texasuberalles:

That’s hilarious and all, but I’m still waiting for an answer— from any gun control advocate ever— as to how people who are incapable of flight or physical self defense and don’t live across the street from a police station are supposed to defend themselves from violent attack without guns. Because until you come up with that answer, when you advocate for gun control you are essentially telling tens of millions of Americans that their safety doesn’t mean shit to you.

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There are 300 million to 350 million guns in America. Making them illegal is not the same thing as making them magically disappear. Telling criminals to stop using something is not the same thing as magically making them stop using it. If they obeyed the law they wouldn’t be criminals.

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Check your fucking privilege before you tell poor people who live on the bad side of town that they should have to give up their right to protect their families so that you can pat yourself on the back and pretend like you’re “safe” because you told criminals to stop being criminals and were stupid enough to think that was going to fix anything.

Ha ha ha!  When I got to “check your fucking privilege” I just about lost it.  Really? We’re throwing that phrase around here?  

You are arguing against a strawman.  No where in this cartoon is it advocating for the removal of all guns.  No where does it say to “make all guns illegal.” It does seem, however, to be against using armed gunmen to protect schools from crazy jerks in lieu of any kind of gun control whatsoever.  When society has to resort to that shit to keep kids safe from crazy jerks, I’m pretty sure that’s when society fucking fails.  If you disagree, then… wow.  Check YOUR privilege.  You don’t need a friggin’ assault rifle to feel artificially safe and like a Big Man more than we need schools that aren’t war zones.  

thatcartooncritic:

BILL DAY’S CREATIVE RANGE PART 27

Wow, here we are again.  Back to the first set of Bill Day cartoons I posted on this tumblr.  Bill Day has no shame.  How many times can someone redraw the same damn cartoon and get away with it?

“Redraw” is generous.  He only drew that tea cup once!

comicsalliance:

Rush Limbaugh Thinks ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Is An Anti-Romney Conspiracy — Really

By Chris Sims

With the release of The Dark Knight Rises coming up on Friday, anticipation for Christopher Nolan’s final Batman film has reached a fever pitch. Still, I don’t think anyone expected the media hype to get to the level of ridiculousness it managed to achieve this week, when political commentator Rush Limbaugh claimed that the character of Bane was included in the film as part of a vast media conspiracy against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s association with investment firm Bain Capital.

The jury’s still out on whether Limbaugh actually believes this or if he’s participating in some incredible trolling, but either way it comes as news to Chuck Dixon and Graham Nolan, who apparently orchestrated a Democratic conspiracy almost 20 years ahead of the election when they co-created Bane with Doug Moench in 1993 — especially since they’re two of comics’ most prominent conservatives.

Read more.

thatcartooncritic:

BILL DAY’S CREATIVE RANGE PART 12

Bill Day likes to focus on Bush’s deficits and is optimistic that Obama will help clean up the red ink.  Unfortunately Obama seems to be a terrible janitor.  Even after years, it looks like he barely cleaned any of it up at all! 

That Xerox machine should get a Pulitzer.

thatcartooncritic:

BILL DAY’S CREATIVE RANGE PART 1

One of my favorite cartoonists is the consistently liberal Bill Day.  His artistic ability and originality is unsurpassed by few cartoonists working today…like that mean ole Michael Ramirez…herp de derp.  Check out Bill Day’s artistic and creative range!  He can cover topics as varied as the GOP, the Tea Party, racism, planned parenthood, public broadcasting and Christine O’Donnell with ease.

I’d say this metaphor’s getting… strained.

bemusedlybespectacled:

This is hormonal birth control.

As you can see on the box, you take exactly one pill per day. To make sure it works, you need to take one pill every day at the same time, or it stops working. You take only one pill, and you keep taking them regardless of what you are doing that day.

Hormonal birth control can be used to treat a lot of different diseases, like anemia caused by excessive menstruation. It is a prescription medication that can cost around $15-50 a month. Because it is a prescription medication, it should be covered by insurance, as it treats legitimate health problems.

This is Viagra.

It, too, can treat legitimate health problems like altitude sickness and pulmonary hypertension, but it is usually prescribed for erectile dysfunction. Unlike the Pill, Viagra is taken every time you want to have sex. A lot of health insurance companies cover Viagra, so it costs about as much as your co-pay.

This is a condom.

It is not a prescription medication, and has no health benefits (besides the prevention of STIs and pregnancy). Like Viagra, you must use one before you have sex: indeed, before each sex act. They cost about a dollar per condom.

This is Sandra Fluke.

She testified before a small, Democrat-led hearing after she was cut out of the actual birth control/insurance discussion. Her testimony was about a friend of hers who, because her insurance did not cover birth control, lost an ovary due to an ovarian cyst.

This somehow translates into “I, myself, personally, am having so much sex I can’t afford birth control, and so I want the government to pay for it.”

This is wrong for multiple reasons.

1. It was about a friend, not her. To say her testimony was about her personally is factually incorrect.
2. Sex had nothing to do with the testimony - her friend lost an ovary because of medical condition that was left untreated. A medical condition that was completely treatable, but wasn’t, because her insurance wouldn’t cover it. To say that her testimony was about her being “a slut” or “a prostitute” is factually incorrect.
3. Even if she was having loads of sex, she would still only have one pill a day, not one pill per sex act, so to say “I’m having so much sex I can’t afford birth control” is completely erroneous. The Pill is not Viagra or condoms. To say that she is such “a slut” that she constantly needs more pills is factually incorrect.
4. The current political debate is not “should the government pay for birth control?” The debate is “should insurance companies, that people and their employers pay for, on their own, be required to cover birth control?” To say that Sandra Fluke wants the government to pay for her birth control is factually incorrect.
5. Religious organizations do not want to have birth control covered by their insurance, even for employees not of their faith, even if their employees never actually use their insurance to cover birth control. By this logic, they should also not pay their employees, because they could use that money to pay for birth control out of pocket. To say that this issue is about religious freedom and not about women’s health is disingenuous, as Ms. Fluke’s testimony demonstrates.

Hopefully this makes things a little clearer.

rosalarian:

christiannightmares:

Women for Santorum: ‘A baby from rape is a gift from God’ (Found at Joe. My. God.)

Brilliant satire.

When life gives you rape, make rapeade.

Santorum is launching CUM all over the face of America!

starline:

thedailywhat:

Anti-Censorship Win of the Day: In a major victory for the Internet, and major blow to its would-be censors, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), co-sponsor of SOPA’s sister bill PIPA, has officially withdrawn his support for the legislation.

“I have been a co-sponsor of the PROTECT IP Act because I believe it’s important to protect American ingenuity, ideas and jobs from being stolen through Internet piracy, much of it occurring overseas through rogue websites in China,” the Senator wrote in a post on his Facebook page. “However, we must do this while simultaneously promoting an open, dynamic Internet environment that is ripe for innovation and promotes new technologies.”

In addition to withdrawing his support out of “concerns about the impact the bill could have on access to the Internet,” Sen. Rubio also urges Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “to abandon his plan to rush the bill to the floor.”

PIPA is currently slated to be voted on next Tuesday, January 24th.

[facebook / @marcorubio.]

Holy crap, a FL Republican congressman does the right thing? :O I’m genuinely surprised. They usually don’t budge down here.