A Modest Proposal
Let’s get this out of the way first because if we don’t apparently I can have my non-existent TV show suspended: I am not celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, merely commenting on it and I’m 100% against shooting people we disagree with because lots of people disagree with me and if it’s Open Season on those whose words piss us off, there are plenty of people who wouldn’t mind having my head on their wall, right next to the moose they killed when the moose was just being cool and minding its own business and hanging out with his best buddy, Rocket J. Squirrel.
SO DEFINITELY NOT CELEBRATING CHARLIE KIRK’S DEATH.
Having said that…
Charlie Kirk’s death does bring up some issues and the first thing I drew about after it happened was Donald Trump doing his very best to make things worse.
Generally speaking, when the country is divided and things are getting edgy, presidents urge everybody to stay calm and remind us we’re in this together and even George W. Bush liked to say he was “A Uniter, Not A Divider.”
Which was a little confusing because he’d say it right before he did something that divided us, but at least he paid lip service to the idea that in times of crisis maybe we shouldn’t turn on each other.
Not Donald J. Trump’s style, is it?
Since Charlie Kirk’s death Trump has blamed the people on the Far Left even though we don’t know what motivated the shooter and now there are people claiming the shooter actually made his base camp on the Far Right and when you don’t know something (a condition we have a hard time admitting to because social media demands that we have firm opinions and have them right now this minute) the least you can do is withhold judgment.
Not something Donald Trump is willing to do, so my first cartoon on this subject pointed out that our president was doing everything he could to make things worse.
My second cartoon…
Charlie Kirk said a lot of controversial things about a lot of stuff (boy, does that sound familiar) and according to The Guardian here’s what Charlie had to say about gun deaths:
“I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
So when someone else gets shot, that’s acceptable and just the cost of doing business and we should all quit whining about it, but when Charlie got shot that’s a sign that something’s seriously out of whack and it’s the Far Left and they need to lose their TV shows and/or jobs for expressing reprehensible opinions although reprehensible opinions are what Charlie dispensed on a regular basis and what made him so popular with Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.
If you want to read a list of Charlie Kirk’s reprehensible opinions, here you go:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs
Anyway…
I couldn’t help but notice that suddenly politicians were worried about their security at public events, but were pretty much OK with school shootings (they must be, they haven’t done jack shit about them) and when I drew the above cartoon I Googled “how many gun deaths in the United States so far this year” and the answer was 10,480 and I just Googled it again and the answer is now 10,685 just three days later and if Donald Trump is upset about any of those additional 205 deaths I’ve yet to hear about it.
BTW: It’s the internet so you can find all kinds of numbers, but those gun deaths were “homicides, murders and unintentional deaths” and if you throw in suicides the likely number jumps over 20,000 and 300 people died in mass shootings, but none of them seem to matter as much as Charlie Kirk and the next cartoon explains why.
(Also—and I didn’t know this—murders are a specific kind of homicide, so all murders are homicides, but not all homicides are murders and apparently we’re killing each other so fast we needed some separate categories.)
Apparently, Jimmy Kimmel got in trouble for saying the MAGA Republicans were using Charlie Kirk’s death to promote their agenda which kinda seems like getting in trouble for saying the sun sets in the West.
And part of their agenda is shutting down dissent and the expression of opinions they don’t like because when Charlie Kirk said some racist shit (and he said a lot of racist shit) that was Free Speech and should be tolerated. But when Jimmy Kimmel points out that—according to the MAGA Republicans—the Democrats are delicate flowers who get emotionally bruised by the wrong pronouns and ruthless killing machines at the same time, maybe the MAGA Republicans are full of shit, Jimmy needs to be taken off the air.
And having the spines of overly-ripe bananas, ABC executives agreed.
And if Trump and the MAGA Republicans find out they can get away with doing this to Jimmy Fucking Kimmel, don’t think they’ll stop there.
This cartoon was inspired by Donald Trump’s trip to the UK and a story that talked about Trump’s love of “pomp and circumstance” which is a phrase I never understood, but means “impressive, formal activities or ceremonies, characterized by grandeur, elaborate displays, and a sense of ceremony” and apparently it comes from William Shakespeare’s play Othello so don’t say you never learned anything from reading this blog even though what you learn may be useless.
Anyway…
Trump seems to think anything with gold trim is really snazzy and he’s got the decorating sense of Elvis during his Fat Years and we’ll now take a gander at the patio Trump has added to the White House because nothing says “grandeur” like the same set of furniture used in Sonic Drive-Ins.
White House:
Sonic:
Trump also added a giant-ass flag pole:
And by the time he gets done I’m guessing the White House will have a roller coaster and a video arcade and an outdoor hot tub and I was thinking “I hope Trump doesn’t get any more redecorating ideas when he’s in England” all of which leads me to today’s main topic:
A MODEST PROPOSAL
I totally stole this from one of my sons, but he’s way behind in the “who owes what to whom” contest because he’s never bought me even one pizza or changed even one of my diapers (that day is coming) but until then, I’ll steal his idea:
We should make Donald Trump King for Life and then he can wear whatever fucked up outfit he comes up with and have a crown and a scepter and someone who walks behind him to keep his fur-lined cape off the ground and people would have to bow and remove their hats when he comes by, but…
He would have absolutely no power, with one exception:
A Joint Session of Congress would be required to gather every day and listen to Donald Trump talk for as long as he wants to on any subject he wants to and that would feed Donald Trump’s insatiable ego and need for attention and keep Congress from doing anything because when they do shit, most of it’s bad.
I’ve heard worse ideas and so have you and I know that for sure because I’ve proposed some of them.
Today’s Lesson
Don’t celebrate people getting shot, but it should be OK to point out hypocrisy and if you’ve got some hypocrisy you want to point out, you better get right on that because if Donald Trump has his way the days of Free Speech are over.
Enjoy it while it lasts, people.
Thank you so much for the Rocky Bullwinkle reference.
To this day it is my favorite cartoon and I never thought anything could beat Roadunner and Wile E.
Coyote
Too many super "truth-toons" today. Thank you. Excellent.