#a political cartoon (1974)

[furbearingbrick]

#peter president #oswald the lucky rabbit #mickey mouse #felix the cat #a political cartoon (1974) #public domain #toons #breaking bad #peterposting #undescribed #memes #brick attempts to be funny #public domain characters #and then jessie and walter join the Cartoon Liberation Army

[rjalker]

[ID: A screenshot from the 1974 short film, "A Political Cartoon", showing Lance and Bernie in the drawing room, with Bernie sitting at his drawing desk, and Lance standing off to the side, saying, "What you have to capture is the look of someone who is trying to mean what he says, but isn't succeeding very well.". End ID.]

#A Political Cartoon (1974)

[elvis1970s]

Elvis Presley Enterprises is currently majority owned (85%) by a corporation, Authentic Brands Group, which controls marketing and promotion of Elvis' image and whatever else they can exploit.

Elvis' final two or three years on the road doesn't quite represent their 'superhero' marketing strategy, so this period is largely ignored, and there remains no official release of the 1977 television special, Elvis in Concert. (Even though you can see it, and all the outtakes, on YouTube in various forms). It exists, and has been viewed by millions, whether they like it or not.

Late British-Australian writer Clive James recognised this early on, observing how much easier Elvis was to sell once his 'troubled physical presence' was out of the way.

Through bootleg audio of concerts from 1974-77, which are now widely available, we can get to know Elvis as a working entertainer and human being, rather than a cartoon hero. There were nights, right up to the very end, when he was on fire, his voice sounded better than ever, and he could enthral a huge stadium audience right to the back row; without giant video screens and with only rudimentary lighting. He had fun with audience members, and with the band, was unfailingly polite to fans, and laughed at himself and his image. He no longer rehearsed, forgot lyrics occasionally (or couldn't be bothered learning them in the first place), stopped and re-started songs if he wasn't happy, and improvised on stage. He could be grumpy, especially with sound imperfections (feedback was a constant source of annoyance), and there were nights that he was homesick, lethargic, medicated and unwell, which inevitably affected his performance. He turned up, night after night, whether he felt like it or not.

The reality, beyond the mythmaking, was that he was a working entertainer who needed the money, and who was responsible for the livelihoods of hundreds of people, while living with addiction and erratic mental health. The human aspect is a fascinating story in itself, even if Authentic Brands remains in denial.

#elvis in the 70s #elvis history #elvis presley #rock history #elvis #live music #musicians #elvis fans #elvis 1970s #1970s rock

[mackerelphones]

Movies I watched lately

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975): This is a movie about being out of your depth in a mysterious universe of frightening powers and Valentine's Day being on the wrong day

Perfect Blue (1997): Scarier than The Shining. Definitely much more uncomfortable, with all the sexual violence. But that might just be because pop culture spoiled every part of The Shining ahead of time, whereas in Perfect Blue I didn't know what to expect next. In a twist, Perfect Blue actually explains exactly what's going on with the disappointing "mentally ill murderer" trope

The Handmaiden (2016): At first I thought, despite the colonialist setting, this was going to be a boring period drama about polite people in fancy costumes, but then came the first twist and I was hooked. I don't know if this subverts the male gaze or whatever. But this film is definitely entertaining, each shot an almost painterly composition, the small cast of characters all well realized. The setting was so over-the-top it felt a little like a cartoon. Shame Park Chan-wook decided the movie needed a gory torture sequence instead of focusing on what the female leads get up to except for putting those metal balls in their pussies

Zardoz (1974): This film unironically engages with the concepts L. Frank Baum introduces in his later Oz novels, when he turns Oz into a dystopia hell world by accident. The Tabernacle is Ozma's Magic Picture. Not sure how to feel about having a habitual rapist as our protagonist, but it was the 1970s, so the actors probably just hated women that much in their daily lives anyway

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Beginnings (2012): It's like a slightly worse version of the show. Took out three memorable bits: Madoka's dream in the opening, Mami's backstory, and Hitomi screaming about lesbians. The dream is an especially odd deletion since without that, the opening is boring. But you can't call this scene-for-scene remake a cheap cashgrab because the new visuals are baroque, sometimes to the point that it becomes ridiculous. Why the hell is Kamijo's hospital room a gorgeous palatial chamber full of books and a collection of the weirdest chairs that have ever existed?

