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Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan runs a less-than-transparent administration. For a while he was paying state expenses out of his NERD fund that was funded by anonymous corporate donors. One of the donors turned out to be CVS, which coincidentally won a $60 million no-bid contract to cover city of Detroit employees. The fund has since been shut down, so CVS is the only known donor. It's a muddle of a cartoon, though.
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God, how long is going to keep this up. I feel like every year Tinsley decides he wants to do even less work than usual and does a month solid of "witty" lists.
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At least that one's topical. It is an election year.
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Rorus Raz posted:God, how long is going to keep this up. I feel like every year Tinsley decides he wants to do even less work than usual and does a month solid of "witty" lists. Tinsley? This is what a blog is for. You can put the whole list down in one post, get it out of your system, and go back to making actual cartoons about bored talking heads.
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Rorus Raz posted:God, how long is going to keep this up. I feel like every year Tinsley decides he wants to do even less work than usual and does a month solid of "witty" lists. Yes, those obamacare-voters are dead in the water come 2012. CLEAR EYES FULL HEARTS CAN'T LOSE
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Jan 8, 2014 11:26
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Did... Did Derf just jack our Bitcoin moniker?
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Melaneus posted:
Token black friend would be the Shinobu boss, Blowjob Russian would be Dr. Peace, Skye would be Bad Girl, and Obama would be killed right before the boss fight by Hillary, the TRUE FINAL BOSS!
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StealthArcher posted:Did... No, Krugerrand is a legit South African currency. Dunning-Kruggerand is the Bitcoin joke.
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Melaneus posted:I substitute your reality for my own... nightmarish alterverse. This is amazing.
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Jan 8, 2014 14:12
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  The word "poo poo" is apparently a funny joke in and of itself.
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Indeed. The rich have truly been laid low since the economic crisis. They don't happen to hold the vast majority of wealth in this country or anything.
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Jan 8, 2014 14:34
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Ah yes, remember all those rich CEOs that turned into homeless bums because of Obama? People such as:  Oh hey guys? Guys!? It's cold  1Hell yeah, Hail Satan  2 3 4 5Hurricanes are just harsher winds and rain you guys, stop being such pussies - Eric Allie  6 7 8 9Seriously, I don't think I can interpret Allie's cartoon any differently. Yes if hurricanes happen more and more frequently, you should probably regulate Also, does anyone have the "But what if we end up making the world a better place?" cartoon? That's a really good one.
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Jan 8, 2014 14:40
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I think there needs to be a "Dumbest and So Goddamned Craziest" award this year.
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Lysdexique posted:
I typed out a sarcastic rejoinder and then when I was halfway through typing the word strawman I realized I was strawmanning a strawman argument. I got the sudden feeling of accidentally stepping into a hall of infinity mirrors as the finger of god, infinite in itself and infinitely reflected down the corridor of infinitely owned krinkles typing, pointed directly at my soul and said it's you, you're the one who sucks. Anyway my point is Ally is aware that he's making a bullshit argument and is just so tired of having his logical fallacies pointed out to him by people. Maybe a joke about that? I have to reflect on things.
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One thing I like about Allie is that most of the time his point is technically correct or looks technically correct at first glance, making it easier to deflect criticism as just liberals trying to scream down opposing opinions. That's pretty clever if you just judge something based on how effective it is at being political propaganda. Guy knows his audience.
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Forgot this one:  Hmm, that boring Uncle Sam cartoon looks familiar.  Oh yeah! Krinkle posted:I typed out a sarcastic rejoinder and then when I was halfway through typing the word strawman I realized I was strawmanning a strawman argument. I got the sudden feeling of accidentally stepping into a hall of infinity mirrors as the finger of god, infinite in itself and infinitely reflected down the corridor of infinitely owned krinkles typing, pointed directly at my soul and said it's you, you're the one who sucks. We all stared into the Abyss for a bit too long.
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I can't even begin to figure out how to interpret that. is it... is it democrats don't think a white male can be president...?  help
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Tom Guycot posted:I can't even begin to figure out how to interpret that. I think it's saying that the tea party is eventually going to evolve into a party with a winning presidential candidate, and that the democrats are fools for not taking them seriously. They won't, of course, but I think that's what the comic is saying.
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Jan 8, 2014 14:59
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Democrats don't think republicans can win the White House in 2016...
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Is that supposed to be Rand Paul? Does JJ know something we don't?
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Krinkle posted:I typed out a sarcastic rejoinder and then when I was halfway through typing the word strawman I realized I was strawmanning a strawman argument. I got the sudden feeling of accidentally stepping into a hall of infinity mirrors as the finger of god, infinite in itself and infinitely reflected down the corridor of infinitely owned krinkles typing, pointed directly at my soul and said it's you, you're the one who sucks. I'm actually happy that Allie has acknowledged the rebuttal to "If global warming then why is cold?" cartoons. I think that's the first cartoonist I've seen do that. It's almost enough to ignore the fact that his counter-rebuttal changes the subject to "Heh, look who's talking.  "
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To Allie's credit, there were a ton of cartoons calling Sandy the product if gkibak warnubg,' of course, my eyes rolled out of their rsockets reading the better than you shirt on strawman liberal, so I am typoing this blind
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The Allie cartoon is great because he's essentially conceding the point. "Yeah climate and weather are different, but on the other hand gently caress you."
