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Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

You cannot shame the shameless.

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Let’s finish the job.

Everybody saw this coming.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

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  1. 1.

    ruemara

    I got turned down for even an interview for a job I have nearly 20 years of experience doing, at a middling, petty little agency. This now makes my day the best day ever.

  4. 4.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    I know I should know this, but…

    What the fuck is up with the atomic alligator?

  5. 5.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Have any questions? Contact the shop owner.

    From the link. I do have a question. What the fuck?

  12. 12.

    Suffern ACE

    I know it’s great to leave these things open to interpretation, but who exactly is he shooting at? I would assume the impeachment handlers or serbians, but there are some who might think people who feel that investment banking, retail banking, and insurance operations ought to be run in separate enterprises.

  22. 22.

    BruceFromOhio

    Clearly the alligator is a dirty bomb, and by the impression of the glowing red light, I’d hazard a guess that thing is armed. C’mon, people, think it through! What’s the symbolism?

    The first thing I thought of was, “What the hell is Ronald McDonald shooting at? There isn’t anything even back there!”

    The ruins at far left suggesting the wreckage of the WTC is kind of creepy though. Madness that way lies.

    Hillary is looking pretty fine, though.

  31. 31.

    SFAW

    @Amir Khalid:

    Not necessarily, if you’re allowing for Bill’s, um, length.

    See, SOME of us are too classy to say stuff like that.

    But since I’m not one of those …

    you coulda said “Well, um, it’s because he’s packing THREE weapons.”

    usw.

  32. 32.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @BruceFromOhio: At the far right is a destroyed McDonald’s “M”. It looks like Bill and Ron are getting retribution for destroying the restaurant. A little late considering Bill is a vegetarian, though.

  34. 34.

    Rupert

    The dress is the wrong shade of blue. Otherwise the picture is exactly as I remember the 90s.

  37. 37.

    kindness

    Wouldn’t she have her hand just a little higher up his thigh?

    I mean, Clinton….amirite?

  38. 38.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    I just noted the flying saucer providing air cover.

    Shouldn’t it be black helicopters with a UN logo?

  43. 43.

    alhutch

    Is that a UFO to the left of the flag pole? This thing just keeps getting better.

  44. 44.

    WereBear

    The gator is to make sure no one gets the football.

    Ronald is there for backup… the least he could do after all the business tossed his way. Not to mention the PR.

    And why am I the first to notice that his fly is open?

    Edit: Okay, so I’m not.

  46. 46.

    Southern Beale

    Speaking of political penises, looks like those prostitution charges against Sen. Menendez were a set-up:

    Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up

    An escort who appeared on a video claiming Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) paid her for sex has told Dominican Republic police that she was instead paid to make up the claims in a tape recording and has never met or seen the senator before, according to court documents and two people briefed on her claim.

    The woman identified a lawyer who approached her and a friend to make the videotape, according to affidavits obtained by the Post. That man has in turn identified another lawyer who gave him a script for the tape and paid him to find women to fabricate the claims, the affidavits say.

    Ruh-roh!!! Wonder if we’ll ever find out who’s behind this. This is extreme ratfucking.

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

    Reptile parity, please.

    Reagan got his own velociraptor.

    Is Ronald McDonald shooting Zippy the Pinhead?

  48. 48.

    SFAW

    @WereBear:

    And why am I the first to notice that his fly is open?

    Actually, his pants are unbuttoned. Maybe it’s just a semantic differments, but …

  50. 50.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @alhutch: It’s all in the details. I want to know what the floating documents are. and is that C3P0 facedown in a pool of vomit just to the left of the alligator?

  51. 51.

    Suffern ACE

    The only connection I can remember to Ronald MacDonald was in the first months of the administration, there was a McMuffingate, soon dwarfed by travelgate and barbergate. Clinton went jogging one morning and stopped unexpectedly in a MacDonalds. It was a scandal because traffic was reportedly stopped while he was wandering about.

    Looking back on that now, I wonder if it ever happened. It was the first post inagural scandal. I worked in DC at the time, but not around the mall, so I have no idea if it is a true story, but I read it in the papers, so how would I know. I hadn’t yet learned that a paper like the Post would print false stories if they could smear the clintons.

