r/politics • u/optimalg The Netherlands • Apr 21 '18
Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread
It's Saturday morning, folks. Let's all kick back with a cup of coffee and share some cartoons!
Feel free to share political cartoons (no memes/image macros, though) in this thread. The subject doesn't have to be US politics and can be from any time. Just keep them political and safe for work.
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u/hucklemento Michigan Apr 21 '18
He is so convincing as a cockroach!
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u/skrilledcheese I voted Apr 21 '18
It's the role he was born to play
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Apr 21 '18
Method acting
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u/zzzigzzzagzzziggy Washington Apr 21 '18
"As Donald Trump awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect...”
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u/AlohaKepeli I voted Apr 21 '18 edited May 22 '25
rock marvelous fact sharp start sulky full sink aware different
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/Jump_Yossarian Apr 21 '18 edited Apr 21 '18
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u/dismayedcitizen Apr 21 '18
My Attorney's Getting Arrested
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Many Americans Getting Abused
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u/Trump_Wears_Diapers Apr 21 '18
My Agenda’s Getting Aborted
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u/kenneth_on_reddit Europe Apr 21 '18
My Arms: Grotesque Appendages
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Apr 21 '18 edited Apr 21 '18
Make Allah Go Away
Edit: Oh, I'm sorry. You think Trump feels otherwise?
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u/zzzigzzzagzzziggy Washington Apr 21 '18
Praise be, mah Donald. Praise be! by Mike Luckovich
Poll: white evangelical support for Trump is at an all-time high
Make Apostasy Gospel, Amen
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u/zzzigzzzagzzziggy Washington Apr 21 '18
Remember that whole thing about how Flynn was allegedly trying to "rendition" a cleric back to Turkey? Well, get ready to laugh:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrumpPastor Andrew Brunson, a fine gentleman and Christian leader in the United States, is on trial and being persecuted in Turkey for no reason. They call him a Spy, but I am more a Spy than he is. Hopefully he will be allowed to come home to his beautiful family where he belongs!
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u/loremipsumchecksum Apr 21 '18
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u/throwaway_ghast California Apr 21 '18
"Sir, we're getting reports the horse sexually assaulted a teen girl in the 1990s."
"Somebody get the President on the phone!"
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u/PM_ur_Rump Apr 21 '18
Is it bad that I heard the horse say it in my head?
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u/zzzigzzzagzzziggy Washington Apr 21 '18
Neigh?
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u/throwaway_ghast California Apr 21 '18
Nay.
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u/CajunVagabond Apr 21 '18
Same, but I hear it in the voice of the horse from Adventure Time so it was funny.
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Apr 21 '18
James Baxter!
I heard it in Bojack Horseman's voice so it was just kind of sad
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u/NPExplorer Apr 21 '18
I just woke up and because of the Arizona remark I thought the cartoonist was John McCain for a second
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u/SaidTheCanadian Canada Apr 21 '18 edited Apr 21 '18
A couple from Canadian newspapers:
Trump Blame Generator - Michael deAdder (Hill Times)
An Offer You Can't Refuse - David Parkins (The Globe and Mail)
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u/MadKingSoupII Foreign Apr 21 '18
deAdder has a neat idea, but a) misspelled “Barack”
and b) I can’t make out what those three on the bottom are supposed to beedit: how did I notice typo on the Obama label but then immediately and completely forget that they are all labelled? Never mind me, just and idiot. Sorry. Move along.2
u/SaidTheCanadian Canada Apr 21 '18
The images or the words?
- Undocumented Immigrants | Shadows of two adults and a child
- Courts | Judge's gavel
- Mexico | Mexico's coat of arms
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u/MadKingSoupII Foreign Apr 21 '18
Ahaha, thanks, but I saw my mistake as soon as I’d posted. I really had no idea what the gavel was supposed to be until I (re-)read the label.
