Political Cartoons 2015: It was. I think. I don't know. Fuck that dumb comic

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Mister Bates: Aug 4, 2010

fade5 posted:

Barry Goldwater was kinda crazy.

His opponents took his campaign slogan 'In Your Heart, You Know He's Right' and put out buttons and posters that said 'In Your Guts, You Know He's Nuts'.

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# ? Jul 17, 2015 01:36

Eschers Basement: Sep 13, 2007; by exmarx

Mister Bates posted:

His opponents took his campaign slogan 'In Your Heart, You Know He's Right' and put out buttons and posters that said 'In Your Guts, You Know He's Nuts'.

Or appended billboards with "Yes, Far Right".

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# ? Jul 17, 2015 01:38

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Mister Bates posted:

His opponents took his campaign slogan 'In Your Heart, You Know He's Right' and put out buttons and posters that said 'In Your Guts, You Know He's Nuts'.

If we have done poo poo like this, why the hell are today's Democrats such pussies about it? gently caress it, put out ads calling our opponents warmongering childfuckers.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 01:39

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Mister Adequate posted:

If we have done poo poo like this, why the hell are today's Democrats such pussies about it? gently caress it, put out ads calling our opponents warmongering childfuckers.

Because the modern day GOP is very good at controlling a narrative, whereas democrats are terrible at it.

Within days they'd twist it around into Democrats are terrorist-loving pedophiles.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 02:00

Fulchrum: Apr 16, 2013; by R. Guyovich

Selachian posted:

I like Obama and all, but I think that's overly optimistic. I suspect he'll be comparable to LBJ; he doesn't have LBJ's legendary arm-twisting skills, but he's still shown an amazing ability to Get poo poo Done despite a divided and thoroughly useless Congress.

LBJ without Vietnam would probably be in the top 5 presidents, and if there's no ground war against ISIS, Obama doesn't have a comparable stone around his neck.

loquacius posted:

I think you might be giving LBJ a little too much credit here; the way I learned it, the only way he managed to get Congress to go along with his domestic reforms was by giving into their war demands.

I always heard he did it by cockslapping them.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 02:05

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Rorus Raz posted:

Because the modern day GOP is very good at controlling a narrative, whereas democrats are terrible at it.

Within days they'd twist it around into Democrats are terrorist-loving pedophiles.

It helps that the Republicans have a major news network which has spent decades cowing the other mainstream networks into covering their fake controversies.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 02:08

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

Shugojin posted:

It's not even close to the most remote object, there's an entire belt of similarly large things beyond it and a massive cloud of smaller ones even further out. An Ignorant of Elementary Science Cartoon.

Elementary astronomy, lad. I don't think that the Kupier belt and Oort cloud are standard teaching in the classroom.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 02:13

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Stultus Maximus posted:

It helps that the Republicans have a major news network which has spent decades cowing the other mainstream networks into covering their fake controversies.

I think it's that coupled with the fact that for decades now journalism have not been biased left or right but towards monied interests and that's who the republican party represents.

Fox News just exacerbated things.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 02:16

Shugojin: Sep 6, 2007; THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...

WarpedNaba posted:

Elementary astronomy, lad. I don't think that the Kupier belt and Oort cloud are standard teaching in the classroom.

I know I learned about comets and the Oort cloud in elementary school. I admit that could have been from one of the science books I read because I was a nerrrrrrrd and also sickly/poor so books were about what I got to do besides feel like crap on many a day.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 02:22

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Fulchrum posted:

I always heard he did it by cockslapping them.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 03:08

Shangri-Law School: Feb 19, 2013

Mister Adequate posted:

If we have done poo poo like this, why the hell are today's Democrats such pussies about it? gently caress it, put out ads calling our opponents warmongering childfuckers.

Politics today are arguably cleaner than they've ever been.

Washington Post posted:

You want to talk dirty politics? Oh, we'll talk dirty. We'll talk about ... 1800!

Thomas Jefferson was attacked by ministers who accused him of being an "infidel" and an "unbeliever." A Federalist cartoon depicted him as a drunken anarchist, and the president of Yale warned that if Jefferson came to power, "we may see our wives and daughters the victims of legal prostitution." A Connecticut newspaper warned that his election would mean "murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will openly be taught and practiced" - though the paper (now the Hartford Courant) did apologize some years later.

In 1993. "You turned out to be a good influence on America," the editors wrote. Whoops! Never mind.

John Adams, the sitting president in 1800, also got hit with his share of slung mud. James Callender, a journalist in league with Jefferson, told the country that Adams was a rageful, lying, warmongering fellow, a "repulsive pedant" and "gross hypocrite" who behaved neither like a man nor like a woman but instead possessed a "hideous hermaphroditical character." There was also a nasty rumor that Adams had sent his veep to Europe to bring back four mistresses, two for each of them.

