{"id":3635,"date":"2023-05-12T16:48:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T20:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2023-08-29T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:49:17","slug":"finishing-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3635","title":{"rendered":"Finishing The Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/finishingthejob\/finishingthejob150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/finishingthejob\/finishingthejob650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"710\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is with anxiety, chagrin and dread<\/strong> that I present this, my first cartoon of the 2024 Presidential &#8220;election&#8221; slog&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and despite the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/finishingthejob\/wapoA1_May0623_new_low.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">massive disappointment<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3992413-biden-approval-slips-to-new-low-in-wake-of-2024-campaign-launch-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\">lack of enthusiasm<\/a> of huge swaths of Democratic voters, Gropin&#8217; Joe announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2023\/04\/26\/ckws-a26.html\" target=\"_blank\">re-election campaign kickoff<\/a> with a promise to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/01\/20\/us\/biden-2024-president-election-news\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;finish the job&#8221;<\/a>&#8230; at which point yours truly, like millions of others, is cringing and asking themselves: what job would THAT be \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2023\/04\/29\/jobs-a29.html\" target=\"_blank\">immiserating the poor<\/a> and the working class? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2023\/05\/03\/ynmm-m03.html\" target=\"_blank\">Terrorizing immigrants<\/a> and bullying our next-door neighbors? <a href=\"https:\/\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/2023\/05\/02\/us-military-spending-russia-china\" target=\"_blank\">Fattening up the war profiteers<\/a> and Wall Street? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/independent-ukraine-kill-list-actually-run-by-kiev-backed-by-washington\/284639\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beating down anti-war dissent<\/a> in public media? Dragging us into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2023\/05\/08\/pers-m08.html\" target=\"_blank\">World War III?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lotta big jobs to finish there, Joester; guess you&#8217;re going to <em>need<\/em> four more years to thoroughly fuck shit up, huh?<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.5 x 11 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/finishingthejob\/finishingthejob150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 379kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with anxiety, chagrin and dread that I present this, my first cartoon of the 2024 Presidential &#8220;election&#8221; slog&#8230; &#8230;and despite the massive disappointment and lack of enthusiasm of huge swaths of Democratic voters, Gropin&#8217; Joe announced his re-election campaign kickoff with a promise to &#8220;finish the job&#8221;&#8230; at which point yours truly, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1336,1136,19,132,1250,9],"tags":[1337,1469,53,146,1269,99],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-election","category-bidenism","category-economy","category-party-animals","category-ukrainamania","category-war-and-peace","tag-finish-the-job","tag-2024-election","tag-democrats","tag-immigration","tag-ukraine-war","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}