Political Cartoons 2017: Gotta go fasc

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Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

King Possum III posted:

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Shouldn't this be an old man? Or is it baby 2017 wearing an "I survived 2016" T-shirt for some reason?

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 03:13

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 04:06

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

twerking on the railroad posted:

We absolutely need to understand the plight of people on the other side of the aisle, but saying we need to pick our favorite conservative intellectual is stupid. The Republican party has been drumming intellectuals (and not-so-intellectuals) out as RINOs since they needed to somehow say Bush wasn't a republican after Katrina in 2006. I would have been happy to say someone like Andrew Sullivan before he needed to start calling himself independent because they just couldn't shut up about how badwrong gay marriage was.

I read several conservative commentators, but I don't think I could name a favorite because I think they are completely wrong 99% of the time. I will say I have newfound respect for a couple who haven't yet fallen in line behind Trump though.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 06:29

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Sandpuppy posted:

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John Roberts has aged.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 21:07

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Shibby0709 posted:

Trump has the worst "environtal" policy.

The worst part is his denial of clime change.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 07:01

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Somfin posted:

Tinsley just sad that no-one will mourn his passing.

Did, uh

Is this set of numbers a policy that can legally be called an insurance policy post-ACA? I thought that companies were voluntarily cancelling that poo poo, hence the "keep your doctor" nontroversy.

I have a silver plan for an individual, and my costs before the subsidies are about half that, and the deductible is less than half.

I can imagine the cartoon may be about a family plan, but even then, the deductible can be a misleading number, because apparently a lot of people think that means you pay everything out-of-pocket until you reach that magic number, which is not the way it is. If $7000 represents the annual cost of the premiums for a family plan, it's certainly realistic, but then you're talking about coverage for multiple people.

I actually argued with a guy about this a few months back, because while I'm sure there are horror stories and what he was describing was a lot like what is in the cartoon here, my experience is the ACA has been a godsend and while it's not perfect I will defend the gently caress out of it in the face of the nothing that is in line to replace it. It took me a while to find out he was paying so much because he missed the deadline to enroll for subsidies. How he can blame the ACA for this situation I don't know, but he did.

Also note the man in the cartoon is in a bar drinking when he appears unable to afford to pay for clothes or the care of his family.

Murdstone fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jan 14, 2017

# ¿ Jan 14, 2017 19:56

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Clunk Tap It posted:

Then what IS the way it is? It's me. I'm one of those people.

Well I can only speak for myself and how it has worked for me (I understand different plans are different), but for your average doctor visit and non-specialty meds, you pay the copay. If you need like an X-ray or an MRI or something, you pay whatever part of the cost your plan says you have to. If poo poo hits the fan or you need a specialty medicine or a hospital stay then yeah, it gets expensive, but that's insurance for you regardless of Obamacare.

Tip: If you ever find you need a crazy expensive medicine and your insurance won't cover it, talk to the drug manufacturers. A lot if them have programs that are really helpful.

Edit: Just checked and it's more expensive for specialists this year. That's going to be a problem. Still, it's better than nothing.

Murdstone fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Jan 15, 2017

# ¿ Jan 15, 2017 02:06

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Sandpuppy posted:

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You know, I actually think this could be a pretty funny cartoon if it wasn't so awfully rendered.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2017 20:25

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Holy poo poo that is beautiful. :allears:

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 19:13

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

King Possum III posted:

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I'm a big fan of Toles, but I wish he would wait until after the fact to make cartoons like this.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 20:17

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Trogdos! posted:

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As he gives the oath, Roberts moonwalks away from Trump.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 18:45

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Look at 'em all with their tongues out licking their lips and everything. This is JRRose's post-inauguration comment.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2017 08:20

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Shangri-Law School posted:

If Trump's presidency kills off "both sides are the same" for all time it might be worth it. This would of course require the sacrifice of Ted Rall, but I think that's a sacrifice worth making.

I can only speak for my own observations, but it doesn't seem to be having anywhere near that effect so far.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 19:46

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

It's not the lying, it's the press coverage of the lying.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2017 02:58

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

King Possum III posted:

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"No Vetting"

Get hosed.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2017 19:48

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Spiffster posted:

Oh get hosed with the concern trolling McCoy. You give no shits about immigrants and their plight

What does the Statute of Liberty have to do with immigrants? Isn't she the traditional symbol for petty politics?

# ¿ Feb 1, 2017 18:45

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

BarbarianElephant posted:

I thought Trump supporters were the ones with no jobs due to the coal mine being shut down and that's why they voted Trump? At least that's the narrative!

They also managed to pack his rallies during the election, even on weekdays during working hours, if you'll recall.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2017 22:06

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Trogdos! posted:

Obama is so bad he's there twice

The Bilderbergers, Facebook, and satanists are all working together to something.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 18:30

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

"Popularity Humming!"

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 19:12

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Kerning Chameleon posted:

How are you people signing things like ID cards and legal documents?

