Political Cartoons 2024: I swear to god, these are getting stupider

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Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

For perspective, let's see what Ben told us 2023 would be like:

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HAPPY ULTRA MEGA MAGA NEW YEAR
The old year is just about over and the New Year is rising over the horizon. We all made it though another year of the clown world insanity of the Biden Regime. Congratulations to everyone on surviving what was a pretty tough year for a lot of people, but you made it. Our faith, will power and shear determination carried us through the tough times and to a new beginning.

2023 is going to be a historic year with world shaking changes that will at last wake humanity up across the United States and the world.

Truth will be told and lies will be exposed.

People will realize what has happened to us over the last 100 years and see who needs to be held accountable. We, the people, will come together. Unity and truth will destroy the globalist cabal and the puppet masters.

America will become energy independent, Trump did it before and can do it again.

The Green New Deal narrative is being exposed as a fraud, a means for total control over the masses. Only the green cult members will still believe in the hoax, the majority will not.

The Trump 2024 campaign will continue to snowball with bigger rallies and a larger reach to eager audiences.

Biden will go down as the worst president in American history, destroying the Democrat party and the RINOs along with him.

Ukraine will be revealed as the most corrupt country in the world and Zelensky will be exposed as just a puppet playing his role as a begger for the money laundering globalist tyrants.

The DC Swamp levels are draining, slower than we want, but are draining. Drip, drip, flood as the Twitter Files continue to reveal the mind staggering corruption and censorship of the DC Cabal.

Once again it�s been proven �walls work� and the wall will be finished and so will be Biden and his open borders.

The January 6th protesters will be freed and pardoned as they did no wrong. Ray Epps will be exposed as a FED plant to entrap Trump supporters.

Mar-A-Lago will become the �southern White House� as �normies� slowly realize, Trump won.

America will awaken and so will the entire world.

�The best is yet to come!�

We wish you a very happy 2023. Buckle up!

We Will Keep Winning- Together!

This also happened a year ago:

Stultus Maximus posted:

In case any of you missed this like I did,

Lareine posted:

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1609953506051653642?t=hi3GKjt9rW-zeJViKr4XrA&s=19

Ooh, fun fun.

# ¿ Jan 1, 2024 20:43

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 07:29

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Youremother posted:

Yeah, the outgoing year is almost always depicted as Father Time who traditionally caries a scythe and hourglass

And this can be traced all the way back to Greek mythology, where both the personification of time Chronos and titan & god of harvest Cronos carried a scythe or sickle. Famously Cronos used his sickle to castrate Uranus, his father, and from the foam of Uranus' genitals Aphrodite was born. Afterwards he was revealed that he would be overthrown by his children just as he did to his father, so of course he would solve the problem by eating his children right as they were born. His wife got a bit upset by this and when time came to give birth to Zeus, she went hiding in a cave and gave the baby to a goat to raise, meanwhile giving Cronos a stone wrapped in cloth which he then ate. Eventually Zeus fed Cronos an emetic, causing him to projectile vomit the rock and the rest of his children, after which Zeus castrated and banished him and the titans.

So if we take Father Time to be Cronos, then he's supposed to eat that baby in top hat, unless baby new year is Zeus in which case the baby is going to castrate the old guy.

And thus, this makes canonical sense:

duz posted:

I presume the baby killed the old man.

# ¿ Jan 1, 2024 22:38

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

the_steve posted:

That's because in massively popular media like Star Wars and the like, the plucky rebels are the cool good guys.

I can all but promise you, if George Lucas had done Star Wars from the Empire's point of view, those same chuds would be talking about the Rebellion the same way they do the Vietnamese/Arabs in a war movie starring a white guy.

In American political history, I believe there are couple of more prominent rebellions than that...

# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 22:04

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

The Islamic Shock posted:

Let's roleplay their idea of a Democratic politician.

Boy oh boy I can't wait to go to work and get to work destroying America! Hey wait a minute... that's where all my stuff, power and money is located... oh well, I sure do looove loving myself and everyone I know! Sure is amazing half the politicians in this country love it as much as I do!

