Hare Trigger [With Hare-Raising Update]
Posted on November 7th, 2009 by Gavin M.
Note:
I was going to add a cf. here on the wingnut reaction to the Ft. Hood shootings, since the cartoon sort of hangs heavily in the air like a small, unmoored dirigible — without, as it were, an obvious connection to either solid ground or the airs of satire. And then Djur, in comments, offered this up, ending the need not only for a footnote, but for me as a person:
Above: Actual cartoon found at Free Republic
I recognize the multiple Looney Tunes references, but everything else is mystifying. What the fuck is this, and from whence has it come? Context, please!
Context, please!
“Hasan chop” was the guard’s oft-repeated line. I remember that. But the rest of it?
If I understand correctly, there are muslim psychiatrist infiltrators in the military who will kill Obama, or at least sustainable energy. And this is a good thing. Or a bad thing. Or crazy muslim psychiatrists. With a sword. in the library.
Also, Updike.
…Yeah, I’m not getting it.
However, it’s heartening to see that Bugs Bunny is pro-Obama. I mean, Bugs was the good guy, he always won, he always got what he wanted and pretty much controlled the actions of everyone else in the cartoon by cunning manipulation.
So.
Well.
I guess i’ll just wait for my universal free health care and a mountain of carrots.
Oh, and:
“Duck season!”
I’m going to assume the above is someone’s nervous breakdown expressed in cartoon form. Nervous breakdowns seem to be going around lately; at least this one involves cheery colors and the talented Mr. Bunny.
Oh, carrots are sublime,
You get a dozen for a dime;
It’s maaaaa-giiiiiiiiiic!
Gavin Redux?
it’s been a while since he last posted.
The Dash Board: Despite being a poor sick little fella, Dash still finds the energy to set up a joke: What has a thumb and loves breasts?
@ first I thought this was parody because “Muslamohitler Psychia-Traitor” is just too bent to be real, but then the ‘Obammunist’ bit gives it authentic wingnut flavor.
It’s certainly one of the most incoherent things I’ve seen recently, but apparently Obama is going to take damage from rogue psychiatrists named Hasan and he regrets taking a left turn, which would have prevented this? What-the-fuck-ever.
Be vewwy qwiet!
I’m hunting wabbits!
Swoosh, went ova my head. I’m just sayin’. And I like Chuck Jones too.
It’s a parody of a wingnut cartoon. See.
What has a thumb and loves breasts?
Umm…Me!
“Also, Updike.”
Ehhh, what’s up, Doc?
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna
Rama Rama
Hare Trigger.
Is that by THE T.T. Baggins?
Bugs was the good guy, he always won, he always got what he wanted and pretty much controlled the actions of everyone else in the cartoon by cunning manipulation.
This was all particularly true when he was drag.
in drag, too.
“…poor sick little fella…”
Hope the little guy gets better soon.
I suspect he’s not the only correct answer to the joke either (*memememe*)
Oh, is little Dash under the weather? So sorry to hear that – He looks very sweet.
Thanks, OneMan and g. He’s been pooping some really unholy things, and isn’t terribly happy about it. Pedi thinks it’s allergic colitis, so I’ve got everything worth eating cut from my diet, and we’re waiting to see if he improves. Keep your fingers crossed for us, ok?
Once again, I must state that I will consider giving up atheism when the universe ceases to dump evidence against a benevolent creator on my lap.
Dash might be allergic to cats, so stop eating them.
Dash might be allergic to cats, so stop eating them.
Are you mocking the diagnosis, Rusty? Or do you have information about where Gav gets the food he makes for dinner?
When I was kid, the Health Department was constantly closing down the closest Chinese restaurant to our house for serving sweet-and-sour cat ribs. Just sayin’….
Monnnnnnnnnsters are such innnnnnnnntersting people.
However, it’s heartening to see that Bugs Bunny is pro-Obama. I mean, Bugs was the good guy, he always won, he always got what he wanted and pretty much controlled the actions of everyone else in the cartoon by cunning manipulation.
