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Vogon Poet posted:Prediction for 2014: "Less people will have health insurance in 2013 because of Obamacare." Although this is confusingly worded, the most straightforward interpretation is that less people will have had insurance in 2013 than in 2014; the number of insured people will increase because of Obamacare. "What difference does it make" then means that Republicans don't actually care about getting more people health insurance. Actually I'm pretty sure the most straightforward interpretation is that he typed the wrong year by accident because a lot of people do that in January. "What difference does it make" is a quote from Hillary's testimony on Benghazi (which was in response to Issa et al splitting hairs about whether the attack was called "terrorism" and whether it was pre-planned or spontaneous). Conservatives like to use it to make it sound like she (and by extension, Democrats) didn't care about people dying.
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Jurgan posted:Wait, this is an edit, right? If not... "rope and chains?" My mind goes immediately to "rope for lynching and chains for slaves." Please, tell me this is fake. Why does your mind immediately go race? Could you be...the real racist?
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Jan 28, 2014 03:49
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JaggerMcDagger posted:Today's Dry Bones brought to you by Computoon! GOOGLE JON POL
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Jan 28, 2014 04:26
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CURATOR OF ANIME posted:These questions are funny This from the people who want to arm the teachers.
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Feb 6, 2014 06:18
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cafel posted:Eh, calling out Michelle Obama and the photo involving a well set table comes across as directly attacking the spending of the First Family. I guess if the words government comes anywhere near a personal fortune the money turns bad and starts killing jobs. This reminds me of the "lavish Las Vegas convention" from a few years back that got someone at the GSA fired even though similar types of events are not at all unusual for large companies. For people who insist that government should be run like a business, they sure do hate when government officials start acting like businessmen.
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Feb 12, 2014 04:39
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Berke Negri posted:That was kind of a legit scandal though. The GSA are supposed to be the vendor people who make sure the feds aren't overspending on things(it rarely works out that way.) My point was that large companies are slaves to their shareholders so they can obviously come up with reasons why it makes sense financially to have lavish internal conventions (morale, recruitment, marketing, etc.) instead of socking that money away in an investment. If efficient private companies can defend their Vegas workparties then the government should be able to as well. Incidentally that whole thing has made government agencies (at least the ones I've worked with) deliberately avoid hosting events in Vegas due to the perception of wastefulness even if airfare and hotel convention space is dirt cheap, so the GSA ironically led to the government spending more money to avoid a repeat of their optics.
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Feb 12, 2014 06:15
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rodbeard posted:They aren't 2084 is a summer Olympics. E; I'm dumb
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Feb 13, 2014 16:42
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Turtlicious posted:Obama does look like a monkey in that comic though? Why wasn't it racist to make Bush look like one 
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Feb 13, 2014 20:23
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colonel_korn posted:
The first two panels were about how criticisms of him as a corporatist were off-base so it's probably safe to assume that the second part of it is about mocking the people who think he hates religion by showing how he's meeting with religious leaders.
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Feb 22, 2014 22:10
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MisterBadIdea posted:I suspect that Russia's connection to the Ukraine protests is far too complex an issue for most cartoonists to illustrate in a clear visual metaphor. It's certainly beyond Ramirez, who only knows that 1) something bad is happening in the Ukraine and 2) Russia is involved somehow. Reading this cartoon, you'd think the Soviets were invading again. Ukraine doesn't want to be a Russian hegemon anymore. It's a short program (figure skating event) because Yanukovych wasn't in power for very long before the people got sick of him (unlike the majority of pro-Russian CIS autocrats). Am I reading this completely wrong or is this one of those people trying as hard as they possibly can to let something confuse them comics.
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Feb 25, 2014 07:57
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Fulchrum posted:This claim is undercut slightly by the fact that Davey Jones does not have a goddamn nose at all. The bridge of the characters nose merges into his upper lip. Either he is blind, or the hook nose was an intentional addition to the cartoon. It does look somewhat plausibly like a cross between Davey Jones and Captain Barbossa.
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Feb 26, 2014 07:11
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E-Tank posted:
Given that it's Varvel I'm surprised Al Gore isn't hanging out wanting to come in too.
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Mar 1, 2014 03:38
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If there's anything I know about the American revolution, it's that the colonists were more successful because they had a bigger, better-equipped, and more expensive military.
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Mar 1, 2014 06:38
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Samurai Sanders posted:North Korea! To be fair the only reason China isn't the villain in those is because the studio wants the movie to be released there.
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Mar 1, 2014 18:52
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Dirty Job posted:Conservatives are quick to rationalize how business owners are supposed to maximize their profits and thus never increase wages beyond the minimum, but denying service to paying customers is ok so long as you disagree with the customer's lifestyle. If refusing some possible customers causes other customers to intensify their support then it's a smart business move. Obviously that wasn't the case here because conservatives vastly underestimated how many people supported their position, but the idea that a bigger pool of potential customers always makes you more money is the same logic that Rand Paul used to argue that the civil rights act was unnecessary.
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Mar 2, 2014 07:35
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I feel bad for victim-blaming but all I can imagine is a high school aged Steven Crowder and James O'Keefe provoking people into feeding their persecution complexes.
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Mar 2, 2014 19:28
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Who the gently caress wrote this? "Inflame Latino passions," seriously? Here's a better local news article that wasn't passed around the conservative blogosphere: Hey I was right
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Mar 2, 2014 20:44
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BUSH 2112 posted:I thought the cartoonist was referring to the fact that designing rockets that could put a man in space was just a nice side-effect of researching rockets that could rain down nuclear fire on the USSR. The space program was just the friendly face of the same old blood lust. The smoke coming from the command module area of the rocket and the fact that it's from 1967 probably means it was in reference to Apollo I.
