I had the idea for this cartoon on Monday 4th Jan. and eventually asked Josh to draw it yesterday, Wednesday 6th Jan. I had no idea what would happen in Washington during the vote counting on that day. This event will possibly be the most remembered shootout since 1881.
Let me describe the image. Obviously it’s Joe Biden and Donald Trump pictured at the historic US Wild West event, ‘Gunfight at the O.K. Corral’.
Following, from a distance, the behaviour of THE most powerful man on the planet, Donald Trump, made me think of how an 8 year old would behave.
The trouble is he’s an adult, supposedly, but actually does behave like an 8 year old.
Just incredible to witness.
Is it really true? Well if you listen to his narcissistic psychopathic comments, then no, it’s not happening. He’s throwing everything and the kitchen sink at his final fake news rhetoric, which has been the biggest con in US history and the American people fell for it and nearly did again this time round.
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Where as Joe Biden told his supporters to be patient, wait for the vote counting to be conclusive, that he was confident but wanted to get certainty and then that certainty arrived on Saturday evening when the news networks called it after the results in Pennsylvania. Okay so the counting hasn’t completed 100% and after all there will be a recount in Georgia because the margin is within 0.5%. Plus on top of that there will be legal wrangling to be completed too.
This time though Trump is wasting his time, he’d better save his money for 2021 when as an ex-president he will be taken to court for many other law breaking deeds throughout his life and maybe even throughout his presidency who knows. More stories will follow from previous staffers on how bad things had been. We already knew this, but the American people were blind. I’m using ‘were’ because many have seen the light now and thankfully they did. Not only have they save America, they have saved the world too.
And here are the speeches by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
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The eyes of the world are upon America and the American people and our eyes will be on them for the next 4 years. Did they call it right, will things really change? Will Trump really be out of the picture?
Let’s hope so ‘folks’, Joe’s favourite word!
The last 4 years have been long very long, that psychopath Trump will be gone, gone, gone and hopefully in jail very soon. Confirmation bias is such a big issue for 50% of America at the moment. Trump has been very successful in spreading lies this way. He tells a lie and then his followers will search for the evidence and confirm it for him.
Why Trump has been a gift to America and the rest of the world?
Because we now totally and utterly appreciate what kind of leader we don’t need in this world. We will also recognise more of the wrong leaders in the world, after all, Trump modelled himself on other leaders that went before him and we do know that there are many little Trumps walking the earth, in charge of countries and organisations. Hopefully they will be exposed and removed soon.
Here’s Barack Obama’s blogpost congratulating Joe.
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Here’s the transcript of Kamala Harris’s speech.
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Good luck America, Joe, Kamala and the whole team they decide to appoint into their new administration. You all deserve this SO much. We look forward to you leading the world again and showing us how to lead with ‘character’.
May the healing begin…
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This was originally answered on Quora by Nat White but for some reason the response was deleted by Quora, nobody knows why. The response was also covered extensively by many publications all over the world. I have searched for Nat White everywhere, Twitter, LinkedIn and the web but have come up with nothing. If you know him or can find him, I’d love to interview him on my podcast, link below. 👇
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Someone asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
A few things spring to mind;
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W. look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
‘My God… what… have… I… created?’
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
Thank you Nate White, I hope you find this piece and share your handle, so I can tag you accordingly. Cheers!
The US and China have gone all out on the trade wars. Early March #Trump felt it would be an easy #win. It’s not turning out such an easy win. Go figure! China has released a list of 106 US products which will incur a new 25% tariff (unless Donald Trump backs down). The spat inspired our latest cartoon.
You can understand why the US wants to protect it’s own manufacturing base but it somehow looks like it’s too late now. Sure Trump will have a go, but likely the US economy will suffer. China will show it’s might.