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Great collection.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)Crime family at work.
2naSalit
(86,061 posts)Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Some powerful toons!
oasis
(49,152 posts)tclambert
(11,080 posts)Ivana became a citizen. By Trump's rules, they all need to be deported.
oasis
(49,152 posts)kentuck
(110,950 posts)LAS14
(13,749 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Can't choose a favorite, but I particularly appreciate this rare message calling out corrupt MSNBC and CNN talking heads especially.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)erronis
(14,955 posts)Thanks for pulling these together!
cp
(6,543 posts)Fitzsimmons from Tucson: "If only your party made it as hard to buy a gun as you make it to vote."
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Dives flying out of minorah profound
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)... that some of these cartoonists seem to confuse the Declaration of Independence with the Constitution.
-- Mal
El Mimbreno
(777 posts)Since the gop has turned "entitlements" into a slur against Social Security, Medicare, etc, I prefer "earned benefits".
Great collection! Thanks.
JHB
(37,132 posts)Back in the 80s, people from conservative "think" tanks would throw out big scary numbers about the portion of the federal budget that went to entitlements, and then spend the rest of their talk going on about welfare.
The fact is, the vast lion's share of the big scary numbers were due to Social Security and Medicare (which are entitlements too). But by not mentioning them, the audience was usually left with the impression that all that money was going to assistance programs. This fed into the imagery of a vast army of layabouts living high off of other people's hard-earned tax dollars.
They've repeatedly used the same rhetorical game of 3-card Monte -- just think of the way Bush interwove mentions of Saddam and 911, never actually connecting the two, but leaving 5at impression if you weren't listening closely.
And let's not mince words, the same conservative think tanks that put out that material also want to do away with Social Security and Medicare, since they regard ANY entitlements as "socialism".
Sometimes, if you don't have time to get into it, yeah, you do have to use their framing as shorthand. But whenever possible I prefer to get people thinking and stop using conservative framing.