If all you have are pawns, add in Molitov Cocktails

The week in editorial cartoons

Apr 04, 2025

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This week’s newsletter is a sampling of recent cartoons and plenty of snark. At the bottom, I’ve also included a Bill Clinton cartoon of mine from the late ‘90’s. Let me know if an occasional old cartoon would be worth including.

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Molitov Cocktails as Free Speech

The liberals are picking up right where they left off in 2020 except now instead of random violence and hundreds of mostly peaceful protests, they’re seeing every Tesla as a barbecue opportunity.

It’s clear that Democrats are sticking with this do-the-opposite-of-Trump brand. While the 47th President is accomplishing everything he promised, at a speed unheard of in Washington, it’s leaving no time for the Democrats to come up with an alternative that moves the country in a positive direction. Nancy Pelosi even admitted to having ”Orange Man Bad” branded in a discreet location. Although that hasn’t been verified.

We’re living in a bad American Idol season but with singing that sounds like a whiney preschool class after nap time was skipped, and where the children have access to gasoline filled beer bottles and matches. At this rate, liberals will be torching their own hemp sandals next, just to keep the flames of relevance flickering.

When All You Have Are Pawns

The Democrats have lost the messaging which is understandable when your only message is Orange Man Bad. But as obvious as their downfall is following the recent Trump victory, many on the left are going all in on continued theatrics.

Like a chess game, when the pieces look nice and shiny, but have hollow cores, no substance, and limited moves, the Democrats are bringing showmanship but not much more.

This all leaves the Donkey king wondering how the party drifted so far outside of mainstream America. And then the realization hits, “we should have included poetry pawn”!

There once was a fellow named Dem,
Whose gaslighting sparkled like gems,
"The world's end is near!"
He’d wink with a cheer,
Cause Orange man bad you @#%& with &#$ up your @#$%& #$%@%! Democracy’s over!

Marine Le Pen to Le Pen

It seems France decided to take a page out of the American playbook and injected it with adrenaline to show that the French are not afraid to use lawfare against political enemies.

The U.S. slapped Trump with 34 felonies but France went full Napoleonic on Marine Le Pen, convicting her of embezzling EU funds and banning her from the 2027 presidential race faster than you can say liberté.

Trump’s response to the his own brush with lawfare,… was to win the presidency. But Le Pen, however, is getting house arrest, an ankle bracelet, and an au contraire to any hopes of running for office in the near future. Move over, America, the French just turned lawfare into an art form, complete with a beret and a smug voilà!

Qualifications? Name Recognition

Andrew Cuomo’s tossing his COVID contaminated hat in the ring for NYC mayor. Remember when many were breathlessly applauding the former governor’s “leadership”, his mastery with COVID data, and his “hands-on approach” to the pandemic?

He certainly led the effort to comingle vulnerable seniors with COVID patients. He followed that up with some crafty bookkeeping on nursing home death numbers.

After misplacing a few thousand elderly folks in the stats, he figures he’s got the perfect resume to misplace a few million New Yorkers’ tax dollars. Bold move, Andy—hope the campaign slogan isn’t “I’m also an experienced chef especially when it comes to cooking the books.”

Unfortunately, when it came to being a “hands-on” governor it was mostly at the expense of female staffers. Back then every New York Democrat in Congress, along with the state's legislative leaders and President Joe Biden all condemned Cuomo's behavior and said he should resign. Where are those voices now?

We’ll excuse Joe, his voice is just mumbling, “Is soup time?”

Blast from the Past

This week I cleaned out some storage space and found boxes of old cartoons. I started my editorial cartooning career in ‘97 doing three cartoons a week with the Aiken Standard (SC). Lots of local issues but was able to get a few national issues in there as well.

I’ve included one of Bill Clinton below, I think this was around 1998. The war movie The Thin Red Line was out then.

Let me know if you’d like to see more of these.