Angepain posted:

I suspect this might be something of a send-off for Sinfest - Space Cadet Omoly seems to not be posting it anymore and half the thread wanted it to stop anyway.

Tibalt posted:

Yes

The reaction has been hilarious, especially considering that "Joker is pregnant!" is absolutely a golden age story.

Trapezium Dave posted:

It's been interesting watching how quickly the TERF stuff consumed everything in Sinfest. Back in 2020 the plotlines and characters were insane but at least they were there. I can't remember if anything happened in 2022 other than baby new year was born, became a handmaid then died. I guess Monique sulked for a bit in an alt-right diner? That was the year?

Angepain posted:

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idonotlikepeas posted:

In this world of his comic, God is definitely real and multiple main characters have evidence of the no-poo poo existence of both God and Satan and various devils. Of course, God is also a huge jerk in the comic, and I assume we're supposed to forget about that part at this point and take it as a comment on the real world instead.

Vib Rib posted:

This isn't even a joke. It's just a character turning to the camera and going "YES. THE CHRISTIAN GOD IS REAL."

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Ted Rall posted:

Ever since Donald Trump became president, Democrats have taken to equating the fate of their own party to the fate of American democracy. In a two-party system, the logical conclusion is that this is profoundly undemocratic.

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STRIKE 14. ON THE 15TH VOTE MCCARTHY HAS BEEN ELECTED SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.
STRIKE 11, STRIKE 12, STRIKE 13…
STRIKE 7, STRIKE 8, STRIKE 9, STRIKE 10…. POSTED CARTOON UPDATE 01/05/2023
STRIKE 3, STRIKE 4, STRIKE 5….STRIKE 6 POSTED 01/04/2023
BREAKING: 4TH US HOUSE VOTE FOR SPEAKER – MCCARTHY LOSES 4TH VOTE AS CONSERVATIVES VOTE FOR BYRON DONALDS
BREAKING :MCCARTHY LOSES 5TH VOTE FOR SPEAKER TRIES TO BROKER DEAL WITH DEMS FOR SPEAKERSHIP
BREAKING :MCCARTHY LOSES 6TH VOTE FOR SPEAKER
Yesterday Kevin McCarthy lost his bid for Speaker of the House in three consecutive votes.

It was the first time in 100 years that Speakership was not decided in the first vote.

YOU DON’T ‘DRAIN THE SWAMP’ BY PUTTING THE ALLIGATOR IN CHARGE.
Today the RINO establishment is resorting to threats.

Rep. Mike Rogers Threatened 20 Conservative Lawmakers to vote for McCarthy or be Stripped from Committees and Primaried from Office.

Will MAGA be threatened into submission?

Or Will MAGA republicans rip the leash out of the RINO establishment’s hands?

A determined band of Republicans are playing hardball. They refuse to support Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of The House. McCarthy, who is a status-quo supporter of the Deep State Globalist Swamp, struck out three times yesterday. He could not muster the necessary votes from his own party. Let’s hope this continues today. We need to take stand and refuse to go along with uni-party politicians who are destroying the country and our rights.

President Trump needs to renounce McCarthy. Trump did his best to work within the system during his first term. As a result, he was backstabbed and the Swamp did not get drained. To drain the Swamp, we need the MAGA-minded in control of the House and maybe in two more years, the Senate as well.

This morning Trump endorsed McCarthy.

WILL MCCARTHY TAKE A KNEE AND KISS THE TRUMP RING?
We will find out.

The House will vote again this afternoon.

Developing story check back for updates.

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LOOKING FOR A DRIVER- ALLIGATORS ONLY APPLY
Today is the second anniversary of the January 6th protest of the stolen election. Never forget our fellow patriots still locked up in Pelosi’s gulag for two years. Freedom Friday, release the January 6 protestors.

