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FDR's Greatest Political Moment; Protesting JD — The Week in Editorial Cartoons (Poll) - Update #9 [1]
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Date: 2025-03-02
Major Problems Confronting the United States
Update #9 — 7:10 pm ET
Welcome to Vermont, JD
x Vermont's message to JD Vance: Not in our town, you fascist piece of shit. 😡😡😡😡😡👇 pic.twitter.com/Pk4QwFu3fv — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) March 1, 2025
Happy Skiing
x Vermont residents had quite the greeting for Russian asset JD Vance. Sugarbush locals told the traitor to get the fuck out of their town and go to Russia to ski — forcing the fascist motherfucker to find another hotel to stay at. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇 pic.twitter.com/8qrRHPrtcF — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) March 1, 2025
Two Sides of the Same Coin
The Ugly Americans — A personal comment
x David Sipress pic.twitter.com/DeJNHkgtAl — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) March 2, 2025
As I wrote in this 2019 diary
Foreign policy is the collective face a nation puts forth for the rest of the world to accept or reject; admire or detest; cooperate with or defy; emulate or ignore. In the best of times, the conduct of American foreign policy is a delicate (some would say cynical) dance in which the United States must tread carefully between protecting its own national interest and promoting it self-proclaimed values of freedom and democracy.
For some of us who have spent considerable time studying international relations at home and abroad and worked in recent presidential campaigns, this past Friday represented a new low point in international diplomacy. On live television, the President of the United States, his deputy, and MAGA loyalists insulted and humiliated an ally and leader of a foreign country who has spent the past three years staving off an aggressor hell bent on destroying and occupying his country. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties, not to mention tens of thousands of civilian Ukrainian casualties and untold misery and destruction.
Ukrainian Trident (Tryzub or Coat of Arms) perished due The same country, Ukraine, had signed a nuclear treaty in 1994, giving up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees and respect for its sovereignty from Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Most people also know that of all Holocaust victims during World War II, 1.5 million — or one-fourth of the estimated six million Jewish victims — were murdered by the Nazis in Ukraine. It is worth pointing out that a decade earlier, almost four million Ukrainians to hunger in the Holodomor — part of a broader famine and political repression that engulfed the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
Did one get the impression watching this travesty on television this past Friday that either Donald Trump or JD Vance were sensitive to Ukraine’s tragic past? For lack of a better word, their behavior was despicable.
x Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator @mackaycartoons pic.twitter.com/Amp5DR08vj — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) March 1, 2025
The faces representing the United States in this unseemly display of low-brow behavior on February 28, 2025, were those of the “Ugly American." While the term often describes Americans misbehaving in other countries, the "boorishness and insensitive parochialism" by Donald Trump and JD Vance in the White House fits the bill.
What I wrote in this early 2021 diary still holds.
For a year, a disastrous, incompetent, and criminally negligent administration chose to play partisan politics, favoring unscientific remedies and solutions unfit for a country founded on the principles of the Enlightenment. The daily death toll kept rising, justified by a plethora of excuses offered that were unfit for this or any other democratic country. For four long years, conspiracy theories — not scientific data — ruled the day with total loyalty demanded of civil service employees whose job it is to provide non-partisan solutions. Finally, violence, not the rule of law, was the path chosen by a group of losers on their way out. Are any of them going to pay a price for this outrageous, unconstitutional, illegal, and criminal behavior? Most Americans know a different truth in their gut: we are a better people and country than what was on display early last month in Washington, DC.
