Wednesday TOONs - College Has Gotten So Expensive

[JHB]

College Has Gotten So Expensive

Republican Budget
Not “Trump budget”. He’s their leader, and in the end they always back him.

HuckaBS

All in all, it’s just another brick in The Wall

Awfulgraphs

Old and Simple?

#FakeMelania

Boeing Nosedive

Try connecting the dots

Brexit: Let’s see what’s behind door No. 86

[planetc]

1. kick, kick, kickety kick

[DemocracyMouse]

31. I won't "kick" until the Brexit humor includes Putin snickering

behind both a Brexit polling booth and a US polling booth. (I screamed and hollered about US vote suppression for years too..... why does it take the media so FRIGGIN LONG to connect both Trump and Brexit back to Putin?! Or maybe Britain is discussing this and the US media is just slow and stupid and distracted by football and other dumb shit)

SEE THE GUARDIAN BELOW:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/17/brittany-kaiser-trump-russia-robert-mueller-cambridge-analytica

Mueller questions Cambridge Analytica director Brittany Kaiser

Second former employee of controversial data firm to be questioned by special counsel’s inquiry into Russia collusion

Carole Cadwalladr for the Guardian
Sun 17 Feb 2019

A director of the controversial data company Cambridge Analytica, who appeared with Arron Banks at the launch of the Leave.EU campaign, has been subpoenaed by the US investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

A spokesman for Brittany Kaiser, former business development director for Cambridge Analytica – which collapsed after the Observer revealed details of its misuse of Facebook data – confirmed that she had been subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller, and was cooperating fully with his investigation.

Damian Collins, chairman of parliament’s inquiry into fake news, said it was “no surprise” that Kaiser was under scrutiny by Mueller because “her work connected her to WikiLeaks, Cambridge Analytica and [its parent company] SCL, the Trump campaign, Leave.EU and Arron Banks”.

He said it was now vital Britain had its own inquiry into foreign interference: “We should not be leaving this to the Americans.”

[Laf.La.Dem.]

2. Thank you for posting!!

[rpannier]

3. Kick

Special kick for the first and fourth, both Nazi ones and free at last

[Sherman A1]

4. K&R

Great Stuff!

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Thanks! K&R

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

6. Great Selections!

[PatSeg]

7. Democrats are the party that hates Jews

AND "So now we gotta start votin' for Democrats?!?!"

How do those feeble hate-filled minds process all of this?

[Wounded Bear]

14. Religious zealots thrive on paradox...

[PatSeg]

16. Yeah

If it is a paradox, it must be the Will of God!!! What else could it mean?

[Wounded Bear]

17. "God works in mysterious ways..."

That's one of my favorites.

[PatSeg]

20. Cliched answers for when they don't

really know the answer. Of course, there is the classic default position, "Because the bible says so". That is when you know any further discussion is pointless.

Of course even then, they have the audacity to edit the meaning of this very sacred text when it suits their purpose. A southern Baptist minister tried to tell me that though the bible SAID Jesus drank wine, it was really only fruit juice. I guess that was based on his special connection with the almighty. By the time I was done with him and he left our house, he was extremely befuddled and confused. My husband laughed hysterically once he was out of earshot. That was one lost soul he didn't save that day, which must mean the devil won.

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. Its a type of arrogance. A very hypocritical blind arrogance.

When they use their "sacred text" to prove every dumb racist sexist patriarchal thing they spew as being truth. Its like their "alternate facts" source they use and just ASSUME you know, that they know, that you know.....you are fooling yourself by thinking the Bible is not literally true from cover to cover. So they will just continue to use it as both a religious text, but also some kind of ancient encyclopedia ripe with supernatural occurrences.

even though I was brought up in that same evangelical environment, I still shake my head when flipping radio channels or TV stations and hear some evangelical preacher spout some religious law or another, and then back that up by looking down to their open Bible to prove this is the right thing to do with a verse from this old religious book written by men centuries ago, and then altered and edited heavily by the Roman Catholic church along the way to help steer the flock to them. That they just assume.....er have faith......that these male authors were being made to write what they did by some supernatural being who cannot tell a lie.

