Utopia Talk / Politics / My Hand at Political Cartoonery

Alex Member	Mon Mar 22 07:10:13 Tell me what you think. Did I capture the essence of Obama's policies with my political art? http://i39.tinypic.com/mm66pl.jpg
Stephen Awesome Member	Mon Mar 22 07:32:26 Awful. Devoid of all talent and humor.
Firestorm Phoenix Member	Mon Mar 22 08:17:33 Craptastic.
russian Member	Mon Mar 22 08:18:18 very appropriate
charper Member	Mon Mar 22 08:19:03 Qualifies for deletion according to mod rules concerning zero LOL value
Still Well Member	Mon Mar 22 08:20:09 if you are feeling the need to create cartoons, create a comic involving swords and dicks and it will be added @ http://sworddicks.at-band-camp.net/
river of blood Member	Mon Mar 22 08:23:06 It sounds like you're saying that all of debt isn't a problem. Is that what you're trying to say? It's unclear.
Smart Dude Member	Mon Mar 22 08:37:51 Jesus that is terrible. Is that a joke? Not only is it not even funny, but as rob said, it's unclear, and there's no original thought whatsoever. And to top it off, it's a disaster aesthetically. You just took an image from online and threw a bunch of words with extremely tacky font and extremely tacky colors on top of it. Text-wise there is so much fucking crap going on it's like watching somebody's nightmare. Is that really the best you can do? It looks like a child made it in five minutes.
russian Member	Mon Mar 22 09:05:46 i thought it was quite good. It got its message across very effectively.
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Mon Mar 22 11:40:08 if the message was "i'm a talentless retard" then yes, I agree with russian. if anything, show the titanic with an iceberg in the distance and name the titanic the USA. having to put up 5 different captions totally ruins a joke.
Seb Member	Mon Mar 22 12:47:47 Reminds me of this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/4/1/
charper Member	Mon Mar 22 15:55:16 ^lol
Alex Member	Tue Mar 23 06:39:48 No, the sea of debt represents a quantity that we've been able to normally stay abreast of. Obama's iceberg is the thing that will sink our ship, and we are all going to slip down beneath the inky blackness of the sea and die a horrible death- even as the band plays on the deck of the titanic.
charper Member	Tue Mar 23 06:55:01 Youre all going to die a horrible death because of Obama? This is your message? rofl
Alex Member	Tue Mar 23 08:13:27 Jeezus, why is it you are the only one who doesn't get it? "We" = United States as we know it.
charper Member	Tue Mar 23 08:37:30 Its not. Its you being the most laughed at poster on UP. The board actually unites and laughs at your brain lol...
charper Member	Tue Mar 23 08:39:10 But if you mean the USA as YOU know it, racist, bigoted, morally centuries backwards, stupid, ridicules science, truth, facts, selfish, greedy, ill educated at creationist clown college, then let us all hope you are right.
charper Member	Tue Mar 23 08:42:01 birthday present for your mentally sick, white supremacist malfunctioned, laughed at brain: Waiting for the end of the world: Georgia's 30-year stone mystery By Matt Smith, CNN March 22, 2010 -- Updated 1459 GMT (2259 HKT) STORY HIGHLIGHTS * 30 years after dedication, Georgia Guidestones have attention of conspiracy theorists * Mystery man had granite slabs built to instruct survivors of civilization-ending cataclysm * Some say it has fingerprints of a shadowy "New World Order" bent on subjugating humanity * Stones have been target of vandals; town delaying commemoration RELATED TOPICS * Conspiracy Theories * Georgia * University of Georgia Elberton, Georgia (CNN) -- In the beginning, there was the stone. The blue-gray vein of granite that courses through northeastern Georgia spawned jobs in the quarries and finishing sheds of Elberton, where generations of stonecutters have turned slabs of rock the size of refrigerators into statues, tombstones and tile. And one day, it brought a visitor who gifted the town with a landmark that leaves visitors scratching their heads decades later. The nearly 20-foot high series of granite slabs known as the Georgia Guidestones are inscribed with a series of admonitions for a future "Age of Reason." Billed as "America's Stonehenge," it's an astronomically complex, 120-ton relic of Cold War fears, built to instruct survivors of an Armageddon that the mystery man feared was all too near. The identity of the man who called himself "R.C. Christian" is a secret that Wyatt Martin, the banker who acted as his agent in Elberton, vows to take to his grave. "He told me, 'If you were to tell who put the money up for this, it wouldn't be a mystery any more, and no one would come and read it.' That had to be part of the attraction, to get people to come and read his 10 rules that he came up with," Martin said. People in Elberton, about 100 miles east of Atlanta, are proud of their eccentric landmark. But 30 years after its dedication, it has drawn the attention of a new generation of conspiracy theorists with very different fears. "There are a lot of people who don't feel about it the same way we do," said Phyllis Brooks, president of the Elbert County Chamber of Commerce. The four