Prokhor Zakharov posted:

Obama just announced that he's gonna executive order up some common sense gun control, poo poo is about to get crazy yall.

Wanamingo posted:

I'm glad Muir's banned from this thread, it should've happened ages ago.

Rorus Raz posted:

Stantis, although his art is fairly medicore. It's kinda like Ramirez except he can draw human beings.

He called out the GOP in waterboarding in Prickly City in the middle of the Bush administration, which already makes him better than the jackasses who retroactively deem Bush as bad. He also changed his mind on gay marriage, and he's has done cartoons in which he wrestles with the guilt of supporting the Iraq invasion.

Keep in mind he's still a conservative, so despite Bush getting so much wrong he still fawns over neoconservatives and Obama Bad.

Samurai Sanders posted:

I want to compile a list of all the things he has said that are at least close enough for ME to "Islamic terrorists", but Tinsley isn't worth the effort.

alnilam posted:

The insane thing is, Palestinian stabbings DO make frontpage news. Every time. Someone getting stabbed in a far-off country and not dying makes bigger headlines than dozens of civilians dying in a bombing in Yemen. What the gently caress more does Kirschen want.

D.N. Nation posted:

Mike Lester is a drat ninja of the crocodile tears arts.

Samurai Sanders posted:

That's not what I'm asking though. How would, or does, the government know in the first place who is a Muslim? Did he or any of his supporters spend even a half of a split loving second thinking that through? I mean, if the answer is "no" then I will totally accept that.

Samurai Sanders posted:

I wondered if at some point someone with something between their ears had asked him questions about this stuff and how he had responded. I assume that as he goes on, those situations will appear more and more.

Gravel Gravy posted:

Haven't US footballs been made of cow leather for a good long while?

Willatron posted:

This sums up why I usually hate moderate or centrist positions. They act enlightened in their neutrality on issues while ignoring everything that makes them a very one-sided issue, like cops gunning down young, unarmed black men somehow being "Well really, both are kind of wrong if you think about it".

Tiler Kiwi posted:

afaik basically nobody who made the constitution was all that happy about it

less "we shed blood for this perfect document", more "gently caress this committee"

Samurai Sanders posted:

If I was a rich crazy political contributor I'd totally give political parties/PACs money in a bag with a dollar sign on it and make sure everyone saw it just to say what are you gonna do about it, bitches??

Rebochan posted:

A few new ones, and a few that I was supposed to post yesterday that haven't yet been posted.


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theflyingexecutive posted:

It is beyond me the amount of vitriol over tears for slaughtered children.

colonel_korn posted:

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fade5 posted:

I mean we could put Bin Laden's corpse in that chair if we knew where it was, but it's at the bottom of the sea.

Ibogaine posted:

The irony is that conservatives in the US pretty much define themselves by being outraged about things they don't like. Back in the 60s it was communists, beatnicks, hippies, "negroe activists", unruly students, and so on, and since then there has never been a shortage of things they can resent and complain about. The whole platform of the GOP has been "We're outraged at things you (white people) are upset about as well" for more than five decades. Apart from all those infantile syndicated cartoons, they have whole TV and radio networks which pretty much don't do anything but whine like little babies about the millions of things they are offended by such as light bulbs, LGTB rights or the scientific consensus regarding man made climate change. (And I only touched the tip of the shitberg here). Furthermore, if all else fails, they simply invent something they can be angry about, like "The War On Christmas".

And yet they somehow convinced themselves that the other ones are the ones who should stop complaining and start taking "it" like a man, "it" meaning misogyny, homophobia, racism, etc in this context. The degree of cognitive dissonance at work here is flabberghasting.

Cape Cod Crab Chip posted:

I know almost every one of us thinks Obama "set race relations back by decades" by daring to be black, giving his opposition no choice but to lose their poo poo, but I wonder how Jarlsberg explains it.

Takoluka posted:

Percival Dunwoody is my favorite comic ever.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Selachian posted:

Is there any way to read this other than "conservatives think bullies are awesome"?

AVeryLargeRadish posted:

IMO, Branco is worse, and by worse I mean The Worst.

Sir Tonk posted:

"Let me tell you about the black experience"

vyelkin posted:

"I would rather thousands of Americans die than pour water up a terrorist's nose for thirty seconds" is the falsest false dichotomy I've ever seen.

