21 Comments
Jul 18Liked by Liza Donnelly

1. You are a hero doing this.

2. I can’t even, too.

Expand full comment
author

Thank you, Patris.

Expand full comment
founding

19 guns scattered around the house of an addict with children. And they all applauded because "that's the American way!" The difference in our different ways of thinking is startling!!!

Expand full comment
author

I know, right???

Expand full comment

Thank you, dear Liza, for putting yourself through this. I couldn’t even if I could draw. Brilliant commentary!💙🇺🇸💙✍️

Expand full comment
author

Thank you!

Expand full comment

Liza, I’m so glad you did the drawing of Paddy. We lost him this past Wednesday. 💔 We are trying to locate another bearded collie without luck so far.

Expand full comment
author

I am so sorry to hear that! Take care, it's always tough to lose an animal family member....sending a hug.

Expand full comment

Thanks, Liza💕

Expand full comment

Great memorialization of the deranged apotheosis of a pitch black American comedy.

Expand full comment
Jul 18Liked by Liza Donnelly

Vance was chosen to add vitality to the ticket. His inexperience, like Trump's inexperience, is seen as a plus. Is Vance now the MAGA successor? Is he DJTJ with a brain? (By inexperience, I mean ignorance, of course.)

Expand full comment

Chosen by Putin and Orban

Expand full comment
Jul 18Liked by Liza Donnelly

You should be getting combat pay for this coverage Liza, thank you. Among the many, listening and watching “Don Jr.” shout is more than I can handle . Equal with his girlfriend.

More importantly the overall policies of the GOP and the supporters in the party are deep areas of concern. The unity of which they speak is among themselves and their agenda.

This is a fairly lengthy but I feel very insightful look at the GOP agenda and the current status of the GOP discussed by Heather Cox Williamson a few days ago. I found it valuable and informative so I’ll throw the link out there. Again thank you for your great drawings and captures of “ the event “.

https://youtu.be/9GUInBzg4zA?si=GvrUxhfO3YINvihN

Expand full comment
Jul 18Liked by Liza Donnelly

I feel slimy just reading your piece and looking at the drawing. You will need a week soaking in a nice jacuzzi just to get the dirt off. What a show of hypocrisy, arrogance, idiocy and just plain ole stupidness. Looking at the attendees I still don't see much diversity. YIKES!

Expand full comment
founding

So interesting, Liza. I am particularly struck by your comments about the difficulty drawing Guilfoyle because of her excessive plastic surgery, and Don Jr. because you see emotions you don’t understand— empathize with? — along with his sharp, severe face. Can you elaborate?

Expand full comment
author

Thanks, LInda. Those observations came as I wrote that, and I don't fully understand them either. I think with Guilfoyle, the exageration of her features from what I assume to be plastic surgery throws me off. I try not to judge people's features when I am drawing them unless it is an obvious political cartoon. But my feelings towards what she seems to have done to her face gets in my way! As for Don Jr, that's a different issue and I don't understand why he is hard to draw. Some people are--

Expand full comment
Jul 19Liked by Liza Donnelly

I agree with Patris.... and the others.. You are a hero.... I can't even stomach reading about it, much less having to analyze it. And orange man, jr. asking, "Who's running the country? Obama?" It's all too dystopian. I am having to rein in what I see, hear, and read, particularly before bedtime. I keep thinking, and I know I've repeated this a million times, but it does so scare me like the Handmaid's Tale. Thank you so much for sorting this all out for us. You are truly a trooper. After you do your reporting, pet the cat...that always calms me down. xoxo

Expand full comment
author

Thanks, Allia:)

Our cat is still a teenager and sometimes patting her is an invitation for play and biting!

Expand full comment

Yikes. Well, then, don't pat the cat. Pat yourself on the head for all the superlative work you are doing.

Expand full comment
Jul 19Liked by Liza Donnelly

Thanks for watching such a wretched display of fascism. I can’t do it. I hope you get your App back up and running.

Expand full comment