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Eternal (2012): Ditto

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion (2013): This expands on the wrong things from the show until it develops into just an avalanche of the wildest colors and visuals. Can't say it's not gorgeous though. The one new character is a little girl whose defining character trait is that she is obsessed with cheese. With a fourth Madoka movie coming out, I do not trust the creators not to ruin the series. Have Homura kiss Madoka you cowards

Manhunt (1976): This film's original Japanese title is something like "You Must Cross the River of Anger!" Very Alfred Hitchcock vibe. It is most notable because of its popularity in the PRC. I was glad that the writing was intelligent enough to recognize the main character would not return to the police force after what he goes through. On the other hand, it concludes extrajudicial execution is fine if the person is evil enough. This message is only true if you're a revolutionary socialist, not a cop,* so I have to cancel this movie sorry

*This is ironic and not actually something I believe (you still need some kind of fair trial, even if the outcome is a foregone conclusion)

Up Tight! (1968): Speaking of revolutionary socialists killing someone. A lot of people in this movie abruptly start shouting and wailing and attacking people and then have to be pulled off. It's a shame the gay character's homosexuality is treated as a sign of how he is an unreliable class traitor who loves cops

Do the Right Thing (1989): This is a really good movie about a hot day on a street where a lot of angry people scream at each other. Apparently, Spike Lee wrote the screenplay in two weeks. I am jealous. That got me thinking how many talented people it took to bring the screenplay to life. I don't know how Sweet Dick Willie's dialogue could be planned instead of extemporaneous, but that's the magic of cinema. The ice cube scene is weird

Total Recall (1990): I don't buy that Quaid and Melina could just get up and be fine after the air rushes over them in the finale. Their eyes were boiling! And whoever built the Mars colony in GLASS DOMES, brittle, ordinary glass, was so stupid that they could not possibly exist. This proves the story was a hallucination inside Quaid's head. Didn't expect the movie to feature a dwarf sex worker mowing down cops with a machine gun. They should have made a movie about her instead

#the handmaiden #total recall #madoka magica #perfect blue #zardoz #movies

[filmnoirsbian]

💀 there's this discourse/sj blogger i used to follow and interact with who i just Can Not Fucking Stand anymore for a whole litany of reasons, the LEAST of which is their proclivity for drawing sexy versions of a character for a cartoon about politics that came out in 1974

#asks #ask games

[superbdragoncollection-stuff]

An analysis of the new Planet of the Apes movies, having seen the latest trailer.

There are two things missing from the new Planet of the Apes series, the themes about deliberate destruction of civilization, and the themes of civil rights. The removal of those elements undermine the entire point of the series.

I used to think it was irrational that I didn't like the new Planet of the Apes movies, especially after I hadn't seen them. Mostly I don't want to see them because I find the premise annoying, antithetical to many themes of the franchise, anti-science, and other ridiculous things. I'm a big fan of the old series, I sought out EVERYTHING once upon a time. I found comics, I found all the movies, I found the cartoon, I found the TV show, I found the video games. But I have never EVER wanted to even see the new movies. I had an irrational hatred of them ever since I saw them.

Then I realized something. I thought it was shallow I hadn't seen any of them, but it's hard to see them when they've just been remaking my least favorite installment in the franchise three or four times. I saw Planet of the Apes, Beneath, Escape, and Battle, 1, 2, 3, and 5, but never Conquest, 4, because it seemed sad and depressing. If I'm seeing that movie being remade over and over and over, no wonder I don't want to see them! A die hard fan like me didn't want to see the original version, and then they just remake that movie three times?! Sometimes it is a legit point of critique if a fan can't watch an installment, or finish reading it.

Having heard from someone who has seen it though, the themes that do exist within the new films make it less powerful emotionally. They've cut out all the aspects that made the original series compelling. You can have natural disaster, you can have science gone wrong, the problem is attaching the Apes name to it. One of the fundamental parts of Planet of the Apes is that the films, the ape takeover is not the result of hubris, or by accident, it is explicitly a deliberate tragedy. It is stupid, but it is by no means foolish or an accident. It is deliberate.

