Robert S. Mueller, a life-long Republican, a much-decorated Marine hero (who volunteered for Vietnam instead of claiming “bone spurs” and was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star (with combat “V” for valor) for his heroism, who has never been tinged with even the slightest whiff of scandal or dishonesty, is going to make a valiant effort at proving that last one.
It’s a race to the finish line. Will Mueller come up with something that destroys the Rump before he twists the system to the point where he can’t be touched?
Working for his heroes, Putin, Bannon, Norquist et al, his aim is not just to destroy justice, but the entire government, and country. From John Dean’s “Conservatives without Conscience” intro “The administration of George W. Bush is not a dictatorship, bit it does manifest the characteristics of one in embryonic form.” – Jonathan Schell.
Drumpf might be able to pardon himself when it comes to federal crimes, but he can’t pardon himself against New York State & New Jersey crimes & both states now have Democrats as their governors!
If you take a British definition of Dinosaur – “a person or thing that is considered to be out of date”, then not only do they still exist they seem to be in political power ;)
Buttercup should not limit himself in casting out inconveniences. There’s a whole long list of ideas and people that he could throw overboard and help the country
Bill & Hillary? Who cares? That’s always the “look over here” and “but what about…?” stuff Trumpistas bring up. It’s not about the Clintons any more. Move on and deal with what’s happening NOW. We got troubles galore.
Obviously there’s no objective reality.People believe what they want to believe.Statistics don’t lie, but statisticians do.Politics is a con game, with each side thinking they’ve found the pea.
It’s a real shame when a really talented comic writer feels the need to inflict his political views on his readers. A little bit more of this krap and he’ll be history to me.
These trump supporters know he is a corrupt, narcissistic fool. But they back him because they like the fight or are Ideologues. And when you are an ideologue, you surrender individuality for a hive mentality.
Another fun fact: "Only Bible literalists, a minority among Christians, believe in a young Earth scenario, although this is why I prefer a Jewish viewpoint on the topic, since there’s a lot more harmony between their views of the Bible and cosmology/creation. Translation: Christians and Jews are people, not stereotypes, and our views are as complex and nuanced as atheists.
Wiley…one of the reasons I followed your cartoons was that they were mainly apolitical… but now you’ve “crossed the line” and I will no longer follow you. I use cartoons to get away from the ranting & raving by both sides.
I highly encourage people to look into the #WalkAway campaign. The left is getting sick of the hatred day after day after day! Americans are waking up! And as far as the cartoon goes, no one died on Trump’s watch. Check out the body count under Obama and Hillary.
Be careful of what you post here. The Gestapo will be around to collect you when Trump finally does in the First Amendment. He already has the complacency of a “roll over and play dead” Republican Congress and a soon-to-be ultra conservative “peoples court” formerly known as the Supreme Court of the Untied States.
What an annoying petty strip today. We all know it’s crap and unfortunately this over biased Sunday edition belongs on the editorial page of the New York Slimes and not the funny paper. I usually love the wit but trying to be Benson(the jerk on the AZ Republic) is lost on me. Time to unfollow.
The hate is getting deeper and deeper. We were forced to choose between a corrupt, criminal narcissist and a corrupt, criminal narcissist. Of course nobody likes the result. The most troubling thing is the divisiveness that we are witnessing. Why blame the victim on the other side rather than fixing the underlying problem? Start off by kicking the lobbyists out and making our representatives represent we the people who elected them.
For a very brief moment I thought that maybe, just maybe someone was going to rise above partisan politics and have Mrs Clinton be acknowledged as the one above the law. Or maybe mention all the people jailed for mishandling classified material since she was allowed to walk for mishandling classified material. Silly me.
The left all wear blinders. They all are better off and yet they complain. The are so easily misled. Trump throws out a tweet and the left run around bumping into each other. It’s hilarious. They lost and are too dumb to realize it. lol
I don’t know why people think that comics and politics should be two separate entities. Comics are about life and politics is a part of life – like it or not. I like reading other people’s opinions on both sides. I can’t possibly know everything (I know, hard to believe) so I learn from others and find their opinions and facts interesting.
There has yet to be one crime that Trump has supposedly committed. Firing Comey, entirely in his job description as Chief Executive, the Russians, Hillary was the one colluding, winning, not a crime regardless of your feelings getting hurt.
