DUMB AS DEAD CATS YO

[kyburg]

California politics at its finest - I'm sure you've been hearing all about this little graphic making the rounds as part of a newsletter published by a Republican Women's group in San Bernardino County:



I think I can clearly state that truly - politics in California can be as both as polarized as you can possibly imagine...and equally as brain dead on arrival.

She said she doesn't think in racist terms, pointing out she once supported Republican Alan Keyes, an African-American who previously ran for president.

"I didn't see it the way that it's being taken. I never connected," she said. "It was just food to me. It didn't mean anything else."

Ummm. Yeah. Sure.

But the real kicker? Who do you think built that graphic?

They didn't even have the balls to create the artwork themselves. They lifted it from this 'liberal' blogsite.

In May I drew this cartoon and posted a satirical article regarding a fake Obama food stamp plan. This article was complete satire and I wanted to let anyone reading this know that this was not a slight on Obama at all. It was a satirical look at some of the Fox News watching right-wingers out there that are afraid of a government that sponsors welfare type programs.
It was intended to poke fun at the unrealistic fears and agenda of racism that a fringe element of Republicans strongly embrace.

Evidently, people that did not take the satirical nature of the article in to account and not exploring other posts on this site forwarded my "Obama Bucks" food stamp image to their racist right wing counterparts.

So now this is a major news story.

Some dumb ass from the right wing group Chaffey Community Republican Women led by a housewife named Diane Fedele, thought it would be a good image to include in their Republican newsletter.

What a complete moron.

I'll second that. Now - to the question at hand.

I'm calling both sides on this one - the original for doing something so completely STUPID in the first place...and the second party for one STEALING (oh no john ringo no) without noticing that someone played right into their little paranoid fantasies. (Your daily dose of irony anyone?)

skademonx knows of what I speak. dracowayfarer, featherquill too. Ya wonder why I'm a Green - with this kind of stuff going on, would you claim any part of it?

I've got the Obama yard sign now - but do I check to see if its still in my yard every morning? Please. The little market down the street that is plagued with hispanic graffiti - big surprise, since a lot of my neighborhood is - also has reader boards with a real estate agent's advertising on it. She's not white...and not hispanic. And her picture has a great big X sliced through it. Like, with a knife sliced through it. Yes, we can indeed.

I should really piss them off and put a No on 8 sign up too.

Comments

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I did okay with Libertarians until I got into a group of them claiming "I don't have to do ANYTHNG for anyone but myself. MAKE ME."

Wow. Total turnoff. Like, dude - can you afford to buy a hospital when you finally need one? THE WHOLE THING? No? How about those nice roads you take for granted? HUH?

technoshaman is a wealth of information on libertarianism in action. Ask him about the fire department, and what happens when you don't pay your fees towards keeping them in nomex and fire hoses.

[featherquill.livejournal.com]

:) Not all of us are so horrible. I assume that your problem with "Libertarians" is a problem with a specific group of people, not with the Libertarian philosophy. I've never met a green I didn't like (you included), so I am sorry that you met some nasty Libbies, but I'm not all bad. :)

Not paying your taxes is not Libertarian. It's anarchistic, and agoristic, which are two whole other things. Not liking that one is being *forced* to pay taxes, on the other hand; well that is a Libby philosophy, but it's not as distasteful as the group you spoke with made it sound. It's not supposed to be a "Fuck everybody else" kind of a thing. It's supposed to be a "and it harm none, do as you will" sort of thing. I do not believe in the initiation of force. Including *forcing* people to pay taxes in order to take care of me and mine. However, I willingly pay those same taxes, because I desire access to things that constitute a group effort in order to even be a possibility in my world. That includes hospitals, roads, state colleges, etc.

I hope that opens your heart just a little bit to we brown-coats. There are those who will put the label on like a jacket without understanding the consequences of the very nature of the jacket. And there are those who will exploit it, and who will turn it into something it isn't. Just like the welfare system, and the republic for which we stand.

But seriously, Libertarianism has never said anything bad about you. Really!

Also - CSU Pomona sends its regards. And the library? It is 6 stories tall, omg. And has a Starbucks. Just in case I hadn't mentioned that to you before. :)