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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMonday TOONs - I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own Show
I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own Show
One Trumpy Summer
Facepalm. This is where were at.
Boris
And why? Republicans!
Accept no "Congress" or "Washington" or "both sides". Only one side is causing this.
Accept no "Congress" or "Washington" or "both sides". Only one side is causing this.
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Monday TOONs - I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own Show (Original Post)
JHB
Sep 2019
OP
Thank you for that remembrance. And Rove was just one in a long line of false profits or
erronis
Sep 2019
#17
Knowing the backstories, as I read each cartoon, I mentally shrug or admire the artist's
Karadeniz
Sep 2019
#13
Cerridwen
(13,252 posts)1. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality" karl rove
"That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityjudiciously, as you willwe'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Suskind, Ron (2004-10-17). Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush. The New York Times Magazine.
Danner, Mark (2007). "Words in a Time of War: On Rhetoric, Truth and Power". in András Szántó. What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (First edition ed.). Philadelphia, PA: PublicAffairs Reports. pp. 17. "... the unnamed official speaking to Suskind is widely known to be none other than the self-same architect of the aircraft-carrier moment, Karl Rove ..." <emphasis added>
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Rove
erronis
(15,185 posts)17. Thank you for that remembrance. And Rove was just one in a long line of false profits or
profiteers of some mashup of imperialism and libertarianism - throw in some religious fundies for crazies but mainly wing-dings for an unthinking mass of supporters.
Someone, somewhere is an evil chef stirring the pots of discontent.
2naSalit
(86,373 posts)3. Thank you!
Gothmog
(144,945 posts)4. Thank you for the cartoons
malaise
(268,724 posts)5. THIS - love the dollar bill sleeves
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,319 posts)10. It's from this:
United States first lady Ivanka Trump is attacked and "copied" by invading alien fungus spores.
Link to tweet
SharonAnn
(13,771 posts)15. WTH? Even without the wind blowing up the sleeves, it's awful. Awful.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)19. "United States first lady" ?????????????
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)6. Great Toons...Thank You for posting them...k and r nt
At, "Well I'll be, here comes the hurricane afterall".
erronis
(15,185 posts)18. Nice typo. "Here comes the hurricane Adderal".
Wounded Bear
(58,605 posts)8. K & R...nt
keithbvadu2
(36,678 posts)9. Trump's Taliban meeting
Trump's Taliban meeting
PatSeg
(47,285 posts)11. Wow, these are brilliant
I would love for Trump to have to read all of the ones about him!
cp
(6,617 posts)12. Holy cow, these are good!
Our cartoonists are the sagest, sanest people working. Thank you.
Karadeniz
(22,475 posts)13. Knowing the backstories, as I read each cartoon, I mentally shrug or admire the artist's
Perception and talent. But what would my reaction be if I didn't know what was going on? I think I'd be scared to death at what's being suggested!
murielm99
(30,717 posts)16. Thank you.
tblue37
(65,227 posts)20. K&R and thanks. nt
Hekate
(90,565 posts)21. Ann Telnaes is amazing. Danziger/Betsy deVos is heartbreaking. Kicktoons.
LittleGirl
(8,280 posts)22. Amazing collection
Wow. Thank you!
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)23. K&R
Nitram
(22,768 posts)24. The sharpie is mightier than the sword.