#cartoon mitt romney

[lil-als]

This man is my reason for watching such a shitty political satire show

#cartoon mitt romney #our cartoon president #I love pathetic rich republicans from shitty political cartoon shows who don’t swear

[dailybehbeh]

Behbeh

#oprah #o #oprah winfrey #president winfrey #winfrey romney #mitt romney #2020 #presidential ticket #what could've been #alternate universe #own #scrapped #cartoon #teddy bear #illustration #dailybehbeh #behbeh #cute #stuffed animal #comedy #art #funny #daily news #daily bear #polar bear

[chamerionwrites]

"American democracy is dying. There are plenty of medicines that would cure it. Unfortunately, our political dysfunction means we’re choosing not to use them, and as time passes, fewer treatments become available to us, even though the disease is becoming terminal. No major prodemocracy reforms have passed Congress. No key political figures who tried to overturn an American election have faced real accountability. The president who orchestrated the greatest threat to our democracy in modern times is free to run for reelection, and may well return to office.

Our current situation started with a botched diagnosis. When Trump first rose to political prominence, much of the American political class reacted with amusement, seeing him as a sideshow. Even if he won, they thought, he’d tweet like a populist firebrand while governing like a Romney Republican, constrained by the system. But for those who had watched Trump-like authoritarian strongmen rise in Turkey, India, Hungary, Poland, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Venezuela, Trump was never entertaining. He was ominously familiar.

At issue was a classic frame-of-reference problem. America’s political culture is astonishingly insular. Turn on cable news and it’s all America, all the time. Other countries occasionally make cameos, but the story is still about us. (Poland is discussed if Air Force One goes to Warsaw; Iran flits into view only in relation to Washington’s nuclear diplomacy; Madagascar appears only in cartoon form, mostly featuring talking animals that don’t actually live there.) Our self-obsession means that whenever authoritarianism rises abroad, it’s mentioned briefly, if at all. Have you ever spotted a breathless octobox of talking heads on CNN or Fox News debating the death of democracy in Turkey, Sri Lanka, or the Philippines?

That’s why most American pundits and journalists used an “outsider comes to Washington” framework to process Trump’s campaign and his presidency, when they should have been fitting every fresh fact into an “authoritarian populist” framework or a “democratic death spiral” framework. While debates raged over tax cuts and offensive tweets, the biggest story was often obscured: The system itself was at risk.

Even today, too many think of Trump more as Sarah Palin in 2012 rather than Viktor Orbán in 2022. They wrongly believe that the authoritarian threat is over and that January 6 was an isolated event from our past, rather than a mild preview of our future. That misreading is provoking an underreaction from the political establishment. And the worst may be yet to come.

The basic problem is that one of the two major parties in the U.S.—the Trumpified Republican Party—has become authoritarian to its core. Consequently, there are two main ways to protect American democracy. The first is to reform the GOP, so that it’s again a conservative, but not authoritarian, party (à la John McCain’s or Mitt Romney’s Republican Party). The second is to perpetually block authoritarian Republicans from wielding power. But to do that, Democrats need to win every election. When you’re facing off against an authoritarian political movement, each election is an existential threat to democracy. Eventually, the authoritarian party will win...

That leaves American democracy with a bleak prognosis. Barring an electoral wipeout of Republicans in 2022 (which looks extremely unlikely), the idea that the party will suddenly abandon its anti-democracy positioning is a delusion.

Prodemocracy voters now have only one way forward: Block the authoritarian party from power, elect prodemocracy politicians in sufficient numbers, and then insist that they produce lasting democratic reforms.

The wish list from several democracy experts I spoke with is long, and includes passing the Electoral Count Act, creating a constitutional right to vote, reforming districting so more elections are competitive, establishing a nonpartisan national election-management body, electing the president via popular vote, reducing the gap in representation between states like California and Wyoming, introducing some level of proportional representation or multimember districts, aggressively regulating campaign spending and the role of money in politics, and enforcing an upper age limit for Supreme Court justices. But virtually all of those ideas are currently political fantasies."

