Political Cartoon Extravaganza, 2010 Edition: Now with Diversity Lane[effort]

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foobardog: Apr 19, 2007; There, now I can tell when you're posting.

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wow, BAR BEE is really losing it. :ohdear:

e: i mean his reaction to the terrorist thing is insane

# ¿ Jan 1, 2010 03:57

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 23:16

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Hyosho posted:

No, see, when something is controlled by private corporations, it's free to everyone, hence the FREE market. When something is nationalised, the government takes it away and locks it in a vault so no-one can have any.

you jest, but i remember actually having to explain to my cousin that democracy means government of the people, while republic means government by representation, because she believed it was the other way, so i wouldn't put this "logic" past people

Spanish Matlock posted:

drat. I assumed he meant the joke was old. Please accept this kinky foreign political cartoon as an apology for my faux pas.

what the hell? this is just bizarre from the very polite "sorry, boys" above the rather shocking scene. It's rather 'nonsense, it's an election year'.

e: drat you encodings! unicode uber alles

foobardog fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Jan 4, 2010

# ¿ Jan 4, 2010 23:20

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tacodaemon posted:

ah good, the moderates are all full from desecrating health care reform so maybe cap and trade will be ok

# ¿ Jan 4, 2010 23:29

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tacodaemon posted:

jrrose has a new competitor in the "bad joke poorly executed" contest

that's his obama? seriously? like at first i thought hugo chavez, but jesus that's bad

# ¿ Jan 6, 2010 07:20

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CoolCab posted:

You're close, but many already are expressing a combination; they want harsher screening, but only on brown people.

it was boiled down so well in this cartoon:

tacodaemon posted:

basically, the bill of rights and constitution and rights in general for that matter are only for americans. this is something that is pretty hard felt. fygm applies across the conservative concern spectrum in the form 'if they get it, we'll lose it'

if poor people receive welfare, we'll lose money
if gays have marriage, we'll lose the sanctity of marriage
if poor people have health care, we'll lose the quality of care we get now
if immigrants are allowed into the country willy-nilly, we'll lose the country
if troops are withdrawn, we'll lose the war
if corporate regulations go into effect, we'll lose money and jobs
if kids learn about homosexuality and contraception, we'll lose grandkids
if we tolerate and respect others, we'll lose respect and holiness
if we agree to international treaties, we'll lose independence
if we tolerate secularness, we'll lose god's favor
if we increase taxes, we'll lose money

so in that way, they really are conservative in simple terms.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2010 20:58

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RolandTower posted:

Incidentally, flying home from LAX last week I noticed that they were splitting people into "casual traveler" and and expedited "experienced traveler" queues that seemed to be breaking down pretty much this way.

yeah, but that makes sense, because the business people usually fly so often so they know what to expect, only carry one carry-on and are alone, so they go through quicker than ma, pa, and the 12 rugrats and cousins hopping on a plane for the first time in their lives.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2010 21:59

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Gay Abortions posted:

because when we say health care is in trouble, we mean that doctors don't make enough. like, it may be true, i don't know, but regardless, this is not the issue.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2010 22:56

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axleblaze posted:

I think this is more the along the lines of the usual stupid talking point of "If health care is socialized, doctor's will make minimum wage!"
I could be wrong though...the whole cartoon is badly executed on all fronts.

but that's the thing, that shifts the problem from people are sick/dying from preventable things because they can't afford it, to the outcome of doctors' paychecks. it's the same motive behind crying crocodile tears about the people who work in the insurance agency losing their jobs. it's a defense mechanism to avoid the realization (either in themself or from an undecided listener) that by refusing to make sure these people are able to access it, they are being inhumane and uncaring. it's very similar to "i'm not racist, i have black friends".

while doctors are actually a necessary part of health care compared to insurance companies, i don't think we're really having too few doctors.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2010 23:47

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Data posted:

usd$25 an hour for junior doctors here, p. similar to american interns i think

specialists might make usd$150-200 a year in public here, double/triple/quadruple that in private

so the price of a fresh out of college contractor programmer in my area, who has less schooling and therefore likely has less debt. so yeah, i guess if the point is that upper middle class is unacceptable for doctors then we should do something. though, the subsidization of the degree would help that

# ¿ Jan 9, 2010 01:43

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Manuel Calavera posted:

I'm well aware of the Stooges (also you're forgetting Shemp you plebe ). Just trying to figure out who Squirrely was supposed to be, since that's an awful Pelosi if it's her.

and you're forgetting curly joe and joe (and apparently emil?)

