"They can still see his headless body stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun!"
– Warren Zevon,
"Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner", 1978
This old chestnut from my crazed student daze wasn't really historically
apropos to this cartoon, but it was stuck in my head the whole time I
was working on it. It was in our Dorm Top Forty in senior year, when I
was drawing in the Yipster Times and my buds and I were getting ready to
pie the Dean. I couldn't begin to explain it; the sonofabitch just kinda
leaped out of my memory, cranked to 11.
But, let's just put those old giggles aside for now, and take ourselves
a zesty, steamy gawk at the front page of Pravda On The Potomac from
last Thursday (as I write this) – or, as I called it, the "Venezuela
Special". JEEEEzus CHRIST, willya LOOK at that goddamn mess. The main
head on the front-page lead piece on the Donster's latest yo-ho-ho'ing
looks as if they're in on the Cheer For Bullying, Piracy And Thievery
Without Actually Cheering For Bullying, Piracy And Thievery Challenge –
nothing if not the internal agonizing and mental pretzel-twisting of my
imperialist Liberal friends'n'fam made publicly visible. They're
actually in favor of something the Donster is doing, and so they're just
going all splungy. So, what's he gonna do with the goddamn tanker, now –
open his own gas-station chain? "TrumpGas"? He's already started up his
own social-media site and plastered his name all over all kinds of shit,
why not gas stations? "You can trust your car to the man who..."
...but, enough of that; let's move on to the featured foto on the left,
where the true hilarity ensues – in which The Courageous Venezuelan
Opposition Leader* Who Looks Like The Villainess In A Telenovela And Who
Begged Trump To Invade Her Country And Who Can't Come Out Of Hiding To
Accept Her Cracker Jack Peace Prize Sends Her Daughter Instead.
*Note that here, as in all cases, the phrase "opposition leader" in the
US press is a stand-in for the phrase "USAID, NED and
multiple-corporate-backed right-wing US stooge".
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"Boosting Pressure on Venezuela, U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker", Washington
Post Dec 11 2025
https://sinkers.org/posters/trumpgas/wapoA1Dec1125boosting_pressure.jpg
"Venezuelan Nobel Peace Laureate Machado Misses Ceremony", Washington
Post Dec 11 2025
https://sinkers.org/posters/trumpgas/wapoA1Dec1125machado_misses_ceremony.jpg
Warren Zevon, "Roland, The Headless Thompson Gunner", 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRWCK9zGynA
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
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