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I don’t get this cartoon. How is Putin Leia in this situation?
Yeah, see, Don as Jabba I get. A little played out but I get it. And Putin holding his chain I get. Hell, you can even argue that Putin holding the chain he's about to choke him out with makes sense... But those two images really don't jive with the context of that scene. Putin's not Trump's prisoner and Leia's not secretly manipulating Jabba. If it were Putin as Jabba and like, Zelensky in the bikini, maybe that makes sense. Helpless captive kills overzealous despot with the tools of his own oppression, sure. You keep Trump as Jabba, write "The American People" on Luke Skywalker and put, like, "Putin's Agenda" on the Sarlacc pit, that makes sense. Hell, write "Epstein Blackmail" or some shit on that little gangplank they push Luke off of, just for fun. But when the fuck did Jabba ever care about the comparative strength of foreign governments? I mean, if you had to pick a Star Wars character to depict a rabid dog made a pawn in a game of geopolitical subterfuge with a false promise of power from a withered old goblin... You're gonna pick Jabba?
Like you said, the artist wanted to do Trump as Jabba…then had nothing else