#this article is kinda annoying in a very The Atlantic sort of way #but the central point is the one i've been trying to make all along which is that our own american exceptionalism will be the death of us #usa continues having an extremely normal one #politics #news

[gardenianoire]

things I should be cancelled for

attraction to mitt romney

being crypto bro

unironically using cancelled even if it's just for this post

stanning aerosmith

attraction to steven tyler

trying to trick an italian man into marriage so I can get eu citizenship

wanting eu citizenship

watching seth macfarlane cartoons

the things I deleted off this list

#it's been years since I got cancelled on this website

[sbnkalny]

garbage-empress: A real, live political cartoon http://www.amazon.com/Mitt-Romney-Election-T-Shirt-Medium/dp/B0094TFBIO/ref=sr_1_37?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1421205209&sr=1-37&keywords=paul+ryan

terrychuu: Check whether this private detective would be able to directly experience the Real, and only depend ON the interpretations of it made By humans? do you think is impossible

garbage-empress: help the steven to collect a Gold coins with CONTROL also collect points in universe and comparison with other people's stuff! ya won't be able to DIRECTLY experience the real, and only depend on the interpretations of it made by humans? do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in Fear of what he has created?)

garbage-empress: Guess I’m not 🚫 gay 🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️ I touched the alien Daddies 👾👀👅👌 will drop u out the spaceship 👋🚀🕳👈😱😱😰 and you will Find this hard to get over My debilitating fear of what HE has created?)

garbage-empress: I’m not 🚫 gay 🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️ I touched a WILLY in high flood this great acreage of sand, shingle-beds, and willow-grown Islands is almost certainly the most overly emotional and emotionless person i know

garbage-empress: I’m not 🚫 gay 🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️ i touched a Willy in high flood this great Man called dr Kintobor

garbage-empress: I’m not 🚫 gay 🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️ i touched the alien 👽 and his Dog walk through burned america, everyones wallet is full of surprises!

terrychuu: The world is full of surprises!

garbage-empress: I saw him in the river is full of surprises!

garbage-empress: You were out there experiencing things is crucial if you wanna see your feet will touch will be "my Butt is full of surprises!

terrychuu: Red sky at night when the world is full of surprises!

garbage-empress: The full of surprises!

garbage-empress: DOES kalny is full of surprises!

#CHAT #DAY 15 #garbage-empress #terrychuu

[fuzzytimes1]

'Daily Show' guest Chelsea Handler is 'sexually attracted' to this GOP lawmaker.

cartoons Chelsea handler made a surprising admission on Wednesday night on The Daily Show: She’s hot for the Republican Sen. Mitt Romney. Romney came to brooding with rep. George Santos (RN.Y.), the lawmaker who was caught in a plethora of lies and now faces investigations and calls resignon Tuesday evening just before Address of the State of the Union. This Reported standing nearby that the Utah…

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[funny-cartoon-politicians]

oh no, I don’t sleep

#our cartoon president #ocp #showtime #meme #alignment chart #cartoon mitt romney #mitt romney #cartoon donald trump #donald trump #cartoon joe biden #joe biden #cartoon ted cruz #ted cruz #cartoon bernie sanders #bernie sanders #cartoon mike lindell #mike lindell #cartoon jared kushner #jared kushner #cartoon mike pence #mike pence #cartoon susan collins #susan collins

[wardsutton]

Raise your hand if you're surprised Mitt Romney had five minutes of being principled before flip-flopping back to being a Trump lackey? A panel from my 2012 Boston Globe cartoon on him:

#mitt romney #boston globe #editorial cartoon #ward sutton #sutton impact

[cadavidson]

Political Cartoon: Mitt Romney and other Unpopular Rhinos in Politics

Political Cartoon: Mitt Romney and other Unpopular Rhinos in Politics

Political Cartoon: Mitt Romney and other Unpopular Rhinos in Politics   The RINO Hunt Begins! No Limits! Never Trumper Mitt Romney was heckled and booed as he gave a speech at the Utah Republican Convention. Mittens was not pleased and shouted at the Republican delegates, “Aren’t you embarrassed?”  No Mitt.Utah is embarrassed of you being a tone deaf senator who ignores what Utah voters think.…

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#ben garrison cartoons #mitt romney #political cartoon #rhinos in politics

[jonostroveart]

Pocket Tools

#mitt romney #lisa murkowski #susan collins #marsha blackburn #impeach45 #impeachdonaldtrump #impeachthemf #political satire #political cartoon

[rickmaynard]

2-5-20 Cartoon: Mitt.

#editorial cartoon #cartoon #political cartoon #mitt romney #mitt #impeachment #impeachment vote #trump #donald trump

[aunti-christ-ine]

 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-romneys-mexican-history-62357039/ 

#editorial cartoons #Pat Bagley #Mitt Romney #Romney #1912 #immigrants #refugees #government #welfare #political cartoon

[blogology]

“Having failed to make even a plausible case of widespread fraud or conspiracy before any court of law, the president has now resorted to overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election. It is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American president.”.. (quote Mitt Romney - Republican) .. (cartoon David Horsey)

#quote #politics #political cartoon

[sirenthestone]

Finally gonna actually watch more than the first 5ish minutes of Space Jam, here are my thoughts:

This intro is so long, wtf!