vertical slabs that dominate the Guidestones are inscribed back and front with Christian's 10 principles, each side in a different modern language. The capstone is inscribed in the alphabets of early human civilizations -- Egyptian hieroglyphics, Babylonian cuneiform, Sanskrit and classical Greek. The center column has a slot through which the transit of the sun throughout the seasons can be observed, while a hole higher up focuses on Polaris, the north star. Another hole in the capstone focuses a beam of sunlight onto the central pillar at noon. Those features would allow the survivors of Christian's feared apocalypse to reproduce three of the basic tools of civilization: the calendar, clock and compass. Loris Magnani, an astronomy professor at the University of Georgia, questions how useful the Guidestones would be to survivors of civilization-ending cataclysm. The devices incorporated into the stones are "relatively easy stuff" that most human societies have developed early in their histories, he said. "Don't get me wrong. As a monument, it's fine. There's nothing wrong with doing that," Magnani told CNN. But he added, "Every decent civilization going back to a couple of millennia before Christ has figured this out. How to make gasoline? Now that would be useful." But it's the written messages of the Guidestones that have drawn the most criticism. Most are innocuous, calling on readers to rule their passions with "tempered reason," avoid "petty laws and useless officials" and "prize truth, beauty, love ... seeking harmony with the infinite." They end with the advice, "Be not a cancer on the Earth -- leave room for nature." But the first two -- which call for limiting human population to half a billion, less than 10 percent of today's numbers, and guiding reproduction "wisely" -- have led some to call the Guidestones a call to genocide and the "Ten Commandments of the Antichrist." In recent years, the monument has been hit by vandals who see in it the creed of a shadowy "New World Order" bent on subjugating humanity. It has been tagged at least three times since 2008, leaving scrawls of "God is stronger than the NWO," vague threats of destruction and various crudities across the granite. "The worst was they put a two-part epoxy over two faces," said Mart Clamp, whose father helped carve the stones. "You just can't pressure-wash it off, you have to get in there with a hammer-type tool and beat it off." Christian left behind a 1986 book, "Common Sense Renewed," that is still for sale at the Elberton Granite Museum. Many of the concerns he lists in it wouldn't be out of place at a modern Republican gathering: growing entitlement spending, stifling regulation, the breakdown of the traditional family. But he also warned that the world's problems were symptoms of overpopulation, turning civilization as we knew into an "atomic tinderbox," and requiring some limited form of world government to save mankind from annihilation, he concluded. It is that kind of talk that disturbs people like Van Smith, who has written extensively about the Guidestones on his Web site. Contacted at his home in Arkansas, said the future that Christian describes in his book "is totalitarian." "It's Platonic in many ways, but it's extremely oppressive," Smith said. And he says encoded within the dimensions of the stones is the height in feet of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, now the world's tallest building. To him, that suggests the builders knew of plans to build a new Tower of Babel, ushering in "the dawning of a new era in which man can become God." "I'm not a conspiracy lunatic who spends all my time researching Freemasonry and things like that," said Smith, a computer industry analyst. But he told CNN, "This evidence is extremely real, and it's disturbing." The locals don't buy it. "I know the men who put this up, and they were all good men," said Clamp, who is working to clean up the stones ahead of their anniversary. "My father was one of those men. If this had been anything satanic or demonic, they never would have had anything to do with it." Brooks said that most in Elberton view the stones as "a work of art" that draws tourists, and "we don't get wrapped up so much in what they say." "But they do still have a draw to" -- she pauses -- "to a different sector of people." And the chatter from that sector has made Elberton leery of celebrating their landmark's 30th birthday. "With the damage that had been done to the Guidestones and a lot of things that were out there on YouTube, it was just decided that maybe we might wait for another year to do it," Brooks said. The mystery man is dead now. Martin knows this because the man's son got in touch with him recently. Only two people in Elberton met him face-to-face -- Martin and Joe Fendley, the contractor who built the monument. Fendley, who went on to become the town's mayor, is dead now, too. But Martin, now 79 and living a few towns down the road, said he remains bound by his pledge to keep the secret. "That was a gentleman's agreement between us, and he lived with it and I've lived with it," he said. "When I'm dead and gone, nobody will ever know who put it there."
