{"id":4538,"date":"2026-10-16T08:43:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:43:04","slug":"isnt-that-lovely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4538","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t That Lovely?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/JPA570.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"412\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/JPA570.jpg\" alt=\"Political Cartoon: Isn't That Lovely?\" class=\"wp-image-4539\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/JPA570.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/JPA570-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elon Musk is back to throwing his considerable money at political campaigns. And why not? Terrible U.S. Supreme Court decisions have made it fine and dandy. And when your net worth is $1 trillion, $1 million is equivalent to what a dime is to somebody with a net worth of $100,000. Literally a rounding error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlns.com\/your-local-election-hq\/musk-pac-michigan-senate-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Musk is donating to Republican candidates<\/a>&nbsp;all over the country, including Michigan and especially to bolster Mike Rogers here. Does this have anything to do with the people of Michigan? Heck, no. Musk doesn&#8217;t have any significant business interests here. His companies don&#8217;t build cars, design rockets, or factory-produce propaganda in Michigan. But Republicans keeping control of the Senate would mean protection for his benefactor, Donald Trump, which would keep that sweet, sweet government money flowing in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For you Looney Tunes fans, there&#8217;s a bit of an Easter egg in the cartoon. Musk&#8217;s behavior reminds me so much of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PiKC4_CkLT4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marvin the Martian<\/a>. (Remember the character that wants to blow up Earth because it obstructs his view of Venus?) I couldn&#8217;t help but to have Musk quoting one of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ukTuKnIZCUU&amp;t=173s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marvin&#8217;s more famous lines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is back to throwing his considerable money at political campaigns. And why not? Terrible U.S. Supreme Court decisions have made it fine and dandy. And when your net worth is $1 trillion, $1 million is equivalent to what a dime is to somebody with a net worth of $100,000. Literally a rounding error. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4540,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/4540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}