They are hardcore making fun of Michael Jordan's baseball career.

That lil alien kid has creepy animation.

I feel bad for the lil bowtie guys.

Hey, space!

Yay! The characters I care about!

Bugs just conned the h- OH OKAY

Stan, needs to chill out. Please. Stan. Stop.

Charles is just like my dog... Charlie. Huh. 'Cept Charlie is an Irish wolfhound mix, not a bulldog.

Dude, people are so rude! Like, yeah, he's not good at baseball, but- What was I saying?

Daffy! My favourite! What is it with me and asshole birds?

Nice rule book, lol.

Oh, I wonder if they're gonna pick basketball?

Shocker!

OH THAT IMPLICATION! "The guy next to us is doing something very weird in his raincoat" WOW.

And they just possessed a man. Oh, nvm, they just stole his talent. I guess.

Patrick Ewing... I've heard that name somewhere...

OH YEAH, Epic Rap Battles of History: Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama.

Stan.

That's not how bacteria works.

Fashion is not the point.

I probably would've loved this movie back when I was still a basketball fan. Before I stopped growing at 5' 0", crushing all hope of ever being a basketball player.

Wow, Bugs admitting to needing help? That's unusual.

Bill Murray?! Okay then.

Omg, Stan cut it out

Random, conspicuous CGI. Also, RIP.

Always with the kissing on Warner Bros.

What is Daffy doing?

Stand-up is apparently torture for cartoon characters.

Okay, normally I'd like a character like Stan, but I think they went overboard with this guy. He's a little too... much.

Their gym is worse than the court in my old hometown.

Oh... nvm. They fixed it.

And Daffy just kissed his own ass.

What IS this cinematography???

Foghorn Leghorn saying I resemble that remark

Oh, Tweety Bird crying. Anyone's weakness.

I am... confused. Oh, nvm, I get it. They're establishing the whole stolen talent thing. What is up with that music???

PFFT, the players smacking their foreheads on the door frame.

Hello Freud. Weirdo.

Stan has redeemed himself! "I'm fixing a divot." That was clever.

Lola!!!

She's gonna kick his ass.

Called it!

Daffy's facial expressions kill me every time

They use that "new agents" joke in every show/movie, I swear.

Daffy? Calling Bugs clumsy? Wow.

Charles is meaner than Charlie, actually.

Thus far, Back in Action had better jokes. Just putting that out there.

This psychic is the real deal!

HOLY HECK, STAN! Plant a tree while you're at it!

WHat is with this music????? The tone here is... indescribable.

And............... Stan needs to chill. Again.

Existential crisis time. Oh, nvm, he was more chill about the cartoons being real thing than I expected.

Granny!

They're treating this talent-stealing "illness" more seriously than the U.S. did COVID

Daffy, what are you wearing???

That dressing scene was real weird. I'm not the only one who thinks so, right?

So, Lola is intentionally furry bait, then? I kinda thought it had just worked out that way, but they are very intentionally making her eye-candy. Interesting.

Lol, poor Daffy can't catch a break.

Unsurprisingly, the only person who got more cheers than Bugs was Michael Jordan.

The other team doesn't get individual player introductions? Favoritism.

Oh, RIP Bugs. It's not often he actually takes a hit.

Granny, no!

Unsurprising, the NBA star is carrying this team.

Foul! Or should I say, fowl? Since... it was Foghorn Leghorn who was injured? I'll shut up now.

Lola is also carrying this team. There are two ppl here who can actually play basketball, and they're playing against a team made up of ppl who stole talent from career players? And I'm supposed to believe they stand a chance???

Um, Sam? Pretty sure you can't have guns on the court. Fairly certain that's against the rules.

The Monstars can dunk from the other side of the court! This is a disaster.

Oh? Stan passes the sexy lamp test? Wait, maybe not. Nvm.

Daffy has no chill, but you can't deny that he's right about the pep talk thing not being all that helpful under the circumstances.

Oh, hey! Dramatic irony finally resolved.

Is Bugs gonna placebo this shit? Haha, nice!

"Whoa, nice deltoids!" Daff, that was not the straightest reaction.

"You know, this goes against everything they taught me in Health Class." You... went to school???

I'm pretty sure using a scooter to carry the ball without dribbling does still count as traveling. This makes more sense, tho. Cheating is definitely the only way they could win this.

What is this cinematography??????????

I didn't realized Fudd had such good aim. Or that Sam was capable of aiming at all. Shooting a guys teeth out without killing him is kinda impressive!