Open to cross-dressing and to blatant flirting with both sexes and several species, no respect for authority, fresh mouth, no job, vegetarian, nature-lover, of COURSE he’s a lefty. And he won except when there were GREMLINS around.
“Once again, I must state that I will consider giving up atheism when the universe ceases to dump evidence against a benevolent creator on my lap.”
I must embroider this on a pillow top immediately.
Marita, I hope it’s a temporary affliction for you both and that you can return to eating food worth eating very soon. Poor little guy, and poor you!
that is one fine looking youngun you’ve got there. sorry about the poop.
Are you mocking the diagnosis, Rusty? Or do you have information about where Gav gets the food he makes for dinner?
Just sayin, is all. No more ragweed salad either!
Just sayin, is all. No more ragweed salad either!
I should probably skip the moldburger I was planning on eating for dinner then, huh?
So this was obviously made by Gavin or someone, but what’s it satirising specifically?
When I was in Panama this past summer, the Panees would tell the exact same jokes about cats and chinese restaurants that we in the US recite. I will let you draw your own conclusions.
Hope the little fella gets well quickly.
Also, the Windex ice cream float.
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I mean, Bugs was the good guy, he always won, he always got what he wanted and pretty much controlled the actions of everyone else in the cartoon by cunning manipulation.
Cunning manipulation and always getting what you want is the mark of a sociopath. Bugs is one of the finest examples.
P.S. Dash is DIVINE.
One of these days he’ll make jazz hands for the camera.
It’s good to see Dash again.
Also, Gavin.
~
Be vewwy qwiet!
I’m hunting wabbits!
“Eh, Doc, eh, it’s duck season.”
Yay! Dash. Also.
And speedy recovery, all. Too.
The Telegraph UK reports a timely story but fails to mention a cure for evil poo.
Maybe y’all should stop eating so much Brussel Sprouts.
Science Daily reports a timely story but fails to mention a cure for evil poo.
Dash is just expressing the wisdom he learned from his parents.
WithinWindows.com reports a timely story but fails to mention a cure for evil poo.
Maybe Dash is afraid he’s going to meet Richard Stallman.
I keep telling everyone who’ll listen that “food” is a myth & you can live on air! (Plus a little water.) Hope all at #whatever are well soon.
You know it’s a good political cartoon when all objects & people are clearly labeled.
Unfortunately, Bugs and Elmer’s wedding from The Rabbit of Seville was undone this week by those bigots in Maine.
Fortunately, however, Bugs and Elmer also got married in a different state at the end of Bugs’ Bonnets, and that marriage still stands.
Hossenfeffer!
Also.
Billy Wilder was so clever at the end of “Some Like It Anyway They Can Get It,” they say, but it was all Michael Maltese’s idea.
But…I thought the evil Muslim traitors were allied with our Communist prez in their attempt to destroy America and eat Bibles. Or did the election of freedom-loving Real Merikans in Virginia and New Jersey cause enough of a rift in that alliance to make them turn against each other? It confuses me so when the otherwise flawless logic of right-wing cartoonists breaks down on us.
And the Tortoise. Don’t forget he lost to the Tortoise. TWICE.
But…I thought the evil Muslim traitors were allied with our Communist prez in their attempt to destroy America and eat Bibles.
That’s one theory. The other is that he’s a well-meaning but illegitimate and wholly unqualified simpleton who is being exploited by islamofascist puppet masters.
Those are the two theories.
Hey Bugs Bunny fans,
We torture people after we kidnap them all the time. Lol! Only traitors believe in civil liberties! http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/11/05/renditions/index.html
Unrelated, but also a must see: Moyers’ essay calling for a draft, and Jon Stewart’s 11/3 monologue.
However, it’s heartening to see that Bugs Bunny is pro-Obama. I mean, Bugs was the good guy, he always won, he always got what he wanted and pretty much controlled the actions of everyone else in the cartoon by cunning manipulation.
His enemies were all gun nuts, a couple were aligned with the Axis powers, one was a Confederate, another a millionaire with a mansion and a yacht… Bugs truly is a proud, kick-ass liberal.