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Mar 3, 2014 04:19
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TVs Ian posted:There was the dijon mustard incident. And arugula, I think. When I was a kid I thought the Grey Poupon limousine commercials meant it was actually high-class stuff and I was convinced my family was rich because I found some in our fridge once after that. Given that conservatives are absolutely horrible at telling when things are sincere, maybe they think dijon mustard is only for rich people too based on the commercials.
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Mar 4, 2014 07:24
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Post 9-11 User posted:Your reaction is correct. This country is a disgusting example of quantity over quality. America, known throughout the world for sending their students to school for more days than other countries' schools.
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Mar 8, 2014 23:10
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Rorus Raz posted:I just realized that the graph is in the shape of a boob. Was that entirely  or was something newsworthy also happening with the breast implant industry in 1993?
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Mar 9, 2014 17:50
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ThatPazuzu posted:What's the thing about heat disproving evolution? Creationists believe that life evolving into more complex forms violates the second law of thermodynamics so heat "proves" that entropy exists and therefore life can only get less complicated over time.
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Mar 10, 2014 01:20
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I had to double-check the Luckovich one because I was sure I had seen something like it before and the fact that it looks like he accidentally wrote '13 wasn't helping.
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Mar 14, 2014 04:09
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It probably took every amount of willpower he could muster to not draw a sunken ship in the background covered with all sorts of over-detailed fiddlies on it and possibly a "Mission Accomplished" banner.
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Mar 18, 2014 04:21
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StealthArcher posted:Hate to tell you, but that, on the right side, is most likely a crass-hatched ship. Impossible, nowhere near enough pipes and radar stuff.
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Mar 18, 2014 04:39
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Even if you accept the premise that this cake is something a Muslim would absolutely not want to back, there's just something so quintessentially Republican about seeking out the services of someone who probably isn't very experienced with doing something for the sole purpose of trying to piss them off with your business. I'm sure there are many better places to get a pig liquor cake in his town.
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Jay Rust posted:I need an example of irony for a class I'm taking. Has Kelly ever done a "If global warming, why cold 
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VCU lost their NCAA tournament game in shocking fashion tonight, I wonder if JRRose! will have anything to say about it.
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Mar 22, 2014 05:33
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corn in the bible posted:You'll regret it, but here you go. Right-winger sure is mad that the government isn't doing a thing.
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Mar 22, 2014 16:38
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Shugojin posted:I don't get all the fuss over a college football athletes' union. I mean, the average tuition for a Big 10 university, assuming out of state, is a bit under $30k/year. Probably about another $10k/year for a decent apartment and food. That's not a great reward for the decent risk of injury, y'know? Northwestern is private so it's a good bit more than that but yeah.
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Mar 31, 2014 04:45
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The Crotch posted:"Crimea river" - Chris Muir, weeks after everyone else already made that exact loving joke. So Tinsley will get to it in about two weeks then?
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alnilam posted:Branco: Still on about ACORN in 2014. Better than still being on about golfing? Do a teleprompter next 
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Samurai Sanders posted:Doesn't being in a military base kind of, you know, change the situation a LITTLE bit from the usual conservative cowboy fairy tale? Yeah, it changes it to "Obama locked the guns all away and neutered Are Troops so they couldn't defend themselves against his fifth column."
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Apr 7, 2014 04:42
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CampingCarl posted:Probably that or he happened on a blog post from that time that made a comparison. From his track record he doesn't have to have seen what he is talking about. Firefly pretty regularly tops the list of National Review-style "media that proves conservatives are actually winning the culture war" articles, too.
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Apr 20, 2014 04:45
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Citizen Soldier was also the name of that 3 Doors Down song/National Guard advertisement from ~10 years ago. He could just be trying to emphasize that The Troops are ordinary people, though for him that either means they bleed like everyone else or that they will join the uprising against Obama's Brownshirts once Real America stands up for itself.
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Fulchrum posted:...okay (a) how the gently caress does a show cancelled for low ratings demonstrate you'reading winning anything, and (b) how the gently caress do you look at any work from Joss Whedon as conservative? a) You can make a legitimate argument that it could have gone on longer if Fox hadn't been screwing around with time/episode/ordering/promotion etc (i.e. the same stuff they were doing that got Family Guy and Futurama cancelled and those obviously turned out fine), b) the lyrics to the theme song and Adam Baldwin.
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Shugojin posted:Yeah it's basically true that Fox mishandled a lot of shows at the time, Firefly included, but I still really don't see it having gone beyond two seasons even if they hadn't. It's just slow paced and didn't really sell itself having a unifying plot line during its one season. Plenty of popular sci-fi shows have/had mostly one-off episodes, especially at the beginning of their runs. Either way, the point is that since Firefly did get cancelled prematurely, the conservative writers who trump it up can exaggerate the cultural relevance it could/would have had. Plus it's a cult favorite of Comic-Con types and with that sort of stuff getting so big in general, the "hip" conservatives need something to call their own that's more plausible than Iron Man. E: that and it's a big favorite of the internet libertarian/infowars type conservatives which is obviously where Muir gets all of his news. Dr.Zeppelin fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Apr 20, 2014 |
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VitalSigns posted:What is Don Portago's native tongue anyway? His Spanish is even worse than his English, so Spanish must be like his third language. He lives in Argentina and Muir loves him, so probably German.
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Surprised he didn't make the cross a little donkey instead.
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