MAGA Republican voters have got to be frustrated. If we’re lucky, we are able to see our chosen representatives sent to Congress. Unfortunately too many of them become Swamp dwellers. They go along to get along. Many turn into RINOs (Republican In Name Only) and meld together with the Democrats to form what’s known as the “Uni-Party.” They then vote for massive spending packages that they don’t even read. The trillions of dollars spent drives up inflation for the average man. They vote for funding an insane war that we have no stake in. Over $100 billion has gone to Ukraine only to further the corruption and death there. Yes, too many Republicans are in favor of this war, because they love the Military Industrial Complex and do their bidding.

Sean Hannity, the war monger and establishment shill at Fox News, was in angry form as he barked at Representative Lauren Boebert because she’s one of 20 who are holding up the election of Kevin McCarthy to House Speaker. Hannity yelled that we needed ‘governance’ to resume. That got me thinking. Why? What has the House and indeed the Senate and White House done for us lately? They’ve done nothing to help our border while at the same time they loudly applauded a tyrant and his sacred borders of Ukraine.

Politicians are elected and get fabulously rich and enjoy generous benefits while they sit back and invent ways to stick it to American citizens. Congress has brought us the NDAA, the so-called “Patriot Act,” (should be renamed “UNpatriotic Act”), as well as 87,000 IRS agents ready to harass the average Joe. This is what Congress does. They steal from voters by means of taxes. They stab their voters in the back the first chance they get with legislation that limits freedom. The twenty Republicans who actually listen to their voters have had enough of it and are holding up the show. This enrages Hannity (who claimed not to know what the Bilderberg meetings were) and power brokers such as Karl Rove, who helped rig Republican primaries against Ron Paul during the latter’s campaigns for president.

Maybe it’s a good thing not to have any governance for awhile. Stick it to the Swamp! Let’s have a bit of anarchism, which means more freedom. Even if for a short while.

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UNI-PARTY, “WE’RE BACK IN BUSINESS BABY!”
Cartoon Published January 8th, 2023
Now that the House has elected a Speaker, they can begin governing everyone again. Many were terrified at the prospect of not having a functioning government there to tell them what to do while enacting new and expensive legislation that robs their pockets and liberty. Those who worship big government can now get back on their knees and spout a prayer of thanks.

Speaker McCarthy is a very experienced politician and that’s not a good thing. It means he’s used to compromising and getting along to go along. He revealed his ‘tell’ in his acceptance speech. He invoked the name of Lincoln and how great that president was and blah blah blah. Lincoln was NOT a great president. He is worshipped because he was the victor of a bloody Civil War. Schoolbooks mold young minds and they end up parroting the statist praise. Lincoln caused the deaths of 620,000 men. 1.5 million casualties total when the injured are factored in and that’s a huge number considering the US population was around 31 million back then. Lincoln trampled on the Constitution and arrested his political opponents. He helped create a strong central government and weakened the rights of individual states. Big government has grown ever since and now it’s a dominating leviathan of force and power. Our politicians love that power and all the money that goes with it.

Everyone saw how angry McCarthy became when one of the last MAGA holdouts, Matt Gaetz refused to vote for him. The Neocon RINO Representative Mike Rogers of Alabama was so incensed that he seemed to threaten violence toward Gaetz. This is not surprising, because Rogers probably thought his gravy train was being unduly delayed. Too many go to Congress ostensibly to represent their voters, but when they get there they go along with the Uniparty and then they get very rich due to insider trading and kickbacks. They get very comfortable and end up doing all they can to support the Swamp rather than drain it.

Promises were made this time around, but to me they were made to be broken. Let’s start with cancelling the 87,000 armed IRS agents who will be ready to swoop down on the middle class and destroy them. We know the socialist Democrats love the IRS. They pretend the IRS will go after the rich, but the middle class can’t afford tax lawyers, so they will suffer the most. The Democrats will never relinquish their power to transfer money from hard working people and give it to various victims du jour. The RINOs will be enlisted to go along. Most likely we’ll see a small cut in the amount of those new IRS agents—and you can be sure the Republicans will cynically trumpet it as a victory.