Cunning manipulation and always getting what you want is the mark of a sociopath. Bugs is one of the finest examples.
Bugs only used his powers for good, he never initiated aggression. I don’t see him as a sociopath, I would characterize him as an enlightened warrior, who seeks peace, but when attacked, employs stratagems that would make Sun Tzu jealous.
Who am I kidding? Bugs is a perfect example of the “Trickster” archetype, the spiritual successor to Brer Rabbit, and BR’s manifold African and Native American forebears.
sorry about the poop.
Worst Hallmark card ever.
OK, to come back where we started, where did this cartoon come from? I searched Gazoogle Images for a awhile and saw nothing like this. Someone hand this to you on the street, Gav?
Bugs only used his powers for good, he never initiated aggression.
Not true. Any time Bugs is the aggressor and uses his powers for anything but defense, it bites him in his fuzzy cottontail ass. If you look at Bugs Bunny not as a trickster archetype, but as an instrument of divine retribution, it makes sense.
Unfortunately, this same concept – along with professional jealousy, iof course – is what drove Daffy Duck irrevocably insane and condemned him to a fading career of playing second fiddle to Speedy Gonzales. You simply cannot misuse cartoon power of that type, it always demands a price.
condemned him to a fading career of playing second fiddle to Speedy Gonzales.
You’re detttttttttthhhhhhhhpicable!
To top this, Democrats will literally have to drag Ted Kennedy’s corpse onto the floor.
IOKIYAR (It’s Okay If You’re a Rabbit.)
I would argue that Bugs is a god.
Any time Bugs is the aggressor and uses his powers for anything but defense, it bites him in his fuzzy cottontail ass. If you look at Bugs Bunny not as a trickster archetype, but as an instrument of divine retribution, it makes sense.
Yeah, good old Cecil Turtle. I was actually going to comment on this, but edited for length (yeah, I lose!). The Tortoise/Hare cartoons were pretty early in Bugs’ career, when his character was still somewhat unformed. I chalk these defeats up to youthful indiscretion. These youthful lapses are pretty common in mythology- Herakles goes mad and kills his wife and children, Cuchulainn kills his son… it’s often part of the heroic bildungsroman.
Funny how Loki seems to reverse the trajectory, he starts off as a trickster figure, then takes a really malevolent career turn. Karl Rove is an awful lot like Loki, he degenerates from the “free beer” flier posting college-age trickster to the malevolent “Siegelman imprisoning” character assassin.
It really doesn’t. In the earlier ones he scratches his head and wonders what to do to Elmer next. He is an agent of chaos.
“I suppose that means the Roadrunner is the Antichrist?”
—Random Cheers reference
When Shadegg’s time ran out and California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman reclaimed control of the microphone, he said of Maddie, “That was a remarkable child,” and of Shadegg, “and a great ventriloquist.”
Burn Baby Burn!
P.S.
JJGMTS (23 hours ago) I feel your pain, buddy. My dad has white flares and cowboy boots. I’m tempted to disown? him and sever all ties.
~
The Road Runner is the Devil and Wile E. is in coyote hell. It’s a Sisyphusian thing.
GAVIN SIGHTING
Dash proves once more that liberals have all the good looks and charm. Also, evil shit, but that’s how we roll.
Looch – see Djur’s comment above.
Love the Dash, thankful I don’t have to see (or smell) the poop. And welcome back Gav. Also.
As I’ve been saying for years, Bugs is the ultimate cartoon superhero. Superman can do pussy stuff like leaping tall buildings and x-ray vision, but Bugs really is more like god. He needs a bulldozer? One magically appears behind a bush. And so on. Bugs is the omnipotent everyman, taking revenge on all who try to shit on him. He’s who we all wish we could be.
Just imagine if Bugs was the Senate Majority Leader, instead of Harry Reid.
I saw a picture of Shadegg, and thought of Greg Stillson….
Looch – see Djur’s comment above.
Oooh. Now I supposed to read the comments, huh?
