Stanek Sunday funnies 9-21-14
Good morning, and Happy Sunday! Here were my top five favorite political cartoons this week. What was yours? Be sure to vote in the poll at the bottom of the post!
by Chip Bok at Townhall.com…
by Matt Davies at GoComics.com…
a twofer by Lisa Benson at Townhall.com…
(yes, Pelosi really said that)…
by Steve Kelley at Townhall.com…
plus a liberal bonus, by Clay Jones at Claytoonz.com…
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Sep.21, 2014 7:09 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
A good selection…
My second choice would be the Threats to Civilization…
Not sure many in our nation even know…what a declining civilization looks like…which might explain why some of the blind and oblivious…keep walking thru the ongoing damage…to family, to kids, to good institutions, to the local businesses…
I think Nancy Pelosi has turned into a Republican! Fear mongering paranoia! She’s already on step 9 of the conversion plan it sounds like.
Enjoy here righties!
I’m voting for #4 this week.
The Adrian Peterson one doesn’t make sense to me. Did Republicans condone what Adrian Peterson did? What am I missing? I just don’t get it!
@Sydney,
See, Sydney, the media is on this kick that just because the GOP isn’t gung ho about killing them, they hate children. That and, as least a minority of them, actually believe that sticking the kids with our bills is immoral.
But, hey, unrestricted abortion, allowing undocumented child-abusers and serial rapists into the country without so much as a slap on the wrist (three of them were released last week in TX), and promoting women-abusing politicians (so long as the belong to the the Democratic Party) is all good.
Sydney –
Both sides do a very good job of taking half-truths and distorting them. Every time you see something that paints your views poorly, and you get upset about them – that’s exactly how people with different views see the cartoons that you cheer about.
The nugget of truth is that the GOP’s policies aren’t as favorable towards life after birth as the Dem’s policies are. I think that was disputable back in the ‘compassionate conservative’ days, but now days, I think it is beyond question.
So the cartoonist took that nugget, and figured that a GOPer would hire Adrian Peterson as a babysitter. No affiliation between Peterson and the GOP from what I know (though he is against gay marriage – but that doesn’t 100% point to an affiliation – good chance he doesn’t even vote).
“The nugget of truth is that the GOP’s policies aren’t as favorable towards life after birth as the Dem’s policies are ”
The nugget of truth is that Democratic policies support killing children before birth because Democrats don’t believe Republican policies towards life after birth will ever measure up to their own.
Ex’s motto: You are better off dead than being allowed to live in a world with policies that I don’t believe are as good as mine.
Prax
That statement barely made sense.
If you’d like to spell out your thoughts with actual logic and reasoning, believe me – I’d welcome that.
When one of the major policy writers and “thinkers” of the right wing has his plan denounced by religious leaders across the country as being cruel to people – well, I stick by my early statement.
Please, do not feed the Troll!
Nancy Pelosi’s repetoire ranges from hyperbole to vitriol — but there is that wide band in the middle where she is just silly nonsense.
“Abortion is sacred ground to me.”
The sad news for former-Speaker Pelosi is that Americans vote. We decide. We decide if the House Speaker’s Party is a threat to our civilization. We decide who we want to control our Senate.
This cartoon points to Pelosi’s elitism. She should not be so obvious in revealing her disdain for what Americans want.
“Please, do not feed the Troll!”
LOL. Prolifers realize that even trolls deserve to eat — and live.
Ex-GOP, the “nugget” of truth is that Peterson has tweeted “christian” messages, so the “artist” has conflated that with GOP.
There is absolutely NO connection between Republican policies (show me otherwise, state or Federal level) and some anonymous GOPers hiring a man accused of child abuse as a babysitter. The comic is nothing more than a fevered slander masquerading as subtle social commentary.
Your post hoc explanation, absent a single shred of knowledge of the comic himself, is a pitiable joke itself. But then, you’ve already convicted and sentenced the man, while taking a classist/racist swipe at him for not voting. Your slip is showing, yet again…
To be clear: this isn’t about Democrats and Republicans. Our hope is that Democrats will put forth some plans to solve important problems before us, and that Republicans will do the same. And it would be wonderful if some smaller parties warmed up with messages of their own.
What we don’t need is people like Pelosi blowing gas about how the Republicans or the TEA Party will be the end of civilization. To coin a Yogi-ism: If Nancy has nothing to say, she should do us a favor and say it.
Kevin
I’m quite proud explanation – the nugget of truth is that GOP policies aren’t as good for the living as Democrats are – and when you have a party that wants to massively cut food stamps, unemployment benefits, education, health care, and have at various times threatened both Medicare and Social Security – well, the reputation is well earned.
How is it racist to suggest a football player doesn’t vote? If you haven’t checked your calendar, there is a lot going on for an NFL player in November. To jump to the conclusion that it was racist – well, I guess I’ll call you Al Sharpton from now on – looking for racist statements where none existed.
Wait a minute — are you equating “food stamps, unemployment benefits, education, health care, … Medicare and Social Security” with civilization?
The entitlement programs are under attack by reality. Blaming “Republicans” is just blaming the messenger.
