RoboRodent posted:

I had a suspicion when I saw it that Garrison was trying for Laocoön, but it's a pretty lovely rendition of a really fabulous statue. Laocoön deserves better.

But the thing about Laocoön is that we don't really know why he was being tortured by serpents. Virgil, in the Aenid, says Laocoön was a Trojan priest who tried to reveal the ruse of the Trojan Horse, but was punished for daring to strike what was meant to be a divine object, even if he was ultimately correct. I'm sure Garrison likes this interpretation.

But the story of Laocoön is older, from a play by Sophocles centuries earlier, but the actual play is lost. Enough people wrote about the play that we know this version is that Laocoön was supposed to be celibate but married and had children, and this was his divine punishment. Other versions say that Laocoön's crime was not the marriage itself, but rather loving his wife in the temple. Either way, Poseidon sent snakes to murder him and/or his sons, and their deaths were taken as divine proof that the Trojan Horse really was holy and should definitely be hauled into the city, because Laocoön was the one doubting it.

So, as usual, Garrison is bad at metaphor.

Tibalt posted:

Shouldn't they increase precautions if cases are getting worse? Why would easing them be the response to surpassing England?

Vib Rib posted:

Calm down everyone, that Mallard was Fishman, not Tinsley.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Even so it's a pretty damned rare event.

the_steve posted:

Fishman does give us a punchline every once in awhile, just remember that this doesn't make him a secret leftist and that we do not gotta hand it to him.

Raised By Birds posted:

Henry Payne

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

By popular demand posted:

I hope Payne gets punched the gently caress out for this poo poo.

E: lemme just quote wikipedia on this-

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Who injured the officer who died in the hospital?

By popular demand posted:

Remember: if someone was to inflict bodily harm to Payne but he lives, nothing wrong happened.

Pants Donkey posted:

One two three....

*hic*

Well he drinks around the world from Koval to Cantinero
he's a bloated-bellied belcher from Broadside down to Bailey’s
he'll take you for a ride on a weird buzz from Bud Zero
Tell me where in the world is motherfuckin’ Tinsley?
Sold his soul to Sailor Jerry, made Alexander cry Uncle
From the Red Stripe to Grey Goose he’ll be payin’ his dues
Well they also Exshaw him steal the Mezan so we grumble
Tell me where in the world is motherfuckin’ Tinsley?
He’ll go from Nelson’s to Nordès, Boatyard to Zubrowka
Corona to City of London and back!
Well he'll ransack Regal Rogue and run a tab in Tabernacle
Then he'll bottoms up some Foster’s and go pick-pocket Pabst
he put the Sir in cirrhosis when he spewed the brews from Axle
Tell me where in the world is motherfuckin’ Tinsley?
Oh tell me where in the world is... Oh tell me where can he be?
Ooh, Bacardi to Teeling, Miller chasin' Anheuser,
Moët & Chandon, Old Style, Woo-Hoo...!

Well he glugs around the globe and he'd guzzle each libation
he's a double-dosing drunkard with a taste for wineries
His itinerary's loaded up with driving violations

Tell me where in the world is motherfuckin’ Tinsley?
Tell me where in the world is motherfuckin’ Tinsley?
Tell me where in the world is motherfuckin’ Tinsley?
Tell me where in the world is motherfuckin’ Tinsley?
Tell me where in the world is motherfuckin’ Tinsley?
Tell me where in the world is motherfuckin’ Tinsley?
Tell me where in the world is- where can he be?
Tell me where in the world is motherfuckin’ Tinsley

Ted Rall posted:

What's better to draw about, something people care about? Or something people should care about it? Guess which one pays better.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Who trampled the lady who got trampled to death? Who injured the officer who died in the hospital?

Raised By Birds posted:

Tom Stiglich

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Murdstone posted:

Maybe that particular promo was not aimed at the middle-aged white men in bars demographic. Maybe? Just something to consider.

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THEY WANT TO FILL THE CUP

Many still think Fauci works for the American people. Wrong. He may draw a $420,000 yearly salary from taxpayers, but he does not work in the interest of American citizens.

Fauci works for the interests of Big Pharma and in particular, Bill Gates.

Fauci doesn’t carry out research or experiments himself. He doesn’t necessarily even follow the science. He’s a bureaucrat who decides what kind of research gets funded. For that he takes orders from the centi-billionaires who own and control this planet. One of those main players is Bill Gates, who funds and controls many medical entities including the World Health Organization. Both Gates and his trained monkey (Fauci) anticipated, plotted, and predicted the current so-called ‘pandemic’ that continues to drag on. It only drags on because too many people allow it to go on by going along with the masks and the mandated vaccines.

Maybe I shouldn’t call Fauci a monkey out of respect for the 10,000 monkeys that Fauci helped to kill in completely useless experiments. Fauci made sure those experiments were well-funded, just like his cruel and useless experiments on innocent beagles. Anyone who can treat animals with such unnecessary cruelty will not hesitate to do the same to humans. Fauci’s ‘gain of function’ funding proves he’s a mass murderer.

What he has done is a crime against humanity but for some reason he still keeps his job. He’s not even arrested for his blatant lies to Congress.

Gates is also a mass murdering globalist. Both Gates and Fauci want to lessen the world’s population through deadly vaccines. They’re probably ready to grind out a new viral variation as you read this.

— Ben Garrison

Raised By Birds posted:

Ben "Deus Ex was a Documentary" Garrison