AKA “High Nonsense” with musical theme “Do not forsake us, oh our darlings”
Attribution: The Tariffs Showdown by Margolis & Cox, PoliticalCartoons.com
Gunfight at the not-OK Corral
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
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.
Let Them Eat Golf Balls
“I don’t care about you.” – Donald J. Trump 6/9/24
“I couldn’t care less” – 3/20/25 Trump Says He ‘Couldn’t Care Less’ if Auto Tariffs Raise Car Prices in the U.S. – The New York Times
Tuxedo Tax Tariff
Attribution: Trump imposes tariffs on island of penguins by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
Updated in today’s Wall Street Journal
Trump’s Tariffs Are Truly Global. Just Ask the Penguins of McDonald Islands.