**Cough**
Thanks
(And good luck with Dash)
I could have used the word “I’m” but I chose not to. Really.
I still maintain that Bernie Sanders is the Aaardvark from the Ant and the Aardvark.
And I might ask if Gav getting a little too good at wingnut parody? I mean, just a little?
The fact is, I am confident that the forces for freedom in the House will prevail over the Cancer Of Socialism and will finally stop the socialist health care bias in the media, and the tilting hard left of liberals infesting the Heartland with hate.
Lol! Will nobody from the center talk any sense into the left? Don’t ruin the country’s economy just to cover some shiftless lazy black people. No I’m not racist, that’s a fact.
I own a mansion and a yacht.
Last time I checked, it wasn’t “lazy shiftless black people” who burned the world economy right the fuck down.
forces for freedom in the House will prevail over the Cancer Of Socialism and will finally stop the socialist health care bias in the media
Unfortunately, the forces of freedom had no health care since their insurance company wasn’t legally required to actually serve people who’d paid for years and years so the force’s policy was rescinded, and without access to life-saving treatment the freedomers succumbed to the cancer of socialism. Fin.
I still maintain that Bernie Sanders is the Aaardvark from the Ant and the Aardvark.
And both of them are Jackie Mason, who, it seems, has gone full-blown wingnut on us. Don’t have the heart to link, but teh t00bz don’t lie.
The fact is, my peeps won’t just stop with killing healthcare reform. We’re going to rescind every popular, effective New Deal/Great Society program. Food stamps? Gone. Unemployment insurance? Thinga teh past.
Hell. We should bring back the WPA just to kill it. Yup: Minority rule.
The fact is, it’s spelled “socialest”, you fucking impostor.
Or John Byner…
So I can tell the big fat white guy is mad because his balls are so tiny, but other than that I’m lost.
ill. these commenters FreePubic make me sick:
I pray the families of the dead victims of this evil slaughter will fire back with harsh words at the NY Times for their blatant attempt at making the shooter/murderer a “victim”.
Granted, the military dropped the ball in dismissing this guy’s disturbed psychosis. Plenty of people heard him make outlandish anti-American comments regarding the war. There should be no place in our military where our soldiers should have to put up with anyone’s anti-war rhetoric.
10 posted on Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:06:38 PM by demkicker (Helping Democrats Become Extinct)
yeah, because military guys never have any reservations about war…
Drove by a peaceful pro-health-care demonstration today. Gave them a thumbs-up. Got a big cheer from most of them, and a loud “FAAAG!” from one.
Jesus is so proud of that one, I’m sure. Cuz you just know they’re a friend of his.
(I should add — there were a _few_ opponents in the crowd, you know).
Totally off topic, but this may be the Best Thing EVAR on teh T00bz
the Cancer Of Socialism
The fact is that the average cancer cell is a Randian, and even the moderate minority among them are staunch defenders of the free market, having convinced themselves that capitalism is the most compassionate way of looking after their host as well as themselves.
Whores. Also.
The fact is that the average cancer cell is a Randian, and even the moderate minority among them are staunch defenders of the free market, having convinced themselves that capitalism is the most compassionate way of looking after their host as well as themselves.
Like Randians, the damn things never do get around to “going Galt”.
disturbed psychosis
This holiday season may all your psychoses be undisturbed,
Looking again at the original post, I wish Gavin had used a more flattering picture of me.
I agree, 4B. He could have displayed your long ears and fluffy white tail to much greater effect.
Keep auld psychosis undisturbed
and never brought to mind
Keep auld psychosis undisturbed
and DSM-IV-R.
I don’t know. It certainly has come in handy a few times.
Let’s face it, if you have an occasion to send that card, then you probably aren’t going to be invited back anyway.
I agree, 4B. He could have displayed your long ears and fluffy white tail to much greater effect.
Spot on with the teeth and the turban, though!
You don’t know my friends.
Health Care Bill passed the house, with one Republican vote – Cao from Louisiana.
I’m sending that guy some money.
Who were the fucking 39 Dems that voted against it? I’m kicking their asses.
Fuck me!
