Tom Tomorrow: Rugged individualists

[FourScore]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/28/1037770/-Rugged-individualists?via=blog_1

[krispos42]

1. "It's a six-panel cartoon. We don't have a lot of room for nuance."

:spray:

[RoccoR5955]

2. A sparkling example

Of being hung by one's own petard.

[NewJeffCT]

3. I'll just lie here

and think about Ayn Rand.

:rofl:

[HughBeaumont]

4. K & R!!!

Sorry, but when I see people with Masters Degrees getting laid off through no fault of their own, those "They Should Have Made Better Decisions" or "They Just Didn't Work HARD Enough" standbys the Randroids use become an instant pile of gerbil shite. There is no "Super PhD" to achieve and employment isn't a game of musical chairs.

[begin_within]

5. Oh... I thought it would be him asking for a bailout.

[n2doc]

13. Or a farm subsidy n/t

[DirkGently]

6. Blahahahahaha. That is all.

[pokerfan]

7. k&r

and the large version...



:rofl:

[klook]

46. Thanks, from those of us who didn't make better decisions

about choosing our eyeballs at birth. :)

[dembotoz]

8. k and r

[OnyxCollie]

9. K&R. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. K&R

[dtexdem]

11. Occupy Nuance!

;-)

[Populist_Prole]

12. Oh man, his stuff is great!

Been reading them for 15 years or so. Always look forward to his next toon.

[zeemike]

14. How could you NOT recommend a Tom Tomorrow toon

He really is the best.

[rpannier]

21. Ask LoZoccolo a few posts down

Apparently that person misses the humor

[DainBramaged]

47. He never had a sense of humor....

[Ken Burch]

50. although he does think it's hysterical and politically brilliant

to walk up to people supporting candidates he doesn't support and say "dooga dooga dooga", and then post that on You Tube, when he knows perfectly well the person he did that to had no idea why he was doing it.

[WillyT]

15. LOL !!! - K & R !!!

:rofl:

:kick:

[Nye Bevan]

16. I was expecting that he was a banker who would need a bailout.,..

but I loved the twist ending.

[LoZoccolo]

17. Tom Tomorrow: automatic unrecommend n/t

[scarletwoman]

19. Wow. You are SO meta!

You are aready a parody, and now you are a parody of yourself!

Well done!

[rpannier]

20. Probably for 2 reasons

1. Tom Tomorrow bashed the rugged individualist meme. I'm sure Lo sees themself as a rugged individualist
2. He made fun of Ayn Rand

[scarletwoman]

22. I fear you are indulging in over-analysis.

Consider that there are those with no philosophy whatsoever, political or otherwise. They merely amuse themselves with the circular manipulation of fecal matter - shit-stirrers, if you will.

Perhaps they were traumatized during potty training. (Indulging in a bit of over-analysis, myself :) )

[LoZoccolo]

23. It's for the "woodchuck" thing. n/t

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[rpannier]

41. You responded

I apologise for making the statement
I've seen many hit and run posts that look like yours
You clarified
I appreciate it
Again, I apologise for the comment it was rude

[Bucky]

45. Sorry, but bigoted hatred of woodchucks is expressly against the DU rules.

Besides, it's a penguin, not a woodchuck.

[awoke_in_2003]

28. what is wrong with Tom Tomorrow?

is it the fact then, when the repubs were in power, he called it like it is- yet once the democrats took power and he called it like it is, he got thrown under the bus with Keith Olberman (and many other sweethearts of this site, until they didn't tow party line)?


Oh, and I already know my english teacher would give me shit about the previous run on sentence.

[LoZoccolo]

30. No, it was because he attacked pragmatism using his strawmen characters. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

31. because the idea of "pragmatism"...

in this day in age, is giving the republicans every thing they want. Our side CONSISTENTLY debates from the side of weakness. We fold quicker than cheap suits.

[LoZoccolo]

32. Not according to the congressional record.

[awoke_in_2003]

33. yes, we have supposedly won some victories...

like the so called health care reform act. At a minimum, we wanted a public option. That is where we started the debate, and of course, lost it. Let's say I want to sell something for $100 (public option), and the republicans want to buy it for $50 (absolutely no change). Instead of starting the haggling at $150 (universal health care), we start at $100, and are surprised the republicans talked us down to $75 (federally mandated health care with ZERO regulation over cost). Oh well, at least the dems will get good campaign contributions from the insurance lobbies.

[Ken Burch]

35. What he attacked wasn't "pragmatism", it was failure.

Every time the party does "woodchuck" tactics, we lose. Don't you get that YET?

It doesn't work to avoid confrontation with the 'Pugs and keep obsessing with finding the non-existent "center".

[awoke_in_2003]

49. thank you. nt

[zeemike]

42. If you are living under a dictatorship

then Pragmatism is doing what you are told.
So there is nothing inherently good about being pragmatic, and it can be used as an excuse to cave in to the powers that be.

[Fokker Trip]

36. Nailed it Awoke. That bus has run over so many folks its gonna need a wheel alignment soon. nt

[varelse]

18. K&R

[NBachers]

26. Oh how I wish I had one of those 1 Ton Weights at my disposal wherever and whenever

[Jim Lane]

27. K&R except I agree he should've asked for a bailout or a subsidy for his own business. (n/t)

[animato]

29. too funny

kudos to tt

[ChadwickHenryWard]

34. There are very few people who nail it every single time.

Tom Tomorrow is one of them.

[gordianot]

37. Take that crunch you boot strap pulling pragmatist!

O Fortuna. No pockets in a shroud.

[malaise]

38. Freaking perfect

Rec

[Ferretherder]

39. Rec'd.

n/t

[City Lights]

40. LOL...loves me some Tom Tomorrow!

:rofl:

[Solly Mack]

43. K&R

[Mosaic]

44. Fuck 'rugged individualism'

We are the human race, part of morality is the common good. No real Christian is a rugged whateveryoucallit.

[tclambert]

48. He made a bad decision. He shouldn't have stood under a crane lifting a 1 ton weight.

Everybody who's watched a Road Runner cartoon knows that's bad luck. And X's, don't ever stand on X's.