Jollyjack's Political Comics

[informationgeek]

Been a while since I did a post... might as well do one involving a neat online artist I follow call Jollyjack. Here's some of his recent political ones...



href="http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/">Check out his work here on DeviantArt, though be warned. His work can be rather pervy and NSFW, with nudity and such.








Not political, but funny still...

Comments

[q99]

- And a Russian company looking to buy a major North American uranium concern requiring approval by the Secretary of State just found husband so fascinating that they were willing to pay him an $800,000 speaking fee. That's just a completely innocent coincidence.-


Let me introduce you to snopes! http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/

Ah yea, the one that required approval of nine departments? Not something Hillary personally set up, just a departmental rubber stamps, and which she was even incapable of vetoing, she didn't have that authority.



Really, the spin on *every* *single* *thing* is impressive. No matter what she does, it gets spun as this horrible offense even if it's milder than what everyone else does, and stuff that's actually proven in the other cases, not just waving in the direction.

E-mails? Thorough investigation, no wrongdoing. Remember, one of her predecessors used Yahoo for the same purposes.

Indeed, she's actually been charged with zero crimes despite being investigated more than anyone on Earth.

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Look, you are free to indulge in whatever paranoid fantasies you like about what Trump will do as President,-

Aka "what he actually said he'd do." And people he's actually appointing now. Like, deporting people, he's said that, a lot. Appoint a SoE who is against child labor laws, that's his *actual pick*.

Isn't it funny how 'listening to what Trump says,' is paranoid fantasies on my part, but 'pretending that Hillary did far worse than she did' is perfectly normal and not made-up on yours?

I don't even know what to say that 'repeating what your candidate says and does' is paranoid in your book.

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What makes this especially hilarious is this. There was a rigged election: Clinton and her friends in the DNC rigged the Democratic nomination to ensure that Clinton would win it. And now her supporters are complaining that the general election was rigged, apparently because leaked emails somehow constitute rigging an election. -

Ah yes, another irony- Hillary won overwhelmingly in the primary, largely due to overwhelming wins in early states. The e-mails leaked revealed... DWS was biased in her favor but didn't do anything that'd actually affect the race, certainly not by the several million she won by (and notably, such accusations came after the states Hillary'd already won by a ton). Heck, fun fact, the DNC *doesn't run the voting*, the state governments do, often Republican ones ironically enough.

Meanwhile, we have stuff like Pence's state raiding voter registrations, the North Carolina Republicans purging voter registrations and a court ordering them to restore them on the ground of it violating the Voter's Rights Act... only for a Republican judge ordering them re-purged without waiting for an appeal or stating reason. This happened in multiple states.

We also have the FBI director Comey breaking his department's decades-long history of neutrality 8 days before an election to announce New Evidence!... which was literally just additional copies of old evidence in another spot, had Republicans in congress crying foal, and followed shortly by a quiet 'oh yea it was nothing.'

We also also have known, confirmed foreign interference.


Again, your accusations of 'paranoia' are ignoring thing that actually happened, solidly proven, while your accusations of 'oh there's definitely corruption' are waving in the direction of things that you're assuming happened and upon examination, don't actually involve any cheating.

And, just, we won the popular. By two and a half million votes. Trump won due to Electoral College geography, not by being more popular.


The Republican party stunk to high heaven about losing to Obama by millions. Trump acting like he won a landslide when he only got through on technicality- and you acting like there's no reason to complain- is really rich.


Anyway, I believe that covers everything. The willingness to ignore evidence on one side, and to treat vague waving on the other as proof of guilt, really says it all.

You want more, again, http://www.snopes.com/ Snopes is your friend. All I've said is stuff available on publicly accessible factcheck sites, unless those are 'paranoid fantasies' too.

[tonybennett3]

+1 The really sad thing is that this is one more 'What's a matter with Kansas' situation (What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2004) is a book by American journalist and historian Thomas Frank) . The 23% that voted for the Repubs are least likely to benefit from the policies. For me, as a Black Independent voter, it breaks my heart that 54% of the U.S. couldn't care who ran the country. New York, California will survive any economic storm. But those red states are the most vulnerable to the economic winds and whims of those that are taking office.

[q99]

Yes. Trump's tax breaks are most likely to go to blue states like New York, California, etc., because that is where the money is... and where states invest in themselves. The South? They don't get tax breaks and have less self investment. Arizona'll be gutted by mass deportation policies...

The echo-chamber that sustains this economic situation is something I really hate.

Oh come on

[velador]

The lengths to which people can lie not only to others but also to themselves that their candidate is free from any sin is truly amazing. What's next, are you going to tell us that Lois Lerner's seven (!) harddrives all crashed through pure coincidence or that OJ did nothing wrong?

Then we have the hilarious double-think that James Comeys' FBI is simultaneously an non-partisan trustworthy defender of the law who cleared Hillary of any wrongdoings (funny, I seem to remember him listing a long charge of punishable offenses she commited including lying under oath and then recommending not to push charges) and then again a partisan hack controlled by the omnipotent "vast right-wing conspiracy", all in the course of a few days, just as we went from "it's not rigged, you're just losing" to "Russians rigged the election". Wow.

And never forget that Romney was publically smeared to no end from the media for belittling half the American voters, talking different in public than behind closed doors, taking big Wall Street donations, and naming Russia as No1 foe, e.g. all things Clinton did on a much grander scale.

"Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."

But, sure, Trump is the Manchurian Candidate/literally Hitler etc.

To quote a very wise person here: "The willingness to ignore evidence on one side, and to treat vague waving on the other as proof of guilt, really says it all."