Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for January 29, 2022

Thankfully

If they DID understand you, you’d never get re-elected.

Actually your country DOES understand you, thus your bad day.

Some of us understand that all of you politicians are in cahoots with each other and none of you give a F@#k about anyone other than your big money donors!!

What’s wrong Senator? Is the Press trying to roast you? With all that bourbon and other booze you are already well marinated while ‘they’ turn you on the spit.

Reminds me of our current ‘leader’!

And it’s mutual.

Think it’s more like they understand you perfectly

Roz can’t make enough doubles for that.

Of course not. You’re a fictional politician modeled on Phillip “Tip” O’Neil who was the Democratic Speaker of the House from the late 1970s to the late 80s. In real life, O’Neil died in 1994 of a cardiac arrest, but the way you drink, I’m betting it’s liver failure for you.

This is the point where he starts to see out foreign lobbyists who can add excitement and “understanding” to his life. :) :(

Roz sells liquor???

And vice versa

And flipping that coin … you don’t listen to your constituents!

And I don’t understand my country of late…

No, Senator, you don’t understand your country. Or is it that you just don’t give a damn.

https://www.ThisDayTrivia.com/trivia/january-29?f=H-L-Mencken-death#H-L-Mencken-deathH.L. Mencken (Henry Louis Mencken)

Died January 29, 1956 b. 1880

American newspaperman, critic for the Baltimore Sun. In 1917, he perpetrated The Great Bathtub Hoax which started myths that the bathtub was banned in parts of the U.S. In 1920, he predicted that if the voters got their wish the White House would eventually be occupied by a moron.

and we sure don’t trust you.