I just saw on the TeeVee the representative that brought a 7 month old baby into the house, claiming that the baby “wanted to say” that she opposed health care reform, due to the cost it would impose on her mother, and the specter of Socialized government health care.
Excuse the fuck out of me, but….this 7 month old baby, as the child of a federal government staffer, is actually covered by Government Fucking Health Care!!!!! (and that’s a good thing, actually, for her….)
Won’t someone on the great Liberal Mainstream Media call this motherfucker out????
Won’t someone on the great Liberal Mainstream Media call this motherfucker out????
No, but I think Waxman did. “That was a remarkable child,” said Waxman of Maddie, “and a great ventriloquist.”
Operation ragegasm, Engage!
Great fun watching wingnuts eat their own, in real time 🙂
Won’t someone on the great Liberal Mainstream Media call this motherfucker out????
It may eventually happen- have you seen the sweet, sweet televised evisceration of Tom Tancredo, courtesy of Great Orange Satan?
Wow.
Those Top Conservatives on Twitter yahoos boasting about unseating the RINO Cao in 2010 might want to check what district he represents. That’s William Jefferson’s old seat, and it’s heavily, heavily Democratic.
Shadegg keeps rambling on about what Maddie wants. It looks to me like Maddie wants to grab and chomp on that mic because she’s most likely teething.
Those Top Conservatives on Twitter yahoos boasting about unseating the RINO Cao in 2010 might want to check what district he represents
I imagine the inevitable race-baiting will do nothing to improve brand GOP, and the party’s prospects for expanding the base.
Those folks clearly know fuck-all about his district. Any doctrinaire Republican wouldn’t last ten minutes. That is deepest, Democratic-est New Orleans. God, I hope they Scozzafava his ass. They’ll get the same result but ten times worse. Cao is going to have a tough time getting re-elected anyway.
Are we sure this is true any more? The Republicans have had four years to make sure that the right people were allowed to move back, and the wrong people weren’t.
I was going to add a cf. here on the wingnut reaction to the Ft. Hood shootings, since the cartoon sort of hangs heavily in the air like a small, unmoored dirigible — without, as it were, an obvious connection with either solid ground or the airs of satire. And then Djur, in comments, offered this up, ending the need not only for a footnote, but for me as a person:
Your cartoon, like Jon Stewart’s rendition of Glen Blech, is a work of art that needs no footnote and will stand the test of time.
Having had prior service and being a graduate from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, he already had enough time in uniform and rank to be promoted to major non competitively, as it happens in the medical corp of the armed services. When I was active duty, my section chief told me the only thing that would keep them from promoting me to major was if they caught me sleeping with an enlisted troop. Then he apologized for using that example. Lieutenant Colonel (05) and up are the first competitive ranks for the medical corp. Obama had nothing to do with this. Besides, as a physician, I have rarely met a normal psychiatrist. Who knows what kinds of psychological operations he had to be complicit in even as he was counseling the walking wounded, even as they are pressured not to diagnose PTSD so that the military and the VA aren’t obligated to treat the afflicted veterans for this condition which is expensive. I’m just sayin…
Louisiana’s Second Congressional District voted over 74% for Obama.
Wow, they’re going nuts at the Twitter. More than one with the very witty “is it Cao or Mao,” one calls him a “gook,” many call him a traitor. It’s fun to see the lefto trolls stirring up the pot. I even recognized a name in there—Brendan!
Minister Dependablenuj Gainer-Hegelianize’s Little Blue Penguin Squares
Ingredients:
1 unitary little blue penguin
1 cup oat milk
4 pinches table cream
4 ounces deadly tegu tentacle, dreamlessly candied
1 pint cinnamon
3 gallons vanilla
Pick over the ingredients prosily and discard excess plastic. Place the little blue penguin into a medium bowl. Use a food processor to mix the table cream with the oat milk. Stuff the resulting goo into the little blue penguin. Find some hooch and drink it. Cluster – very negatively – the tegu tentacle, cinnamon, and the vanilla. Mush everything together encouragingly. Bake for 25 hours. Serves butterfingered enemies with agile stomachs.
