PC LOAD LETTER: Oh and Washington violently put down a tax rebellion too. It's too funny watching these tards invent history and shoehorn folks into their stupid fake libertarian philosophy.

And Washington put down the Whiskey Rebellion specifically to drive home the point that the Federal government has the right to impose taxes.

Zeno-25: [i.imgur.com image 640x420]

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THAT, I think, is one of the finest creative representations in the political realm I've ever seen. I know it's a few years old, but it's still amazingly potent.

You could easily replace Dumbya with Obama at this stage in the game. Which makes it all the more depressing, to me.

We are getting so farking played.

Dwight_Yeast: PC LOAD LETTER: Oh and Washington violently put down a tax rebellion too. It's too funny watching these tards invent history and shoehorn folks into their stupid fake libertarian philosophy.

And Washington put down the Whiskey Rebellion specifically to drive home the point that the Federal government has the right to impose taxes.

And Washington himself distilled whiskey! Its almost like he didn't want the competition. Whar Whiskey Tax Whar!!!!

PC LOAD LETTER: Oh and Washington violently put down a tax rebellion too. It's too funny watching these tards invent history and shoehorn folks into their stupid fake libertarian philosophy.

Bzzt. Wrong. The federal government ran on prayer and heterosexuality back then, so money wasn't necessary. Plus, your average citizen could schedule a face-to-face meeting with Washington if he wanted. Now that's small government!

technicolor-misfit: Bravo, to that dashing young Aryan!

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Beaten down, chained, seemingly crushed beyond repair... only to rise up victorious?

That's quite a triumph of the will.

Now that you mention it he kind of reminds me of the Nazi youth singing "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" in Cabaret.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs5bnVoZK4Q

What the Rebublicans need is more sing alongs.

PC LOAD LETTER: I love how they show Lincoln applauding while he's the one who suspended haebeus corpus, moved us to fiat currency, and violently put down the Confederate rebellion these assholes jerk off to. He should be on the other side, but Republicans have Reagan and what they imagine the founding fathers to be like as the only presidents who are on the side they think they are on.

It actually does make sense: the Republicans have shown that all of the things they trumpet mean nothing. They just want their side to win despite not being able to define what 'their' side is outside of a few grunts.

phenn: Zeno-25: [i.imgur.com image 640x420]

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THAT, I think, is one of the finest creative representations in the political realm I've ever seen. I know it's a few years old, but it's still amazingly potent.

You could easily replace Dumbya with Obama at this stage in the game. Which makes it all the more depressing, to me.

We are getting so farking played.

Really? I think it's just as kitschy and over-the-top as the "art" of the moran in the article.

And seriously, let's stop with this silly false equivalence. I'm sorry Obama hasn't dismantled the military industrial complex, but we all know that his administration has been vastly different from a hypothetical 3rd term of Bush.

The Name: phenn: Zeno-25: [i.imgur.com image 640x420]

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THAT, I think, is one of the finest creative representations in the political realm I've ever seen. I know it's a few years old, but it's still amazingly potent.

You could easily replace Dumbya with Obama at this stage in the game. Which makes it all the more depressing, to me.

We are getting so farking played.

Really? I think it's just as kitschy and over-the-top as the "art" of the moran in the article.

And seriously, let's stop with this silly false equivalence. I'm sorry Obama hasn't dismantled the military industrial complex, but we all know that his administration has been vastly different from a hypothetical 3rd term of Bush.

Personally, I didn't find it to be kitschy. I found it to be a rather accurate illustration.

So far as the third term of Bush is concerned, I honestly believe we are living it. Drones. Kill lists. No Habeas Corpus. No Quo Warranto. Rendition. etc.

Honestly, nothing's changed. Except, perhaps, the speed by which our government is doing dreadful shiat.

You ever notice Republicans are overwhelmingly old, white, fat and male?

Yeah.

God-is-a-Taco: Tellingthem:
\I'm still looking for a good Clinton painting for my apartment

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So much win.

Anyone know where one could purchase that in poster form?

Lsherm: I Browse: My rebuttal:


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Meh, there have been better (evoking Kennedy):

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Still the same idea, though: ideals through bad art. Example 1:

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For all the idiots glomming onto this guy's paintings, 50 million more looked at that and thought Obama was going to "change the world."

Idiots abound.

My point exactly.............................

mrshowrules: I guess Top Secret clearances don't have any basic intelligence requirements.

