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The Privateer
Saturday, November 3, 2012
During the Republican Primary, Mr. Romney proved that he cares more about money than he does about human lives by arguing that natural disaster relief should be left up to the States, or, ideally, the private sector, completely ignoring what happens when you privatize, say, fire departments…
Buffalo Willard
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Another element of Romney’s demise, and certainly one of the most memorable individual moments of the debate, came from him once again saying something which sounds vaguely like it came from the journal of a serial killer…
Romney/Ryan ‘Rithmetic
Saturday, October 6, 2012
The main topic of this cartoon is the vague budget proposed by the Romney/Ryan campaign, which includes cutting taxes in a manner that disproportionately favors the wealthy, and further ballooning defense spending to even more comically-enormous levels.
Mitt Romney Blows
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Mitt evidently doesn’t understand how fire works, which I guess puts him somewhere beyond most cavemen but well behind the average Medieval alchemist in terms of scientific knowledge…
Blood Money
Saturday, September 15, 2012
I’ve made several jokes about Romney being a sociopath in the past, and I was already starting to think they weren’t jokes any more after I read this report describing cruel and uncaring treatment of gays and lesbians by the former Governor of Massachusetts…
Rational Actor
Friday, August 31, 2012
Aside from the lying, one of the major themes of the Republican National Convention was trying to humanize Mitt Romney to the American public, which worked out like an alchemist attempting to transmute lead into gold. There were several reasons for this, not all of them tied to Romney’s being a soulless, private-equity golem powered by tax fraud, diet Coke, and skinless turkey…
You Can’t Spell ‘Grope’ Without G-O-P!
Saturday, August 25, 2012
The Republican Party has made forcing its skewed “morality” on women’s bodies a central plank of its 2012 electoral agenda…
Mr. Burns
Saturday, August 11, 2012
This cartoon addresses recent attacks by the Romney campaign on Obama’s “green” energy record. In particular, the candidate is quoted as saying Obama has an “unhealthy obsession” with green jobs, and cites the Solyndra “scandal” as evidence.
Red Menace
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Despite the majority of Americans being sick of war after a decade of the Bush Administration’s miserable failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, and despite the hundreds of thousands of pointless casualties those two conflicts have incurred, Mitt Romney seems eager to sacrifice even more American troops and foreign civilians to the Blood God.
Corporate Horse
Saturday, July 28, 2012
A commoner like your humble author is unable to get regular checkups or preventative medicine, and scores of the lower-class die every year from conditions more easily treatable than Ann Romney’s M.S., while she, meanwhile, gets to write off a prescription horse.