I make a shaky X.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 06:07

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Kopijeger posted:

What were the salary and working conditions like in the NC case? You say that citizens don't "want" to do this kind of work, but that should only be the case if they have more attractive options. They should be able to get enough people to work on farms if what they offer in return is seen as worthwhile by potential hires.

I think you are underestimating how truly lovely it would be to pick vegetables all day for a living. I can imagine few jobs worse, and I literally doubt I would even consider doing it for anything close to what would be a reasonable wage. And believe it or not I am not a lazy person who is afraid of working manual labor.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 19:45

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Jonas Albrecht posted:

So the GOP is just hoping anger subsides by 2018, right? Do they really think things will turn around before then, or do they have no loving clue how to deal with the mounting anger?

Most of them are in safe districts anyways. From what I see it's looking like Democrats are making a show of putting up opposition candidates in places they normally would skip, but whether that leads to them picking up a lot of seats--enough to make a difference in the last 2 years of Trump's term--I cannot guess, but I personally in my non-expert opinion suspect not.

But then, all hope and optimism I had about my my fellow Americans was broken by the last election.

I'll be voting and doing all I can regardless.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2017 18:14

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

FishBulb posted:

I love the implication that Americans are just not going to do these jobs under any circumstances because they're so bad so we need a permanent underclass to do them for us

oh wait

We only need the permanent underclass until we get the robots.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 00:46

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

oddium posted:

people who care about other people's steak are weird. don't give two beans about steak, or eating an onion like an apple, or ketchup on hotdogs, or rhode island putting sauce on cheese-less breadsticks and calling it party pizza

I put mayo on my hot dogs.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 20:36

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Trogdos! posted:

'89

That's actually not a bad Bush I.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2017 01:04

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Trogdos! posted:

Mayor Kenney

That soda tax is what's going to really ruin things, I tell you. The city cannot survive that one.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 20:50

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

I think he just wanted to depict Pelosi as a witch and went all in with it so he could.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 00:48

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Jonas Albrecht posted:

He's going to import all Muslims and Mexicans? I don't think anyone's mad about Trump over that.

He's planning to tax the imported Muslims and Mexicans so American Muslims and Mexicans can compete.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 17:14

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

ThaumPenguin posted:

See? More discrimination against the white male.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2017 21:47

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

OldTennisCourt posted:

Heh yeah, that one year of tax returns sure does refute everything.

Yup

Maddow did hype this as some big scoop. She opened herself up to this, really.

Now comparing his tax rate to Obama's and Sanders' is pretty disingenuous, since I doubt either of them made anything close to ~$150 mil.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 19:36

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

And just think of how respectful the right is of Hillary Clinton and all her accomplishments.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2017 05:31

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Sandpuppy posted:

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I assume Dooche the artist also pays taxes.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2017 21:35

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Sandpuppy posted:

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/13/ny-dropping-teacher-literacy-test-amid-claims-racism.html

Fox News posted:

Charles Sahm, the director of education policy at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, is a strong supporter of raising the bar for teachers. But, he said, he�s not a fan of this particular literacy test.

Sahm took the $20 practice exam and thought it was a poorly designed test with multiple-choice questions that seemed to have more than one correct answer.

"I do agree that it's not a great test," Sahm said. "I found the reading comprehension section to be kind of infuriating. I only got 21 out of 40 right."

# ¿ Mar 19, 2017 20:27

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Sometimes the denial of reality just gets to be too much for me. I mean you don't like Obamacare, fine, I admit it has problems. But how you can sit there and legitimately try to make it look like the Republican plan is an example of Republicans being staunch and sober conservatives in the face of Democratic recklessness is just beyond me. Millions of people will lose health insurance. A number of those people will die as a direct result. This is literally what the plan will do.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 13:23

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Garrison posted:

Similar to George Soros (another billionaire who refuses to die), Rockefeller was part of the Illuminati who operated behind the scenes. He funded a vast array of globalist initiatives that would often bring about conflict and tyranny. He was about tearing down western civilization and replacing it with something he owned and controlled. Again, just like Soros. He was a quintessential �new world order� operative. He and his family bankrolled an alphabet soup of globalism including the UN, CFR, NAFTA, CAFTA TPP, WTO, IMF�on and on. Then there�s the Bilderbergers and Trilateral Commission and, of course, eugenics. He was eager to reduce the world�s population. Now it�s up to Bill Gates to do it for him.

Wow.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 18:04

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

# ¿ Mar 24, 2017 07:09

Murdstone: Jun 14, 2005; I'm feeling Jimmy

Cat Mattress posted:

Nevertheless, he is still a pizza truther.

I've found a surprising number of people are, actually. That loving thing won't die. I would have thought after the guy walking in with a gun it would have, but nope. Everything that doesn't support the Comet Pizza conspiracy's existence is further proof that the conspiracy exists.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2017 23:37