Wow! Mike Luckovich cartoon for tomorrow, 12/18/25

[highplainsdem]

— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) 2025-12-17T21:20:26.179Z

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. ..

[Swede]

2. Flags of Our Fanatics.

nt

[surfered]

3. 1,000 recs

[PatSeg]

4. Damn!

Political cartoonists certainly can sum things up with simple and brutal honesty.

[hibbing]

7. That was the first word that came out of my mouth

The guy is so consistently good, he is a true genius.

[PatSeg]

12. Yes he is

And he speaks a language that anyone can instantly understand. It is a gift.

[GoCubsGo]

5. Kick. Rec.

Spot-on, as always.

[Paper Roses]

6. All of us know this was the aim. Disgusting. n/t

[spanone]

8. K&R

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

[Paladin]

10. It's. Not. Our. Oil.

End of fucking story, real-world version.

[stage left]

11. Right

It belongs to Venezuela

[Upthevibe]

13. Kick. N/T

[madamesilverspurs]

14. Powerful.

Don't recall who did it, but there was something similar about Iraq.


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[Lonestarblue]

15. Trump is paying back the major oil money that helped elect him by taking Venezuela's oil.

US oil companies invested in the extraction of Venezuela’s oil and gas and lost majority control and assets when Venezuela nationalized its oil industry (and also its gold mining, which Trump would live to steal). Trump thinks the US this owns the rights to Venezuela’s oil, and he is likely to destroy the country to take it. Think of the damage US bombs did in Gaza long before any troops were on the ground. Venezuela does not have the military to fight the US, and Trump/Hegseth do not care how many people they kill to satisfy their greed.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Remember the first name for the Iraq War? "Operation Iraqi Liberation"...

[twodogsbarking]

17. His mind. Wow. Thanks highplainsdem.

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Kick their ass!

And steal their gas!

Gen. Smedley Butler talked about this nearly a century ago.

War Is a Racket

PDF: https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf

[SergeStorms]

19. One political cartoon......

is worth all the words that The Big Orange Pig could possibly wretch from his putrid body.