Discendo Vox posted:

Kellies nomination: most easily reinterpreted. I think this category's going to get a lot of work this year.

Trapezium Dave posted:

Spooner:

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Vib Rib posted:

I want to tie Fishman to a chair and ask him to explain what exactly this metaphor means because every implication is abominable.

idonotlikepeas posted:

Adam Zyglis

Ben Garrison posted:

JOE BIDEN’S WEATHER FORECAST, “IT’S RAINING YEN”
Cartoon published 08/01/2023

Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, testified before the House Oversight Committee on Monday. He said Joe Biden was put on the speakerphone 20 times during Hunter’s business dinners and conferences with foreign nationals. Hunter’s clients were anxious to gain influence over his father. One of the calls occurred during a meeting with a Chinese private equity firm.

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Dan Goldman, a New York representative and Democrat, had the audacity to say the calls were probably benign. He claimed Joe was no doubt discussing family matters or the weather. (During Hunter’s business meetings?) At worst, Goldman suggested Hunter was merely using his dad as a lure to create the illusion that his clients could have access to his dad—for a price.

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Hunter was and is an incompetent drug fiend—and yet he was closing deals from which he made millions of dollars that were then laundered through a dozen or so shell companies owned by the Bidens. There’s no way an incompetent such as Hunter would have been appointed to the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma if he was not connected to a powerful brand name—his father.

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If Joe Biden had any ethics at all, he would have refused to engage with people during Hunter’s conference calls. Maybe he felt he was helping his beloved son, who he claims is the smartest man he knows. More likely Joe was fully engaged in the pay-for-play schemes and even arranged for his son to meet powerful entities in various countries. Money trails have already been confirmed and most in Joe’s family have benefitted. Joe also bragged about extorting Ukraine outright in order to get a prosecutor who was investigating Hunter and Burisma to back off. Joe threatened to withhold a billion dollars in US aid until the prosecutor was fired. Biden shamelessly and gleefully bragged that his extortion was a success.

The Biden family are lying grifters and corrupt to the core, but the Democrats still ignore or cover up their crimes. When the heat that was on Joe Biden became too intense they even trotted out testimony about UFOs and alien bodies. Look for such distractions to increase as the walls close in on the Bidens.

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Technowolf posted:

Telegnostic posted:

That's Feinstein, not Hillary. The comic is in reference to current events.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Kellies Nomination: Worst Overall and Most Tone Deaf

And people wonder why I didn't like Teh Nib.

Seriously, a stale anti-Hillary supporter joke framed in the context of climate change in 2023? There's so much fractally wrong here I don't know where to begin.

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

Agree with the nomination but I don't see what the cartoon has to do with Hillary. It seems to me it's about mythical strawman Dems who don't think Feinstein should step down.

TremorX posted:

I ate a month-long ban on Facebook for saying white people love badminton. No metaphor required, this isn't far from just being true at face value.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Feinstein will never step down of her own accord even assuming she's still capable of doing anything of her own accord. Also if you don't remember 2016 (and if you've suppressed all memories of that year you have my true respect) there were lots of jokes about how any criticism of Hilldawg were just misogynists complaining about a powerful woman.

Tree Reformat posted:

Seriously, if I didn't know who Payne was I'd think it was just straight A Good Cartoon.

Shinji2015 posted:

Yeah, I can't decide how intentional it was on Payne's part. Was it by accident or is he hoping that he'll get people sharing it that normally would hate his garbage takes?

Skios posted:

A.F. Branco

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Yeah it's still a lame continuance of their stupid faux-Road Warrior bullshit so in spirit it's an anti-Hillary cartoon.

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

It's not even really a correct opinion. Comparing Biden to Feinstein who at this point is just about Weekend at Bernie's in real life is the kind of propaganda meant to depress Democratic turnout. Maybe if this were by someone other than Varvel and if all three progress bars weren't stuck at the exact same point it'd be alright. And yeah I know I just defended Garrison for a similar cartoon but I wasn't really paying attention and admit my bad take.

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

Agree with the nomination but I don't see what the cartoon has to do with Hillary. It seems to me it's about mythical strawman Dems who don't think Feinstein should step down.

idonotlikepeas posted:

Pelosi has absolutely defended her (shockingly, the old Democratic woman does not want an old Democratic woman to be pushed to leave for being old). However, note that even that quote is from an article about a Democrat calling for her to retire; it's been obvious for a while that she needs to and most Democrats would prefer that she did. It's kind of extraordinary that there's even this many people saying so in public; that is, in general, Not Done.

idonotlikepeas posted:

If the point of the cartoon is "Pelosi is a fool for defending her", that's a great point, but why not make her defender Mecha-Pelosi or something instead of using an everyman, thereby imputing on the party in general a feeling that does not seem to generally exist?

Skios posted:

Andy Marlette

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Umm, Andy, this is really weird.

idonotlikepeas posted:

Pelosi has absolutely defended her (shockingly, the old Democratic woman does not want an old Democratic woman to be pushed to leave for being old). However, note that even that quote is from an article about a Democrat calling for her to retire; it's been obvious for a while that she needs to and most Democrats would prefer that she did. It's kind of extraordinary that there's even this many people saying so in public; that is, in general, Not Done.

If the point of the cartoon is "Pelosi is a fool for defending her", that's a great point, but why not make her defender Mecha-Pelosi or something instead of using an everyman, thereby imputing on the party in general a feeling that does not seem to generally exist?

Trapezium Dave posted:

Rowe:

logger posted:

Because it is a cartoon about this happening in which an aide told her how to vote for the bill while she was trying to read out the text of what was just put in front of her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRk1aV6cuh8

skeleton warrior posted:

Maybe actually part of the problem is people saying “the party is doing this” with the implication that you’re bad and stupid for supporting that party? Especially when it’s “a few people in the party are doing this but most are against it”

idonotlikepeas posted:

David M. Hitch



...a good cartoon.

Skios posted:

Michael Ramirez

skeleton warrior posted:

Maybe actually part of the problem is people saying “the party is doing this” with the implication that you’re bad and stupid for supporting that party? Especially when it’s “a few people in the party are doing this but most are against it”

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Kellies Nomination: Worst Overall and Most Tone Deaf

And people wonder why I didn't like Teh Nib.

Seriously, a stale anti-Hillary supporter joke framed in the context of climate change in 2023? There's so much fractally wrong here I don't know where to begin.

idonotlikepeas posted:

David M. Hitch

the_steve posted:

The thing with that though is that Who is saying it is more important than how many people feel a certain way about it.

What I mean is that Nancy Pelosi's opinion is going to carry more weight with the party than a hundred John Doe the unpaid interns or even most higher level staffers.
The party leadership isn't going to give a gently caress about an opinion they don't want to hear unless it's coming from a certain income bracket or level of influence, no matter how many people share that opinion.

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

Dali was a hardcore fascist and so would probably be a climate denier. An even better cartoon than what the artist likely intended.