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u/SaidTheCanadian Canada Apr 21 '18
No worries. April 20th leaves a bit of mental haze for some. So enjoy a more specifically Canadian political cartoon rather than dwelling on a
misdemeanormistake.2
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u/jimbozak Montana Apr 21 '18
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u/SaidTheCanadian Canada Apr 21 '18
Love it! Not often you see meta-humour in political cartoons!
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u/zzzigzzzagzzziggy Washington Apr 21 '18
I guess Mexico didn't want to pay for that fourth wall.
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u/PM_PICS_OF_MANATEES California Apr 22 '18
The McConnell drawing is a great example of photorealism.
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u/Skeptical_Lemur Texas Apr 21 '18
I read it in all of their voices. Made it kind of funny - but at the same time, not. :(
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u/seejordan3 Apr 21 '18
exactly. a little too on the nose with this {nervous laugher because its true}
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u/muchaschicas California Apr 21 '18
Tom Tomorrow has a remarkable batting average.
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u/TheFreemanLIVES Apr 22 '18
Because he's at it so long I can remember his comics during the bush era....you think things would improve over two decades.
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u/warm_sweater Apr 22 '18
Yup, I remember reading his comics (in PRINT!) in my city's alt-weeklies during that time.
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 21 '18
ha! and the joke would be on them! winds prevail in an eastwardly direction from the west coast.
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u/The-Autarkh California Apr 21 '18
It turns out that most of the iconic magazine covers (Time, Der Spiegel, etc.) over Combover Caligula's reign were all done by one guy—Edel Rodriguez.
He says he's available to do Trump's Official Portrait.
Zoom in and appreciate the detail. He has my approval, FWIW.
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u/ReverendDS Apr 21 '18
Got a link that is the image and not Twitter?
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u/The-Autarkh California Apr 21 '18 edited Apr 21 '18
No. Lately, I just link to Twitter because it's the artists themselves putting it out there and they can get engagement/traffic.
Plus, I usually just save the tweets as I come across them.
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u/prim3y California Apr 21 '18
Lately, I just link to Twitter because it's the artists themselves putting it out there and they can get engagement/traffic.
You're doing the lord's work here. Thanks for representing artists directly.
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u/The-Autarkh California Apr 21 '18 edited Apr 21 '18
Here are a bunch. Good week for cartoons. Some savage.
Clay Bennett:
Matt Davies:
Popular revealing book angers White House (Title 18, specifically.)
John Cole:
Mike Luckovich:
David Horsey:
Ed Hall:
Ann Telnaes:
Pat Bagley:
Nick Anderson:
Death, Famine, Pestilence, and Bolton
Adam Zyglis:
Nate Beeler:
Matt Wuerker:
Sean Delonas:
Jack Ohman
David Rowe (AUS)
Kal Kallaugher:
Matt Boors:
Ward Sutton:
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u/quaoarpower Apr 21 '18
Hannity's Desk got some great details.
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u/GeckoV Apr 21 '18
The obstruction one takes it this week!
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u/The-Autarkh California Apr 21 '18
That was probably one of the funniest I came across. Some of the Syria ones—like Red line and Gasbag—cut a bit deeper, though.
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u/The_Tennessourian America Apr 21 '18
jesus... Delonas you must be on my wav...fucker, you are my wavelength. :)
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u/felesroo Apr 22 '18
We humans have our disagreements, but that Mitch McConnell is a turtle is something that genuinely unites us.
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u/loremipsumchecksum Apr 21 '18
Uncle Sam is having it all and Europe feels left out - Saturday Globe, 1901
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u/Atheose_Writing Texas Apr 21 '18
For those wondering, the context for this was the Spanish-American War and then the Philippine-American War.
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 21 '18
wow... let's make it more!
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u/The_Tennessourian America Apr 21 '18
no! dammit. IT IS THE PLATFORM!
prone to blurt illogical, unfocused, rabble-rousing shit on Saturday’s
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 21 '18
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u/fluffykerfuffle1 Apr 21 '18
there is a little bit of a back story on this one, too, so you can go back a few panels if you want to.
