batshit rightwing cartoons: 2012 and imaginary romney presidency years edition

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there's been about a million "fiscal cliff with Greece at the bottom" strips, and more than a few Christmas-themed ones (Obama as Grinch looking down at us, etc) but leave it Asay to propose a world where Santa Claus is real, but his reindeer can't fly

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not that batshit, i just love TAXPAYER'S expression upon receiving his big government handjob

LOL that is awesome

obama claus is a fraud, obv. pretty excited about the gov't goodies, i bet that giant candy cane is for me.

government handjob

dying

amazing

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I was worried by the Dark Knight Rises poster, dead cops and "hos," NWA cap, but what really should have alarmed me, in hindsight, was that little Billy was collecting the skulls of children on his nightstand.

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Yes, they're EXACTLY the same...

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THE SAME

Little Billy does like football and baseball, and has patriotic sheets, so there is hope for him.

prohibition kind of worked. people drank a truly grotesque amount pre-prohibition, most people abided by the law during it, and drank way less after, even now.

Billy should show his mom the Firetruck and Paramedic missions.

Gotta say I do appreciate the effort put into things like accurately drawing the back of a computer monitor.

goole, that's interesting - is there a book or anything that discusses this? I've always sort of bought the myth that it made no difference/impact beyond "turning ordinary people into criminals" and providing a foundation for organized crime, etc. But what you say makes a ton of sense.

like, for example even in that cartoon, the bar only has one customer.

DC: haha i'm half-remembering the ken burns doc tbh

I know that a lot of business associations were in favor of prohibition because workers had a tendency to show up drunk, which is anecdotal support for the truly grotesque amount of drinking people did. Also the temperance movement was largely women because of the link between drinking and domestic violence, plus men being too drunk to work and financially support their families.

(Learned that at a lecture on prohibition at the Chicago History Museum, so I can't link to anything.)

36,000 dead cops is pretty good. his mom should get the hell out of his room and let him play.

Why would that kid have a picture of Tommy Lasorda on his shelf?

Billy also seems to have T-Rex arms, and is biting his mother's arm.

1900s gin seems like the crack cocaine of that era..

It's kind of fascinating seeing the libertarian argument being made about drugs and guns from the Right. It's simplistic, of course, 'cause encouraging simplisitc black or white versions of liquor or gun policy are fools' errands, but it's still interesting.

1900s gin seems like the crack cocaine of that era..

I think you mean the early 18th Century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Craze

Although I guess the Gin Palaces count, too.

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HERE we go, this is the kind of thing i was expecting to see. fuck you, asay

The Gibson Guitar raid was his go-to example? That's some sad-ass barrel-scraping.

Also, fuck you, Asay.

seriously, it really approaches the Onion guy for stretched, bizarre counterexample.

His Obama is so lame too, he looks like a somewhat mellow Guy Smiley.

Obama on his way to hang out w Mr. Natural

kind of the batman theory of villainy there

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weirdly inept. What was redacted from Santa's speech? Did Little Billy have something to say in response? What don't they want you to know??

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appears to have been desperately rewritten at the last minute when someone realized they were writing the Communist Manifesto in dough-headed winter-clad children form.

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yeah, all those things are probably equally important. guns, on the other hand, have no roots whatsoever and are simply a given

the gun itself is the violence it symbolises, so fits nicely in the top-left category

the others are all pretty otm, apart from the rightmost two, which are yer typical rightwing canards, and 'decaying morality', which is again bullshit considering where 'morality' lay a few decades back

uneasy abt 'dissolution of the family' too as this lends itself to bigotry. but given a flexible definition of what 'family' is, everyone's gotta have one right, speshly the young

wrong thread for sensible weighed-up discussion mebbe

Pop Culture

shit like 'decaying morality' will forever be too stupid to be given a moment's consideration, certain social structures and mores could 'collapse' a thousand fold & still not necessarily 'compete' with public executions/racism at the dinnertable/marital oppression of women &c. it's the laziest thinking. p sure you can apply this dazzling unpacking technique to the others, too.

Unearned Fame <- there's a lot of rightwing bullshit contained in this one little phrase

yeah so the three i said were bs. now what about the others, get to it folks

'desensitization' sounds nefarious inna puritanical way but i'm not sure it doesn't indirectly or even inadvertently hit on something

A real conservative WORKS to earn his fame, lazy liberals just want someone to give it to them, amiright?

tbf Karmin may be partly to blame

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A little rough around the edges, but I wouldn't necessarily call that a rightwing cartoon.

I agree with the general sentiment of the cartoon, if not the demonization of individual TSA employees (I have never seen a TSA employee enjoy hefting my boob with the back of her hand to check whether it was my underwire or something more nefarious* setting off the metal detector). Or the implicit homophobia.

*there is nothing more nefarious than an underwire bra.

There are the rogue agents who enjoy sifting through dildoes.

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/kashmirhill/files/2011/10/TSA-get-your-freak-on-note-300x224.jpg

(And no, spellcheck, I did not mean to spell "diodes," thanks for looking out for me.)

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you gotta be fuckin kidding me

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presumably he is not there to carry out the aforementioned WAR ON CHILDREN

Also, Day By Day has acquired a Former Communist Shame Puppet:

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In Soviet Russia, clumsy vector graphics badly stylizes YOU!

i think the schwarzkopf comic's the artist's attempt at irony, with norm being happily greeted by angels of death who resemble flying children

or maybe those are the children whose deaths he caused, and they're so happy he liberated them from the suffering of mortal existence

xxp

until we can make this a peace-loving society we progressives have to protect ourselves from those who oppose us, those...what's the word?

dialogue that trips off the tongue!

the military one is vintage batshit.

As usual Asay completely misses the point

if we were to correctly apply the truth to his illustration there, the US would be a 2,000lb sumo wrestler with more trainers than opposing fighters.

Current aircraft carriers by country:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/carriers-2012.gif

That's not even trying to be funny.