TOM TOMORROW: The One Rich Guy Who Owns Everything

[Hissyspit]

Daily Kos Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/17/1277416/-Cartoon-The-one-rich-guy

[Fumesucker]

1. K&R

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. I love the congress panel

plus the sunday talking about something show.

hell, I love the whole damn thing.

[Schema Thing]

3. It barely even qualifies as hyperbole

[yurbud]

27. I loved writing satire for a while, but eventually by the time I'd finish something

it was already happening.

[zeemike]

35. Reality ruins our satire.

and it used to be just funny.

[yurbud]

42. I once wrote that with the quality of GOP candidates for president declining from Reagan to Baby

Bush, their next candidate would be a sweaty gym sock.

Then they picked Palin to be their VP candidate, which was a couple of notches below the sock.

[mwb970]

65. Remember the Tina Fey bit?

She got HUGE laughs by precisely mimicking a Palin interview appearance - same words, same gestures, same outfit, same everything. No writers involved. The audience roared.

As you said, the trouble with trying to mock or parody today's right-wing nutjobs is that any crazy thing you can think of to claim they are saying always turns out to be something they actually ARE saying. The Tina Fey approach is all that's left.

[yurbud]

73. I showed a friend who didn't follow politics too closely OUTFOXED, and he said...

"This is a joke, right? There can't really be a network like this."

Comedy writers loss is documentarians gain.

[tblue37]

67. Yep. Poe's Law. nt

[phantom power]

4. "nah, just kidding"

[jsr]

33. That never happens

[daleanime]

5. K&R....

[unblock]

6. i love this entire premise, it's one i've used myself in arguments with right-wingers.

nothing gets through to the neanderthals, though, of course.

call it capitalism and they will defend it to their death, no matter if, in practice, the rules and wealth distribution are such that it looks identical to monarchy or feudalism.

[Bandit]

34. When they start defending Capitalism, ask them if capitalism demands that Government

give subsidies to wealthy industries. Indistries such as the oil industry (the wealthiest industry in the world..EVER) or the farming industry, or the coal industry, or etc..etc..

[Major Nikon]

63. Imagine 1 guy making 99% of the GDP and a flat tax of 5%

Everyone else gets 1% of the GDP and also pays 5% in taxes.

That 1 guy would be paying 99% of all revenue and Rush Limbaugh et al would still be arguing his tax rate was too damn high.

[Coyotl]

7. Best This Modern World EVER!!!!

This is sooo good I couldn't even laugh.

[dhill926]

38. sadly nodding…..

[DeSwiss]

8. K&R!

[L0oniX]

9. I might be rich someday = carrot in front of the horse ...or donkey.

[OnyxCollie]

12. I see what you did there.

[L0oniX]

44. You caught me!

[Brigid]

31. I call it "Steinbeck Syndrome."

And it seems to be incurable.

[Octoberfurst]

41. So true.

When talking to right-wingers they always say that they have no problem with the rich making themselves richer because "someday", through all their hard work, they too will be among the moneyed elite. Yes indeed they have bought into the "work hard & you'll be rich" meme that is peddled by Faux News and all the Talk radio pundits. They're too stupid to see it's not true of course so they keep working for $8 an hour at WalMart and keep telling themselves that this is temporary and soon they will start their own businesses and will be raking in the dough. So why would they want higher taxes on the rich when they too will be rich someday? Their is a term for such people. It's "useful idiots."

[Divernan]

45. Welll put/succinctly stated!

[arikara]

53. I think the one rich guy calls them

useless eaters. Oh, he calls us that too though.

[tblue37]

68. I think they keep figuring their future lottery winnings into their regular budgets. nt

[mwb970]

75. I alwats hear about this viewpoint, but it just seems so stupid.

Do people in dead-end jobs at Cosco REALLY think that they will be billionaires any day now? This just seems too stupid for even conservatives to believe. I'm baffled. These people make no sense.

[Salviati]

51. It's not even a real carrot anymore, just a picture of a carrot

[L0oniX]

52. Yes indeed.

[bluesbassman]

54. It's an ex-carrot. Gone to be with the Choir Invisible.

[scarletwoman]

56. Well played, sir, well played!

[hunter]

10. Wow. The U.S. economy described in six panels.

[Paladin]

11. K&R.

[closeupready]

13. LOL - "what's a 'house'?"

Surely, he jests. K&R

[Brigid]

32. Yeah, that line was the best.

And yet so sad.

[DirkGently]

14. Perfect. And sad. And perfectly sad. n/t

[fasttense]

15. Just like in the game of monopoly

capitalism only has ONE winner.

[Dustlawyer]

26. K&R!!! Right now I would say the game of "Life." Several people made it to "Millionaire Acres"

but the rest of us keep going "back 3 spaces!"

[kentauros]

40. Or perhaps, Risk

[TBF]

16. I'd rec this a thousand times if I could. K&R nt

[Zorra]

17. + infinity. Tom Tommorrow is hands down the best political cartoonist EVAH!!! nt

[magical thyme]

18. what hype. Seriously, there's got to be at least 6 rich guys out there.

seriously...

[Stainless]

19. The Last Panel

reminds me of my sister and her husband. There are thousands just like them out there.

