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Tue Aug 7, 2012, 08:08 PM

While Everyone's Gaze Is Diverted...


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Reply While Everyone's Gaze Is Diverted... (Original post)
kpete Aug 2012 OP
BumRushDaShow Aug 2012 #1
SammyWinstonJack Aug 2012 #2
madokie Aug 2012 #3
limpyhobbler Aug 2012 #4
Beartracks Aug 2012 #5
Redford Aug 2012 #17
99th_Monkey Aug 2012 #6
Lone_Star_Dem Aug 2012 #7
99th_Monkey Aug 2012 #9
Lone_Star_Dem Aug 2012 #10
99th_Monkey Aug 2012 #11
Lone_Star_Dem Aug 2012 #8
lonestarnot Aug 2012 #12
bvar22 Aug 2012 #13
flamingdem Aug 2012 #14
Carroll Aug 2012 #16
Carroll Aug 2012 #15
Solly Mack Aug 2012 #18

Response to kpete (Original post)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 08:10 PM

1. Bingo!

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Response to kpete (Original post)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 08:15 PM

2. Works like a charm....every time.

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Response to kpete (Original post)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 08:16 PM

3. Thats what I keep telling my one issue voter neighbor

The pukies use wedge issues to get those people to vote puke ticket

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Response to kpete (Original post)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 08:54 PM

4. I like how they drew the ABC reporter nt

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Response to limpyhobbler (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 09:25 PM

5. LOL Saw that, too! n/t

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Response to limpyhobbler (Reply #4)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 06:01 PM

17. Hysterical n/t

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Response to kpete (Original post)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 09:42 PM

6. Now we ALSO have MASS SHOOTINGS to cover 24/7 too.

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oh the right hand side of the toon.

Never mind that we haven't even STARTED to fix Wall Street yet,
nor Monsanto et. al. from destroying life on planet Earth.

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Response to 99th_Monkey (Reply #6)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 10:48 PM

7. The shootings aren't a political distraction.

They may be a symptom of our social climate, but they're not a deliberate choreographed political distraction. Which is what this toon is about.

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Response to Lone_Star_Dem (Reply #7)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 10:59 PM

9. Street crime, gay rights, women's choice w/abortion aren't "distractions" either

they are VERY real issues, that matter a great deal to millions of people at a
very personal level. not unlike mass murders.

The point of the toon was NOT that those a not "real" issues; but that the M$M
is more than happy to give ANY ISSUE 24/7 saturation coverage, PROVIDED it
does not step on any Wall Street toes.

The confluence of recent mass murders with this conspicuous blindness of the
M$M, just makes their jobs all that much easier ... ignore Wall St. Banksters ripping
off the 99% with no end in sight ... all the while being TOTALLY ignored by M$M.

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Response to 99th_Monkey (Reply #9)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 11:07 PM

10. Touché

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I'm sure you've the right of it. Period.

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Response to Lone_Star_Dem (Reply #10)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 11:16 PM

11. I think we both agree

that the cartoon was spot-on, making an important
point with a simple picture. peace out.

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Response to kpete (Original post)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 10:52 PM

8. Too true.

Americans have always been distracted by a properly placed "issue" my entire lifetime.

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Response to kpete (Original post)

Tue Aug 7, 2012, 11:23 PM

12. Prisons, parks, capital buildings, the whole fucking shit is up on the block.

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Response to lonestarnot (Reply #12)

Wed Aug 8, 2012, 04:44 PM

13. Not to mention MORE "Free Trade" with Sweat Shop Slave Labor countries...

...quietly being "negotiated" behind closed doors.
Hardly a word in the Media about THIS issue most important to America's Working Class (99%).



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.
Solidarity99!
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Response to kpete (Original post)

Wed Aug 8, 2012, 06:48 PM

14. Is that Uncle Sam or a repuke in Sam's clothing?

Uncle Sam wouldn't do that to us would he?

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Response to flamingdem (Reply #14)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 05:47 PM

16. why g. washington opposed political parties

In this cartoon it would appear that uncle sam represents the political parties who are in bed with the robber barons swapping legislation for campaign financing, et.al. The money being heisted is the US Treasury (in the form of favorable legislation) which has become the private funds of Congress in the capital market of barter. We are broken as a nation because the nation's wealth is no longer spent to promote the common wealth, but rather the private gain of the actual, de facto owners of OUR money.
This cartoon could easily show the Right in the alley with the Left, each lined up on opposing sides, throwing bricks at each other with u sam egging them on. What unites the parties is neither wants its constituents to figure out a way to seize ownership of the money in the Treasury for the benefit of all. Maybe it's time to occupy the Treasury.

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Response to kpete (Original post)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 02:27 PM

15. whose cartoon?

The cartoon is by Jonik. Does anyone know how to reach Jonik? or where it was originally posted?

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Response to kpete (Original post)

Thu Aug 9, 2012, 06:03 PM

18. K&R

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