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About Panda in Chief

Anne Belov paints, writes, makes prints, and is the founder of The Institute for Contemporary Panda Satire. You can find her paintings at the Rob Schouten Gallery and Fountainhead Gallery, her cartoons on The Panda Chronicles, and her new book here. She also writes regularly for The Whidbey Life Magazine, a free journal of art and culture on Whidbey Island. Her main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Grant for Panda Satire.

More greatest hits!

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It was another one of those weeks. Between getting a bit of a cold — first one since covid—and trying to get my tax stuff mailed in (why, oh why?) I didn’t quite get today’s ‘toon done. It will definitely be ready for next week, so in the meantime, I thought I’d pull out some of my Pinky’s greatest hits.

Remember, once an icon, always an icon. It’s not just common sense, it’s the LAW!

Pinky forebber!

Oh Princess Pinky, mom has a trick or two up her paw, I think…

Pinky answers difficult questions from the press in her own way.

Pinky at her poof-iest!

Could Mama Mei Xiang really be contemplating letting Pinky loose on the pandy kindy?

I want to acknowledge that weeks (are you sure it hasn’t been years) since Mittens came back into power have been extremely hard, and it’s easy to slip into dark thoughts. I am constantly ricocheting back and forth between oh look! the sun is out and I have leftover pizza, and all is lost! F45 is going to steal every penny in the treasury and murder all sorts of people who don’t deserve it, and, and, and…

It’s a struggle to keep on the path, but hopefully a large dose of baby Pinky will help.

I’m so glad you are all here with me.

Be the Bear
Bob T is still listening to Taylor Swift Panda

Icon, no more?

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Can one’s status as an icon be revoked? As Pinky might say…

Dis! will! not! stand!

Along with all the spam that shows up here in what I can only identify as possibly Russian, and all the pitches to improve my SEO ranking, I got a new one today. This one was an opportunity to split $11 million dollars due to an “unclaimed inheritance.” Sigh…I guess there are people who will fall for that kind of thing, helpfully sending off their banking information, etc, etc. For all I know, this is what E-loon’s flying monkeys are doing after rifling through all of our personal information.

Oopsie. I deleted it. No millions for me, I guess.

And then there is the little issue of in addition to burning the country down, Mittens wants to throw himself another military parade…

Good times, eh?

Be the Bear
Bob T will I be deported too? Panda

pinky has entered the chat

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it’s really kind of amazing how nonchalant everyone in F45 2.0 is over the mishandling of sensitive, maybe classified information. not surprising of course, (can you say boxes of classified documents in a public bathroom?) especially from the butter emails party, but here we are.

can you imagine how upset they’d be to realize that someone in china was listening into their calls/text chats?

let’s find out, shall we?

Huzzah for Wisconsin, electing Justice Susan Crawford to their Supreme Court, despite elmer moose’s blatant attempt to buy the election. and get a load of his whinnying about how it was probably bought by George Soros for the libs. I’m still waiting for my 2020 checks! Huzzah for Cory Booker talking for over 25 hours about all that is going on and what people are suffering from F45’s rampaging about the government.

Be the bear
Bob T holding on with all paws Panda

Happy April Fool’s Day, otherwise known as Day 71 of F45’s 2nd Reign of Terror

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There hardly seems like there could be an April Fool’s Day joke that would reach the absurdity of everything we are currently living through, but here we are. Alas, the weekend got away from me again (too many naps, too much cake…you know how that goes) so once again, I must dip into the archives for your entertainment today.

One little point of discussion after last week’s ‘toon, starring Frank and Mikey, with a discussion of some vital NooZ. It was pointed out to me that the story they told was NOT A REAL STORY! and I have some thoughts about that. First I made several references to Andy Borowitz, a well known writer of satire, who…um…broke this story. Secondly, have you learned NOTHING over the time since Frank and Mikey made their way onto the scene? When have they EVER said anything that is true? I mean…if Mehitabel had introduced the story, there is a 80%-20% chance that the story would be true, but as Frank and Mikey are the bearsonification of unreliable narrators, one would be well advised to never believe anything they say. Just ask Josie!

