Oh, I should have noticed that! Still, I like the whole concept of new cartoons based on the original. (Thanks for posting that example.)
No worries; it wasn’t totally clear in the sustack but was spelled out in the email to subscribers.
That one is kind of reminiscent of in style of the late Al Jaffee of Mad Magazine. Dave Whamond’s take is pretty good, too:
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Clearly none of these editorial cartoonists had to exactly rack their brains to come up with biting variations on the theme.
Such blatant servitude and incipient corruption is a ripe fruit for cartoonists. And as Telnaes herself has opined “Editorial cartoonists are democracy’s canary in a coal mine.”
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I just hope we’re not going to be reduced to mimeographing them in our basements and furtively exchanging them between transactions at the local bartering market.
Psst Comrade. What’s the English word for samizdat?
My WaPo subscription ends this week. I cancelled when Bezos spiked the Harris endorsement. I wrote another letter to the editor about spiking Telnaes’ cartoon. And I subscribed to her Substack. I know that’s not enough, but it’s what I can do. The Mrs and I and rethinking our Amazon Prime.
The gold-painted age, perhaps.
“Gilded” at least promises gold, thinly spread.
This era has theatrics, face paint and vaudeville, but little value.
Not really. Just making something gold-colored is gilding it.
The pejorative nature of the word “gilded” means falsely making something appear gold, and that’s all that is "promised’ when using that term. It could involve something like gold leaf, or just simply paint that is colored gold.
Ha! Thanks for that.
My experience with gilding is limited to what I was read by my mother at a very tender age from story-books, a slightly confused understanding of the phrase “gilding the lily” and a short period in my teenage years drinking gold sambuca.
I am no expert.
(I can, however, suggest that use of gold sambuca in a bong reseviour is unwise. While it may appear glamourous, in theory, it is actually fucking stupid. Trust me.)
Mimeographing? Nah. It’ll be using anonymous accounts behind VPNs to share on social media.
If anyone ever suggests that I will try to remember your sage advice. 
With all the sociopolitical shenanigans going on, maybe history could term this period “American Democracy: The Gelded Age”
The Age of Grift
The Great Pause
The Age of Unenlightenment
The Lost Years
The Felonial Era
In my opinion, this is the best so far. Well done, @penultima_thule !
The Great Bromancing
The Narcissist Cycle
The Bad Hair Epoch
The Age of Addlepates
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Not sure where this goes, but it seems to fit with the recent Telnaes cartoon:
Apropos of nothing … crushed ice and lemon juice.
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I’m confused. Why smoke weed when you can drink sambuca instead?