LOL that is awesome
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
obama claus is a fraud, obv. pretty excited about the gov't goodies, i bet that giant candy cane is for me.
― Spectrum, Friday, 14 December 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
government handjob
dying
― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 14 December 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
amazing
― before and after broscience (goole), Friday, 14 December 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/mrz121912dAPR20121218114520.jpg
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.
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gv121812dAPR20121218054522.jpg
Yes, they're EXACTLY the same...
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/121217gun%20lawsRGB20121217024255.jpg
THE SAME
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Little Billy does like football and baseball, and has patriotic sheets, so there is hope for him.
― nickn, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― before and after broscience (goole), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
Billy should show his mom the Firetruck and Paramedic missions.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
Gotta say I do appreciate the effort put into things like accurately drawing the back of a computer monitor.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
DC: haha i'm half-remembering the ken burns doc tbh
― before and after broscience (goole), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
(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.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Why would that kid have a picture of Tommy Lasorda on his shelf?
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
Billy also seems to have T-Rex arms, and is biting his mother's arm.
― nickn, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
1900s gin seems like the crack cocaine of that era..
― johnathan lee riche$ (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Un monde où tout le monde est heureux, même les riches (Michael White), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
I think you mean the early 18th Century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Craze
― Un monde où tout le monde est heureux, même les riches (Michael White), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
Although I guess the Gin Palaces count, too.
― Un monde où tout le monde est heureux, même les riches (Michael White), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/ca122012dBP20121219124549.jpg
HERE we go, this is the kind of thing i was expecting to see. fuck you, asay
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 20 December 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
The Gibson Guitar raid was his go-to example? That's some sad-ass barrel-scraping.
Also, fuck you, Asay.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 20 December 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 20 December 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Obama on his way to hang out w Mr. Natural
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 20 December 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
kind of the batman theory of villainy there
― Tiger Beat On The Potomac (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 21 December 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/kn122612dAPR20121224054514.jpg
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??
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/bg122412dAPC20121221054527.jpg
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.
http://www.creators.com/editorial_cartoons/21/25149_thumb.gif
yeah, all those things are probably equally important. guns, on the other hand, have no roots whatsoever and are simply a given
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
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
― torn between Carl Jenkinson, Scott Walker and Malcolm X (once a week is ample), Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
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
― torn between Carl Jenkinson, Scott Walker and Malcolm X (once a week is ample), Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Pop Culture
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
Unearned Fame <- there's a lot of rightwing bullshit contained in this one little phrase
― carl agatha, Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
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
― torn between Carl Jenkinson, Scott Walker and Malcolm X (once a week is ample), Thursday, 27 December 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
A real conservative WORKS to earn his fame, lazy liberals just want someone to give it to them, amiright?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 December 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
tbf Karmin may be partly to blame
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 28 December 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.naturalnews.com/cartoons/Dont-Touch-My-Junk_600.jpg
― Tiger Beat On The Potomac (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
A little rough around the edges, but I wouldn't necessarily call that a rightwing cartoon.
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/ca010213dBP20130102104542.jpg
you gotta be fuckin kidding me
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/sbr122812dAPR20121228044514.jpg
presumably he is not there to carry out the aforementioned WAR ON CHILDREN
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 January 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
Also, Day By Day has acquired a Former Communist Shame Puppet:
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/122812.jpg
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/123012.jpg
In Soviet Russia, clumsy vector graphics badly stylizes YOU!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 January 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Spectrum, Friday, 4 January 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
or maybe those are the children whose deaths he caused, and they're so happy he liberated them from the suffering of mortal existence
― Spectrum, Friday, 4 January 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― Neil S, Friday, 4 January 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
the military one is vintage batshit.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 4 January 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
As usual Asay completely misses the point
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Friday, 4 January 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 4 January 2013 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
Current aircraft carriers by country:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/carriers-2012.gif
― Bnad, Friday, 4 January 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
That's not even trying to be funny.
― Yo Leon, what's this all about? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
There's going to be a lot of right wings there. DOYOUSEE?
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 5 January 2013 10:53 (eleven years ago) link