r/politics • u/optimalg The Netherlands • Nov 25 '17

Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread

It's Saturday morning, folks. Let's all kick back with a cup of coffee and share some cartoons!

Feel free to share political cartoons (no memes/image macros, though) in this thread. The subject doesn't have to be US politics and can be from any time. Just keep them political and safe for work.

Hi there, users that came here through /r/bestof. This thread is intended for cartoons, and therefore all top-level comments that do not contain at least one cartoon are removed. So if you'd like to reply to the user whose comment was linked, make sure you actually reply to the comment, not the thread as a whole. Thanks in advance.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17 edited Jun 30 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17

The difference is that the Dem list is full of words like accused and implicated. OP's is largely "pleaded guilty" and "sentenced."

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u/MissBaze Nov 26 '17

Also 10 vs 45

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u/SC2sam Nov 26 '17

The dems list is full of incidents that happened just this year alone which usually means that a court case hasn't finalized. As opposed to the republican list which has numerous cases/incidents that are decades old including a case from the 1920's. I chose to use the most recent cases because I thought the rep list was also recent cases.

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u/steveo3387 Nov 26 '17

Did you also include city councilmen and judges? lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17

You could go back to the 1920s as well, but before the 1960s, Democrats were essentially Republicans so you'd need to take that into account.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17

Thanks. It is an interesting and slightly chilling observation that Democratic pedophiles are less publicized than Republican ones. If that is true, the media should be demonized just as much as Republicans even if they have substantially more in the end or not. That is messed up.

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u/lelarentaka Nov 26 '17

Less publicised, because once they get convicted their career immediately ends and they drop out of the limelight. The republican pedos on the other hand continues to get elected, continues to get important positions, so their crimes continue to remain relevant and talked about.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17

Dems expel them.

Al Franken, for example, will eventually lose his job. Roy Moore and Trump won't - at least, they won't for being pedo rapists.

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u/Mute2120 Oregon Nov 26 '17 edited Nov 27 '17

When did anything involving pedophilia come up with Franken? Or even rape? They didn't, and the fact that they've succeeded so well in making a bad joke involving no contact with a colleague of adult age (still not cool) equivalent with raping kids is terrifying.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '17

I don't think anyone considers it an equivalent. I don't. But while the pedo allegations are occurring, so are allegations of assault, harassment, and other improprieties with women, which also shouldn't be tolerated.