You don't fall into nuclear war by accident. You don't stumble across total atomic annihilation. You knowingly and deliberately cause it. One has to first invent the atomic bomb. Then one has to make more. Hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands. You have to make the infrastructure to build and deliver them. You have to have the political will to keep them. None of this is by accident. It may be fired by accident, but for that to even be possible requires an awful and cruel and deliberate mindset to begin with. You can't point your car at someone, jump out at the last second, and claim the car killed them. One can't duct-tape a gun to someone's hand, tell them they have to shoot someone or else they'll die, and avoid all blame. Nuclear war is not pride, or arrogance, it is the homo sapiens' own inhumanity. It is the stupid and cruel desire to hit someone else with a rock. Taylor screaming at the end might be a funny meme, but when you watch the entire film, it's chilling. All you hear is this poor astronaut cursing the men who destroyed his civilization, as the waves crash against the shore. To say that nuclear war happens because we didn't know any better is just as bad as saying slavery happened because we didn't know any better.

The civil rights connections are another key piece missing from the puzzle. First of all, there are tons of references to it in the original franchise. In the first film, Taylor is sprayed with a fire hose, a sight that people in 1968 would've been seeing on the nightly news. He is denied the rights to a trial, his buddies are experimented on or stuffed and put on display in a museum, all things that people were becoming aware of. Lynch mobs, the Tuskegee Experiment, the thousands of bodies put on display in American museums without proper burial.

In the 1974 TV show, the first episode has a kid ask why they can't let the humans know about the spaceship. His father says, "because humans know their place! If they knew others could build a thing like this, it would ruin everything! They might think they're equal!" "But father, these humans are obviously better than we are--" The kid is smacked around, "Never say such a thing again!" You have people thinking about zero-sum equality now, still thinking that if someone gains equality, someone else loses it.

Something established in the book and the third movie is that the apes did not become sapient by accident. The humans knowingly and deliberately wanted slave labor, and so they altered the apes to create that labor. Conquest makes this explicit, with a black man showing sympathy for obvious reasons. There are obvious commentaries on human slave labor, and the resulting righteous anger. It is unrelated to the nuclear war, and it is not human arrogance or hubris that does it. It is the result of an inherently selfish desire.

The story is not that apes or humans are better, it is that treating people badly is wrong. We have always known slave labor is wrong. Slave revolts date back thousands of years. Spartacus was the Third Servile Rebellion. Yet people do it anyway. We know it is just as wrong as nuclear war. Oppenheimer cursed what he did. The first anti-nuclear war books came out in the late 40s and early 50s. Yet we still built thousands of bombs and people to this day expect there to be a winnable nuclear war.

So, the new movies decide to cut out all the civil rights aspects, and replace the nuclear war with a virus. Okay, do they try and replace it? No, not really. One can argue they are trying to say that apes are better than us, or that humans are better. And neither works.

Their "replacement" is insulting, and undermines the entire situation emotionally. The apes are accidentally created by something really selfless, an Alzheimer's cure, that accidentally spreads a plague. Everything is entirely by accident, and by stupidity. One might even go so far as to say it is racist, bigoted, and defends pro-colonizer sentiments. It depicts the entire situation as an accident, a buffoonish mess caused by people who were so stupid they didn't realize that coughing up blood on someone was bad.

I once had a professor say that the empires Europe built across the world were by accident. "Oh, whoops, we were just biting off a little territory at a time, we didn't mean to cause this!" He also asked who gets up in the morning to oppress people. This was wrong. The truth is that there are those who think it is their right. Europe knew exactly what they were doing while they conquered half the globe. This is what it feels like, like that professor wrote this. It removes all culpability from the humans, and blames science, rather than our own flaws. It insists that trying to cure a terrifying and ugly disease is wrong, and that we deserve to die for that. At the same time it insists that it was all an accident, no one is really to blame. You can't claim the apes are oppressed in the same way because they didn't know they were sapient! That is not only stupid, it undermines the entire concept of slavery within the story, that enslaving people is bad. Because slavery is not an accident. By making it all an accident, it makes it feel like it was written by the people in Get Out. It doesn't say that all slavery is by accident, it echoes the sentiments of its defenders.

By portraying the apes as seemingly better, it undermines the point. Taylor in the original says that "it seems some apes are more equal than others". For all their vaunted superiority over humanity, they are just as vulnerable to our same flaws. The point is that being cruel is bad.

