Digital Political Drawings Scratched On an iPAD

and occasionally some other iPad art thrown into the mix. On Instagram @jonostrove

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He’s Dreamin’!

Yeah, he’s the picture of perfect health! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

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Corruption Eruption

By many accounts, we have reached the high water mark of the corruption of the US Department of Justice this past week. This just happened to coincide for with a small bit of personal drama. I’ve been a bit unwell the last couple of weeks. What I found out last Monday is that I had somehow developed a rather nasty infection in my right (drawing) arm, probably staph, although the medicos never quite figured that out. This development inspired this idea earlier in the week, but my arm was too sore to draw for very long, so it took me a few days. In the meantime, it appears that even many staunch Republicans in the US Senate are gagging on the “weaponization settlement” slush fund that Todd Blanche had cooked up for Dear Leader. In any case, in my relief at watching this nasty infection that had been menacing my right arm begin to heal, this excellent visual metaphor for the entire situation came to me.

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VIP Snorkel

The story about Kash Patel snorkeling at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor surfaced again today with more details of the FBI Director’s tasteless recreation. I’d started this drawing on Wednesday, but have been fighting off a bug the last couple of days, feeling pretty lousy. The revival of the story inspired me to finish it, as I’m feeling a bit better today.

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BLOTUS

The latest consumer price report indicates US inflation has accelerated to an annual rate of 3.8%, the highest level of inflation since May 2023. Who should we blame for that?

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Kash Out

More news in the category of “you can’t make this stuff up.” Yesterday, the Atlantic published a story about how the Director of the FBI runs around the country handing out bourbon in personalized, custom Kash Patel bottles.

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Judge Mental

The federal judiciary is being loaded with MAGA freaks. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice is offering $25K signing bonuses for new federal prosecutors. It seems nobody wants to work there. The erosion of the federal judicial system under Trumpism continues apace.

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Still the Right Answer

The charges against James Comey filed today is the most banana republic nonsense we’ve yet seen from the organization that calls itself the US Department of Justice. I don’t know how these bozos can even look at themselves in the mirror.

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Ballroomina

Lindsey Graham is such a lickspittle, but, evidently, one helluva dancer.

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Takeaway

Dear Leader immediately seized Saturday night’s events at the White House Correspondents Dinner as an opportunity to peddle his bloated ballroom vanity project. That’s the first thing I was thinking about. How about you?

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Hatchet Man

The conventional wisdom is that Todd Blanche is auditioning to get the permanent Attorney General post. He’s now saying the quiet part aloud, freely acknowledging that it’s the AG’s job to go after whoever Dear Leader tells him to, and then lamely asserts this is exactly how the previous administration operated. Never mind that this administration seems to have broken every norm in the running of DOJ that had been in practice at least since the Nixon years. Keep an eye on this slippery bastard.

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Trump Cards

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Easter Greeting

ICYMI, this is a quote from Dear Leader’s 2026 Easter Greetings, posted bright and early this morning. With all those evangelicals laying all those hands all over him, they just don’t seem to be getting the job done, do they? And to think, there’s lots of time for him to sink even lower.

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Unbondi Love

His love knows no Bondis. Why does it seem him saying “We Love Pam” is even more humiliating than just being fired?

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The Sword of Donaldcles

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Cosplay Barbie

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Secretary of Stating the Obvious

The ridiculous variety of justifications from the Trump Administration for the unprovoked acts of war against Iran might even be funny if it wasn’t costing people their lives. This idea that these actions were to preempt some kind of imminent yet unspecified event has me thinking that “imminent threat” is merely the foreign policy equivalent of “domestic emergency” in this administration. That is, Dear Leader can cough up such an excuse to execute on any impulse that emerges from his atrophying mind, and the clowns surrounding him simply nod.

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Robert Duvall

The great actor Robert Duvall passed away Sunday at the age of 95. Here he is as Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove. Of course, he had many fabulous roles, but I thought he inhabited this character perfectly.