We should all feel ashamed of such displays of blatant nationalism by Trump and his goons. I don’t state this lightly, as I’m using a loaded term: this behavior is un-American.
x Trump invites a US ally to the White House to publicly bully and berate him. Shameful. pic.twitter.com/LQA0XEclWw — Adam Zyglis (@adamzyglis) February 28, 2025
Manual Updates Posted Here
Update #8 — 6:56 pm ET
And the Oscar Goes To…
South African Terrorist
Update #7 — 6:28 pm ET
The Unmasking
Defend Ukraine
x Stand with Ukraine. View from east coast, 2022. pic.twitter.com/LkqjM16nxY — Bruce MacKinnon (@CH_Cartoon) March 2, 2025
Update #6 — 6:25 pm ET
The UK Strikes Back
x Chris Riddell on Keir Starmer’s cordial meeting with Donald Trump, as Ukraine awaits a terrible fate | Chris Riddell – cartoon
[image or embed] — The Guardian (@theguardian.com) March 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Standing Tall Against Bullies
Update #5 — 6:19 pm ET
The Lap Dog Speaketh
No Surprise Here
x With Trump repeatedly siding w/ Putin against US interests, accusing our allies of being dictators, & undermine the NATO alliance to benefit Russia, it’s no surprise to find out what these two are doing behind closed doors. #trump #ukraine #maga #UkraineRussiaWar @GlobeOpinion pic.twitter.com/WA7UW6VlkK — Christopher Weyant (@ChristophWeyant) February 23, 2025
Update #4 — 6:10 pm ET
Save the World from Trump
x After Trump's disastrous meeting w/ Zelensky, German President Steinmier just said the quiet part out loud. Not only do free democratic countries need to protect Ukraine from dictator Putin, they also need to protect Ukraine from the Naziesque ambitions of dictator-wannabe Trump. pic.twitter.com/OxHukIRZbq — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) March 2, 2025
DOGE Cuts Very Unpopular in Rural Red State Kansas
x DOGE is nothing but a scam to justify tax cuts for billionaires. Greed-driven pricks like Elon Musk will stop at nothing to gut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and vet benefits. When Musk went on Joe Rogan and called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme", he gave away the game. 👇 pic.twitter.com/ExKAOsysyQ — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) March 2, 2025
Update #3 — 5:04 pm ET
The King and I
x In a not so subtle 'fuck you' to Trump, King Charles cleared his schedule to meet with Zelensky in Sandringham House. 🙌🙏💪👏👇 pic.twitter.com/HXtMrHJhrF — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) March 2, 2025
New York City Supports Zelensky
x Holy shit! This was Times Square in New York City on Saturday. Thousands of New Yorkers came out to support Zelensky and condemn Trump, JD Vance, and the fascist Trump regime. 🙌🙏💪👏👇 pic.twitter.com/x43CIQOeji — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) March 2, 2025
Update #2 — 4:40 pm ET
Touche
Misguided Priorities
x Our 63 national parks are America’s treasure, and they are more popular than ever before. Now is not the time to mess with them. pic.twitter.com/Z8jWqEyWXf — Adam Zyglis (@adamzyglis) February 27, 2025
Update #1 — 4:32 pm ET
Doing the Right Thing
Pathetic
It’s Not About the Clothes
x No one seemed to object when Churchill turned up at the White House in his war-fighting gear. pic.twitter.com/ASQCXs4FX5 — John Simpson (@JohnSimpsonNews) March 1, 2025
Transactional Diplomacy — Tit for Tat
Attribution: Nick Anderson @andertoon.bsky.social
*The Original Cartoon by David Low (1939)
I first posted the original David Low cartoon in this 2022 two-part diary
A British editorial cartoonist for the Evening Standard, Low was loathed by Adolf Hitler and was targeted for execution had the Nazis defeated and occupied Great Britain in the early 1940s.
The diary focuses on four champion tennis players in the 1930s — two Americans, a German, and a Soviet immigrant in Berlin, who was trying to escape vicious anti-Semitism. Set against an impending world war, the German and American players hold secrets that could land them in jail — or worse. The German player is a tennis champion caught between his desire to excel in international tennis and the demands of loyalty made upon him by his country’s Fascist and rabidly anti-Semitic regime — one which detested people like him.
The Road to War
Two of a kind — Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. After the invasion of Poland in 1939 triggered World War II, the murderousness of Hitler and Stalin is acknowledged in this David Low cartoon but what gets highlighted is the ridiculous spectacle of two former and future foes greeting each other with the daintiness of prospective dance partners.
