Monday TOONs - Trump Will Burn Everything Down To Distract

[JHB]

Trump Will Burn Everything Down To Distract

Taking the temperature of a nation

I Can’t Breathe

Give it a rest

Take the hint

In case you missed them, here's the Weekend TOONs - The Most Persistent Pandemic

So there was that time Captain America stormed an America First rally alongside black Resistance fighters... in 1984

TomCADem had a thread yesterday noting that Trump's sweeping claim about "Antifa" effectively made fictional star-spangled Nazi-fighter Captain America a "terrorist." One of the images he used was a panel from a 1984 issue of What If...?. I was into comics at the time and remember that issue very very well. It was the Reagan years, and RWers were letting their freak flags fly by treating patriotic symbols as their own personal property, as symbols of "us" vs "them." (Yes, that had been going on since forever, but I was at an age where I was first getting a sense of how pervasive it was.) In that environment, a comic where Captain America sides with black freedom fighters and "commies" was something of a political surprise. But then, it was 1984, so authoritarian dystopias were on a lot of minds (though not nearly enough). And, 36 years later, it remains depressingly relevant.

I was able to get some scans of key pages and did a more thorough rundown of its events in post #5 of that thread. Please take a look and say what you think.

[Solly Mack]

1. Naked Trump is just so wrong. Won't someone think of

my eyes? My poor eyes. I can't unsee that. My brain is in denial. It saw dandelions in a field of green. I like dandelions.

But my eyes, they saw me running into the wall later on as payback.

[2naSalit]

3. +1!

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. Try this...it's not just for drinking:

[2naSalit]

2. Thank you!

[kentuck]

4. Good ones! I think I will bookmark!

[Paladin]

5. The kneeling, murdering cop...WITH HIS HAND IN HIS POCKET.

There's an image that will be familiar, decades from now.....

[Oppaloopa]

8. I have a mobilityproblem if I forget my cane I push on my leg like that for balance. I think he was

pushing down on his leg.

[Wounded Bear]

9. It provides more leverage to bring the weight of the upper body to bear...nt

[Hekate]

27. I think he had his hands in his pockets so he could say, "Look, I never laid a hand on him"

Best wishes, Oppaloopa

[planetc]

6. Read these toons.

[Gothmog]

7. Thank you for the cartoons

[spanone]

10. K&R

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. de Adder must be employed again. His cartoon says "Toronto Star." NT

[dalton99a]

14. +1. A keeper

(June 2019)

[dalton99a]

13. Great collection

[Duppers]

15. Outstanding collection today.

Thank you.

[burrowowl]

16. Kick

[steventh]

17. Thank you for the Monday TOONS

and the link to the weekend TOONS
kick

[murielm99]

18. Thank you.

[CrispyQ]

19. A somber collection.

[oasis]

20. K and R

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. kickatoon

[Blue_Tires]

22. Thanks for this....

[crickets]

23. Excellent toons, JHB! Thanks for this and the link to Tom's thread. K&R

[cp]

24. Thank you.

Very powerful toons. Brought me to tears.
Really appreciate the work you do to collect them for us. Thank you.

[smirkymonkey]

25. K&R

[Hekate]

26. Kicktoons & thanks for the addenda!

Finally got all of them to load, and what a great collection.

[soldierant]

28. I wish to heaven there was a pacifier

big enough ans sticky enough to stuff into his mouth and have it stay there.