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The Daily Cartoon: it's him or me

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Editorial cartoon: a bald, bespectacled older man in a purple, green and gold Mardi Gras striped shirt throws both arms wide and shouts "It's him or me" from a speech balloon, while a crowd of nine young people in hoodies and caps ignore him entirely and haul on ropes to raise a giant grey stone statue of a bearded man in glasses with his fist in the air, on a civic plaza.
Editorial cartoon: a bald, bespectacled older man in a purple, green and gold Mardi Gras striped shirt throws both arms wide and shouts "It's him or me" from a speech balloon, while a crowd of nine young people in hoodies and caps ignore him entirely and haul on ropes to raise a giant grey stone statue of a bearded man in glasses with his fist in the air, on a civic plaza. Drawn to the desk editor’s direction · rendered with AI image tools
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