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Political humor
Started By Rue Bella, Jan 29 2012 12:46 PM
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Posted 29 January 2012 - 12:46 PM
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Posted 30 January 2012 - 12:00 AM
My favorite political humorist is definitely Tom Toles.
In fact, back when I was working at my college newspaper I came across this box of old Toles panels that we had already run in the paper and I took them home with me. I still don't know what, if anything, I will ever do with them, but for some reason I just couldn't bring myself to throw them away.
In fact, back when I was working at my college newspaper I came across this box of old Toles panels that we had already run in the paper and I took them home with me. I still don't know what, if anything, I will ever do with them, but for some reason I just couldn't bring myself to throw them away.
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Posted 30 January 2012 - 01:47 AM
Is there a way to embed videos here? This conan clip is pretty funny.
http://teamcoco.com/...ista-impression
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Posted 30 January 2012 - 11:23 AM
eh, I thought i knew how to embed video, but apparently I don't.
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Posted 30 January 2012 - 02:45 PM
I know this one is older, but it's too good to not post.
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Posted 30 January 2012 - 05:48 PM
Jan (Margaret Hamilton) Brewer
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
— Carl Sagan
Pray for Trump: Psalm 109:8
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers arc in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
1995
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
— H.L. Mencken
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Second inaugural address January, 1937
— Carl Sagan
Pray for Trump: Psalm 109:8
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers arc in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
1995
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
— H.L. Mencken
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Second inaugural address January, 1937
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Posted 30 January 2012 - 06:06 PM
Okay, that last one made me laugh. 
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"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." -- Herbert Spencer
"Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position." -- Bill Maher
"Our new Government['s] foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition." -- Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." -- Herbert Spencer
"Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position." -- Bill Maher
"Our new Government['s] foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition." -- Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy
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Posted 03 February 2012 - 04:38 PM
Sandra Day O'Connor on Mitt and Newt:
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 08:51 AM
(Don Slutes) An Arizona man, Don Slutes, took a little liberty with The Washington Post front page, doctoring it with an image of Obama laughing and the headline “Gingrich Wins S.C. Primary.” The fake newspaper cover tricked a few people, including the Detroit News. Slutes said he based the montage on a National Lampoon front page of Richard Nixon laughing beneath a “McGovern wins nomination!” headline.
With the tight race in Florida coming to a head Tuesday night, we’ll have to wait to see who has the last laugh.
By Maura Judkis | 02:03 PM ET, 01/30/2012
http://www.washingto...2PrcQ_blog.html
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"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe." -- Abraham Lincoln
"If you are the big tree, We are the small axe. Sharpened to cut you down (well sharp). Ready to cut your down." -- Bob Marley
"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe." -- Abraham Lincoln
"If you are the big tree, We are the small axe. Sharpened to cut you down (well sharp). Ready to cut your down." -- Bob Marley
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Posted 05 February 2012 - 12:10 PM
Big giggle on that one, indy.
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“A republic,” Franklin said, “if you can keep it.”
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---Julia Child
--- On September 17, 1787, as Benjamin Franklin was leaving the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention, at Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, a woman called out to him, saying, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”
“A republic,” Franklin said, “if you can keep it.”
--- LFC, on Gorsuch ruling: "Awesome. A Christianist who swore an oath to uphold the laws of the nation and bore false witness when he did it"
--- "Write hard and clear about what hurts"
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Posted 05 February 2012 - 01:20 PM
Gilligan's island is about as appropriate an analogy for the POGer-fest as you could ever ask for!
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."-- Winston Churchill
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices" Voltaire
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Posted 05 February 2012 - 01:58 PM
Lol!! Too funny. I actually had thought of the the Repubs as Gilligan's Island characters a couple weeks ago--someone else already had that idea. My version of casting was pretty similar, but with Palin and Bachmann switched, and Ron Paul as Gilligan--the SS Minnow actually sank because it was overloaded with too many gold bars.
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Posted 05 February 2012 - 02:07 PM
Republigan's Island - very funny.
The only one who didn't need to be photo-shopped is Mitt.
Ron Paul is hilarious.
The only one who didn't need to be photo-shopped is Mitt.
Ron Paul is hilarious.
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 01:50 PM
The Young Trump - 'hair apparent'
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Posted 07 February 2012 - 02:30 PM
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 02:48 PM
Well, I consider it humor anyway...
http://thehill.com/b...-attacks-obama-
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GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum said the Obama administration’s view of proponents of California’s Proposition 8 amounts to bigotry.
Proposition 8, which was passed in 2008 and banned same-sex marriage in California, was ruled unconstitutional Tuesday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Santorum, speaking at a campaign stop Wednesday in Texas, said the administration’s view of advocates of Proposition 8 is that their “belief of marriage between a man and a woman is purely irrational based on irrational hatred and bigotry. Where’s the tolerance in that?”
Proposition 8, which was passed in 2008 and banned same-sex marriage in California, was ruled unconstitutional Tuesday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Santorum, speaking at a campaign stop Wednesday in Texas, said the administration’s view of advocates of Proposition 8 is that their “belief of marriage between a man and a woman is purely irrational based on irrational hatred and bigotry. Where’s the tolerance in that?”
http://thehill.com/b...-attacks-obama-
