Unreality Bites

I've mentioned before that I maintain a Raging Pencils account on Facebook, which has been happily on the receiving end of a shit-load of eyeballs lately. Foot-traffic there is easily lapping my Raging Pencils web site. I'll take it.

One of the things I do there on Monday mornings is gather up twenty-four of the best editorial cartoons I can find from the previous seven days and present them in something I call "The Monday Morning Editorial Satire-A-Palooza".

I've been posting the Palooza for many years and in addition to all the smart, sensible editorial cartoons I have found it has astonished me to have to wade through a distinct subset of conservative editorial cartoons which are, yeah, as batshit you can imagine.

Basically, they invent their own realities and end it with a punchline that is almost inevitably "Haw-haw! Stupid Democrats!"

Oh, such joy and laughter. Ugh.

However, over the past year or so, such conservative artists and their cartoons have obviously begun taking a more cautiously realistic slant on the body politic. It's clear, to me anyway, that even the most ferociously conservative outlets for their product are requiring something that has at the very least, a tenuous grasp on the truth.

There's still plenty of these guys out there who are certain that Trump's third term is just right around the corner and nothing will change that. So as I make my search through the weekly archives I just avoid their links just like I'd avoid a massive dog-turd on the sidewalk.

-Lefty