[LuckyLib]

20. Guy in lower middle panel, left, looks like David Gregory.

This toon is it in a nutshell. Thanks for posting it!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. kick!!!!!!! rec!!!! n/t

[mountain grammy]

22. So funny, so true. "'the Sunday talking about stuff show."

Sending that off to the networks..

[Solly Mack]

23. K&R

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. ba-zinga

[world wide wally]

25. So, if one guy gets all the money, is the game over?

[tblue37]

69. Considering the impact of climate change, it is pretty close to over for human civilization. nt

[loudsue]

28. That is the best, most insightful Tom Tomorrow I've ever seen.

Awesome. Just friggin' awesome & right on point.

That needs to go viral....everyone in the whole world should see that "cartoon".

[onehandle]

29. Can we skip to this reality right now?

We won't need three.

[Doctor_J]

30. TT left out the Hate Radio panel though

But extremely poignant as usual. K/R

[Blue_Tires]

36. I can't even laugh...Makes me feel queasy in my stomach...

[bleedinglib]

37. Has it already begun?

SOYLENT GREEN??

[reformist2]

39. America's second gilded age is coming to an abrupt end, and the rich don't even know it.

[colsohlibgal]

43. Tom Is Super At Pointing Out The Absurdity Of It All

The lottery mentality is helping ruining out nation, as much as people who can't or won't grasp the real reality of today.

Each gilded age has ended, maybe this will too. However this is a different age where manipulating enough people is easier.

All of it sometimes makes me want to go all "Network" Peter Finch and yell out my window. Time to wake up stragglers, and correctly deduce who us really screwing you over.

[johnnyreb]

46. K&R

This cartoon goes to my lowcountry cousins who parrot "A po' man never gave me a JAwb!"

... soon as I can find something to feed my carrier pigeon.

[me b zola]

47. K&R

[Enthusiast]

48. That is a fucking cartoon, right there!

[Fawke Em]

49. Anyone notice how the NSA agent (or FBI - whatever) is working

for the One Rich Guy?

We're already there, aren't we?

[WillyT]

50. K & R !!!

[MysticHuman]

55. Spot ON!!

TT again hits a home run!



MH

[HughBeaumont]

57. SICK of the "Defenders of the Faith Based", on the rest of the Internets AND here.

Re-Branded Feudalism, which all three well-funded parties seem to be down with in 2014 . . . it's a zero-sum game. You're simply KIDDING yourself if you think it isn't.

Oh, and no one's going to revolt in a country where 57 million people think "President Sarah Palin" is a great idea. Almost as many thought "President Mitt Romney" was a great idea.

K & R.

[scarletwoman]

58. Excellent! Rec'ed! (nt)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

59. Republicans make us all broke, then say there's no money and people believe it.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

60. This explains it perfectly. Thank you. nt

[pa28]

61. This is some of TT's best stuff.

He's got a special knack of reducing complicated issues to the lowest common denominator. Hilarity ensues.

[reformist2]

62. I think the realization that capitalism is CRAP, has reached the tipping point, hit critical mass...

It's so obvious that the system doesn't work for the vast majority of hard-working, honest people anymore (if it ever did.)

What's more, it's becoming increasingly obvious that the "winners" aren't the hardest workers, but the biggest crooks.

As I said, almost everyone knows this now. Even many Repugs know this in their hearts to be true. We are at the tipping point.

[liberal N proud]

64. I am not the one rich guy now but maybe someday...

That nails Americans right there, so many think they will someday be rich, strike gold, win the lottery or some other fantastic windfall.

[tblue37]

66. Since there are about 7 billion people on the planet, the fact that just 85

super wealthy individuals own as much as half the planet's population is actually not much different from this scenario. IOW, Tom Tomorrow is *barely* exaggerating the obscene absurdity of the situation that exists today!

[myrna minx]

70. I love Tom Tomorrow. K&R

[BarefootLeroy]

71. Big Money

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There's a stranger in your home
Can't you hear them rattlin bones
He's scratchin around in your closets and your drawers
The police know he's there
But they just don't seem to care
Take all you got and then come back for more

Wants your time, he wants your wealth
He'll slap a price tag on your health
He don't give a damn if you're sick and lame
He wants your bling, he wants your blang
He wants your kids to join his gang
Soon enough they too will call his name
(they call him)

Big money, he's breakin in
Big money, got your next of kin
Big money, he'll leave you cryin
All he cares about is the bottom line

He wants your lid, he wants your pot
He wants to slap a condo on that lot
You gotta bring the coin if you intend to play
His favorite hobby is finding takers
Out in the lobby with the movers and the shakers
The more you got, the more you get to say
*it's right there in the 1st Amendment*

Big money, a man has a price
Big money, your loot or your life
Big money, tells you bizness is thrivin'
Meanwhile we're out dumpster divin'

Hell yes! He holds the cards
He's stickin' signs out in your yard
Politicians cream when he come by
Collecting tithes, accepting alms
Dishing bribes and greasing palms
He don't ever hear the people cry

They're crying
BIG MONEY

[Overseas]

72. K&R. Well said.

[raouldukelives]

74. K&R nt