Darrel Plant: During the 2003 heat wave that killed thousands of elderly people across France as the US renamed food items to show their displeasure with countries refusing to acknowledge false Iraq WMD claims, nationally-syndicated editorial cartoonist Chip Bok kept doing stuff like this. Creds in alt.

Over 61,000 Europeans died as a direct result of 2022 heat waves, most of them women, according to a recent study published in Science:

During the 2003 heat wave that killed thousands of elderly people across France as the US renamed food items to show their displeasure with countries refusing to acknowledge false Iraq WMD claims, nationally-syndicated editorial cartoonist Chip Bok kept doing stuff like this. Creds in alt.

www.darrelplant.com/a-toast-to-t...

A Toast to the Oregonian—Non! – darrelplant.comwww.darrelplant.com

"... as the US renamed food items to show their ... " pettiness and immaturity. Which are still on full display, unfortunately.

I started to run out of characters for the post.

I still get mad about freedom fries.

"It's not John Kerry's fault he looks French!" said then-Senator Gordon (related to Joseph) Smith (R-OR) while wearing his tailored shirts with French cuffs. www.darrelplant.com/franco-ameri...

Franco-American Redux! – darrelplant.comwww.darrelplant.com

I remember the joke that the French would retaliate and rename American cheese to American cheese.

😂

Perhaps from ‘fromage Americane’ to ‘[squinched up face plus deliberate sneering accent] ahmEHrican zheese’

🤣 "French Toast" 🤣

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