Political Cartoons 2017: Gotta go fasc

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Trogdos!: Jul 11, 2009; A DRAGON POKEMAN
well technically a water/flying type

Stiglich posted:

Mayor Kenney on immigration issues.

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Dimebags Brain: Feb 18, 2013

Trogdos! posted:

Nice of him to remember.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 14:10

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

# ? Sep 11, 2017 14:17

Keiya: Aug 22, 2009; Come with me if you want to not die.

It's time to forget.

Starving Wolf posted:

...of course.

That doesn't even make sense you dumb gently caress. Watch at least a few episodes before trying to parody TNG, christ.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 14:19

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

Time to post the best 9/11 cartoon.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 14:36

Avirosb: Nov 21, 2016; Everyone makes pisstakes

Pants Donkey posted:

Time to post the best 9/11 cartoon.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 14:41

D.N. Nation: Feb 1, 2012

# ? Sep 11, 2017 14:58

Potato Salad: Oct 23, 2014; nobody cares

Zesty posted:

I usually skip posting the non-political Dan Lietha drivel. But gently caress him.

how is dan still alive

# ? Sep 11, 2017 15:06

Volcott: Mar 30, 2010; People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.

Potato Salad posted:

how is dan still alive

Spite.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 15:09

Avirosb: Nov 21, 2016; Everyone makes pisstakes

Potato Salad posted:

how is dan still alive

Extra thick bibles to absorb all the bullets.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 15:12

Wistful of Dollars: Aug 25, 2009

David Pope goes to play Aussie Rules.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 15:19

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Potato Salad posted:

how is dan still alive

Dan Lietha is one of the inevitable negative consequences of living in a sin-cursed world

# ? Sep 11, 2017 15:20

Flip Yr Wig: Feb 21, 2007; Oh please do go on; Fun Shoe

Avirosb posted:

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Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

Flip Yr Wig posted:

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Peanut Butler: Jul 25, 2003

Fister Roboto posted:

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Erenthal: Jan 1, 2008; A relaxing walk in the woods; Grimey Drawer

Avirosb posted:

I really like this one due to the very introspective artists statement in which he aknowledges the baser sides of his nature. Kreider was truly one of the great ones, since he also had his flaws.

Kreider posted:

Not really! Just kidding. Ha, ha! Because that would be wrong, obviously. We would have become the very thing we despised. The terrorists would have won! Except that we would be the terrorists, so actually we would be the ones winning, right? We'd win the war on terror! We'd win! Hooray! Death to The United Arab Emirates! Death to the Great Satan! Allahu akbar! U!S!A! U!S!A! No, no, wait, it is wrong to kill people, I keep forgetting, never mind, only joking. Though just to play devil's advocate for a second, consider how much more cost-effective this would be, and how many fewer casualties it'd cause, than what we actually did. It wouldn't make any less sense to attack the UAE in reprisal for 9/11 than it did to invade Iraq.

This cartoon idea came to me while I was looking through a new edition of a book on the world's skyscrapers, an older version of which I already own. This expanded edition includes all the more recent supertall buildings currently being erected in nations where the tallest structures were formerly constructed of materials such as hides, but which are now flush with cash and eager to show off their wealth and world status. It occurred to me that this cartoon would make a lovely epilogue to my book, forming a sort of matching endpaper along with "Well, Well, Well" (September 11th, 2002). As Jim's comment suggests, it provides some much-needed closure to the decade-long fiasco of 9/11, the War on Terror, and the entire Era of Darkness. It's also the first cartoon idea to crack me up in the shower in months.*

Regular readers will also know that I am a longtime aficionado of very tall buildings and an unabashed chauvinist in this arena.I just wish the Freedom Tower wasn't so unambitious and uninspired, so underwhelming. I secretly long for the oil wealth of the East to dry up, for these fly-by-night feudal empires to decline, for the Burj Dubai to crumble like Babel. But as my colleague Tom pointed out over coffee, "I think we'll crumble first."

# ? Sep 11, 2017 16:43

frankenfreak: Feb 16, 2007; I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade

After The War posted:

# ? Sep 11, 2017 17:13

Avirosb: Nov 21, 2016; Everyone makes pisstakes

frankenfreak posted:

RIP those two people in the towers.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 17:15

Begemot: Oct 14, 2012; The One True Oden

Man, if there's one thing that I think of when I think of democrats, and left-wing groups in general, it's their strict adherence to conformity. They're always just toeing the line and moving in lock-step, perfectly following a rigid, centralized plan. No infighting allowed!

# ? Sep 11, 2017 17:20

some FUCKING LIAR: Sep 19, 2002; Fallen Rib

Apropos of Dan Lietha: I don't know if this is too clever by half for Dan and his pals, but is the name "Answers in Genesis" intended to be some kind of shot at Philo of Alexandria's "Quaestiones in Genesim"?

# ? Sep 11, 2017 17:27

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

King Possum III posted:

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This isn't the only cartoon like this so I have to ask: why are Democrats supposed to be afraid of Hillary's book?

# ? Sep 11, 2017 17:32

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Johnny Walker posted:

This isn't the only cartoon like this so I have to ask: why are Democrats supposed to be afraid of Hillary's book?

