The Week the World Went Batshit Crazy
The Week the World Went Batshit Crazy
LettsCartoon: This week was caricature IRL - cat ladies, pet eaters, exploding pagers and more...
Normally, we have to exaggerate a bit to create a LettsCartoon. But not this past week. In fact, you couldn't make it up if you tried. So, we didn’t.
It kicked off with the second U.S. Presidential debate, where Trump claimed immigrants were eating people’s pets in Ohio . Yes, you read that right. Then, because 2024 couldn't get any weirder, Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris, signing off as a “childless cat lady”. Whereupon Elon Musk immediately offered to give her a child and guard her cat???? Feeling ignored, J.D. Vance chimed in, saying, “The media ignores us so Donald Trump and I made up the "cat and pet eating memes.” Sure, JD. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
The Proud Boys, not wanting to miss out, marched through Springfield.
Next, a wannabe marksman - presumably an animal rights activist - tried (again) to assassinate ex-President Trump. Elon Musk, never one to miss a moment, asked his 100 million X followers why Biden and Harris hadn’t been shot at too. Apparently, that’s "unfair." He deleted it, calling it a "joke." Sure, Elon. Hilarious. Almost as funny as Israel figuring out how to detonate pagers in Hezbollah soldiers' pants. Pundits predict this new "military wedgie" might spark all-out war. What could go wrong?
Meanwhile, in the UK, the Prime Minister can’t afford clothes, glasses, or football tickets. A donor's footing the bill because, surprise, the treasury’s skint. Luckily, Keir Starmer doesn’t support Chelsea since just as the players look like they might actually win a game, their owners have started fighting. They don’t feel appreciated . Yes, you read that right. The “rxxt boys” attack line just might have a longer shelf life than we thought.
Oh, and X (formerly Twitter) has discovered how to make money after chasing off advertisers: charge users for their own data and sell it back to them via an AI bot. Sounds solid, like McDonald’s charging for salads or investing in meme stocks. Oh, wait...
Usually, we go for realism in our cartoons. This week, reality did the job for us. So we just went with this.
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