about this one … the second panel is true! Kellyanne Conway is getting a multi-million dollar advance for a book about her time in the White House. You’d like to imagine that none of these terrible people would ever be able to show their faces in public again, but I’ve lived in this world too long to expect that. They’ll get book deals, paid tv pundit gigs, etc. After four years enabling a uniquely terrible president, it’s time to cash in!

Third panel is about the Georgia runoffs, obviously. Loeffler and Perdue were backing Trump’s attempts to overturn the votes in their own state.

The fourth panel was inspired by a thought I had about how very much time rational people are spending right now debunking irrational voter fraud theories, and how little the perpetrators of those theories care … combined with Joe Biden’s oft-stated conviction that he’ll be able to reach across the aisle and work with Republicans in Congress who *also* believe or pretend to believe in these crazy theories.

Fifth panel: Rudy did, in fact, receive the treatment that Trump promised everyone we’d be getting for free, something that doesn’t seem to have materialized. Knock me over with a feather.

And the final panel brings us back to my first paragraph above. I’m sure the attempt to undermine democracy completely will have no lasting consequences whatsoever. Things will be great! in our new bipartisan paradise.

Until next week,

Dan/Tom

And so, here we are — in a seemingly unending loop of electoral uncertainty in the midst of the worst public health crisis in memory. The title for today's TMW 'toon is spot-on because "No one said this would be easy." Instead, the outcome seems hellish and difficult. If this is a (fair & balanced) prognosis of our time, so be it. And, as long as the post-election nightmare of election challenges continue...

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[x YouTube]
"The Liar Tweets Tonight" (Parody of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight")
By Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters, featuring Sandy Riccardi

[x TMW]
No One Said This Would Be Easy
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 US, as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in the 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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