/people with TS don't typically advertise it

I had a TS//SCI, I still maintain a Secret. It's not a big deal. There are entire forums for people with TS clearances to talk about job prospects, maintaining their clearance, etc. I put it on resumes that I send out into the ether for postings on craigslist.

It's really not a big deal.

tony41454: jso2897

2012-06-23 10:18:27 PM
tony41454: I like it. Truth in oils.

Yeah - but you're f**ked up, and most people aren't like you.

Not as farked up as someone who would vote for an untested, untried, unvetted community organizer to run the United States. Now THAT'S farked up! And come this November you will see that most people ARE like me.

You should go back to praising Ted Nugent for issuing death threats, at least you were honest with your unhinged hatred for Obama then.

gimmegimme: Fista-Phobia: So lack of pic posting leads to alts.



Alts lead to confusion...

Confusion leads to fear...

Fear leads to erectile dysfunction...

Erectile dysfunction is the path to the dark side.

Don't be an Alt

Descartes: I like to think of hot blonde chicks being Democrat values, but to each his own.

Fuggin Bizzy: I don't mind looking at it day in and day out. Seriously - smiling pretty girl, well-done tat - you could do worse. It's way better than the semi-retarded indignant red trucker-cap teabagger guy. I'm kinda glad he's disappeared from the main page.

It's less about a blonde woman, more about stagnant content. It's super-annoying to go to some newspaper website and see old-ass generic appeal human interest/celebrity gossip stories on some rotation for months on end in their "You might also like..." spot.

Now Fark, care of UPI, is doing that.

King Something: Jonathan Hohensee: You signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

It didn't work because it was hamstrung by Senate Republicans. Had it been as strong as economists said it needed to be in order to work, the GOP would have killed it by filibuster because f*ck Obama.

Jonathan Hohensee: You signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law

Most of the people who oppose "Obamacare" only oppose the "Obama" part and are in favor of its provisions, such as being able to keep your kids on your health plan until they turn 26 and not having coverage deined due to pre-existing conditions.

Jonathan Hohensee: You appointed over thirty Czars without any Congressional oversight to control every aspect of the country.

And how many czars were installed by Reagan, Bush The Merely Okay, Clinton and Bush The Terrible?

Jonathan Hohensee: You intervened in the troubled automotive industry, renewing loans for General Motors and Chrysler Corporation to continue operations while reorganizing. Over the following months the White House set terms for both firms' bankruptcies, including reorganization of GM giving the U.S. government a temporary 60% equity stake in the company. Where in the Constitution does it say the government can do that?

Something, something, general welfare....

Would you rather Obama had let GM and Chrysler go tits-up and have thousands or tens of thousands of people lose their jobs?

Jonathan Hohensee: You signed into law the popular Car Allowance Rebate System, known popularly as "Cash for Clunkers." In the middle of our country's worst financial crisis you give out freebees with taxpayer dollars?

Okay, that one I'll grant, since it probably could have been handled a little bit better than it was. Still, the money its participants saved by not having to spend extra money on gas and maintenance for their old beaters is money they can put into the economy (to help the rest of the country) or into their savings accounts and/or towards their ot ...

I probably should had mentioned that this was the PAINTER'S statement on Obama's depiction in his painting.

Obama has czars? This proves he's a communist!

Ghastly: Wait a minute!!!! WAIT A MINUTE!!! His farking paintings sell for SIX FIGURES?

Screw hentai! From now on I'm doing paintings of ramming his fist up George Washington's ass and pulling out a fetus which he then rapes while wearing the Declaration of Independence as a condom.

Oh wait... that's still hentai.

Ok, I've always liked your posts, but this made me just favorite you

runcible spork: Ghastly: Wait a minute!!!! WAIT A MINUTE!!! His farking paintings sell for SIX FIGURES?

I was hoping that included the two after the decimal point.

Ghastly: Screw hentai! From now on I'm doing paintings of ramming his fist up George Washington's ass and pulling out a fetus which he then rapes while wearing the Declaration of Independence as a condom.

Oh wait... that's still hentai.

That's totally realistic though. Except that as far as we know Washington didn't have a uterus. Otherwise, all ok.


You've never heard of assbabies, obviously.

Jim_Tressel's_O-Face: Boy howdy did this thread attract all the D-grade trolls.