Hitler’s Cartoon Problem and the Art of Controversy Although Adolph Hitler was a master of propaganda, he was continually flummoxed by one particular form of communication: the editorial cartoon. Perhaps because the Nazi leader had a high opinion of himself, he couldn’t stand to be caricatured. The very sight of an inky mockery of his goose-stepping gait and toothbrush moustache drove Hitler into a spittling, almost frothy, spasm of rage. As Victor Navasky notes in his new book, The Art of Controversy, the New Zealand–born cartoonist David Low, whose political art appeared in England’s Evening Standard, was especially gifted at targeting the dictator’s most tender psyche spots… After the Second War broke out, Hitler took pleasure in composing a list of those to be executed after Britain was conquered. Low and other cartoonists had the privilege of a high rank on Hitler’s private hit list. David Low, "Olympic Courtesy," Jewish Chronicle, July 10, 1936. See this detailed comment I made in Part I of my 2022 diary — The 1936 Berlin Summer Olympic Games as Nazi Propaganda. It explains the above cartoon and has background information on the 1936 Olympics Games. Low’s strategy of making Hitler silly rather than scary pinched a touchy nerve. When the English government was pursuing the policy of appeasement before the Second World War, they found that one of Germany’s demands was that Low stop making fun of Hitler. As Lord Halifax, a leading architect of the appeasement policy explained to the publisher of the Evening Standard, “You cannot imagine the frenzy these cartoons cause. As soon as a copy of the Evening Standard arrives, it is pounced on for Low’s cartoons, and if it is of Hitler, as it usually is, telephones buzz, tempers rise, fevers mount, and the whole governmental system of Germany is in an uproar.”
Trump vs Zelensky, Part II — 14 Political Cartoons by The Cartoon Movement
The Cartoon Movement posted Part I of Trump vs Zelensky a couple of weeks ago with 19 cartoons.
That’s What Friends Are For
Trump Jettisons Ukraine on His Way to a Larger Goal x Bill Bramhall, The New York Daily News @BillBramhall pic.twitter.com/EDSHjyWB7D — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) March 1, 2025 David Sanger: “After five weeks in which President Trump made clear his determination to scrap America’s traditional sources of power — its alliances among like-minded democracies — and return the country to an era of raw great-power negotiations, he left one question hanging: How far would he go in sacrificing Ukraine to his vision?” “The remarkable showdown that played out in front of the cameras early Friday afternoon from the Oval Office provided the answer.”
Too Late!
Erasing History
A Message from James Taylor
x James Taylor makes a clear statement about Trump/Musk.
Hopefully other celebrities will take note and come forward.
It's important.
Thanks .@JamesTaylor_com pic.twitter.com/YsTxW3x1PU — Steve Martin (@UnrealBluegrass) February 21, 2025
“Blessed Are the Peacemakers”
Trump’s Obsession With Playing Cards
x Cartoon on Zelensky/Trump meeting.
When Trump later told him he had “no cards,”
Zelensky replied: “I am not playing cards.” ————
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[image or embed] — Badiucao巴丢草 (@badiucao.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Pointing Fingers
x The Oval Office has gone from a beacon of democracy to a revolving door for incompetence and corruption. Once a place for leaders, now a playground for con men and tyrant sympathizers.
[image or embed] — Anonymous ⩜ (@youranona.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
How’d I End Up Here?
Maintaining His Dignity
Buffoons and Criminals
The “American Putin”
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
x Trump appears to deny he'd said Pres. Zelensky is a "dictator", which triggered outrage from U.S. allies, given that they support Ukraine against Putin. When asked if thinks Zelensky is a dictator, he said: "I can't believe I said that." Cartoon: Dave Whamond)
www.rawstory.com/trump-starme...
[image or embed] — JDB (@amistadsociety.bsky.social) February 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Confronting the Putin Gang
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