Political Cartoons 2017: Gotta go fasc

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Fulchrum: Apr 16, 2013; by R. Guyovich

Trogdos! posted:

lol this is such a dumb cartoon

Leaving aside everything else that's completely insane and stupid about this, Un didn't just call Trump old, he called him an old lunatic. Trump only cared about the former. This is literally a comedy bit, to show a character is so narcissistic or has intensely bad priorities, and Garrison is seriously trying to spin it.

loquacius posted:

"A police state but without explicit Nazi ideology" is a bit closer to Nazism than kleptocrat mob-run Russia is to Soviet-style communism

How close is it to what the Soviet union actually was for most of it's existence, complete with it's deep and rich veins of corruption? These things cut both ways, the symbol represents the USSR, not what the Soviets thought the USSR was.

Fulchrum fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Nov 13, 2017

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Two Inch Bee posted:

I wonder if hardcore Trump supporters ever see screenshotted Trump tweets and say to themselves, "Ugh, this is obviously fake. How dumb do these loony libs think I am? Trump isn't a teenager, he wouldn't trade petty verbal jabs with an unstable dictator. Lemme just take a look at Trump's actual timeline..."

"Oh poo poo, it's real? Recalculating... recalculating... BRILLIANT MOVE, THE DONALD. I LOVE MY GOOD STRONG PRESIDENT."

Read more Facebook. This happens p-much every tweet.

# ? Nov 13, 2017 20:35

Cloud Potato: Jan 9, 2011; "I'm... happy!"

Guardian:

"Ben Jennings on the political response to a British woman being held in Iran � Remarks by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove to imprisonment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe have proved controversial"

Telegraph:

Sack Boris Johnson for shaming our nation, Jeremy Corbyn tells PM

Independent:

Up to 40 Tory MPs now ready to sign letter of no confidence in Theresa May

Times:

Evening Standard:

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Fathis Munk: Feb 23, 2013; ??? ?

Sandpuppy posted:

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I guess that's supposed to be a bayonet?

That's the worst bayonet ever. Nice fetishization of the constitution too. It's like the 40K marines and their purtiy seals.

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So much for the tolerant left, amirite.

Cloud Potato posted:

Telegraph:

Sack Boris Johnson for shaming our nation, Jeremy Corbyn tells PM

That would just make me want to vote for Corbyn more.

# ? Nov 13, 2017 20:52

Cabbit: Jul 19, 2001; _{Is that everything you have?}

Fathis Munk posted:

That's the worst bayonet ever. Nice fetishization of the constitution too. It's like the 40K marines and their purtiy seals.

So much for the tolerant left, amirite.

That would just make me want to vote for Corbyn more.

I'm no expert in UK politics, but it seems like the old guard have a vastly incorrect idea of why Corbyn has popular support-- if they have any idea at all.

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King Possum III: Feb 15, 2016

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FronzelNeekburm: Jun 1, 2001; STOP, MORTTIME

Two Inch Bee posted:

I wonder if hardcore Trump supporters ever see screenshotted Trump tweets and say to themselves, "Ugh, this is obviously fake. How dumb do these loony libs think I am? Trump isn't a teenager, he wouldn't trade petty verbal jabs with an unstable dictator. Lemme just take a look at Trump's actual timeline..."

"Oh poo poo, it's real? Recalculating... recalculating... BRILLIANT MOVE, THE DONALD. I LOVE MY GOOD STRONG PRESIDENT."

Judging from every interview article I've ever read about Trump supporters, they don't read his tweets and think it's all a big liberal media sob-fest about nothing while Trump quietly does the hard work of rebuilding our great nation.

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Anne Frank Funk: Nov 4, 2008

King Possum III posted:

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Potential winner of a thing happened right here.

# ? Nov 13, 2017 21:22

Xander77: Apr 6, 2009; Fuck it then. For another pit sandwich and some 'tater salad, I'll post a few more.

Crazycryodude posted:

Early Soviet State (1917-1921).

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_uprisings_against_the_Bolsheviks

Xander77 fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Nov 13, 2017

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

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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

That Mueller panel... :allears:

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Ularg: Mar 2, 2010; Just tell me I'm exotic.

King Possum III posted:

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I actually like this comic. It's clever. Without knowing anything about the artist views, anyway.

# ? Nov 13, 2017 22:42

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Trogdos! posted:

Garrison posted:

Kim Jong-Un delivered what he perhaps thought was a supreme insult. He called President Trump, �old.� Trump took it in good humor.

While he did return a barb by calling Kim Jong-Un �short and fat,� he didn�t rule out the possibility of friendship with the North Korean dictator. �If that did happen, it would be a good thing for North Korea,� said Trump.