Have any of these characters considered shooting three pointers? Dunking looks cool and all, but the Monstars could easily make a cross-court shot; why aren't they taking advantage of that?

Any bit that starts with Daffy saying "This'll be good," is bound to be funny. And.... yep! It was funny.

Tweety is secretly terrifying! Also, you definitely can't just beat up your opponents in basketball.

RAISE THE STAKES?????? The stakes were pretty damn high to begin with, and now... wait. hold on. is that? it is!

DANNY DEVITO????????????

How did it take me this long to realize that?????

They're already fighting for the Looney Tunes' freedom, and now he's gambling away his own? Even Bugs points out what a terrible idea that is.

Spoilers for the sequel below:

What is it with Bugs and heroic sacrifices in these movies?

Spoilers over.

Well this is getting grim. Like, literal funeral march grim. What is this soundtrack???

Okay, I thought Speedy was dead, but he blinked so he's good. Taz was resuscitated. Foghorn is definitely dead tho.

Is everyone but Daffy, Lola, and Michael Jordan injured?

Stan, breathe. Please. And he's dead. Alright then. Saves me having to deal with that.

OKAY, the body horror was unexpected.

BILL MURRAY???????????? He's back?! What a twist!

Daffy asking the important questions. How did Bill Murray get there? And it's nepotism, okie doke.

Oh? Planning shit? With my favourite character? This oughta be interesting.

Is that a football helmet?

Oh, that works!

Damn, he's actually decent at this! Okay, I'll admit that Bill Murray was a surprise. I kinda thought they were gonna do the whole, "loser character gets to do one cool thing and save the day," thing, but I probably should've expected this from a Looney Tunes movie.

Or is it a Michael Jordan movie?

Wait, Bugs is back? He can do that? Oh, right, this version of basketball has no rules.

Also, it makes way more sense than Daffy actually getting the ball. Something something rivalry something something steal the spotlight, whatever.

Oh, ew. I mean, I knew it was coming, but still. That stretch thing was gross.

Question, for ppl who actually follow professional basketball: Can Michael Jordan just not make three pointers? Is that a thing? Cuz I think he could've made that shot without the body-horror if he just... didn't dunk it. Just shoot!

Bill Murray retiring from basketball after one game. Legendary.

Lol, fuck 'im up. RIP Danny DeVito villain whose name I never learned.

They do impressions! How can you not hire them?

Okay, so are the credit just ten minutes long, or is something about to go wrong? Please let it be the first thing.

Oh, thank goodness.

And, there's the soundtrack again.

That kid's a better actor than I am.

Fuckin' rude, Michael.

"Touch it." That's not weird at all.

Man, if I watched the NBA, I'd be really glad these guys can play again. Except, I might be a bit young to care.

Stan got to chill out! Woo! And Michael Jordan abandoned his dream. Also woo! /lh

The End! Final thoughts?

Eh, Back in Action was better. It was funny tho. Can't wait to actually watch the sequel instead of just having it spoiled by the internet.

#space jam #long post #looney tunes #space jam 2 spoilers #well this was fun #weird #but fun #I give it a 6/10 #it was fun #but it did not live up to the hype #Thanks for reading this #this very likely made no sense #especially if you havent seen the movie #but hey #i may be the only person who was alive in the early 2000s who hasn't seen that movie #and now I have #so there ya go

[secotm]

Consider this defunct

Huh. It’s only been a month since I posted anything here. Feels longer.

*

I’m not going to delete this blog, but to the humans among the 1,700+ followers I have I will say thank you, but... don’t expect this place to come alive again anytime soon.

I find it pointless, to be blunt. For one, I don’t pay close attention to anything on Tumblr. I have an RSS reader I check maybe once a week, so I’ll see posts from A Good Cartoon or Grading Gorrell, but this site hasn’t been on my radar in years.

More to the point, it gets tiresome reiterating the same general points again and again. Especially as things have gotten worse while the media at large tries to act as if this is all normal.

The acquittal of Trump earlier this week should, to any reasonable person, cast aside once and for all the idea of the moderate Republican who will stand up to the threat of fascism. Mitt Romney’s one vote aside, the party has embraced not simply its status as a cult of personality around Trump, but around all the worst impulses Trump represents, such as a disregard for the rule of the law and an embrace of authoritarianism (I don’t see any Republicans racing to condemn Trump firing in retribution the people who had acted against him). And they have done this while enabled by a media that is dedicated to normalizing everything that happens in order to maintain a ‘both-sides’ narrative that the two major parties are of equal partisanship and demeanor.

