Clay Bennett for August 13, 2023

Are those wooden nickels on the right?

Good, but I better enjoyed the ’toon from a day or two ago with Jack Smith on the Chess side with one pawn advanced (very early in the game) and der Furor on the Checkers side with one piece left. Richer than this one with secondary meaning. Sorry: Not recalling which cartoonist.

White moves first.

Well Trump does want to king himself.

Trump will double jump straight to jail

It is indeed a very sad commentary on the future of this very divided nation, cannot stand?, that a significant number of its citizens would even think of voting for a convicted felon involved in the crimes he has committed, in 1955 this kind of fool would have humiliated and gone in a short time.

Another award-level cartoon. In one panel Clay perfectly captures the reality of the situation.

Beautiful, sir. He’s not paying his lawyers one red cent. He’ll use them to keep himself in play.

Checkers? That requires strategy. Chutes and Ladders? That requires arithmetic. Give that man Candyland. With a little help, he should be able to figure that out.

Checkmate.

WOW this cartoon is deep and says a lot! I play chess so I can relate to this very well. In fact, I’m learning how to play three level chess. And why this drawing is so good is not so much because of Clay’s beautiful and impeccable artwork, but those of you who play chess know that it is entirely different from checkers.

Well done, sir.

Heather Angel

Never gonna ya do it

A world beyond

Heather angel you are somewhere

On the show

Don’t you think you would find

Where to go

I want to go dancing on the other side

I want to buy you another day

But the money’s gone

They brought guns and hatred

I don’t care about that

I just want you to be alive

And go to the other…

I don’t want money or looks

Have to decide

Passive

And you are dead in the name of it

And then we’d see yeh, yeh

Then you’d see

The relationship

And walking I see you in the clouds

And I fall for

I would fall for you

I would…

Forever

Goodbye, byeGoodbye

And that is all

STOP STOP

Sonic Youth

It is expected that DA Willis will empanel the grand jury in Fulton County as early as tomorrow. Checkmate?

But who is going to try to explain the rules of checkers to The Velveeta Voldemort? Is there a big book with lots of pictures that can be used to try to help him grasp the basic rules, or is that just another lost cause, like his trying to actually WIN an election for once in his life?

the only difference is that the guy playing checkers has a group of armed magites behind him ready to shoot the guy playing chess

if he dares to attempt to defeat their orange god

of course, the guy playing checkers , after losing the game, screams ‘it was RIGGED!’

In a perfect world Trump would become federal prison inmate 1040 assigned to cell 1040 for 1040 years.

After he dies in prison, he can be stuffed by a taxidermist and put on display in Cell 181 in Alcatraz, the last cell that Al “Scarface” Capone occupied before being transferred in 1939.

As Trump is known for everything gold platted, wouldn’t black have been better for the chessmen? Beware the Black Night.

Should have put MAGA on the red pieces. Some folk think Trump plays four dimensional chess when he’d stumble at checkers.

This carooon was used before. But then it was Chmn Xi v Biden.

That checkered past will catch up to him. I think those checkers should have been black.

The 14 th Amendment says it all!

G. A. M. E. O. V. E. R. !!!

LOCK HIM UP!

Opening Move – Red: Donald gets confused and believes he’s playing Tiddlywinks.

Are the checkers in all caps?

Drumpf would then claim the game was rigged!

Donald Trump thinks chess is some kind of pie.

They have Trump on audio and video, let me know when they have him in cuffs.

Plus: he’ll try to cheat.

I hope and pray.

Convicted J6 rioters joking about what cell Trump will be placed in after his DC indictment

Donald Trump’s legal troubles are being viewed as a source of hope for some Jan. 6 defendants, The Washington Post reports. The report notes that before Trump was indicted in the Jan. 6 election conspiracy, more than 1,000 people had already been charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol, and that Trump’s inclusion in that group has left Jan. 6 defendants in the D.C. jail “trading legal theories on how Trump’s case could affect their own — and joking about which empty cell could house the 45th president of the United States.”

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Trump repeats ‘grotesque’ smear of Fani Willis after new report of grand jury reconvening

Donald Trump, in a social media post Sunday morning, repeated a debunked smear about a Georgia prosecutor while appearing to laugh at his own joke. The former president, likely on the eve of what would be his fourth indictment, said that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is “accused” of being involved in a relationship with a gang member who she prosecuted.

