So yeah, stop with the bitching about AIG bonuses, Obama’s oral gaff’s, his laughing at our misery… let’s deal with the real issues. The guy is a Marxist.
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To be fair, this is the only one I’ve seen where the donkey has a realistic reaction to the elephant’s pompous ranting.
To be fair, no one has been more accepting of the retarded than Republicans. After all, they’ve nominated *two* of them for Vice President in the last 20 years! Beat THAT, you socialist-marxist-communist-and-a-whole-bunch-of-other-words-I-am-incapable-of-defining lefties!
Oh Hap, you forgot to post this comic:
LOL! I can’t believe people waste the time… Where is that from anyway?
Something Awful forums
Haha… that’s classic. Tell the haters I said ‘hi’.
That is truly amazing . . .
and stevehaas is still a moron *shakes head*
Moron? I just complimented your party! I can’t wait to vote for Trig Palin in 2044!
Moron . . .
The funny part is how the oh-so-politically-correct liberals don’t even get what the actual joke is here. lol
I noticed that one too
Oh, I got what the joke was. The donkey calls the elephant’’s conspiracy theories retarded to go along with the Special Olympics comment. Ohohohohohohohohoho, how deep.
Is the real joke that saying Obama has a communist agenda is retarded? Because it’s right up there with accusing him of revoking the ban on government-funded stem cell research because he loves murdering babies.
Oh wait, wasn’t that one of many things that you made a comic about the day before the election last year?
It should totally be the real joke.
“What, you’re STILL accusing him of being from Kenya? That’s retarded.”
“What, you’re STILL accusing him of being a secret Muslim spy? That’s retarded.”
“What, you’re STILL accusing him of ? That’s retarded.”
Here’s a blank template, now you can make your own dumb punchline that’s been run into the ground by such numerous media outlets as:
- Clerks: The Television Series!
- Tropic Thunder!
- Most webcomics!
- And so many more!
HAHA, Rokc STILL doesn’t get it! This is hilarious! I hereby revoke your license to make fun of anyone, Rokc. ’cause you’re too dim to understand a little simple irony.
lol look at this nublet, still thinking conservatives actually understand what “humor” is
hey Mike, draw some more ridiculous racial stereotypes, hahaha oh man a chink with big teeth or maybe one of them negro fellas eatin chicken
tsk tsk stevehaas, so young, so bitter . . .
oh FairlyObvious, such a Young Republican, such a sock puppet
stevehaas, please keep your fantasies to yourself.
Hapa, you are hardly in a position to be revoking anything involving humour. You have yet write or draw anything worth laughing at. Do us all a favor and dump the rest of your money into ANOTHER pyramid scheme and close this site due to a lack of funds because of your stupidity.
Yes, people were coming here by the tens of thousands because of the horrible, unfunny writing. Thanks for your input, I’ll go ahead and file that where it belongs.
I don’t know about you guys, I came here for the hilarious jokes about white people doing things like this…
… but then, it turns out that black people do a different thing entirely! Rollicking mirth sprang forth from every comic, as did the sound investment into that not-a-pyramid-scheme, Dubli.
Sir, I must insist, your understanding of both the terms “irony” and “sarcasm” are woefully unprepared for daily use; might I suggest a course in literature or the fine art of writing? Your local community college would be able to help you out, and you may turn your newfound knowledge to creating a wittier repartée than “Oh, my opponent! Surely thine unrecognized sarcasm is a failed attempt at wordplay!” To which one might reply, “When sarcasm is lost on thou, then the battle is truly won.”
But I digress.
Were you… trying to be funny?
poor Mike, so sure that people are laughing *with* you
I think Rokc thinks he’s Shakespeare . . .
poor dear . . .
stevehaas, rest assured we’re all laughing at you
Poor FairlyObvious, assuming his wit will pierce like a knife. and lo! How dull is his blade! Like basalt, pluck’d from the shoals, for what purpose? In twain, the limb is split, the twine is wound, the rock is placed. If only he would make use of the flint!
But the joke is probably lost, so I’ll just point out that this was an extended metaphor I pulled out of my ass in something like two minutes. You don’t know what an analogy is, Hapajap, and FairlyObvious, it’s pretty damn obvious (OH LOOK A PUN) that you only read Shakespeare once for a high school English class. But you probably don’t even realize the irony of being called out on it, so I posted something a little closer to Shakespeare’s writing style just for you.
I thought ‘jokes’ were supposed to be funny?
Well, looking at your comics, it’s obvious that you do-
…nah, too easy.
Oh what fools these mortals be . . .
Stop Pucking around. BTW, FO, you’re not going to correct Rokc on his genderific gaff?
Oh I find it funny . . . the whole “THERE ARE NO GIRLS ON TEH INTERWEBZ!!!!!”
btw, nice subtle reference there, haha
And if that’s subtle, I’d hate to see how many people die with your definition of overt.
