I’ve just returned home from a vacation in South America, for which the only item I packed that might betray me as a Yanqui was a baseball cap with a rainbow Milwaukee Brewers logo. I brought along a sweatshirt celebrating my Norwegian roots and another purchased at the Montreal airport a couple years ago as my clever disguise.
I'm ashamed to confess that the first cartoon (Clay Bennett) confuses me. (Any help will be appreciated.)
I understand that if the focus is on the upside-down flag, then the viewer is...MAGA? (If so, why not a red hat?)
If the viewer is a progressive American, then wouldn't he be hopeful instead? (I think we progressive Americans generally prefer a "we're not all like those assholes" type of message to the world-at-large, and we feel buoyed by these same comments. We see "pro-American" where they find only fear of change.)
You are right, Chiquita. Good Americans are held hostage by the bad ones. I see it happen here in Uruguay. Argentinians are hated due to the behaviour of only those living in the capital, Buenos Aires. They are called porteños. At a veterinary convention in Rio, I met Argentinians from different provincias, very educated and friendly people. Yet as soon as they said they were Argentinians, people turned away. At last, I wrote on paper for them to copy (they weren't fluent in English, the main language spoken at the convention) that theyr were Argentinians from the provincias, not from Buenos Aires. Poor souls! Luckily, they were well treated afterwards. As for the four real porteños, loud-mouthed, brassy, vain beings (wearing suits with 30º C), they were ostracised.
“After one year of Trump 2.0, we finally have clarity about the administration’s economic theory: trickle-down, but make it torrential—for billionaires.” Personally, I’m all for renaming it “gush-up economics.”
I suspect that if the policy became "tears UP", our pain would stop within days...
A self-regulating system where the pain of the super-rich is regulated by the pain(tears) of the less successful! Who'd have ever imagined such a fair system!
Indeed. I harbor Fond Notions that one day, the salary and bonuses and perks (country-club memberships etc) of the CEOs of big companies (“big” TBD) are capped as a multiple of the take-home pay of their lowest-paid employee. This would focus their minds wonderfully!
I don't believe the Italians were booing our athletes as much as JD Vance and the ice he represents, they would have figured out already that no one really likes JD in America, green-icelandand, Canada, Mexico etc,etc this seems like a world wide sport.
When we traveled to Europe last year, people were very kind to us and expressed sympathy for what we're going through. I never felt as though we were regarded poorly.
I’ve just returned home from a vacation in South America, for which the only item I packed that might betray me as a Yanqui was a baseball cap with a rainbow Milwaukee Brewers logo. I brought along a sweatshirt celebrating my Norwegian roots and another purchased at the Montreal airport a couple years ago as my clever disguise.
I'm not blaming you but it is a sad state of affairs that we are ashamed of America when we travel abroad. Trump is ruining this country.
I'm ashamed to confess that the first cartoon (Clay Bennett) confuses me. (Any help will be appreciated.)
I understand that if the focus is on the upside-down flag, then the viewer is...MAGA? (If so, why not a red hat?)
If the viewer is a progressive American, then wouldn't he be hopeful instead? (I think we progressive Americans generally prefer a "we're not all like those assholes" type of message to the world-at-large, and we feel buoyed by these same comments. We see "pro-American" where they find only fear of change.)
But all in all, a GREAT selection!
Perhaps it's in the sense of a hostage, wishing that their cry for rescue gets out to the public?
(As the Olympics has largely done, and Trump's "truths" about these American athletes have cemented with their utter and absolute madness.)
I'll bet I'm reading WAY too much into this...
You are right, Chiquita. Good Americans are held hostage by the bad ones. I see it happen here in Uruguay. Argentinians are hated due to the behaviour of only those living in the capital, Buenos Aires. They are called porteños. At a veterinary convention in Rio, I met Argentinians from different provincias, very educated and friendly people. Yet as soon as they said they were Argentinians, people turned away. At last, I wrote on paper for them to copy (they weren't fluent in English, the main language spoken at the convention) that theyr were Argentinians from the provincias, not from Buenos Aires. Poor souls! Luckily, they were well treated afterwards. As for the four real porteños, loud-mouthed, brassy, vain beings (wearing suits with 30º C), they were ostracised.
“After one year of Trump 2.0, we finally have clarity about the administration’s economic theory: trickle-down, but make it torrential—for billionaires.” Personally, I’m all for renaming it “gush-up economics.”
I suspect that if the policy became "tears UP", our pain would stop within days...
A self-regulating system where the pain of the super-rich is regulated by the pain(tears) of the less successful! Who'd have ever imagined such a fair system!
Thanks, Jessica. (If only...)
Indeed. I harbor Fond Notions that one day, the salary and bonuses and perks (country-club memberships etc) of the CEOs of big companies (“big” TBD) are capped as a multiple of the take-home pay of their lowest-paid employee. This would focus their minds wonderfully!
As always, a great start to give us stamina to face yet another day of ... a deep need for insightful, humorous insight. Thanks to all.
All great this morning guys! Rob Rogers, is that dark humor? keep it up! Michael's is probably my favorite...
Also Clay Jones.
Bad Bunny as portrayed by Michael de Adder, my favourite. With the Fat Orange's itsy bitsy teenie weenie hands trying to fend it off.
I don't believe the Italians were booing our athletes as much as JD Vance and the ice he represents, they would have figured out already that no one really likes JD in America, green-icelandand, Canada, Mexico etc,etc this seems like a world wide sport.
When we traveled to Europe last year, people were very kind to us and expressed sympathy for what we're going through. I never felt as though we were regarded poorly.