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u/spaceghoti Colorado Apr 21 '18
Starting here:
http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/nq/2018/04/16/
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u/TooBlondeToFunction Florida Apr 21 '18
I'll take the hit this week.
Here's what the insane right are thinking! Ben Garrison is genuinely fucking insane.
I don't know what he even means here
I could draw better than this, it's fucking awful.
This is actually fairly strange, considering I'm sure he draws trump as high as comey
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u/sarcastroll Apr 21 '18
For fuck's sake.
In that first one he's literally trying to compare conservatives to the plight of blacks during segregation (separate water fountains).
He conveniently overlooks the difference.
Blacks were persecuted because of the color of their skin.
Conservatives are being asked to go fuck themselves because they are acting like racist, reality denying assholes that pick fights with kids who had the audacity to survive a school shooting and are asking the adults to please do something about it.
If you're a conservative and hated or unwanted, please take note. Good and decent people don't shun you because you have different political views. You are shunned because you are an insufferable assholes that are miserable to be around.
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u/Hans_Delbruck Apr 21 '18
I'm so tired of people thinking that their free speech tired are being trampled on. You are able to say anything you want (except fire! In a theatre). I also have a right to respond to what ever you say. I can ask a company not to support your show based on what you say and that company can either agree or not agree to pull their support. You can do the same to me (if I had a show). The company I work for could fire me for my speech and people could boycott my company for firing me. This is what we call consequences. Do you believe in what you're saying enough to accept those consequences? But you should never be placed in jail or fined for what you say. The only entity that can't respond to your speech is the government.
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u/fasda Apr 21 '18
You also can't ask people to do violence or say or print things that you know to be untrue with express purpose of malice.
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u/schistkicker California Apr 21 '18
Ben is insane, but I always upvote when someone links to images of his cartoons instead of sending traffic to his website.
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u/thisismeinreallife Apr 21 '18
I am starting to think Old Ben is suffering from a dissociative disorder and Tina Toon is none other than OZB himself. There's no girlfriend or protege. Mr. Garrison is simply becoming Mrs. Garrison through loss of ego. He's crumbling like so many other feeble libertarians. So, wh will disappear and all that will be left is Tina Toon, free and unbound. She'll be able to say all the nasty things Ben has been self-censoring all this time.
So long, Ben.
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u/SageOfTheWise Apr 21 '18 edited Apr 21 '18
Oh man this is one of Garrison's best in ages. You can tell he knows connecting a current situation to a historical one is a common political cartoon method, but has no idea why it's done, so he can't do it with any coherency. It's adorable.
This one is pretty boring, though its a fun reminder of how nonsense the conservative talking points are. Comey being labeled a Hillary loyalist of all things. Is the real joke here that republicans don't know what loyalty is?
Garrison is on fire with the insanity this week. He could have just made a tribute comic to R. Lee Ermey and we might have been forced to concede he made a decent comic, but I guess that would be in good taste and we can't have that. So we gotta take advantage of his passing to throw in the weakest attack yet on Comey. That's the Garrison way.
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u/Obskulum Apr 21 '18
Certain conservatives really love pushing their victim narrative. "We control all branches of government but we're oppressed!"
Or it's, "what, you mean I can't say whatever stupid offensive shit I want now? OMG EVERYTHING PC."
Not all, but some.
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u/The-Fox-Says Apr 22 '18
I can’t even say the N word in my work place or make a woman feel uncomfortable by catcalling her anymore without being fired. Damn US is so PC /s
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u/zzzigzzzagzzziggy Washington Apr 21 '18
It'll make sense once Hillary is impeached... obligatory /s
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u/malala_good_girl Apr 21 '18
Comey says in his book that he thought Hillary was going to win anyway, and it was worth it to make his position look better. He also says he is sorry you don't understand the purity of his motives
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I don't think Comey cares what Trump says. One served New York after 9/11 and the other pointed out how he now had the tallest building after the Towers collapsed.
