Trophy Deficit

The national deficit has now surpassed $40 trillion. Of course, debt, deficit, and spending are things Republicans only care about when they are not in charge. Remember the Tea Party? They formed after Barack Obama was elected in 2008 but before he took office in January 2009, out of anger at all of his government spending…or planned government spending. Of course, this mostly White group wasn’t outraged when George W. Bush financed two wars with tax cuts.

The Tea Party was the precursor to MAGA, back when they tried to hide their racism somewhat. They were so outraged at a black man being elected to the presidency that they inadvertently named themselves after a gay sex act. Republicans hadn’t been this embarrassed since The Circle Jerks for Nixon in 1968.

A lot of my political cartooning colleagues took the deficit surpassing $40 trillion as an opportunity to draw a cartoon that criticized both parties, Republicans and Democrats. Most political cartoonists relish being able to draw something that doesn't piss off one side or the other, as it pleases wimpy editors. And it's true that Democrats and Republicans both spend, but they don't spend equally. The last president to balance the budget and actually leave office with a surplus was a Democrat, Bill Clinton.

Usually, Democrats fix problems, and then the public forgets who to thank and returns Republicans to office, who then fucks everything up again, and then they elect Democrats again to fix those problems. For example, the country elected Bill Clinton, who left office with a surplus and a great economy, only to leave it to George W. Bush to fuck it all up. Voters sent Barack Obama to the White House in 2008, who fixed it and left a great economy for Donald Trump to come along and fuck it up again. Enter Joe Biden, who repaired the economy and was able to vanquish a pandemic, only for voters to return Donald Trump to office, forgetting that he was the very worst president in the history of the United States, all because they couldn't vote for a much more qualified candidate because she was a black woman.

The good news is that even though we have a shitty economy, and we are in a chosen war, the cycle now turns to a democrat returning to the Oval Office in the next presidential election…if we still have a country at that time, or elections. It's time for voters to send a Democrat back to the Oval Office to fix everything again before they send another Republican to fuck it all up again. And the way things have been going over the past decade, that Republican will probably be a 90-year-old Donald Trump if he hasn't had a cardiac arrest by that point from Big Macs and KFC.

Here is a fun fact to share with all your MAGA friends in your book club…or your crazy attic-dwelling uncle at Thanksgiving, or that brother-in-law who claims he has a Black friend and he's one of the good ones: Donald Trump is responsible for 30% of the $40 trillion deficit. Fact, fact, fuckity, fact, fact.

When you share this with your MAGA friends and family, feel free to use the “fact, fact, fuckity, fact, fact.” They love that.

Here is another fun fact: Trump is not done, and he will be adding more billions to the deficit. Maybe he will create another war or give billionaire assholes even more tax cuts. Maybe he will build an even bigger wall to keep out illegal trans WNBA players planning to vote for Democrats.

Trump probably has a much firmer plan in place for replacing Melania with a younger model than he does for trimming down the $40 trillion deficit.

Here's another fun fact: Donald Trump traded both of his first wives with younger women. In fact, he traded Ivana in for Marla, who he traded in for Melania. He cheated on each wife with his future wife. To be fair, and I like to be fair, we don't know if Donald is going to marry the Ivanka lookalike and mentally unstable Natalie yet.

Again, feel free to use the “fact, fact, fuckity, fact, fact” when Jethro comes over.

There are 72 days left until the midterms.

Creative note: I used ten layers to create this cartoon.

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