From cartoonist Clay Jones about ‘Bomb Hoax,’ the Republican debate, and creating a climate of fear
Wouldn’t it be nice if Republicans could express as much concern for stuff that happens as they do for stuff that doesn’t happen?
Republicans and conservatives are still upset over a student taking a clock to school. They referred to it as a fake bomb even though it wasn’t ever a “fake bomb.” It was a clock.
During Tuesday night’s Republican debate, the candidates talked about our climate of fear and made several references to the day’s bomb scares in Los Angeles and New York City. They made it out to be Obama’s fault there are bomb threats. They expressed concern for how the event would scar children. I guess Republicans aren’t aware that school shootings inflict a hell of a lot more trauma on children than bomb scares.
How many times did the GOP candidates mention school shootings, the recent shooting at Planned Parenthood, or any mass shootings that weren’t committed by a Muslim? Zero.
The entire night was about ISIS. ISIS is responsible for the shooting in San Bernardino and Operation Rescue and all of the GOP candidates who perpetuated lies on Planned Parenthood share responsibility for the shooting in Colorado.
We can talk about ISIS and bombing them until the “sand glows,” but we can’t talk about Americans shooting Americans.
Here’s what disqualifies a candidate for the presidency: saying we’re in World War III. Wanting to start World War III. Saying ISIS wants to destroy our way of life, they hate us for our freedom, or if they’re an actual threat to conquer our country. If you don’t have an understanding of the situation, then you can’t combat the situation. Other statements that should disqualify a candidate are stating they’ll shoot down Russian jets, they wish George W. Bush was still president, and that Donald Trump is more qualified than Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, or a block of fermented cheese.
The entire night was about killing, war, killing, hating Muslims, killing, hating Hispanics, and killing. The room was full of gung-ho draft dodgers and people who never served.
The candidates also had it out over immigration. I’m starting to think Ted Cruz’s and Marco Rubio’s families fled Cuba to get away from Hispanics. They really don’t seem to like their own ethnicity.
Jeb actually had the best one-liner. He said he doesn’t get his information from the shows like Trump, and he didn’t know if those shows were on Saturday mornings or Sunday mornings. It was so good I doubt most Republican will understand it.
The only other highlights of last night’s debate were: Carson still comes off confused, Carly is still lying, Rand Paul is talking the most sense so he’s killing himself, Christie and Jeb both might have helped their causes, and there was a massive makeout session between Trump and Cruz. Who won the debate? I think Rubio has done the best through all the debates until last night. Rubio still did well, but it looks to me that Cruz built upon his momentum. On top of all that, Republicans really like red ties. Fiorina wore a red dress.
Political analysts were saying this is the Christmas debate, as it’s what people will be talking about during the holidays. No, they won’t. They won’t remember there was a debate. They’ll be talking about Star Wars.
Speaking of Star Wars, I made a sarcastic post yesterday on social media that I had to work a Star Wars analogy into my next cartoon. I was poking fun at all my colleagues who are all racing to do Star Wars.
