Tuesday Cartoons: From Love to Violence
Posted: August 5, 2025 Filed under: just because 12 Comments
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Now, a few comments on the cartoons this week. Several of the cartoons are from the foreign press. I wanted to make sure you were aware of this fact. Because, it is so painfully obvious that Trump is the laughing stock of the world.
I also want to bring special attention to this particular cartoon:
This is drawn by the cartoonist known as Zapiro:
The reason I bring this up…is because I want to show the cartoon itself. And how similar it is to several other cartoons we have seen depicting Trump.
Now…back to the cartoons via Cagle, the first batch are foreign cartoons from around the world:
From the stateside:
I think I will refer to one of the cartoons up top…Trump is an abomination.
Stay safe out there. This is an open thread.
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I’m hyperventilating over Dump destroying the Rose Garden and seriously can he unilaterally alter one of the country’s most historic properties with a garish ballroom? Really? I bet the Rose Garden is unbearably hot now.
Ugh OK not as bad as being a pedo but still.
Great post JJ.
Enheduanna
Thanks babe, I don’t know about you…but I can’t read the news anymore. So I am just staying with the editorial cartoons.
Representative Democracy Will Live or Die In Texas
A gerrymandering fight reveals how far Trump will go to avoid electoral accountability.
“The small “d” democratic logic of an argument made by Texas state Rep. Ann Johnson—who, with her Democratic colleagues in the state legislature, has left Texas in order to prevent Republican legislators from carrying out President Trump’s order to radically gerrymander its congressional maps—is beyond debate.
This principle of electoral accountability has tended to be a powerful corrective in American politics. In its mildest form, it requires presidents and members of Congress to explain their choices and to try to win the American people over to their points of view. In more extreme circumstances, it has led to epic political shifts, as occurred in 1932, when Americans rejected the Wall Street-aligned Republicans whose policies had accelerated the Great Depression, and replaced them with Franklin Roosevelt and the coalition of Democrats and left-wing allies who would usher in the New Deal.
Now, Trump wants to upend the accountability calculus by having his allies rework the already highly skewed maps of Texas in a way that could give Republicans a chance to hold onto the House, where they currently occupy 219 seats, just one more than is needed to claim a clear majority in the 435-seat chamber. But, as always, he also wants to test how much authoritarianism he can get away with. If the Texas gambit goes forward, other Republican-controlled states will surely follow the Lone Star GOP —and if the US Supreme Court allows them to do so, by gutting what remains of the Voting Rights Act—Trump and the GOP could retain full control of the federal government in 2026, even if voters in Texas and nationwide give a majority of their votes to Democrats.”
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This is a life-and-death struggle for the future of representative democracy as Americans have understood it—and for the people-centered policies that, in the best of circumstances, have historically extended from at least reasonably free and fair elections. “People need to pay attention to what’s happening in Texas right now because Donald Trump wants to spread this kind of ploy across America,” says US Rep. Greg Casar, the Texas Democrat who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “Trump knows he can’t win the upcoming mid-term elections, so he is trying to rig them. And the way he is trying to do it (Trump) is trying to do it is to dismantle the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as we know it. He is trying, for example to try and dismantle Hispanic and African-American opportunity districts. I represent a district overwhelmingly of Latinos here in the Austin area. If Donald Trump is able to suppress the votes of Latinos here in Austin, soon enough he wants to do that across America. And he could do that and, ultimately, try to get more complicit and corrupt Trump Republicans to defend his agenda even as it becomes less popular.”
Cassidy launches reelection bid amid growing GOP field
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy officially launched his 2026 re-election campaign Monday at Drago’s Seafood Restaurant, surrounded by local leaders and supporters, declaring his intent to confront Louisiana’s challenges and “make our state and our country even greater.”
“Louisiana and our country face serious challenges,” Cassidy said. “I’m running for reelection to work with the people of Louisiana and my fellow Americans to not just face these challenges, but to make our state and our country even greater.”
The announcement kicks off a high-profile race already drawing a crowded field of Republican challengers — all attempting to capitalize on lingering anger within the party over Cassidy’s 2021 vote to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Cassidy enters the race with a formidable financial advantage: His campaign raised more than $2.1 million last quarter and reported $9 million cash on hand — the largest “war chest” a Louisiana Senate candidate has ever held at this stage of a race, according to Cassidy’s campaign.
Despite the backlash from some conservatives, Cassidy has emphasized his alignment with Trump-era priorities, pointing to multiple White House appearances this year and Trump’s praise of his legislation, including the HALT Fentanyl Act and the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Cassidy’s campaign has also released a slate of endorsements from local leaders, including West Monroe Mayor Staci Mitchell, Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker, and State Sen. Patrick Connick, among others.
Still, the race is heating up.
Public Service Commissioner Eric Skrmetta became the latest to join the GOP primary field on Friday, casting himself as a populist fighter who has “stood up to mega corporations” and is now ready to take that battle to Washington.
“We must protect our southern border, invest in our military strength, and stop Green New Deal whims,” Skrmetta said in his announcement. He also touted his role leading Louisiana’s delegation at the 2024 Republican National Convention, where he pledged the state’s delegates to Trump.
Other Republicans vying for the seat include State Treasurer John Fleming, State Sen. Blake Miguez of New Iberia and LSU Health Shreveport official Sammy Wyatt.
Each challenger has taken aim at at Cassidy by casting the 2026 primary as a referendum on loyalty to the former president and his “America First” agenda.
I feel hopeless.
Paging Jack Tapper … crazy demented old president on the roof!
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