:goonsay:

# ¿ Jan 11, 2010 04:54

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tacodaemon posted:

shoot first, ask questions never.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2010 19:23

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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:

at this, the patron turns to the bartender in startlement, the look on his face one of mingled surprise and—is that—relief? the long search is over. he has finally found the place where he Belongs.

sometimes you want to go
where everyone hates the libs
and they see through obama's fibs
you want to be where you can see
that liberals are all to blame
you want to be where everyone knows your name

# ¿ Jan 12, 2010 01:15

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GuyinCognito posted:

How ironic. Harry Reid's political career is now going to be saved by the deaths of a couple 100,000 black people.

much like gary condit

axolotl farmer posted:

lookit dat smugephant

shotgunbadger posted:

What's good about this cartoon?

Hassan didn't 'go radical' he was mentally unstable and had lovely mental help, he was treated like poo poo by peers, and had a violent psychotic break.

It wasn't 'buck passing' or reshuffling that had anything to do with it and anyone who thinks that is a big dumb baby.

do you understand the likely reason why he was mentally unstable? it wasn't just because of the cut of his jib, he had entered a field where he was intensely disliked for what he was and what he said. he basically had to sit there and listen to people who had been broken by the war and try to patch them up enough so they could go back out and die. he wanted to get out, and the army probably wanted him out, but in that way of big organizations they instead packed him off to ft. hood with a bad performance review.

it solved none of the problems, but it got them out of their hair.

so i guess you miss that being handed off like a diseased person is both being treated like poo poo by peers, and lovely mental health help.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2010 22:49

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raruler posted:

I didn't see this, but maybe I missed it:

wanna wear that shirt. it's much better than the "gang violence" jacket

# ¿ Jan 14, 2010 01:22

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TotalHell posted:

i mean that really comes out of the most simplistic "oh, grampa" thinking about crime/terrorism

prisons should be a deterrent for crime, therefore treat people like poo poo in prison = less crime/terrorism

people always do an unemotional cost-benefit analysis before committing crimes/only don't commit crimes because of fear of prison, duh.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2010 01:13

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Nicolae Carpathia posted:

i have to admit ignorance here: how does global warming make it colder in miami

i'm not doubting you or anything but i have to admit the mechanism is a little non-obvious

i'm guessing it has to do with loving up ocean currents?

my understanding, part of the reason you've seen the shift from "global cooling" to "global warming" to "climate change" is because while the basic effect is to raise average global temperatures, on a local level it highly creates variability. that is, rather than having a relatively smooth range across the globe, the weather becomes disjoint and extreme.

so what would be a slighty cool winter in miami instead becomes an insanely cold winter. the terms came about as the phenomenon was better understood. it's like criticizing them for naming atoms after the greek for 'unbreakable' and then where they are talking about the constituent particles of atoms, i mean come on.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2010 05:38

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tacodaemon posted:

before tonight: those lousy liberals in taxachusetts
after tonight: those good old upstanding americans in massachusetts

# ¿ Jan 20, 2010 09:18

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MacBook Air Gamer posted:

heh. those humorless liberals can't take a joke. my closing of the comments section is actually a scathing parody of how all liberals hate american values, including the cardinal right of free speech. take that libtards

can i mention that i'm still amazed that he's gone from 'liberals have no respect for the flag' to 'liberals are so dumb they don't know what the flag looks like'? it's a level of stupefying exaggeration of rallian levels

# ¿ Jan 20, 2010 23:17

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DoctorAngst posted:

Returning power to the people? But I though Brown was our last white hope to snatch power from the darkies, not some lefty socialist!

heh.

the right has done an excellent job of stripping away "the people" from the left. there's a reason they paint the left as arrogant elitist eggheads, and this is the result. the anti-government stance of the right also serves to make the left the party of the government, and therefore not of people. they do what they can to hide the fact that they are part of the other major institution in america, the corporate world, by making things about "small businesses".

this isn't to say that the left doesn't do an excellent job of failing to often hide their own distaste and conern of the working class, particularly when asked to focus on "social issues", which the right tends to favor for that exact reason. to be honest, the "left", being just as much engulfed in the corporate world also likes to shift things to those fields.

basically, the concerns of the people have been reduced to things like abortion and gay marriage, which while important and necessary, are pursued to the exclusion of possible larger economic change.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2010 04:54

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Weedle posted:

what is this from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuso_Miso_Technique

# ¿ Jan 24, 2010 05:45

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Efilnikufesin posted:

Republicans: we're the party of Christ and moral values gently caress RESPECT FOR THE DEAD, KICK OVER THIS friend of the family LOVER'S GRAVE!!!

i don't think this is a postive portrayal of brown especially since it's based around the beefcake photo

