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Why democracy doesn't work
Edit: Updated the second image so it was no loner cropped.
Jan 3, 2017 1:18 AM
ThisIsTooDamnStressful
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Edit: Updated the second image so it was no loner cropped.
DobbyLivesHere
Well that was a short dump. More like a dingleberry.
BrainTaffy
Years ago I read that all New Yorker cartoons could have the caption subbed with "Christ, what an asshole" & still be as funny. Never fails.
JoeBobBriggs
I take issue with the first comic. It implies politicians know what they are doing.
sbrtueygtphd
All great. I really love the third one.
ITryToOnlyRespondInGifs
NO THE SECOND ONE IS THE BEST!!!! I win
babbzilla
To be fair for #1, in my job, I'm finding that pilots are pretty big assholes. I wouldn't do their job though. Just land me safe, jerks.
TheImgurNeoConConcious
ok?
babbzilla
Thank you
noonehasthisoneyet
shouting incoherently? sounds right
howardmoon13
The artist who drew the first one is Will McPhail. His Insta is [at]willmcphail4 and is worth a follow.
BubbleGumNoel
uhmm... -o.o- i don't get the first one - is embarrassed >.<
blairmichod
Trump has no political experience but won the election by appealing to the common voter, which is akin to a person being elected pilot.
BubbleGumNoel
oh okay that makes sense - thanks for explaining it :D have a great day and many fun times to you ^.^
deadeyesatan
I enjoyed these
Zerphses
Nephus
That face really does remind me of some asshole I used to work with.
ColonFilth
AIGHUGHGHGH
ThrobbinHoodz
CoreyLee04
Bob?
sharpicus
Is that Reggie from Bob's Burgers?
unownlanguage
Pics or it didn't happen
sharpicus
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/bobsburgerpedia/images/d/d4/Reggie.png/revision/latest?cb=20140425064237
jennym123
This is one hell of a start for a president.
GiantRobotsRule
Keyword hell
drearyDin
Why is imgur becoming so alt-righty?
DiggerPlease
Huh? How is laughing at Trump alt-right?
drearyDin
The title implies the rest of their work isn't up to par. And they have been quite critical of trump.
TitaniumTeddyBear
Problem is US Liberals still haven't realised that rural workers actually do have a point about the lack of jobs and economic growth :/
javer80
There really is a lack of jobs, and it's killing those regions. Other candidates should have produced solutions. But the coal jobs are gone.
TitaniumTeddyBear
The irony is that Sanders and Clinton both had plans to make jobs there. But y'all have to hope Trump keeps his word. I hope he does :-[
SomewhatOxygenated
They may have a point, but they chose to make it by electing exactly the kind of rich capitalist that killed those jobs in the first place.
skurnie
I mean, the writing is still phenomenal, too.
aflarge
Man it's weird to have a press that isn't jerking off the president. Wouldn't have fucking gotten THAT with a Clinton win.
aflarge
Woulda been Fox News and Brietbart opposing her. Lotta good that woulda been.
TheImgurNeoConConcious
that might have something to do with Clinton having something called class, and a respect for bureaucratic system of governance. Also 1/2
TheImgurNeoConConcious
there are always detractors to leftist politicians, you just don't see it through your hate filled glasses 2.2
PetitChocolat
Yeah, but, the sheep is afraid of the wolf it's whole life, but in the end grs eaten by the shepherd.
BenjaminPannell
So it should side with the wolf?
PetitChocolat
There is no wolf.
BenjaminPannell
I love the first one. That's basically how I felt when George W. Bush first ran. How is being an average Joe a good thing?
katwilm
Amazing how much we've had to take to find the limit on lies the media will just gloss over from people in power and republicans
superfluoussheep
Funny, cause it's true
stormtrooper412
actual meaning: 1. hey this pilot is drunk and dying and we are all gonna die, do you think we can at least give someone else a chance? 1/3
stormtrooper412
2. it's a wolf, wolves can't talk, so this is probably made up 2/3
stormtrooper412
3. I'm sorry Jeanie but "I'm a woman therefore I am right and if you disagree you are a misogynistic pig" is not a valid argument
Jagdpantherdan
No there trash
Simplethings1
Cogi53
great movie selection, +1
sweetdeethebird
My ex-boyfriend's brother won one of the caption contests once. I'll dig around and see if I can find it somewhere on the Internets
HailToUltron
Okay, but what's his notoriety level on imgur? Anybody can win a caption contest.
sweetdeethebird
No idea if he has an Imgur or not, my ex did but I can't remember his username. It was pretty funny though
DiggerPlease
Maybe it's just amusing
wadenelson1
Need one for "Alternate Facts" now being offered by Press Secty Spicer.
leadfoot69
Check the New Yorker tomorrow morning....