What we need from the Democrats is a plan that will put America back on sustainable fiscal policy. Saving America is prerequisite to having the entitlement programs.
So herpy derpy do, if you don’t like abortion make sure to vote for the most pro-abortion politicians around! Hey, if your politicians promise not to hurt you, you just gotta believe ’em! And oh, don’ts forget that if they do anything wrong, why you just tell everyone how all politicians are the same, and that’s why you should tell everybodies how pro-life you are while you votes for the mostest pro-deathest. Herpy derpy dooo! Guess who I’m posting as? Yuk-yuk.
Del –
Nope. The train of conversation was me explaining the Peterson cartoon – Kevin then posting about Republican policies, and then me stating the current reality. Not at all related to that cartoon.
We had the sustainable path – the CBO had a great report from around 2000 on the path we were on that would have the debt paid off. Then 9/11 happened, followed by unfunded tax cuts, unfunded wars, and an unfunded medicare expansion, followed by an economic collapse.
Peace, then, Ex-GOP!
The Peterson cartoon is just vicious…. Suggesting that Republicans don’t care about living children (false) and that Republicans encourage child abuse (false) with the intimation that killing children in the womb is a solution to anything (false). I don’t put that on liberals or Democrats — that’s all on Clay Jones, who shares the crazy with Nancy Pelosi this week.
Meanwhile, you and I share a certain consensus about politics and sustainable economics. We admire the Reagan/Clinton era of political cooperation and striving for a balanced budget. We are disgusted by the Bush/Obama era of irresponsible, constant blaming and accelerated debt.
With this much common ground, we could have a delightful debate over the best way to go forward — without suffering any quarrel.
But this is pro-life board. We know that no matter how sweet and wise a guy’s economic and foreign policies might sound — if he can’t figure out how to respect human life in all of its stages, his sweet policies will sour pretty fast.
Many people wonder why Obama fell so far short of the HOPE that he promised. Democrats blame the Republicans whom we elected to stop Obamacare. Pro-lifers know that Obama’s fierce dedication to abortion is the key to understanding his megalomania.
Del –
So the pessimist in me is coming out.
I think the problem is that we need some BIG changes in how things run in the US – we need to get insurance off of employers (either universal coverage, or a free market solution where people buy plans outside of work) and hope that wages increase for the middle class. We need to keep a top flight military but we also can’t forget about the older generation, which is the majority of the entitlement/social program spending.
I feel like 20 years ago, things weren’t quite so doom – but after a huge run up of the debt after the last two presidents – and now the expectations of lower taxes, and the knowledge that a big increase would slow the economy – it’s tough sledding.
We’ve just created this terrible cycle now where it’s tough to afford college, and then kids come out with often terrible majors, and more often a lot of debt – which delays kids/houses/cars, etc… – and then day care costs and health insurance costs are so out of control that the middle class can’t quite keep up.
There’s part of me that says we either need somebody like Rand Paul or Bernie Sanders simply because they are so outside the establishment, we’d get some disruptive change. The core Democrats and Republicans are so tightly knit, that really when they get in office, the govern the same. My biggest issue with Obama is he really hasn’t governed much different than Bush. I mean, what radical things have changes? People who call Obama some crazy liberal or super far left need to have their head examined – he’s been barely right of center on the things he’s actually gotten done.
The Republicans in control are a train wreck (see Wisconsin). The Democrats in control are a train wreck (see Obama when they had control of everything – a lot of wasted capital). It’s time for a massive shake-up – but when the parties have jury rigged the system to keep themselves in power – what’s a country to do?
“I think the problem is that we need some BIG changes in how things run in the US”
Until then, let’s stop supporting those who support the killing of babies, shall we?
Ex-GOP needs to get a life. Poor feeble minded troll.
Eagles are 3-0. We rock.
Golly, Ex-GOP! You have verified what I have strongly suspected — You and I are not very far apart, at all.
I’m sorry that some folks around here still think you are a “troll.”
But I would encourage you to get a life, in the friendliest terms. We are not going to find solutions to our problems from Washington. We are going to continue to be frustrated as long as we expect our salvation to come from government.
Look to your own family for your mutual future and success. Treat the government like you do the weather — an irksome reality with some good days and some bad days.
Del, I don’t think Ex-RINO is looking for solutions from Washington; just that we ignore the ‘coming doom’ he speaks of and stay on our current unsustainable path of increased hand-outs. Sounds insane but it his mantra.
“I think the problem is that we need some BIG changes in how things run in the US”
Sure..and BIG hope too. If only Obama could have a third term.
Del: We are not going to find solutions to our problems from Washington.
Yep. Best to view the federal gov’t as hostile to us – which it is, in the long run, for almost all of us.
I have to admit I’m a little tickled that the the liberal cartoon, me, won your poll. On top of that it’s the cartoon most of your readers are talking about.
Jill, thank you for sharing my cartoon and letting me know you used it. It was extremely classy of you to comment on my website, http://claytoonz.com, to let me know it was on your site. I’m not being snarky. I really appreciate that.
Cheers.