Donald Trump

Democratic Convention BINGO

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The DNC started last night and only real sickos are watching the whole thing. I’m one of those sickos.

This year’s actually has some relevance, since the Harris/Walz campaign is on a much more abbreviated schedule than the usual presidential campaigns that go on for years before any ballots are cast. There will be corny stuff, because this is a convention full of party die-hards, but the contrast with the RNC’s weeklong hate-a-thon is striking, and hopefully normie voters who don’t follow all this stuff notice.

I did a similar BINGO card for the 2016 DNC for The Nib (RIP) if you’re curious. It is definitely pleasant to be drawing some new faces this time around, and hopefully I can be done drawing Trump come January 2025.

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This a large cartoon, and ALT-TEXT can’t cover all the panels, so here is a transcription:

(comic – A grid laid out like a BINGO card.)
Democratic National Convention BINGO
(panel 1 – Hillary Clinton and Al Gore consoling each other.)
Electoral College Support Group
(panel 2 – A hand holding a “CEASEFIRE NOW!” protest sign.)
Pro-Palestine Protester
(panel 3 – Kamala Harris speaking.)
Patronizing the Protesters
Harris, “VOTE! And you might be heard!”
(panel 4 – Laura Ingraham being angry.)
Fox News Freak-out
(panel 5 – An editor crying.)
The Chicago Tribune throws a tantrum for an exclusive interview
(panel 6 – Obama parachuting in vacation gear.)
Obama Returns from Vacation
(panel 7 – A silhouette of a crowd with someone crowdsurfing.)
Abortion Mentioned without no qualifiers
(panel 8 – Front page of the New York Times.)
New York Times Misrepresents Something
headline, “Balloon Drop Flop Good News for Trump”
(panel 9 – Tim Walz with microphone in front of a brick wall.)
Tim Walz Tells a Dad Joke
(panel 10 – A Chicago riot cop.)
Chicago Cops Behave Chicago Copishly
(panel 11 – Cameras surrounded George Clooney.)
Celebrity More Famous than Hulk Hogan
(panel 12 – A camcorder shot of Jimmy Carter)
Jimmy Carter Cam
(panel 13 – In the Harris/Walz campaign font.)
Free Space
(panel 14 – A man in MAGA hat rewrittend to spell KAMALA.)
Token Republican Convert
(panel 15 – A text exchange.)
Fundraising Text Interruption
text, “Donate now to pay for some consultant’s vacation home!”
reply, “STOP!”
(panel 16 – Kamala Harris wearing a Wisconsin cheese head.)
Swing State Pandering
(panel 17 – President Biden looking confused.)
Biden Sundowns
(panel 18 – President rakishly peeking over aviators.)
Dark Brandon Rises
(panel 19 – JD Vance peering over a couch.)
Couch Joke Humped to Death
(panel 20 – Jake Tapper making a paper airplane.)
Cable News Wastes Your Time
(panel 21 – Bill Clinton speaking.)
Bill Clinton Courts the Youth Vote
Clinton, “Hawk Tuah?”
(panel 22 – The word “weird” in a word cloud.)
“Weird” Used So Much It No Longer Sounds Like a Word
(panel 23 – A delegate wearing a novelty t-shirt.)
Random Delegate Becomes Viral Sensation
t-shirt, “I (heart) BOFA DEEZ DEMS!”
(panel 24 – Trump angry and holding a phone.)
Ex-Prez Shares a Deranged Thought
(panel 25 – Kamala Harris emphatically dropping a microphone in front of a backdrop.)
Harris Makes Her Case
backdrop, “No More Trump”

Leaked Emails from the Trump Campaign!

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Someone or some government agency successfully phished the Trump campaign and obtained its emails. They then contacted several media outlets about leaking them, but all refused citing “ethics in political journalism” or some other horseshit.

They famously didn’t do this in 2016, when it was Hillary Clinton’s emails. Back then, everything was published on Wikileaks first, so they had the veneer of covering important documents that were “already out there” despite the illegal provenance. This doesn’t explain why the NYTimes spent months breathlessly covering even the most benign of those emails in the hopes of generating a scandal, or at least a quantity of coverage that implied there was one.

As the polls look worse for Trump, the media will work harder to prop him up. Not necessarily for ideological means, but because a close race is good for readership and advertiser numbers.

