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The Daily Cartoon: neutral

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Editorial cartoon at Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral: beside a memorial portrait labeled Lindsey Graham and a flag-draped casket, a green parrot on a floral wreath says War hawk; a mourner asks, I thought you were supposed to be neutral; the parrot replies, I am.
Editorial cartoon at Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral: beside a memorial portrait labeled Lindsey Graham and a flag-draped casket, a green parrot on a floral wreath says War hawk; a mourner asks, I thought you were supposed to be neutral; the parrot replies, I am. Illustration: FLUX.1-dev · rendered on the desk’s NVIDIA DGX Spark
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