Politoons 2022: I am the Warax, I speak for the MICs

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J.A.B.C.: Jul 2, 2007; There's no need to rush to be an adult.

Raised By Birds posted:

Gary Varvel

Kinda surprised Varvel highlighted Falun Gong. Maybe the 'murder the CCP subhuman' side was more attractive than the 'God will bring a second flood to cleanse all the Non-Falun' part that includes him.

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# ? May 23, 2024 08:54

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

Raised By Birds posted:

Joel Pett

What a subtly aggravating cartoon. I think starting w/ a judge who is "decent, honest, apolitical" predisposed me not to like it though.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 13:30

Ugly John: Jul 18, 2009; [img]https://forums.somethingawful.com/attachment.php?postid=514899866[/img]

Raised By Birds posted:

Henry Payne

It's time for Payne's annual whinging over the Oscar nominations!

Noted unpopular movie, Dune

# ? Feb 10, 2022 16:39

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

You thought they�d pick a popular gently caress?

# ? Feb 10, 2022 16:41

Apple Pie Hubbub: Feb 14, 2012; Take that, you greedy jerk!

# ? Feb 10, 2022 16:45

Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

Ugly John posted:

Noted unpopular movie, Dune

Movie with *gasp!* subtitles!

# ? Feb 10, 2022 16:45

Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

No, Ducky! A democrat is in office! Higher covid numbers are GOOD now!

# ? Feb 10, 2022 16:52

Vib Rib: Jul 23, 2007; God damn this shit is
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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

1

Wow, topical!

# ? Feb 10, 2022 17:02

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Ugly John posted:

Noted unpopular movie, Dune

Also widely unpopular movie, Don't Look Up.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 17:44

Neito: Feb 18, 2009; 😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Simple. "Dying of Covid" is a real thing that happens, "Dying with Covid" is a meaningless distinction you drew because your head can be used to rethread needles.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 17:49

disposablewords: Sep 12, 2021

Neito posted:

Simple. "Dying of Covid" is a real thing that happens, "Dying with Covid" is a meaningless distinction you drew because your head can be used to rethread needles.

Right-wingers actually believe that random other causes of death have been getting misreported as caused by COVID for a variety of conspiracy theory related reasons. Hell, plenty are still genuinely upset that people going to the hospital for some other problem, and then testing positive for COVID, is included in COVID numbers. Because those magically aren't supposed to count as real cases, somehow.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 17:57

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

Guardian:

"Martin Rowson on Boris Johnson�s rebirth � Scotland Yard is considering whether to investigate Boris Johnson over the funding of his Downing Street flat renovation after Labour�s lawyers claimed there was a �reasonable suspicion�� that he had broken anti-bribery laws" After Botticelli.

Telegraph:

NHS waiting lists will soar no matter what, warns Sajid Javid

Matt:

Independent:

Times:

Billionaire Tory donor calls for Boris Johnson to resign

Evening Standard:

Boris Johnson plans to end England�s Covid rules a month early

# ? Feb 10, 2022 19:26

PowerBeard: Sep 4, 2011

Cloud Potato posted:

Independent:

Now that's just rude, making him that small.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 20:03

Trapezium Dave: Oct 22, 2012

Pope:

ACL = Australian Christian Lobby. Government shelves religious freedom bill indefinitely, leaving election promise hanging in uncertainty (ABC).
Enough Liberal MPs had crossed the floor in the lower house to amend the bill to add protections for trans students. The ACL said this "completely undermined" the bill and wanted the bill removed rather than passed in this form. The government briefly toyed with the idea of attempting to strip the trans student protection amendment in the Senate but their numbers are worse there (plus also Liberal senators who would cross the floor) so instead they are shelving the bill until after the election.

Wilcox:

Scott Morrison and opposition leader Anthony Albanese. The politics being played over the religious discrimination bill was to set up a wedge for Labor but the result was Morrison wedging his own side.

Rowe:

Peter Dutton has plumbed new and dangerous depths by suggesting China is backing Labor (Guardian)

Leak, Son of Leak:

Victims call for forensic lab inquiry (The Australian, paywalled).

# ? Feb 10, 2022 21:40

SubG: Aug 19, 2004; It's a hard world for little things.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

1

1998.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 22:04

VitalSigns: Sep 3, 2011

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

2

Wait why did the informed author insert and the clueless questioner swap roles between strips

Did they Freaky Friday into each other's bodies mid conversation? Did Stantis just copypaste the characters next to the wrong speech bubbles and then just left it? Am I paying more attention to his lovely strip than the guy writing it? Have I wasted my life??

