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The Daily Cartoon: the third term

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Editorial cartoon: Senator Ted Cruz at a lectern in a Capitol corridor says 'I support term limits for the U.S. Senate'; a green parrot perched on the bare foot of a sheet-covered body on a morgue stretcher, next to a blank toe tag, answers '...or at least an expiration date.'
Editorial cartoon: Senator Ted Cruz at a lectern in a Capitol corridor says 'I support term limits for the U.S. Senate'; a green parrot perched on the bare foot of a sheet-covered body on a morgue stretcher, next to a blank toe tag, answers '...or at least an expiration date.' Illustration: FLUX.1-dev · rendered on the desk’s NVIDIA DGX Spark
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