TOM TOMORROW: The Anti- Party

[Hissyspit]

DAILY KOS LINK: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/16/1307129/-Cartoon-The-anti-party

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[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Its the guests on Meet the Press!

showing the diversity of his guests

[kag]

2. I must have missed it.

Who said "let them wither and die?"

[mbperrin]

4. Here ya go:

http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/porter/28000445-418/gop-house-candidate-defends-facebook-comment-about-poor.html#.U57_x5RdXHQ

Johnston’s Facebook comment in full was: “For almost three generations people, in some cases, have been given handouts. They have been ‘enabled’ so much that their paradigm in life is simply being given the stuff of life, however meager. What you see is a setting for a life of misery is life to them never-the-less. No one has the guts to just let them wither and die. No one who wants votes is willing to call a spade a spade. As long as the Dems can get their votes the enabling will continue. The Republicans need their votes and dare not cut the fiscal tether. It is really a political Catch-22. The voters are the ones in charge. however when only 10-11 percent show up to vote, not much will change. People simply are not hurting enough, or simply happy enough that they will do nothing. consequently the dole continues.”

[Jackpine Radical]

13. I thought torture was sposed to be illegal in this country.

I think Johnston ought to be confined for life as retribution for what he did to logic and reasoning here.

You can't cut welfare to the poor because of their votes, but they don't bother to vote.

Oh, yeah, "Spade." Any hidden significance there?

[tclambert]

15. If you call it "enhanced interrogation" torture is just good, clean fun.

And you have to feed the torture victims lemon chicken afterwards.

I'm sure he didn't mean to say "Spade" as a racial insult. He meant to say "urban poor," or "unemployed city dwellers," or "welfare recipients."

[Blanks]

22. That's right. The last I heard waterboarding is just good natured baptism. eom

[Quasimodem]

27. Wonder how many members the church would have ...

... if baptism was a near-death experience?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. I bet he's just fine with spending 100X as much to the 1% as an incentive to work.

[nikto]

31. Clearly, the wealthiest among us are severely damaged morally by excessive profits

The Rich are being systematically destroyed as a moral force in America,
by excessive profit$ which come to them with little effort.

This is a recipe for moral collapse, and must be remedied.

This dwarfs issues like the deficit, Russia, Iraq and the middle east, the elections,
and even twerking and Justin Bieber, in importance to our society.

Let's
save the rich from themselves!

Tax the top 1% at 50-60%, effective immediately.

End offshore tax shelters.

Pass a lifetime ban on gov't officials becoming lobbyists or employees for any company
in the field they regulated as a gov't employee.

Bring back local banks and limit banking speculation by re-instating TOUGH
Glass-Steagall-type restrictions on banking.


This way, The Rich will survive.

Otherwise,
we just don't know what would happen.

[Bigmack]

5. Here..

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/11/indiana-gop-candidate-no-one-has-the-guts-to-let-poor-people-wither-and-die/

[IDemo]

6. Story here ->

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/11/indiana-gop-candidate-no-one-has-the-guts-to-let-poor-people-wither-and-die/

[kag]

8. Got it. Thanks, all. n/t

[mbperrin]

3. Right on the money.

As always (sadly).

[DesertRat]

7. k&r

[madfloridian]

9. I like the first comment at DKos

Poster said they didn't know whether to laugh or cry at cartoons like this, that they are more real than the media.

Recommended.

[Enthusiast]

26. Cartoonists and comedians are now more informative and accurate than our "News".

[PumpkinAle]

10. Kick

I had not heard about the anti-poor thing - not only is this disgusting, but truly horrifying.

[KansDem]

11. Pertaining to the poor, the GOP has now become the "WAD Party"

"Wither And Die"

[Iwillnevergiveup]

12. Tom Tomorrow is always right on

but this is one of the all time best...covers a lot of ground.

K&R

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[raouldukelives]

16. Just doing the Lords work, amirite? Surprised they haven't been seen biting the heads off bats. nt

[stage left]

18. K&R

I have only one complaint about this cartoon. Lindsey doesn't look smarmy enough.

[Enthusiast]

25. Capturing such a deep level of smarminess is quite a challenge for any illustrator.

[stage left]

33. True that.

[Martin Eden]

19. ANTI-REALITY on all fronts. K&R n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. A lot of boxes in that cartoon

Before I read it I half expected a few of them to be stretching truth a little for the sake of making a point. But its sadly amazing that each an every one of them is an actual part of the new reality of the bagger GOP party.

[Enthusiast]

24. Yes, there was no stretching involved in the creation of that cartoon.

[indepat]

21. Tom Tomorrow's brutal assessments of the GOP enemy within

are always spot on in depicting this rampant and rancid pathology.

[Enthusiast]

23. That is a thing of beauty.

Way to go!

[scarletwoman]

28. Kick! One of the best ever!

Although it hurts that it's so true.

[DirkGently]

29. Lots of people need to die / go away to make

conservatives happy.

Apparently.

[valerief]

30. Auntie Inflammatory (1%) is always bullying Uncle Sam (the rest of us).

Why the hell can't Uncle Sam divorce that old hag Auntie Inflammatory?

[Mnemosyne]

32. Spot on. Thanks Hissy! nt

[Electric Monk]

34. Kicking this for someone who said it was locked, and because it's such a good cartoon. nt