It's like a strip club in Metarie, LA, at 12:30 pm.

/don't ask me how I know

Reminds me of this person:

Jonathan Hohensee: The ARRA is primarily designed not to stimulate the economy, but to build the size and scope of government.

Rwers always assert this and it's simply untrue. They seem to have it in their wee heads that liberals desire bigger government instead of better government. Fact is the size of government size has stayed largely the same under Obama. It should also be noted that the size of government has mostly shrunk or stayed the same under Democratic administrations and grown larger under the GOP for the last thirty years making the entire underlying premise patently untrue.

Not gonna bother deconstructing the rest of that litany of derp as others have already done so but I felt that point needed a mention.

/Still can't wrap my head around anyone paying 6 figures for one of those absurd paint-by-numbers political cartoons painted by an obvious religious whackjob.
//I mean I knew Sean Hannitty wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed but really?

mrshowrules: mrshowrules: The Great EZE: Death_Poot: I just want to know, how is that any different from this, except for your political perspective:

[ttoes.files.wordpress.com image 640x909]

Go on, give me a rational, non emotional, non name calling explanation, without calling me racist, etc

It's the same as the difference between a 99 cent hamburger from McDonald's and one of those 5-pound bacon and cheese smothered behemoth burgers from the place where the waitresses dress like nurses.

If you don't tell me where this place is, you will risk my full wrath.

FTFM

That's better. I'm surprised you've never heard of it. It's the official restaurant of Fark.com

The Great EZE: That's better. I'm surprised you've never heard of it. It's the official restaurant of Fark.com

Shenanigan's?

No Such Agency: ActualFarkal:
RulerOfNone: Political tripe aside, this guy is a rather decent artist.

Ooh! Ooh! You know who ELSE was a rather decent artist?

/Godwinrar
//I has it

Well, except I wouldn't characterize Hitler's work as "rather decent". I'd call it technically competent but dull, lacking in any emotional or evocative component whatsoever. At most it portrays a mawkish idealized sentimentality about his country that would mirror later Nazi attitudes.

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I find his creations to be somewhat oppressive.

How much of a right wing Hitler-kisser do you have to be to diss FDR?

Death_Poot: I just want to know, how is that any different from this, except for your political perspective:

[ttoes.files.wordpress.com image 640x909]

Go on, give me a rational, non emotional, non name calling explanation, without calling me racist, etc

Nothing is different if you strip out political perspective because EVERYTHING is politicized. One could be a farking stick figure and "political perspective" means the stick figure somehow represents a political point so even the objective analysis of the art quality is subjective.

The weather is political, GRAVITY is political, thanks to the Republicans EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL.

But when you strip out that sophistry it's because one has a message that is stupid and misrepresents both history and current events while one is a campaign slogan which, at worst, exaggerates a political position. And one has better art, but one has a clearer message.

mrshowrules: I wouldn't hire anyone advertising there TS clearance on their resume.

Well you don't seem to be very familiar with clearances in general, so I doubt the types of resumes you read are geared toward that type of job. But FYI going forward, if you've had a clearance that isn't the kind of thing one would omit from a resume. That's not someone divulging too much information, that's you being unfamiliar with clearance etiquette.

It really doesn't matter whether or not someone advertises that they have, had, or will be receiving a clearance. It just means that the Federal Government has looked into your background and deemed you suitable to be in the vicinity of information it considers sensitive. That can mean you're the guy eavesdropping on top-level Chinese diplomatic traffic, or the guy serving that guy mashed potatoes in the Ft. Meade food court, and anywhere in between, or above, or below. It just means that in the government's eyes, you're a trustworthy person.

King Something: Bush attacked Iraq without consulting Congress to declare war.

King Something: And how many czars were installed by Reagan, Bush The Merely Okay, Clinton and Bush The Terrible?

Okay, look. I didn't like Bush, and I voted for Obama because the alternative sucked, but,saying "Bush did the same thing" does not make it okay. Stop it. Saying "But all the other kids are doing it too.." didn't work as a child, and it certainly doesn't work as president of the farking United States.

Fluorescent Testicle: No, it's the bolded word right there that makes you a derp-spouting troll.

Honesty = derp. Got it.

honesty + derp = herpes?

Death_Poot: I just want to know, how is that any different from this, except for your political perspective:

[ttoes.files.wordpress.com image 640x909]

Go on, give me a rational, non emotional, non name calling explanation, without calling me racist, etc

It's not a negative criticism.