Rev, teh wiki sez it’s still very much a majority black district, and being in south LA gives it a shove to the Dem side as well. The only reason Cao is there to begin with is that Jefferson thought he had a chance at keeping the seat even while being hauled off to the stripey-hole. Almost did, too. Any other Dem would have held the seat solidly. Obama got 72%.
I remember the Edwards/Duke election in the 90s. There were famous bumper stickers that read “Vote for the crook, it’s important.” Corruption is not necessarily a bar to public office in LA.
You’d be blue too if you had to waddle around with your nads bouncing on an ice floe.
Little Blue Penguin Squares ftw.
justme:
Thanks for the info. So they’re isolating the contagion in one particular district? Sorry—I’m just very cynical about everything that happened around Katrina: Before, during, and after.
Hey Sanitas,
I was afraid to click your ragegasm link, at first. But if I hadn’t, how would I have known about http://twitter.com/EauPureEtClaire
Now I know that voting for health care reform makes you a “TrAiT0r 2 teh cOnstitunn!! anD desTroyEr of LIBAR TEASE #TOCTOPTOTTLE #mobmobagawaggarage #raginragin #kill”
This is kinda why I hate Twitter, btw. It combines all the cluelessness of high-schoolers texting each other, but with the reach and nonstop trolling of usenet.
Sorry, still don’t get the Updike reference.
First xkcd, now Sadly …
“When I was in Panama this past summer, the Panees would tell the exact same jokes about cats and chinese restaurants that we in the US recite. I will let you draw your own conclusions.”
In Panama, are Panama Hats just called “hats”?
“Sorry about the poop” — worst Hallmark card ever.
By an amazing coincidence, that’s what I say when I leave work every day.
Congrats America. I hope this health care bill makes a difference, though it seems the original plan was largely compromised and robbed by assholes.
As a commenter wrote:
and
You’d be blue too if you had to waddle around with your nads bouncing on an ice floe.
The interests of random pedantry oblige me to point out that Little Blue Penguins do not actually live down on the ice, but rather around the New Zealand and southern Australian coastlines.* They weigh about 1 kg. and are extremely cute, if you imagine a 1-kg bag of flour that will cover you in regurgitated semi-digested squid (if pecking you and clobbering you with its flippers are not deterrent enough).
* Australians don’t regard them as native to that country, since they’re not poisonous.
Fire Dept……….. okay to be run by the government
Ambulance……. okay to be run by the government
Police……………. okay to be run by the government
Infrastructure… okay to be run by the government
Among mainstream conservatives, sure. But with the truly crazy, fringy, Randy libertarian douchebags (i.e. the people you find on right-wing blogs) that’s all teh soshlism as well. Some of the fuckers even vouch for privatized law, which I can’t even wrap my sheeple mind around. All part of their quest to make sure they don’t have to give a damn about anyone but themselves, I suppose.
Law is theft.
Seriously. Apparently, Greenspan advocated removing any regulation of fraud for the markets, as, of course, the free market would take care of everything. I suppose that’s one way to absolve one’s self of any blame. It’s always the market. If you do nothing, then nothing you do is wrong! See?
3. profit!!!!
Win.
They do have some rather nifty venomous wildlife there.
I did not know there were such critters as Little Blue Penguins. I assumed Janusnode was being frisky, as is its wont. Mea culpa. They are awful cute, if not very square.
Even still. While, sure, it’s something of a unique disaster, scale-wise, looking at any other natural disaster in the US four years after the fact, I seriously doubt you’ll find anything approaching the lack of support for rebuilding seen there. I never in my life imagined I’d see a major American city simply left to rot.
Good morning everyone! Say, did something happen last night?
forces for freedom in the House will prevail over the Cancer Of Socialism and will finally stop the socialist health care bias in the media
but what about the tumor of Lenninism and the evil wart of racist anti white malarky…..
I’m really confused by the cartoons, so I tried to understand the thinking that went into them.
And now I must drink heavily.
