Sandpuppy posted:

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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Cease to Hope posted:

Potato Salad posted:

Pseudoliberal aging white male hipster Bernouts wealthy enough to own a bigass TV and cable (holy poo poo the first panel) think:
--identity politics constitutes a major problem as opposed to something to advance
-- it's totally a case of overblown "political correctness" that ails the USA, not literal neo-nazism and self-identifying white nationalists
-- it's the liberal elites, not the president elect that is installing the richest administration comprised of ex-lobbyists, bankers, and party family dons any democratic nation has ever on this Earth seen, that don't care about the working class.

I get where there's points to be made where the Dem candidate was a pistol shot in the party's own foot but and that discussion has been done and re-done and re-done here and elsewhere to death, but Lord Jesus this is AGC

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FronzelNeekburm posted:

Why aren't people jumping on board with the scatterbrained Republican?!

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Seven years ago President Obama came to this northern Indiana city, where unemployment was heading past 20 percent, for his first trip as president. Ed Neufeldt, the jobless man picked to introduce him, afterward donned three green rubber bracelets, each to be removed in turn as joblessness fell to 5 percent in the county, the state and the nation.
It took years — in 2012, Mr. Neufeldt lamented to a local reporter that he might wear his wristbands “to my casket” — but by last year they had all come off. Elkhart’s unemployment rate, at 3.8 percent, is among the country’s lowest, so low that employers here in the self-described R.V. capital of the world are advertising elsewhere for workers, offering sign-up bonuses, even hiring from a local homeless shelter.

Yet where is Mr. Neufeldt leaning in this presidential election year? He may keep a photograph of himself and Mr. Obama on a desk at the medical office he cleans nightly, but he is considering Donald J. Trump.
“I like the way he just won’t take nothing off of nobody,” Mr. Neufeldt said, though days later he allowed: “He scares me sometimes.”

Now, Mr. Donnelly noted, Chrysler plants employ more than 5,000 people to the south in Kokomo, up from 100 at their nadir, and 7,000 statewide. Yet autoworkers are more apt to complain about the president’s gun proposals than to acknowledge the auto turnaround.

While Indiana’s presidential primaries are relatively late in the race — May 3 — and polls are lacking, Mr. Howey predicted that Mr. Trump would do well.
Now, with unemployment so low, local leaders say the challenge is finding workers who can pass employers’ drug tests.

“Everybody is back to work,” Mr. Neufeldt said recently, driving past once-closed plants lining county roads, their lots full of employees’ vehicles and, in many, newly manufactured R.V.s.

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Clinton 31%
Trump 63%

beepsandboops posted:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/its-not-the-economy-stupid/511634/

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Few people here are thanking him for their recovery, despite benefits from the administration’s $800 billion stimulus package — Mr. Obama came here in August 2009 to personally announce one grant — and from the rescues of the auto and financial industries.

“He gets very, very little credit, and I think that’s too bad because we got quite a bit of help,” said Dick Moore, Elkhart’s mayor the past eight years, a Democrat who lost election to a third term in November. “I don’t know what we would have done without it."

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“He didn’t help us here, but he took credit for what happened,” Chris Corbin, 47, who works for a dispatch company in Elkhart, told me. Corbin thinks it will be Trump who improves the economy. “It’s going to take two terms, but he’ll fix things,” he said.

Xander77 posted:

Well, if your lifelong ambition was to actually blow someone's mind by posting a link, consider it achieved.

Racism aside, what the gently caress else do these assholes want?

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Andi Ermes, 39, offered a number of reasons for disliking Obama. She said Obama didn’t attend the Army-Navy football game, even though other presidents had. Obama has actually attended more Army-Navy games than George H.W. Bush. She said that he had taken too many vacations. He has taken fewer vacation days than George W. Bush. She also said that he refused to wear a flag pin on his lapel. While it is true that Obama did not wear a flag on his lapel at points during the 2007 campaign, it was back on his suit by 2008. Ermes told me the news sources she consumes most are Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and a local conservative radio show hosted by Casey Hendrickson.

SwitchbladeKult posted:

I have no loving clue why the site let the results stand unless they have some weird delusions that the controversy will drive drive in the long term.