It is interesting to watch all the defenders of the most fragile, and violently reactive, egos in the history of US, maybe any country’s, political leader, ignore what is also the most corrupt administration in history. Harding’s looks an innocent babes in the woods.
There is a difference between law and lunatic apologists. Mueller is following the law, and the Republicans, administration and Congress, are not only burning the law and Constitution, they now have the goal, and gall, to destroy the courts for decades, SCOTUS and appointments at the inferior courts. The blindfolded lady isn’t just feet in cement, there is also a knife in her back, and radiation poisoning using Russian toxins, and Trump just says, “thank you very much, Vlad.” And that’s the facts.
Thanks, Wiley, and your bears have long spoken truth.
Two of my thoughts; 1.) How about a reality show where the quest is for a bunch of flatearthers have to find the edge. Like “The Amazing Race”, but they have to find the edge of the Earth.2.) The moon landings WERE faked. NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to make the movies. Kubrick was such a stickler for realism that he wanted to shoot the landings on location, so NASA went to the moon for real to make the films.
You put the wrong person on the dock. It should have been Hillary. It’s obvious, man. And, as so many others have asked, please leave the politics out of the strip. You’re going to lose half your readers (I among them).
A dictator is always a traitor to the country of which he is the dictator. Donald Trump wants to be a dictator. Therefore, Donald Trump wants to commit treason. (Of course, some people think he already has…….like Putin, for instance!)
Heaven forbid you hold Hillary accountable as well. I guess Democrats are above the law in your small little world. Sad that you are so narrow minded. It’s why are system never gets fixed.
I have enjoyed your work for years but draw the line at having to read hateful left wing propaganda like today’s strip. How about using your gifts to heal the country with humor. Unfollowing you. Leave the bias to the media.
Well, you got the pantsuit and body right but Hillary’s hair doesn’t look that good! This is baseless, tasteless and just plain wrong. Above which laws? You need a scorecard with Cintons, Holder, Jackson, Hussein Obama, etal. Sorry to see you go so low. Bye, bye.
Good going Wiley, you really set the crackpots off with today’s strip. In a couple of years we will hold another election. If Trump runs he will either be re-elected or we will elect someone else. In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t make a difference. The president in office is hated by those of the opposition party. We are a nation divided into two dominant parties and until that changes nothing will. It seems neither party is willing to listen to the others ideas and reach a compromise for the good of the country. It’s like a bunch spoiled brats are in charge of the government. Am I the only one who saw the humor in your strip today.
A minute or so on a fine summer afternoon to take in a well-rendered cartoon by a master – followed by more like an hour reading nearly three hundred “comments” and replies (some of which are masterful)… How many more would have been posted if Wiley had put an AR-15 in the last frame? Why do I have the feeling that many who strongly object to today’s strip will still keep coming back for more?
This comic is based on a false premise.It was the liberal media which raised the idea of Trump pardoning himself, not Trump or Giuliani. Neither of them has mentioned it other than to respond to direct questions from reporters.And that raises another false premise. Why the hell would he consider pardoning himself when he hasn’t done anything illegal (other than win an election that was Hillary’s divine manifest destiny to win?)
The evolution deniers claim the the Earth (and the Universe) are 6,000 years old not 5,000 years. Well, they do claim that men lived with dinosaurs. Well, we still do live with dinosaurs: they’re called BIRDS!
I keep reading that the Republicans won and the Democrats can’t stand it and keep bleating about it. I am willing to be told I’m wrong, but over here we heard that more people across the U.S. voted for Hillary than for Trump, otherwise known as the “Popular Vote”. Is this true or not? If it is, I can see why the Dems are somewhat cheesed off, after all the President doesn’t govern for individual constituencies but for all the people.
At the Constitutional Convention in 1789, James Madison imagined impeachment as a relief from a chief executive who “might lose his capacity after his appointment. He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression. He might betray his trust to foreign powers.”
