In this political cartoon, you’ll note that the fire consuming the flag barely reflects on the MAGA Gasoline can and not at all on the GOP crucible nor on Trump. There’s a deliberate reason for that: Nothing the GOP nor Trump do moves their base from their support. The regime’s deleterious deed’s do not reflect back on them negatively in the eyes of their base – Just like the bad behavior of mean girls in school does not move their cringe-worthy toadying sycophantic followers from idolizing them.
Mixed media: colored pencil and art markers and ink. Completed 15 July 2018, by D. Denise Dianaty
Sadly, Trump happened precisely because he is controversial. Because is able to evoke passion, both negative and positive... It is like we are globally in some respects back in 20' and 30' where passions, and anti-passions evoked by leaders were driving force of politics everywhere... Those are scaring times, that we live in.
Yes, it is reminiscent of the 1920s and 30s – and look what that period gave us. This regime is doing all it can to drag us backward, to erase 70 years of progress toward a more equitable society. We still had so far yet to go in achieving that goal and now, what we had achieved is systematically being undone.
I made a few additions to the drawing.
Thats why i am glad that i am European. For all its flaws, anxieties, problems and internal contradictions, EU seems to be more stable place to live in now. And yet, when i see what is happening in US these days, i cannot help but think 'is it the same country which gave the world leaders like Lincoln or FDR?"
I like your drawings, for their suggestive shape, and, usually, good timing.
It certainly doesn’t feel like the America in which I always thought I lived. I never thought I’d have to have a contingency plan for escaping my own country… for fleeing America.
I dont even know what to reply for that, frankly. And, being interested in American history (especially Civil War era, and FDR's period), i just hope that situation is the States will stabilize somehow. US is just too big to go into severe turmoil with no lasting consequences of it being felt globally.
I think our turmoil is already being felt globally. The orange nightmare actually called the EU a “foe.” He tried to get Theresa May to sue the EU. He lambasted May in an interview after NATO. He tried to get Macron to take France out of the EU. He claimed, “If you look at it, Germany is a captive of Russia…” He’s put tariffs on Canada and Mexico and the EU by claiming threats to US security. His regime even threatened other countries in an effort to STOP a WHO initiative to promote breast feeding and minimize false claims by formula manufacturers. He pulled the US out the UN human rights council. He blew up the G7. He tried to blow up NATO. Everything he’s doing is impacting not just the US, but the whole damn world!
Orange nightmare, such a beautiful expression, really ;) . Instead of being commander in chief, Trump is destroyer in chief, not just in the US.
Another thing is that Trump has no damn idea what EU really is, how it works, how densely connected it is, and how complicated it is when it comes to laws and regulations.
Look what is happening with UK over Brexit issue. They are facing biggest constitutional crisis from many, many, many years, just because they stupidly started this withdrawing process.
Beside, Trump puts tarriffs also on India and South Korea, yet another set of supposed big US allies :D .
If the Democrats don’t get together, and all the progressives unite in November for the mid-term election, it’s only going to get worse. Without that vaunted “Blue Wave,” I don’t see how the world will survive another two years of that intellectually addlepated, flaming NinComNomniPOOP! [That’s a term my then 12-year old son came up with. He says that “omni” in the middle makes it mean “infinitely stupid on purpose.”] Frankly, if he isn’t impeached, Trump’s flaming gilded sh*t storm will bury us all!
The thing that bothers me the most is that many of his former vocal critics in the media seem to have switched camps.
When you hear someone like @maxkeiser saying that Trump is doing a great job.
You have to do a doublethink as in George Orwells epic 1984.
We are living in interesting and dangerous times.
100's of 1000's protested his visit to the UK in sympathy with the millions of Americans who are horrified by the dire politics we have right now.
We’ve seen the protests here in the States. I was heartened to see them everywhere he went in the UK and the EU. It was beautiful too to see the protests in solidarity for the Women’s March!
As to Max Keiser, well, he may live in North Carolina, but his financial show is broadcast on RT – that’s Russian state media.
I'm glad to hear your principled stance against Trump. I believe he is entirely in the pocket of Putin. How is it even possible that he can have a two-hour meeting with Putin and nobody knows what was agreed to?