I’m just very cynical about everything that happened around Katrina: Before, during, and after.
Apparently they believe Senator Obama’s spin machine could work miracles from Allah.
They are awful cute, if not very square.
You haven’t seen their record collection…
less galactic growth cupcake open surface
So Health Care passes the HoR eh? Gosh, I sure hope no one bookmarked The Truth’s claims about Obamacare did they? I’d hate to think of him consumed by rage because more ordinary, decent people aren’t going to be suffering quite as much as he wishes they were now, or anything…
Maybe he’ll do that thing where he claims not to know who we’re talking about, and that his sockpuppets are actual different people. That, or Troofie Pussy-Out #2, claiming the bullshit claims were someone spoofing him. Those are both fairly adorable.
Sheesh: According to her website, she’s an editor.
Hmm. Major Hasan’s name is properly pronounced like the first two syllables of “hasenpfeffer,” not ha-SAN like the enormous cariacature of an Arab in the cartoon. Hasenpfeffer is rabbit stew, Bugs Bunny is a rabbit…this goes deep, people.
Can’t you SEE the pink elephants, people?
DAMN, I knew I forgot to do something…
On a sidenote, I learned to use the blockquote. Ya me.
Maybe I should look more into the HTML stuff so I could become a better poster.
You libs signed your own execution orders with that health-care package. SUCK IT LIBS. Hope you enjoy being an hero, boy king.
im happy about the health-care plan. it was a good sensible plan! i mean it was a little more “out there” than i really wanted but for the most part it was a really nice compromise. was esp. glad to see the restrictions on abortion make it in. i know a lot of peeps will whine this didnt go far enough but they need to grow the fuck up, 4 real. def. a triumph 4 obama and his team!
Do you think maybe Hassan needs more fingers in the second image? Can he really hold that sword with just six fingers and one thumb?
There’s a magic in the early morning we found,
When the sun rise smiles on everything around.
It’s a portrait of the happiness that we feel and always will,
For eight is enough to fill our lives with love.
Oh we spend our days like bright and shiny new dimes.
If we’re ever puzzled by the changing times.
There’s a plate of homemade wishes on the kitchen window sill,
And eight is enought to fill our lives with love.
As in, EIGHT is enough, liberals. You got it?! No more, no less. I fucking got mine. Fuck you. Get yours, your own or get fucked. There I said it.
Sorry, still don’t get the Updike reference.
OK, here lemme break it down. Bugs, like he does, must have said to the muslamoterrorist, “What’s up, doc?” Hence the reply about “Updock” and to Updike’s book Rabbit, Run, which is mt’s way of saying you better run, rabbit, else you get a scimitar between the ears. You haven’t read much of Gavin, have you?
Also, too, thank GOD center left grill came down in favor the the health care bill! I feel SO much better now!!!
Also, too, thank GOD center left grill came down in favor the the health care bill! I feel SO much better now!!!
How do we know it’s actually her and not that waskily wabbit in drag, yet again.
Orson Scott Canard
Did you mean Orson Scott Card? Or is this another example of Troofy Humour in that whilst seemingly attempting to make some higher point, falls flat to absolutely everyone except your own addled obsessive and debased mind, even as you post it merrily here and everywhere else? I look forward to your posting that Obama will become “an hero” on Salon.com though next Troofus!
Incidentally, even if it’s it not you pretending to be a Centee Left Grrl too as well too (and remember how we’ve seen you posting from two browser windows at the same time using different proxies to try and hide that both are you, even as far back as 2002 over on Eschaton, but you didn’t get away with it then either), I’d just remind you “both” that, although you like to pretend otherwise, we have all learned what you numpties on the Right have been trying to do since Bill Clinton’s Presidency, and we now know what the Overton Window is too;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
So whilst the “Obamacare” bill isn’t perfect from a liberal point of view, the idea of liberal health care reform passing at last is the ideal first step towards an even better bill. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the right wing freakshow is that you never stop pushing the window. Today small reform, but tomorrow… free abortions for all! We’ve only just started taking the world back, Troofus!
