I’m going to completely ignore the Antifa/Alt-Right riot that happened in my city over the weekend and talk about something that literally nobody has an objection to: children’s books.

Oh wait.

There are plenty of left-leaning children’s books that I find offensive and propagandic, and I’m sure they feel the same about this one.

Straight from the subreddit that caused Bernie Bros to stay up all night frothing at the mouth, we have The Adventures of Pepe and Pede. A heartwarming tale, I’m sure, of friendship, law and order, and hopefully a really big wall.

Quick refresher for those of you who didn’t obsessively follow the “Can’t Stump the Trump” series on YouTube:

• Pepe is the (friendly) cartoon frog adopted by Trump fans and the Alt-Right. Pepe is especially beloved because he was once retweeted by the God Emperor himself, and Pepe has ascended to the August Ranks of Hallowed Memetics by triggering his very own creator to disown and kill him in an attempt to reclaim his character. Didn’t work. We love Pepe.
• Pede is short for “centipede,” a term of endearment on /r/The_Donald for other Trump supporters that spawned from the use of Knife Party’s song “Centipede” for the intro to most of the “Can’t Stump the Trump” videos.

“Cant’ Stump the Trump” itself provided the seed for a whole host of spinoffs of this syntax, such as “Can’t Barrage the Farage,” which is itself quite hilarious but also completely off-topic for this post.

Back on topic, but not really, I appreciate that the illustrator is from Eastern Europe, which is probably-not-but-I’m-going-to-pretend-it-is-anyway a nod to the #SlavRight.

Anyhow, the cover is adorable, and the back cover is as well. I like the mix of blocky watercolor shapes and the expanses of watercolor that let the the colors blend more naturally, or that show the brush strokes. The color palette is bright and fun, but avoids being obviously patriotic (RED WHITE AND BLUE, WHAT) or annoyingly young (RED YELLOW AND BLUE PRIMARY COLORS OBVIOUSLY KIDS LIKE THEM). It looks like a fun book, and the Right needs to have more fun.

Now that I’ve written so much of this post it seems somewhat silly that I’m posting about this book without having read it. Perhaps it will turn out to be absolutely schlock. At this point, however, it seems worth it to support any and all explicitly Trump or right-wing art endeavors, since there are so few of them.

It’s my blog I do what I want.