In yesterday's e-mail that delivered today's TMW 'toon, Tom/Dan also wrote:
Hey All,
Well, that was a frustrating week. Not that anyone ever expected this process to end with Trump’s removal, but refusing to hear witnesses, particularly in light of new revelations from Bolton and Parnas, was really … well, blatant. Though if we can get rid of the myth of the Honest Republican Who Will Save Us, maybe that will be useful. The Republican party is corrupt at its core, and its members will do anything, ignore any law, in order to hang on to power. The next election is going to be instructive, as to whether this American experiment in self-governance has any hope of survival. I don’t mean this in a hashtag-Russiagate way at all, but if the next election is somehow stolen, then what we’re going to end up with is the sort of “democracy” they have in the Russian Federation. The thing is, their experiment is less than twenty years old and was effectively over by the early 2000s. I’d like to think that ours is a bit more entrenched and might hang on, but Trumpism is really putting it to the test.
Supporters of authoritarian rule always imagine that they will be the chosen citizens, the ones who do not suffer any consequences — “when I voted for the face-eating leopard party, I didn’t think the leopards would eat *my* face.” I wish the Trumpkins could talk to some Stalin-era citizens of the former Soviet Union about how well that ends.
On another topic: I’ve been pulling my tax info together and believe me when I say, the income from this list is an *extremely* significant factor in keeping the cartoon viable and sustainable. As always, I’m so grateful to all of you, particularly given that I’m utterly unemployable at this point. (“So Mr. Perkins, I see you haven’t had a job in… thirty years?” “Er, well, I took some personal time!”)
And finally: a cartoon that ran on September 26, 2016. The fourth panel in particular holds up depressingly well.
Until next week!
Dan/Tom
On a better note, this blogger escaped the gloom of the outcome of the rigged (no witnesses, no evidence presented) Impeachment Trial in the US Senate with the amazing comeback of the KC Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV last night. If this is (fair & balanced Red Raider pride, so be it.
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Excuses For Acquittal
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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 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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