Political Cartoons and jokes

• jhay78

  

  Chris Dodd looks pretty good in this one . . .
  
  
• isadore

  Not exactly jokes but
  Reader, suppose you were an idiot; and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
  Mark Twain (1835-1910), American writer, on Congress
  
  God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn you and god damn your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and good damnation god damn them and god damn your god damned friends to hell.
  Peter Muggins, American citizen, letter to President Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)
  
  Filthy Story-Teller, Despot, Liar, Thief, Braggart, Buffoon, Usurper, Monster, Ignoramus Abe, Old Scoundrel, Perjurer, Robher, Swindler, Tyrant, Field-Butcher, Land-Pirate.
  Harper's Weekly on Abraham Lincoln
  
  He slept more than any other president, whether by day or night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.
  H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) on Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
  
  A crafty and lecherous old hypocrite whose very statue seems to gloat on the wenches as they walk the States House yard.
  William Cobbett (1763-1835), on Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), American statesman and scientist
  
  The moral character of Jefferson was repulsive. Continually puling about liberty, equality, and the degrading curse of slavery, he brought his own children to the hammer, and made money of his debaucheries.
  Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), American politician, on Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd American president
  
  The people are tired of a man who has not an idea above a horse or a cigar.
  Joseph Brown on Ulysses S. Grant, 18th American president
  
  
  As an intellectual he bestowed upon the games of golf and bridge all the enthusiasm and perseverance that he withheld from books and ideas.
  Emmet Hughes, American writer, on Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th American president
  
  Garfield has shown that he is not possessed of the backbone of an angleworm.
  Ulysses S. Grant (1822-85), 18th American president, on James A. Garfield (1831-81), 20th American president
  
  Like rotten mackerel by moonlight, he shines and stinks.
  John Randolph, American politician, on Edward Livingstone (1764-1836), American politician
  
  He would kill his own mother just so that he could use her skin to make a drum to beat his own praises.
  Margot Asquith (1864-1945), writer and wife of Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, on Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
  
  He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
  Margot Asquith (1864-1945) on David Lloyd George (1863-1945), British prime minister
  
  He has all the characteristics of a dog except loyalty.
  Sam Houston, American politician, on Thomas Jefferson Green (1801-63), American politician
  
  He has committed every crime that does not require courage.
  Benjamin Disraeli on Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), Irish lawyer, politician and agitator
  
  Stupid asses.
  Karl Marx (1818-83) to Friedrich Engels (1820-95), private correspondence, on the proletariat
  
  http://www.insults.net/html/historical/political_insults_5.html
• CenterBHSFan

  

  
  Stupid asses.
  Karl Marx (1818-83) to Friedrich Engels (1820-95), private correspondence, on the proletariat

  
  haha!
• believer

  

  Little Rascals
  
  [video=youtube;3WeDHP2xt-k][/video]
• CenterBHSFan

  

  Apparently, they're not as "left-wing" as they claim to be!
  Here's the evidence, word for word:
  
  Oh, and it's a true story!

  
  
  A new paper argues that people with high levels of education identify themselves as more "left wing" than their actual beliefs suggest.
  
  James Rockey, an economist at the University of Leicester, came to this conclusion using data found in the World Values Survey -- an extensive questionnaire that since 1981 has been given to more than 280,000 people in 84 countries. The survey asks individuals, among other questions, to rate how conservative or liberal they are on a scale of one to 10. They are also asked substantive questions on political, economic and social issues.
  
  What Rockey was able to determine is that, worldwide, well-educated people tend to rate themselves "left wing." Yet, a review of their answers to the other questions in the survey -- particularly on economic issues -- suggest they aren't as liberal as the say they are. In contrast, the correlation between being wealthy and self-identifying as a right-winger holds up to Rockey's analysis.
  
  Perhaps the reason for this is that well-educated people have learned that the more left wing they (falsely) claim to be, the more likely they are to get laid.

  Educated People May Not Be as Liberal as They Say They Are - Asylum.com
• CenterBHSFan

  

  I don't have a need for one of these, but there are some that do
  
  [video=youtube;201pgTaEseQ][/video]
• IggyPride00

  

  
  
  This cartoon is from 1934. Read the bottom left of it and see if the rhetoric sounds familiar or not.
• Darkon

  

  Subject: Chicken Farm
  
  
  
  John was in the egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets', and ten roosters to fertilize them. He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.
  
  This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.
  
  John's favorite rooster, Obama, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed Obama's bell hadn't rung at all! When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.
  
  To John's amazement, Obama had thought of a way to do it without work, he had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
  
  John was so proud of Obama, he entered him in the Chicago County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.
  
  The result was the judges not only awarded Obama the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.
  
  Clearly Obama was a politician. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.
  
  Vote carefully next fall, the bells are not always audible.
• I Wear Pants

  IggyPride00;432579 wrote:
  
  This cartoon is from 1934. Read the bottom left of it and see if the rhetoric sounds familiar or not.

  People have been screaming about communists/socialists in this country forever.
• CenterBHSFan

  

  I Wear Pants;442964 wrote:People have been screaming about communists/socialists in this country forever.

  Cause they don't want it! lol
• I Wear Pants

  CenterBHSFan;442987 wrote:Cause they don't want it! lol

  I didn't mean it that way. I meant in a fear-mongering way. IE: Labeling things that they disagree with as socialist/communist/etc so as to make them seem bad on a broad basis even if they might have little or nothing to do with socialism or communism. It's a cop out of having an actual argument of the merits/downsides of a policy or person if you label it as such. It isn't real discourse.
  
  Just like how back in the day it would have been impossible to have a legitimate discussion about whether or not marijuana is rightfully banned because of all the "Satan's Grass" propaganda thrown about. Same with how when someone calls someone a Nazi they automatically lose the argument (unless the person actually is a Nazi) on the basis of them trying to use a cheap name calling trick instead of reasoning.
• Jason Bourne

  

  The shame here, I Wear Pants, is "they" keep selling socialism/communism/etc as the end all, be all to all the woes of mankind. So what are "they" (the other side "they") supposed to do?
• I Wear Pants

  
  
  
• Early Cuyler

  

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• believer

  

  
• Mr. 300

  

  
  
  
  What's wrong with these two?? hee hee
• believer

  

  They're either left handed or leftists...or both! lol
• I Wear Pants

  
  
  
• CenterBHSFan

  

  I WANT YOUR MONEY!
  
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• Captain Cavalier

  

  I Wear Pants;455645 wrote:
  
  

  Forgot to move their wedding bans...unless they wear them on their right hands.
  
  
• I Wear Pants

  Captain Cavalier;458326 wrote:Forgot to move their wedding bans...unless they wear them on their right hands.
  
  

  I know this. Also the person who originally flipped the image knew this. Except they forgot to change the medals on the servicemen in the background. Notice how in the picture where Obama is using his left hand the medals are on the wrong side?
  
  http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/mirror-image/
• CenterBHSFan

  

  
• believer

  

  ^^^Classic!
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Not really a cartoon....
  
  
• believer

  

  ^^^Sorry but that's too funny!