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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:Christie and Obama looked chummy immediately after Hurricane Sandy and immediately before the 2012 election, and conservatives have never forgiven Christie for it. I agree with everyone who's said wingnuts rejecting Christie over the one decent thing he's done for his state is insane, but I would think the main reason he can't gain traction is he's got the same act as Trump -- bombastic "telling it like it is" NYC metro shitbag-- without reality show fame to back it up. I hate that he's coming out of this as "a decent guy" for not winning in a field of horrible candidates when his entire political career is petty corruption and grudge-holding -- http://theslot.jezebel.com/bye-chris-christie-you-tremendous-dick-1758263272 At least Bruce Springsteen still hates him and that makes CC so sad. nobodyssweetheart fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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Christie is 400 pounds of pure poo poo in a 300 pound bag but there's always been an attempt to portray him as the middle of the road moderate that can cross party lines and enact sensible legislation (to defund everything and funnel money upwards). I think he's lost that but you can see that some people still want to pretend.
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Radish posted:I really think that this was Christie trying to calculatedly move towards the middle for his presidential run and intentionally trying to get conservative democrats to jump ship and it comically misfired. Tbf the one time in my life I ever heard anyone from Jersey have something nice to say about Christie was right after this happened (it didn't last long)
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First Dog has posted a "A thing happened" cartoon. It isn't a "So and so person who was famous went and died" one so it has novelty value:
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Never forget. w/r/t Christie and Obama, and I really hate bringing up DbD, but I loved that DbD storyline that showed New Jersey in the wake of Hurricane Sandy as some sort of post-apocalyptic hellhole because Obama had mismanaged FEMA funds or sent 'em to the drat Muslims or whatever. Wingnuts desperately wanted Hurricane Sandy to be Obama's Katrina times a bajillion, when all it showed was, oh yeah, government can work somewhat efficiently in the face of natural disaster when the people running it give two shits. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney held a canned food drive, sending to NJ thousands of cans of food that no one actually wanted or could use. The only response to crisis that wingnuts know is prayer chains and churchy donation drives, which have their place I guess, but it's nothing when compared with good-ol' governmental infrastructure know-how. The aftermath of Sandy proved this, but to wingnuts, it was all about Christie betraying Romney because Romney was sure to win had it not been for that meddlin' storm. D.N. Nation fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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Feb 12, 2016 16:16
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 1 2 3 4 5 All these Rubio caricatures are my favourite thing from the past week or so.
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Pickled Tink posted:First Dog has posted a "A thing happened" cartoon. It isn't a "So and so person who was famous went and died" one so it has novelty value: This feels like the kind of educational comic that Mark Trail would run on Sundays because it has nothing to do with the story line.
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Feb 12, 2016 16:35
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Is that new Catalino art? 
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Feb 12, 2016 16:36
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It's a weird world we're in that backing down from OBAMA BAD RAGH in order to help people when infrastructure has been hosed by a large storm gives you cred as a moderate 
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Feb 12, 2016 16:37
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I am glad there is a special place in hell for manspreaders. I just want to sit in a single seat in peace without your legs invading my personal space, dammit.
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Feb 12, 2016 16:46
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Regalingualius posted:Shame he only took things out on Rubio, though. Would've been interesting to see him really taking the piss out of as many of his rivals as he could in one final roast before he bowed out. Primary polls are notoriously unreliable, but they were extremely close (he was in second with like 0.5% ahead of Kasich) coming into NH. He ended up underperforming by about 5 points, putting him in 5th behind Trump, Kasich, Cruz, and Bush. His debate performance was all over the news and really underlined the rumor that had been following him lately that he just repeats the same talking points (Christie didn't just mention it based on the debate alone). It's possible he did so poorly for other reasons, but people had been saying that he's inexperienced and doesn't know what he's talking about for a while, so it certainly didn't help dispel that.
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Feb 12, 2016 17:01
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Retire.
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Feb 12, 2016 17:11
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People I don't agree with are ugly and suck. - AF Branco, intellectual
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beepsandboops posted:Retire. Everyone's leaving Ilinois! Bruce Rauner is dreamy! Michael Madigan is mean! Star Wars! Everyone's leaving Ilinois! Bruce Rauner is dreamy! Michael Madigan is mean! Star Wars! Everyone's leaving Ilinois! Bruce Rauner is dreamy! Michael Madigan is mean! Star Wars!
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beepsandboops posted:Retire. Say what you will about eric allie, he's a pretty solid artist IMO. edit: even if you disregard his technical skill with a pen, he's got good compositional intincts. The layout of this comic is full but not overcrowded or visually exhausting, and draws the reader in with a word bubble that then sends them downstream for the punchline. Ignite Memories fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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It's funny that Branco seems to hate Hillary more than the dude who attached "Socialist" to his name.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:I am glad there is a special place in hell for manspreaders. I just want to sit in a single seat in peace without your legs invading my personal space, dammit. 
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Monkey Fracas posted:It's funny that Branco seems to hate Hillary more than the dude who attached "Socialist" to his name. Well of course. She's a woman and that's cause for alarm. If elected she'll spend the budget on shoes or something.
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I'm from the 314 and this duck can go gently caress himself
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 We got Cartoon Sign!  1MY BABY'S POP MONEY!  2code: 3Ah good, you care about women now. So about Clarence Thomas...  4Special Fat Doors.  5I unironically want a "YAY! SOCIALISM!" shirt.  6Hillary's (?) arm is the copyrighted intellectual property of Ted Rall.  7Goons make poor revolutionaries.  8IT'S TRUMP.  9Awwww   10Hmmm  11Caution: Bern & Jerry's Ice Cream may contain children.  12Meanwhile Holbert is working on a timescale that even Tinsley thinks is slow.
