The Left-Cheek Ass Clown for May, 2023

Two weeks go by quickly, don't they? It seems like only yesterday that we presented this award to America's Second Amendment Zealots, and now it's time to single out another Ass Clown for appropriate recognition. Oddly enough, the choice this time was a little easier than usual, as I found myself weighing the relative "merits" of two candidates rather than dozens, and gave my quasi-scientific coin a flip to choose

The Left-Cheek Ass Clown for May, 2023

and the award goes to

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

It's terrifying to think that our once-great country could produce both Der Furor and Ron DeSantis, but here we are. Mr DeSantis appears to know and care less about the Constitution than Der Furor (difficult as that is to believe), but his actions and those of his far-right supporters clearly show what the future of the nation under his administration would look like: banned books, limited medical care, a disdain for human rights, and a bleakly authoritarian place in which the twisted beliefs and hatreds of one man ruin life for millions.

We can see in the Florida microcosm what Mr DeSantis would bring to the nation at large: millions of dollars wasted on frivolous legal fights with the Disney Corporation, education limited only to subjects approved by Mr DeSantis and his religious supporters, libraries forced to strip from their shelves books that somehow offend the snowflakiest of persons, millions of more dollars wasted on defending the state from lawsuits over the banning of books and the content of educational curricula ... the list goes on and on. And we haven't even mentioned immigration laws so unconstitutionally offensive that many Latino truckers are now refusing to carry loads to the place once known as the "Sunshine State" for fear of being arrested and deported on the flimsiest of pretexts.  

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Readers, the Left-Cheek Ass Clown award for May, 2023, is presented to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whose reckless crusade against people and topics he despises threatens to ruin his state and - should he somehow manage to get elected President - what's left of the nation's moral center after the depredations of Der Furor and his supporters.

Vote for sanity.

Have a good day and come back tomorrow for Cartoon Saturday. More thoughts then.

Bilbo

P.S. - for those of you who are interested, the other finalist this time was Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, although North Carolina's Empty G was a strong third.

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