'Destroy the country as we know it' has more meanings than literal destruction of everything, though. For example, ending slavery destroyed the kind of lifestyle that many Americans knew (and some preferred) until then.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2024 17:23

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

the_steve posted:

Another edit: This one counts as political

Have it fullsized so you don't have to squint/zoom/go to the nazi tiktok site:

# ¿ Jan 7, 2024 22:02

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

World Famous W posted:

yeah, i remember someone showing what it was when the proper color data was used and it was correct. still not well drawn, but not purple

You need to apply the correct art data set to make them look good, also don't forget to replace text data.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2024 21:20

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

wizzardstaff posted:

Oh so there's literally an actual specific mug? I guess I'm living under a rock but I liked the comic more when it was boldly taking an anti-skub position against an inscrutable trend.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2024 10:10

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

idonotlikepeas posted:

Yaakov Kirschen (Dry Bones)

Jesus loving Christ.

At least the punchline seems to come from appropriate part of human body.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2024 21:05

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Skios posted:

A.F. Branco

Ah yes, Branco's dudes are the ones who deeply care about truthful and research based presentation of history and not book burning zealots :allears:

# ¿ Jan 15, 2024 12:47

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

So if you rotate the cartoon so it's right side up, Biden's polls are skyrocketing. Way to gently caress up a visual that's been done to death anyway.

Uh...

If you are reading it from Biden's* perspective, his polls are skyrocketing. If you are reading it correctly, his popularity is plummeting and he also has pants down & full of doo doo.

_{* a sicko}

# ¿ Jan 16, 2024 20:17

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Phlegmish posted:

This one confused me for a bit, I'll be honest. At first I thought he was saying that Trump being re-elected would lead to all of these groups firing missiles at Israel, but I guess those are actually shittily drawn little planes, and he's hoping Trump will start massive bombing campaigns?

The first interpretation isn't as far-fetched as it might seem, apparently there's been a shift in support from Trump to Biden in Israel, presumably they're spooked by the former's isolationist rhetoric. That said, given the confident, happy Shrump vs. dejected-looking Biden, I'm pretty sure it's pro-Trump

I think you are misinterpreting it, because it is impossible to make a coherent interpretation of it.

In the cartoon Biden is still the king so it's describing the current situation. Those are missiles, fired by Hamas and Houthis and others, all over the place. Wait, who is bombing Gaza? :iiam:

# ¿ Jan 18, 2024 10:10

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

the_steve posted:

That's because Barack already had his two terms, so it's harder to use him as a bogeyman.
Hillary is still fairly effective for them, but, the only thing scarier than a woman president would be a black woman president.

Also the first trans president :jerkbag:

# ¿ Jan 20, 2024 20:40

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

3

Which one of these is the grandma?

yes I know, the smartie ones took the stairs

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

6

You could write a thesis about this.

Nenonen fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jan 21, 2024

# ¿ Jan 21, 2024 02:21

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

I'm way ahead of you, idonotlikepeas :mmmsmug:

# ¿ Jan 21, 2024 02:27

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Actually I have a terrible taste, which means you lose!

# ¿ Jan 21, 2024 02:31

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Microplastics posted:

The gently caress is this? This is not a political cartoon

Kellies nomination: Laziest joke (there literally isn't one)

It is a political cartoon by definition. One doesn't have to have a punchline or a joke, nor even an explicit message. A drawing of a crying eagle watching the WTC fall is also a political cartoon.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2024 16:38

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

AI is taking our jobs

# ¿ Jan 21, 2024 20:09

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

I would superglue a roadkill to my license plate.

No, there are no cameras here, I would do it just because :black101:

# ¿ Jan 26, 2024 21:35

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

A literal

Yay, thing!

Thing good?

Thing actually bad.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2024 12:52

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Phlegmish posted:

My bad. Obviously I recognized J.K. Rowling, but I didn't know who the guy was, and just assumed it was Ishida. If he's actually some kind of British megaTERF, I'm glad I don't know him.

e: sorry, Irish

he's cancelled, that's why you don't know him

# ¿ Jan 28, 2024 19:09

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

Kellies nomination: Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism)
Like just straight up "black people aren't smart enough to be pilots"

It's not that, though? The claim is "if you have positive discrimination in hiring then people will assume that you were selected for your race instead of your qualifications". Because of course companies never discriminate in their hiring in non-positive ways...

