Monday, January 13, 2020
Conservatives are never funny
Exhibit G or H or Z or whatever, Joey Weatherford. These are his attempts at humor from last week.
Okay, so first of all, I have no idea whether AOC and/or Ilhan Omar said that Trump is a monster for targeting cultural sites or that targeting cultural sites is a war crime. But it's true. There's no joke here, because either they didn't say that which gives you no basis for a joke, or they did say a thing that is one hundred percent true and correct which isn't funny. It is absolutely a war crime to target cultural sites and to do so would be monstrous. Cultural sites are places where a lot of people tend to be. Civilian people. Innocent people. Families with children. Attacking these sites would be the moral equivalent of the Iranians firing missiles into Disneyland.
Then there's the "punch line." AOC says "I didn't even know there were 52 Irans." The only way this would be remotely funny is if she had said something similar to this at some point. But since she has not, there is no humor in this. It's just like saying "wouldn't it be funny if this person we don't like said something really stupid?" And that's not a joke.
This just doesn't even make sense. I don't have the slightest clue what the joke is even supposed to be here.
Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the House of Representatives. She is not the mayor of San Francisco or the governor of California. "Cleaning" her district does not fall within her bailiwick.
So. . . I guess this is based on the assumption that everyone hates the popular two-term President Barack Obama? Like THAT would be the reason people wouldn't vote for Biden? Not his support for the illegal invasion of Iraq, not the bankruptcy bill, not his stated desire to keep locking people up for marijuana because he thinks it's a "gateway drug," but because he might appoint Barack Obama to the Supreme Court? The man who left office with a 60 percent approval rating?
Sleeping giant?
When has this giant slept?
Let's see, we invaded Afghanistan, Iran's neighbor to the East. Then we invaded Iraq, their neighbor to the West.Then we got involved in the bloodbath in Syria, just to the Northwest of Iran, all the while with the neo-cons and PNAC lunatics rattling sabres at Iran, designating them part of the "axis of evil."
Then we assassinate an Iranian general who was a national hero to the people of Iran. So Iran retaliates by firing some missiles into unoccupied military bases in Iraq, a country we are continuing to occupy illegally. And Joey Weatherford's take on this is "oh, now you've done it! We were just sitting here being totally cool, not meaning you any harm, but now you went and started something!" What a fucking moron.
The feds will step in?
The feds will step in?
What does that mean? Does this genius think that the federal government can just take over a state if they don't think it's being run properly? Does he think the federal government works like Michigan and can just remove the governor from power and replace him with an "emergency manager?"
If Gavin Newsom is doing a poor job as governor (and he may or may not be, I don't know) they have these things in California called "elections," and the people of the state can vote to replace him. I remember the last time California had a governor that people weren't happy with. His name was Gray Davis. And Darrell Issa got a recall election to remove Davis, hoping that he would be able to buy the governorship. As it happened, the people of California decided that they had so enjoyed it the last time that a washed-up movie actor had been governor that they elected Arnold Schwarzenegger governor. So if Newsom is really that bad at his job, just be a little patient, and someone will put Jon Voigt in charge.
But the feds are NOT going to "step in." You'd think that, given how passionately right-wing idiots feel about states' rights, they'd be the last people who would want to see the "feds" "step in." It's almost as if they don't actually have any principles or really believe in anything other than gaining and holding on to power.
Also, since when are threats funny?
I'm unable to follow their line of reasoning and humor either. It's very odd and fair to say abnormal.
ReplyDeleteHe's not too bad a caricaturist but these are not funny in any sense of that word.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with 'conservatives' is that their cognitive dissonance does not allow for self-reflection. They go for the name calling and the shallow comment. Humor has an anchor in reality. Nothing further from their reality.
ReplyDeleteXOXO
Regarding the Pelosi cartoon, Mike Peters made that exact same joke about Richard Nixon, back in the Watergate days. My family had a book of his cartoons and that was in it.
ReplyDeleteMallard Fillmore finally has some worthy competition.
ReplyDeleteI will never understand why the Tribune Syndicate thinks this guy's crap is worth publishing. Not only is it unfunny, it is incorrect. Editorial cartoons need to have at least a hint of truth behind the point they are trying to make. Joey Weatherford is pointless.
ReplyDeleteNailed it
DeleteYeah, I'm late to this, but the "conservatives are never funny" may not be right, but Joey Weatherford's cartoons are potent arguments why it might just be true. But look, if Joey Weatherford were liberal, he/she STILL wouldn't be funny. He/she is TERRIBLE at their job. Must be a case of conservative welfare. Back in the day, I remember how crude and unconvincing Scientology ads were. Let us hope that the GOP remains partnered with that image.
ReplyDeleteDesperate for "balance", syndicates are forced to offer caricatures of political figures in lieu of clever metaphor that distinguishes genuine political cartoons.
ReplyDeleteYou could hire a guy off the boardwalk cheaper and get similar levels of social insightful.
One of Joey's fave subjects is (still) Biden's mental acuity. Even Trump knows that's not a thing anymore, but not Joey.
ReplyDeleteImagine the disappointment of meeting Weatherbee at a get-together. "Oh! You're a political cartoonist! That's got to be fun and fulfilling !" (Shows you some of his work on his iPhone knock-off): "Oh, yeah, gee, look at the time! Nice talking!" as they sidle away quickly.
ReplyDeleteI'm not surprised this guy stole a Mike Peters' cartoon. He stole his entire art style. Even his signature is a Mike Peters' ripoff.
ReplyDeleteWeatherford is a hack dissociated from reality. His comics are ugly and poorly drawn, his caricatures unrecognizable, his messages delusional and ungrounded, and his so-called sense of humor nonexistent. I can't fathom how this trash get published. It's just awful.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see I’m not going crazy. Even if you combined the assumed conservative mindset, poor accuracy covering real events, and weirdly (predictably) not covering other events of the day, it still wouldn’t be as problematic as how not funny it is. Who wants this?
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I've pondered the Right Wing's yearning to have its own artistic talent troupes but no matter how they phrase their hateful rhetoric, nobody of any real talent wanted even a crumb of that. Look at Trump's inauguration...embarrassing to say the least. Look at Fox's answer to Comedy Central. What's even stranger is when the Trumpists actually fool somebody momentarily! Joey isn't a bad caricaturist?! He has to LABEL any character he depicts! They all look terrible and none look much like anybody! Buttons for the win. His attempts at humor, I admit, are the very deepest depths of a dark hole, so his "art" may impress by comparison, but comparative road-kill contests may well honor a beauty queen by comparison but I wouldn't brag to family about it.
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