Did I mention the guy running the company that made the Alzheimer's cure is black? And there are pretty much no other black actors in the new franchise, compared to the two named and heroic black characters in the original franchise. I know, I know, it's not great even by comparison. When a 70s series is beating you out for positive black representation, while you have none, that says a lot about your franchise.

You can't just swap out one disaster for another with a franchise that relies on the disaster being human made, and not accidental! The only acceptable alternative in this case would be deliberate germ warfare. The point of the original series is that we did this to ourselves. Nuclear weapons are bad, and they are not the result of a mistake, or an accident. Slavery is bad, and exploiting people deliberately is wrong.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes is the darkest ending in the entire franchise. An old doomsday bomb goes off, and wipes out Earth. We hear a narrator say "In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-sized star. And one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead."

The problem does not lie in humanity, or in apes. The problem lies in the concepts of war, cruelty, hatred, and selfishness.

#planet of the apes #rise of the planet of the apes

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.29

Beer Birthdays

Max Schwarz (1863)

Garrett Oliver (1962)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Ken Burns; documentary filmmaker (1953)

Geddy Lee; rock bassist, singer (1953)

William Powell; actor (1892)

Dave Stevens; artist, cartoonist, illustrator (1955)

Wil Wheaton; actor, blogger (1972)

Famous Birthdays

Afroman; rapper (1974)

Jean-Hugues Anglade; French actor and director (1955)

Doug Ashdown; Australian singer-songwriter (1942)

Porfirio Barba-Jacob; Colombian poet and author (1883)

Melvin Belli; attorney (1907)

Clara Bow; actor (1905)

Danger Mouse; cartoon character (1977)

Don Carter; bowler (1926)

John Clarke; New Zealand-Australian comedian and actor (1948)

Edgar Cortright; scientist and engineer (1923)

Professor Irwin Corey; comedian, actor (1914)

Sharon Creech; author (1945)

Simon Dach; German poet (1605)

Alex de Tocqueville; French writer, historian, political scientist (1805)

Stephen Dorff; actor (1973)

Neal Doughty; keyboard player (1946)

Leslie Easterbrook; actress (1949)

Richard Egan; actor (1921)

Adele Griffin; author (1970)

Tim Gunn; fashion consultant, television host (1953)

Dag Hammarskjold; Swedish diplomat (1905)

Betty Harris; chemist (1940)

Jenny Holzer; painter, author, and dancer (1950)

Robert Horton; actor (1924)

Isabel; Brazilian princess (1846)

Peter Jennings; television journalist (1938)

Eyvind Johnson; Swedish novelist (1900)

Joe Johnson; English snooker player (1952)

Diane Keen; English actress (1946)

Eric Alfred Knudsen; author (1872)

Harold W. Kuhn; mathematician (1925)

Stanley Kunitz; poet (1905)

Don Marquis; cartoonist, writer (1878)

Jim Marshall; guitar amplifier maker (1923)

Martina McBride; country singer (1966)

Daniel McFadden; economist (1937)

Frank McGuinness; Irish poet and playwright (1953)

Goenawan Mohamad; Indonesian poet and playwright (1941)

Harry Mulisch; Dutch author, poet (1927)

Benito Mussolini; Italian journalist and politician (1883)

Gale Page; actress (1910)

Alexandra Paul; actor (1963)

Dean Pitchford; actor and director (1951)

Isidor Isaac Rabi; physicist (1898)

Don Redman; composer (1900)

Sigmund Romberg; Hungarian-American composer (1887)

Mahasi Sayadaw; Burmese monk and philosopher (1904)

Patti Scialfa; musician (1954)

Mary Lee Settle; novelist (1918)

Tony Sirico; actor (1942)

Randy Sparks; folk singer-songwriter (1933)

John Sykes; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1959)

Booth Tarkington; writer (1869)

David Taylor; English snooker player (1943)

Paul Taylor; dancer (1930)

Mikis Theodorakis; Greek composer (1925)

Didier Van Cauwelaert; French author (1960)

David Warner; English actor (1941)

Woody Weatherman; guitarist (1965)

Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer and inventor (1888)

#Birthdays

[dan6085]

20 famous people who were born on September 27, along with some details about their lives and achievements:

1. Lil Wayne - Born in 1982, Lil Wayne is a Grammy-winning rapper and songwriter known for his hit songs like "Lollipop", "A Milli", and "6 Foot 7 Foot".

