Cartoon Saturday

And May goes out with a roar ... of terrible weather and gunfire ...

In order to avoid offending Donald Trump, White House staffers directed the Navy to move a ship named for three generations of Naval heroes in John McCain's family so that Trump would not have to see it during his visit to Japan; Special Counsel Robert Mueller gave a nine-minute press briefing in which he stressed the actual - as opposed to the Trump-spun - content of his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and attempts to obstruct the investigation thereof; eleven people were murdered and another four seriously wounded in the nation's latest mass shooting, this one in Virginia Beach; Donald Trump threatened to slap escalating tariffs on all Mexican products unless that country's government stops the flow of illegal migrants into the United States; and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set a new standard for blatant hypocrisy when he said - with a chuckle - that the Republican-led Senate would fill any Supreme Court vacancy that came in 2020.

This week, in honor of the behavior and aspirations of some unnamed senior leaders, I thought a collection of cartoons about barbarians and tyrants would be appropriate ...

She forgot, "appoint as many judges as possible" ...

They must have forgotten to pack Epi-Pens ... or else they couldn't afford the new price of them ...

Say, what? ...

This one speaks to a lot of us more senior citizens ...

Keeping in shape during the pillaging off-season ...

The GOP prepares for the latest invasion ...

No comment needed ...

Doing plunder right ...

I think he booked with the wrong cruise line ...

I think I recognize this guy ... no, wait ... I don't ...

And there you are - the first batch of cartoons for the new month, hot out of the oven.

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

Bilbo