Political Cartoons 2018: A Penny For Your Blots

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3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

World Famous W posted:

The amount of ratty rear end old flayed American flags I see hanging up right next to a pristine confederate flag in people's yards annoys me.

Mostly for the confederate flag part but also because they are the same people who'll get in my face about not loving this country enough.

But mostly I just hate the confederate flag and those who wave it.

Is it because they are all literally nazis or because they are all literally other kinds of white supremacist?

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:16

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# ? Jun 2, 2024 06:01

Crunch Buttsteak: Feb 26, 2007; You think reality is a circle of salt around my brain keeping witches out?

DalaranJ posted:

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: "The president did not poo poo himself."

Trump on Twitter, at 1:00 AM the next day: "Obama poo poo himself all the time, but the fake news media didn't tell you! They only pay attention when I do it! If this useless Russia probe wasn't happening, I certainly wouldn't have poo poo myself, but look what they did! Sad!"

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:23

ewiley: Jul 9, 2003; More trash for the trash fire

Cloud Potato posted:

Independent:

glad to see that guy who draws butts on everything still getting work

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:26

Lodin: Jul 31, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

Here's a Puma. It runs in Dagbladet, the same paper Alhazred drags Zelda from.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:27

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

fool_of_sound posted:

https://twitter.com/MattBors/status/968599201650102272

Holy poo poo

Sometimes the poop touches us

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:28

SeANMcBAY: Jun 28, 2006; Look on the bright side.

Lodin posted:

Here's a Puma. It runs in Dagbladet, the same paper Alhazred drags Zelda from.

This reminds me of that PBF comic.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:28

Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

SeANMcBAY posted:

This reminds me of that PBF comic.

Pretty much a direct rip.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:29

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

Guardian:

"Martin Rowson on Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit speech � Labour leader attempts to outflank Tories by placing the customs union firmly on the table if Labour took over Brexit negotiations"

Telegraph:

Independent:

Times:

Mail:
Mac on... Jeremy Corbyn's future

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:29

side_burned: Nov 3, 2004; My mother is a fish.

Sandpuppy posted:

3

One of the things that dawned on me recently is that if we do arm teachers it is only a matter of time until a black child gets gunned down by a teacher. :smith:

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:34

Lodin: Jul 31, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

Pander posted:

Pretty much a direct rip.

SeANMcBAY posted:

This reminds me of that PBF comic.

It might be.
But also, the closest thing Norway has had to a School shooting was a crazy old lady pretty close to T�yen School who was waving a knife at a little girl. The cop shot her in the leg and the she got the help she needed.

Breivik is our only real shame when it comes to this sort of thing. That still stings but at least we can make fun of his suffering now.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:40

You Are A Werewolf: Apr 26, 2010; Black Gold!

DalaranJ posted:

Sarah Huckabee Sanders: "The president did not poo poo himself."

As I said in the lol Trump thread:

Reporter: "Mr. President, it appears that you have defecated yourself. How do you respond?"

Prez: "FAKE POOS!"

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:49

the_steve: Nov 9, 2005; We're always hiring!

side_burned posted:

One of the things that dawned on me recently is that if we do arm teachers it is only a matter of time until a black child gets gunned down by a teacher.

I've seen a couple memes and tweets where it's
"Can you imagine being the black teacher with a gun during a shooting situation?"

# ? Feb 28, 2018 01:59

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

the_steve posted:

I've seen a couple memes and tweets where it's
"Can you imagine being the black teacher with a gun during a shooting situation?"

More like, there�s gonna be a shooting situation as soon as a police officer sees them with the gun in almost any context.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 02:07

Saint Sputnik: Apr 1, 2007; Tyrannosaurs in P-51 Volkswagens!

the thread posted:

flagchat

Speaking of, here's a Mcnaughton I saw today

# ? Feb 28, 2018 02:24

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

Saint Sputnik posted:

Speaking of, here's a Mcnaughton I saw today

We got a pretty great Hannity tweet out of this.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 02:25

Crabtree: Oct 17, 2012; ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
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Saint Sputnik posted:

Speaking of, here's a Mcnaughton I saw today

GET THE gently caress OFF THE FIELD YOU VAGRANT! WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE A GAME HERE!

# ? Feb 28, 2018 02:38

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

Regalingualius posted:

Better yet, change the anthem to �This Land is Your Land�.

On the one hand, right-wingers might object that it was written by a socialist. On the other hand, so was the Pledge of Allegiance.

SeANMcBAY posted:

I feel bad for laughing at this nazi�s cartoon.

I laughed too. Don�t feel bad- Nazi Klurf has some comedic chops, even though his opinions are terrible.

