Tom Tomorrow......"We Tortured Some Folks"

[Logical]

[Scootaloo]

1. K&R

It feels... weird agreeing with you about something, Logical.

Let's agree to keep it just this one thing. People might get ideas.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. I'm sure you agree with the OP on much more than this

Why be so adversarial?

[Scootaloo]

6. It's sardonic humor, Cali_Democrat

[whatchamacallit]

2. This is the truth of the matter

All "tortured" writhing and howling won't transform the president's disturbing equivocation.

[Horse with no Name]

3. ATM I really can think of one sanctimonious prick.... n/t

[Doctor_J]

4. But of course the president, as the head of the Executive branch, which is charged with enforcing

the law of the land, can't do anything! Because if he does, the Repukes won't play nice any more! They might even impeach him!

I thought sure that TT was going to morph O into Smirk as the panels went by.

[hifiguy]

7. Kickety Rec

for an inconvenient truth.

[RufusTFirefly]

8. K&R! The second frame is priceless. n/t

[robinlynne]

19. +1 and use of the word sanctimonious in makes me cringe.

[RufusTFirefly]

25. Those pony-wishers from the Professional Left are just sooooo sanctimonious!

OK, I admit it. Some patriotic mistakes were made. I mean, like, what's the big deal?

[world wide wally]

9. Is this an anti regulation cartoon?

[Electric Monk]

10. Tortured Logic

k&r

[ctsnowman]

37. lol Love it.

[adirondacker]

39. DUzy!

Could be trademarked for certain factions.

[TBF]

11. "accidentally waterboarded"

*snort*

Good job, TT.

[L0oniX]

53. Like a slip and fall waterboard ...ok.

[Jesus Malverde]

12. nailed it...nt

[Omaha Steve]

15. Yep

K&R'd it.

[BlueJazz]

13. Ouch!...I felt that one clear over here.

[KJG52]

14. The Empire is reeling and its foundations are being undermined by corrupt politicians and

a culture of violence, oppression and death, supported by those political marionettes whose strings are pulled by the "Deep State," Wall Street and their own ambition and greed...

[robinlynne]

22. the problem is that it isn't reeling. It should be...

[enough]

24. You're right. It is not reeling. It's solidifying. (nt)

[xocet]

31. ...or, perchance, ossifying... n/t

[BeanMusical]

16. Kick and R.

[WillyT]

17. K & R !!!

[another_liberal]

18. On balance . . .

This has been the most Conservative Democratic administration since before the Civil War.

[countryjake]

21. Folks...I'll never see that word quite the same again. And I've used it a lot!

Never did think much of the term "patriots"...it's always brought to mind Indian killers, Slave traders, and Land grabbers, to me.

Excellent toon!

[Logical]

41. So true! nt

[Hatchling]

50. Me too.

"we tortured some folks."
No. We tortured some people. In this particular instance using "folks" lessons the victims"s humanity. They were "folks" not people so it wasn't too bad to torture them.

[countryjake]

56. Those "folks" were being held as prisoners by our military & intelligence networks.

When I think of "folks", it brings up friends in my neighborhood, acquaintances I run into at the grocery, relatives at a family gathering, buddies at a ballgame or picnic...nothing at all like the actual inhumane conditions that those people suffered in the secret prisons, "salt pits", and hell-holes where our government held them, tortured them, and killed them.

Forevermore, when I hear that word, "folks", it will conjure up the image of wet, naked, bleeding, terrified people, shackled and bolted to a cold concrete prison floor. A prison controlled by my own government.

"...but we tortured some folks." No, we tortured captive prisoners, detained and held by the good ole U.S. of A.

[840high]

23. k/r

[Thespian2]

26. Giant K and R

TT really nailed it.

[Odin2005]

27. Love Tom Tomorrow!

[Logical]

30. Me too, he is great. nt

[hueymahl]

28. Just Fuck

I like Obama, but in this case, he is a fucking coward. I am so, so disappointed. I'm trying to focus my outrage on the fuckity fucks who actually did the torture, but this is so . . . pathetic.

[Beringia]

29. great

I was thinking of doing a poem with "folks", but it would probably just come off wrong .

[cwydro]

32. Perfect.

Just perfect.

Sad, and true.

[Logical]

54. It is sad! nt

[Solly Mack]

33. K&R

[Quantess]

34. K & R

[Enthusiast]

35. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

Exactly.

[Enthusiast]

36. Okay. I think the truth is much deeper and darker than this toon reveals.

It's so bad that most of us can't even imagine it. And I don't even mean the torture aspect of IT.

[fasttense]

38. The corruption is staggering

Laws mean nothing if you are rich. Caligula would be impressed.

[blkmusclmachine]

49. Candidate Obama was such a phony lie. He wasn't anything even remotely how he presented himself, in

2008 or in 2012.

Liar

[Marr]

55. That's why it's so galling to me when conservative Democrats say that a liberal couldn't

be elected in this country, and that Obama (and those like him) are as good as we can get.

He won by pretending to be a liberal. He made every effort to give the impression that he was much more left leaning than he actually was when campaigning. He beat Hillary Clinton largely because he was relatively unknown, and his act couldn't be checked against his record, as Clinton's could. If he'd run as that '80's moderate Republican' he later admitted to being, he would've lost.

[MissDeeds]

40. Spot on

The last frame really puts a cap on much of Obama's presidency: "Oh well, what can you do?" Pathetic.

K&R

[blkmusclmachine]

48. "MUST. LOOK. FORWARD." = "I approve of it."

[DirkGently]

42. Yes, what can "we" do? Without inconveniencing "ourselves," of course. eom.

[AlbertCat]

43. I heard some CIA- person rending their garments:

"People are gonna DIE because of this report!"

Uh, no, not because of the report.... because of the TORTURE in the 1st place....moron!

[cwydro]

44. Kick. nt

[Autumn]

45. Yes we did.

Rec

[Cal Carpenter]

46. K & R

[blkmusclmachine]

47. There's a co-conspirator, right there. Before, during, and after the fact. No better than GWB