Political posterizing.

[FBM]

To the Calvinists, material success and wealth was a sign that you were one of the Elect, and thus were favored by God. Who better to shepherd a society populated by God's wayward children? The poor, the weak, the infirm? God was punishing them for their sins. This theology was spreading at a time when the rise of industrial capitalism tore the fabric of European society, shifting the nature of work and the patterns of family life of large numbers of people. There were large numbers of angry, alienated people who the new elites needed to keep in line to avoid labor unrest and to protect production and profits.

http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v18n3 ... inism.html

i.e., the Republican platform...

Social Darwinism is generally understood to use the concepts of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest to justify social policies which make no distinction between those able to support themselves and those unable to support themselves. Many such views stress competition between individuals in laissez-faire capitalism; but the ideology has also motivated ideas of eugenics, scientific racism, imperialism,[4] fascism, Nazism and struggle between national or racial groups.[5][6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism

i.e., the Republican platorm.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Actually, when it comes to posterizing, I don't give a flying fuck what the other side posts. But it's always fun to watch you get all huffy.

[Coito ergo sum]

So many epic fails. Well done, C.E.S.

Obama supporters -- no sense of humor.

Really?

Making fun of him getting a peace prize?

Well, yeah. He earned the Peace Prize after being President for a few months, and having not achieved anything, and the Prize committee openly admitted they gave him the Prize in anticipation of what they hoped he would do. That's a joke in and of itself.

Calling him dumber than Bush?

Yes - why not? Folks have never had any hesitancy in joking about any and every Republican, except Lincoln and Nixon, being stupid. Why is it suddenly off limits? The guy DOES sound a bit challenged when that prompter goes off....

"Dreams, empty your pockets"?

Yes, it's a joke about tax hikes.

Thing is, that's pretty much all you got when it comes to criticizing Obama in what you posted CES. Humor. Little of substance. So, thanks the for laugh.

See how defensive you are? This is a thread about political humor -- nobody was all bothered by any of the anti-Republican cartoons. You've just made my point, in spades.

I don't see any of you guys laughing at our jokes - must be some truth to our witty sarcasm then, eh?

I haven't complained about them, though. I addressed one in substance -- one you posted -- about how Republicans opposed the Civil Rights Act and such, which, of course, is just plain factually incorrect. What do you have to say about that? Nothing, right? Because since it's not your guy's ox being gored, it's all funny.

[Coito ergo sum]

Actually, when it comes to posterizing, I don't give a flying fuck what the other side posts. But it's always fun to watch you get all huffy.

Seemed to me, the huffy ones are FBM and Maiforpeace....

[Coito ergo sum]

To the Calvinists, material success and wealth was a sign that you were one of the Elect, and thus were favored by God. Who better to shepherd a society populated by God's wayward children? The poor, the weak, the infirm? God was punishing them for their sins. This theology was spreading at a time when the rise of industrial capitalism tore the fabric of European society, shifting the nature of work and the patterns of family life of large numbers of people. There were large numbers of angry, alienated people who the new elites needed to keep in line to avoid labor unrest and to protect production and profits.

http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v18n3 ... inism.html

i.e., the Republican platform...

Social Darwinism is generally understood to use the concepts of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest to justify social policies which make no distinction between those able to support themselves and those unable to support themselves. Many such views stress competition between individuals in laissez-faire capitalism; but the ideology has also motivated ideas of eugenics, scientific racism, imperialism,[4] fascism, Nazism and struggle between national or racial groups.[5][6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism

i.e., the Republican platorm.

LOL --- talk about "believing the hype." Of course those things bear no resemblance to the Republican platform.

[maiforpeace]

Actually, when it comes to posterizing, I don't give a flying fuck what the other side posts. But it's always fun to watch you get all huffy.

Seemed to me, the huffy ones are FBM and Maiforpeace....

That was a huffy response?

I'm laughing. Believe I am.

[Coito ergo sum]

Actually, when it comes to posterizing, I don't give a flying fuck what the other side posts. But it's always fun to watch you get all huffy.

Seemed to me, the huffy ones are FBM and Maiforpeace....

That was a huffy response?

I'm laughing. Believe I am.

It's just interesting that all the "...so and so is stupid" jokes are fine, until a certain someone became the subject....then it was "schoolyard" and unfunny...

[FBM]

Actually, when it comes to posterizing, I don't give a flying fuck what the other side posts. But it's always fun to watch you get all huffy.

Seemed to me, the huffy ones are FBM and Maiforpeace....

OK, dude. Whatever you want to believe.

To the Calvinists, material success and wealth was a sign that you were one of the Elect, and thus were favored by God. Who better to shepherd a society populated by God's wayward children? The poor, the weak, the infirm? God was punishing them for their sins. This theology was spreading at a time when the rise of industrial capitalism tore the fabric of European society, shifting the nature of work and the patterns of family life of large numbers of people. There were large numbers of angry, alienated people who the new elites needed to keep in line to avoid labor unrest and to protect production and profits.

http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v18n3 ... inism.html

i.e., the Republican platform...

Social Darwinism is generally understood to use the concepts of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest to justify social policies which make no distinction between those able to support themselves and those unable to support themselves. Many such views stress competition between individuals in laissez-faire capitalism; but the ideology has also motivated ideas of eugenics, scientific racism, imperialism,[4] fascism, Nazism and struggle between national or racial groups.[5][6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism

i.e., the Republican platorm.

LOL --- talk about "believing the hype." Of course those things bear no resemblance to the Republican platform.

No shit. Well, I guess I'm pretty much deaf, dumb and blind, then. Thank you for setting me straight on the fact that the Republicans' agenda is in no way associated with the theist agenda. Seems I got konfoozed fer a minnit, there...

[Coito ergo sum]

Dude, come on...social Darwinism?

That's the same thing as the douchebags on the other side saying the Democrats are really Communists.

Be real.

[Ian]

CES - See, some of those you posted were good. I agree with the Nobel Prize criticism (as I believe Obama did too, it certainly surprised the heck out of him), and I think his comment about the debt ceiling in 2006 was little more than partisanship at the time. So, good call on those.

But it's an exagerration (and a whine) to claim that all Republicans get tagged as stupid except the evil genius Nixon. I wouldn't claim Bush 41 was stupid, for example. Nor would I say so about a great number of other Republicans, including Romney. Eight years of Bush 43 really did the party's image a disservice, as I suppose the party did to itself by nominating him and re-electing him. The guy really wasn't too bright, and I have no hesitation at all saying that. And now there's the Tea Party... and the fact that the reddest states in the union also have the least-educated populations in the union... and the fact that people with graduate degrees or higher vote overwhelmingly Democratic... yeah, I'll never say that all Republicans are stupid, but goddammit there's a pretty big Kernel of Truth there.

You seem to naturally want a balance. "You guys get to say Bush and all Republican voters are stupid, so I get to say Obama is stupid, and you're the ones who get snippy about it." Well, this isn't a subject where there's an inherent balance. Nobody in his right mind would honestly think Obama is not intelligent.

[FBM]

Dude, come on...social Darwinism?

That's the same thing as the douchebags on the other side saying the Democrats are really Communists.

Be real.

OK, I'm open to the possibility that the Repubican platform isn't based on social Darwinism...convince me. Because I can't see the difference. Show me something to dissuade me.

[maiforpeace]

Nobody in his right mind would honestly think Obama is not intelligent.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[FBM]

Who is John Fugelbuerioheghg and why should we pay attention to his opinion? He's too pretty to be smart.

[Gawdzilla Sama]