Another Double Feature From Our 'Toonist With A 'Toon From 2016 To Prepare You For Our Happy Days Of 2020

Along with the e-mail that contained today's TMW 'toon, Tom/Dan wrote

Hey, All

So, this week we had the final impeachment vote, the Iowa caucus clusterfuck, and the State of the Union. And I was traveling this week, and working remotely! The Rand Paul thing is probably not quite as important as everything else going on, but there's something I find particularly irritating about this pompous libertarian using his power as a United States Senator to expose the whistleblower's identity for no other reason than payback, and of course to please his "lord and master."

Trump takes up so much oxygen I've barely even written about the Democratic primary so far, but I suppose that will change in coming weeks. We're in the "vote for MY candidate or I'll shoot this dog" phase of the cycle, and god do I hate primary season. It just breaks everyone's brains. This is a (slightly revised) cartoon from 2016 that I re-ran last summer when I was on vacation, and I think I put it back out into the world too soon -- this is the moment in the cycle that it was really meant to address.

Until next week....

Dan/Tom

And without any further retrospective messages, here is today's 'toon. If this is (fair & balanced) editorial brusqueness, so be it.

[x TMW]
Our Never-Ending Waking NIghtmare
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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