NILF's, Tariffs, and Designer Wolves
The Week in Editorial Cartoons
Another week, another sampling of what was on my mind. At the bottom, I’ve also included a cartoon from 2008. Enjoy, and let me know what you think.
A Roll of the Tariffs
So, apparently tariffs are either the apocalyptic end of humanity—or the greatest global rightsizing in our lifetime!
I’m in the wait-and-see camp, sipping my Irish coffee and watching the dice roll like I’m at a Trump hotel casino. I like Trump’s optimism—he’s basically the guy at the craps table yelling, “Come on, baby, Daddy needs a new trade deal!”
Meanwhile, the left’s ready to bet on doom, eagerly waiting to dance in the ashes of the nearest Tesla, flipping the bird with a smug “I-told-you-so” grin that says, “See, we should’ve gone with vibes last November!”
Fortunately, Trump put a temporary pause on most tariffs due the stock market’s reaction and the bond market showing volatility. But tariffs will start back up and there’ll be pain—maybe a little, maybe a lot, maybe for long enough to make us all binge-eat our fingernails—but will the ends justify the means?
Let’s just hope when those dice finally land, we’re not all yelling, “Snake Eyes!“
Making a Howling Comeback
Jurassic Park meets reality when Dire Wolves get cloned. What could possibly go wrong with designer creatures?
But here’s the real kicker—while we’re bringing back these ferocious furry canines, perhaps other long-lost treasures might claw their way back too. I’m hoping for something we used to cherish called personal responsibility. Imagine it staging a comeback tour, strutting out of the shadows with a megaphone, yelling, “Clean up your own messes, people!” Can I get a Dire Wolf howl of approval?
If we’re digging into the graveyard of things worth resurrecting, what else have we missed?
Common sense. It’s like an endangered species that vanished somewhere between clickbait headlines, political divisiveness, and viral stunts.
Actual human contact without a screen glowing between us so we can actually feel human.
Speaking of screen time, perhaps we could bring back online civility that perished 10 seconds after the internet was born.
And let’s not forget attention spans longer than a TikTok clip, and get back to reading things called books instead of just tweets.
What else has been unfairly wiped out?
What’s a NILF?
How’s the dating pool like running a manufacturing facility? If you’re relying on a lot of Gen Z men, the pickings are slim.
Just as manufacturers groan over short-staffed assembly lines, women are equally disappointed with dudes who ghost faster than a faulty assembly line shuts down. Finding a young man who’s reliable, committed, and drug-free feels like hunting for a unicorn …that also knows how to change a tire.
Instead, you get guys who think “getting their hands dirty” means spilling an energy on their gaming keyboard. It’s not that there’s a labor shortage, it’s that the workforce showed up with AirPods, a vape cloud, a commitment phobia, and Joe Biden’s morning alarm clock.
In reality, they may not show up at all. Many are considered NILF’s… Not In Labor Force.
Blast from the Past
This cartoon takes us back to the 2008 election primaries when we actually had bipartisan agreement, although unintentional. The Dream Team of Hillary and Obama was in our mind. The Democrats drooled over the possibility. The Republicans also drooled, but because they saw it as a way to maintain the White House.
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