Also, we’ve learned what Projection is. Feeling a bit like becoming An Hero today yourself are we, Troofus? Well, it’s better than the public record you’ll leave behind if you go on the shooting spree you are itching to start; you’ll just be another Hassan in America’s eyes then! So to quote another internet meme, as you seem to be in the mood for them today; Do It, Faggot! Although in your case, it’s of the unhealthy, repressed conservative kind of faggotry, as the troofus yoofus call it. And if you’d just admit that you smoke so many cigars not because your a manly man, because you really, really want a brown man’s tonker in your mouth, you’d be as liberal and happy as all the rest of us… it’s ok, we’ll forgive you all the hurt you’ve caused over the years, we’re better people than you, as you well know! So just give in to your gay side and come on out into the sunshine that’s started today!
Serves butterfingered enemies with agile stomachs.
But you didn’t say how MANY butterfingered enemies. I need to know how many invitations to send.
The relentless messaging is, “Obama cannot to anything right. He does not have the proper reverence for the dead, in this case, because of his sympathy for terrorist causes instilled in him as a child and hardened into adherence to a fanatical anti-American/Socialist view that angers us all.” (an alternate reality)
The messaging when George W. was in office was that he was a hero, (an alternate reality)
I wish John Updock was still around.
Fire Dept……….. okay to be run by the government
Ambulance……. okay to be run by the government
Police……………. okay to be run by the government
Infrastructure… okay to be run by the government
Don’t forget that the people who are anti-healthcare also are often pro-death-penalty and very, VERY pro-military. They’e fine with the Incompetent Corrupt Government(tm) in those two cases alone, because War and Death sanctify all things.
I think you have to have the dish handy for when they come around.
Well, I tried for a while, but found him too verbose, too full of in-jokes and too self-indulgent. So (sadly) no, not lately. (Hence the reference to xkcd, which has also suffered from too many in-jokes recently.)
Thatnsk for explaining the Updike reference, but I tend to think puns only work if they operate at more than one level.
I was so mad when Obama issued that executive order on day 1 promoting all Muslims on earth to the position of major in the U.S. Army. Mostly, I felt bad for all the Muslims who were already majors, because they got nothing out of it.
The truly sad thing about both of those cartoons? As bad and amateurish as they are, they’re still better than anything Chris Muir has ever done.
Hey, how do you think Qadhafi felt? That order bumped him down from Colonel!
hmm, looks like you might have needed the footnote after all. right-wing cartoons are simply too bizarre and unfunny without context.
wherefore art thou gavin? didn’t you get my many thousands of stalky emails, letters and phone calls begging you to come back? no pressure though.
This cartoon detailed the ultimate failings of Daffy Duck due to his own greed. This is the toon from which the iconic “It’s mine! It’s mine! All mine, ya hear me? Mine!”. In a surprise twist, Sir Duck is ultimately undone by his greed.
So while the representation of Obama as Daffy in this is, um, well, not clever or even accurate, the irony of the fact that “It’s mine!” is a good two-word summation of Republican politics gives this cartoon a very self-immolating feel.
OK, without reading much of the commentary I’d just like to jump in and state this: this is Mallard-Fillmore/Dummie Funnies-style humor, which is to say that it’s not fucking funny at all, but rather the pathetic and overeager attempts of someone who simply lacks the requisite wit or intelligence to create something that appears to be funny to them, and for sure everyone else will get it!
Conservative humor is not just oxymoronic with emphasis on the moron; it’s fucking impossible. Conservatism is a philosophy that’s at odds with humor because it’s the sheeplike bleatings of a bunch of twits to stop fucking changing things around them.
I’ve NEVER seen a conservative “zinger” that actually zinged anything. It just looks DUMB. Because conservatives are DUMB. It’s axiomatic.
irony: daffy duck has black feathers. obama is black. therefore, making obama daffy is funny.
see how con wit works?
daffy duck has black feathers
That’s not daffy duck.
That’s Qaddafi Duck….
And the Tortoise. Don’t forget he lost to the Tortoise. TWICE.
The Tortoise cheated.
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