Attribution: Art of the con by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian
Inside Trader and/or Inside Traitor
Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
It’s the Stupid, Stupid
Gunfight at the not-OK Corral
AKA “High Nonsense” with musical theme “Do not forsake us, oh our darlings”
Attribution: The Tariffs Showdown by Margolis & Cox, PoliticalCartoons.com
How Low Can You Go
Attribution: MAGA Mad About Trump Tariffs by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com
[Cagle Cartoons: Rick McKee is the staff cartoonist at The Augusta Chronicle. In 2006, McKee was named Time Magazines Person of the Year. Along with everybody else.]
Taking a Dive
According to Wiktionary, an idiomatic expression suggesting five meanings of our current situation:
- To decline rapidly
- To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally (boxing)
- To lose or fail intentionally
- To pretend to fall so as to deceive an opponent or referee (boxing or football)
- To fall suddenly and significantly (prices, hopes, fortunes, etc.)
Attribution: The stockmarket took a deep plunge by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com
IMHO, meanings 2-4 are the likely and demented intentions of the man in the WH.