2. Gwyneth Paltrow - Born in 1972, Paltrow is an Academy Award-winning actress known for her roles in films like "Shakespeare in Love", "Iron Man", and "The Royal Tenenbaums".

3. Avril Lavigne - Born in 1984, Lavigne is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for her pop-punk hits like "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi", and "Girlfriend".

4. Meat Loaf - Born in 1947, Meat Loaf is a rock singer and actor known for his theatrical performances and hit songs like "Bat Out of Hell", "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", and "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)".

5. Shaun Cassidy - Born in 1958, Cassidy is an actor, singer, and television producer known for his roles on hit TV shows like "The Hardy Boys Mysteries" and "General Hospital".

6. Mike Schmidt - Born in 1949, Schmidt is a former professional baseball player who played for the Philadelphia Phillies for 18 seasons and was inductedinto the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995.

7. Carrie Brownstein - Born in 1974, Brownstein is a musician, actress, and writer who is best known as the guitarist and vocalist of the indie rock band Sleater-Kinney and for her work on the television show "Portlandia".

8. Samuel Adams - Born in 1722, Adams was a political philosopher and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, who played a key role in the American Revolution and helped draft the Declaration of Independence.

9. Sofia Milos - Born in 1969, Milos is an Italian actress known for her roles on TV shows like "CSI: Miami", "The Sopranos", and "NCIS".

10. Jayne Meadows - Born in 1919, Meadows was an actress and television personality who appeared in films like "Undercurrent" and "David and Bathsheba" and hosted several game shows.

11. Greg Morris - Born in 1933, Morris was an actor best known for his role as Barney Collier on the TV series "Mission: Impossible".

12. Wilford Brimley - Born in 1934, Brimley was an actor known for his roles in films like "Cocoon", "The Natural", and "The Thing", as well as for his work on television commercials for Quaker Oats and Liberty Medical.

13. Thomas Nast - Born in 1840, Nastwas a German-American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered the "Father of the American Cartoon" and is known for his political cartoons that helped shape American politics in the late 19th century.

14. Shaun White - Born in 1986, White is a professional snowboarder and skateboarder who has won three Olympic gold medals and multiple X Games medals in both sports.

15. William Conrad - Born in 1920, Conrad was an actor, director, and producer known for his deep, distinctive voice and his roles on TV shows like "Cannon" and "Jake and the Fatman".

16. Lillemor Arvidsson - Born in 1923, Arvidsson was a Swedish athlete who won multiple medals in the discus throw and shot put events at the European Athletics Championships and the Olympic Games.

17. A Martinez - Born in 1948, Martinez is an actor best known for his roles on TV shows like "Santa Barbara", "L.A. Law", and "Longmire".

18. Don Cornelius - Born in 1936, Cornelius was an American television host and producer who created and hosted the popular music and dance show "Soul Train" from 1971 to 1993.

19. Cheryl Tiegs - Born in 1947, Tiegs is an American model and actress who appeared on the covers of numerous magazines, including Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and is considered one of the first supermodels.

20. Louis Auchincloss - Born in 1917, Auchincloss was an American author and lawyer who wrote more than 60 books, including novels, biographies, and essays, and was known for his portrayals of the American upper class.

[financialsmatter]

Sunday Funnies, If You're Not Offended...

