{"id":14524,"date":"2023-01-15T06:26:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14524"},"modified":"2023-01-15T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T18:57:19","slug":"sunday-documenting-the-atrocities-toons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14524","title":{"rendered":"Sunday &#8216;Documenting the Atrocities&#8217; Toons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>War has been on my mind this week&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/dims4\/default\/0356f0a\/2147483647\/resize\/1160x%3E\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F5d%2Fd2%2F8fcd90ae4c2c8b343aec7100a6d2%2F16-stantis-counterpoint.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"620\" data-original-width=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/dims4\/default\/0356f0a\/2147483647\/resize\/1160x%3E\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F5d%2Fd2%2F8fcd90ae4c2c8b343aec7100a6d2%2F16-stantis-counterpoint.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFruit comparisons were on cartoonists&#8217; minds after classified documents were announced as having been found in <b>Joe Biden<\/b>&#8216;s old vice presidential office in November and more recently at his Delaware home. Some played down, some played up, some played off&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/image.politicalcartoons.com\/270782\/600\/how-bout-them-apples.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"346\" data-original-width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/image.politicalcartoons.com\/270782\/600\/how-bout-them-apples.png\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com\/img\/photos\/2023\/01\/13\/230114_The_Comparison_t800.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"536\" data-original-width=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com\/img\/photos\/2023\/01\/13\/230114_The_Comparison_t800.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/OAW2454KJNDTPAXP7GPJZLIWSQ.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"690\" data-original-width=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/OAW2454KJNDTPAXP7GPJZLIWSQ.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a very busy week for Republicans &#8212; as in not knowing whether to shit or go blind &#8212; they stopped grousing about <b>inflation<\/b>, started and then stopped talking about <b>M&amp;Ms<\/b> and <b>gas stoves<\/b>, and shifted quickly to another White House investigation. Anything to avoid discussion of their own problems&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/image.politicalcartoons.com\/270677\/600\/right-to-tell-others.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"346\" data-original-width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/image.politicalcartoons.com\/270677\/600\/right-to-tell-others.png\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.creators.com\/200\/341121\/341121_image.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"490\" data-original-width=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creators.com\/200\/341121\/341121_image.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/images.dailykos.com\/images\/1152074\/story_image\/01-12-2023-mcfadden-915px.png?1673585722\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"800\" data-original-width=\"533\" width=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailykos.com\/images\/1152074\/story_image\/01-12-2023-mcfadden-915px.png?1673585722\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The duopoly drama brought <b>Two Party Opera<\/b> back&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/assets.amuniversal.com\/5a545680753d013bdcf8005056a9545d.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"800\" data-original-width=\"649\" width=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.amuniversal.com\/5a545680753d013bdcf8005056a9545d.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Inequality<\/b>, and not the tired D vs. R scuffling, is more my focus, as with <b>Jen Sorensen<\/b> this week&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/images.dailykos.com\/images\/1151381\/story_image\/getwhatyoupayfor915.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"800\" data-original-width=\"789\" width=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dailykos.com\/images\/1151381\/story_image\/getwhatyoupayfor915.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the intractable <b>climate<\/b> and <b>gun crises<\/b>&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/image.politicalcartoons.com\/270793\/600\/bipolar-california.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; \"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" data-original-height=\"400\" data-original-width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/image.politicalcartoons.com\/270793\/600\/bipolar-california.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/image.politicalcartoons.com\/270850\/600\/first-grade-shooter.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; \"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" data-original-height=\"484\" data-original-width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/image.politicalcartoons.com\/270850\/600\/first-grade-shooter.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/04\/support-your-local-cartoonist-updated\/\" target=\"_blank\">supporting a disappearing craft <\/a> with a subscription to the work of one of these political cartoonists.<\/p>\n<p><center>*   *   *<br \/>\n<i>Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at <a href=\"http:\/\/brainsandeggs.blogspot.com\/\">Brains and Eggs<\/a>,<br \/>\nusually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s also on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/Twitter.com\/PDiddie\">@PDiddie<\/a>.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War has been on my mind this week&#8230; Fruit comparisons were on cartoonists&#8217; minds after classified documents were announced as having been found in Joe Biden&#8216;s old vice presidential office in November and more recently at his Delaware home. Some played down, some played up, some played off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toons","bb-type-toon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14524"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}