The Republican Party loves to complain, but they do little to stop the spending, the debt, the open borders, and the open corruption taking place. That’s because they benefit from many of those problems. The complaining is for the benefit of their voters. Trey Gowdy did this when he was a Representative in the House. Now that he’s on Fox News, he parrots the warmonger establishment NeoCon, Sean Hannity. Remember, when the Republicans were in charge during Trump’s first two years, the wall was not built, and real change was not made. Expect more of the same inertia.

The Republican-controlled House has to put up or shut up. At this point I’m in ‘show me’ mode.

I have a feeling they’ll show us the same old same old.

Ben posted:

President Trump needs to renounce McCarthy. Trump did his best to work within the system during his first term. As a result, he was backstabbed and the Swamp did not get drained. To drain the Swamp, we need the MAGA-minded in control of the House and maybe in two more years, the Senate as well.

This morning Trump endorsed McCarthy.

Trapezium Dave posted:

Rall: It's My Party and I'll Conflate If I Want To

idonotlikepeas posted:

Mike Smith

Trapezium Dave posted:

Do cartoonists try to outdo themselves by how out of date their game controllers are because that is some Spacewar! vintage gear.

Nenonen posted:

It's just some gizmo™️. I'm more intrigued by that game, apparently it's a 2D side scroller shooting game where your character's upper body takes up 20% of the screen and you have a scoped rifle but can't see what you are aiming at. Those are the best games.

Nenonen posted:

It's just some gizmo™️. I'm more intrigued by that game, apparently it's a 2D side scroller shooting game where your character's upper body takes up 20% of the screen and you have a scoped rifle but can't see what you are aiming at. Those are the best games.

Mordaedil posted:

This is so weird as a viewpoint, from a Norwegian stance at least. It's not like Democrats all agree on every point, even here there's like 12 different flavors of parties competing. Saying "well, it wouldn't be democratic if it was only the Democratic Party" is actually insane to me. American options are basically infighting or accepting fascism.

Trapezium Dave posted:

Do cartoonists try to outdo themselves by how out of date their game controllers are because that is some Spacewar! vintage gear.*

Lareine posted:

idonotlikepeas posted:

"Don't worry, he'll put on an rear end in a top hat puppet show for your friend later."

kartikeya posted:

Vib Rib posted:

Still laughing at the personification of 2022 dying on January 8th 2023. You know, the date when the year is over.

Pants Donkey posted:

Ben is going to make a comic sympathetic to Bolsonarno’s personal coup attempt, isn’t he?

idonotlikepeas posted:

It's been pointed out a bunch of times, but if you put the loving personification of a year in your comic and have that person die on New Year's Day... like, maybe make those things line up? It's not like you don't know the new year is coming. You know, when you switch the calendar over to December or maybe even November you might want to make a plan about how you're going to handle this.

Randalor posted:

I'm fine with last Sunday being the last Sinfest Sunday. He's gone full-on right wing, incel apologist, born again "Christian", swerf/terf, and I think the only things he's missing on the extremist bingo card was "outright neo-nazi" and "holocaust denier".

Nenonen posted:

It's just some gizmo™️. I'm more intrigued by that game, apparently it's a 2D side scroller shooting game where your character's upper body takes up 20% of the screen and you have a scoped rifle but can't see what you are aiming at. Those are the best games.

ZZT the Fifth posted:

Missing-ish? He's done a bunch of anti-semitic tropes and poo poo; an Einstein caricature devil using "fractional reserve banking" to "subjugate the masses"; complaining about "globalists", the Bilderberg Group, reptilians and the Rothschilds; the whole blood libel poo poo talking about using the blood of children to make eternal youth pills....

Also the whole pandering to 4chan's /pol/ with extremely old memes (loving Pedobear, really?) and also, just in the last week or two, pandering to Reddit's long-gone "frenworld" nazi hideout a what with the pink handmaid going "FREN FREN FREN" and then Ishida adding cut-and-pasted deformed pepe variants used in Frenworld to the ones he'd already drawn, in the middle of a Sunday strip that he was ostensibly trying to evoke pathos with.

If he isn't already down the nazi rabbit hole, he's definitely trying to look up what the Extremely Online nazis are into so he can go "How do you do, fellow young nazis?"