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Leak, Son of Leak: Yassmin Abdel-Magied appeared on the Australian political talk show Q&A in 2017 and defended what Sharia law means to her and her views on Islam as a Muslim feminist and ever since has been a frequent target of the right wing every time she does anything at all, especially from Murdoch newspapers like The Australian (including both Leaks). Apparently the story, which seems to be in all the Murdoch papers, is how Abdel-Magied is getting $20K to go to some artist thing in Paris and how outrageous that is.
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Josef bugman posted:Apparently Michael Palin is one of the nicest people around, which is good to hear. His travelogue series are delightful, too, if you can find them.
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Gaybies nominations: worst gaslighter Gaybies nominations: worst obituary (we're in 2020 now, how do you screw that up)
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Pilchenstein posted:Bold choice to introduce the world to Squires with aussie football Oops! For those unaware, David Squires is a British cartoonist who lives in Australia and draws weekly cartoons on the football (soccer) Premiership and the Australian A-League, which I tend to keep to just the Brit Poli Toon thread since I wouldn't know where to begin to explain all the references he uses (and in the Aussie toons, I've no idea what the references even are).
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1) Trump got 19% of the 2016 vote in 2016, 32% of the vote in KCK, and narrowly won nearby less populous counties. 2) If you want to compare SF/Pelosi to KC/MAGA Country, KCMO has Emanuel Cleaver as its rep, and Quinton Lucas as its mayor. The rep for the KCK side is Sharice Davids. I know Cleaver is a pretty moderate Democrat, I don't know much about Lucas, and I think Davids is generally pretty rad, and in general the idea that Kansas City and San Francisco is some sort of great Culture Clash is dumb as hell, unless you try to push a wedge issue of veganism vs. KC Barbecue and even then. I don't care about football in the slightest, but gently caress off about MAGAKC, Payne.
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GO gently caress YOURSELF WITH A CACTUS AND A GYMPIE GYMPIE YOU ABSOLUTE loving PIECE OF loving poo poo Gaybies nominations: worst gaslighter  Yeah the opinion is bad but this is still goddamn art CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Jan 24, 2020 |
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Big swipe at the right wing aus fed and state governments from Payne. If they had properly funded parks management and fire services, instead of cutting them, things might not have been so bad. This is all Morrisons fault, as the leader he has to take the reaponsibility.
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Edge & Christian posted:A little late but I grew up in the KC area and still have friends that live there, and all other Payne bullshit aside:
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Josef bugman posted:Apparently Michael Palin is one of the nicest people around, which is good to hear. Guy decided to spend his post-Python years traveling the world meeting people and having lovely chats, it's just great. I saw Cleese and Idle on a tour a few years ago and it was a lot of fun but obviously playing heavily on the nostalgia, and part of what made it work was that the skits they performed were larger from much older and less known material they'd written when they were much (MUCH!) younger. Reading some of Cleese's takes on modern society the last couple of years have been increasingly disheartening.
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This joke is so old you would have gotten banned for using it on YTMND. gently caress off you wife-beater.
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Let's head back to 1992! Continuing on the theme of "do we have any good candidates," here's someone called Jim Morin making a charming suicide joke:   (Apologies for the ghost images- the book is printed on thin paper with very dark ink, so it's impossible not to see the other side of each page.) It seems there was speculation about whether Clinton would run for president for a while leading up to it. George Fisher makes an uninspired "kick the tires" reference:   I suppose that portraying Clinton as young and inexperienced makes sense if he's auditioning to run against "elder statesman" George Bush. Also noteworthy is that Clinton didn't enter the race until October- these days if you wait that long, you're Deval Patrick. Now it's time to meet our cast of characters, and I'm going to jump on Wikipedia and try to summarize who these guys are. I'm mostly going to talk about things they did before 1992, since later events aren't relevant to this narrative. No clue who Kevin Siers is- a lot of the cartoonists have probably retired.   I don't think I need to introduce Bill Clinton, though this shows how his affairs were an open secret, or at least a rumor, from the beginning. The phrase "I'm not Jack Kennedy" is interesting, since Clinton always claimed JFK as one of his biggest political influences. No clue if Clinton actually said that.  Tom Harkin was an Iowa senator from 1985 to 2015. In 1990, he authored the ADA and introduced it in the Senate with a speech incorporating sign language. On the other hand, he helped direct funding for "alternative medicine." He ran for president in 1992 as a populist with labor union support, and was seen as an early favorite. He's not long for the race, though.  Bob Kerrey was another senator, this one from Nebraska, as well as a former governor. Also a Vietnam vet, which I mention because Clinton's draft-dodging will become an issue. I can't find anything noteworthy that Kerrey did- he was considered the front-runner but "his performance on the campaign trail sometimes seemed lackluster." Looks like Siers had his number. Also, I know it's cheating to reference later things, but I need to share this quote defending his 1999 vote to repeal Glass-Steagall: "The concerns that we will have a meltdown like 1929 are dramatically overblown".  Now we come to the legendarily weird Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, who was governor from 1975-1983 and again from 2011-2019. During his time as governor in the 70's he was a proponent of environmentalism, among other things using tax policy to incentivize solar power. He was something of a fiscal conservative, supporting a Balanced Budget Amendment. He was very liberal on gay rights for his time, signing a bill that decriminalized same-sex relationships. 1992 was not his first bite at the apple- he ran for president in '76 and '80, losing both times to Jimmy Carter. 