Um, let's see how does all this go...ah, yes, this post reflects badly on you as a real person, you've disgraced your family back to the beginning of time, in one fell stroke, you've de-evolved into a lower life form worthy of death, (insert graphic pornographic description of said death) and said death would have all of the moral consequence of stepping on an insect, and also, some venomous comments about your family, pets, co-workers, and other people I don't know, and finally, all of the above illustrates how my political philosophy is superior to yours. Yeah, that about covers how these threads go, right?
Lesse.... Party A destroys the country...right? Yet....there's an election....in a country that...has been destroyed...? Norman....coordinate!
No, that's how political bullshitters want gullible parasites like Nutbird viewing politics. It's not that party 'A's abortive attempts at power grabs and usurpations of freedom lacked sufficient merit to endure, it's that party 'B' is a bunch of big, obstructionist meanies who block every attempt at change. Right. Get the fuck out of here.
Had "Party 'B'" not not had a black president in that cartoon, and that cartoon had been passed around 10 years ago, would you have disagreed with it?
I don't care if they're stick figures. Politics is the art of dividing a population and playing the opposing factions against each other for the singular purpose of advancing the careers and financial stakes of politicians. Neither side holds the high ground. Neither side has any more legitimacy than the other. They exist only to perpetuate the ruling elite power structure at our expense.
No. The cartoon is saying that one side thinks it's right and the other is wrong without actually saying which side is which - except with the timing and the black president. If both presidents were white, then either side could claim they were Party B. However, I do agree with UA's assessment of our present political structure.
Oh, and as far as the cartoon, it isn't particularly funny. In the hands of a competent humorist that wasn't pushing a snarky agenda it could be good for a chuckle, but the cartoonist is so busy trying to make us realize that it isn't about Obama *wink, wink* but it IS about Obama but it really isn't about Obama that it falls flat.
I don't like Nightbird because "she" shamelessly refuses to consider whatever gainful employment "her" physical limitations might allow for, instead preferring to loudly assert the "right" to the products of other peoples' productivity.
I confess I have no idea about that. I don't read every thread here, let alone every post. I was just giving you shit about your predisposition against liberal ideas.
Eh? A humorous response to a (supposedly) humorous OP is somehow out of bounds? Who negged who in this thread?
Well, yes, except for the Black president, the only one of his kind in US history, there's absolutely no way to determine what the author of the cartoon is trying to say. Or the fact that those are currently the sentiments of a large percentage of the political left, that Bush destroyed the country, Obama is trying to save it and the evil Repubes are trying to stop them. Except for being exactly representative of one side (and one side only) of the political debate right now, there's absolutely no way to determine who they mean. Lordy.
Oh - and since serious response have now appeared - I'll just go ahead and point out that the creator killed whatever humor he might have been aiming at with the insanely deluded claim postulated in the third panel. No president in the last 40 years (with the possible exception of Carter) has had a more favorable situation in Congress. There was nothing (short of that which would provoke armed revolt) barred to this president by Republicans until the lost the 60th seat in congress, and with three (at least) pet Republicans often all too willing to vote with the Democrats, they still have INCREDIBLE power in Congress. Beyond pointing out the math, it is self evident that "the blocked everything we tried to do" is an insanely delusional claim given all the astonishingly far reaching legislation that has been passed in the past 18 months. So yeah, ya know, if you can't handle the humorous response - here's a serious one - the cartoon has - in the point it attempts to make - pretty much ZERO relationship with reality. And anyone who takes more than a nano-second to reach that conclusion is too out of touch themselves to take seriously.
Yes. The author took an idea that both sides could relate to, but changed it just a little bit so the audience would see the author's side as the right side. I get it.
Actually, I just went back and took a better look at the cartoon. For some reason my mind actively assumed the role of "vice versa." Though this isn't actually apparent in the cartoon. It's a pretty glaring bias, that for whatever reason I didn't happen to catch at first glance. Now I think I know why I didn't laugh.
As in "she's a dreamer and she's a warlock"? Or as in "her two previous usernames were dreamer and warlock"?
