Q Toon: What's In a Name

After three weeks of cartoons with little or no text, it was inevitable that this week's cartoon would be laden with logorrhea.

The shock and outrage over last week's leak from the Defense Department that Secretary Pete Hegseth planned to change the name of the USNS Harvey Milk has certainly been overshadowed by the shock and outrage over Usurper Trump sending the National Guard, Marines, Gestapo, and Jem'Hadar to Los Angeles this week.

But my bailiwick is LGBTQ+ issues, so this is where I'm venting my shock and outrage today.

In spite of all the text in today's cartoon, I couldn't even squeeze in all the U.S. Navy's ships to be renamed pursuant to Trump policy erasing LGBTQ, women, and melanin-forward people from U.S. history. I had to leave out the USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Harriet Tubman, and USNS Lucy Stone.

Hegseth will no doubt prescribe gender reassignment for each of them.

Meanwhile, the Trump regime's commitment to Straight White Male Supremacy has reversed the Biden administration name changes of U.S. Army bases that had been named for Confederate Army Generals. You know, guys that fought against the United States of America, Like General Braxton Bragg, known for his short temper, shooting his own soldiers, and for losing the Battle of Chattanooga.

We are told that the rechristened Fort Bragg, where Usurper Trump held another of his Reichsparteitage in front of carefully selected MAGA troops this week, is not named for Braxton Bragg, the General who wrested defeat from the jaws of victory at Chickamunga and Perryville, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. No, the Fort is named for Braxton Bragg, the current pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles, lifetime ERA of 2.81, 1.1 WHIP.

And the Soviet-style military parade in the nation's capital this Saturday has nothing to do with it being Generalissimo Donald "Old Blood and Bone Spurs" Trump's birthday that day, either.

So, to the servicemen (just men, thankyou) who will soon be assigned to duty aboard the USNS Col. William Simmons, USNS Hiram Evans, USNS S. Glenn Young, USNS David Herold, USNS George Atzerodt, and USNS John Wilkes Booth, just tell your loved ones not to Google those names. Your ships are probably named someone other than the first names that show up.

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.