# ¿ Jan 28, 2024 19:42

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

Yeah reading over it again you're right. I see a Lester cartoon and just automatically assume it's racist.

Well you see, we are both right.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2024 21:40

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Vib Rib posted:

Stantis what the gently caress are you doing

The desert hamsters did WHAT?

# ¿ Jan 29, 2024 10:13

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Alhazred posted:

It is though. He could make cartoon about how pilots that are hired because of positive discrimination are in fact qualified. Not that they make others look bad.

It's not saying that they are not qualified so I don't know what you are talking about.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2024 16:28

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

# ¿ Jan 29, 2024 21:39

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

RoboRodent posted:

It's really loving weird to be Canadian and have Americans tell me about how there's no medical care in Canada something something death panels and dying on wait lists.

I have surgery on Friday.

We hardly knew ya :rip:

# ¿ Jan 29, 2024 22:09

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

DalaranJ posted:

Counterpoint: I want Carmen to be half-bear.

She's hard-to-bear, close enough.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2024 19:24

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

L. Ron DeSantis posted:

Holy poo poo, you don't have to hand it to Nikki Haley but you don't have to think attacking a white man for using orange tanner is the same as attacking an Indian woman for being brown
So, Kellies nomination: Worst Gaslighting, Least Concealed Bigotry (Racism)
Especially with Trump's birther poo poo about her.

Also note how Gary is depicting Haley as much paler than Trump, to make it sound like fake martyrdom because racism is not real.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2024 20:09

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

the_steve posted:

HIDE ME, QUICK!

But she's already hidden in the safest place in the world: the mind-numbingly blandest strip in newspaper funny pages.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2024 07:34

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

The newspaper PC is just a demo version, you have to buy PC collections to fill all the blanks in the stories.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2024 11:08

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

KennyMan666 posted:

Kellies nomination: Most incomprehensible

So, uh... AI is being shackled by Taylor Swift and fake porn? Who are friends? But friendship bracelets are supposed to be worn by two or more separate people, who are friends.

Whatever the message is supposed to be here, it feels extremely mangled.

Nonsense, it's an election year!

# ¿ Feb 2, 2024 16:06

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

I dont know posted:

Imagine if your only job is writer and you produced that. Tats is incoherent, but at least he has the excuse that he has to spend most of his time making the art.

It might be created with ChatGPT to maximise the laziness. I could respect that ethos at least.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2024 17:42

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

I'm not sure what the auntie shrinking in the last panel is supposed to mean? Is she trying to hide herself quick?

# ¿ Feb 3, 2024 11:39

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Phlegmish posted:

'One worlders' is basically 'globalists'.

The spider hanging from the UN flag's "web" is not very subtle

# ¿ Feb 4, 2024 18:11

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

I can't get everything that I want, so why should I ever vote or otherwise participate in society?

- me, a genius

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# ¿ Feb 6, 2024 10:08

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

I don't think the hammer scenario in Lubchansky's cartoon ever happened, actually. It's some made up bullshit.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2024 16:57

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

GLOBALIST VOICE -> (picture of Earth)

ah now I get it, when cartoonists draw a globe or a globe headed man, they are commenting on (((globalists))), got that :thumbsup:

also lol at those caricatures, Tucker looks even more of a troglodyte than he is and Putin looks like a messed up Biden

# ¿ Feb 8, 2024 21:21

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Discendo Vox posted:

All I have to say is holy poo poo, Sutton.

Yeah, that Ward Sutton cartoon sure is something.
:confused:

# ¿ Feb 9, 2024 23:44

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Uhh does Matt think that the POTUS memorizes nuclear codes at the inauguration and then after 4-8 years whispers it to the next guy's ear?

# ¿ Feb 10, 2024 16:32

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 07:29

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

I dont know posted:

Huh, I had completely forgotten. In fairness, it's hard to keep track because he will pickup and drop plots arbitrarily, without buildup or resolution. To say nothing of his tendency to reuse the same plot over and over, often with identical "jokes".

HIDE ME, QUICK

# ¿ Feb 11, 2024 14:02

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