D.N. Nation posted:

This is literally an argument from a 90s bumper sticker. Guess Skelley will be drawing Calvin pissing on Democrats next.

Hell, Larry the Cable Guy made this argument (�it�s like blaming my pencil for misspelling words�).

side_burned posted:

One of the things that dawned on me recently is that if we do arm teachers it is only a matter of time until a black child gets gunned down by a teacher.

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/02/you-realize-arming-teachers-is-going-to-lead-to-black-students-getting-murdered-by-their-teacher-right/

Jurgan fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Feb 28, 2018

# ? Feb 28, 2018 03:10

F_Shit_Fitzgerald: Feb 2, 2017

side_burned posted:

One of the things that dawned on me recently is that if we do arm teachers it is only a matter of time until a black child gets gunned down by a teacher.

I'm sure there are some (not here; I'm talking about Trumpers) who would consider that a feature and not a bug.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 03:13

Space Cadet Omoly: Jan 15, 2014; ~Groovy~

side_burned posted:

One of the things that dawned on me recently is that if we do arm teachers it is only a matter of time until a black child gets gunned down by a teacher.

Arming teachers is such a bad idea for so many reasons.

What if a teacher loses their temper and uses their gun on a student? What if an angry student gets the gun away from one of their teachers? High schools are already a high stress environment, I don't think adding deadly weapons would calm things down.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 03:26

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Arming teachers is such a bad idea for so many reasons.

What if a teacher loses their temper and uses their gun on a student? What if an angry student gets the gun away from one of their teachers? High schools are already a high stress environment, I don't think adding deadly weapons would calm things down.

Aside from those hypothetical scenarios, the list of liabilities and duties that would need to be hammered out is ridiculous.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 03:43

Wistful of Dollars: Aug 25, 2009

fool_of_sound posted:

https://twitter.com/MattBors/status/968599201650102272

lol

# ? Feb 28, 2018 03:48

Samurai Sanders: Nov 4, 2003; Pillbug

Stultus Maximus posted:

Aside from those hypothetical scenarios, the list of liabilities and duties that would need to be hammered out is ridiculous.

It�s like the people who support arming teachers don�t understand the modern concept of employment at all, not just in education. If you want an employee to do something new, no matter what it is, and be square with work contracts and the law and stuff, there�s difficult planning to be done.

Are they all house painters who get paid under the table or something?

Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Feb 28, 2018

# ? Feb 28, 2018 03:51

AnoHito: May 8, 2014

MrUnderbridge posted:

He's from the Fire Kingdom, duh...

Nah, things actually changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 03:52

KillerQueen: Jul 13, 2010

fool_of_sound posted:

https://twitter.com/MattBors/status/968599201650102272

Oh my. The speculation rabbit hole goes deep.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 04:04

Clunk Tap It: May 1, 2014

KillerQueen posted:

Oh my. The speculation rabbit hole goes deep.

I wonder if Bors thinks Shmorky is Red Panels guy.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 04:14

Grand Prize Winner: Feb 19, 2007

Clunk Tap It posted:

I wonder if Bors thinks Shmorky is Red Panels guy.

Can we be sure Shmorky isn't?

# ? Feb 28, 2018 04:19

Jagged Jim: Sep 26, 2013; I... I can only look though the window...

Saint Sputnik posted:

Speaking of, here's a Mcnaughton I saw today

He really nailed the "Elderly man suffering from dementia who wandered off the grounds of his nursing home" look here.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 04:20

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

Jurgan posted:

On the one hand, right-wingers might object that it was written by a socialist.

All the more reason to do it, then.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 04:36

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

AnoHito posted:

Nah, things actually changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

Goddamn, son.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 05:04

FronzelNeekburm: Jun 1, 2001; STOP, MORTTIME

SeANMcBAY posted:

This reminds me of that PBF comic.

FWIW, that strip has a slightly different punchline.

Jerry Cotton posted:

Isn't this how 1936 American media covered the 1936 Olympics?

Check out the last paragraph:

Skimming their archive, NYT did cover the fight in the Amateur Athletic Union over boycotting the Olympics, mostly in bottom-of-page snippets, but giving a fairly big headline to the text of their resolution opposing participation. Oddly, there's a lot of "Pastor so-and-so said this about the Olympics in his sermon on Sunday..." snippets. I guess that's a thing that got reported back then? In any case, here's the most notable article on that page:

Meanwhile, in the Washington Post, AP articles like:

or:

quote:

Some extremists advocate shifting the games to another country. They are, however, uninformed about the complicated Olympic system. It takes at least three years to prepare the setup for the quadrennial games. The structure cannot be shifted on short notice. If the 1936 games are not held in Berlin, they likely will not be held at all. Any attempt to move them, in fact, would precipitate the bitterest kind of an athletic conflict, dwarfing even the current manifestation of ill-feeling.
[...]
The Olympics are not awarded to a country or a national government, but specifically to a city. Thus the 1932 games were awarded to Los Angeles, not to the United States. The American Government had no part in the bidding, arrangements or conduct of the games. Thus it is not with the Hitler government, but with the city of Berlin that international Olympic authorities deal now, in preparation for the 1936 games. Unfortunately, perhaps, the distinction is thinly invisible to outsiders.