DD Wiz over 6 years ago
Robert S. Mueller, a life-long Republican, a much-decorated Marine hero (who volunteered for Vietnam instead of claiming “bone spurs” and was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star (with combat “V” for valor) for his heroism, who has never been tinged with even the slightest whiff of scandal or dishonesty, is going to make a valiant effort at proving that last one.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 6 years ago
It’s a race to the finish line. Will Mueller come up with something that destroys the Rump before he twists the system to the point where he can’t be touched?
kakaako.fixtures over 6 years ago
In all fairness, where’s Bill and Hillary
Dtroutma over 6 years ago
Working for his heroes, Putin, Bannon, Norquist et al, his aim is not just to destroy justice, but the entire government, and country. From John Dean’s “Conservatives without Conscience” intro “The administration of George W. Bush is not a dictatorship, bit it does manifest the characteristics of one in embryonic form.” – Jonathan Schell.
The embryo has hatched. The beast is alive.
strictures over 6 years ago
Drumpf might be able to pardon himself when it comes to federal crimes, but he can’t pardon himself against New York State & New Jersey crimes & both states now have Democrats as their governors!
sirbadger over 6 years ago
Did a hotel chain steal captain obvious? Would you like to sell Obviousman to one of their competitors?
Say What? Premium Member over 6 years ago
Gonna be A LOT of comments today.
sealbee over 6 years ago
That’s the worse drawing of Bill Clinton I’ve ever seen.
matjestaet over 6 years ago
Gullible people – easy reign.
John M over 6 years ago
If you take a British definition of Dinosaur – “a person or thing that is considered to be out of date”, then not only do they still exist they seem to be in political power ;)
Hardthought over 6 years ago
Let’s just prosecute Hillary for violating National Security and influence peddling.
Then we can get to Donny Boys’ “collusion”
sandpiper over 6 years ago
Buttercup should not limit himself in casting out inconveniences. There’s a whole long list of ideas and people that he could throw overboard and help the country
mickieparker over 6 years ago
Bill & Hillary? Who cares? That’s always the “look over here” and “but what about…?” stuff Trumpistas bring up. It’s not about the Clintons any more. Move on and deal with what’s happening NOW. We got troubles galore.
dot-the-I over 6 years ago
What has been obvious to me for some time is that Obvious Man is deserving of his own daily strip – love the guy.
Lenavid over 6 years ago
Obviously there’s no objective reality.People believe what they want to believe.Statistics don’t lie, but statisticians do.Politics is a con game, with each side thinking they’ve found the pea.
Qiset over 6 years ago
Trouble is the proof of collusion points to HRC and her ilk. Why doesn’t Obvious Many deal with that. After all it is more than obvious.
viking-riverrat over 6 years ago
Thank you, You hit the nail on the head. Keep it up.
William Taylor over 6 years ago
It’s a real shame when a really talented comic writer feels the need to inflict his political views on his readers. A little bit more of this krap and he’ll be history to me.
Radish... over 6 years ago
If you refuse to vote for Republicans in November,
impeachment reality will catch up with Mr Trump.diverleo over 6 years ago
Always disappointing to find one of my favorite comics turned into a propaganda weapon.
rs0204 Premium Member over 6 years ago
These trump supporters know he is a corrupt, narcissistic fool. But they back him because they like the fight or are Ideologues. And when you are an ideologue, you surrender individuality for a hive mentality.
tripwire45 over 6 years ago
Another fun fact: "Only Bible literalists, a minority among Christians, believe in a young Earth scenario, although this is why I prefer a Jewish viewpoint on the topic, since there’s a lot more harmony between their views of the Bible and cosmology/creation. Translation: Christians and Jews are people, not stereotypes, and our views are as complex and nuanced as atheists.
BrentskiL over 6 years ago
Wiley…one of the reasons I followed your cartoons was that they were mainly apolitical… but now you’ve “crossed the line” and I will no longer follow you. I use cartoons to get away from the ranting & raving by both sides.
redlandz over 6 years ago
Like Bill and Hillary? And Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? And Maxine Waters? And… this would be such a long list, can I just say Democrats?
wallylm over 6 years ago
Love the tweet circulating around the past month of a post by the Flat Earth Society saying it “has members around the globe”
Ontman over 6 years ago
Simply put…Bang On.
lovelandclay Premium Member over 6 years ago
I highly encourage people to look into the #WalkAway campaign. The left is getting sick of the hatred day after day after day! Americans are waking up! And as far as the cartoon goes, no one died on Trump’s watch. Check out the body count under Obama and Hillary.
