Bilbo's Random Thought Collection: Cartoon Saturday

Saturday, July 14, 2018

Cartoon Saturday

As my father would have said, if this past week had been a fish, I'd have thrown it back.

In a disgusting and embarrassing display of partisan rancor and total incivility, the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees wasted eleven hours in a shameless attempt to undermine the Mueller investigation via brutal and endlessly repetitive ad hominem attacks on former FBI Special Agent Peter Stzrok; after browbeating and insulting US allies at the NATO summit in Brussels, Donald Trump gave a self-congratulatory news conference and then went on to London, where he conducted a scathing interview denouncing British Prime Minister Teresa May right before a black-tie dinner in his honor ... hosted by May; former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, awaiting trial on charges developed during the No-Collusion Witch Hunt™, was moved from his relatively comfortable prison accommodations in the Northern Neck Regional Jail to the Alexandria Detention Center in Northern Virginia, which has a history of housing high-profile prisoners; and the mayor of the city of Lancaster, California, wants to enact a ban on the wearing of neckties in the workplace, citing a study that claims they restrict 7.5% of the blood going to the brain ... which may explain the horrendous behavior of participants in Thursday's Strzok Circus, at which everyone was wearing neckties that obviously cut off blood supplies to their brains.

This week, in honor with the GOP's relentless attacks on the health care system, we offer a collection of cartoons about where we're going with "affordable" health care ...

It's what your insurance will pay for ...