Another bizarre politically themed painting from Jon McNaughton..

[Fumesucker]

[cthulu2016]

1. I would be delighted to be enslaved by a rain of money

But I'm still waiting...

...God, the fantasies the RW has.

[xchrom]

2. Oy. Nt

[FarLeftFist]

3. I want my country forward.

[notadmblnd]

4. He's a rigtwinger, presume?

Is he saying that we (liberals) enthralled/slaves to Obama because of the chicken scratch he want to toss us? It this painting say that to anyone else?

[cthulu2016]

5. Yes, he's RW

His last masterpiece was Obama standing on the constitution while all the framers look on shocked and dismayed. (I dare say the framers would indeed be shocked to see a black president.)

For a REAL treat google Jon McNaughton One Nation Under God

[Chorophyll]

7. I went there.

Wow. It would be funny if he didn't mean it.

[Chorophyll]

6. And what, pray tell,

is the significance of the chicken in the lower right-hand corner? You know, right near the Nordic blond guy cutting his chains.

What a heap of kee-ray-zay.

[smokey nj]

18. It's an homage to "The Hangover"?

That's my guess

[Chorophyll]

19. I actually had to google "The Hangover / Chicken Mystery"...

...but I think you might be right!

[smokey nj]

22. It's the only thing that makes sense.

[ZombieHorde]

21. The rooster means...

President Obama is rocking out with this cock out.

[n2doc]

24. Chickens coming home to roost?

But then, why only one? Anyway, it's impossible to figure out the motives of a crazy person.

I do think he missed an opportunity to put Reagan and W back there with their Saudi buddy, after all, they were the primary reasons we have a big debt.

[Blue_Tires]

26. The rooster is also a national symbol of France

Which has been the catch-all lightning rod for conservative hate...

[Chorophyll]

29. I like this explanation, but

the rooster is in that lower right-hand corner with the "good" people.

Maybe it's a fertility symbol.

Maybe it's the ghost of Colonel Sanders.

ETA: I hope everyone noticed that the "bad" people are on the left side of the painting, clamoring for handouts. Yikes.

[msanthrope]

36. It's a cock. John 18:27. nt

[Kaleko]

41. Looks like the rooster is the proverbial cock crowing to issue a wake-up call

to the slaves of America. The cock is close to the white youth who is already awake enough to bring a saw to the rally. Thus he diverts attention from Obama, the false Messiah, as he gets busy sawing through the chains that bind us all.

[Chorophyll]

43. You're a genius!

Thank you!

[BiggJawn]

8. "I want my country BACK"

That's Teahaddi code for "I want a WHITE man in the White House!"
What's the kid with the hacksaw doing? Trying to cut the Corporate chains that hold us all down? That *IS* the meaning of all that chain, right?

[xfundy]

9. I see he put his girlfriend in the pic.

Lower right, wearing the fabulous feathers.

[Brickbat]

10. I seriously love these. They're awesome.

[Blue_Tires]

28. They are so wacky and over-the-top it's like Colbertesque satire

Proper, unintentional self-parody with a complete lack of self-awareness is pretty difficult to pull off...

[spanone]

11. clever...slaves...look at the signs....this is great comedy

political cartoons have been around as long as politics

[piedmont]

42. No misspellings on the Teabagger signs-- it's a surrealist painting! nt

[underpants]

12. I saw this on Facebook. From a Fox News Napolitano link

Notice that only the white male is trying to get out (with a hacksaw). I have no idea what the rooster is suppsoed to be about.

[malaise]

15. Is that Fred Thompson

tied up to Tebow?

[JDPriestly]

13. Hey! Any president could be standing in Obama's shoes in that

picture. I don't see it as particularly one party or the other. There is too much money in campaigns regardless who runs or who wins.

[Fumesucker]

14. That's not campaign money fluttering down from the sky in the painting..

It's things like food stamps and unemployment that McNaughton hates, not campaign donations..

[JDPriestly]

31. I am extremely nearsighted so I miss things like that. Sorry.

[msanthrope]

35. You didn't see the helicopters in the far right of the picture?

[pinboy3niner]

37. Yep. The money represents a wingnut view of "entitlements that bind us to debt."

Utah artist Jon McNaughton has a new painting, Wake Up America, his symbolic representation of what is happening in this country today. In the painting, people reach to the sky for the entitlements that bind us to debt. McNaughton has hidden six keys in the painting that explain the solution. ....

...


Artist Jon McNaughton: Every man, woman and child in America is enslaved to the national debt. As an artist, I have painted my vision of the dire circumstances that surround us. Now, more than ever, each American must make a choice: we must unlock the shackles that enslave us, or will we lose our freedom. It is my hope and prayer that America will “wake up” before it is too late. In the painting I have intentionally hidden six keys that represent solutions that will release us from the chains of economic and political bondage. Find these keys and share them with as many Americans as you can. If we don’t “wake up” future generations may not know what it means to be free.

http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2011/10/jon-mcnaughton-six-keys-find-six-keys-in-mcnaughtons-latest-painting/

The rooster means the painting, and Naughton's views, are cock-a-doodle-doo-doo.

[Earth_First]

16. Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Where's the decapitation of Christians by guilliotine that Santorum alludes to?!

[HughBeaumont]

17. Kicked for later.

[raouldukelives]

20. He's like a tea party Thomas Kinkade.

Probably sell well in his mall "Galleries". "Oh! I just love the use of light!"

[Generic Other]

23. You are a superb art critic my friend!

Thanks for making me smile this morning!

[GoneOffShore]

25. All paintings by McNaughton are bizarre

In other news - Water, Wet! Desert, Dry! Oxygen, Good!

[name not needed]

27. I still prefer this one.

[yardwork]

46. Um, what's that one about?

I'm almost afraid to ask. What's with the reptiles?

[name not needed]

48. It's a parody.

http://omglog.com/thomas/archives/4083

[Fla Dem]

30. "Wake Up America" is the title of this picture.

McNaughton is no fan of Obama.


This is his representation of all of AMerica enslaved to the national debt. The rooster represents the cock that crowed 3 times on the eve of Christ's crucifixtion.


http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork/wake_up_america_zoom

[HughBeaumont]

32. A national debt mostly rung up by Borrrow and Waste Republicans.

Nice background players. Kim Jong Il is dead, Putin is Putin (not really that significant to the U.S. right now), the U.S. is not allied with Ahmadinejad in any way . . . Just a whole load of wrong in this one, besides the money raining down from the sky.

He actually attests that he's non-partisan. The only higher pile of horseshit is his melodramatic paintings. Love his treatment of FDR in The Forgotten Man painting.

[JI7]

33. i don't get it

[tfrey1225]

34. Crazy.

Who are those people (one of them Middle Eastern of some sort) standing in the background applauding? I understand the national debt is a problem, but it's vastly overblown and much of it is a result of a deep recession that Obama didn't start but inherited. I hate that so many people are so quick to hang the recession around Obama's neck but not give him an ounce of credit regarding the recovery going on right now. Sure we aren't on fire economically and we've still got a long way to go but the important thing is that things ARE turning around, things ARE getting better.

[piedmont]

38. Awesome-- I love these paintings!

[pinboy3niner]

40. If only we could get them on black velvet

[MrScorpio]

39. OK, What's with the chicken? nt

[Ikonoklast]

44. The chicken symbolizes every Republican that was asked by their country to serve in time of war.

Like Mitt, running off to France during Viet Nam on a religious deferment, after protesting in favor of the war.

[redqueen]

45. Back left, the guy standing to the right of the guy in the Keffiyeh...

looks like one of the aliens from the movie They Live.

[Fuzz]

47. Delusional