It's more that a surprising number of former Clinton supporters and staffers have been eye-rolling her new book and making comments to the tune of "Really? Stop blaming everyone else and move on, this isn't doing anyone any good you idiot."

# ? Sep 11, 2017 17:42

Jurgan: May 8, 2007; Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

Pants Donkey posted:

Time to post the best 9/11 cartoon.

Donald Trump on 9/11/01 posted:

40 Wall street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually before the World Trade Center the tallest, and and then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second-tallest, and now it�s the tallest.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 17:42

Zinkraptor: Apr 24, 2012

Johnny Walker posted:

This isn't the only cartoon like this so I have to ask: why are Democrats supposed to be afraid of Hillary's book?

It's more that democrats don't want to be associated with it, because it's really bad.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 17:44

Quorum: Sep 24, 2014; REMIND ME AGAIN HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE?

Johnny Walker posted:

This isn't the only cartoon like this so I have to ask: why are Democrats supposed to be afraid of Hillary's book?

Fomenting Democratic infighting profits the right, so fox and associated Gremlins have been hyping this book and the tour. Even if speaking the Name of the Unnameable One weren't actually a good way of causing Democrats to come to blows, which it sometimes is, it is worth it to them to make it seem that way.

And anyone who gives two shits about this dumb thing is helping.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 17:44

OldMemes: Sep 5, 2011; I have to go now. My planet needs me.

Johnny Walker posted:

This isn't the only cartoon like this so I have to ask: why are Democrats supposed to be afraid of Hillary's book?

Hillary bad.

Not her positions or policy ideas or what she actually did, just Hillary bad. Over and over and over and over.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 17:45

ded redd: Aug 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

Johnny Walker posted:

This isn't the only cartoon like this so I have to ask: why are Democrats supposed to be afraid of Hillary's book?

Independent of why the Boks and Delonases of the thread are making cartoons about it, the book is basically what you expect from a recollection of the most catastrophic loss in US electoral history except without anything resembling introspection or humility, instead opting to go full bore in shifting the blame to extents so strange that somehow Barack Obama's focus on bolstering emissions standards becomes part of the reason why coal miners don't like her. Ultimately it's a kind of a book that just should not have been made and unless Clinton decides to keep digging that's probably all it is.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 18:36

Owlofcreamcheese: May 22, 2005; Can't post for 9 years!; Buglord

Office Pig posted:

Independent of why the Boks and Delonases of the thread are making cartoons about it, the book is basically what you expect from a recollection of the most catastrophic loss in US electoral history except without anything resembling introspection or humility, instead opting to go full bore in shifting the blame to extents so strange that somehow Barack Obama's focus on bolstering emissions standards becomes part of the reason why coal miners don't like her. Ultimately it's a kind of a book that just should not have been made and unless Clinton decides to keep digging that's probably all it is.

Did you read this book and form that opinion or did you read the right wing media summary of this book then take their opinion?

# ? Sep 11, 2017 18:48

Captain_Maclaine: Sep 30, 2001; Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Did you read this book and form that opinion or did you read the right wing media summary of this book then take their opinion?

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ded redd: Aug 1, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

This thread will be fun when raw chicken gets politicized.

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World Famous W: May 25, 2007; BAAAAAAAAAAAA

Oh goody.

This is why.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 18:56

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

Did you read this book and form that opinion or did you read the right wing media summary of this book then take their opinion?

Excerpts have been leaked. They are not pretty.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 18:57

Sandpuppy: Jun 16, 2012; Social Abscess
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Universe

Starving Wolf posted:

"Revised from 2012". Original comic is dated 2011. Branco gonna Branco.

5
Dat feather duster.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 19:16

Flip Yr Wig: Feb 21, 2007; Oh please do go on; Fun Shoe

From what I've heard from media figures who've read it, it's not devoid of self-criticism. However, they've decided to promote it by excerpting the passages that are going to stir up the most intraparty controversy and seem to avoid introspection.

# ? Sep 11, 2017 19:18

Dr. VooDoo: May 4, 2006

D.N. Nation posted:

I was so happy that ghoul finally got the boot after using the bodies of 9/11 victims as a grand stand for so long. gently caress you, Rudy

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Owlofcreamcheese: May 22, 2005; Can't post for 9 years!; Buglord

loquacius posted:

Excerpts have been leaked. They are not pretty.

oh well then, if you read an exerpt

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Tenebrais: Sep 2, 2011

Sandpuppy posted:

3

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moebius2778: May 3, 2013

loquacius posted:

Excerpts have been leaked. They are not pretty.

"What difference - at this point, what difference does it make?"

# ? Sep 11, 2017 19:25

Jurgan: May 8, 2007; Just pour it directly into your gaping mouth-hole you decadent slut

OldMemes posted:

Hillary bad.

Not her positions or policy ideas or what she actually did, just Hillary bad. Over and over and over and over.

Even if her book were good, I can see an argument that Democrats don't want to be tied to her. She lost, so the party as a whole needs to move on. All the potential leaders of the Democrats are so old. Hoping another Obama type comes out of nowhere in a couple years. There are a few interesting possibilities.

Tenebrais posted:

Is there a very subtle edit I'm not seeing?

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Kaza42: Oct 3, 2013; Blood and Souls and all that

Jurgan posted:

Is there a very subtle edit I'm not seeing?

Skull donkey

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