Fake edit: I love that Milo got triggered by being called "alt-right" but also irritated the site caved and removed it from the article.

Samurai Sanders posted:

What basis would they ban him on? If making ridiculous lies and insulting people was against the rules then half of Twitter would be banned.

BigglesSWE posted:

They should ban Trump on Inauguration Day, preferably early, so he'd be steaming at the ceremony and his speech will be a whole pile of incomprehensible yelling. You know, more than the usual amount.

Jerusalem posted:

He said Meryl Streep was overrated. I'm fairly certain that should automatically get you the death penalty.

Samurai Sanders posted:

So Sideshow Bob was right in a completely literal sense when he said some people want to be ruled like a king?

Oh, but I guess he said "deep down" not so clearly on the surface like we saw in the election.

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Sandpuppy posted:

Yeah, it's a human interest story from outside the U.S. I'd say that alone makes it a less than 1% chance Ramirez knows about it.
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Sandpuppy posted:

The party that never ventures from Fox News cracking about "safe spaces" will never not be hilarious.
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Mister Beeg posted:

How many people are aware of Daryl Cagle's daughter, Susie (also a cartoonist)?

https://twitter.com/susie_c/status/823986329738285056

Needless to say, she's more "on the nose" than her dad.

Rebel Blob posted:

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Improbable Lobster posted:

https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/824606063035056129

Arglebargle III posted:

The DOW has been almost at 20,000 for months. Obama's presidency saw it go from 7,000 to just below 20,000.
I more meant that the DOW under Obama going up to 19,000 made no difference to these people. Almost like they have a narrative already and apply facts to it where possible. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the DOW leaps to 20,000 from the presumable pounding it was taking under Obama!
Also, the DOW is only 30 behemoth companies.

duz posted:

Yes, that is what they want. That's not what the Donald is doing tho.

Sandpuppy posted:

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loquacius posted:

that guy is Lubchansky's self-insert (see: my av) and he probably felt more comfortable drawing himself getting brutally beaten than drawing someone else getting brutally beaten

(and it's been said but I dunno where you're getting the chair thing from)

Fulchrum posted:

If he's the only one who is trying to go by the rules and therefore say what Trump can or cannot do, then yes they are.

This isn't like a rodeo bull thing, where white people trying to stopped Trump could use Muslims and black people to distract him. You do get that, right?

Brother Entropy posted:

just pretend the white guy is gay or trans if it'll stop your moronic nitpicking

loquacius posted:

It was a huge stretch of a complaint against a good cartoonist, and people disagreeing with you on it also counts as discussion

Brother Entropy posted:

again, just assume the white guy is some kind of non-racial minority and your myopic 'optic problem' goes away

you're dumb as hell if you think the deep meaning of 'oh god the trump presidency is gonna suck' is obfuscated by including a white person

loquacius posted:

Chill your pill, guy, nobody is attacking your freedom of speech by disagreeing with your opinions

Regalingualius posted:

Someone find the comic he must've made to justify the Republicans refusing to hold Garland's confirmation hearing and I'll send it side-by-side with this one to him.

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OldTennisCourt posted:

Spencer does not advocate violence, unless you count genocide I guess

Cloud Potato posted:

Extra bonus toon!
https://twitter.com/mrbiffo/status/827598777099882496

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Two weeks in, Ramirez is still more comfortable attacking the previous president than supporting (or drawing) the current president.

The cartoon would be less inept if he had Wormbama either holding the huge sign or whispering his agreement rather than the ISIS guy doing both. "Psssst... I secretly believe the message on this huge sign I'm holding!"

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Trogdos! posted:

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saw this in cspam, might as well post it here

Trogdos! posted:

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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:

Hmm, seems like it could be a much better cartoon, if it had Rick Perry gripping a dead body by the shoulders, shaking it madly and crying "my nigga have u tried deregulation"

(I'm joking, this is a joke. i'm not seriously mad about this)

Fulchrum posted:

This actually happened, you realise.

OldTennisCourt posted:

Wow Red Panels dude straight up supports beheadings, in his rabid hatred of Muslims he literally supports ISIS, holy poo poo.

I mean, I'm not even joking, he all but straight up stated he supports them, drat dude