FronzelNeekburm fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Feb 28, 2018

# ? Feb 28, 2018 05:21

Fraction Jackson: Oct 27, 2007; Able to harness the awesome power of fractions

Stultus Maximus posted:

Aside from those hypothetical scenarios, the list of liabilities and duties that would need to be hammered out is ridiculous.

I mean, calling them "hypothetical" is kind of selling it short I think. These aren't really "in theory this could happen" scenarios, these are things that are almost certain to happen given enough time. Someone will try to steal a teacher's gun. A teacher will have a breakdown and shoot someone (or themselves). An accidental discharge will wound or kill someone. Given enough armed teachers and enough time these are pretty much statistical locks.

The rest of the point is well-taken though: what will individual teachers and schools and school districts need to have insurance-wise if they did this? How do you make policy for when teachers are allowed to use a weapon, how it can or can't be carried or stored, what kinds of weapons are allowed, weapons inspections, tests for firearms proficiency, and on, and on. And no one actually proposing the bullshit seems to have any real thoughts on those things - they're just reflexively going "more guns = more better" without taking any time to figure out how to do it.

And that's of course to say nothing of what a nightmare it'll be for first responders. When you've got a couple dozen people with guns running around, and most shootings get reported as being by multiple shooters at first because of echoes and confusion, how do you know that one or more of the school employees aren't the shooter? How do you even begin to secure anything? It's literally insane.

# ? Feb 28, 2018 05:24

Pretty good: Apr 16, 2007

The Bloop posted:

I will say, as an American who grew up saying the pledge of allegiance every morning in school, it might as well be gibberish. We start saying it so young that we don't understand half the words and fewer of the concepts, and it just becomes a thing you say, like singing a song in a language you don't understand. Even the name "pledge of allegiance" is just a blur of sounds and we don't generally think about it. "plejuva leejence" is like "elemenopee"

I'm not apologizing for it or anything, it's an archaic gross thing that should be abolished, but most kids aren't very indoctrinated by it beyond a vague sense that the flag is important to adults. In fact, by middle school it's already uncool to recite it and the cool kids just stand silently. This may vary based on how much camouflage is being worn in the classroom at the time.

This is pages back but I went to school in the US from ages 4-8 and I always did wonder who this Richard Stanz guy was

# ? Feb 28, 2018 05:31

Pretty good: Apr 16, 2007

Saint Sputnik posted:

Speaking of, here's a Mcnaughton I saw today

Buddy,

# ? Feb 28, 2018 05:40

Mister Mind: Mar 20, 2009; I'm not a real doctor,
But I am a real worm;
I am an actual worm

The Bloop posted:

Yeah, I was originally thinking America the Beautiful or ~~My Country 'Tis of Thee~~ God Save the Queen but I'm not about to suggest more official references to god

edit: lol, I didn't know how many uses this melody got - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_the_Queen#Use_elsewhere

# ? Feb 28, 2018 05:49

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

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Arming teachers is such a bad idea for so many reasons.

What if a teacher loses their temper and uses their gun on a student? What if an angry student gets the gun away from one of their teachers? High schools are already a high stress environment, I don't think adding deadly weapons would calm things down.

At a more prosaic level, I want to be thinking about teaching while I'm with my students. The last thing I need is the psychological stress of carrying a deadly weapon. I don't want to spend all my time thinking about what to do in case a shooter comes into the building. I've always been the type to think of worst case scenarios and spend time planning what to do in a crisis. I have planned what I would do if a gunman came into the building (I wonder if the windows are breakable), but having a gun on me would make it impossible to focus on just teaching.

Fundamentally, conservatives don't believe that there are problems that have to be addressed on a societal level. Instead of dealing with the mass of guns in the country, we expect individuals to solve them. We can't say that it's too easy to get guns, instead we say that there should be more armed people who will heroically save the day. If there was a security guard who didn't stop it, we argue about what the guard could have done differently rather than acknowledge that it never should have gotten to the point where one old man with a pistol is the only thing between hundreds of kids and a psychopath with a rifle.