Solving the stalemate with the hermit state would be the cornerstone of Trump�s presidency, but it remains extremely unlikely. Kim Jong-Un must have a boogey man to keep his populace distracted with fear. A country constantly preparing for war is less likely to revolt, hence the dictator�s incessant saber rattling. Trump wants progress, not provocation.

Trump�s Asian tour has been a resounding success. He was especially popular in China.

To get China to agree to put the sanctions hammer down on their North Korean puppet is indeed an accomplishment.

�Ben Garrison

While Trump did react by namecalling back, I made a comic about him being the betterman by pretending he didn't do what he did. All while somehow acknowledging that he did it?

WHO THE gently caress KNOWS HOW IM THIS FLEXIBLE. Mind yoga probably.

-Ben Garrison

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Trogdos! posted:

lol this is such a dumb cartoon

The funniest part of this comic (or any comic in the last hundred pages) is when Garrison says "Trump took it in good humor."

# ? Nov 14, 2017 00:28

Cabbit: Jul 19, 2001; _{Is that everything you have?}

I think the funniest part of that cartoon is that, even when drawn by somebody going out of their way to portray Trump in the most flattering way possible, his hair still looks completely loving ridiculous. Dude draws Trump like he has a full head of hair that naturally grows into an incredibly thick and inexplicable combover.

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Wistful of Dollars: Aug 25, 2009

Ularg posted:

I actually like this comic. It's clever. Without knowing anything about the artist views, anyway.

I think Cole normally skews left.

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Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

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King Possum III posted:

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"My dear sir, you speak in error. I am just myself - myself separately. And in any case there cannot ever have existed a close relation between us, for, judging from the buttons of your undress uniform, your service is being performed in another department than my own."

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Trapezium Dave: Oct 22, 2012

David Rowe, on the current state of Australian politics:

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Ularg posted:

I actually like this comic. It's clever. Without knowing anything about the artist views, anyway.

It brings back some 30 year old memory of a sesame street skit I can barely remember where an animated man who might be a bird or something gets increasingly freaked out about his loud upstairs and downstairs neighbor.

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Ularg: Mar 2, 2010; Just tell me I'm exotic.

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

It brings back some 30 year old memory of a sesame street skit I can barely remember where an animated man who might be a bird or something gets increasingly freaked out about his loud upstairs and downstairs neighbor.

I keep thinking of one of those animated sections to the Hitchhiker's Guide movie that had scientists mad they never get invited to the party upstares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCf53ses22w

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Purgatory Glory: Feb 20, 2005

Trogdos! posted:

lol this is such a dumb cartoon

Someone needs to change trumps bubble to capture what the tweet said.

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Shangri-Law School: Feb 19, 2013

Regalingualius posted:

Isn't this the same person who made the Hypno-Donkey cartoons about how the Russian collaboration investigations are just a distraction?

Yep, same guy.

June 12

August 12

September 1

Then nothing at all after Mueller started his indictments.

Also, "Liberal, you're next!" is a reference to this charmer:

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Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

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SirSamVimes: Jul 21, 2008; ~* Challenge *~

A... good cartoon???

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King Possum III: Feb 15, 2016

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Regalingualius: Jan 7, 2012; We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.

Shangri-Law School posted:

Yep, same guy.

June 12

August 12

September 1

Then nothing at all after Mueller started his indictments.

Also, "Liberal, you're next!" is a reference to this charmer:

I can't help but get the impression that they're a conservative posing as an Antifa trying to poison the well. :thunk:

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TheDeadlyShoe: Feb 14, 2014

idk, seems about right for a fie-on-both-your-parties person who is too pure to compromise

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DACK FAYDEN: Feb 25, 2013; Bear Witness

Regalingualius posted:

I can't help but get the impression that they're a conservative posing as an Antifa trying to poison the well.

I think, based on the art style, he had one early this year that wasn't total garbage:

but still he really does kind of come off as false-flaggy which I guess just makes me A Liberal

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Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Regalingualius posted:

I can't help but get the impression that they're a conservative posing as an Antifa trying to poison the well.

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

idk, seems about right for a fie-on-both-your-parties person who is too pure to compromise

DACK FAYDEN posted:

I think, based on the art style, he had one early this year that wasn't total garbage:

but still he really does kind of come off as false-flaggy which I guess just makes me A Liberal

Nah, I'll do you one better.

# ? Nov 14, 2017 07:12

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Alhazred posted:

That's the saddest Zelda ever.

Time to call the daughter.

# ? Nov 14, 2017 07:13

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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