Very few political cartoons make me laugh out loud.
Even when I look back at the all-time favorites that I included in my political cartoonist contest, most of them are on that list because they make a very effective and clever point about public policy.
Though I do recall being very amused by Glenn McCoy’s cartoon on media bias, Chip Bok’s war-on-women cartoon, and Robert Ariail’s cartoon about Greece and the euro.
But I don’t think any of them made me laugh as much as this gem by Scott Stantis.
I don’t even know why it struck me as being so funny.
Yes, I have a peculiar interest in international economic policy, so I’m fully aware that President Hollande of France is a disaster, but I’m not sure that’s enough to make a cartoon amusing.
And I’ve commented several times on the debate over whether Obama is a socialist, but that’s hardly a topic that lends itself to humor.
Or perhaps I’m just a narcissist and I appreciated a cartoon that was somewhat similar to one of my homemade jokes about Hollande and Obama.
Beats me.
But kudos to Scott Stantis (who also is the author of the best-ever cartoon on the failure of Keynesian stimulus).
Since we’re looking at funny cartoons, it’s time to give some credit to the other side.
I don’t often find much humor on the left, but this cartoon on income inequality is worth sharing.
It’s from the New Yorker, though I don’t know the author. And I confess that I’m merely assuming a left-wing perspective.
It’s your call whether this cartoon is as good as the other leftist cartoons I’ve shared, but it is a good caricature of the GOP country club types.
P.S. Yesterday I shared some libertarian valentines.
So in the interest of fairness, here’s are some left-wing valentines.
They’re designed to trick people into signing up for Obamacare.
Our first option is from a group called the National Women’s law Center.
And here’s one from a group named the Young Invincibles.
I have to say that I’m not overly impressed with either one of these valentines.
Though anything has to be better pro-Obamacare marketing than Pajama Boy or casual sex (because big government can take the fun out of anything).
P.P.S. Speaking of Valentine’s Day, the PotL graced me with her presence, making me an inexplicable winner.
Even if some of my erstwhile friends who watch Modern Family have started to refer to us as Jay and Gloria.
P.P.P.S. Let’s close with a comment on a very odd story from Norway.
The nut-job who killed 77 people has made an announcement.
Anders Breivik…wants the world to know that he’s being treated “worse than an animal” in prison and is considering going on a hunger strike until the “torture”-like living conditions improve. Just how bad are things for the admitted and unrepentant killer? Well, for one, he says he’s being forced to play his video games on an out-of-date Playstation 2 instead of a newer model. …Breivik was deemed sane by a Norwegian court in the summer of 2012 and sentenced to 21 years in prison, the most-severe sentence allowed under the Scandinavian country’s laws… Details of Breivik’s current conditions are a bit unclear, although Norwegian news reports from the time of his sentencing suggested that he was going to be kept in a three-room cell complete with an exercise area and a television.
I guess it’s a good thing I’m not the warden at his prison.
Why? Because I not only would turn down his request, but I also would dump him in a 6X8 call. Moreover, I would station a couple of guards outside his cell and have them play the newest and fanciest version of Playstation 24 hours a day.
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Thanks for making me laugh. Political cartoons are not only funny, they’re comforting. Ahh, finally, somebody gets it, really gets it…
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The income inequality cartoon is very funny… specially from an international perspective.
Because when president Obama talks about income inequality he is talking about inequality between the American middle class, which is in the world’s top ten percent of prosperity and the richer Americans who are in the top one percent.
What is then most amusing to overseas America haters is that Mr. Obama’s copy-Europe policies will bring down both the American rich and the American middle class (which most of the world hates because of its relative wealth, just like the occupy movement hates the domestic rich). In a way, for international statists, this is the best outcome. America not only becomes Euro-socialist but also economically weak (at which point military weakness will inevitably follow). They must be ecstatic!
Or is Mr. Obama really pointing out to his voters that as the American middle class they earn five times as much as the worldwide middle class? Suppose he’s planning redistribution from the American middle class to the Chinese middle class that earns a fifth of their American brethren?
I doubt it. Because it is not that much about the veneer of short-sighted socialist compassion; it is about group self-interest. And since the Chinese do not vote here, they simply do not matter – no matter how little they earn. The money of the American rich (worldwide top 1%) is slated to serve the American middle class (worldwide 10%), in a class warfare that will bring both down towards the true worldwide middle class.
The American middle class is perhaps sliding from the world’s top ten percent to the world’s top twelve percent. This is a result of past voter-lemming policies that have flattened the effort-reward curves. Flattening those curves even more with progressive class warfare will decrease aggregate American citizen motivation even more, and make things worse. After a tipping point (which we already passed) this will all fold rather quickly. The future is full of abrupt surprises. Who, in the seventies, thought that the collapse of communism was only a decade away. And as the pace of everything human continues to irreversibly accelerate, surprises will come ever more often. The years of the great smorgasbord, the years when American socialism consumes the fruits of past “selfishness” may be shorter lived than most people think. Just a thought. These things are incredibly difficult to predict. But as a copy-Europe America loses its uniqueness in the world, decline will inevitably come sooner or later – just as it is well under way for Europe. The exact mechanics through which things will fold – i.e. the weakest link that will give first — are much more difficult to pin down – but largely irrelevant, really.