{"id":4217,"date":"2025-12-19T22:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4217"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:04:32","slug":"trumpgas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4217","title":{"rendered":"TrumpGas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Viva<\/a><\/p>\n

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‘They can still see his headless body <\/em>stalking through the night<\/em>
\nIn the muzzle flash of <\/em>Roland’s Thompson gun’<\/em>
\n\u2013 Warren Zevon, “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner,”<\/a> 1978<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This old chestnut from my crazed student daze<\/strong> wasn’t really historically apropos to this cartoon, but it was stuck in my head the whole time I was working on it. It was in our Dorm Top Forty in senior year, when I was drawing in the Yipster Times<\/a> and my buds and I were getting ready to pie the Dean. I couldn’t begin to explain it; the sonofabitch just kinda leaped out of my memory, cranked to 11.<\/p>\n

But, let’s just put those old giggles aside for now, and take ourselves a zesty, steamy gawk at the front page of Pravda On The Potomac from last Thursday (as I write this) \u2013 or, as I called it, the “Venezuela Special”.<\/a> JEEEEzus CHRIST,<\/strong> willya LOOK<\/strong> at that goddamn mess.<\/strong> The main head on the front-page lead piece<\/a> on the Donster’s latest yo-ho-ho’ing looks as if they’re in on the Cheer For Bullying, Piracy And Thievery Without Actually Cheering For Bullying, Piracy And Thievery Challenge \u2013 nothing if not the internal agonizing and mental pretzel-twisting of my imperialist Liberal friends’n’fam made publicly visible. They’re actually in favor of something the Donster is doing, and so they’re just going all splungy. So, what’s he gonna do with the goddamn tanker, now \u2013 open his own gas-station chain? “TrumpGas”? He’s already started up his own social-media site and plastered his name all over all kinds of shit, why not gas stations? “You can trust your car to the man who…”<\/span><\/p>\n

…but, enough of that; let’s move on to the featured foto on the left, where the true hilarity ensues<\/a> \u2013 in which The Courageous Venezuelan Opposition Leader* Who Looks Like The Villainess In A Telenovela And Who Begged Trump To Invade Her Country And Who Can’t Come Out Of Hiding To Accept Her Cracker Jack Peace Prize Sends Her Daughter Instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

*Note that here, as in all cases, the phrase “opposition leader” in the US press is a stand-in for the phrase “USAID, NED and multiple-corporate-backed right-wing US stooge”.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ \u2013 Warren Zevon, “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner,” 1978 This old chestnut from my crazed student daze wasn’t really historically apropos to this cartoon, but it was stuck in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,132,8,762,9],"tags":[980,100,1530,1532,966,1531,91],"class_list":["post-4217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-media","category-party-animals","category-right-wingnuts","category-trumpism","category-war-and-peace","tag-chavismo","tag-oil","tag-piracy","tag-thompson-gun","tag-venezuela","tag-warren-zevon","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","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=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4218,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}