DanFlak over 6 years ago
Be careful of what you post here. The Gestapo will be around to collect you when Trump finally does in the First Amendment. He already has the complacency of a “roll over and play dead” Republican Congress and a soon-to-be ultra conservative “peoples court” formerly known as the Supreme Court of the Untied States.
Cerabooge over 6 years ago
KAKA: “In all fairness”. I do not think that phrase means what you think it means.
SueGorney over 6 years ago
What an annoying petty strip today. We all know it’s crap and unfortunately this over biased Sunday edition belongs on the editorial page of the New York Slimes and not the funny paper. I usually love the wit but trying to be Benson(the jerk on the AZ Republic) is lost on me. Time to unfollow.
Al Nala over 6 years ago
Wiley clearly does not expect Trump to send a team to grab him and toss him into the clink. Or worse. Muuuuuch worse.
Ignatz Premium Member over 6 years ago
Why do so many people think comics shouldn’t be political or topical? They’ve been political and topical since the Yellow Kid.
BiathlonNut over 6 years ago
The hate is getting deeper and deeper. We were forced to choose between a corrupt, criminal narcissist and a corrupt, criminal narcissist. Of course nobody likes the result. The most troubling thing is the divisiveness that we are witnessing. Why blame the victim on the other side rather than fixing the underlying problem? Start off by kicking the lobbyists out and making our representatives represent we the people who elected them.
becida over 6 years ago
For a very brief moment I thought that maybe, just maybe someone was going to rise above partisan politics and have Mrs Clinton be acknowledged as the one above the law. Or maybe mention all the people jailed for mishandling classified material since she was allowed to walk for mishandling classified material. Silly me.
Dobby53 Premium Member over 6 years ago
What? No Wiley Bears? (Thought they’d be frolicking with the dinosaurs).
DCBakerEsq over 6 years ago
So, he’s saying the world ISN’T flat?
micromos over 6 years ago
The left all wear blinders. They all are better off and yet they complain. The are so easily misled. Trump throws out a tweet and the left run around bumping into each other. It’s hilarious. They lost and are too dumb to realize it. lol
Perkycat over 6 years ago
I don’t know why people think that comics and politics should be two separate entities. Comics are about life and politics is a part of life – like it or not. I like reading other people’s opinions on both sides. I can’t possibly know everything (I know, hard to believe) so I learn from others and find their opinions and facts interesting.
rlaker22j over 6 years ago
Keep it up Wiley the comments are so much more or as much fun as the comic strip which is hilarious I love it when you antagonize the masses
asmbeers over 6 years ago
There has yet to be one crime that Trump has supposedly committed. Firing Comey, entirely in his job description as Chief Executive, the Russians, Hillary was the one colluding, winning, not a crime regardless of your feelings getting hurt.
Dtroutma over 6 years ago
It is interesting to watch all the defenders of the most fragile, and violently reactive, egos in the history of US, maybe any country’s, political leader, ignore what is also the most corrupt administration in history. Harding’s looks an innocent babes in the woods.
There is a difference between law and lunatic apologists. Mueller is following the law, and the Republicans, administration and Congress, are not only burning the law and Constitution, they now have the goal, and gall, to destroy the courts for decades, SCOTUS and appointments at the inferior courts. The blindfolded lady isn’t just feet in cement, there is also a knife in her back, and radiation poisoning using Russian toxins, and Trump just says, “thank you very much, Vlad.” And that’s the facts.
Thanks, Wiley, and your bears have long spoken truth.
mnn2300 over 6 years ago
Not looking for politics on the funny pages. If you want to do opinion comics, put them in the editorial section.
YatInExile over 6 years ago
Go back a few years and replace Trump’s caricature with Obama’s. Much more accurate.
dandye over 6 years ago
Leave the editorials and rants on the editorial page where they belong!
Teto85 Premium Member over 6 years ago
Two of my thoughts; 1.) How about a reality show where the quest is for a bunch of flatearthers have to find the edge. Like “The Amazing Race”, but they have to find the edge of the Earth.2.) The moon landings WERE faked. NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to make the movies. Kubrick was such a stickler for realism that he wanted to shoot the landings on location, so NASA went to the moon for real to make the films.
fxdp over 6 years ago
You put the wrong person on the dock. It should have been Hillary. It’s obvious, man. And, as so many others have asked, please leave the politics out of the strip. You’re going to lose half your readers (I among them).
forefrontsc Premium Member over 6 years ago
Fake news comes to the comics. Hillary, Obama and their ilk are the crooks and traitors to this country.