This arrogance that if you do not believe or have the same 'faith' you are pitiful and lost and stupid, and so they don't have to waste their time trying to explain why the Bible is obviously a true historical document and the primary guide to run your life with. That is a given. That is their starting point, so they make it impossible to have a legitimate argument. Their arrogance in just thinking this is a perfectly logical place to start the discussion.

[PatSeg]

24. It is the ultimate con job

One can find almost anything in the bible to prove a point, even if the exact opposite can be found on another page.

And to say that one book, written by numerous people over hundreds of years is all the 'word of god' is quite a stretch or god is a real unpredictable jerk.

What gets me is these devout Christians throw around the name Jesus with abandon, but manage to avoid almost anything Jesus was reported to have said or taught. Probably too much forgiveness and 'do unto others' nonsense and not enough 'eye for an eye' and stone the sinners for their taste. Most of all, they probably don't like Jesus's warnings about hypocrites, especially those professing to be men of god.

I suppose if the 'faithful' insist on using the bible as the last word on anything and everything, there is plenty of ammunition in the New Testament to shut them up if one is so inclined!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

26. The phrases that shut me down to religion were....

"God wants you to blah, blah, blah...."

or

"God doesn't want you to blah, blah, blah...."

After spending three sessions in church every week in the 50s and 60s until I left for college, it suddenly occurred to me in the 90s that someone forgot to give me the number of God's private phone line so I would have direct knowledge of his/her wishes.

And, the final icing on the cake was when someone told me what the Prosperity Gospel was all about.

We won't even talk about the hypocrisy I heard the time or two I did try to go back.

Never again...........

[LiberalLovinLug]

35. Prosperity Gospel is the complete opposite of what Jesus taught.

Twisting the meaning of what "God will bless you if you follow him" meant originally. Conveniently forgetting the verse about the difficulty of a rich man getting through an eye of a needle, or Jesus chasing the money lenders from the temple. And other passages that elevate the poor as being equally valid, or even more so.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

37. We have a massive problem in our nation, that is....

loss of humility and empathy, both of which are foundational to most religions as well as many non-religious followings such as Humanism. In my lifetime that I can recall since the 50s, people have slowly became more selfish, self-centered, tribal and isolationist.

Although I never attended one, the things I've learned about the new Evangelical churches are completely upside-down from what I was taught in the old-fashioned Southern Baptist Church up through the late 60s. And, the Southern Baptist Convention now behaves like a branch of the Republican Party.

In recent decades, we've seen mega-churches and mega-pay preachers come to be very common, which appears to me to be a rabid worship of material things and human beings.

I would like for someone to explain how that complete change from humility and meekness to arrogance and materialism happened.

Are they now using a completely different Bible?

[steventh]

8. thanks for the toons

kick rec

[tblue37]

9. K&R and thanks. nt

[Gothmog]

10. Thank you for the cartoons

[MissB]

11. All of these are so good.

The max and min one was biting.

The one with the nazi and the klan member was hilarious.

[AllaN01Bear]

12. indeed.

[calimary]

13. The sweetest of all is how the cartoonist drew Miss Sarah.

A perfect portrait. Looks just like her. Inside AND out.

You know that saying about how you eventually get the face you deserve...

[BigmanPigman]

30. That was my favorite since it was so accurate

which is pretty scary. She looks like a Picasso painting with her asymmetrical features all over her face.

[oasis]

15. Hucksterbee's "straight face" too cruel.

[Habibi]

25. It is, and I love it! nt

[Canoe52]

18. KnR!

[Blue_Tires]

19. brilliant

k+r

[Dixc]

22. Lying with a staight face....

thanks for a good laugh!

[murielm99]

23. Thank you.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. K&R. Great set today, JHB. Thank you!

Ignore and do not feed the invasive pundits!........

[2naSalit]

28. Thank you!

[alfredo]

29. KNR

[Hekate]

32. Kicktoons. The kid with measles needs to be in bed, glassy-eyed with a high fever...

My only quibble. Anti-vaxxers think it's like a cold with a little rash.

[Demovictory9]

33. k&r

[El Mimbreno]

34. HuckaBS

Don't blame God for trump; you might piss Her off!

[dalton99a]

36. Great toons