Political Meme - Cartoon/Joke Thread...Part XXX

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Are we sure that it is a joke?

 

[crimsonaudio]

Are we sure that it is a joke?

I 100% never am sure it's a joke until I see it's from Borowitz...

 

[some_al_fan]

I 100% never am sure it's a joke until I see it's from Borowitz...

Well, I did not know about that news when I have posted my comment:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/mtg-asks-trump-to-pardon-george-santos-00493507

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Who wants to tell her?

 

[DzynKingRTR]

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Who wants to tell her?

Imagine the guy telling his friends that a girl he is seeing did this. Not one would believe him.

 

[Bazza]

 

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[CrimsonJazz]

Wife's Side Of The Bed Obviously Gerrymandered

MADISON, WI—The Wisconsin State Legislature has been asked to redraw a small district on the west side of Madison. Local husband Chad Harrison says the district has been drawn unfairly on the queen-size bed he and his wife sleep on, and it gives her almost all the good parts of the bed...

babylonbee.com

MADISON, WI - The Wisconsin State Legislature has been asked to redraw a small district on the west side of Madison. Local husband Chad Harrison says the district has been drawn unfairly on the queen-size bed he and his wife sleep on, and it gives her almost all the good parts of the bed.

 

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[Bazza]

This one is for @Tidewater Would probably be frowned upon in the FB forum, so I'll post it here. Lot of great content in the comments section - worth a read, in my opinion......especially for history buffs! There's also football-related content......perfect timing for this time of year!

Future WW II hero and subsequently the President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower punts a football as a West Point cadet, 1912. Many folks don't realize that Dwight was a Texan but he was born in Denison in 1890. I wonder what he'd have said had you walked up to him immediately after this punt and described to him what he was going to do in life. No doubt he wouldn't have believed you. I always did like Ike, and this is surely an outstanding photo.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1952470849585561947

 

[Tidewater]

This one is for @Tidewater Would probably be frowned upon in the FB forum, so I'll post it here. Lot of great content in the comments section - worth a read, in my opinion......especially for history buffs! There's also football-related content......perfect timing for this time of year!

Future WW II hero and subsequently the President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower punts a football as a West Point cadet, 1912. Many folks don't realize that Dwight was a Texan but he was born in Denison in 1890. I wonder what he'd have said had you walked up to him immediately after this punt and described to him what he was going to do in life. No doubt he wouldn't have believed you. I always did like Ike, and this is surely an outstanding photo.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1952470849585561947

I've been to Ike's birthplace (a state park in Denison, Tex.) and his presidential library in Abilene, Kans.
The Denison house is a stone's throw from a railroad (still an active railroad). The presidential library is worth a visit. Lots of artifacts and info about Ike's life in the military as well as the White House. Both Democrats and Republicans courted him to run in 1952 because nobody knew what his party affiliation was (which is as it should be, in my view). George Marshall's solution was never to vote. (That is a bit extreme, in my view).
Here is Ike's farewell speech.

Worth a listen today.
The presidential library has a marble slab with quotes from Ike's speeches.
Ike was a remarkable man.

 

[mdb-tpet]

I've been to Ike's birthplace (a state park in Denison, Tex.) and his presidential library in Abilene, Kans.
The Denison house is a stone's throw from a railroad (still an active railroad). The presidential library is worth a visit. Lots of artifacts and info about Ike's life in the military as well as the White House. Both Democrats and Republicans courted him to run in 1952 because nobody knew what his party affiliation was (which is as it should be, in my view). George Marshall's solution was never to vote. (That is a bit extreme, in my view).
Here is Ike's farewell speech.

Worth a listen today.
The presidential library has a marble slab with quotes from Ike's speeches.
Ike was a remarkable man.

I agree that our 2 party system is for the birds, just as George Washington warned us about. So much of our political infighting and bullcrap derives from a party first (win at all costs) politics instead of what is really best of the country and country's citizens.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

 

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[Tidewater]

I agree that our 2 party system is for the birds, just as George Washington warned us about. So much of our political infighting and bullcrap derives from a party first (win at all costs) politics instead of what is really best of the country and country's citizens.

What I liked was how conscious military officers were about keeping their political opinions to themselves. Military officers are going to have to serve Democrat and Republican presidents so they should never say or do anything that smacks of insubordination.

As for the two party system, that is a natural consequence of being a federated republic and having a first past the post system. There are no national elections at all in the US. There are only elections at the state or local level, because the United States is a "republic of republics."
And with "first past the post," the candidate with the most votes wins. Imagine a polity with 1,000 adult citizens. If 999 of them run for mayor, then the candidate who garners two votes wins because everyone else will have only one vote.
The next step is that political parties form, based on coalitions. Two different people with different interests get together and say, "I'll vote for your candidate if you agree to pursue this policy that is important to me." These two win. In the next election, three people get together and say, "I'll vote for Candidate A if he pursues policy B and C once elected." The Three-person party wins. Then the Two-person Party convinces two more people to join them, and becomes the Four-Person Party, etc. etc. until the parties get so big as to be unwieldy or to have promised contradictory things to different people.
Let me give you an example. Why would gay men march for abortion rights? They will never need an abortion and, if a woman needs an abortion, no gay man is likely to be the father, so why would gay men care about abortion rights? In order that straight women will support whatever policy appeals to gay man (gay marriage, or whatever). Whichever conglomeration of disparate policy prescriptions can form a coalition and keep it together wins elections.
What is different about today versus 100 years ago is that parties have become more "pure" and coalitions more ossified. There used to be liberal Republicans (Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, for example) and conservative Democrats (e.g. Sam Nunn). Those have now been weeded out. And the political affiliation of the population has become more ossified. If you are X (female, black, hispanic, male, white, a gun-owner, etc.) then you must be Y (Democrat, Republican, whatever). Anyone who does not comply with the expectations is some kind of traitor.