I grew up with “community policing,” in a small town with a pair of State Troopers who were fellow citizens - one of them was even the son-in-law of my second grade teacher and his wife was our school’s dental hygienist.īut I’ve also known deputies who put a drunken friend in a cell with convicts awaiting transport to the penitentiary, then left him there to be raped and have his jaw shattered, apparently because he had long hair.Īnd I saw “good cops” at a peace march in Chicago try to push us back out of harm’s way while their colleagues beat the living crap out of other protesters. It shouldn’t be: The idea of supporting police by supporting responsible law enforcement should, as the fellow in the cartoon says, be fairly obvious.īut it’s not, in our divided world, and perhaps moreso because Sack is based in Minneapolis, where the George Floyd case was only the final spark in a long smoldering problem. Steve Sack, by contrast, uses a fairly simple drawing to launch a fairly complicated thought process. It could all be spun into a confusing, argumentative cartoon, but, instead, Rowe simply depicts a very small person being very small. Meanwhile, David Rowe offers this opinion of Dear Leader’s unhinged, ALL-CAPS Twitter rage over Barack Obama’s speech last night.Īgain, there’s a lot to work with here: The lack of knowledge of how political conventions work, the apparent surprise that someone would endorse a member of his own political party and the paranoid notion that he was being spied on. I like both approaches, but they’re different ways of addressing the topic: Ohman offers more analysis, while Day simply suggests the results.
I think Bill Day scored by abandoning the blimp theme and going instead to that partisan blunder. I think Goodyear screwed up in the original policy which allowed statements of racial equality but banned statements against it, if not in banning specific political statements, and particularly in their lukewarm, unclear corporate response.īut Trump screwed up worse by drawing attention to it and certainly by urging a boycott of an American-made product for what are clearly partisan political reasons. I particularly like the notion that Trump’s little boycott balloon is expected to keep the blimp afloat, and Ohman also indicates the risk of alienating a key swing state, foreshadowing the disastrous tie-up. When Ohman previewed the cartoon on-line, it sparked a conversation about how hard it was to avoid the Hindenburg motif, but doing something well gets you largely off the hook for not being the only one trying it at all. Which still leaves us wondering “more plain to whom?” because the challenge remains to convert as well as to motivate, and maybe that’s just not possible in the current climate.Īs a more complicated f’rinstance, after a Goodyear plant seems to have messed up a sensitivity training, Trump leapt upon them with a call for a boycott, and Jack Ohman depicts it this way. The challenge is in fictionalizing or exaggerating or otherwise finding a way to present the facts in a way that makes their stunning horror clear, and, while simply quoting the monstrosities verbatim can work, Ann Telnaes adds bandit masks to make the criminal conspiracy more plain. Jokes are funny, and this isn’t, but, assuming you share my love of gallows humor, things can be both funny and frightening. It would be too easy to say “The jokes tell themselves,” but, yes, Kayleigh MagaNinny really did explain to reporters yesterday that Dear Leader would wait until after the election results were in before deciding whether to accept them as valid.
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