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A peaceful cosmos for you and I. 1  A lot of these are basically "gently caress the US, they're only in space to bring about the apocalypse". I'm gonna post a big compilation of Soviet Space posters latter, and needless to say, those are much more positive about the USSR going to space. 2  US space explorations 3  Cold war is stymied by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%E2%80%93Soyuz_Test_Project 4  Stop the militarization of space! 5  6  7  Space should be peaceful 8  We only we have 1 earth to share between us. You'll see "СОИ" often on these posters. The Russian translation of: 9  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative The USSR was against it for fairly obvious reasons. 10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  NO! (Gonna post a big compilation of Soviet space posters at some point. JUST the way to get my nostalgia up and running) Edit: http://www.visualnews.com/2014/10/06/33-soviet-propaganda-posters-space-age/ Xander77 fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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Feb 12, 2016 18:56
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Rorus Raz posted:
Apart from the "FREE STUFF" label I don't really get why this is supposed to be an argument against Bernie or is it just "a thing happened" where the thing is people liking Bernie Sanders? Alternate question, is Benson aware that the actual Ben and Jerry are die-hard Sanders supporters who fund-raise for him and invented a flavor of ice cream for him?
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Oh no, free ice cream! I hate free ice cream!
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Rorus Raz posted:
Once again, AF Branco's everyman is a pasty, paunchy, stooped over dude wearing ill-fitting jeans. quote:
Free Stuff Free Stuff Free Stuff Free Stuff Free Stuff Free Stuff Free Stuff Free Stuff Free Stuff Free Stuff Free Stuff Free Stuff oh by the way massive tax cuts will pay for themselves because magic but the Democrats are naive.
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loquacius posted:Apart from the "FREE STUFF" label I don't really get why this is supposed to be an argument against Bernie
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Xander77 posted:The success of "Free Stuff" as a talking point is baffling and infuriating in equal measures. Is the assumption that the target audience won't bother questioning what that free "stuff" actually is, and whether they shouldn't be happy to be getting it for free genuinely justified? The idea is to call your opponents short-sighted, immature, and naive because they believe governments should do things for their citizens "Your politicians just offer you free stuff (like essential services you need to survive)  OUR politicians are serious grown-up professional statesmen who do what's right for the country, by which I of course mean cut taxes for millionaires and then try to repeal Obamacare 500 times"
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Feb 12, 2016 19:07
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Sanders has actually been pretty specific that the "stuff" he's proposing isn't actually "free," but instead requires revenue from taxes. You know, just how civilization does.
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Feb 12, 2016 19:09
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FREE STUFF! like the wall that's hundreds of miles long because Mexico is gonna pay for it
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Xander77 posted:The success of "Free Stuff" as a talking point is baffling and infuriating in equal measures. Is the assumption that the target audience won't bother questioning what that free "stuff" actually is, and whether they shouldn't be happy to be getting it for free genuinely justified? The problem is that said stuff will be given to The Wrong Sort.
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Xander77 posted:The success of "Free Stuff" as a talking point is baffling and infuriating in equal measures. Is the assumption that the target audience won't bother questioning what that free "stuff" actually is, and whether they shouldn't be happy to be getting it for free genuinely justified? Success is kind of a stretch. A lot of people have realized that the rich pay a disproportionately low amount of taxes compared to the middle/lower class. I think that's why Bernie has come out so high in the polls. He's actually looking pretty electable, I must say. That said I'd still vote for Hilary. I'd be less pleased about it, but at least it's not Ted Cruz or god forbid, Trump.
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I'm not getting this. What does eating a basketball made of aluminum foil have to do with Reagan's Star Wars project? Or am I seeing something that's not there?
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Nah, I'm reasonably sure this ties into the brainwashing the American electorate underwent over the second half of the 20th century, which ended with the belief that public benefits are a bad thing in and of itself, and doing without things Europeans take for granted is patriotic and virtuous. Like this post right here seems to summarize the way a lot of Americans think. Clunk Tap It posted:I'm not getting this. What does eating a basketball made of aluminum foil have to do with Reagan's Star Wars project? Or am I seeing something that's not there?
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Xander77 posted:(Gonna post a big compilation of Soviet space posters at some point. JUST the way to get my nostalgia up and running. Please be considerate of some of our mobile data quotas. The one time you posted like 100+ huge hi-res posters at once, I ran through most of my data for the month in one click just by being unfortunate enough to open the thread on my phone that morning. e: I like the posts just please think of the  , maybe put them in an imgur album and link the album if you have a really huge dump?
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alnilam posted:Please be considerate of some of our mobile data quotas. The one time you posted like 100+ huge hi-res posters at once, I ran through most of my data for the month in one click just by being unfortunate enough to open the thread on my phone that morning. If you have AwfulApp you can set it to only display images on wifi. It's drat near essential on my tiny data plan.
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D.N. Nation posted:Sanders has actually been pretty specific that the "stuff" he's proposing isn't actually "free," but instead requires revenue from taxes. You know, just how civilization does. Yeah, it's not "Free Stuff" it's "making sure people with absurd amounts of money actually pay taxes and then effectively using those tax dollars to fund beneficial social programs" and also "Not letting companies treat their employees like garbage".
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"You know the thing about Rubio, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he debates ya, doesn't seem to be livin'."
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Rorus Raz posted:
Smack your butt for Bernie
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:Smack your butt for Bernie #FeelTheBum
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