/what do I win?

I love how painfully obvious it is that this moron has never actually read the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

Flappyhead: I love how painfully obvious it is that this moron has never actually read the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

He couldn't draw it if he hadn't read it, duh.

Sid_6.7: They received massive external investment in the time period during which they supposedly achieved stunning economic success due to cutting government spending.

Your argument is crap.

Greece and other countries have recieved massive external investment, also. So of course, they're all doing just as well as Estonia.

Sid_6.7

Oh, and how much $$$ have we borrowed from China, Japan and so forth? Has that huge amount of cash being put into our economy resulted in a decent rate of growth?

Did the trillion+ worth of stimulus that Obama authorized result in the economy reviving? What is GDP lately?

The point is that the public sector does not create wealth, it consumes it. Injections of cash do not magically produce growth; setting aside all talk of corruption, look as Solyndra. How much cash? And how well did that work out? If the cash is not used efficiently, it does no good. And the public sector will always be less efficient than the private sector, because without the profit motive and the threat of bankruptcy, there's little motivation to be efficient.

I don't have a problem with a public sector existing, unlike a lot of the folks you're used to arguing with. There are certain aspects of society which are best handled by a government. The idea, floated by the Libertarians, that we have no police and have private security compnies handle that, is totally unrealistic. My point is quite simply that the actual size of government needs to be reduced, and when this actually happens, the resulting lessening of the drain on the private sector allows it space and resources to grow. I don't want Granny starving in the street, but cradle-to-grave is unrealistic. I don't want the military dismantled, but I want us to stop spending billions to police the whole world. The public sector is out of control spending-wise, and it needs to be cut back. Not the rate of growth slowed - the actual dollar amounts it spends truly reduced.

Why is this so hard to understand?

The huge obsticle is that the politicians of both parties can be counted on to cut things we actually need, and preserve the bloat that profits their cronies. It's like school boards cutting music and art, instead of trimming the bloated bureaucracy. We can't have a music program, but we sure do need three or four deputy assistant vice principals. On this issue, I'm with the leftists/progressives/ whatever you call yourselves.

If we can significantly reduce government spending without doing so at the expense of the general public, we will see the economy become robust, and grow again. If we don't do this, we're going to limp along until the whole thing collaspes under its own weight.

Lando Lincoln: Death_Poot: I just want to know, how is that any different from this, except for your political perspective:

Well, one is based on a positive message, and one is based on a metric ton of butt-hurt.

You must be kidding. That guy dern't know from metric.

phenn: Zeno-25: [i.imgur.com image 640x420]

full size

THAT, I think, is one of the finest creative representations in the political realm I've ever seen. I know it's a few years old, but it's still amazingly potent.

You could easily replace Dumbya with Obama at this stage in the game. Which makes it all the more depressing, to me.

We are getting so farking played.

I know. I love to see the partisans on both sides still swearing up and down that "their side" wants to fix things, and hurling insults at anyone who says otherwise.

We can argue about HOW to fix things, but there's little doubt that neither political party currently wants to do so. And my assertion is that we've got to get more of the citizens to realize that, before we're going to make any real progress toward improvement.

runcible spork:

GeneralJim: The "Change" poster isn't art, it's GRAPHIC art. (NTTAWWT) Both are propaganda.

Grow up. They're both illustrations, which are arguably "art," if not "Art.".

Grow up? I have. I have a different definition of "art" than you have; deal. For example, I don't consider any of the following to be "art," although some people do:

Soup can

Giant Flashlight

Atomized Jet Engine

Throwing paint into a jet exhaust

The bronzed crap of celebrity crotchfruit

Most any crap (sometimes literal) from Jackson Pollock

Overhyped, predictable excuses for artistic endeavor, however international

Mrtraveler01:

GeneralJim: And, the Second Amendment... Just how does ". . . the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" mean that the government needs to closely regulate guns?

Let me guess, you think background checks are unconstitutional right?

Of course not, dumbass. Convicted felons should never be able to carry weapons, or even vote, if you ask me. Heck, even admitted felons, like Bill Clinton.

How do you do it? I think you have LITERALLY not made a single correct guess to date. Why don't you try something VERY simple, like "Let me guess, you support the First Amendment, too" just to break your losing streak? Batting .000 is just sad.