CARTOON: “That Mexican Thing”

From Clay Jones on his political cartoon, “That Mexican Thing,” whipping out that Mexican thing, and Tim Kaine’s freaky eyebrow

If you had Googled “whipping out that Mexican thing” yesterday, you probably would have stumbled upon some disturbing websites. Today, you’ll find the most memorable line from the vice presidential debate, made by Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence, governor of Indiana.

He was retorting back to Tim Kaine, U.S. Senator from Virginia, when he brought up Trump’s comments on how Mexico is sending us rapists and murderers.

Pence did not fail in defending Trump as much as he refused to defend him. When he did, he was denying comments he or Trump had made, which were all lies. For this effort, most analysts judged that Pence won the debate. The GOP was so excited about Pence winning that they went online an hour before to claim he won. Yes, they actually did that.

A lot of people were sour on Kaine’s many interruptions. Kaine took on the attack-dog role, which is a new one for him. His performance gave the impression he had consumed many mochas beforehand, which I can relate to (I’m on my fourth cup of coffee now, and I feel awesome!). Pence was very calm and patient and never got flustered or took the bait like his boss did. Pence also accused the Clinton/Kaine campaign of being one of insults, which is really hypocritical. Even during the debate, Trump was tweeting out that Kaine looked like a villain from a Batman movie. Yes, he actually did that. Trump forgets he looks like he was an Oompa Loompa in “Willy Wonka” rolling an inflated Violet Beauregarde.

Pence even offered foreign policy proposals that are in direct opposition of those proposed by Trump, such as dropping bombs on Assad and confronting Russia.

Trump’s team will tell him to watch the debate and be more like Mike. They will have great difficulty making that happen, less enough getting him to watch the thing. Sorry, Donald. It’s not a sex tape … thank God!

While Kaine is viewed as losing the debate, he really didn’t. He may have come off as not promoting himself for the future, which Pence did really well, but he gave his team a ton of material to use against the Trump/Pence ticket.

This cartoon isn’t really heavy, but I wanted to do something with the “Mexican thing” comment. I also really like drawing Tim Kaine and his freaky eyebrow and look forward to future opportunities. I also don’t mind taking a lighter take with this as the debate won’t move any poll numbers and will be forgotten by Wednesday afternoon. We have another presidential debate on Sunday, more gaffes by Trump throughout the week, and a very dangerous hurricane approaching the East Coast.

I am excited for our future if it includes “whipping out that Mexican thing” in the form of taco trucks on every corner.

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