Meanwhile, back at the zoo…

A recent (real) NooZ story that Elmer’s incels are turning their attention to The Smithsonian and THE ZOO to root out fraud and “improper ideology“… I felt moved to redo a little of the dialog from this classic from Pinky’s first campaign to be presydent…

IMPROPER IDEOLOGY my ass! I mean…Pinky isn’t even there anymore!

It really fits, doesn’t it? Now…on with a little Panda Foolery…

“It was dark….there were men in masks….”

No nonsense to be found here! See how important the Smithsonian is?

I hope you enjoyed this romp down memory lane!

Be the Bear
Bob T improper ideology are us Panda

Is it April Fool’s Day or April’s Fool Day?

Frank and Mikey Swear That it Wasn’t Them

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I don’t know that you can ever believe Frank and Mikey when they say it wasn’t them, but on the other hand, given what the DOGE bros are doing to eff up the government, could you blame them if it WAS them?

Just a thought…

Anyway, here we are again, watching the nooz in horror as the DUI hires in the NatSec segment think it’s a good idea to use an insecure app to have their little chat because it wouldn’t be subject to FOIA requests, and that would outlay national security. More on this next week.

Anyway…here be bears!

Don’t mess with bears!

BE the Bear
Bob T better to eat than be eaten Panda

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I’m WORKING on it…

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Oops! Another week where I was too busy gallivanting around to get Tuesday’s ‘toon done, but never fear. I would not leave you without some entertainment! For your consideration, I have dug into to the archives to share some ‘toons from…the Pinky Zone!

He’s small for now, but Bubba Bei Bei is shaping up to be a whole lot of panda!

You say you want a resolution, well, you know, it is hard to change a bear….

“How does you spell ‘hostage’?” hee hee hee!

Baby Pinky is kind of my favorite! I hope this will bring a smile to your face until we figure out what we’re doing on Thursday!

Be the Bear,
Bob T it’s not like there is anything else going on, is there? Panda

Hey! I got something done, but it’s depressing…

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Anyone want to roll the dice for double or nothing for our social Security Checks?

Yeah, me neither.

I bet soon sarcastic quotation marks when referring to F45 or his office will be considered a terroristic act.

Be the Bear
Bob T Fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke Panda

Some Stuff from the Archives

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It’s another one of those weeks that has too much too do and not enough time to do everything that needs doing, so I’m going to blindfold myself and stick my hand into the old archives and see what I can find. Maybe I’ll have a new ‘toon for Thursday, maybe not. Definitely for next week, though!

I think we need something that will make us laugh, something to take our minds of that power mad mongrel that would be king.

Maybe something about another power hungry character….

I really had no idea what she was up to.

Bubba is having so much fun with his new friends!

And just to remind you, we knew 9 years ago how terrible it would be if You Know Who was ever elected even the FIRST time!!!

We are afraid. Honest.
Pinky: you should have voted for me.

Be the Bear
Bob T no one listened to us Panda

More NooZ from the Swearing Parrots of Lincolnshire Wildlife Park!

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I thought we needed a bit of fun NooZ today (because, ya know, so much else completely sucks right now). Fortunately I can always count on my friends to keep an eye on the NooZ and alert me to really important stories. We originally covered this one a while back in 2021…

Indeed, it turned out that when separated, the parrots who swear taught other birds their salty repartee, so the keepers at Lincolnshire Wildlife Sanctuary decided to put them back together, and at least contain the foul language. They discovered, though, that the swearing parrots were a marketing goldmine, and attendance at the sanctuary is up!

Who knew?

It’s not like we don’t have a lot to swear about, right?

Be the Bear
Bob T swearing is good for you Panda

Thanx to Barbara Bee for alerting me to this important update to our earlier report!

Nixon’s Crimes Seem Positively Quaint Now

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I’m not sure what to say here. The Nooz is getting very dark, indeed. We need to buckle in and be ready for what is coming.

But that doesn’t mean we won’t make fun of it.

Pretty sure my grandparents didn’t escape from Russia 100 years ago so we could do this all over again.

Be the Bear
Bob T Panda