MissSpelledTattoo
NiceCatchBlancoNinoTooBadYourAssGotSacked
Well, his facts certainly were an alternative.
rocketman89
"There is no way to tell how many people were at the inauguration". Next Sentence: "Here's how many people were at the inauguration".
motittiesmoproblems
only 3??? wtf
Dubrtd
1st one is BS. Dutch elections might result in a Gutmensch PM who did 7 years of art-history. No one making "funny" cartoons about that.
muisverriet
Who?
Dubrtd
Pechtold. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1LL_eYWEAEpLNc.jpg
muisverriet
Ugh, Pechtold. Haat die gast echt.
TheSeriousFury
Wait...art-history? He isn't, by any chance, having discussions about any "final solutions" is he?
Dubrtd
No idea. Stopped paying attention to the idiot and his political party a long time ago.
GlassPHLEGM
A few of the books I read in high school saw this coming... "double think"
CChowder
I'm happy I found this before the comment section was filled with people bending the message to fit their politics.
SatoriEnlightenment
Bending The Who to fit their what?
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
It's been 12 hours. Come back and tell us your verdict?
wadatahmydamie
Being that two of these were explicitly created because of Trump, there's no bending to be done.
ecodude
You underestimate trump supporters.
Bossdogs
I mean, they're pretty clearly political cartoons
honestb
Yeah because the New Yorker is obviously such a non-partisan media outlet they don't have a specific viewpoint.
summitshow
Sweden thanks you.
JodyBird
Why U reed commerts? Coment sections sukzorz.
dontbuyfabricsoftener
These ___________ morons are ruining our beloved ___________ with their ___________ agenda. I for one am proud to called a/an __________.
Edgemaze
Good job! Now, make me please at least a million copies, we need to get to work. You've got future in politics, son.
handgrenade
I put "flupper" in all the spaces.
noofhead
Sexy, Buttsex, Owl, Faggot
dontbuyfabricsoftener
Nice!
noofhead
I do what I can. I saw 4 blanks and my madlibs instincts kicked in.
pepper223
Say it loud say it proud
TheFallingBowlOfPetunias
MrAwful
Does it count as a reference if the thing came out today? We all saw it within the frame of a few hours.
Ohhhlookaunicorneatingasamurai
Turkey; turkey; turkey: turkey.
NuclearBoxcutter
Getting ready for a trip to the beach?
raemoondoe
Jive turkey; Jive turkey; Jive turkey; Jive turkey.
Noooooooooooooope
iSoulend
chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken.
NuclearBoxcutter
Getting ready for a trip to the beach?
Ohhhlookaunicorneatingasamurai
Mewmus
for #1, flying the plane is easy, its the taking off and landing that's the hard part, and its been PROVEN that the control tower can 1/2
TheyCallMeJimmyButMyNameIsJames
I got FLight Simulator for Windows 3.1 but it's still loading.
RedDragon312
I think a better analogy would be a regular person trying to perform heart surgery. No way someone without years of experience could do it.
TheyCallMeJimmyButMyNameIsJames
Just about anyone could do it but I think the difference would be in the results.
Mewmus
talk an inexperienced pilot down to a safe landing. 2/2
Feanor19
A small plane with more basic controls sure. A 747? Not without previous experience. Which is kinda the difference between running a
Feanor19
Business verses running a country. Vastly different
ashmenon
Yes, but in this context the civilian would ignore the advice of the control tower and say he knows how to do it.
ElectricMoccasin
Do you have a source for that, because I've only heard the opposite.
Mewmus
http://mythresults.com/episode94
ElectricMoccasin
Thanks.
Mewmus
yw :)
SomewhatOxygenated
Who would be the control tower in the current political climate? The 'Swamp' that Trump promised to drain?
Mewmus
maybe Trumps advisors?
SomewhatOxygenated
If those advisors are the same smug people that we're trying to get rid off that defeats the whole point, right?
SomewhatOxygenated
And if they're not, then how the hell do *they* know how to guide the plane down safely?
Thorn14
If this is a metaphor however, the passengers have told that the control tower is Fake and against him and he'll land it just fine himself.
Bivl
Maybe the pilots are drunk, and that passenger knows how to fly the plane.
Ninjainslippers
My new favorite is Trump claiming that crowds were bigger at his inauguration than at Obama's. NPR today: "That's actually, just, a lie."
runechan
Jokes on them. He's gonna take their funding.
Usernameisalreadyregisteredwasalreadyregistered
Personally, he might just still be trolling the media. It did apparently get them to outright lie both about his numbers and the MLK bust.