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‘Rancid’: Don Trump Jr.‘s men’s magazine about guns and hunting dismantled

Donald Trump Jr.’s new men’s lifestyle magazine isn’t shy about touting the “rancid” aspects of gun culture the former president’s son has associated himself with for years, Slate reports.Trump Jr. is the publisher of Field Ethos, which launched last year, is described by its own staff as being “unapologetic” about killing animals, according to the report.

Georgia voting systems breach a ‘top-down push by Trump’s team’

Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis and her team of prosecutors have proof that allies of twice-impeached thrice-indicted former President Donald Trump “attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of the broader push to produce evidence that could back up the former president’s baseless claims of widespread fraud,” sources familiar with the investigation told CNN’s Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray over the weekend.

Willis’ office has collected “text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County,” Cohen and Murray wrote on Sunday. “Investigators in the Georgia criminal probe have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and heavily Republican Coffee County – a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote. They have gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump’s team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation.”

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‘Criminal syndicate leader’ Trump fosters GOP hypocrisy: Ex-Republican strategist

The GOP hypocrisy surrounding Donald Trump is on another level, a Democratic strategist said on Saturday.Kurt Bardella, a former Republican operative, appeared on MSNBC’s Ayman on Saturday to give his thoughts on the cognitive dissonance present within the modern GOP.

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Trump and RNC allies treating each indictment as ‘a solar eclipse-like event’

The dozens of criminal charges filed against twice-impeached former President Donald Trump have become central to fundraising efforts by his 2024 reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee, Jonathan Swan, Ruth Igielnik, Shane Goldmacher, and Maggie Haberman reported in The New York Times on Sunday."Donors sent checks. Fox News changed its tune. The party apparatus rushed to defend Mr. Trump.

The setup on the right should be Tiddly-Winks.

When he plays his men are all kings at the start. He gets to call extra/bonus moves. He gets to move his opponent’s pieces. Trump Rules.

Checkers is too advanced for #45. From what I’ve seen him doing, he plays mumbly-peg – badly.

Two “respected” members of the Federalist Society spent over a year researching a scholarly paper concerning the evidentiary events surrounding Jan 6th 2021. Guess what, among other things, they’ve concluded Donald Trump aided and abetted a “insurrection or rebellion,” with the intention of unlawfully denying the rightful Election winner from ever taking office.

Furthermore, due to this attempt at “insurrection or rebellion” Donald Trump is plainly disqualified from running for any Office, according to the criteria of the 14th Amendment.

They arrived at their conclusion, LONG BEFORE Special Counsel Jack Smith did. Surprise, surprise.

Federalist Society professors William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas published a sweeping 126 page paper, which stated: “Donald Trump cannot be president — cannot run for president, cannot become president, cannot hold office — unless two-thirds of Congress decides to grant him amnesty for his conduct on Jan. 6."

In a section of their piece, Baude and Paulsen state that Trump engaged in rebellion, and gave aid and comfort to others engaging in rebellion against the United States.

Donald Trump both “engaged in” “insurrection or rebellion” and gave “aid or comfort” to others engaging in such conduct […] He is no longer eligible to the office of Presidency, or any other state or federal office covered by the Constitution.

NAILED IT!

Make sure the board is nailed to the table and the table is screwed to the floor

It is a sad commentary that a ‘person’ like t***p causes the US – this Great Experiment in self-governance – such trouble. What is wrong with us?

Nixon was at least smart enough to end his struggle to remain president when the cause was clearly lost.

Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” with host Jonathan Karl, Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) interrupted the host’s questions about Hunter Biden’s legal problems to announce a forthcoming report on all the outside money Donald Trump and his family raked in while he was in office.

With Karl asking about a special counsel being appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to look into President Joe Biden’s son’s business deals, the Maryland Democrat changed things up by bringing up the Trumps.

“We’re going to release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments and millions of dollars we can document that Donald Trump pocketed at the hotels, at the golf courses and through business deals when he was president and that his family got," he told the ABC host.

Nice illustration Clay!!

And he still might get away with all of the things he’s been indicted for, much less the hundreds (thousands?) of things he’s been accused of. We have a problem.

If bone spurs keep you out the military can they keep you out of jail?

Trump can’t wait to say, “King me!”

Let’s not, hmmm?

Good news: Trump is one step closer to prison.

YouTube: NBC News Georgia prosecutor to present Trump election interference case to grand jury NBC News

And all he knows how to say is “King Me!”