Political humor doesn’t always require a policy message.
That’s clearly the message of this first image, one that will probably strike a familiar chord for most guys.
Indeed, some of you may sympathize with the President for the first time in your lives.
This is vaguely reminiscent of something that actually happened to me. Years ago, I was with a significant other and noticed a rather attractive woman walking in our direction. To avoid any accusation that I was ogling this other woman, I deliberately looked in a different direction as we walked past. Showing that no good deed goes unpunished, my charming companion then snapped, “I saw you not looking at that woman!”
I’m not joking. If you’re a guy, just accept the fact that you’re always wrong.
But let’s revert to our typical style and share some humor with a policy angle.
Here’s the President hard at work promoting international stability.
Needless to say, we’ve already had lots of fun because of the Obamacare screw-up, and I expect we’ll still be laughing about it well into the future.
And this next image is appropriate when you consider the way the White House has cavalierly disregarded the law as it picks and chooses when parts of Obamacare to implement.
And even though I’ve explained that Obama technically isn’t a socialist, this next image is quite amusing.
To close up today, let’s share another example of non-policy humor. It has nothing to do with Obama. Indeed it’s more akin to the politically incorrect terror alerts I shared a couple of years ago.
Most of the stereotypes make perfect sense, but I confess that I have no idea what the last two mean. Are Brazilians big pizza eaters? And are Argentinians famous for making things much worse? Actually, that may be true since politicians have crippled a country that used to be one of the world’s 10-richest nations.
P.S. I just self-censored myself. The original title of this post was “Obama in the Crosshairs,” which was a way of avoiding yet another derivation of “More Obama Humor.” But then I realized some statist – filled with faux outrage – might attack me for making a threat against the President. Sigh.
P.P.S. If you want more Obama humor, check out this t-shirt, this Pennsylvania joke, this Reagan-Obama comparison, this Wyoming joke, this Bush-Obama comparison, this video satire, and this bumper sticker.
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To end in pizza, in Brazil, means to throw everything up and have a pizza. There is a usual complement “the pizza is in the oven” meaning there are signs no serious consequences will be dealt with.
On the Argentinians idiom it has to do with Tango, the dance: It spins around cheek-in-cheek, have a couple of twists, exchange some blows and go bed with your partner/antagonist.
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http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2295308
“vai acabar em pizza”
This expression means that, in Brazil, every political scandal ends in nothing. No one in power is ever punished.
Don’t you love the way Michelle is rolling up her sleeves in the second photo above? Like she’s getting ready to slug someone…
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Most of these were great, but the ‘Thuggies’ meme is pretty off-color.
If he’s not a socialist… what IS he? I think Marxism is probably what he is, but that certainly is not better.
Unemployment would be my choice!
Brazilians become distracted by partying, music, and football and then forget about the problem. But all that activity makes one hungry, hence pizza, perhaps because there are so many Italians in Brazil.
“…because of the Obamacare screw-up, and I expect we’ll still be laughing about it well into the future…”
I know that humor is important to quality of life, but that will be about 6.5 billion per laughter. Kinda sucks the fun out of it.
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On a more serious note, I appreciate the humor, but I also see the predictable, classic, mechanisms of dealing with distress coming to America. One such mechanism is humor.
This humor is well established, endemic, and actually quite clever and entertaining throughout Europe. The typical European, that elementary unit of democratic self-destruction, embodies this humorous approach to his/her decline: “Oh yes, the government competency [ha,ha] but what can you do. They are here to stay. But no! It’s not me who keeps voting for it, it’s just a systemic conspiracy against the little guy. Let’s just see how we can eek out a life and kick the bucket before we slide even further into decline”. It won’t happen dude. Humanity in the 21st century is moving ever faster and accelerating. Unlike previous generations, YOY, YOURSELF, will live to sleep in the electoral choices you made as a voter. The unintended consequence of this recent and irreversible human evolution speed is improved justice. You can no longer pass the consequences of your actions to your children – you yourself will also bear them.
And this is why I like the “socialist Obama” cartoon the best – though it should say “on Towards Coercive Collectivism” (or “Statism” in the interest of conciseness). It best captures the intoxicating, yet suicidal, effect of statism on electoral dynamics.
Americans are now, belatedly, after a whole two centuries, finally joining the Euro club to decline. They seem to have finally discovered how democracy works, something other nations, especially Europeans figured out a long-long time ago. Finally, after two centuries, Americans are shedding the most defining attribute of their culture: “self-reliance”– also known as “selfishness” in statist circles – to join the community of enlightened electorates who long discovered how democracy works: You vote to trim the reward of more productive people in your direction. How? You scratch your mediocre co-voter’s back by approving his government expansion so that he scratches your mediocre back by approving yours. Hand in hand you walk towards the flattening of the effort-reward curve, and decline.
This insistence on “selfishness” was apparently the biggest American mistake — a mistake that set Americans onto such a dissonant stance to the rest of the world. Now… if Americans spearheaded prosperity before, in spite of such a monumental mistake, imagine how prosperous Americans will be, now that they discovered how democracy works and are about to correct this congenital defect of their selfish individualist philosophy.
How prosperous? Just wait a little bit and you’ll find out…
http://4thst8.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/everything-ends-in-pizza-in-d-c-and-sao-paulo/
http://blogs.transparent.com/portuguese/tudo-acaba-em-pizza/
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