Air is lava! posted:

I understad that Trump makes his best efort to prevent this, but how "moderate" will he look later? The American political spectrum seems to be on a slope which always goes farther to the right. And sometimes it feels more like a wall.
"The only reason we lost 2016 is because that Trump was way to soft on the Muslim threat, when he announced to deport all of them. God King Emperor Reagan Envoy of the Invisible Hand, would have executed them on the spot, to sell their organs, to make America great again. We need a strong leader who stands above human law. Vote Jeff 'Marow Crusher' Miller 2020."

And 4 years later that guy will be to soft and left wing even for the democrats.

Abyssal Squid posted:

I like how the GOP is unable to call Trump out on treating his supporters like idiots, because that's their entire platform and he's just better at it than they are.

Gato posted:

Brit here chiming in to say that this is almost entirely right, but it's worth emphasizing this part. There are only 8 or so major national newspapers in England (not sure what the situation is like in the rest of the UK), and they're controlled by a small handful of very rich people. The Times and Sun are owned by Murdoch, the Daily Mail needs no introduction, the Express is owned by a right-wing porn baron who desperately wants to be knighted, the Independent and Evening Standard are owned by a Russian oligarch (who mostly leaves them to their own devices, but occasionally insists on favourable coverage for the Tories such as last year's General Election) and the Telegraph is owned by a pair of tax-dodging billionaires. The only exceptions are the Mirror, a left-wing tabloid that's been understandably wary about being too pro-Corbyn in case it hurts its populist credentials, and the Guardian, which has a sprouted a massive hate-boner for Corbyn in an attempt to prove how mature and sensible it is.

e: so if you match the cartoonists to the papers, you'll see that the Guardian, and sometimes the Independent and Times cartoonists are very much to the left of their paper's editorial line.

Someone asked earlier why the UK toons are generally so much better than US ones, and whether there's a big sea of poo poo ones that aren't being posted. Bear in mind how much more restricted our newspaper scene is compared to the US and you'll appreciate that what you're seeing is basically all the mainstream newspaper cartoons in Britain for any given day - of the big papers, only 4 or 5 have regular political cartoonists, and smaller regional papers are dying and probably have better things to spend their money on. And as has been pointed out here and in the last thread, they're guilty of all the same fallacies US cartoonists are (except Rowson, who's just impenetrable instead) just with prettier art.

this has been your regular scheduled update on British newspapers

Selachian posted:

Again, it was not a week ago that these people were sniping about Obama suggesting we try to cure cancer.

beepsandboops posted:

Wasn't there a blanket ban on vegan comix?

I once met Fabio while he was selling his protein powder, he warned me of something similar so it must be true

EDIT:

This one?

Cat Mattress posted:

Reading that anime clipart vegan stuff going on about "but animals!" always reminds me of stories like this.

beepsandboops posted:

Branco really loves judgemental MLK statue

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loquacius posted:

The kind of stuff Trump says, I don't think I'm being charitable toward him when I say that he seems to believe every word of it

also, most of the people I've heard say "he doesn't actually BELIEVE those things he says" have been Trump supporters so calling Trump cynical feels more like giving them the benefit of the doubt than calling him sincere feels like giving him the benefit of the doubt

xthetenth posted:

Don't forget loving endless concern trolling, blatant misrepresentation and circlejerking about ludicrously lovely arguments against feminism.

loquacius posted:

I think someone in GBS said they had him playing Xbox or something at one point because that is more comprehensible to the average viewer than EVE Online

Zeroisanumber posted:

I don't know if I can live in a world where Ramirez has a non-poo poo opinion.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Broken Loose posted:

Is anybody else bothered that Drunky Duck is interviewing the media as a concept? Like, the media is interviewing the media? He's not even the real "main stream media," he's what Tinsley believes the MSM to be (a left-wing news station that hired a right-wing duck because of Affirmative Action), and somehow the fictional left-wing news station is interviewing the concept of fictional left-wing news stations?

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Oh, I forgot to mention: Shooting that pig really pissed off Obama because apparently the president has nothing better to do than spy on people in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and be upset when they do things. Also, they shot the pig with exploding ammo. Because it is totally necessary for the average citizen to be able to buy exploding ammo whenever they feel like it.

CrowsNestMutineer posted:

Unless, of course, your entire political strategy depends on people being gullible and ill-informed.

seiferguy posted:

Is there a point to the GOP debates anymore? I've lost track of how many there's been and all that's newsworthy about them is that the networks get to pick who they throw into the kid's table.

Full Battle Rattle posted:

A bet a lot of tough, principled conservatives are going to be singing a different tune when Trump gets the nom, I think that's what I can't wait for the most