© O. Douglas Jennings. All rights reserved.
Thoughts & life experiences of a Chicago area graphic artist
© O. Douglas Jennings. All rights reserved.
As POTUS, Trump enriched himself and other Billionaires. It was USA as ATM. |
In my late 70s government class, I made a presentation on fascism through a mock news report imagining a dystopian U.S. It was a chilling project, and my teacher's confident assertion that America could never become a dictatorship stayed with me. Looking back, the exercise feels eerily prescient, leaving me with a sense of uneasy uncertainty about the future as the election cycle of 2024 looms.
Billionaire bank CEO Jamie Dimon says Trump "wasn't wrong” on most major policies. I call BS. pic.twitter.com/COSsoQpms1
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 24, 2024
My mock news report envisioning the U.S. as a dictatorship sparked a discussion with my teacher who, at the time, firmly believed America would never fall into such a system. Time will tell, I suppose.
But hopefully news like that below will impact voters to turn away from Fear Politics:
Middle-class became the richest ever under Biden, even adjusted for inflation. Real hourly wages are about $1/hour higher than 2019; we have about $1,000 per worker more purchasing power now. pic.twitter.com/rqxv124msB
By my original copyright date, I noticed it has been 14 years since I worked on this comic. |
I had given up hope in finding my work-in-progress art for a pet project I had started over a decade ago.
The original ink drawings are hopelessly tucked away somewhere in my basement. Yet I distinctly remember scanning them to make a digital copy. Unfortunately, my continued searches for that pdf file remained fruitless and I had all but given up hope.
Much to my pleasant surprise, one of my compulsive routine habits of doing random numeric filename/info searches on my desktop computer for a few minutes every day uncovered the lost files inadvertently.
My previous specific searches were made using the wrong file name while the random numeric search latched onto the earmark of a deeper algorithmic feature of the file and brought it to the surface.
Page one of my lost project jumps in with both feet. |
The above photo was taken in Holland during WWII (1944). According to the comments written on back, the little girl would often visit dad's army barracks while he was stationed in her town. The Nazis captured the town after U.S. troops left, but, as the back of the photo relates, Dad believed the evacuation of the town saved the girl from harm.
Dad's was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Army Division that took part in Operation Market Garden, the liberation of Holland. According to my Mom, Dad was a liason sargeant whose job included helping to lay communication lines and also provide the artillary with target coordinates.
Operation Market Garden was the subject of the 1977 movie “A Bridge Too Far” :
Click here to see a vintage photo of my dad a couple of years
after he returned home from the war.
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Click here to read my post about my dad's politics.
It's the new symbol of the common man:
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I've been trying to find a keystroke for it but might have to wait until the system catches up to the unicode ”thinga-ma-dealies”.