SomewhatOxygenated
The MLK bust was an erroneous tweet by reporter Zeke Miller, who sent out a rectification minutes later.
DerpieMcDerpface
Which is scarier. That Donald lies deliberately or that he believes his lies is factual truths?!
RagtimeRaver
Neither. He says whatever he thinks will help him "win" the convo at that particular moment. He doesn't even remotely consider the truth.
AllTheGoodUsernamesWereTaken
No see, they're just fake news. Alternative facts are more important than reality
dapps411
http://imgur.com/kz7Dxe5
PANICinc
Trump supporters we're at work contributing to society. Obama supporters all showed up with hands extended waiting for their handout.
TheAngreyToaster
Kek
imguyy
Deep down, is the world really that simple to you or do you know better and just like to get under people's skin?
danishjuggler21
Wait, I thought they were all having their jobs ripped away from them under Obama? So which is it? Employed or not?
heinleinfan
Wait, so...if trump supporters all have jobs, then why do you keep saying you voted for him...for jobs?
sonof
Oh that was so that people that don't have jobs would get one or maybe two like most of us.
Utael
Try again
heinleinfan
Also, you're a garbage human being.
Mentok
There were still a shit load of people there, so try another alternative fact.
bastelo
Were*
ProfessorMorifarty
Sure, sure, whatever makes you feel better, snowflake.
ChristYarmolyu
I've been hearing a lot about snowflakes I don't get it? Is that supposed to be an insult? I'd rather be a snowflake than a racist idiot
ProfessorMorifarty
You saw what my comment was in response to, right? Not sure where you're getting racist idiot from.
PrincessCheesyWieners
Luckily NPR's handouts are going the way of the dodo. Take that, dumbocrats!!@ http://imgur.com/5NipHOe
Counterfit
Don't involve low-res Ric Flair in your bullshit
meatsuite88
So edgy.
Notme68
Unfortunately, if we include live internet streaming - it might have been witnessed by the largest audience. I hope not, but the data's out.
SomewhatOxygenated
According to the Nielsen Company it's the 3rd biggest since they started tracking, only topped by Reagan and Obama
Ninjainslippers
His press sec's claim was it was bigger in person and on broadcast. So that's a lie and a statement that, as you say, can't be proven.
ThisIsTooDamnStressful
He also initially used a photo from Obama's inauguration as his twitter banner for the POTUS account...
SqueakShow
XD
DonkeyKong11
Who cares? It was a nice-looking stock photo of American flags. Surely there's better things to whine about
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SirButcher
Well, Trump do.
MithridateEupator
So.. we shouldn't care if our new leader lies to us constantly?
SexualPeanut
Ignorance is bliss.
aUsername85
Yeah - which is exactly why you'd think the president wouldn't be so fucking focused on it....
ImmaNeedBoutTreeFiddy
It hasn't even been 24 hours since his inauguration and he was already lying and bitching about it.
GiddyKipper
You're wrong because this shows the insecurity, dishonesty and megalomaniac personality of the new US president. It is very serious...
personsofinterest
this is the kind if two-faced intentionally misleading shit we need to keep tabs on. Even the small stuff, lies are lies.
KellyanneAlternativeFacts
They say if you lie easily about things that don't matter, you'll lie even easier about things that do.
KeeleonOhms
I think we should care when the President lies to us...
fiera
No, there clearly aren't. I expect a protest march about it now.
gopms
He can't use a picture from his own for a website that exists before the event so he has to use one from a previous event. Not weird to me.
CreepiestThingIveSeenAllWeek
Imagine if he could though. That would explain so much. He's just looping through time to learn exactly what the right thing is to say.
fuck123456789
no no no, just alternative facts
PajamaStripes
https://i.imgflip.com/1c4uye.jpg
GlennBecksChalkboard
no no no, he is just... alt-right. I'll leave now.
HappierThanASlinkyOnAnEscalator
This was awesome
HappierThanASlinkyOnAnEscalator
This was awesome
ramarins
Apparently new evidence shows the white part seen from aerial view were members of the KKK, therefore making up for the numbers. ;-)
PostNutDepression
Was that just a joke or is it a real thing? To google.
ecodude
No it's totally a joke. There was a kkk viewing party near me though. It was pretty hilarious.
PostNutDepression
The fact that I'm genuinely asking that says a lot.
ashmenon
A few (verified) Twitter accounts later said that the sparse-crowd photo was taken very early, and that later on the crowd was in full force
ashmenon
Aaaaand I'm getting downvotes for this. Kay.
ramarins
Yeah, yeah, 1 million people showed up in half an hour. ¬¬
Rezanon
Fuck that traffic...
pandro
Surely someone took photos of that as well ...
ashmenon
No clue. At that point I was just tired of the whole thing.