# ¿ Jan 24, 2010 12:36

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tacodaemon posted:

gee, mr. asay, i seem to remember something that came right before 'secure the blessings of liberty' in the preamble, something that would be considered supporting the idea of welfare programs like health care... you know something like 'PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE'! christ, i know you've heard of it since you reference it in the next loving panel. how about 'insure domestic tranquility'? you don't think that might apply when many people are in complete economic shock?

hell you could even argue that part of the blessings of liberty would include the ability to care to the least fortunate in our society. and that since the health of all citizens would be important in providing our common defense since our enemies have shown they will attack civilians.

ugh. excuse the rant, the preamble is just one of the better parts of the consitution, and i know that because it's just blowing sunshine up people's asses and has no legal meaning, but still.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2010 01:29

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FronzelNeekburm posted:

p.s.

so cagle was saving up all his energy for this

# ¿ Jan 25, 2010 19:09

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tacodaemon posted:

what? one of these make sense and is not just paranoia? or are we supposed to take this statement as patently false?

# ¿ Jan 26, 2010 02:47

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Gay Abortions posted:

as if the middle panel is not already the case

Kleptobot posted:

Figures that not too long after I posted some stuff from Kevin Moore, he decides to make this his last political cartoon:

At least it ends on a somewhat happy note.

less a happy note as a completely pie-in-the-sky note. i imagine that media organized towards people's desires would be even less informative than it is now. basically explosions and sex every day all day

# ¿ Jan 29, 2010 22:02

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Kerfuffle posted:

The keyword in that comic is CHOSE

so why won't they let women CHOOSE whatever they want to do without harassing and berating them

[abortion_laws_are_anti_women_not_pro_life.jpg]

# ¿ Jan 30, 2010 01:24

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Nicolae Carpathia posted:

how would right-wingers react if it were to be discovered that the mother of barack obama/nancy pelosi/osama bin laden/al gore/ted kennedy/saddam hussein/malik hasan/henry waxman/harry reid had been suggested to have an abortion but didn't

they already did, and had an ad that was denied last superbowl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2CaBR3z85c&feature=player_embedded

# ¿ Jan 30, 2010 01:58

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Kungfubar posted:

whats this?

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3260751

obama did psuedo question time

# ¿ Jan 30, 2010 02:39

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CrumFUNist! posted:

i can feel bar bee yelling this into my face

# ¿ Jan 30, 2010 17:27

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DaveWoo posted:

ah yes, separation of powers means that you can never ever be criticized for making bad decisions

freedom of speech works the same way (unless you're a liberal)

# ¿ Feb 2, 2010 23:22

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raruler posted:

a fine reminder that stupid cartoons come from everywhere

# ¿ Feb 4, 2010 20:26

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tacodaemon posted:

does ramirez really think the average reader recognizes his obama caricature as obama? i only recognize it because of hanging out in the political cartoon threads

gently caress this 'we're denying your rights for your own good!' bullshit.

tacodaemon posted:

he just did last loving week aaaaaaa

# ¿ Feb 6, 2010 02:12

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tacodaemon posted:

it seems the only way asay can be inoffensive is by being completely banal

i don't know if banal is the correct term, huge congressional knife fight was funny enough to me. gratz asay u r toonin OK

# ¿ Feb 6, 2010 23:12

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tacodaemon posted:

you know what either i'm developing stockholm syndrome or something with liking the asay earlier, but this is kind of funny, at least the last panel.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2010 09:31

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tacodaemon posted:

yes, because the only place there is stupidity in america is in its government and it's not a rampant disease that afflicts every aspect of life here

# ¿ Feb 9, 2010 02:25

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tacodaemon posted:

it just occurred to me that like the recent dh strip, her wearing a top hat like that while engaging the tea party is much like the mad hatter (tho the dh strip had beck as the mad hatter, and palin as the march hare)

# ¿ Feb 9, 2010 04:33

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TetsuoTW posted:

yella kid represent

# ¿ Feb 9, 2010 10:43

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Prof. Spaceman posted:

Lefty_Loonz!.mp3

nice, though my ears listen in fear of BAR BEE in the silence

# ¿ Feb 9, 2010 19:12

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dee eight posted:

if global warming is real, then why... o wait
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/story/2010/02/02/spo-cypress-weather-olympics.html

yeah, for the east coast all drowning in snow it has been nearly spring up here

# ¿ Feb 11, 2010 00:03

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 23:16

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raruler posted:

Practical training for would be European imperialists.

no that's the modern pentathlon

that is the also the best olympic sport and no one cares about it

# ¿ Feb 11, 2010 02:09

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