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The tea party is largely a detriment to the GOP at this point. They were and to an extent are still great to get the base riled up to vote, but the tea party largely doesn't understand the nuanced mastery of bullshit the GOP employs, and the result is the tea party being a frequent source of right-wing talking points without it going through the expensive, carefully arranged filter. The tea party works its best when it's just the public being motivated by stupid talking points, but once they demanded politicians like themselves the GOP quickly wanted to put that genie back in the bottle. Outside of, what, 2010 tea party candidates tend to do very poorly at the polls except in the reddest of districts. Also, stop being willfully dense, JJ. It's not like religious primate and gun-toting turtle aren't still calling Obama a Muslin. It's not evolution when each of these creatures make up the same political worldview.
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Has anyone ever drawn Uncle Sam as a black man or an asian man.
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euphronius posted:Has anyone ever drawn Uncle Sam as a black man or an asian man. I doubt it. Horsey and Bors are the only big cartoonists I can think of that draw any kind of generic figure as non-white.
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Amarkov posted:I doubt it. Horsey and Bors are the only big cartoonists I can think of that draw any kind of generic figure as non-white. Sorensen and McMillan do it too, but I'm not sure if they count as "big."
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From wikipedia: quote:The Iroquois passport is not accepted for entry into Canada. In early 2010, a delegation from Kahnawake to an environmental conference in Bolivia was unable to return to Canada on the passport, stranding the group in El Salvador for several weeks before they were allowed, under escort, to transit via the United States.[15] On June 18, 2011, yet another incident has occurred at the Cornwall, Ontario, port-of-entry into Canada where an Akwesasne Mohawk woman's Haudenosaunee passport was confiscated and a Certificate of Indian Status card had to be used to cross the border.[8] When asked about this incident, a spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency confirmed that the Iroquois passport is not on Canada's list of acceptable identification.[16]
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) weren't accepted, but it was England that did the not-accepting, not Canada.
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euphronius posted:Has anyone ever drawn Uncle Sam as a black man or an asian man. I'd love to see this, just for the outrage. Especially if the message is the same as any other Uncle Sam cartoon. One where they can't argue the message just the skin color.
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loquacius posted:Sorensen and McMillan do it too, but I'm not sure if they count as "big." I may or may not be using "big" as a synonym for "who I remember off the top of my head". (I also can't ever tell Sorensen and Bors cartoons apart  )
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I can imagine. But everyone knows that Uncle Sam is white!!!
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Columbia is white, it's a verifiable fact!
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Autumncomet posted:
It's shocking how much racism there is up north in Minnesota. My grandmother lived her entire life in that area and whenever I'd visit, I'd hear people saying horrific things about Native Americans. When I'd ask them specifically what the issue they had with them was (I'd ask as if I were on their side) they could never give me a straight answer, just a bunch of, "Government gives them whatever they want." There isn't an irony cat big enough. I just wanted to share this: the Native American high school in the area around Cloquet, MN is tremendous: it's modern, enormous, and has an interesting architectural design. The high school for the "white people" is average to undersized and clearly much older. This irks the ire of all the white citizens, who swear the government is just "throwing their money at the natives". I talked to a Native American man who worked at a comic book shop I occasionally visited who swore to me that their beliefs simply aren't true, that the school receives nice paychecks from casino profits. He told me to look at a billboard just outside of the Black Bear Casino the next time I passed. The sign read, "We paid out more than $120 million dollars in winnings last year alone!". He told me if the casino pays out that much, imagine what they're taking in, then he laughed and told me, "If you drat whites would just pay taxes instead of gambling, your schools could be skyscrapers." But then who would we have to hate? So, I'm extremely glad about this system. Making cultural integrations is one of the best ideas to force ignorant people into understanding others' way of life through small steps. Sorry for the D-Rail train. Found a picture of the Cloquet School: 
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I never have any loving clue what's going on in Day By Day. Is it because vast continuing storylines I'm missing, or because it sucks? Both? I mean usually when I read a serial comic for which I have no context, I can kind of fill in the blanks enough to have a clue, but Muir is consistently 
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Douginc posted:"If you drat whites would just pay taxes instead of gambling, your schools could be skyscrapers." This is really a good way of putting it and really sad. Everyone wants top notch government service for free like it's magic or something.
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The Ape of Naples posted:I'd love to see this, just for the outrage. Especially if the message is the same as any other Uncle Sam cartoon. One where they can't argue the message just the skin color. There was a great political cartoon in the early '90's that basically said, "If this was your America, how included would you feel?" and had all of Mt. Rushmore, Uncle Sam, presidents on the money, and the inauguration of the president with African-Americans as all of the participants. It was powerful enough that it's stayed with me for thirty years. (I don't remember the name of the artist - I think he retired recently, and isn't included in the OP. He was generally liberal, and had this really really messy, cross-hatchy style. A quick google search isn't pulling him up.)
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Douginc posted:It's shocking how much racism there is up north in Minnesota. My grandmother lived her entire life in that area and whenever I'd visit, I'd hear people saying horrific things about Native Americans. When I'd ask them specifically what the issue they had with them was (I'd ask as if I were on their side) they could never give me a straight answer, just a bunch of, "Government gives them whatever they want." There isn't an irony cat big enough. Finding a good post about pretty much my backyard is very weird. And everything is true. If us whites spent what we gambled on taxes instead we'd probably have a school that isn't also a decrepit fallout shelter. You'd think racists wouldn't want to lose money "on the rez" but... well...
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alnilam posted:I never have any loving clue what's going on in Day By Day. He often mangles language to try to pull off his "joke" or "point" so it's difficult to tell what the hell the characters are actually saying. Reading it makes you feel like you've had a stroke pretty much no matter what. It also doesn't help that his characters are often inconsistent, that "continuing" plots are resolved with such a whimper that you don't remember what's going on, and everybody looks exactly the same because they're all traced over porn.
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