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Tuesdays Mega Toon Roundup 1- RR ticket (HT to EarlG) (Original Post) n2doc Aug 2012 OP
All are brilliant, but I love the 1912 one. So true! GreenPartyVoter Aug 2012 #1
I was just recently reading a book about events around 1920 ... eppur_se_muova Aug 2012 #12
Conmen depend on people not getting wise to them Hydra Aug 2012 #13
Lessons learned? Nope. :^( GreenPartyVoter Aug 2012 #15
K&R. Thanks for posting. n/t Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #2
Thank you for posting! Dyedinthewoolliberal Aug 2012 #3
This one really appeals to me, but really they're ALL killer. BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2012 #4
In the words of Paul Krugman dsteve01 Aug 2012 #6
LOL!! BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2012 #17
If only reality worked this way dsteve01 Aug 2012 #18
sounds like a blockbuster to me! BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2012 #19
coat hanger - great observation Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #11
:) BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2012 #16
k & r surrealAmerican Aug 2012 #5
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2012 #7
Does this artist watch DU? sakabatou Aug 2012 #8
Thus the hat tip to EarlG n/t n2doc Aug 2012 #9
I was wondering... awoke_in_2003 Aug 2012 #10
Favorite one. magnifisense Aug 2012 #14

eppur_se_muova

(36,247 posts)
12. I was just recently reading a book about events around 1920 ...
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 01:53 PM
Aug 2012

Warren G. Harding and his VP, Calvin Coolidge, were about as pro-business as any administration in US history. They preached the same things the pro-business crowd does today: relaxed regulation, lower taxes, small gov't. Cons like to credit them with the booming economy of the Roaring 'Twenties, but it's questionable how much of that would have happened anyway, given the end of wartime quotas and shortages, and the recent progress in science and technology which led to so many new industries. Of course, it all fell apart in 1929, under Coolidge's former Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, but cons insist that had nothing to do with the excesses of unregulated capitalism. Lessons learned ? Not much, at least on the right, and sadly, not by many US voters.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
13. Conmen depend on people not getting wise to them
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 02:19 PM
Aug 2012

Of course, most conmen couldn't even dream of the power this controlled flow of information via education, MSM and the law creates.

We can hope at some point the whole illusion just shatters...

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
4. This one really appeals to me, but really they're ALL killer.
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 11:04 AM
Aug 2012

and when we're talking about repukes that are this deranged, the word "killer" could be taken in the literal sense, too!


And on this one, notice the "with Appeal to Evangelicals" frame, how Ryan's halo sits on an unfolded wire coat hanger?? Subtle!

dsteve01

(312 posts)
6. In the words of Paul Krugman
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 11:47 AM
Aug 2012

This whole Paul Ryan ordeal is just to distract us from his Tax Record.

Keep calling upon his tax record! If you say, "Tax Record" three times out loud--it summons the spirit of fiscal policy past!

dsteve01

(312 posts)
18. If only reality worked this way
Wed Aug 15, 2012, 11:53 PM
Aug 2012

but a final showdown between a corporate maleficence devil and tax record spirits would Be. Pretty. Epic.

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