Cartoon Saturday

Thank goodness the Republican convention is over. Now Der Furor and his minions can concentrate on the brass tacks of whitewashing history on the way to the election.

Hurricane Laura devastated parts of the Louisiana coast with catastrophic flooding and category 4 winds; at the Republican National Convention, the party declined to publish a traditional platform, instead publishing a statement that it "enthusiastically supports (Der Furor) and continues to reject the policy positions of the Obama-Biden Administration," and would "adjourn without adopting a new platform;" a 17 year-old boy murdered two people and seriously injured a third, claiming he was assisting law enforcement to contain demonstrations in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the shooting of an unarmed black man by a police officer; Navy investigators have identified a sailor they believe intentionally started a huge fire that severely damaged the USS Bonhomme Richard; and in New Zealand, a white supremacist who murdered 51 worshippers and seriously injured dozens of others at two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques in 2019, was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without parole - the first time a criminal in that country has been imprisoned without the possibility of eventual release.

In her speech to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday evening, First Lady Melania Trump said - without any hint of irony - “Total honesty is what we as citizens deserve from our president.” It's what we deserve, but hardly what we expect to get. This week, a collection of cartoons on the quaint subject of "honesty" ...

That must have been one of the memos that aides surreptitiously removed from Der Furor's desk ...

That would be the GOP platform, if they had one ...

Sad, but true ...

Policies vary depending on the type of business ...

Not a good first day at Fox News ...

Please sit down, Representatives Jordan and Gaetz ...

Just wait a few minutes ...

Planning for the Republican National Convention ...

There's honesty and there's honesty. Sid has a bright future in the current administration ...

I mentioned it. A number of other people did, too. Nobody listened ...

Every politician spins the story to make him- or herself look good. Unfortunately, in the current administration, spin has been taken to the level of a category five hurricane ... Der Furor and his enablers have decided that truth just doesn't give any tactical advantage, and the larger the falsehood and the more often it's repeated, the better.

Have a good day and enjoy the weekend. More thoughts coming.

Bilbo