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Of Crooks, Grifters, Sleazeballs, and Authoritarians — The Week in Editorial Cartoons (Update #3) [1]
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Date: 2025-07-20
“What Are We Doing?”
x Everyone should listen to this Man!
https://t.co/sXzM8Q0XtF — WesleyGG@wesleygg🇺🇦 (@wesleyggkm) July 19, 2025
This is a powerful and righteous rant that questions the very direction of this country. It isn’t a question of if it will happen here; it is already happening.
Morality has taken a back seat to a twisted sense of right and wrong. To tackle the issue of immigration, it is the projection of state power — without giving any thought to or concern for the means used — that achieves political and policy ends, which rankles the author.
Have we become what previous generations of Americans opposed and fought against in two world wars and the decades-long Cold War? It is simply inexcusable.
In many ways, he implicitly asks, are we not a better country than what the actions of the Trump Regime suggest? I’m not sure what the honest answer to that question is.
Are We There Yet?
Bring It Back
Nobody Does It Better
Karma
An Excellent Use of Taxpayer Money
The Best Hoax There Ever Was
So Much Winning!
The New America
Manual Updates Posted Here
Update #3 — 7:50 pm ET
Not So Fast
Better Late Than Never
Update #2 — 7:48 pm ET
Joining the Taliban
Nah, We Don’t Need It /s
Update #1 — 7:44 pm ET
A Problem He Can’t Weasel Out Of
x Actual footage of President Amber Alert telling all the losers to stop talking about Epstein, for real you guys
[image or embed] — Jesse Duquette (@jesseduquette.bsky.social) July 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Isn’t the Message Clear?
The Epstein Story Just Won’t Go Away
Donald Trump has completely redefined what an American President can get away with. Much to the frustration of his political opponents, minor or major scandals that would have politically buried other politicians in the past have had no discernible impact on Trump.
x The unaccountability of Nixon delivered the pic.twitter.com/CxETE3cgXD — 💙 Dr. Meme votes 💙 BLUE 🇺🇸🦅 (@Coste1Costello) July 18, 2025
Attribution: Denis Goris, @DennisGoris
Until now.
For the first time, Trump is increasingly being viewed through a prism that makes him part of a ruling elite that gets away with crimes that would have landed the average person in jail. How his rabidly loyal base resolves these inherent contradictions may well determine Trump’s political future or legacy.
Why Trump Is Struggling to Change the Narrative x 7/19/2025- The Birthday Card #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinsBFF #birthdaycard #WonderfulSecret
https://t.co/gOFeApNrcd pic.twitter.com/UiK1p3NJmT — Clay Bennett (@BennettCartoons) July 18, 2025 Michael Kruse: “He has and always has had a real instinct for story — not just the ephemera of gossip, which he loves, but big, long-arc, animating sort of super stories, too. One of the most powerful stories in human history is us against them. And it’s been fuel for Trump’s electoral rise and rule — the notion he’s stoked that he’s an avenger for regular people who are the us set against elites and other assorted foes that make up the them.” “The Epstein story isn’t going away (or at least wasn’t?) because it complicates this superstory. It suggests to the legions who’ve been partial to Trump that actually maybe that’s not right — that actually maybe he’s less one of us and more part of them.“
How Much Longer Do We Have to Tolerate This Sleazeball?
Drip, Drip, Drip…
x The New York Times is reporting that Trump held a party for young girls where fellow pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was the only guest:
https://t.co/tlaFgzdkOI 🤮🤮🤮👇
According to the report, by Alan Feuer and Matthew Goldstein, "when Mr. Trump hosted a party at Mar-a-Lago for… pic.twitter.com/BZLEgn7JE7 — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) July 20, 2025
Father Knows Best
Another One Bites the Dust
Was Stephen Colbert the last of a kind? CBS has no plans to replace him or continue the late-night talk show. Long an integral part of programming at the major networks, it could be that we’re nearing the end of this television tradition.
I wrote about the legendary Johnny Carson in this diary I posted before the 2024 Election — From the School of Johnny Carson — and the Emergence of a New Kind of Democratic Male Politician. It examined the impact the host of “The Tonight Show” with his Midwestern niceness had on the country’s psyche.
Atlantic: After a shaky first year, Colbert found his footing in the lead-up to the 2016 election by focusing his opening monologues more pointedly on politics. The Late Show soon became the highest-rated talk show in America—a crown it has not relinquished since. x From the archives.
[image or embed] — Pia Guerra (@piaguerra.bsky.social) July 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM Ten years on, CBS has snatched the crown off its head. The network appears to have grown so dismayed with the state of late-night television that it has unceremoniously canceled one of the genre’s most successful stalwarts: In a statement last night, CBS announced that not only will this season of The Late Show—set to air through May 2026—be the program’s last, but the franchise will also be retired entirely. (“We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable,” the statement offers as explanation.) … As the medium dissolves from relevance, its owners instead seem content not to create anything of cultural importance. The Late Show is not the juggernaut it once was, sure. But what’s most tragic is to think of it being replaced by nothing at all. x @tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
[image or embed] — Peter Kuper (@pkuper.bsky.social) July 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM Rolling Stone: If so, it wouldn’t be the first time a media company has bent the knee to the president since the most recent election — we’re only a few months out from 60 Minutes showrunner Bill Owens resigning, claiming he no longer had the ability “to make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience,” which was followed a month later by the resignation of CBS News boss Wendy McMahon for similar reasons — nor will it be the last. Some of these series continue as much out of inertia as for the value they provide their respective companies. Now that CBS has shuttered its talk-show apparatus altogether, it’s going to be easier for NBC and ABC executives to look at their own and question whether they still need to keep making them. Maybe the next one to go will happen when one of the hosts’ contracts is up, or if Meyers or Kimmel simply decide they’ve had enough of the nightly grind. It might take a while, but this very much feels like the beginning of the end for this format that has been around practically since television has existed as a mass medium.
Gone Too Soon
Walter Cronkite Would Be So Proud
Suppressing Free Speech
You Scratch My Back, and I’ll Scratch Yours
What’s Left of CBS?
Will He Re-Emerge?
x Trump’s rolling campaign of shakedown censorship, blackmail and purge has now felled the Late Show. But Stephen Colbert, a true-blue patriot and comic genius who skewers dunce-tyrants for a living, is irrepressible and invincible.
[image or embed] — Rep. Jamie Raskin (@raskin.house.gov) July 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Only in America
Now We Know Who Sent That Card to Epstein
Know Your Friends and Enemies
The Fugitive
Is There a Sequel Coming Soon?
The End of An Era
Big Bird is No More
Anti-Intellectualism in Action
How Dare You?
The Good Old Days
This editorial cartoon by Clay Jones criticizes this racist cartoon by Margolis and Cox. You can read more about it here on Facebook.
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