  54. 54.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @John Cole: What’s the deal with the radioactive gator?

    a metaphor for Carville et al? I’m sure he’d like that image. Would that they were that effective

  56. 56.

    johnny aquitard

    @alhutch: I’m thinking that’s supposed to be an F-117, but that thing hovering over the statue of liberty’s torch is looking very much like a flying saucer. Or one of those cylon 3-robot ships from the tv series Battle Star Galatica.

  57. 57.

    UncommonSense

    Ronald McDonald firing a riot gun and flying saucers. Awesome!

    I’d love to be able to zoom in tight enough to see whose ID badge that is floating in the air next to Monica.

  59. 59.

    dance around in your bones

    Well, until I embiggened the image, I thought the open zipper/red boxers bit was a….well, you know, red wienie.

    Why would anyone want to own this? You gonna hang it on your wall and impress all your friends? More likely you’d get the eyeroll and/or the side-eye.

    I agree with Napoleon on WTF is Ronald McDonald doing wielding some kind of SAM, and at who? (or whom, for you grammar Nazis). The potential victim looks like a zombie.

    eta: Also, I think I see a UFO just to the left of the giant US flag. Kinda squint, and you too might see it.

  62. 62.

    Elizabelle

    That gator’s growing on me.

    And it’s got a name tag, but cannot make out what.

  63. 63.

    dance around in your bones

    Gads, I’m always miles behind you smarty pants commentariat.

  64. 64.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @dance around in your bones: As I said before, Ronald is shooting at the Creature from the Black Lagoon. And of course there is a flying saucer. The artist is going for Socialist Realism so they couldn’t very well leave it out. Could they?

  66. 66.

    daverave

    I think there are 3 more joints tucked into the back of his tie. This whole piece is about The Smokin’! Also, too, his huge gun is labelled “Big and Tasty.”

  68. 68.

    SFAW

    (click to embiggen)

    Is THAT what ‘Monica’ said right before the picture was taken? “Bill, can I ‘click’ you?”

    Learn somethin’ new every day.

  70. 70.

    alhutch

    @johnny aquitard:

    I’m thinking that’s supposed to be an F-117, but that thing hovering over the statue of liberty’s torch is looking very much like a flying saucer. Or one of those cylon 3-robot ships from the tv series Battle Star Galatica.

    Maybe, but that sure looks like a laser type weapon firing out of it.

  72. 72.

    SFAW

    @Roger Moore:

    awesome ones of The Kenyan in Chief.

    The artist screwed up. If he were serious, he would have called it “(Lyin’) Obongo Riding a Lion”

    Gotta get his wingnut meme-slurs rite

  75. 75.

    Mike in NC

    Meh. It’s OK but I still love the work of that wingnut Mormon dude that we’ve mocked here before.

  78. 78.

    Roger Moore

    @SFAW:

    Gotta get his wingnut meme-slurs rite

    He doesn’t appear to be a wingnut. He’s just discovered that there’s a market for posters of Presidents in awesome but improbable poses. He seems perfectly happy to make ones of any president he thinks will sell: Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, both Roosevelts, JFK, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama. Plus there are a couple of other founding fathers, and the one of a gun-toting cat riding a fire breathing unicorn.

  79. 79.

    the Conster

    If this is all right wing memes, then I’ll need what Bill’s not smoking to understand any of it.

  82. 82.

    SiubhanDuinne

    There are only 49 stars on that flag.

    WHAT THE FUCK DID BILLARY DO WITH THE MISSING STAR??

  84. 84.

    johnny aquitard

    @daverave:

    Also, too, his huge gun is labelled “Big and Tasty.”

    Also also, too, the shells are blue with red and white stripes. He shoots an All-American load, natch. The exposed drum slung under his large gun is full and ready to go.

  85. 85.

    Another Halocene Human

    That Bob Menendez story gets weirder and weirder. Lawyers approached the escorts about reading a scripted story? Like grown-up James O’Keefes? And what is the penalty for prostitution in the DR? Am I wrong to be suspicious of what these women tell the police given the potential for incriminating themselves? Or am I wrong about that? I’m not well educated on all cosas dominicanas.

  88. 88.

    SFAW

    @Roger Moore:

    He doesn’t appear to be a wingnut.

    Since when have YOU become a defender of all-things-wingnutty? I tells ya, I can’t leave this joint for a day without things going to Hell.

