Cartoon Saturday

Sigh ...

American hero Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, died at the age of 97; more than 120 Republican representatives - over 60% of GOP members of the House - signed on to support a lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general asking the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 presidential election (but not the downballot races won by Republicans) ... which the Supreme Court dismissed in a terse, one-paragraph decision (in a second paragraph, two conservative justices said they'd have been willing to hear the case, but would have decided against it); death row inmate Brandon Bernard, the youngest person to be executed by the federal government in nearly 70 years, was executed in Indiana after last-minute clemency pleas were rejected by the Supreme Court; Russian police are searching for thieves who stole 39 pieces of radio equipment from an aircraft used as a top-secret airborne nuclear command and control center; and a Florida business owner who was once down on his luck is giving back by paying the utility bills of 114 families who were facing disconnection ... more than Congress and Der Furor combined have done for Americans in dire economic distress during the pandemic.

This week, in honor of presidents who think they're kings, a collection of cartoons about kings ...

How important decisions were announced by kings before they had Twitter ...

It works for Republican kings ...

King Furor I has adopted this method ...

It's okay, your majesty, just ignore them anyhow ...

It works for Der Furor ...

The secret to ruling ...

Sire, you have been out-tweeted! ...

Der Furor has a whole stable of messengers like that ...

It's good to be the king, eh? ...

I'll bet the pawns don't have gold toilets ...

And that's it for this royal collection of cartoons ... a laugh we sorely need that isn't provided by GOP antics. I hope you enjoyed them.

Come back tomorrow for a Christmas-themed Musical Sunday, and don't miss Wednesday's upcoming post which will launch the 2020 Ass Clown of the Year competition. More thoughts then.

Bilbo