Rokc, that’s already been posted . . . tsk tsk
Way to be original
That was pretty much the opposite of subtle, though, you have to admit, FO.
Haven’t ANY of you heard of sarcasm? Good Lord . . .
Have you?
I have always thought the comics on comic strip club were funny, except for RLC. Personally I can’t figure out why it’s called Right Left Center, when all I ever see on it is Right. Ocassionaly the donkey comes close to expressing a view that is closer to Center, but usually he’s made out to be so stupid that it makes it very hard to suspend disbelief. But it’s a political cartoon, you can’t expect the author to put forth any other view other than his own.
What does concern me is this. No one who has even half a brain believes and/or supports 100% of his or her party line. No one who has even half a brain supports/believes in 100% of the things his or her favorite politician supports/believes in. Anyone who claims that they do is either lying, or retarted, or irrational, or a combination of those. I’ve been a republican my whole life, but there was no way I was going to support either bush junior or mccain. I may believe in business, but I’m not crazy or stupid. Pro business equals good, pro GREED equals bad, for everyone.
In this particular cartoon, all I see is support for the pary line. It does one of the things that irritates me about the party mouth pieces you see on the news. It blames the other side for all the evils in the world, but then when it’s own side does the same things, suddenly they are good.
Oh and by the way, the bailout? It was the democrats that stopped it from being passed the first time, with a big speech about how there were no protections for the tax payer and languange written in that made it illegal to question the use of the money, so it should not be passed. Then the stock market crashed, everyone panicked, and the democrats stopped opposing it. However, I do believe they got the languange changed so that the use of the money can be brought under review. Which is something the republicans did not want.
Ah Hamburglar, avoiding the question as usual, how refreshing.
So AlanHawk did you vote for Ron Paul or Obama?
Yes, the democrats bailout was so much better with all this AIG stuff going down. Money going to major democrat contributors . . .
Don’t fool yourself, they just got caught.
FairlyObvious, you have no idea what you’re talking about. The bailout was initially proposed under Bush, who was in favor of it, but it was stopped because people thought that there weren’t enough protections to keep the money from being given to companies and then squandered on things like multi-million dollar bonuses that won’t help the economy.
You want me to post new material, the comic has to be worthy of new material. It’s still exactly the same as it was before, and it’s still worthy of the exact same criticism.
By the way, I have a horrible rash on my genitalia.
RokC you completely missed my point. Way to go.
Also, how much of a life don’t you have to come on a website you hate? Seriously . . .
What a witty comeback. Next you can tell me about how you’re on the internet, reading a shitty webcomic made by a guy who can’t structure a joke and has every single comic follow the exact same formula, straight down to the artwork, and enjoy it.
Come on, you’ve never been angry enough to argue about something to someone about it?
I like to molest little boys.
Rokc, I’m not going to respond to personal attacks you aim at me or at Hapajap. It has nothing to do with politics at all or the subject at hand. Haven’t you ever truly debated someone? You attack the points, not the person.
Also, no I do not frequent websites that annoy me, it’s pointless and why would I give the website the hits?
You still haven’t addressed my point, tsk tsk.
More like, you’ve never addressed mine.
I voted for Obama. Yes, republicans can vote democrat, if they have no faith in the republican candidate.
What do you mean the democratic bailout? It was the republican proposed bailout that got passed. There was no bailout put up for vote that was concieved by the democrats. They just refused to pass the one that came up for vote because it had zero protections in it for the people actually fronting the money, namely you and me. Then less than a week later they passed a slightly altered one, which was ALSO drafted by the republicans, it was the exact same bill, just with language added or changed that allows for the president, and/or congress, to question how the money was used.
I’ve always thought the bailout was a stupid idea, I agree something needed to be done, but knee jerk panic reactions are no way to make good, effective law. In my opinion any company that needs a bailout can simply not afford to use the money to give raises (other that cost of living). It’s simple logic, if you NEEDED the bail out, then you don’t HAVE the money to give bonuses. It’s like cigarettes, if you can’t afford to feed yourself, you can’t afford to buy smokes, if someone gives you money, you either spend that money on food ONLY, or you’ve proved that you did not need the money in the first place. Any company that can afford to give raises, did NOT need the bail out.
This is exactly what I don’t like about what seems to be republican party line, pro-greed. If a businessman wants his business to last a long time, he needs to make sure that his source of income always has money to spend. If I have a heard of cattle that I use for food, but I never let them breed, pretty soon I’m going to have eaten my entire source of food. I’ll live on steaks for a long time, but die starving anyway. Greed hurts everyone, because sooner or later, the well runs dry. But for some reason, many of my fellow republicans can’t seem to see the truth of this. They care very little at all for the average american, it’s all about money and greed and damn the consequences. It’s because of this more than anything else that I did not vote for bush jr and did not vote for mccain. I can’t stand the “I’m better than you” arrogance of those two men. Espcially since Bush behaved as if he had the IQ of a turnip, leaving him nothing to be arrogant about, making him seem like the spoiled rich bratt who’s life goal was to be able to lord it over everyone. And we Americans were dumb enough to give him exactly what he wanted.