1980 was when he really built up his reputation as a weirdo: Wikipedia posted:Brown's 1980 platform, which he declared to be the natural result of combining Buckminster Fuller's visions of the future and E. F. Schumacher's theory of "Buddhist economics", was much expanded from 1976. His "era of limits" slogan was replaced by a promise to, in his words, "Protect the Earth, serve the people, and explore the universe". So, yeah, this guy is really strange and his policies are all over the map. Apparently the "moonbeam" nickname was coined by his then-girlfriend Linda Ronstadt, and it's still a term for kooky liberal hippy types to this day.  Finally, we have Paul Tsongas. Tsongas had represented Massachusetts in both the House and Senate from 1975-1985, but had to retire for health reasons. By 1992, he was off the mat and ready to go for the big prize. A quick overview suggests Michael Ramirez would have kind words for him, as one of his biggest issues was opposing DEBT and deficit spending. He was the founder of something called the Concord Coalition, whose mission statement is to educate "the public about the causes and consequences of federal budget deficits, the long-term challenges facing America's unsustainable entitlement programs, and how to build a sound foundation for economic growth." Still, he also pushed conservation efforts through the Senate. I kind of have a "Barry Goldwater" feel about this guy. "The Boston Herald editorialized that his political philosophy had 'far more in common" with 1990s-era Republican Mitt Romney (who crossed over to vote for Tsongas in the 1992 primaries) than with traditional Massachusetts Democrats like Ted Kennedy.'" Also, he had this charmingly Reaganesque quote: "If anyone thinks the words 'government' and 'efficiency' belong in the same sentence, we have counselling available." So the stage is set for the early primaries. Iowa was the first caucus, just like today, but it was understood that home state senator Harkin was probably a shoe-in, and so most of the candidates were focused on notching a big showing in New Hampshire. We'll get more into that next week. Jurgan fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Jan 24, 2020 |
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Branco's Barr caricature always makes me wonder if he just hates that guy as much as he hates the Dems, and if so, why?quote:Normally I try not to stare into the abyss of the Brit-toonist who draws everyone gross and naked but this is possibly my favorite depiction of Lindsay Graham ever, it really captures the essence of his soul.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Don't they already have a republic in everything but name already? Major political decisions are made by the prime minister and parliament, and the royal family are just powerless figure heads kept around for ceremonies. No, because republic is the direct opposite of monarchy. Your queen can be completely powerless, but as long as government is formed in her name and rules at her sufferance (even if it is completely ceremonial) it's not a republic.
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Just... just gently caress you. gently caress you, Branco.
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I suspect that dingus thinks that symbol just means peace in general.
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Rall: The More Shameful the Scandal, the More a Politican's Supporter Ted Rall posted:An odd byproduct of political tribalism is the fact that scandals have actually become a positive, a way to rally the base into showing up at the polls and making campaign donations.
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Pointing a gun at somebody and pulling the trigger: Well-known metaphor for peaceful intent.
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mistaya posted:Branco's Barr caricature always makes me wonder if he just hates that guy as much as he hates the Dems, and if so, why?
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They arrested heavily armed neo Nazis before the event you dense motherfucker.
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Still with the "Oh, sure, she SAYS she isn't going to run..." The rights obsessing over her is astounding.
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Well...when someone is pointing a gun at a reporter and pulling the trigger, even if it's a fake gun, there's probably reason to be fearful. It could just as easily have been real, and there's often no way to tell. Way to undermine your point, Bok.
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Welp: https://twitter.com/hotpockets/status/1217836433488121858 Since they’ll probably delete it soon: 
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Brandishing a firearm is a crime in Virginia, the gunman there is unambiguously a criminal.
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”Good news! It’s a suppository.”
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How did the term "based" get associated with alt-right poo poo? It was coined by a genderfluid black person, which is basically the target of a third of all Stonetoss comics.
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Pants Donkey posted:That’s his Nadler caricature. That does make more sense. 
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'With', not 'for', makes this sickening. Even if this was said with the best intentions, which I'm not going to take as a given.
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seiferguy posted:Welp: It was first posted more than two weeks ago, and the hotpockets called Stonetoss' cartoon nice four days ago. Anything short of a news story, I don't think they are going to delete it.
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Faustian Bargain posted:Hot pockets are officially cancelled. Tbf this is an Asay-level cartoon where you have to already be horrified by interracial relationships or at least already know that Stonetoss is a Nazi in order to get the intent of the cartoon. Otherwise it just looks like a positive thing or at worst a joke about using sex to sell unrelated products.
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I was being absurd because who the gently caress cares about the hot pockets twitter account, however I think that Brands™ and people who run social media accounts should probably do some research into the things they are helping promote. Giving stonetoss any exposure is bad. See a few of these "this looks innocent out of greater context" cartoons and you are normalized to them and might even like them, then you can be exposed over time to the more overt poo poo he does and not realize it.
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