Trump seems bent on destroying the world as we know it. Canada and Mexico are security risks? The EU is a foe? NATO is bad, climate control is bad, it boggles the mind.
The EU spends more on defence than Russia or China. How do you not want them as allies? Can Trump even do basic math? Oh yes, it all makes sense when you realize that Trump is 100% a Russian pawn. "The press is the enemy of the people." Incredible for an American president to say that. Does anyone remember freedom of the press?
On a personal level, you know I'm a Canadian, right? I have always been very pro-American. My mother was an American. I have travelled extensively in the US, having visited 40 out of 50 states. While Trump is your president, and while he travels around border states like Montana and North Dakota demonizing Canadians, I will not be crossing that border. I have a major cross-country road trip planned for this summer, but the list of favourite places I will be skipping includes:
One more thing. I now believe Canada should withdraw from NORAD. The US military should be denied access to Canadian airspace since they clearly represent a security risk to Canada. The Canadian military is small and we cannot defend ourselves without America. The question we should ask however is who are our likely enemies? The only country I can envision that would ever under any circumstances invade Canada would be Donald Trump's America. As the Donald would say... "Sad."
Thanks for the resteem.
The only hope is that the Left, third party voters, and independents will get out and vote, and that they will vote Blue. Independents outnumber either established party. Democrats outnumber the GOP. Combined, all the middle and left voters are maybe more than two thirds of the electorate. The problem is getting them out to vote – especially for a midterm election. The GOP voters get out for every vote for every election both local and national. If we don’t get out there this time, I don’t believe there will be an America to reclaim… I don’t believe there will be a NATO to salvage.
The orange nightmare and his regime are direct threats to me and mine. His regime is destroying the EPA and deregulating all the environmental protections for which corporate interests have been lobbying for decades – including trying to role back pollution protections which would directly impact my respiratory problems. He’s killing my healthcare; my health is already very damaged from decades of living with untreated preexisting conditions, and now the regime wants to force me back to that state – which will literally be a death sentence. This regime is trying to make the Handmaid’s Tale a real world reality for women. Trump has a particular burr up his orange backside about Iranians and dual nationals. My naturalized citizen husband is an Iranian-American dual national, which makes my son, by default an Iranian-American dual national. Why? Because, Iran does not permit native born citizens to drop their citizenship AND they automatically impose Iranian citizenship upon the children of native born citizens. Now, Trump's set up a commission to find ways to denaturalize naturalized citizens over the slightest discrepancies. If they find some spurious reason to pull my husband’s naturalization, he faces going back to a country from which he had asylum in Germany before coming to America. He’s our sole source of support because I’m disabled and sick, and unable to work. Don’t forget, the US government wouldn’t send him back to Germany – they’d send him to Iran.
That’s just our personal risk. You know all the risks he’s subjecting the nation and the world – and reality itself – to on a daily basis. Putin could never have achieved half his goals so successfully as Trump does for him. I honestly cannot wrap my brain around the continued republican support for him. All they care about are their damnable SCOTUS appointments and ever more enrichment of the already obscenely rich. As I have said, time and time again:
Republicans, right wing voters, and the GOP who continue to support and defend and excuse him are complicit in unmitigated evil.
Trump could have done a lot to heal the political divide by appointing Merrick Garland to the SCOTUS - can you imagine?
Sorry to hear about your problems with health care. This is another thing that is incomprehensible to Canadians or Europeans. We tend to think health care is, you know... a good thing, whereas your government and your insurance providers seem intent of preventing access to health care. Just an outsider's viewpoint.
This regime (the GOP and Trump) and insurance providers look at healthcare as a for profit industry, as big business investment. It’s another corporate wealth engine to them. In other words, if you can’t pay, then you don’t deserve good health or even to live. They’ve made this entire country an all around pay to live industry. If you can pay, your a cog in their wealth engine. If you can’t your dross to be discarded.
wow this is just amazing, no words can describe how simply beautiful this really is
Thanks so much! And, I’d appreciate your upvote!
Thats quite the drawing! I love the detail and political commentary :)
Thanks so much!