No one is ever going to see eye to eye on this stuff. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect people to look critically at their own position. Lord knows the democrats have done some majorly stupid things, but only a complete idiot would believe that the republicans have not made just as many majorly stupid mistakes. If you can’t admit your party/candidate is fallible, then you can’t carry on an intelligent debate.
AlanHawk, I’m pretty sure I’ve been crystal clear that I’ve been against the bailouts since day 1. Bush’s version, the Dem’s versions, WHOEVER’s versions. They are all B.S. in my opinion. Not to reiterate what you said too much, if you can’t run a business right, it fails, and someone else will fill the vacuum your failure leaves behind. That’s the American way. Propping up companies that suck at what they do is the best way to ensure a failed system.
We should reward excellence, and let failure fail.
Rokc, you don’t know what you’re talking about, and I’ll delete or edit every post you make here if you don’t knock it off.
Unfortunately, the way we have let our economy be structured, if we had not bailed out some of those companies the economy might very well have collapsed.
If 2 or 3 parent company banks own 70% of all the home loans in America and they are in danger of going bankrupt, what are they going to do? They are going to foreclose on everyone, which would have caused economic collapse. You can argue about how they can’t legally foreclose because of blah blah blah, but ultimately, the end result after all the smoke cleared would have been the same thing. To regain those companies assets, people would have lost their homes.
Same with the auto industry, so much of our economy is caught up in the auto industry, and by extension, the oil industry, so many supporting companies and products and services are connected to them, that if even one of the big ones folded, the economy could collapse. As much as I’d like to not believe it, the numbers don’t lie. We have painted ourselves into a corner and we have no choice but to shore up key businesses, or we could do what the british do, have the government buy them.
Right now no one knows what to do, but letting them fail would have been a bad choice in my opinion. I just think the bailout happend to fast and it wasn’t thought through very well. It was forced upon us. At the very least it should have been a LOAN, not a gift. All of those companies should be forced to give back the taxpayers money over a period of time. I also think we should have set up some kind of supervisory body over each of the companies that got bailed out. “you want us to give you our money? Fine, but if we do then you have to be guided by our team of experts until you can pay it back.” As you indicated, it is that companies fault they got in such dire straights, they can’t really object to somone else forcing them to be more fiscally responsible, until they can support themselves again. I also think that before any bail out money was given out, the owners of the company, or board of directors or whatever, should have been forced to make some kind of controlled capital investment. If you own 3 houses and 8 cars you can’t come whining to me that you need my money or your business will fail, sell some of your stuff, PROVE you need the money, then I might be happier giving it to you.
I just don’t buy that, Alan. There is always someone with a bigger wallet, and when people with the big wallets see something they can make money off of, they buy it.
Some of the big banks fail, other banks buy them out. Citicorp bought out Wachovia. Wells fargo bought out First Interstate. It happens all the time. Wells Fargo didn’t want a lick of bailout money, and if another of the banks had faltered, you bet they, or someone else would have come in when the price dropped low enough to scoop them up and re-settle business.
What I think would have happened is that housing prices would have plummeted faster than they have already. Then they would have stabilized. As soon as they did, the money would come in and the system would have ‘reset’ at a more realistic value. Houses are still overpriced because of the interference of the government TARP money. I own one of these overpriced houses, and I say they should have let it bottom out to a realistic valuation. That way people would know what they owed, if they were upside down, how much, etc. The bottom line is that we would have had conclusive valuation. When something is known, people invest. When something is unknown, people do not invest.
Anyway, the car companies could have and should have just filed bankruptcy, restructured, and kicked the Unions OUT. When Porsche was about to go belly up about 10 years ago, they wised up and hired a Japanese firm to re-design their operations. Porsche was re-born as a relevant, thriving auto company.
Apparently us Japs know how to build cars, and run car companies. There’s a reason a 5 year old Toyota Camry still holds 60% of it’s value, where a 5 year old Grand Marquee sells for about 20% of it’s brand new counterpart. But I digress.
The system fixes itself. Government interference just messes up the process.
well yeah, the system fixes itself, hence the Great Depression. Do you want another one? There is no doubt that the system will fix itself if we just let everything go to heck (not sure if swearing is ok here). I’ve said the same thing myself. But….the last thing anyone should want, is a repeat of the great depression. And if you think that won’t happen then I’m not sure you are really paying attention. This time it could be a lot worse, right now the WORLD is in economic crisis such as has never been seen before. It won’t just be America that suffers a depression. In fact, if the right foreign countries have an economic collapse then there will be nothing we can do to avoid suffering one ourselves.
I don’t think things are as bad as the panic reports you hear on the news, however, I see how they could be. It is something to be avoided if possible. To much of what makes our economy work is capable of suffering a domino effect. I sure don’t want it to happen, but saying it can’t…sounds to me like sand, head, burying.