Batshit Rightwing Cartoons 2011

it's free birth control silly, which means stealing gajillions in tax revenues from hard-working plutocrats

not the plutocrats!

if we have a 2012 thread can it be called 'assholes with pens'

Birth control is free in the US? Really?

It will, in the future, be covered by all health insurance plans. So, for some people who don't pay for their health insurance, yes, but for most, who do in one form or another, no.

that first one... jesus

i mean, i hope the cartoonist knows that birth control pills are not actually inserted into a woman's uterus, for starters

and why is she writing on the outside of the bathroom door

I wouldn't be too sure about that

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birth control is a useful medication that helps keep health costs lower on the national level
equating birth control with "paying for you to have sex" is so tremendously fucked I don't even know where to start
i know this isn't the thread for this stuff but that whole line of argument makes me so goddamn angry

sandra fluke is v v pretty btw

yes she is

also yeah the birth control "issue" (and limbaugh's totally disgusting response) is making me angrier than usual

Fwiw I'd rather pay people to have sex than pay people to drop bombs.

every citizen gets a box of condoms and a cd with bombs over Baghdad on repeat, labeled For Use With Intercourse

win-win

http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=WT&Date=20120307&Category=COLUMN24&ArtNo=120309711&Ref=AR&MaxW=580

oh man, do you get it? it's funny bc leftists think they're so tolerant but they'll still cheer when terrible person dies and complain about sexists. what fucking hypocrites.

My favourite right-wing line of attack: Oh you lefties say you're so TOLERANT and COMPASSIONATE and DECENT but sometimes you are not those things, whereas we're happy to be total shits 24 hours a day, which makes us morally better if you think about it.

Mordy, I hate to break it to you, but cheering at a person's death is still considered extremely rude by large swaths of humanity, unless that person was objectively as terrible as your average serial killer, and even then you should keep the cheers to a brief and decorous, unless you were related to that person's victims.

Haven't been tuned into politics the last few days. Was there a bunch of cheering? Or is this the usual finding a couple jerks on the other side and blowing it out of proportion?

Probably the usual couple of jerks blown out of proportion. I didn't see much of it, although I saw much satisfaction expressed, which is a milder form of the same thing. But here Mordy seemed to be sliding toward saying that actual cheering was justified in Beetbort's case, because he was "terrible".

There was a lot of crowing on Twitter and a couple of high-profile writers - Taibbi, Yglesias - who took the reap-what-you-sow line, esp irt to Breitbart's comments on Ted Kennedy's death. I was with the latter.

gross

Oh, and quite a lot of crowing on the ILX thread too.

https://twitter.com/#!/mattyglesias/status/175240732045619200
https://twitter.com/#!/mattyglesias/status/175244006505193474

That's pretty in line with the main message behind modern Conservatism: "I am a victim."

Reload this entire thread, I'm pretty sure 90% of the cartoons can be boiled down to that essential message.

Probably the usual couple of jerks blown out of proportion. I didn't see much of it, although I saw much satisfaction expressed, which is a milder form of the same thing. But here Mordy seemed to be sliding toward saying that actual cheering was justified in Beetbort's case, because he was "terrible".

By your own admission, expression satisfaction is just a milder version of cheering, so let's not get all excited about parsing the thinnest of lines.

expressing*

http://angryblacklady.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/6a00d834515c5469e20168e8742383970c-pi.jpg

jesus

http://i.imgur.com/Aks3e.png

See everyone, he's the victim!

i think we're the victim

I hope that dude always adds (pimping) after brokering

god help mike lester

The term "recreational sex" is amazing.... such prime Church Lady speak

Brokerin' ain't easy.

"recreational sex"!

Do these guys literally think "GONNA PUT A BABY IN THERE, GONNA MAKE A BABY SO HARD" during sex?

I'd venture the vast majority of human sexual activity is recreational. Like, does everyone stop having sex after they don't want any more kids?

I see in the news that a lot of these guys prefer professional sex

Meanwhile, Doonesbury gets kicked to the op-ed page at the LA Times and other papers because it dares to discuss the truth about the recent spate of abortion restrictions.

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-03/68745659.jpg

http://media.caglecartoons.com/media/cartoons/12/2012/03/25/108778_600.jpg

WAAAH

hahah wow that's pretty impressive

we're not sure why but this incident makes us angry at obama

i mean there's likely a case to be made that the "like my son would have looked" distracts from the necessary political change of revoking stand your ground laws in favor of drawing attention to america hardly being postracial or whatever but suggesting that bam was playing the situation for cheap political theater and that the entirety of your response to the trayvon martin case is "look at that horrible politician pandering" is kind of ridiculous and spectacularly offensive and omg i am trying to reasonably respond to that fucking thing, forget it

http://www.cagle.com/2012/03/cartoonist-criticizes-obama-for-politicizing-trayvon-martin-murder/

Bridget R.: “I’ll play devils advocate and ask anyone to give me an example of other presidents talking in the media about a local murder case. I’ll wait.”

speculating wildly but i would assume Reagan got asked about Bernie Goetz, Clinton about OJ, and not to mention presidents talking in the media about local medical cases (every abortion ever) ugh why i am i arguing with the internet about some idiot quoted as making a comment about a cartoon

I can always tell when my critics have no substantive argument to make in their defense, for that’s when the shallow charges of “horrible cartoonist” and “racist” start to fly.

Nixon about Manson...