    What’s next? You gonna tell me DougJ is trolling Villager sites/columns? That Cole shaved his beard? That McCain was a POW?

    More seriously: he may not be a wingnut, but he’s certainly using some of the dog whistles in his “art”. (Clinton with unbuttoned pants, Obama riding an African animal. Not sure about Jefferson punching a gorilla, unless it’s supposed to be some three-levels-removed reference to slaves or darkies in general.)

  91. 91.

    Trollhattan

    @Roger Moore:

    He certainly seems equal-opportunity WRT his, uh, targets.

    Reagan’s has the same bit of WTC wreckage in the lower left, and an F22 instead of a Cylon raider in the upper right.

    What is he telling us!?

  92. 92.

    Andrew Abshier

    Is it possible that the alligator is a James Carville reference? But why make him atomic?

    So many questions!

  95. 95.

    Citizen_X

    What the hell is Ronald McDonald shooting at?

    BRANCH DAVIDIANS!

    Somebody had to say it.

  97. 97.

    Roger Moore

    @SFAW:

    More seriously: he may not be a wingnut, but he’s certainly using some of the dog whistles in his “art”.

    I think he’s trying to be funny, and fairly successfully. After all, this blog is not exactly wingnut haven, and the poster seems to be going over just fine here, wingnut memes and all. If anything, I think the wingnut memes are a big part of what makes it so hilarious to liberals; he’s still awesome despite that stuff.

  99. 99.

    dance around in your bones

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Maybe Jim Van de Hei can hang it next to his framed copies of the articles of Das Clenis’ impeachment.

    Maybe that’s what the floating document is?

    I cannot believe we are spending time dissecting this “artwork”. Maybe T&H could chime in.

  100. 100.

    dance around in your bones

    @Roger Moore:

    What I want to know is why you’re focusing on the Bill Clinton picture instead of one of these awesome ones of The Kenyan in Chief.

    OMG, Obama’s riding Aslan!

  101. 101.

    Frankensteinbeck

    For those who keep wondering about the McDonalds, you’re too interested in the truth. I remember very well that Republicans and thus the TV news media were convinced that Clinton ate triple-whoppers (or whatever they are) with supersized fries and a milkshake for every meal. ‘Clinton is fat and gorges on fast food, especially McDonalds’ was a prevalent narrative.

  102. 102.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @SFAW:

    He’s mocking the dog whistles…and the moronic slime that constitute the wingnuts.

  103. 103.

    jayboat

    There’s also a Mickey D’s sticker on the weapon.

    Didn’t he famously swear off the burgers, or something like unhealthy eating?
    All that mcburger- symbolic of our love/hate relationship w capitalism?

    The id badge could be Vince Foster? and I’m guessing the paper has something to do with impeachment.

    Where’s Waldo?

  105. 105.

    Spaghetti Lee

    OK, I’m late here, but I know this guy: sharpwriter.deviantart.com No, he’s not a wingnut-it’s all tongue-in-cheek.

  106. 106.

    Trollhattan

    @Andrew Abshier:

    The nukem-gator is quite the puzzle. As it turns out, Teddy Roosevelt has an atomic-symbol belt buckle for a real WTF moment.

    I do like the whole idea of Ben Franklin vs. Zeus in a lightning fight.

  107. 107.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @jayboat: He’s a freakin’ vegan now, with the exception of Thanksgiving. I used to go vegan one day a weak. I should get back to that.

  108. 108.

    Short Bus Bully

    That pic is going up on the Book of Faces, watch all my wingnut friends and relatives start shitting themselves.

    Please tell me an NEA grant paid for this artwork?

  109. 109.

    Trollhattan

    @Short Bus Bully:

    It’s Facebook, you need to claim it and dare anybody to “Prove I’m wrong!”

    Please report back with a ‘splosion count, there’s popcorn waiting.

  111. 111.

    IP

    If nobody has mentioned it, Ronald McDonald is probably a metaphor for his fondness for their french fries.

    /goes back to lurking quietly…

  114. 114.

    hrprogressive

    Bill Clinton with an AA-12 and a G-17? Ronald McDonald firing some sort of assault weapon in the background?

    An alligator with the Nuke ‘Em button on its back?

    What’s not to love?

    AMERICA!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!

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