The Empire strikes back
1mon 8d ago by lemmy.world/u/merdaverse in politicalcartoons@lemmy.zip
by Dave Brown
I don’t get this cartoon. How is Putin Leia in this situation?
Putin should be Jabba and Trump is Salacious Crumb.
Yeah, see, Don as Jabba I get. A little played out but I get it. And Putin holding his chain I get. Hell, you can even argue that Putin holding the chain he's about to choke him out with makes sense... But those two images really don't jive with the context of that scene. Putin's not Trump's prisoner and Leia's not secretly manipulating Jabba. If it were Putin as Jabba and like, Zelensky in the bikini, maybe that makes sense. Helpless captive kills overzealous despot with the tools of his own oppression, sure. You keep Trump as Jabba, write "The American People" on Luke Skywalker and put, like, "Putin's Agenda" on the Sarlacc pit, that makes sense. Hell, write "Epstein Blackmail" or some shit on that little gangplank they push Luke off of, just for fun. But when the fuck did Jabba ever care about the comparative strength of foreign governments? I mean, if you had to pick a Star Wars character to depict a rabid dog made a pawn in a game of geopolitical subterfuge with a false promise of power from a withered old goblin... You're gonna pick Jabba?
Like you said, the artist wanted to do Trump as Jabba…then had nothing else
I thought it was Stephen Miller, lmao
Is trump a monster? YES!
But Europe is weak. Look at the rise of the AFD in Germany. Look at how they can't ween themselves off Russian oil and gas. Look at how they couldn't deal with Orban. Look at how they let their defense budgets slide. Look how they refuse to deal with their refugee crisis.
Putin and trump can do what they have done because Europe is weak. That may sting, and I will be voted down to the cellar, but it is still true.
Germany made a huge mistake in shutting down their nuclear power system, all to assuage the fears of irrational soap-dodgers who have now committed themselves to greater pollution and insecurity
Yup
Y'all got their roles reversed