Weekly Political Roundup – DarylCagle.com

At times I wish we could go back to the days when extremists with the lowest intelligence and loudest voices didn’t have digital megaphones spreading their garbage.

Our most popular cartoon of the week by far, drawn John Darkow, touches on that thought. Darkow turns to Winnie the Pooh and Piglet in a touching cartoon to subtly criticize all the venom and hatred dominating much of our culture.

Another popular cartoon, drawn by Dave Whamond, put a spotlight on wealthy tech overlords squeezing all the “ordinary-aires” who can’t afford groceries. Editors also seemed to like a number of cartoons about how one of those billionaires, Jeff Bezos, unceremoniously gutted the staff of the Washington Post.

Democracy does die in the darkness after all.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. John Darkow

#2. Dave Whamond

#3. Dave Granlund

#4. Bob Englehart

#5. Chris Weyant

#6. Chris Weyant

#7. Harley Schwadron

#8. R.J. Matson

#9. Jeff Koterba

#10. John Darkow

The cartoonists all flocked to Trump’s flatulism incident at his meeting of energy executives. We have a fecal cartoon extravaganza – come watch like and subscribe on YouTube!

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Thanksgiving is a good reminder how expensive everything remains at the grocery store. So much for Donald Trump’s promise to lower grocery prices “on Day One.”

Editors know their readers are feeling the pinch. That’s why Dave Whamond’s cartoon satirizing a famed Norman Rockwell painting (with a much smaller Thanksgiving spread) was among our most popular of the week. Trump lowered tariffs on a host of products, but as Chris Weyant points out in his widely-reprinted cartoon, don’t expect much to change until the 2028 election, which is a few years away.

One cartoon I laughed at wasn’t related to tariffs at all – it was Dave Granlund’s toon mocking Trump’s unsanctioned assault on the boat of an allege drug runner, but the only crew are the Skipper and Gilligan, too. Though I wonder how many readers under the age of 50 get the joke.

Here are our top ten most reprinted cartoons of the week:

#1. Chris Weyant