Welcome back to this week’s edition of the Sunday Funnies where, in addition to the usual/bizarre weekly events we see, the San Francisco police released the body-cam videos from the Paul Pelosi “hammering.” Ironically (or NOT) it’s obvious how this video didn't "drop" (unlike Paul's pants) until Nancy Pelosi was safely out of power . . . And that’s probably because it was a mostly peaceful hammering. LOL! But it does look like a staged scene gone wrong because they – Paul and assailant/lover boy – look so casual when the door opens. And it’s almost as if you can hear the director say “…Lights, Camera, Action!” Seriously, the Paul Pelosi video looks like it was scripted from the famous Jack Nicholson movie Chinatown…circa 1974. Where, during one of the final scenes, the private investigator/Nicholson cannot believe the number of overwhelming lies and duplicity they’re seeing. That’s when Nicholson’s partner rationalizes it by saying: “Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown.” In other words, … “Nothing to see here, move along.”        And as we are wont to say…this is another classic example of “Look Here, Don’t Look There.” Why? Because they don’t want you to pay attention to the fact that we – the West aka Merchants of Death – are sending Billions of dollars of war materials to Ukraine. And the weaponry includes bombs, guns, ammo, and M1 Abrams tanks.       And this is one of the many distractions the Boyz use to keep you from seeing what’s really going on…like the ongoing distraction of banning guns.       But that’s precisely why we publish the Sunday Funnies. You see, we use our funnies/memes/cartoons in an effort to counter the madness and frustration that accompanies Turbulent Times. Because when it’s all said and done, we all need to laugh every now and then. Why? Laughter is good for your soul. And it’s healthy to be a bit silly…especially in the face of fear mongering, medical tyranny, and especially the threat of WWIII. It’s all the more reason why we won’t apologize…especially if our Funnies just happen to hurt some Progressive/Socialist/Communist/Globalist’s feeeellwwings. And please remember: The Sunday Funnies are not just about our nations bizarre state of politics/finance/beliefs. It’s about awareness of what’s happening in the world that we choose to poke fun at. And, if our funnies/memes/cartoons/etc. provide you with a laugh or two – and/or open your eyes to some stark realities – then we consider that a victory. So, when things tend to get a bit overwhelming, we believe it’s best to remember that Humor is Waaaayyyyy better than Hatred…which is contrary to what the world wants you to believe. And we hope you see the Sunday Funnies as a refreshing oasis in the middle of a parched, dry, and increasingly dark world that we’re living in. As always, we remind you: As difficult as things might appear, Evil Always Overplays its Hand…And Righteousness Prevails. Thanks again for joining us on this crazy journey we’re on and remember America Was Built by the Brave, Not by the Fearful… *********************************** After Killing MILLIONS of Chickens Over the Alleged “Bird Flu” People Wonder Why We’re Seeing Eggs At $8 Per Dozen…       *********************************** As a Result of Skyrocketing Egg Prices Eating Eggs Will be Demonized to Cover Up the Increasing Covid ‘Sudden Deaths’       ********************************* And Yes, the Sheeple Will Once Again Fall for the Presstitutes Propaganda       ************************************* Ironically (or NOT) Chickens Will Also Follow the Wisdom of the Sheeple       ************************************* However, There Seems to Be An Increasing Number of People Who Are Wakening Up to What the ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Have Been Saying       ********************************** And While We’re Talking About Conspiracy Theorist, Just Remember How the Boyz Have Been Saying All Along That Their Agenda Has Been About “Keeping Others Safe”       ************************************* Certain Truths That We Don’t Want to Admit…       ************************************* Follow Me For More Dietary Tips       ******************************** Everyone Who Keeps Their Phone Beside Their Bed Has Experienced This…       **************************************** Previously Banned Twitter Posters Are Returning With a Vengeance About Being Ungovernable             ************************************ How Preppers and the ‘Ungovernable’ Teach Their Kids the Importance of Understanding Why “Taxation is Theft”        ************************************* The Real Reason Why Most Countries Won’t Physically Invade America       ************************************** When Leftist/Vegans Try to Shame You About Eating Chickens…       ************************************** While Chickens and Secrets Seem to Be in Focus This Week…       *********************************** And While the ‘Classified Documents’ Topic is Still a Popular Distraction…       ****************************** The Current Hypocrisy of “Classified Documents”             ************************************* Ironically (or NOT) In the Hockey World it Took a Russian to Stand Up for His Rights in America       ************************************** And for Those Who Still Wonder About What Being “Woke” Means…       ************************************** This Guy is Better at “Flopping” Than LeBron       ********************************** If You Aren’t Sick Enough of Seeing Madonna by Now, Just Wait Until…       ************************************* Social Media Posters Behind the Scenes…       ************************************* A Hat Tip to Those Parents Who Don’t Feel the Need to Be Pretentious       ***************************************** Reactions We Get When “Financial$Matter” Posts Something Deemed Inappropriate…       **************************************** The Perfect Gift/Shirt for Your Friends Who Love to Work Out…And Happen to Be ‘Believers’       ***************************************** With All Due Respect to Cincinnati Bengals Phenom Quarterback, Joe Burrow…       ************************************ Here’s a Few Life Hacks to Remember As the Political Chaos of 2023 Intensifies       ************************************ In Case You Haven’t Figured It Out by Now…       ****************************************** A Common-Sense Solution to “Reparations” for Those Who Feel Entitled…       *************************************** Wisdom for the Ages… Drink water from the spring where horses drink. The horse will never drink bad water. Lay your bed where the cat sleeps. Eat the fruit that has been touched by a worm. Boldly pick the mushroom on which the insects sit. Plant the tree where the mole digs. Build your house where the snake sits to warm itself. Dig your fountain where the birds hide from heat. Go to sleep and wake up at the same time with the birds – you will reap all of the day’s golden grains. Eat more green – you will have strong legs and a resistant heart, like the beings of the forest. Swim often and you will feel on earth like the fish in the water. Look at the sky as often as possible and your thoughts will become light and clear. Be quiet a lot, speak little – and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace.” – Unknown       **************************************** And For Those Old Enough to Remember the Simplicity of the 1970s…           ********************************* ********************************* That’s all for this week’s edition of the Sunday Funnies. And throughout the Political Chaos of 2023, you can expect us to poke fun at the headline grabbers every weekend, as usual. However, if you want to see more risqué and/or R-Rated memes you can find them (HERE). As always, we hope you enjoy our memes/cartoons/rants etc. and that they bring a smile to your face. We definitely love to hear your comments so keep ‘em coming. And although the world seems pretty dark these days, we encourage you to see why you have a lot to hope for in 2023 and beyond (HERE). In the meantime, be sure to share these funnies with friends and family members. Caution: They may get offended. But remind them…It’s important to laugh together and laugh often. And be sure to tell them… We’re Not Just About Finance. See You Next Sunday… Invest with confidence. Sincerely, James Vincent The Reverend of Finance Copyright © 2023 It's Not Just About Finance, LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Read the full article

