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Best Ecksteiin cartoon yet!
Very funny cartoon. Situation not at all funny.
Starvation is such a small price to pay for the privilege of living in the Golden Age of America….
Lol. Funny not funny.
Our politicians have made horrible choices for decades and have ruined manufacturing in this country. President Trump will be on Mount Rushmore someday. Biden won’t even get a library.
“Our politicians have made horrible choices for decades and have ruined manufacturing in this country.”
Politicians, corporations, and other nations all played a role, actually. But I hesitate to call them “our” politicians: https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/manufacturing/who-killed-us-manufacturing/ . They seem more like your politicians.
And by some curious coincidence, “The U.S. Economy Performs Better Under Democratic Presidents” (https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/issue-briefs/?id=654894D7-4BE4-4A02-B37D-A1529725A00C).
Gouging out the four existing busts would probably be required to make room for Donnie’s colossal ego, but I doubt anyone would object, publicly, and applying the obligatory finishing coat of iron pyrite shouldn’t take long. I for one think it would be quite charming to watch pigeons roosting within his dazzling coiffure.
At least wait for the guy to completely ruin America before you put him on Mount Rushmore. He has barely finished destroying free speech and liberal democracy. He is still working on taking us back to 1890s economics.
I have a hunch he’ll overshoot the 1890s and we’ll end up with a Neolithic economy.
And carving his majestic, Ozymandian visage there would make a swell WPA-style work project to put gruel (imported) in the mouths of a few of the starving, homeless millions.
Your cartoons consistently make me laugh — and cringe!