Thursday TOONs - Voting Is The Best Medicine Edition

[JHB]

Voting Is The Best Medicine

Republicaneese

Donnymouth
Making potties smell good by comparison since 1946

The Legend of Sleazy Hollow

Tree of Life

Caution

The Saudi Pinocchio

Oklahoma: Prison Deform

[scarletlib]

1. Thanks.

Great collection.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. anchor baby projection

Crime family at work.

[planetc]

3. and Kick!

[2naSalit]

4. Thank you!

[Gothmog]

5. Thank You for the Cartoons

[PatSeg]

6. Wow

Some powerful toons!

[oasis]

7. Barron Trump, anchor baby.

[geardaddy]

9. Yes!

[tclambert]

15. Somebody looked it up and Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka were all born before

Ivana became a citizen. By Trump's rules, they all need to be deported.

[oasis]

19. I'll bring this up to the next cocky talking MAGAt.

[kentuck]

8. Good ones!

[Canoe52]

10. KnR!

[LAS14]

11. Thanks as always! nt

[Wounded Bear]

12. K & R...nt

[Hortensis]

13. Very impressive this time around.

Can't choose a favorite, but I particularly appreciate this rare message calling out corrupt MSNBC and CNN talking heads especially.

[dalton99a]

21. +1

[Hekate]

14. Kicktoons. Thanks a bunch, JHB

[erronis]

16. Sometimes the "toons" are just all aligned. Sadly, they're not all humorous - mainy scary.

Thanks for pulling these together!

[cp]

17. Superb collection

Fitzsimmons from Tucson: "If only your party made it as hard to buy a gun as you make it to vote."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. WOW. "NEVER AGAIN". That's our 2020 theme! And

Dives flying out of minorah profound

[malthaussen]

20. It's a little sad...

... that some of these cartoonists seem to confuse the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution.

-- Mal

[El Mimbreno]

22. Re: tricked

Since the gop has turned "entitlements" into a slur against Social Security, Medicare, etc, I prefer "earned benefits".

Great collection! Thanks.

[JHB]

23. I prefer to use it as an example of Republican bait-and-switch talk

Back in the 80s, people from conservative "think" tanks would throw out big scary numbers about the portion of the federal budget that went to entitlements, and then spend the rest of their talk going on about welfare.

The fact is, the vast lion's share of the big scary numbers were due to Social Security and Medicare (which are entitlements too). But by not mentioning them, the audience was usually left with the impression that all that money was going to assistance programs. This fed into the imagery of a vast army of layabouts living high off of other people's hard-earned tax dollars.

They've repeatedly used the same rhetorical game of 3-card Monte -- just think of the way Bush interwove mentions of Saddam and 911, never actually connecting the two, but leaving 5at impression if you weren't listening closely.

And let's not mince words, the same conservative think tanks that put out that material also want to do away with Social Security and Medicare, since they regard ANY entitlements as "socialism".

Sometimes, if you don't have time to get into it, yeah, you do have to use their framing as shorthand. But whenever possible I prefer to get people thinking and stop using conservative framing.

[El Mimbreno]

24. Agreed. Thx again for your great collections. NT

[Gothmog]

25. Greact cartton

[underpants]

26. LA LA LAND Oct. 28. Many great ones. Thanks