Cartoon for November 7, 2009
After I drew this, I saw that the number had been increased to 75%.
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13 Comments:
It just dawned on me with this one....Ted, you're having a mid-life crisis/conversion. Feeling betrayed by the political Left you are reacting and running full steam ahead toward being a reactionary tool....this is great, you and Uncle Tom (Friedman) need to go play in the sandbox together!!
I'm not sure I see a difference with this cartoon between what you're saying and what Ann Coulter would say. I know she'd be serious about it, and I used to suspect it was sarcasm with you, but I'm not so sure anymore. I think you are beginning to hate liberalism.
Saving up for a retirement plot in Naples, FL I see?
The obesity begins long before H.S. Most of the kids in gradeschool are prime dodgeball targets.
Brilliant.
Oh, Aggie, I'd mail you a sarcasm chip if I could only afford to.
Yes, Ted, I know what sarcasm is (I also know that 'gimmie a break' is an expression) and I get that you MAY be intending sarcastic here. I'm not challenging that. I'm saying that in the past year I've noticed a change in tone in your work away from criticism of the right wing to criticism of the 'not left enough for Ted.'
You're playing a game of out-progressivisming everyone, and in that, playing the role of the fool who attacks the center as somehow a tactic to toughen them up and beat them into making a stand. It never works, the center never holds. You just alienate anyone who is thoughtful and become an inflexible, static artifact of the American political landscape.
Do you find more validity in the positions of those who are in extreme opposition to yourself, or those who are somewhat in opposition to you? I used to think you demonstrated nuance in your thinking, but this past year makes me wonder if you only see things in black and white.
Are those suppose to be Marx and Mao? If so, I don't understand why they are there.
Wow Ted, you've hit the last five cartoons out of the park!
Good work.
Reminds me of an old "Tiny Revolution" column saying, don't worry, there can't be a brownshirt crystallnacht here in the USA because we don't have the physical condition for it.
America: Too Fat for Fascism?
You need lots of people in good shape for fascism. When you're chasing the Armenian/Jew/Commie/Tutsi/Kulak down the street, you can't be distracted by your pants chafing against your chubby thighs. That leaves the miscreant time to get away and continue their plotting to destroy humanity.
Also, the best massive torchlit rallies peak around midnight. But by then most Americans will have polished off the fourth serving of their bottomless pasta bowl at Olive Garden, and be too sleepy to attend. This will definitely cut into the public displays of fealty to the Maximum Leader.
Do NOT underestimate the ability of 'fat' people to mobilize and maintian an attack or defense. Or older citizens, either.
Many are the stories of young punks who THOUGHT an older person was an easy target while waiting for public transportation. Too bad for the young punks they didn't ask if the 'old guy' was a Marine (once a Marine, always a Marine), and it was too late when the punks woke up in handcuffs and in a cell after the 'old guy' turned out their lights.
If I had to use a well-known phrase from a movie hero-type, I'd say to the fat-people bashers, "Go ahead. Underestimate me. Do you feel lucky?"
Because you might not want to mess with a fat Marine from a recent war.
I got kind of confused by the diabolical duo's apparition in there, too. Ted's notion of sarcasm is sometimes downright cryptic.
The thinking behind these millitary standards goes back to Greco-Roman stuff set in no small part by Alexander the Great and the Spartans.
Except, the reasons they use have nothing to do with battle practicality. That's secondary.
Alexander the Great was blatantly gay. He wanted his warriors beardless, not so an opponent couldn't grab their beard/hair and kill them. If their opponent could do that, they could kill them anyways. He wanted to fantasize from the distance about all the naked, young boys fighting. Likewise, weight while certainly possible in a younger lad and an older adult is simply unlikely in an active, athletic youth.
It's really funny how that fictionalized movie about the Spartan's battle of Thermopalye "300" has got RightTARDS raving "Spartaaaannnnssss!" If anyone had proposed anything about Spartan or Hellenistic culture to them without that context they'd have screamed they were Communist, Nazis, social darwinists, faggots and NAMBLA members rolled into one.
Frankly, on that note, the Spartans were mercenaries. They picked and choosed their battles carefully to benefit their society. Leonidas, if he could somehow see today's "Gulf War" would likely tell the troops to first politely petition for much better wages, then if that fails to use their arms to take over a portion of Iraq and rule as warlords and profit from oil sales.
Aggie Dude,
I made a point about that when he was on his wolf rant. I do agree with you it's all down to the black and white.
Anon 5:00pm,
"Alexander the Great was blatantly gay."
He was bi-sexual not gay.
" If anyone had proposed anything about Spartan or Hellenistic culture to them without that context they'd have screamed they were Communist, Nazis, social darwinists, faggots and NAMBLA members rolled into one."
It's been said anyways.
"Frankly, on that note, the Spartans were mercenaries. They picked and choosed their battles carefully to benefit their society. Leonidas, if he could somehow see today's "Gulf War" would likely tell the troops to first politely petition for much better wages, then if that fails to use their arms to take over a portion of Iraq and rule as warlords and profit from oil sales."
They also weren't mercenaries in that sense. They practiced real politic which is very different than being a mercenary.
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