{"id":136058,"date":"2026-02-17T12:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136058\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:39:08","slug":"the-homecoming-queens-got-a-gub-the-daily-cartoonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/136058\/","title":{"rendered":"The Homecoming Queen\u2019s Got A Gub \u2013 The Daily Cartoonist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comic Strip of the Day<\/a> Daily Cartoonist<\/a><\/p>\n

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Poor Pam! She wanted to come across as a really tough loyalist, but she ran into too many Julie Browns. <\/p>\n

Obviously, one of them was Julie K. Brown<\/a>, who is to Jeffrey Epstein as Woodward and Bernstein were to Watergate, and so the Attorney General faced clear evidence that Something Wasn\u2019t Right.<\/p>\n

But when she went to Congress to refute the fake news and all the liberal hoaxes, she came across like another Julie Brown<\/a>, not to be confused with Downtown Julie Brown<\/a>. She began channeling this Julie Brown\u2019s homecoming queen who, like Pam, was out for justice and wasn\u2019t taking any guff<\/a>. <\/p>\n

That song, by the way, was a hit (1983) before school shootings became a real thing (1999), but, that aside, Two Bulls notes that our current homecoming queen brought her own set of clumsy slam book insults which is where Virgil Starkwell comes into the picture.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Or, judging from Two Bulls\u2019 depiction, one of the Muppets, but certainly not the tough character she was hoping to be.<\/p>\n

The result is as Matson puts it: Cartoonists were tasked with making her look more ridiculous than she made herself look by refusing to answer questions, tossing out lame, rehearsed insults and indulging in spoiled Barbie behavior. A daunting challenge!<\/p>\n

The initial response \u2014 this Anderson cartoon was featured here in the immediate aftermath \u2014 was shock and repulsion at her cruel response to the rape victims who not only deserve sympathy but were right in the room. <\/p>\n

Asked by Jerry Nadler (D-NY) why the DOJ had not charged a single person with any of the associated crimes in the Epstein Files, she responded<\/a> <\/p>\n

The Dow has shattered 50,000 for the first time. This is crazy. They said it couldn\u2019t be done in four years, yet President Trump has done it in one year. National median rents have fallen to a four-year low, thanks to Donald Trump. That\u2019s why they want to focus on Epstein and our most transparent president in the nation\u2019s history. The murder rate, as I said, has plummeted to 125-year low, thanks to Donald Trump. For an unprecedented nine straight months, there were zero illegal border crossings at the southern border. That\u2019s what we should be focused on.<\/p>\n

Having the AG declare that there have been zero illegal border crossing at the southern border in nine months should set off the cuckoo clocks, but reactions to her statement that we shouldn\u2019t dwell on the rape victims because the Dow is doing so well quickly went from shock to mockery.<\/p>\n

Ariail let the absurd, heartless argument speak for itself, feeling there was no need to exaggerate it.<\/p>\n

While Molina suggested that it might be a good excuse for those being stopped in the street by masked thugs demanding their papers, a theory that lets one outrage cancel another.<\/p>\n

And Jones had the brilliant idea of adapting the topic for personal use when it is important to not answer the obvious accusatory questions you\u2019re being asked.<\/p>\n

But, in the end, Ohman declared that her farcical appearance before the committee, including that foolish, irrelevant attempt to change the subject, had cost her whatever credibility and value she had previously had. And it does seem, at the moment, that she\u2019s locked in a race to the bottom with Kosplay Kristi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still, she has an important job to do: While Britain, France and Norway begin taking action against their citizens who have turned up in the file, Bondi is busy serving the \u201cmost transparent president in the nation\u2019s history\u201d by redacting the names of American suspects. One must have priorities, after all.<\/p>\n

Which has inspired a lot of cartoons about redaction, but it should be remembered that blacking out names is, literally, a cover-up. <\/p>\n

In the days of Watergate, the familiar saying was \u201cit\u2019s not the crime, it\u2019s the cover-up.\u201d I guess we\u2019ll see if that\u2019s still true.<\/p>\n

But another echo of Watergate would be to see our elected legislators step up, regardless of party, to bring justice to the nation. While there were a few hardline loyalists then, the bulk of Congress looked for justice, and the Senator who famously summed things up as \u201cWhat did the president know and when did he know it?\u201d was Howard Baker, who, like Nixon, was a Republican.<\/p>\n

Rather than wait for a miracle to restore that level of integrity, Kallaugher notes that the victims themselves seem to be carrying the weight, like a Greek chorus providing commentary as the drama unfolds, or a visitation of spirits to forever haunt the guilty, both those guilty of the crimes and those guilty of sheltering the criminals.<\/p>\n

McKee puts it in plain terms: What if it were your daughter? And what if they get away with the cover-up and the insensitivity so that we truly end up with a Ministry of Truth that tells you what you are seeing and what you are hearing and what your response is to be, in a country where Ignorance is Strength?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re sliding towards that direction, Whamond warns, because people are being targeted for just the sort of \u201chate speech\u201d Bondi cites in his cartoon. <\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security is specifically targeting its critics<\/a>, having sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

\u201c6079 Smith W.\u201d is likely the first name on their list, but there\u2019s room for my name, too, and room for yours as well. <\/p>\n

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You can buy this greeting card at Wal-Mart<\/a> or get the full-sized poster at Amazon<\/a>, which is either a sign that freedom remains alive, or that it\u2019s not intended as a joke<\/a>. <\/p>\n

‘Intellectually there is very little wrong with you. It is only emotionally that you have failed to make progress. Tell me, Winston — and remember, no lies: you know that I am always able to detect a lie — tell me, what are your true feelings towards Big Brother?’
‘I hate him.’
‘You hate him. Good. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comic Strip of the Day Daily Cartoonist Skip to comments Poor Pam! She wanted to come across as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9902,9905,9909,9898,9899,9908,9904,9901,9903,9,24,9907,63,122,124,123,9906,9900],"class_list":{"0":"post-136058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-animation","9":"tag-cartoonists","10":"tag-comic-pages","11":"tag-comic-strips","12":"tag-editorial-cartoonists","13":"tag-funny-pages","14":"tag-gag-and-panel-cartoons","15":"tag-graphic-novels","16":"tag-magazine-cartoonists","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-newspaper-comics","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-queens","22":"tag-queens-headlines","23":"tag-queens-news","24":"tag-syndication","25":"tag-webcomics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}