# ? Feb 10, 2022 22:44

kartikeya: Mar 17, 2009

Somehow the Clinton specific brokebrain just never fails to surprise me. My mother had a Trumpy friend who told me around 2017-ish that her mother had kept boxes full of documents about how the Clintons were super duper amaze evil.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 22:46

Raised By Birds: May 5, 2013

quote:

DEATH AND TAXES

Frank Chordov�s landmark book, �The Income Tax, Root of All Evil,� makes an excellent case for the necessity of private property, which should rightfully be owned by those who worked for it. He wrote,

��The right of ownership is traceable to the right to life, which is certainly inherent in the human being. Property rights are in fact human rights. A society built around the denial of this fact is, or must become, a slave society.�

Socialists will describe it differently. They�ll say you�ll own nothing and be happy, but what the �might-makes-right� socialists really have in mind is totalitarianism. A government that controls everyone on a granular level.

The first income tax was put in place by President Lincoln, who became a tyrant during the Civil War. To pay for his ongoing campaign of carnage, he wanted an �excise� tax on all income, but it was really a direct tax, which our Constitution prohibits. It started out as a flat 3 percent tax on income, but when that wasn�t enough he moved to a graduated tax to pay for his killing machine. Lincoln kicked off the trend toward larger government and empire. He laid the foundation for the 16th Amendment. Lincoln freed the slaves, but then made it inevitable that more slaves were created.

Mel Stamper also revealed Lincoln�s tax on income and he delved deep into the origins of the Internal Revenue Service. In his book, �Fruit from A Poisonous Tree,� Stamper tells us that the IRS originated not from law, but from trusts associated with conquered territories after the war with Spain. The Philippines, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia were required to pay taxes, not American citizens, yet due to fear and force, Americans complied with the fraud. Stamper writes,

�My investigation discovered that, except for the very few who are engaged in specific or licensed activities, the Citizens of the fifty states of the united Sates of America have never been required to file or pay �income taxes.� Americans who have been frightened into filing and paying �income taxes� have been robbed. Millions of lives have been ruined. Thousands of innocent people have been imprisoned on the pretense they violated a law that does not exist.�

Unfortunately the 16th Amendment was introduced along with the Federal Reserve in 1913. The absolute right of property in the United States has been since forever violated. It was the year Americans were sent down a path toward slavery. The result of this system is a 30 trillion dollar un-payable debt, an ever-growing government that strips us of our liberties, a worldwide empire, and a Gestapo-like IRS.

When we sign the tax forms we collaborate with tyranny. I�m starting to see the tax commercials again and they try to make taxes fun�like playing a game. Use our software, it�s fast and easy and you will win the game! You may get back some of your own money if you play their game properly. I�ve even seen outfits with the name �Liberty Tax Service.� It�s sick. They say filing and paying taxes is voluntary, but those who don�t volunteer can end up in prison. That fear keeps us filing, but when we do we violate our own 5th Amendment protection about testifying against ourselves.

Once they obtain our signed confessions, the IRS can use them against us however it likes. After all, the tax code is so ridiculously long that many can�t even say how many pages it is, let alone understand its contents, After poking around the Internet it appears to be about 3,000 pages. Will anyone except tax lawyers read all of that? No, but that doesn�t mean the IRS can�t leverage plenty of legalese to hang you on a technicality if it so desires. They�re the hangmen and we deserve to get hanged by signing our own financial death warrants.

Consider this also: Our leviathan government doesn�t even need our tax dollars. They can order the Federal Reserve to print up endless trillions of dollars to fund their wars and corruption. Sure, you�ll get to pay interest on the debt via income taxes, but it can never be paid off. It�s a lesson in futility and slavery.

How to end it? Stop filing. If millions of us did that, it would send a clear message just as the truckers in Canada are currently sending a clear message to the tyrants in Ottawa.

One man, Peymon Mottahedeh, has successfully proven that we aren�t required to file. He won his court case and his organization is helping Americans learn how avoid IRS tyranny. Here is a link to his organization:

Freedom Law School

� Ben Garrison

Freeing slaves: Good.
Actually regaining control over the region you declared the slaves free in: Bad.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 23:00

fool of sound: Oct 10, 2012

Lmao yeah Ben I'm looking forward to you not filing your taxes. That usually goes great for people.

e: Oh lol that website demands that you mail them all your tax info and correspondences in order to gain their benefits.

# ? Feb 10, 2022 23:05

LanceHunter: Nov 12, 2016; Beautiful People Club

kartikeya posted:

Somehow the Clinton specific brokebrain just never fails to surprise me. My mother had a Trumpy friend who told me around 2017-ish that her mother had kept boxes full of documents about how the Clintons were super duper amaze evil.

Clinton became president after 12 years of Republicans. In those 12 years the right-wing media landscape had been birthed and they immediately jumped on Clinton as this supreme super-villain. So much of the poo poo that started the ball rolling was wildly petty when viewed from today's lens: He was a draft-dodger! He protested the Vietnam war! His wife wasn't a stay-at-home mother!