[askbrutalbendy]

#batim #a political cartoon (1974) #corrupt!peter au #brick attempts to be funny #peter president #beast bendy #batim spoilers #toons #body hair

[furbearingbrick]

*distressed manticore noises*

#peter president #corrupted!peter #art #artists on tumblr #toons #shartpost #memes #a political cartoon (1974) #peterposting #furbearingbrick #Sketchworld #brick's aus #transparent #gonna write an id for this when i'm less tired

[rjalker]

Interacting with The Murderbot Diaries fandom moodboard

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[ID: Sixteen memes, described in order from left to right and top to bottom:

First: The Bugs Bunny in a tuxedo meme, now edited to say, " I wish people who misgender Murderbot a very shut the fuck up forever.

Second: A screenshot from the show Mako Mermaids, showing David grinning adoringly towards Nixie with his face propped up on his hands. David is labeled, "The Murderbot Diaries fandom", and Nixie is labeled "Exorsexism, transmisia, athiktomisia, ableism, racism, whitewashing, aroacemisia, abuse apologism,"

Third: A stick figure drawing of a werewolf with red eyes and sharp bloody teeth, sanding over a pool of blood labeled, "people who misgender Murderbot".

Fourth: A screenshot from the show iCarly, showing Gibby, labeled "Me", about to hit Spencer, labeled, "people who misgender Murderbot" over the head with a stop sigh.

Fifth: The "is this a pigeon?" meme, edited so the person is labeled, "The Murderbot Diaries fandom", saying, "Are we a safe and welcoming space for nonbinary people, touch averse people, nonpartnering aroace people, and people of color?" While pointing at, "The most oppressively exorsexist, ableist, amisic, and racist fandom I've ever had the misfortune of being in".

Sixth: The meme of an anime character saying, "oh so it was a joke", now edited so they are saying, "Oh, so you're purposefully and knowingly misgendering Murderbot because you think people who use it/its pronouns don't deserve to respect", followed by a closeup of their hand holding a rock, captioned, "Saying this, it aggressively picked up a large rock with killing intent written in its every movement."

Seventh: A Screenshot from the Beauty and the Beast show from 1987, showing someone holding a newspaper whose headline now reads, "Local nonbinary werewolf loses its shit, mauls five exorsexists", with smaller text beneath continuing, "Strange Mauling in the Park Puzzle Police".

Eighth: A digital drawing of Murderbot, edited so it is holding a gun pointed at the camera, now with glowing red eyes from under its helmet, and a filter of red noise and static, reading in all caps, "use it/its pronouns for me or stop pretending you care about me".

