Steve Sack has been the staff editorial cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune since 1981. He has won assorted local and national cartooning awards, and has once been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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feverjr said, 6 months ago
You’ve just entered “the no-spin zone.”
dtroutma
said, 6 months ago
I sure hope there’s a vacuum pump hooked up to that bell jar.
Mikeyj said, 6 months ago
HAHAHAHAHAHA Now there’s a comic that needs NO comment!
Basqueian said, 6 months ago
Big Bird for the win! PBS! PBS! everyone donate!
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 6 months ago
SMACK!
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Sack takes the lead for best comic on the post election fallout!
T.E. Lawrence said, 6 months ago
There was a podcast this morning about the GOP Governor’s conference, and Bobby Jindal was talking about how “changes in the margins (rather than sweeping changes)” would be enough to make the GOP more attractive to people. In almost the same breath he talked about how Obama’s win could be attributed to “lazy twenty-somethings living in their parent’s basement”.
The GOP disconnect has never been clearer.
Gresch said, 6 months ago
From now on … every Halloween… Teams will be putting on Big Bird costumes and “redistibuting” the young people’s candy… You have some much .. I will be taking some for Bert and Ernie to give other little kids who did not even go out to trick-or-treat… It is only fair
onguard said, 6 months ago
Mitt had to put up with BS over 41% Dem Libs want to discount 49% of voters.
feverjr said, 6 months ago
@onguard
Mitt’s quote……
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it — that that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. … These are people who pay no income tax. … [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
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It was Mitt that discounted 47% of the voters. Too bad for him it was taped when he spoke his mind.
onguard said, 6 months ago
@feverjr
Mitt was on the Mark. Dem Libs policies have dumbed down Americans and make Sheeple out of them.
feverjr said, 6 months ago
@onguard
Mitt was following the Southern Strategy that had worked for Lee Atwater when he ran the campaigns for Reagan and HW. The idea was to appeal to the southern white segregationist, that had not forgiven the Democrats for passing the Civil Rights Act.
As Atwater said in an interview in 1981…
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Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [the new Southern Strategy of Ronald Reagan] doesn’t have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he’s campaigned on since 1964 and that’s fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster.
Questioner: But the fact is, isn’t it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?
Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater
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At the same time, Roger Ailes was media consultant for the Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.
" In 1987 and 1988, Ailes was credited (along with Lee Atwater) with guiding George H. W. Bush to victory in the Republican primaries and the later come-from-behind victory over Michael Dukakis."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes
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Roger Ailes as president of FOX News, has used the same Southern Strategy, 24/7, for 365 days a year, to appeal to the same white voter, who feels the Democrats have left them since the Civil Rights Act was signed by LBJ.
onguard said, 6 months ago
@feverjr
Still…………… Dem Libs policies have dumbed down Americans and made Sheeple out of them.
petergrt said, 6 months ago
America has reached beyond the tipping point whereby victocrats are the majority – that would certainly qualify as Fundamental Transformation of the USA.
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Leftist can be proud indeed. Another country / nation they’ve afflicted.
feverjr said, 6 months ago
@petergrt
When the plutacrats can manipulate the easily misled, the gullible, by appealing to their Christianity, or their patriotism,or their youthful cavalier arrogance by falsely claiming they are the “Job Creators”, when in reality they’ve more likely destroyed businesses to pick over the remains as venture capitalist.
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As Citigroup said, March 5, 2006….
“Back in October, we coined the term ‘Plutonomy’ (The Global Investigator, Plutonomy:
Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances, October 14 2005). Our thesis is that the rich
are the dominant drivers of demand in many economies around the world (the US, UK,
Canada and Australia). These economies have seen the rich take an increasing share of
income and wealth over the last 20 years, to the extent that the rich now dominate income,
wealth and spending in these countries. Asset booms, a rising profit share and favorable
treatment by market-friendly governments have allowed the rich to prosper and become a
greater share of the economy in the plutonomy countries.”
“The share of the wealth continues to be even more aggressively skewed, with the top 10%
accounting for 57% of the national wealth, as they did in 2001. In total, the top 20% account
for 68% of total income; the bottom 40%, for just 9%.”
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“The Global Investigator, September 29, 2006…….
The Plutonomy Symposium — Rising Tides
Lifting Yachts
➤ Time to re-commit to plutonomy stocks – Binge on Bling.
Equity multiples appear too low, the profit share of GDP is high and likely going higher,
stocks look likely to beat housing, and we are bullish on equities. The Uber-rich, the
plutonomists, are likely to see net worth-income ratios surge, driving luxury consumption.
Buy plutonomy stocks (list inside).
➤ Plutonomy stocks at a premium, but relative pricing
power is key.
➤ Our Plutonomy Symposium take-aways.
The key challenge for corporates in this space is to maintain the mystique of prestige
while trying to grow revenue and hit the mass-affluent market. Finding pure-plays on the
plutonomy theme, however, is tricky.
➤ Plutonomy and the Great Conundrums of our age.
We think the balance sheets of the rich are in great shape, and are likely to continue to
improve. Don’t be shocked if the savings rate worsens as equities do well.
➤ What could go wrong?
Beyond war, inflation, the end of the technology/productivity wave, and financial collapse,
we think the most potent and short-term threat would be societies demanding a more
‘equitable’ share of wealth."
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Here’s what Bill Moyers said about plutacracy…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSoglDcRbAg&feature=related
4uk4ata said, 6 months ago
“It was Mitt that discounted 47% of the voters. Too bad for him it was taped when he spoke his mind.”
Some of those 47% still voted for him, mind you.