A Look Back

Think of this as an annual anti-BS vaccination...

Let’s say somebody accuses you of something and you think the accusation is unfair, you have two choices: 1. Respond 2. Don’t respond.

Actually, there used to be three choices, but they foolishly outlawed dueling because I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t mind seeing Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer settle their differences at 10 paces.

That not being an option…

Some people think you should take the high road and not respond to accusations because if you respond you might sound defensive, but if you don’t respond other people might think you don’t have a defense and the accusation must be true.

So you’re screwed either way and tipping the scales in the favor of responding is Donald Trump once telling a staffer that it didn’t make any difference if what he said was true; if he just kept saying it, people would believe it.

So that’s what we’re facing for the next four years: a president who will cheerfully and energetically lie about his critics because as the 2024 election conclusively confirmed, lying works and clearly, the rest of us ought to do it more often.

Anyway…

I often get accused of being biased.

I am, along with (and let’s check the figures on this) EVERYBODY ELSE WHO EVER LIVED. But I’ve also been accused of never criticizing Democrats which as the following cartoons from last year will demonstrate, is complete bullshit. A phrase that makes me wonder if there’s such a thing as “incomplete bullshit” and the first thing that springs to mind is the speech Donald Trump was giving when some moron assassinated his right ear.

Moving on.

The cartoon at the top of this post was drawn after Joe Biden seemed Dazed and Confused during his debate with Donald Trump and what follows are more cartoons drawn in the last year critical of Joe Biden.

First up: Biden warned Benjamin Netanyahu that he and Israel needed to be more careful about civilian casualties, which is 100% true, but the United States is probably the last country that should make that argument:

This next one was based on Joe telling a bullshit WW2 story about his uncle being eaten by cannibals:

Before the debate there were already rumors about Biden’s lack of energy and wavering focus:

Someone suggested that Biden and the Democrats go after Trump by emphasizing his criminal record – by this point Trump had been convicted of 34 felonies – but the cartoon pointed out the problem with doing that:

This next one was drawn the day before the debate and reflects my pessimism about the quality of the arguments we were about to hear:

The debate convincingly demonstrated we had a choice between a lying con man and a guy who wasn’t sure what day it was:

During the summer Texas suffered a power outage and I used that news event to point out that after Biden’s debate performance, Texas wasn’t the only place having that problem:

So now the Democrats know they have a problem and here’s a cartoon that depicts that problem in visual form:

Let’s take a short break to talk about the selfish assholes in the Biden Administration who knew there was a problem with their candidate and tried to cover it up so they could keep their jobs in the White House, but wound up helping Donald Trump get elected.

And we couldn’t count on Biden admitting he had declined because if you know any elderly people (and the definition of that category goes up every year when I have my birthday) you already know they can be extremely unreasonable because they don’t want to admit they’re on the downhill side of a very slippery slope and picking up speed.

At this point, maybe I should admit I have tinnitus in my left ear and it sounds like a 747 winding up for takeoff 24 hours a day, so if you’re the kind of person who mumbles and/or murmurs (and there are a lot of you) you better stand on my right side because there’s no way in hell I’m wearing a hearing aid because that’s Old People Shit and if you burst a lung while trying to communicate with me, I’m OK with that.

E-N-U-N-C-I-A-T-E, people.

OK, so now the Democrats have to change candidates and here’s another visual depiction of what that looked like:

If you read much political history you know there are always factions within factions and people who pretend to be One Big Happy Family in public, but backstab each other in private and a lot of Democrats tried to marginalize Kamala Harris by giving her impossible tasks that would keep her busy and make sure she couldn’t succeed – “Hey, go fix the immigration, Kamala” – but when Biden stumbled, now they had to change their tunes and suddenly Kamala Harris was the greatest thing since sliced bread. And if you’re saying, “Man, that’s an old cliché that only an old person would use” I didn’t hear you say it because I refuse to wear that hearing aid – remember? – so maybe you should have your failing memory checked out:

After promising he wouldn’t pardon his son, Biden did just that and here’s what that looks like in cartoon form:

OK, so there’s 12 cartoons critical of Biden and I’ve got more, but Substack is warning me this email is too long, so I can’t post all of them and if these 12 cartoons don’t convince you I’ll draw cartoons critical of Democrats, more cartoons won’t change your mind.

Several point worth making, even though I’ve made them before:

This is opinion, not news, so it’s not balanced and isn’t supposed to be. I draw more cartoons about Conservatives and Republicans because I disagree with them more often, which clearly doesn’t mean I won’t draw about Liberal Democrats when I think they deserve criticism.

Also, a reader complaining that I don’t draw enough anti-Democrat cartoons is basically them telling me I should be drawing about the things they’re pissed off about instead of the things I’m pissed off about and in my highly personal opinion if they want to see more anti-Democrat cartoons maybe they should learn to draw.

Or…

Look at the work of Conservative Cartoonists (they exist) and by the way, are the people who complain that I don’t draw enough anti-Democrat cartoons also complaining that Conservative Cartoonists aren’t drawing enough critical cartoons about Donald Trump?

I highly doubt it, so fuck them and the elephant they rode in on.

(Man, I sound defensive, don’t I? well, I warned you about that and I guess you didn’t get that memory checked out, so who’s old now, Methuselah?)

That concludes this year’s installment of Answering My Critics and you better get used to it because we’re going to hear a lot more hypocritical bullshit and lies from Trump Supporters and Ass-Kissers for the next four years and when someone says I’m biased (and trust me, they will) now you know my response.

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