Iowa Democrats couldn't figure out their state-of-the-art caucus results app on Monday. Tuesday on live TV, Trump gave a Presidential Medal of Freedom to a guy about whom the nicest thing you can say about him is that he's got stage IV cancer; and Nancy Pelosi tore up the speech.
The U.S. Senate, as expected, voted Wednesday to exonerate Donald Berzelius Trump of both impeachment charges against him. The votes were largely along party lines; Mitt Romney was the lone Republican to vote with the Democrats on Article One — so I have to apologize for 25% of this meme the other day.
Heck, I almost regret all those cartoons I drew critical of him in 2012. We could have done a lot worse than Romney for president. And eventually did.
With all that has transpired this week, you might be forgiven if you've forgotten all those Superbowl commercials companies spent $435 million upon (roughly the Gross National Product of Tonga) in the hopes of dazzling football and Latin music fans on Sunday night. Tide shelled out a good portion of that total on a series of ads starring It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Charlie Day wandering hither and yon with a stain setting on his shirt.
I had hoped to come up with something based on any of the LGBTQ-friendly commercials. There were several of them, I assume, because San Francisco's team was in the game. Amazon featured Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi heading out for the evening. One Million Crabby Moms complained about a pair of drag queens in a garish commercial for Sabra hummus. Lil Nas X had cooler dance moves than CGI Sam Elliot for Doritos.
For my money, the ads were neither inspired nor inspiring. I almost had a different cartoon drawn until I discovered that at least two nationally distributed editorial cartoonists had already published the exact same idea. I ended up drawing McConnell's Crew and the Oobleck into the wee hours of the morning.
And I have waited all week without seeing Tide's #LaundryLater commercial on TV ever since. They must have blown their whole annual ad budget on Sunday.
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