The right-wing talk shows would start with that and then freewheel a bunch of conspiracy theories, and next thing you know there was the "Clinton body count".

# ? Feb 10, 2022 23:14

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.

Ben straight up promoting a sovcit tax protestor group. Excellent.

edit: oh jeez, I think it's straight up litigating the use of "US" versus "U.S." versus "United States" in tax forms.

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Feb 10, 2022

# ? Feb 10, 2022 23:48

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

Discendo Vox posted:

Ben straight up promoting a sovcit tax protestor group. Excellent.

edit: oh jeez, I think it's straight up litigating the use of "US" versus "U.S." versus "United States" in tax forms.

Watta shocking development!

# ? Feb 10, 2022 23:55

Asimo: Sep 23, 2007

I think we're kind of overlooking the whole "savage tyrant murder Lincoln" bit there. Talk about a dog ~~whistle~~foghorn.

# ? Feb 11, 2022 00:47

Stultus Maximus: Dec 21, 2009; USPOL May

Asimo posted:

I think we're kind of overlooking the whole "savage tyrant murder Lincoln" bit there. Talk about a dog ~~whistle~~foghorn.

PARTY OF LINCOLN WHO WE ALSO HATE

# ? Feb 11, 2022 00:51

Prism: Dec 22, 2007; yospos

Ben Garrison posted:

In his book, �Fruit from A Poisonous Tree,� Stamper tells us that the IRS originated not from law, but from trusts associated with conquered territories after the war with Spain. The Philippines, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia were required to pay taxes, not American citizens, yet due to fear and force, Americans complied with the fraud.

I can't think of any world where Washington, DC is a conquered territory from Spain, and yet that's exactly what Ben is claiming here. (Also, I thought residents of DC were American citizens...?)

# ? Feb 11, 2022 01:35

Republicans: Oct 14, 2003; - More money for us

- Fuck you

fool of sound posted:

Lmao yeah Ben I'm looking forward to you not filing your taxes. That usually goes great for people.

e: Oh lol that website demands that you mail them all your tax info and correspondences in order to gain their benefits.

Yeah their racket is selling you tax avoidance schemes that don't work. There's no shortage of stories about people who followed their advice and went to jail for tax evasion.

# ? Feb 11, 2022 01:37

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.

Case literally in point:

US Dept of Justice posted:

Tax Defier and Member of Freedom Law School Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion
Used Warehouse Bank, Prepaid Debit Cards, Cashier�s Checks, and Postal Money Orders to Conceal Income and Assets From IRS

A Point Richmond, California man was sentenced to serve 33 months in prison yesterday for tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department�s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch of the Northern District of California.

In June, Richard Thomas Grant, 63, was found guilty of three counts of tax evasion following a jury trial in Oakland, California. In 2001, Grant stopped filing individual income tax returns and paying income taxes despite the fact that he received significant income as a partner with Grant Engineering & Manufacturing, an engineering company in Richmond. In 2003, Grant stopped filing annual partnership returns for Grant Engineering, even though he continued to pay a CPA to prepare these returns. That same year, Grant became a member of Freedom Law School and paid thousands of dollars in yearly membership fees. While the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) attempted to collect unpaid taxes owed by Grant for 2001 and 2002, and attempted to examine Grant�s taxes for subsequent years, Grant, with the assistance of Freedom Law School and its founder, Peymon Mottahedeh, attempted to frustrate the IRS�s actions by, among other things, filing multiple and ultimately unsuccessful law suits in various jurisdictions.

For the charged years 2005 through 2009, Grant�s partnership income was $509,339, $566,741, $486,062, $598,977 and $604,706, respectively.

In an effort to conceal his assets and income, in 2005, Grant significantly curbed the use of his checking accounts and began depositing his partnership distributions at a warehouse bank known as MyICIS in Berryville, Arkansas. Warehouse banks can be used to conceal ownership of funds in part by commingling such funds with those of other individuals. Between April 2005 and October 2006, Grant wrote hundreds of checks drawn on the MyICIS account and funded multiple prepaid debit cards. Grant used the checks and debit cards to pay his mortgage and other personal expenses.

After the federal government shut down MyICIS, Grant used another bank to convert his partnership distributions to cashier�s checks and cash in order to avoid depositing the funds into a bank account and used the cashier�s checks to pay his mortgage and other high-dollar personal expenses. He also used cash to purchase dozens of U.S. Postal money orders to pay other bills and expenses, including utilities, taxes and expenses related to his classic aircraft.

