Toon: The World According To The Supreme Court

[n2doc]

[mcar]

1. Love Pearls

This is perfect.

[adirondacker]

2. Excellent! Thanks for posting! nt

[rhett o rick]

3. Help me out here. Is the CEO with the bag of money supposed to represent Goldman-Sachs

and the politician is H. Clinton?

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4. yeah, each one is the spitting image. and money doesn't exist anywhere else in politics.

good eye.

[rhett o rick]

12. I think there is a point hidden in there somewhere. Let me take a guess.

Since there is money elsewhere in Congress we shouldn't care if H. Clinton takes bribes openly from Goldman-Sachs. Am I close?

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13. not at all. your inserting an agenda against one particular politician diminishes the problem.

by suggesting there is something particular about clinton and goldman sachs that doesn't apply to essentially all major donors and all major politicians.

[hueymahl]

20. So to follow you logic

It's OK if our politician is corrupt, because all politicians are corrupt.

And if you point out our politician is corrupt, then you are a bad person, because you are diminishing the problem that all politicians are corrupt.

Got it.

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29. i didn't say that at all, but knock yourself out.

the toon said that money in politics corrupts. it didn't talk about anyone in particular.
it's a serious problem. my objection was simply that trying to turn it into an argument about one particular situation, one particular politician, makes it as if that politician is the problem and others are fine. they're not. none of them are.
well, no doubt plenty of them are decent people, but they're willing participants in an increasingly corrupt system.

imho, odds are pretty good that the only truly principled politicians are the one-termers or the zero-termers.

i'm not defending any politicians here. the op was an indictment against the entire system. really no one is immune as long as money plays such a big role. anyone who tries to buck the system absent a comprehensive solution (legislation and/or a *good* court decision) is just pissing into the wind.

[hueymahl]

30. I tend to agree with you

And I don't like it. Makes me want to disengage. So, I guess I will keep hoping a believing that it is possible to make a difference. Even if it is going for the least corrupt person instead of the rarest of breeds, the honest politician.

[rhett o rick]

22. I was guessing what your point was. Why don't you come out and say that

you think that all politicians are corrupt therefore it's ok to support HRC? If that's your point. If not, help me out.

[cstanleytech]

23. Regardless what they did or did not say rhett the issue is effecting all politicians.

And that issue is the rich and powerful of this country and buying off the politicians and the courts and it needs to stop.

[rhett o rick]

25. It absolutely needs to be addressed. However, some politicians are worst than others.

HRC is the epitome of politicians that take money from corporations. She is blatant about it. The money from Goldman-Sachs wasn't a campaign donation, it was cash that went directly to increase her wealth. Saying that everyone does it doesn't eliminate her responsibility.

[cstanleytech]

27. " Saying that everyone does it doesn't eliminate her responsibility." Of course it doesnt.

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28. this isn't a hillary thread and it wasn't a hillary toon.

the world does not revolve around your own agenda.

i didn't say anything about supporting hillary. save it for another thread.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Jeez, I didn't see that.

I thought it was a historical reference, and Congressman RAT was a sneaky allusion to Robert A. Taft.

[NaturalHigh]

5. I always knew there were gumball trees and unicorns.

[tclambert]

7. According to the Roberts Court there are.

[hueymahl]

21. I showed this to my 8YO

And he said the Unicorns should be farting rainbows.

[tazkcmo]

26. I love 8 year olds.

It was my favorite age and is what I would be for an eternity if possible.

[pscot]

6. K&R

I bet that one generates some emails.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Pastis is great. Love his toons.

I hadn't seen him get this far out into Trudeauland before, though.

[Cha]

10. K

[Scuba]

11. Brilliant! Thanks, n2doc.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

14. K&R!

[Laelth]

15. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[Enthusiast]

16. Kicked and recommended!

Thanks, n2doc. That's a good one.

[indepat]

17. An ode to the absolute corruptness of the corrupt-to-the-core felonious five who sit on the Supreme

Court. May your corrupt 5 to 4 majority opinions be expunged from history through public out-cry.

[Blue_Tires]

18. Someone needs to send this to the ACLU...

[1StrongBlackMan]

19. Gotta love this toon ...

But how the hell can someone say there's no quid pro quo, in the came breath as talking about money creating ACCESS to candidates/politicians.

[Ned Flanders]

24. Charlie... Charlie... Charrrrrrrlie!

I think he meant "Candy Mountain."