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  1. Ken Warren

    Ken Warren said, 1 day ago

    ??? I guess this is a anti-GOP cartoon, or maybe it’s just saying that a elphant says it’s going to jump you shouldn’t try to catch it.

  2. Ira Nayman

    Ira Nayman said, 1 day ago

    The only reason the elephant can get away with its threat is that the people below remain directly under where it would fall. If they moved - and, not even that much - in either direction, the threat would be completely empty.

  3. omQ R

    omQ RGenius_badge said, 1 day ago

    ^ I’ve been on a few walkabouts with elephants in the bush and we’re told what to do when an elephant charges: nothing. Usually they are bluffs.

    I did a quick search to confirm my naturally good advice (‘cos I’m an African and we all know what to do in these situations. :-| ).
    Here is even better advice <- Click here.

  4. JDG

    JDGGenius_badge said, 1 day ago

    Thanks omQR, LOL.

  5. Fairportfan2

    Fairportfan2 said, 1 day ago

    omQ R: I read somewhere that one is advised/forbidden to travel in elephant-infested areas in an original VW Beetle, because, for some reason, heffalumps take stringent exception to their presence.

  6. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 1 day ago

    This cartoon is so childishly insulting and pointless I’m surprised even the moonbats aren’t offended.

    What in Hell does the above cartoon have to do with ANYTHING actually occurring in reality?

    NOTHING.

    It is just pure fifth grade immaturity.

  7. bradwilliams

    bradwilliamsGenius_badge said, 1 day ago

    What does it have to do with what is happening? It nearly a direct quote from the GOP leadership.

  8. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 1 day ago

    Aw, Scott is insulted by the actions of the Party of No.

  9. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 1 day ago

    omQ R said, ” we’re told what to do when an elephant charges: nothing. Usually they are bluffs.”

    Same is true with the grizzly bears in my area. They are “usually” bluffs…..

  10. leipsicbob

    leipsicbob said, 1 day ago

    Poor Scottie is rebelling against a Reality Surge …

    Remember to pray for him.

  11. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 1 day ago

    Doc- having experience with grizzly, and black bears, and cougars, along with other “outside critters” this is usually true. I would NOT however trust that to a Holstein bull!

    It is not the”wild” animals, but the domesticated ones, like party faithful, wiling to accept any ignorance, that are most dangerous to us.

    It is wise to keep THEIR numbers down. So to mime their crowd “Jump, Jump, run, Sarah run”!!

  12. rekam

    rekamGenius_badge said, 1 day ago

    Should she run, and I pray not, think I’ll move to Canada. Was born there but lived most of my life here.

  13. treered

    treered said, 1 day ago

    as Max said:

    What’s going to happen’s going to happen. Just make sure it doesn’t happen to you.
    i.e., let him jump and just get out of the way!

  14. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 1 day ago

    How do you stop an elephant from charging?

    Take away his credit card!

    (Gotta make that a tee shirt!)

  15. Chromo sapiens

    Chromo sapiens said, about 23 hours ago

    The last time I checked, the elephants were in hiding. Why are the Libs afraid they’ll jump? Answer: Because they are not afraid of the Elephants: they are afraid of the people who will vote for the elephants.
    Next question, and maybe even more important: Why are they afraid of the people voting for Republicans?

  16. freeholder1

    freeholder1 said, about 23 hours ago

    Wow, Scott, how appropriate to use as your avatar the only Prez to ever shut down freedom of the press. I suspect the elephant is going to jump because he sees Palin coming.

  17. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, about 22 hours ago

    rekam said, Should [Palin] run, and I pray not, think I’ll move to Canada.

    Hey, I said the same thing about Bush!
    Did, too.

  18. d_legendary1

    d_legendary1 said, about 21 hours ago

    The elephants are in hiding, yet they are getting all this press.

    How left wing is the media again? I keep forgetting…

  19. oldlegodad

    oldlegodadGenius_badge said, about 20 hours ago

    DrCanookie, Always figured you were a wuss. No guts at all, or cajones either.

  20. fritzoid

    fritzoid said, about 19 hours ago

    If Palin runs, she’ll have to get through the nomination process. That means debates, against people who agree with much of what she says, but by no means all. All those Republicans who’ve treated her with kid gloves because she’s an effective lightning rod for Democrat sputterings are going to “suddenly discover” that she’s “not what they’d thought.” She’d have to deal with “gotchya” questions from her own side of the aisle. Probably, she’d be toast before the convention. Alternatively, she splits the party and either she or the top moderate opponent runs as an Independent, resulting in another win for the Democrats.

    There was a Horsey cartoon during the 2008 election pointing up the uneasy split in the GOP caused by Palin’s performance. A man is sitting across the table from a woman. The man is dressed in a bow tie and wears wire-rim glasses and is sitting straight as a ramrod in his chair, with his folded hands on the tabletop. Basically, he looks like George Will.

    “Doesn’t it concern you that Governor Palin seems a trifle, er…underinformed?

    The woman is leaning over the table, shaking her fist in the man’s face, with wild eyes, and projecting spittle from her gaping mouth.

    “WHATTYA MEAN, ’UNDERINFORMED’?!? SARAH PALIN IS GOD’S CHOSEN VESSEL, HAND-PICKED TO LEAD AMERICA IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!”

  21. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, about 19 hours ago

    “free” not the only one- the Bush’s did too.

  22. d_legendary1

    d_legendary1 said, about 19 hours ago

    <======That’s right infidels! God’s on my side!

  23. Tolestoy

    Tolestoy said, about 19 hours ago

    If scotfreitas could draw his thoughts he’d be the funniest cartoonist ever.

  24. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, about 18 hours ago

    If Sarah Palin farts in the woods, did she have to rely on hand notes?

  25. HOWGOZIT

    HOWGOZIT said, about 7 hours ago

    just yours.

  26. doppyeast

    doppyeastGenius_badge said, about 7 hours ago

    When charged by a raging bull elephant
    Standing your ground may be eloquent
    But I think you’ll agree
    That climbing a tree
    Is the only procedure that’s relevant.

  27. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 4 hours ago

    “If Sarah Palin farts in the woods, did she have to rely on hand notes?”

    Fart hand notes? Is that where you put your hand in your armpit and then squeeze with your arm?