TheWildSow over 6 years ago
RE: Flat-Earthers. The other planets are all spherical, but the Earth is apparently sailing through space like some sort of giant Frisbee!
Godfreydaniel over 6 years ago
A dictator is always a traitor to the country of which he is the dictator. Donald Trump wants to be a dictator. Therefore, Donald Trump wants to commit treason. (Of course, some people think he already has…….like Putin, for instance!)
Joliet Jake over 6 years ago
As Richard Nixon was leaving the White House after his resignation in 1974, he accidentally bumped into Jerry Ford and said, “Pardon me.
washatkc over 6 years ago
Heaven forbid you hold Hillary accountable as well. I guess Democrats are above the law in your small little world. Sad that you are so narrow minded. It’s why are system never gets fixed.
claude.mclain over 6 years ago
I think Hillary and Bill proved that crooks can get away with their crimes if they kill enough and have powerful friends…
manuel sotomayor Premium Member over 6 years ago
I have enjoyed your work for years but draw the line at having to read hateful left wing propaganda like today’s strip. How about using your gifts to heal the country with humor. Unfollowing you. Leave the bias to the media.
SusanFeightner over 6 years ago
Well, you got the pantsuit and body right but Hillary’s hair doesn’t look that good! This is baseless, tasteless and just plain wrong. Above which laws? You need a scorecard with Cintons, Holder, Jackson, Hussein Obama, etal. Sorry to see you go so low. Bye, bye.
And So It Goes over 6 years ago
Good going Wiley, you really set the crackpots off with today’s strip. In a couple of years we will hold another election. If Trump runs he will either be re-elected or we will elect someone else. In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t make a difference. The president in office is hated by those of the opposition party. We are a nation divided into two dominant parties and until that changes nothing will. It seems neither party is willing to listen to the others ideas and reach a compromise for the good of the country. It’s like a bunch spoiled brats are in charge of the government. Am I the only one who saw the humor in your strip today.
Oldgrowth over 6 years ago
A minute or so on a fine summer afternoon to take in a well-rendered cartoon by a master – followed by more like an hour reading nearly three hundred “comments” and replies (some of which are masterful)… How many more would have been posted if Wiley had put an AR-15 in the last frame? Why do I have the feeling that many who strongly object to today’s strip will still keep coming back for more?
Schaller Handmade Knives over 6 years ago
This comic is based on a false premise.It was the liberal media which raised the idea of Trump pardoning himself, not Trump or Giuliani. Neither of them has mentioned it other than to respond to direct questions from reporters.And that raises another false premise. Why the hell would he consider pardoning himself when he hasn’t done anything illegal (other than win an election that was Hillary’s divine manifest destiny to win?)
cornpopper Premium Member over 6 years ago
I am amused by how much the left loathes the President. He’s doing a great job for the country.
bakana over 6 years ago
When Treason Thrives, None dare say it’s Name.
WCraft Premium Member over 6 years ago
Like to stir things up, do you Miller?
lordhoff over 6 years ago
Would have made sense and been funnier if the last panel had Obama in it.
Charlie Tuba over 6 years ago
The evolution deniers claim the the Earth (and the Universe) are 6,000 years old not 5,000 years. Well, they do claim that men lived with dinosaurs. Well, we still do live with dinosaurs: they’re called BIRDS!
keenanthelibrarian over 6 years ago
I keep reading that the Republicans won and the Democrats can’t stand it and keep bleating about it. I am willing to be told I’m wrong, but over here we heard that more people across the U.S. voted for Hillary than for Trump, otherwise known as the “Popular Vote”. Is this true or not? If it is, I can see why the Dems are somewhat cheesed off, after all the President doesn’t govern for individual constituencies but for all the people.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 6 years ago
At the Constitutional Convention in 1789, James Madison imagined impeachment as a relief from a chief executive who “might lose his capacity after his appointment. He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression. He might betray his trust to foreign powers.”
cwg over 6 years ago
Clinton proved that false a long time ago.