DomVanSuave
He wouldn't be so bad if he just knew when to shut his damn mouth lol
GavinScreaming
Nah I think that's actually worse. At least now we know he's a lying lunatic.
stabbedintheface
He's more concerned with his ego than anything else
stabbedintheface
He's more concerned with his ego than anything else
TheyCallMeJimmyButMyNameIsJames
I think he should keep doing talking but he should stop talking about stupid shit. He's changed the game on the media and they're terrified
mikegregory
I think it should be pretty clear by now that stupid shit is all he's got.
Ninjainslippers
Maybe not quite as bad. But yeah, he's now just lying about shit that doesn't even matter. It seems like a pathology.
delpharseven
It is, and he's been doing it for many years. The root of it seems to be a need to protect either his ego or an image of himself.
babybirdhome
It is a pathology. He's clinically a narcissist. That's just part of the package with a clinical narcissist.
Ninjainslippers
Do you have support for that claim? I've studied psych and armchair diagnosed him but has he been legit diagnosed?
ExcuseMe2
Higher chance of being a clinical narcissist when you are detached from most of the planet as a billionaire.
yaFuckingWeapon
trump supporters still believe it; just like the other bullshit he tells them
waterbottlewhale
Don't drink the kool aid
thatauzzieguy
You already drained the cooler.
Zombeavers
Sad truth right here
samsonguy920
I'd like to know the numbers of how many TrSups are Anti-Vax, Flat-Earth, and Holocaust Deniers.
JamJarre
Antivax has always been a leftist issue to be fair
AlltheHypethatMoneyCanBuy
Don't forget the Libertarians!
GavinScreaming
It's mixed. There's the hippie group and the religious group.
YamatoIouko
Ehh...kinda mixed, really.
ArdentSlacker
We need to stop pretending that us behaving better is ever going to stop them from being stupid and vile.
wanderhoden
What will stop them?
SomewhatOxygenated
A rerun of the 1932-1945 events
ArdentSlacker
I have no peaceful answers, and they have already begun to attack facts, media, and usurp offices of power. Not fighting back is death. :(
TheSpaghettiPolicy
Do you have non-peaceful answers? Cause I might be down.
DoNotKnowJack
Now Trump wants to drastically slash funding to NPR. Coincidence?
ChristYarmolyu
I heard during their donation drive today that 8% of their funding comes from the government... it's been slacked so many times
xrufus7x
Guess I better finally donate then.
TheyCallMeJimmyButMyNameIsJames
We did before this too. In fact before Trump ever ran.
HOLAKOOO
..and what party always threatens the funding of the most unbiased news source? I'm surprised they don't vote to fund Faux news
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
His strategy is literally to eliminate dissent. And none of his followers seem the slightest bit concerned by this.
TheSpaghettiPolicy
I have family members who are convinced that Trump's truth is the only truth. All media lie and any disagreement is liberal BS.
Calculussucks
How do you know my father? lol. He thinks Trump is the next Reagan. Even my mom, who also voted for him, laughed at that comment.
GavinScreaming
Why would they? IT'S ALL LIBERAL LIES
Calculussucks
Seriously, as the son of someone who is a Trump lover, This is how a lot of them think. It scares me.
helpidontknowmyname
He was going to anyway. His supporters probably don't believe in Public Radio. They'd better get over their attachment to Public School too.
TheyCallMeJimmyButMyNameIsJames
All these and more are vastly improved less expensive when "privatized", which should be called "personalized" for more accuracy.
TheyCallMeJimmyButMyNameIsJames
*and less expensive :)
Calculussucks
That's debatable.
segfaultytowers
That's an understatement
bigeasy44
Did he claim the crowds were bigger or the audience? Audience could include tv viewers & online streamers.
SomewhatOxygenated
He claimed both.
arqtype
TV viewership was down from 2009, in absolute terms, lowest in 40 years in percentage terms. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum
batlrar
And protesters! I spotted some footage and they were on separate sides of the street. Looked like way more protesters than supporters.
ExcuseMe2
Because there were...
arqtype
Making confident claims about streaming audiences would automatically be lying, because nobody knows those numbers.
Counterfit
I'm sure the streaming host would. Akamai has data on everything.
arqtype
The data exist, definitely, but no one has aggregated, analyzed, and released it. And there is no online equivalent to Nielson ratings.
theresgarlicinthatnebula
Ironically he made both points simultaneously at the press conference.
BubbaRunski
Dude. It's Trump. It doesn't matter the degree to which he lies or misleads, he isn't telling the truth. The fucker needs to tell the truth.
thissitestealswhatcouldvebeenmyproductivity
Will also accept going away.