Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for August 02, 2020

Que Dios bendiga América (anglo- e hispanohablantes… especialmente a los que no hablan ni inglés ni español).

AMEN!

If only we, as Americans, could live up to that promise.

Well said !!!

Justice for almost all.

“. . . one nation, indivisible . . .”

That’s how I learned it, that’s what I believe, that’s how I still say it.

Get a life Johnie, get a life.

Nicely done! :-)

Powerful. True.

Thank you!

Liberty and justice for SOME.

<3 Baldo

I like it, but we’re not all “under god”.

there’s just MORE liberty and justice if you’re Captain Bonespur’s friends

Now go vote!

where’s Rayna?

Wow.

amen

Liberty and justice for all is but a dream. So’s the god part.

With liberty and justice for all

Thank you very much

The best of your best. BRAVO!

An excellent reminder of who and what the United States of America really is ( or should be ). ¡Gracias, señor Cantú y señor Castellanos!

Love it!!

The way it is, but it still has a ways to go; it’s a work in progress. Has been since 1776. Still it’s the best thing out there, even now.

Our nation has been a work in progress since its founding in 1776. We still have a ways to go but it’s still the best governing system that History has ever seen.

You can only have justice for all if there’s no bass…

yes. THIS.

Wish you had used the pre-McCarthy pledge……..

Thank you

Beautiful…………. thank you…….. ;-)) …………. from a US Navy Viet Nam vet.

when the divider in the White House is gone, we as Americans will once again live up to that promise.

Excellent! Thank you!

I don’t understand why, Why we can’t?

Thank you for this panel.

Thank you Mr. Castellanos and Mr. Cantu. You made my Sunday. 25th Infantry Division 1968 Vietnam. Admiro tu trabajo!!

Baldo, 4Muchas gracias

Now that was class… Too many have been an astrus on the pledge.

well said

Great artwork!

https://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm

Well said gentlemen

Thank You!

Yes, Ah….the REAL America. It is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for this, Hector and Carlos. <3

This is how the majority of Americans feel, despite what the media wants to portray. We are a stronger nation united.

’"United we stand, divided we fall. Considering how hard some are working to divide us, I would who REALLY is wanting us to fall.

If you really read the pledge, everyone who says they respect the flag pledges liberty and justice for all. If that is not your pledge (no matter who you are), then it really doesn’t matter if you stand or kneel. Likewise if that is your pledge.

That vastly improved my day.

Thank you.

A Republic. It you can Keep it.

Wonderful!

Thank you guys, I needed this today!

Mucho gracas!

Took me by surprise. I enjoy everything about this comic, day in and day out, May we all get closer to achieving these sentiments, and quickly,

A strong message. Why the raised fist? It’s akin to an asterisk.

Thank you, Cantu and Castellanos, for reminding us that not all cartoonists are cynics. Americans are optimists by nature and patriotic by practice.

Here, here.

Well done.

I do hope Baldo understand that One nation under GOD was add by Eisenhower. Not part the the original pledge and should be taken out.

Some thoughts…

They used the anti-secular communist version from the 1950s not the original pledge.

Nevertheless, the Christianizers were right: we are under God. All nations are under God. God is sovereign over all the earth, and all kingdoms and nations are under his dominion.

My countrymen who disagree with my political ideology are still my countrymen. Our disagreements do not necessarily mean they do not love our country. Their accusations that I do not love our country do not necessarily mean that they do not love our country.

This pledge (and the original one) can be said truthfully by many, perhaps most, Americans. We act like it cannot be said faithfully by our enemies; but if we are honest, I think we have to admit it can and is.

However, I am loath to think it should be said truthfully by Christians like myself. Is pledging allegiance to anything less than God or something directly God-ordained ever right? I don’t think that I can accept this. Perhaps the real issue is that since most Christians I know appear to put this kingdom before God’s kingdom, I take a reactionary hard line against anything that looks too nationalistic. Pledging to our country can perhaps be always understood as being subject to Christians’ pledge to Christ. Either way, I think we need to be very careful with this.

There is something about flags. We need to understand how powerful symbols really are. They are not just the basic pieces of cloth. There is a reason the pledge is written as it is.

When I was little, “indivisible” was a really hard word. I still don’t come across it much.

And it’s past time to get back to work.

I don’t mind pledging to a republic but the flag part seems to confuse people. The “map is not the thing” as Noam Chomsky used to say when he was out drinking. :)

I don’t pledge to the flag. The Constitution, yes.