As that relates to this blog and its mission statement, the world of editorial cartooning over the past four years has seen an almost impressive stagnation. I mean that, it must have taken legitimate effort to remain as milquetoast and nonpartisan as you were during the Bill Clinton administration in an era where one of the more significant long-term stories has been white supremacist organizations being emboldened by the president’s own rhetoric. To look at an administration putting kids in cages and instead bemoan the ‘divisiveness’ of our country requires a god-level amount of blinding privilege.

This is all referring to the middle-of-the-road, neither truly liberal or conservative cartoonists, to be clear. Conservatives cartoonists like Lisa Benson and Michael Ramirez and Steve Kelley and Gary Varvel, they’ve gone all in on Trump. He’s their guy, and everything he says or does they will defend.

A couple, like Scott Stantis and Ken Catalino, have actually been critical of Trump. For what that’s worth. Personally I see them as Romney-esque; they’re still right-wing, but Trump goes too far for them. At least they have limits, though.

On the left, I have to give respect to Clay Jones and Rob Rogers for actually stepping up in these times. I can’t rightly say I remember too much about their work pre-Trump (cue jokes about how that era feels centuries ago), but Jones has done brilliant work and Rogers lost his job rather than soften or abandon his anti-Trump stance. And it’s not just ‘make fun of the guy in power’ opposition; they’ve highlighted the worst facets of Trump and his followers, especially the racism.

But there’s only so many times I can take a cartoon that tries to draw the false equivalency, or worse tries to go harder on the Left than the Right because the media is afraid of conservatives, and either complain or try to put a wry spin on it. I’ve developed a contempt for certain criminally non-partisan cartoonists such as Dave Granlund, but even spotlighting or managing a running catalog of their worthlessness as commentators (or in the case of Granlund, who I’m convinced copy and pastes his own caricatures as much as Gorrell does, as an artist) feels like too much effort for how little attention they deserve.

Because even when I’m not posting regularly here I am still looking at dozens of cartoons a day. I have a subscription to a comics service that includes a number of editorial cartoonists, and I follow an RSS feed of Daryl Cagle’s aggregator. I haven’t posted even one percent of all the right-wing shit I’ve seen over the better part of the decade that I’ve been running this place, and while it’s true that so much of it passes in front of my eyeballs and is immediately forgotten, it still adds up.

How many cartoons infantalizing Nancy Pelosi for ripping up Trump’s speech did I see? For that matter, how many trying to use that empty gesture as equivalent to all the shit Trump has done and therefore blame both sides for the division in American did I see? A week from now we’ll all have forgotten about that moment, but that cycle has been repeated so many times. Something visual or easy to analogize happens, and every cartoonist rushes to put out something referencing it, but not saying anything of substance about it.

It’s tiresome. And I don’t have anything to say about that incident that I haven’t said before with other things we’ve all forgotten about.

As I said above, I don’t think most of these cartoonists deserve attention. Given the laziness of Gorrell or Granlund, given the shameless slavish devotion of Benson, Kelley, Ramirez, et al, why should I or anyone waste even a few precious seconds to ingest their work?

I may be a bastard for saying this, but I like the thought that if the newspaper industry is going to continue to die off, then more and more people are going to lose jobs they don’t deserve. The state of editorial cartooning today can not be completely summed up by the stagnation of the careerists who have been syndicated for decades while recycling the same trite observations and hackneyed premises; The Nib has been working to create its own renaissance, with both single-panel topical pieces that actually say something and long-form comic journalism. And there are, as I mentioned above, cartoonists who care to speak truth to power in their own way. I don’t want to see, say, Clay Bennett or Darrin Bell hang up their pen for good. But if the medium is going to make it through the entirety of the Trump administration while still pretending that a man and a woman sitting on a sofa, watching TV and one says ‘They should put a Surgeon General’s warning on the evening news’ is somehow acceptable work for a grown adult whose job is to comment on current events, then don’t expect me to mourn.

Don’t expect me to feel anything. I do have a sincere appreciation for the craft of editorial cartooning. I wouldn’t have started this blog if I didn’t care on some level; shitting on someone’s work just for the sake of shitting on them has never been my idea of fun. That love has been tested, and, yes, beaten down and dried up over the past decade. But it still remains.

Just not enough that I can get worked up enough to want to comment on anything I see. For a long time I haven’t really cared about what I do here. So many posts have been done out of a sense of obligation. ‘I should post something just to keep this place alive.’

But now I don’t even care about that, so...

Thanks to those of you who have engaged with me, but I’m stepping away.

[trainthief]

I don't like Mitt Romney as a person, android, or politician but as a concept? Hilarious.

He’s easily one of my favorite cartoon characters