Cartoon Saturday

Oh, please ... just make it stop ...

North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Un was caught cheating on Donald Trump when he traveled to Russia for a date with Vladimir Putin; North Korea billed the United States $2 million in 2017 for hospital care for American student Otto Warmbier, and insisted that an American official sign a pledge to pay it before allowing Warmbier to return to the United States in a comatose state to die ... the pledge was signed by diplomat Joseph Yun on orders of Donald Trump, but it's not clear if the bill was ever paid; acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has been cleared by the Department of Defense Inspector General of allegations that he showed favoritism in system acquisition towards Boeing, his former employer; Donald Trump has been invited to make his long-desired and pageantry-filled state visit to the United Kingdom in June of this year; and former Vice President Joe Biden has joined the herd of Democratic hopefuls competing for the party's 2020 presidential nomination.

This week, in honor of the looming horror of the 2020 presidential campaign season, a few cartoons about politicians and their campaigns seem appropriate ...

Everybody's gotta start someplace ...

Something about watching sausage being made ...

The Donald Trump presidential library won't need a whole lot of space to include his major writings, all of which are either 140 or 280 characters long ...

Good question ...

Ah, euphemisms ...

Never trust a politician by the size of the flag he waves ... or hugs ...

I think that office is much too large ...

How the 1% views the two-party system ...

As fantasies go, it's not a bad one ...

 It's one of the fastest ways to lose out in DC ...

And that's it for this edition of Cartoon Saturday ... I hope you enjoyed the cartoons about politicians, because it's easier to laugh than cry. And lately, I've been crying a lot.

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, when Poetry Sunday returns. See you then.

Bilbo