Ninth: Two screnshots from The Good Place, showing Shawn now saying, "I have heard no statements nor seen any evidence to suggets…oh misgenders Murderbot? Yeah, they all definitely belong in the Bad Place.".

Tenth: Three screenshots from The Good Place, showing Eleanor and Chidi talking. Eleanor says, "I'm proud to misgender Murderbot because I refuse to respect people's pronouns if they use it/its." Chidi responds, "Okay, but that's blatant exorsexism. Tell me you understand how exorsexist you are being."

Eleventh: A screenshot from the 1974 short film, "A Political Cartoon", showing Peter President standing at the podium, now edited so he is holding a baseball bat, captioned, "[violence against exorsexists commences]".

Twelfth: A screenshot from the show Farscape, showing John Crichton sitting on the floor, holding a blue mask in one hand, staring towards the camera, looking distressed. Text above and below reads, "When The Murderbot Diaries fandom promises they respect and love nonbinary people…while they're right in the middle of misgendering Murderbot and demanding that no one is allowed to be upset with them for this.".

Thirteenth: The meme of an uno card, then someone holding a massive handful of cards. The card now reads "Don't misgender Murderbor or draw 25". The person who has drawn 25 cards is labeled, "The Murderbot Diaries fandom".

Fourteenth: A screenshot from the Muppets, showing one of the characters speaking, edited to now say, "Insult of your choice, we all know that Murderbot is not a human. Your pathetic attempts to justify your transmisia and exorsexism in misgendering it by claiming it/its pronouns are 'dehumanizing' shows you do not actually give a single shit about Murderbot, or real people who use it/its pronouns, and furthermore that you have literally zero understanding of this character or the themes of this series even though it's not fucking subtle. Shut the fuck up or just admit you hate nonbinary people. Literally everyone can already tell.".

Fifteenth: A photo of a prop for a movie of a quadrupedal werewolf snarling with its mouth wide open, labeled, "Me @ people who misgender Murderbot".

Sixteenth: A digital drawing of Murderbot against a pale blue background, that reads, "Murderbot would hate every single one of you fucking bigots".

End ID.]

No, there is literally zero excuse for you to call Murderbot anything other than it/its pronouns. There are no excuses. There is no justification.

Any fucking argument you try to use to justify misgendering Murderbot is an argument that has been used to justify misgendering me.

If you think you're literally incapable of calling someone by it/its pronouns even when those are literally the person's pronouns, leave this fucking fandom and don't come back until you can treat nonbinary people with the bare minimum of respect.

If you are so distressed by people going by it/its pronouns, you have no fucking buisness being in a fandom for books where the protagonist and many other character use it/its pronouns.

There is no fucking excuse for misgender Murderbot or any other person who uses it/its pronouns. Murderbot is a fictional character, but you are perpetuating real bigotry when you misgender it.

[Plain text: "There is no fucking excuse for misgender Murderbot or any other person who uses it/its pronouns. Murderbot is a fictional character, but you are perpetuating real bigotry when you misgender it." End plain text.]

#guns #disturbing stick figures #blood #Murderbot deserves a better fandom #exorsexism #transmisia #ableism #racism #fandom amisia #fandom aroacemisia #teeth #snarling werewolf meme #TGP TW #plain text available #described images #accessible memes #The Murderbot Diaries #Murderbot #SecUnit #long post

[werehamburglar]

The thought that Betty Boop (who canonically ran for president and has an entire cult made up of copies of her) isn't "doing well" in the canon of A Political Cartoon is... Well, it certainly is a wild one.

#i can not for the life of me remember if she won or not #mr nobody kinda freaked me out tbh. #betty boop #live consumption tag #a political cartoon (1974)

[welcometoyouredoom]

#political cartoon #richard nixon #gop #constitution #1974

[doodelli]

A Political Cartoon (1974) directed by Joe Adamson and Jim Morrrow can't believe they made a tennis racket out of krazy kat :(

#krazy kat #cartoon #1970s

[yourfavedrinkspilk]

Peter President from A Political Cartoon (1974) drinks pilk! I mean... I guess a president who drinks pilk is someone I’d trust...

#pilk drinker #peter president #a political cartoon #requested #this is one of the oddest ones ive gotten