The Mind of a Political Cartoonist
Yeah it’s not funny anymore. The time for jokes is really long gone
It’s never about the humor, it’s about delivering a message
Bush era was great for jokes. He was awful, and fuck him, but this shit is dystopian.
That was the Bush era as an American (mostly just the white men, I would imagine), perhaps, but in some other places around the world probably felt pretty dystopian because of the Bush administration. Beyond the usual complaints, there was the Global Gag rule (don’t say abortion or even think about saying it!) and the stop-loss policy (sure, let’s extend your military service requirement to 100 years!). Those things, among many others probably felt pretty dystopian during the Bush era.
It was pretty fuckin’ dystopian as an American in opposition to invading Iraq. The only way I feel that could’ve been otherwise is through some combination of support, ignorance, and/or being a child/unborn.
I was young, white, and male with a good support system. So, my life was close to best case scenario. I was too young to vote in 2000, but I voted against him in 2004. I was naive to the importance of elections outside of the general election. I’m not sure why my parents didn’t educate us more on that. My kids are more than a decade from voting and we are already discussing how we look up information to inform our votes. We vote in every election and we get the kids excited about it (they love the voted stickers!).
Yeah I guess I should clarify for posterity the ‘ignorant’ part isn’t meant to be damning, just, well, true for much of the American electorate. Then and now. I knew I was already a weirdo for even caring about politics at all in my youth and accept it now. Political apathy is the default state so there’s just no grudge to hold or ax to grind about it.
The time for jokes is never gone, we just make calls about which ones we feel like making.
I didn’t find the “they’re eating the dogs” shit even mildly amusing in 2024 because I knew a large amount of people were going to just go vote for the “they’re eating the dogs” guy after watching the memes and laughing.
It was never fucking funny. Political memes is as bleak as it is fucking stupid.
I live near a weigh station that border patrol, ice, and highway patrol all use. They were always parked together, but you’d never see them pull someone over together.
Now, every time I see a brown dude getting pulled over, I see ALL of them together. Not to mention, they did a raid on my neighbors, so those people are fucking GONE.
It’s the 15 near temecula/ fallbrook. If you’re brown or undocumented, be careful driving around there.
Sorry for the google link, it’s here:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/i3CHjqCup4JmNsEM9
Check your lights, follow the speed limit, and carry your passport if you have one. I’m not joking. This is a warning to all California residents driving in that area.
I live in Ohio, and I’m white, but I still appriciate you doing this. If you’re ever in Cleveland, I’ll buy ya a beer.
I fucking keep hoping better of CHP but of course not.
‘Fuck them kids’ is probably the plan. That global elite pedo ring is definitely recruiting at Guantanamo.
The correct response is to become so angry you grab your representative by the collar and yell in their face until your vocal chords snap and bleed.
Mine supports all of this, refuses to meet with constituents, and would have me put up on terrorism charges.
Oh, and he’s definitely getting reelected.
Or, you know, we could just bring back guillotines. Those worked pretty well.
Did they? There’s been five “revolutions” since then, and their government is still falling apart. At best it moved the autocracy from one plutocrat to another.
They work for awhile.
But you have to keep pruning the garden until you find a better solution.
Do they work, though? Sure, you don’t have a target for anger and hatred for a little while. But if that’s your entire focus for motivation, it’s just going to fester and rot until another target comes into view. Be it someone deserving or not.
Sadly, I’m represented by a Democrat, so kinda muddling through half-supporting the lighter end of fascism is - I am told - the best they can do. Any effort to lean on the Democrat to move leftward is greeted by local Biden-tier liberals screaming that I’m a Secret Russian Trump Supporter trying to lose the seat in the next election.
Yes, having someone yell in your face is totally a way to get you to think of their argument as well thought and worth considering.
Sucks to suck. Listen to your constituency before it gets here. Serve the people not yourself. Otherwise you’re putting your own ass on a platter and I dont feel bad for what will happen when the masses you made wretched come for you. Its a tale as old as time.
It’s their job to be yelled at I better fucken hope they’d at least consider it. If not skip to step 2 and bash their brains out using a rock, the slower they die the fucken better.
You know, I think it works more than you’re giving credit. No one likes being yelled at.
I cringe every time they’re called the “Trump Administration”…
… it’s an Authoritarian regime. They’re fascists!
I say trump Regime
I feel this in my fucking bones.
So now it’s outrageous? Not when kids were being blown up in Iraq in Desert Storm? Oh the economy was great and the food was cheap? Oh OK then!