Smart Dude Member	Tue Mar 23 09:40:09 It's not that we don't get it, Alex. It's just bad. I've always thought that taking a picture of something and just sticking a label on top of it was a pretty big cheat. But political cartoonists do it ALL THE TIME. It's like an inside joke within the industry about who can take it the furthest.
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Tue Mar 23 10:23:07 "But if you mean the USA as YOU know it, racist, bigoted, morally centuries backwards, stupid, ridicules science, truth, facts, selfish, greedy, ill educated at creationist clown college, then let us all hope you are right." retarded christians shouldn't count as people, and frankly I'm offended that you lump the rest of americans (me) with those nutcases.
charper Member	Tue Mar 23 12:42:49 Actually I dont.
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Tue Mar 23 12:44:04 hmmm. when rereading that, I can see how it can be read to mean that. carry on then.
charper Member	Tue Mar 23 12:47:24 Though the trouble with those lunatic santa claus beggers is that after 8 years of them wrecking the world, theyve branded the entire USA pretty badly...
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Tue Mar 23 12:50:34 think how bad I feel, I'm related to one.
charper Member	Tue Mar 23 13:03:08 You have my sympathies having to share a country with lunatics.
smart dude Member	Sat May 08 22:19:11 I'm glad the bots topped this. I get to marvel once again over how bad JB's cartoon is.
Madc0w Member	Sat May 08 22:24:50 It's atrocious. How long did it take to make this?
J. B. New Member	Sat May 08 22:44:56 Actually I got my little cousin to make it for me. He's five years old. And he has Downs Syndrome.
Asshole UPer Member	Thu May 13 17:02:49 get rid of all the crap on the bottom left and it may be ok. I doubt it though
Adolf Hitler Member	Thu May 13 17:10:28 Disastrous graphic design. No originality. More than 2 different fonts for that is illegal in design. Obamacare should have been the iceberg to make any sense at all. Bank bailouts etc sinking beneath the waves doesn't make sense, they're not whats sinking, they're whats causing the sink according to the intended message, they should have been waves against the ship if he must have them in the pic which just makes it all look messy. Lastly, there's no humor or pun or irony or satire in it. 2/10
Adolf Hitler Member	Thu May 13 17:17:17 It probably would have been better to have the ship maneuvering across a map across the sea of debts, through the bay of bail outs, etc. Still no humor or interesting, new thought in the message though.
Adolf Hitler Member	Thu May 13 17:24:13 This for example off the top of my head makes more graphic sense: http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/1327/dukhat.jpg
Cthulhu Tentacle Rapist	Thu May 13 17:25:41 It be better if the ship said Titanic on it.
Adolf Hitler Member	Thu May 13 17:26:44 Mine or JB's?
Adolf Hitler Member	Thu May 13 17:26:58 Could be nice to not make it too obvious.
Madc0w Member	Fri May 14 03:01:21 "2/10" What are the 2 points for? Surely not effort?
Adolf Hitler Member	Fri May 14 03:09:03 They are so he doesnt commit suicide.
Hot Rudder Member	Fri May 14 05:23:29 http://eco...eekend-funnies-9-may-2010.html
russian Member	Fri May 14 07:23:07 draw muhammed next.
Cthulhu Tentacle Rapist	Sat May 15 06:33:37 'Mine or JB's? ' Yours, most people are too stupid to be relied upon to get it.
Adolf Hitler Member	Sat May 15 06:36:21 You're probably right. I took the first pic at google and did the whole thing in a few minutes, to show how miserable JB's proud effort that he slaved over was.
Adolf Hitler Member	Sun May 16 13:20:09 This thread was always destined for the LoDT.
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Adolf Hitler Member	Thu May 20 09:32:38 Loving it lol.
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