Posts tagged "money"
Garbage Bailout
Sunday, July 28, 2024
I hope people don’t read this as a celebration or defense of the economy under Joe Biden so much as how it’s intended: as an attack on poor, white trash and demented geezers who complain about that economy while sending all their welfare and Social Security checks to Donald Trump.
Little GOP of Horrors
Saturday, August 29, 2015
In contrast to his reputation as a builder, devouring the entire slate of Republican candidates this election cycle and rendering the Republican brand as radioactive as Chernobyl would be Trump’s greatest, most lasting achievement, having a far longer-term, more meaningful, and positive impact on history and the world than any number of golf courses with ridiculously-oversized American flags or skyscrapers with his name plastered on them in giant letters.
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…
Rope-a-Dope
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Tags: 2012 Presidential election, bag of money, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, boxer, boxing, boxing gloves, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Deval Patrick, dollar sign, Elizabeth Warren, Eva Longoria, George Foreman, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Julian Castro, Michelle Obama, Mitt Romney, money, Muhammad Ali, Obama, Paul Ryan, Presidential election, Reince Priebus, Romney, Scarlett Johansson, Super PACs
The Golden Touch
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Tags: $, angels, bag of money, cigar, Citigroup, corporate personhood, Creation of Adam, fresco, Goldman Sachs, GOP, J.P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Michelangelo, Mitt Romney, money, Morgan Stanley, Mr. C.E.O., Renaissance, Republican, Republicans, rich, Sistine Chapel, the Almighty Dollar, Thomas Nast, wealthy
Rescue 9-9-9
Friday, October 28, 2011
The title of this cartoon references Herman Cain’s rich-friendly tax “plan,” and Rescue 9-1-1, a popular reality show from the ’80s and ’90s which was about actual emergency response telephone calls, and was hosted by William Shatner…
Neo Cons
Saturday, July 16, 2011
This cartoon compares this blatant economic trickery to the “shell game” or cup-and-ball routine, both of which being sleight-of-hand used for centuries to con desperate or unsuspecting dupes out of money by presenting them with what appears to be a simple gambling game which is in fact impossible to win…
Man’s Best Friend
Saturday, June 25, 2011
This cartoon was drawn in response to the Supreme Court throwing out a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart by a large swath of female employees earlier this week…
There Will Be Blood
Thursday, March 17, 2011
This cartoon is mostly a response to people lamenting the recent increases in gas prices ostensibly caused by democratic protests against various Middle Eastern dictators, like Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi…
Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain
Saturday, October 23, 2010
One of the effects of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is that any organization can now donate an unlimited amount of cash to a given candidate’s campaign without revealing where the money came from…