Trump’s terrible response to COVID19 resulted in a daily thousand people dead for nearly three years, 10,000 a week at it’s peak, almost a million in total.
His admin has also been accused many times of using terror tactics.
I think 20 years is long enough that political cartoonists can make 9/11 similes without worrying too much about pearl clutching.
Not really. “Conservative”/now far right media “entertainment” networks went wild for those 20+ years and managed to garner greater support for an ever further learning pro-fascist edge. It was overly effective for some and now it’s a runaway train.
I took the analogy not as “Trump equals terrorism and death” but that Trump’s attack on the rule of law and the Constitution is at least as big of a threat and should be met with an equally vigorous response by a united United States. The cartoonist could have done it in the style of the Pearl Harbor attack and it would have achieved the same metaphor, though probably wouldn’t have had the same gut-punch effect.
Point is it should be a lightning rod for America to act. Sad that it is not.
Also, not condoning the wars that followed 9/11 and the Patriot act and all of the other bullshit we got because of it.
It was rejected for being extremely distasteful.
It’s not wrong, but there’s no tie in to the administration that makes the image need to be the scene of thousands of people murdered by terrorists.
You certainly have a point that doesn’t deserve to be downvoted like that.
Are you New Yorkian, by any chance?
Trump and his cult are terrorists though
Trump’s terrible response to COVID19 resulted in a daily thousand people dead for nearly three years, 10,000 a week at it’s peak, almost a million in total.
His admin has also been accused many times of using terror tactics.
I think 20 years is long enough that political cartoonists can make 9/11 similes without worrying too much about pearl clutching.
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Americans aren’t very good at history, but most of them can at least keep this millennium straight…
Not really. “Conservative”/now far right media “entertainment” networks went wild for those 20+ years and managed to garner greater support for an ever further learning pro-fascist edge. It was overly effective for some and now it’s a runaway train.
I took the analogy not as “Trump equals terrorism and death” but that Trump’s attack on the rule of law and the Constitution is at least as big of a threat and should be met with an equally vigorous response by a united United States. The cartoonist could have done it in the style of the Pearl Harbor attack and it would have achieved the same metaphor, though probably wouldn’t have had the same gut-punch effect.
Point is it should be a lightning rod for America to act. Sad that it is not.
Also, not condoning the wars that followed 9/11 and the Patriot act and all of the other bullshit we got because of it.
Thousands of people are on the verge of being murdered/deported by terrorists now, seems like a fair comparison to me.
How much blood will be on their hands before this is over. I totally get this image.
He’s killed way more than 911