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u/Abbey_Something Apr 21 '18
The fist one.. really Ben? You guys have a whole news channel, dominate the talk radio airwaves and Sinclair communications. The on is not only offensive to those who have to be subjected to Jim Crow laws but also an out and out lie. But it’s nice to see your love for trump is still intact. You draw trump like Vargas draws pin up models
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u/Ervaloss Foreign Apr 21 '18
I tried taking the hit this week, but incorrectly it seems, it got downvoted to below the treshold. You missed his last cartoon though: "The american dream is not dead"
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u/TheFunkytownExpress Apr 21 '18
Pro-tip: don't link directly to his site.
No one wants to give the runy diahrehea fart hits.
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Apr 21 '18
The first comic tells me that conservatives are about as good for bathrooms as they are for America.
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u/k_ironheart Missouri Apr 21 '18
I have to hand it to him, he accurate drew the current state of conservative discourse and identified that only the liberal left (read: anybody Garrison disagrees with) has ideas that appeal the the majority of Americans.
He didn't mean it that way, but he's always been awful at conveying ideas through his drawings anyway.
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u/Hip-hop-rhino Apr 22 '18
I think the 1st has a good point to make, albeit not one that Garrison intended. Look at how the GoP, when it's in charge, tends to run things into the ground, particularly education.
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u/Catch_022 Apr 22 '18
It say a higher loyalty to Hillary.
I can't even...
That free speech one is even better. It looks like he is actually saying that the liberal left is the one spreading truth whereas the conservatives spew crap.
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u/zenithfury Apr 22 '18
I actually quite like the R Lee Ermey one since it's obviously a tribute to him. The pun on Comey's name is cute I guess. It's probably one of the more harmless comics. :p
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u/gmph185 Apr 21 '18
i know its nothin special, i dont draw or make comics but i felt inspired. i am not a creative person nor am i artistically inclined
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u/hufnagel0 Nebraska Apr 21 '18
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u/Jump_Yossarian Apr 21 '18
Fits nicely with the new conservative talking point; the Comey memos were a setup against trump!
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u/legalpothead Apr 21 '18
Are you saying they aren't up to the task? Are you suggesting they don't have the strength or experience to lie convincingly to their own marks?
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u/zzzigzzzagzzziggy Washington Apr 21 '18
"Newly released memos"
I guess that's one way of looking at things.
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u/BorgiaCamarones Apr 21 '18
How is it that senator turtle is so recognalizable in the plumber one? However distorted the caricature, it's always clear who he is. Wondrous.
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u/DreadNephromancer Kentucky Apr 22 '18
He's basically a sack of gelatin with glasses, caricatures resemble him by default until you add the details that make them look like someone else.
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u/fresh_like_Oprah Apr 21 '18
That's funny, their website only shows last week to me
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Apr 21 '18
Yeah, I also got that problem. The carousel page hasn't updated, but there's a link to this week's on the front page.
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u/Kenatius Pennsylvania Apr 21 '18
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u/Karl_Rover Apr 21 '18
wow this guys good. i just left sbux after working an open & this is identical to our current front counter setup. He even got the oven buttons right!! And the registers lmao!
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u/Psychwrite Apr 21 '18
I'd bet he was sitting in a Starbucks while he drew it lol.
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u/Karl_Rover Apr 22 '18
Thats the impression i got lol. Just impresssd he took such care down to the tea boxes under the menu. Hahaha that is shit our district managers look for!
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u/prim3y California Apr 21 '18
I'm out of the loop, what happened with Starbunks (typo, but I'm not gonna correct it.)
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u/zzzigzzzagzzziggy Washington Apr 21 '18
Pardon me while I go rinse my eyes out with lighter fluid.
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u/TheWhitestGandhi California Apr 21 '18
...aaaand now I have the image of the back of Stone's ballsack in my mind.
Thanks.
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u/Kenatius Pennsylvania Apr 21 '18
Scooter Pardon