Q Toon: On the Road Again

I have to admit that it's tough coming up with cartoon ideas these days.

It's not for a dearth of topics. Congress is back in session. A dishonest grifter who led an insurrection against democracy is about to take over the U.S. government. Our broligarchy is falling all over itself to kowtow to the new Trumpreich. Justin Trudeau's government is collapsing. Warfare against civilians continues in Gaza and Ukraine. Islamist radicals have toppled Russia's client in Syria. Blizzards are blanketing parts of the U.S., and fires are raging around L.A. A couple of "Once a Marine, always a Marine"s decided that their New Year’s resolution was to go out as terrorists.

It's no wonder that, according to a recent poll, people are sick of paying attention to the news. I'm not immune to this particular malady, either.

I turned on the news Tuesday afternoon around lunchtime, and there was Donald Berzelius Trump, having himself a live press conference, blathering on about bathroom showerheads and dishwashers and toilets. So I immediately turned it off and missed the part about declaring war on Greenland, Denmark, Panama, Canada, and the Gulf of Mexico.

By the way, not to be overly crass, but when Trump complains about having to flush his toilet 15 times, it's because there's no way in hell he'd ever touch a scrub brush.

And when he summoned the media on Tuesday to share his oral diarrhea with us all, it was because he's jealous of a dead president getting all the attention.

Anyway, since I haven't come up with an LGBTQ+ angle on any of that yet, this week's cartoon is about Pete Buttigieg packing up his stuff and vacating the office of Secretary of Transportation. 

I for one will be sorry to see him go, and interested to see what his next steps are. He has been the Biden administration's most effective spokesperson, the guy who has held his own and then some going up against the Fox Noise angers anchors. He might end up in one of the other news channels' stable of talking heads, but it would be a shame if that limits him to talking to a friendly audience.

He has been mentioned as a candidate for office in Michigan, where he and Chasten now reside with their family. How Michiganders would feel about a Hoosier asking for their vote is open for discussion.

Buttigieg might consider running for president again in 2028. He should probably ask Liddy Dole whether being a former Transportation Secretary is a sufficient credential for the Oval Office. 

First, he'd have to get the Democratic Party nomination, of course. 

And as the past three presidential contests have shown, Democrats have higher standards for nominating a presidential candidate than RepubliQans do.