[...]

According to an 1864 edition of Harper's Weekly, Abe Lincoln was disparaged as a "Filthy Story-Teller," a "Buffoon," a "Usurper," a "Monster" and a "Land-Pirate." His enemies described him as "A Long, Lean, Lank, Lantern-Jawed, High Cheeked-Boned Spavined Rail-Splitting Stallion," which actually makes Lincoln sound kind of hot, except for the "spavined" part. (We looked it up. It invokes horses with diseased joints, or more generally, decrepitude and decay.)

As Jamieson notes in another book, Dirty Politics, presidential campaigns were thick with oversimplified attacks aiming at the gut, not the intellect.

"Campaigns generally ally the favored candidate with things uncritically accepted, such as flag and freedom," Jamieson writes, "and tie the opponent to such viscerally noxious things as the murder of innocent men, women and children."

In the 1828 election, Jamieson writes, Andrew Jackson's supporters distributed handbills portraying John Quincy Adams as driving away a "crippled old soldier" who asked for charity, with a horsewhip, no less. Adams's supporters put out handbills decrying Jackson's reputation as a military hero by painting the general's execution of six deserting soldiers as a bloodthirsty act, invoking the image of gallant young men "welter(ing) in their gore!!" Jackson's supporters replied with handbills suggesting that Jackson had not executed the soldiers but "swallowed them whole, coffins and all, without the slightest attempt at mastication!!!!!!"

Also from the Washington Post:

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# ? Jul 17, 2015 03:57

Sandpuppy: Jun 16, 2012; Social Abscess
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Rorus Raz posted:

Would it shock you that a THREE HOUR video was edited down to eight minutes to create a false scandal? No pimps this time, sorry.

"Ponytail, check"

"Earring, check"

"Hmm... something's missing....A-HA!"

*draws holding a newspaper with extended pinky*

"Glenn McCoy, you've outdone yourself!....ehh, I better make sure, just in case."

THE LEFT

# ? Jul 17, 2015 04:00

Lord_Ventnor: Mar 30, 2010; The Worldwide Deadly Gangster Communist President

Sandpuppy posted:

"Ponytail, check"

"Earring, check"

"Hmm... something's missing....A-HA!"

*draws holding a newspaper with extended pinky*

"Glenn McCoy, you've outdone yourself!....ehh, I better make sure, just in case."

THE LEFT

The words just spontaneously appear on his shirt in the last panel.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 04:10

TheBigAristotle: Feb 8, 2007; I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:

Getting real tired of all these selfie jokes.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 04:37

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Rorus Raz posted:

Because the modern day GOP is very good at controlling a narrative, whereas democrats are terrible at it.

Within days they'd twist it around into Democrats are terrorist-loving pedophiles.

What you and the other goons say is true and known to me, but I was just super frustrated with the whole drat business when I wrote that post.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 04:40

Marxism: Feb 14, 2012

Spoeank posted:

It was a joke. I understand it's tough because we're not used to seeing jokes and Tinsley comics in the same vicinity.

Brilliant timing on his part, Make sure to stay serious about everything except the slaughter of innocent people. AGC.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 04:45

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Mister Bates posted:

His opponents took his campaign slogan 'In Your Heart, You Know He's Right' and put out buttons and posters that said 'In Your Guts, You Know He's Nuts'.

... and let's remember, in the last couple decades of his life, Goldwater ended up on the squishy moderate wing as most of the rest of the Republican party careened to the right.

quote:

A few years before his death he addressed establishment Republicans by saying, "Do not associate my name with anything you do. You are extremists, and you've hurt the Republican party much more than the Democrats have."

Anyway, Keith Knight got political recently....

# ? Jul 17, 2015 04:52

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# ? Jul 17, 2015 05:54

Fuckt Tupp: Apr 19, 2007; Science

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Nice timing there, boozy.

I always turn to the MURDERS section of the paper first too.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 05:56

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Until we have strong, heavily-enforced federal-level controls on the purchase and ownership of firearms, local laws are going to have little effect.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 06:37

World Famous W: May 25, 2007; BAAAAAAAAAAAA

God bless Tinsley's two or so week delay on comics.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 06:52

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# ? Jul 17, 2015 06:54

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

# ? Jul 17, 2015 07:04

I Killed GBS: Jun 2, 2011; by Lowtax

Rorus Raz posted:

Fuckin ouch.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 07:08

OAquinas: Jan 27, 2008; Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

Rorus Raz posted:

That's just mean man. Isn't this basically local to Bennett? Kind of hard to avoid doing "thing happened, it sucks" cartoons when it's in your backyard.

# ? Jul 17, 2015 07:11