Tom and Harry's Resistance in Gozaimasu, Ohio

I started to post my feelings about the evolving state of affairs through dialogue between Tom and Harry.  I soon decided that was not a useful approach for a couple reasons.  For one, the nature of Tom Duck and Harry was intentionally benign, to showcase a "kinder, gentler" humor with the same sort of relationships among the characters.  Also, the political zeitgeist of the strip had been middle-of-the-road, pox on both your houses.  So, the two panels might remain the near totality of resistance statements in the strip for the time being.  Instead, I have focused my efforts into traditional political cartoons unrelated to TD&H and located other than in Gozaimasu, Ohio.

Nevertheless, Chicago Tribune political cartoonist Scott Stantis has turned his daily comic strip Prickly City, which seems to have always been a conservative-leaning commentary on politics, but definitely in defense of traditional American value, into a beacon for resistance.  Trump was introduced as a heartless skunk, with one classic strip showing him editing "We, the People" to "Me, the People" in the Preamble to the Constitution.  His minions in battle gear run rampant through the desert landscape carrying out his whims.  Similarly to TD&H, it features a fond friendship between its main characters, Carmen, a conservative little girl, and Winslow, a liberal coyote pup, who have abandoned any political differences in a desperate search for protection against existential threats.  I think Prickly City is also a nod to George Herriman's Krazy Kat, which has also been acknowledged in TD&H.  My strip also has references to and maybe roots in Walt Kelly's Pogo, although I'm not suggesting TD&H is anywhere near that level.

Artificial intelligence is just one more existential threat on the horizon.  Assume it will remain so for a long time, at least until it perceives that humans are an existential threat to AI.

At first this scandal seemed likely to be a short-term threat to the Administration, but their desperate attempt to bury the issue, even to the extent of shutting down congress and the government for an unprecedented period, belies that, perhaps as well as all claims of non involvement by the president.