In addition to the term of prison imposed, Grant was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $402,457.39.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ciraolo and U.S. Attorney Stretch commended agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, who conducted the investigation, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Colin Sampson and Trial Attorney Matthew Kluge of the Tax Division, who prosecuted the case.

Additional information about the Tax Division and its enforcement efforts may be found on the division�s website.

# ? Feb 11, 2022 01:45

Vib Rib: Jul 23, 2007; God damn this shit is
fuckin' re-dic-a-liss
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Republicans posted:

Yeah their racket is selling you tax avoidance schemes that don't work. There's no shortage of stories about people who followed their advice and went to jail for tax evasion.

Nah, I'm pretty sure the IRS is basically a leprechaun or a brownie or something and if you just recite the proper magic words at them they'll lose all their power and have to let you free.
You'll piss them off and they'll want to target you more, but you're untouchable via this weird loophole you and no one else figured out so all they can do is shrug their shoulders and go "aw shucks!"

# ? Feb 11, 2022 01:49

Technowolf: Nov 4, 2009

# ? Feb 11, 2022 02:07

Twelve by Pies: May 4, 2012; Again a very likpatous story

The "death from covid/with covid" distinction talk from right wingers just reminds me of that dude from Chatterbox in GTA 3. The one who was like "Nobody's ever died from being shot by a bullet! They die of cardiac arrest or organ failure or massive blood loss, a small piece of metal ain't the problem!"

# ? Feb 11, 2022 02:51

Raised By Birds: May 5, 2013

Lalo Alcaraz

Nick Anderson

Lisa Benson

Steve Breen

Chris Britt

Jeff Danziger

Matt Davies

Joe Heller

Clay Jones

Steve Kelley

Marty Two Bulls

Jack Ohman

Henry Payne

Michael Ramirez

Drew Sheneman

Tom Stiglich

Dana Summers

Gary Varvel

Matt Wuerker

Tony Branco

quote:

Overqualified Biden may need an Equity Crack Czar for his new drug policy but is Hunter overqualified.

# ? Feb 11, 2022 05:35

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.

Kellies nominations update: I'm now ~40% of the way through initial processing. My apologies for the ongoing delay. A goon has very kindly offered to attempt the development of tools that will make the nomination processing much faster in the future and spare my aching wrists.

# ? Feb 11, 2022 05:50

DalaranJ: Apr 15, 2008; Yosuke will now die for you.

Cloud Potato posted:

Telegraph:

NHS waiting lists will soar no matter what, warns Sajid Javid

Blower, did it occur to you that maybe you're getting bad service because they're underfunded?

# ? Feb 11, 2022 07:55

Vib Rib: Jul 23, 2007; God damn this shit is
fuckin' re-dic-a-liss
🍖🍖😛🍖🍖

"Hunter Biden is now the CRACK czar for the CRACK house under CRACK biden!!!"*
*NOT A JOKE, ACTUALLY REAL!!!! NOT A JOKE!!!
Source: I made it up lol

# ? Feb 11, 2022 08:13

Trapezium Dave: Oct 22, 2012

Rall: Can We Make It President Breyer?

Ted Rall posted:

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was pressured to retire by Democrats who are worried that Republicans would re-capture the Senate and would get to choose his replacement in the event that he were to die at the age of 83. Meanwhile, there is no pressure whatsoever to replace President Joe Biden, even though his mental and physical state are clearly not as sharp as Breyer's.

First Dog on the Moon: Good riddance to the koala bear, Australia's most useless animal!

# ? Feb 11, 2022 09:26

axolotl farmer: May 17, 2007; Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Prediction: soon there's going to be an American flag with a gold fringe in a cartoon by Ben Garrison (the cartoonist) not BEN GARRISON the strawman who ows taxes.

# ? Feb 11, 2022 09:30

kartikeya: Mar 17, 2009

Trapezium Dave posted:

Rall: Can We Make It President Breyer?

First Dog on the Moon: Good riddance to the koala bear, Australia's most useless animal!

Rall: "We should get rid of Biden for being too old by replacing him with someone even older, now excuse me while I go make some more cartoons about what a shrieking harpy Kamala Harris is."

# ? Feb 11, 2022 09:59

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

DalaranJ posted:

Blower, did it occur to you that maybe you're getting bad service because they're underfunded?

Your point is invalid because HMRC is also underfunded.

# ? Feb 11, 2022 10:19

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

DalaranJ posted:

Blower, did it occur to you that maybe you're getting bad service because they're underfunded?

Don't be silly, the only possible solution is to privatise. This will definitely result in it costing less money, just like in the US where healthcare costs are never a problem for anyone, i assume

# ? Feb 11, 2022 10:54

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Aztec Galactus: Sep 12, 2002

Garrison's "lincoln set this country on a path toward slavery" is certainly a take

# ? Feb 11, 2022 12:39

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