Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for August 23, 2021

The whole Shark Week thing is getting a tad stale!

Our best chums, the governors of Florida, Texas, Arizona is where the feeding should start.

I hope that there’s a hefty fee for being saved by a shark. Payment due up front

Never forget: The wealthy and the poor may both sleep under bridges.

You’re responsible for staying out of the shark’s way yourself.

Staying out of the water doesn’t make any difference, I’ve seen a documentary, hosted by REAL EXPERTS, that shows them flying through the air.

Shark repellent is just a conspiracy to tag you with microchips anyway.

The party of small government loves to mandate against sanity and safety.

I wonder which state Governor are we talking about. ;)

Since you have opted out of swimming with the sharks, perhaps use the time to get vaccinated if you haven’t already done so. :)

The proper analogy would NOT be that the governor has forbidden beach closures; instead, he wants to leave it up to LOCAL authorities to decide in a way that does not violate state law, rather than have state or federal officials do it. Or to put it another way where, say, the supposedly evil Florida governor is concerned, there are no mask bans; there are only some mask MANDATE bans, especially for mandates that violate state law. HUGE difference there, but folks who seem to believe that any extant law can be flushed just because they’re scared probably aren’t going to grasp it.

But more importantly here, don’t such blatant political cartoons belong in the political cartoon section of the site?