Speeding Toward a Wall
I’m Dan Piraro, the creator of the Bizarro newspaper comic, and this is my weekly blog post. The large Sunday Bizarro comic above is mine, as are the comments below. The past week’s Monday-Saturday Bizarro comics that follow were written and drawn by my partner Wayno, whose weekly blog post I highly recommend.
And here’s this week’s ANSWER KEY to my Sunday comic’s Secret Symbols.
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Welcome, Jazz Pickles. It’s been a wild week, even by recent standards.
Last weekend, record-breaking crowds all over the US turned out to protest the Would-Be Toddler King while his parade of military toys faceplanted like an elementary school performance of King Lear.
This hurt the Narcissist in Chief’s feelings and made him feel less powerful than he imagines himself to be.
So to feel masculine and menacing again, this weekend, he and his cabinet of Fox News chat show hosts and billionaire landlords sent his military toys to start another war in the Middle East. The last one went so well and was over so fast, it was just too hard to resist.
All of this goes to prove, for the umpteenth time, the power of propaganda on the poorly educated. It is unfortunate, but also predictable, as human history continues to devolve into more reruns of well-worn episodes. All empires fall eventually, often as the result of the poor judgment of a childish fool in a crown.
I won’t say I saw this coming, but I left the US in 2016, when a certain childish fool received a certain nomination to a certain office. I never dreamed he could win, but the fact that one of our two major parties had put him that close to power was unacceptably dangerous. What has followed since has been beyond unbelievable.
But it is not without precedent. Countries have survived this kind of hostile takeover by a minority many times before, and we’ll survive this one. No one knows how long it will take, but last weekend’s protests showed we won’t give in easily.
What’s truly astounding is the number of Christians who have signed on to follow this Antichrist through the gates of Hell. I hang on to the belief that most American Christians see him for what he is and has always been: a greedy conman. But how so many have been blinded to his lack of basic decency and ethics is beyond my understanding.
The photo below is from a Bizarro reader whose husband wore one of my shirt designs that I used to sell through my website way back in 2017 or so. I was too far away to join the protests last weekend, but I’m gratified to see that one of my shirts made it.
Keep resisting, keep protesting, stay safe, and stay peaceful. There are many times more of us than there are of them.
And let’s not let a tin-pot dictator ruin our joy for life. Join me in some smiles as we review Wayno’s Bizarro cartoons from the week!
She could carry a box of cling wrap with her. Just sayin’.
Clowns and lawyers are two things I always try to avoid. I’ve been much more successful at avoiding clowns.
These days, matryoshka dolls’ preferred pronouns are “them” and “they.”
Before bike helmets were invented, kids wore cushioned wigs.
We’ve all been there, and some of us have needed a trailer hitch.
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