Along with today's TMW 'toon, the 'toonist's email contained this message:
And just like that, it’s over. (The presidential election, not all the work ahead. Don't be pedantic!)
This was a very long week, capping off a very long four years. But while Trump will bluster and rant for awhile, he’s done. He had hoped to sow enough confusion to claim victory for himself, and he failed, just like he failed in every business venture in his life.
In ten weeks, we will be able to wake up in the morning without the constant sense of dread we've all been living with for one thousand, four hundred and sixty days, wondering what he’s said or done this time.
When the networks made the call, celebrations broke out on the streets of New York. I went out and stood with so many neighbors, cheering and clapping as cars and trucks drove by honking. I went to Times Square, and then walked down to Washington Square Park. No need to remind me that we’re in a pandemic — I wore a mask, as did everyone around me, but I was willing to accept the small risk in order to be a part of history. After these past four years, literally every day of which were made worse by the fact that the most terrible man on the planet was our president, I needed to be part of those celebrations. I needed to know that when Donald Trump looked at images of literally the entire world celebrating his defeat, I would be somewhere in those crowds. (I uploaded a couple of videos from the day to my instagram if you’re interested.)
At the beginning of last week — it seems like a million years ago now — I stood in an early voting line for about four hours, in order to cast my vote against that terrible man. After 2016, I was terrified that he’d somehow eke out a win in the electoral college. It’s still a little hard to believe that we’re actually going to be free of him, and the entire clown show around him — Ivanka, Jared, Stephen Miller, Chad Wolf, Bill Barr, Pompeo, Giuliani, Steve Bannon etc. etc. I know, they’ll still be out there, but they won’t be in charge of this country anymore. That’s not nothing.
To every one of you who voted, thank you. To every one of you who did more, who organized and phone banked and did whatever you could to make this moment possible, you have my endless gratitude. We had a stark choice between fascism and possibly salvaging democracy, and we chose the latter.
Right now, I really am so very, very tired. Until next week,
Dan/Tom
And with that victory message (while vote counting continues in several states), Tom Tomorrow/Dan Perkins can rest after his 4-year visual campaign against the current administration. The controversies have not abated, the defeated candidate in the 2020 election has not congratulated the likely winner (while vote counting continues) nor has he uttered words of concession. He is treating the election results with the same indifference shown toward the COVID-19 Pandemic when he gave the virus a 3-month headstart in 2020 in infecting nearly 10 million US citizens and the following death-count that is nearing a quarter-million (250,000) victims. In the incumbent's twisted mind, if he didn't speak about COVID-19, it doesn't exist. And, if he doesn't speak about the results of the 2020 election, he has not been denied a second term in office. If this is a (fair & balanced) assessment of the derangement of the principal resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, DC — so be it. And, for old times' sake...
[x YouTube]
"The Liar Tweets Tonight" (Parody of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight")
By Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters, featuring Sandy Riccardi
[x TMW]
The Year-Long Week
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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