OK, this cartoon is a bit mean, but I gotta admit, I LOLed.....

[marmar]

http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/clown_car_20150702

[TexasProgresive]

1. Well, the truth often hurts.

[madokie]

2. I guess that makes me mean too

Maybe it's because I haven't had my cup of coffee yet, who knows but I laughed my ass off too.

[rock]

3. If the suit fits

wear it.

[TNNurse]

4. We saw him on TV last night,

he really looks smaller. He is still a big loud mouthed bully...but he is smaller.

[Freddie]

8. Lap band surgery

He's actually a lot smaller than he was. Too bad his assholishness isn't.

[awoke_in_2003]

23. Yep, still a big asshole...

as someone who has struggled with weight from time to time, I will not cast aspersions at him about it. There is plenty of other things to hate him for.

[BlueStreak]

26. They should have put the band on his ass

So he wouldn't be such an asshole.

[asjr]

10. Oh, I love the pix of Molly. I do miss her.

[awoke_in_2003]

24. I remember a time in Texas...

when we had Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, and Jim Hightower (still with us). I was too stupid at the time to realize how great things were.

[NJCher]

16. well, guess you missed this thread?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026794000

Because on it, someone posted pics of him awhile back and a more recent one, and it looks like he lost some, but then gained it back.

Now, unbeknownst to me, which is why I posted the thread, a person can gain weight back, even if they have lapband surgery.

If this is indeed the case, I think we are dealing with a more seriously messed up individual than we originally thought. Not only is he delusional, he's a danger to all of us and to himself. This man needs to be in therapy, not in the governor's office or indulging fantasies about being president.


Cher

[hlthe2b]

5. Yeah... having battled weight throughout my life I am sensitive, but I too laughed...

I must admit.

[Gothmog]

6. Great cartoon

[Scarsdale]

14. Baseball uniform

Tou should have published him in his NY baseball uniform!! He looked like Tweedle Dum, or Humpty Dumpty.

[A Simple Game]

7. I heard he's going to try catching a ride in the Trump limo.

What? You didn't think Trump was going to ride in the clown car with all the common candidates did you?

[awoke_in_2003]

25. That might be a bridge too far...

pun intended

[A Simple Game]

28. The ensuing fight would take an awful toll on at least one of them.

Best I could do this early in the day.

[randome]

30. Only if he's willing to cross that lane in the sand.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"Everybody is just on their feet screaming 'Kill Kill Kill'! This is -hockey- Conservative values!"[/center][/font][hr]

[A Simple Game]

31. We probably don't have anything to worry about.

I'm sure it's just a bridge too far for both of them.

[Jemmons]

9. I have always had a particular mean sense of humor

They say that it "Its funny because its true", but likewise it is mostly only mean because its true. If it wasnt, it wouldnt hurt.
This is also why abusive leaders - like Christie - are never funny, even if they are plenty mean. Its all lies and make believe.

Britts seem to do mean humor better or at least more often:

"America's resident dunce Sarah Palin, scraping the barrel of her long deceased mind." Martin Bashir reacts to Sarah Palin's comparison of US debt to slavery. Miss him.

"Lord Dacre is himself a frothing autocrat. An absolutely foul-mouthed boss, who constantly screams the c-word at just about anyone … He bullies, swears and shrieks, but presents his paper as having the values and standards of a misty Midsomer Britain. He decries indecency on one page and pushes his male readers into a semi over a semi-nude actress on another. His cancer scare, miracle cure stories are sickeningly anti-science and the only good thing to be said about his Mail is that no one decent or educated believes in it." Stephen Fry responds at length to a Daily Mail hatchet job.

But some americans are quite good too:

Obamas jokes about Donald Trump firering Gary Busey was funny mostly because it was a scathing stab into the pride of Mr. Rich-but-awful.

Jon Stewarts line of polite but mean interrogation was also funny in the deepest way: "How old are you?" Tucker Carlson: "35". "And you wear a bow tie?"

[mountain grammy]

11. Battling weight is no joke, as many of us know..

but the mean bully that is Chris Christie deserves to be mocked.

[RancidCrabtree]

12. No one ever said the truth is always warm and fuzzy

[Thespian2]

13. Yep

The GodOffalParty and its band of candidates racing about in the Clown Car better hope they don't need to cross the GW bridge...

[Helen Borg]

15. Yeh, those striped pants are a bit over the top! :)

[3catwoman3]

32. Not as over the top...

...as the baseball pants.

[Babel_17]

17. More than just his phsical size ;)

His stage presence, and overall loudness of speech and personality, will crowd the lesser known/quieter types off the stage and out of the car.

[rpannier]

18. Sorry... but the cartoon is way out of line

All those clowns in the car look like ordinary, hard-working circus clowns.
Not one of them looks like Walker or Carson or Jindal or Bush

[UTUSN]

19. R#55 & K for, I don't get the "mean" part. n/t

[marmar]

20. Just because it seems to be poking fun at his weight.

[UTUSN]

21. Yeah-yeah I know the weight part. It ain't about weight, it's about his ass-holery. n/t

[davidpdx]

22. I don't, the guy is a mean bully and an asshole

As someone mentioned this was posted in one of ndoc's regular cartoon threads a few days ago. I actually shared this one and a few others on Facebook.

[Liberal_in_LA]

27. lol.

[oberliner]

29. Fat jokes are not the way to go

That's my opinion anyway.

[goldent]

33. I think whether something is considered "mean" depends on whether you like the person being mocked

So when it comes to Christie, almost anything goes here on DU. Just human nature.