Most of my political humor is designed to mock statists. That’s true whether I’m sharing cartoons, videos, jokes, or one-liners.
But I also enjoy clever left-wing humor, even when libertarians are the target. Here are examples that tickled my funny bone.
- A video portraying Somalia as a libertarian paradise.
- Cartoons on libertarian ice fishing and libertarian lifeguards.
- A mosaic showing 24 types of libertarians.
- A poster showing how the world sees libertarians.
- A 23-photo montage of libertarian problems.
- The answer to the riddle of why the libertarian chicken crossed the road.
I rarely find explicitly pro-libertarian humor, however, perhaps because we’re too busy fretting about the dangers of excessive government.
But I think you’ll agree that “Libertarian Jesus” is worth a laugh or two.
I like this poster because it makes the very important and serious point (which Cal Thomas has succinctly explained) that it’s not compassion when you use coercion to spend other people’s money.
If you want more pro-libertarian humor, all I can find is this poster about confused statists and the libertarian version of a sex fantasy.
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Nobody can really come up with jokes against the LP, or against non-aggressive hippie precursors. The NAP is so disarming it scythes down all but the most hateful of violent mystics, who only gain us votes by trying to refute us.
In point of fact, Galt’s Speech in Atlas paraphrases the Sermon on the Mount to provide the altruist premises the ethical argument demolishes (See Matthew). Observe that since 1957 no mystical altruist has directly tried to counter those arguments. Instead, the strategy is to try to prevent people from reading them, making them a sort of Forbidden Fruit. The result is that the LP vote count increased 328% last big election.
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Matthew 25:34-36, Revised Liberal Version: Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me the phone number of the local welfare office; I was thirsty and you wrote a letter to your Congressman; I was a stranger and you participated in a civil rights march; I was naked and you spoke out against the Koch brothers; I was sick and you voted for Obamacare; I was in prison and you rioted and threw rocks at the police.’
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BTW, I’ll be using ‘Libertarian Jesus’ in the 1-5-14 Sunday Edition of The E-Blast, with link back to your site. Thank you.
http://e-blast.blogspot.com/
Excellent Libertarian art and cartoon humor here…
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What so irritates me now is that the DNC still sends out scare mail about how extreme right Christians want to create a theocracy that would control everyone’s lives. I used to believe this prpaganda and can read on the net the pervasive reiteration of this ignorance based fear. I became a conservative after 9/11 (I had been a radical -socialist believing Leftist) and ended up becoming a Christian. I was so surprised when I started interacting with devout, serious Christians to find they loved liberty and the Constitution. I then realized it was the Dems who are the ones who want to force a change to our culture for their Leftist ideology; they want govenment to be the bully pulpit for their Progressive religion – from pre-school to the grave.
Jesus did not necessarily oppose taxes, since he said render unto ceasar, but he opposed any pretense that they supported anything resembling charity or compassion, which had to be done personally and volutarily.
Jeffersonian, I agree with Colin Blake – that was hilarious!!
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Sharon, I think malclave was being facetious…
malclave, better read it again. The Samaritan paid for it. Read Luke 10: 30-35: The next day he (the Samaritan) took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
And when the Rich Young Ruler turned and walked away, did Jesus tackle him and rifle through his pockets for loose change?
Add that to everyone’s Facebook list of “Things Jesus Wouldn’t Do”. Enforce tax laws.
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But what about the parable where the Samaritan finds the man beaten at the side of the road, takes him to an inn, and forces the people there at swordpoint to cough up money for him to be taken care of (plus an administrative fee for the Samaritan)?
On the other hand, by some mental jujitsu, the same government will not do something that would infinge on the “rights” of mentally ill street people. But when He came across a mentally ill (demon-possessed) person in the street, he healed them. He did not toss them a dollar or a sandwich.
Democrats: soothing their conscience with your money since 1932.
The end of the Law that Jesus said He came to expound on IS liberty! Three of the Ten Commandments are directly related to economic matters that are the very core of the free market. Those are the Commands that forbid lies, coveting and theft. (and those are the three pillars of socialism)
Consider the simple Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Matthew chapter 20) It is full of support for property rights and the free market. It ends with a rhetorical question by Jesus that destroys the legitimacy of wealth transfer. “Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money?”. (Matt. 20:15).
Hell, I’m an atheist, but I understand that one.
I’ve read the Bible, and the New Testament is about Christ telling people what they personally should do, not how to structure society or government.
(If Jesus had wanted to tell people to create a welfare state, he could have, I imagine.
If he’d wanted pacifism, he could have told the Legionaries to desert rather than go back to work.)
Jeffersonian, that was my favorite 9 words of this decade.
“Go thou to the rich man’s house, take his stuff, and give it to the poor.”—The Gospel According to St. Bastard
To be fair, that could more generally be put like this, and still be just as accurate:
Left, right, up, down, all of them. For the vast majority of politicians, you tell they are lying when their lips are moving.
Charity, the focus of this article, is a voluntary enterprise, as well a multifaceted enterprise. Taxation by the government to fund entitlements that attempt to achieve similar results are not charity. You cannot choose to pay the government with your time or with suitable goods. There is no choice. Hence no charity, but extortion, extortion of taxpayers monies.
That’s not libertarian Jesus, that’s Free Will Jesus.
It’s what Catholicism is supposed to be.
It couldn’t be Krugman. He’d just print more fish.
I tell people all the time: Jesus said, “When I was hungry, you fed me.” He did not say, “When I was hungry, you sent the government to feed me. It’s about personal responsibility to take care of one’s neighbors. Liberalism tries to hijack Christian values into government coercion.
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Is that Paul in the background? I mean Paul Krugman; trying to feed everyone with two fish and five loaves?
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If only for the poster, this is a hilarious blog with a great point.