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This is a wordy comic, and I’ve had trouble getting alt-text to work with it. Here’s the full transcript:

(panel 1 – Title in the style of the Trump/Vance logo.)
Leaked Emails from the Trump Campaign
(panel 2 – An email from Roger Stone.)
Subject: HACKED!
From: Roger Stone roger@weirdheads.biz
Hey man,
I clicked a link for Nixon nudes (for research purposes only), but it turned out to be a phishing attack.
Just a heads up.
Whoops,
Rog
(panel 3 – An email from Kevin Sorbo.)
Subject: RNC SPEAKING SLOT?
From: Kevin Sorbo K.Sorbs@dlist-divas.geocities.org
Mr. President,
Why didn’t I get a spot at the convention? I was more famous than Hulk Hogan for a few minutes in the ’90s.
No worries though! If you want, I can post a really racist tweet about your new opponent. Let me know.
Kevin
(panel 4 – An email from Steven Cheung.)
Subject: EPSTEIN’S PLANE
From: Steven Cheung Cheung@donaldjtrump.com
Boss,
We’ve leased Epstein’s plane while yours is in for repairs. I don’t anticipate any bad press from this.
Steven
P.S. Because you’ve stiffed so many contractors, none will agree to get the Dershowitz stains out.
(panel 5 – An email from J.D. Vance.)
Subject: WRONG RALLY LOCATION?
From: JD Vance pigboy@donaldjtrump.com
Dear Sir,
No one’s here and there wasn’t any advance work done. Please send me the correct location and I’ll hop on a bus A.S.A.P.
JD
(panel 6 – An email from A.G. Sulzberger.)
Subject: ALL GOOD
From: A.G. Sulzberger nepobaby@nytimes.com
President Trump,
Don’t worry. We’re not going to make a whole thing about your emails because we want you to win.
Maggie says hi.
Dash

Kamala Harris’s Roast of Donald Trump

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I’ll admit that I didn’t expect Biden to decline the nomination and Democrats to quickly coalesce around Harris as the nominee. The enthusiasm surrounding this shakeup in the race is a welcome relief after a month of uncertainty about Biden’s ability to campaign effectively. I don’t think Biden’s senile or anything like that, but his blind support of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza have been an albatross around his neck preventing the majority of his base from actively supporting him financially or vocally, myself included.

When Harris was first endorsed, I mistakenly said on Bluesky that this would be my first time drawing her because she dropped out of the 2020 primaries so early. I did once in 2021 when the White House was still enforcing Title 42, and she told migrants not to come. Should she win, I hope her administration would change course and avoid the mistakes of Biden’s that have hamstrung the best domestic record of a presidency in my lifetime.

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Make Your Own J.D. Vance Comic

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A year of news happened since last week’s comic. I haven’t watched a minute of the Republican National Convention. Trump’s speaking as I type this. No thank you. Recaps and screenshots from folks who subjected themselves to it was enough for me.

Vance was announced as Trump’s VP pick on Monday, and it’s a choice that signals they’re not even trying to win votes that weren’t already in the bag. He’s a Christian nationalist and white supremacist, and anyone who was enthralled by his dumb book is a mark.

As for Saturday’s assassination attempt, you can’t be charged with incitement if you don’t say anything at all.

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Trump’s Project 2025

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I’ve been regularly drawing this asshole for almost a decade now. Every panel was torture to work on, as they were grim reminders of what I’ll be drawing for another decade if Democrats manage to flub another election against this easily-beatable bozo.

I honestly don’t know if the odds would improve if Biden steps down or not. It’s too late. This was a discussion to be had before he was President-elect. The DNC is almost upon us and there’s all sorts of legal hurdles to changing the ticket after that, especially now that “the law” is whatever six Republican operatives say it is.

The prospect of a second Trump term is frightening. In a normal world, the incumbent President would’ve had him arrested right after the inauguration. That didn’t happen, and now all of our summers are ruined by a sense of election dread.

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Trump’s V.P. Shortlist

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General election nonsense is beginning, and there’s allegedly a debate happening next week. Regular folks are doing summery things like vacations and sweating their butts off while drawing this comic in third floor apartments in Boston, Massachusetts. The media however, needs a horserace and “Veepstakes” gives them something to talk about besides “Trump still sucks.” and Biden still slightly older than Trump.”

It doesn’t matter who Trump’s Vice President is more than the legion of flunkies who’ll be put in charge of their terrifying agenda. John Oliver had a good summary of it, that’s better than me typing all about it.

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More Rejected Courtroom Sketches

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Trump’s criminal trial has begun with jury selection, and first reports were kind of funny, as far as Trump news goes. Falling asleep, having to hear the mean things potential jurors said about him on social media, and an aide bringing printouts of good news to improve his mood, etc.

Then the media started reporting every identifying detail of the potential jurors, who were quickly identified by Trump’s goon troops. This led to at least one quitting for safety concerns. And just a couple hours later, Trump was posting stuff on social media about the jurors, violating a gag order.

Previous contempt of court charges against him had led to nothing but minor fines, so he’ll keep doing it. Until one of the judges in all these trials wants to be the one to put a former/candidate-for president in jail, these farces will continue all year long!

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Pleas from the President

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It’ll soon be six months since Israel’s revenge campaign in Gaza began with the US government funding and cheering it on the entire time. Now that the horrors and atrocities are starting to be reflected in the polls, the calls of “Trump is worse!” to deflect criticism of Biden are getting louder.

Of course, Trump is worse than Biden. But genocide is happening now. Waiting for an election to be over before demanding an end to a slaughter is a sign of a craven politics brain.

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