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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 12:00 AM

This Modern World

Striking a blow against tyranny -- with teabags!

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Monday, April 6, 2009 06:20 PM

HOLY SHIT

That was hilarious!!!

Monday, April 6, 2009 06:28 PM

I would like to see Obama further oppress the American people...

...with Universal healthcare!

Monday, April 6, 2009 06:36 PM

For those who are unaware of the term "Teabagging"...

...see John Waters' movie "Pecker" or check out the Urban Dictionary online.

Monday, April 6, 2009 06:54 PM

Glen Beck is an embarrassment

'Nuf said

Monday, April 6, 2009 07:13 PM

"We're gonna teabag them ...

before they teabag us!"

Hillarious. I had to wipe the Diet Coke off of the screen before I could post. Damned near choked to death. I needed that. Thank you Tom Tomorrow.

Teabaggers of the world unite!

Monday, April 6, 2009 07:56 PM

The Clown suit on Beck

Priceless. Tom Tomorrow our hero!

Monday, April 6, 2009 08:07 PM

Not a clown suit

That's the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland, isn't it? Perhaps Tom wasn't sure how to make a "rodeo clown" generally recognizable (I know I wouldn't be). The Mad Hatter works. And perhaps we can have Joshua Goldberg as Humpty-Dumpty:`When I use the word "fascism,"' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.' `The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.' `The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master - - that's all.'

Monday, April 6, 2009 08:17 PM

Alright, the jig is up.

What's Tom Tomorrow's FARK handle?

Monday, April 6, 2009 10:29 PM

@jimmcf

Perfect.

And Karl Rove absolutely has to be the Cheshire Cat, vanishing slowly, until only his bile remained.

Monday, April 6, 2009 10:59 PM

...So just like the last time when Americans rebelled against tyranny with tea

And brought us the wonders of:

The Civil War!

- and -

Jim Crow!

- and -

Capital Punishment!

and freed us from the terrors of:

National Health Care!

- and -

Gay Rights!

Americans' righteous anger knows no bounds and no logic.

Monday, April 6, 2009 11:23 PM

Teabagging?

...see John Waters' movie "Pecker" or check out the Urban Dictionary online.

Or just play Halo on Xbox Live for any duration of time.

Monday, April 6, 2009 11:24 PM

Glen Beck make me retch

HUUUUUAAALLLLGH!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 04:00 AM

@ jimmcf You are right

I should have noticed the hat band. Hmmm mercury poisoning? It would explain a lot because fer sure that guy is seriously deranged , not Hannity, Billo the Clown blowhard acting deranged, but All American needs -to-be-medicated batshit crazy.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 05:07 AM

Love the cameo by the 'get a brain! morans' guy

Do you think he knows how famous he is?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 05:07 AM

I wish I could get paid to recycle Fark.com jokes

Where's the Warriors paint huffer guy?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 05:37 AM

One of His Best

I really liked this one (like most of them, actually). But today's is a classic. Way to go Tom.

I thought the dude in the background of the last panel could have been saying 'They took our jobs!' (from a Southpark episode that involved some 'teabagging' for those wondering).

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 06:40 AM

I'm looking forward to the day ...

... when cartoonists and comedy writers will have to do more than simply report current events, verbatim, to get laughs.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 06:40 AM

Considering

Outrage over the stamp act, and the original tea party itself was largely the result of profiteers seeking to corner the market and make a great deal of cash at the expense of their "fellow patriots" I can think of few protests more approrpiate.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 07:33 AM

@ Chris

"Love the cameo by the 'get a brain! morans' guy

Do you think he knows how famous he is?"

So this was a real-life* guy - who actually had that on a sign and not just an interwebs comment? I don't doubt it at all, but if there's a picture somewhere I haven't seen it and I'd love to.

*Notice I didn't say he has any connection with reality other than his existence.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 07:54 AM

@ Brian Lupiani

Oh yes, he is very real. Google image search for that text will bring up the many images/references to him, but here's the pic:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-moran.htm

He even has an urban dictionary entry!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Moran&defid=1303800

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 08:23 AM

Can't Breathe. Still Laughing.

I love a good teabagging joke.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 08:27 AM

So wrong on so many levels

As much as I hate seeing the Mad Hatter, one of my faves, portrayed as that nincompoop Glenn Beck, I do like the costume. It actually looks like a cross between the Mad Hatter and the 6th Doctor Who.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 11:12 AM

"Get A BRAIN! MORANS" Guy and Joe the Plumber walk into a bar...

"Get A BRAIN! MORANS" guy should have hired Joe the Plumbers publicist. Oh what could have been...

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 11:46 AM

Glen Beck

Glen Beck is so crazy, just sooooo crazy. If you could distill crazy down into its purest form and then turn that into a person you would get Glen Beck, God help us all

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 12:22 PM

Make mine Green

First of all the Republicans are citing bad history. The Boston Tea Party was not a protest against taxation. The British actually removed a tax on tea making tea from the British empire cheaper than smuggled tea that many merchants in Boston were selling. The "tea party" was an attempt to rig the market place. (Of course I might add that only a few privileged merchants had a right to sell tea at all, so that was also part of the tea party protest.

THAT SAID. I really am disturbed that the modern day tax protesters aren't sending ME any tea. I drink green tea on a regular basis (It's good for you.) and rather than sending tea to liberal Congressmen, why don't the tax protesters send tea to ME?? I will be specific. I only want sealed packages of green tea- Green tea only. No loose tea bags.

Some needs to set up a some sort website where those of us who want green tea can contact the right-wing tax protesters to get some tea. Just think how that would stimulate the econmy!! By giving ME a year's supply of green tea, I can afford to spend my money one something else. More green tea for ME = more disposable income = more spending = more JOBS. I'd urge all other progressives to follow my example. Make my TEA GREEN - PLEASE.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 12:33 PM

It takes a lot of real balls to hold a successful teabagging protest like Beck suggests

More power to him.

I can envision the last gasp of the rabid, idiot right wing happening just as news of the spectacle of Beck and buddies teabagging in public all day to protest against Obama.

I wonder if he's going to hold his protest in West Hollywood? :)

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 02:05 PM

I read it again

and it's even funnier the second time!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 05:58 PM

@ Toekutter

Yeah, Tom Tomorrow must be a Farker. His humor is perfectly suited, but this seals the deal.

Get a brain, morans!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 08:26 PM

I say National Public Service for the other 95%

Unless they are too good to clean bed pans.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 09:46 PM

To quote Stephen Colbert....

..."I love Glenn Beck's sanity so much....and I fear for it"[sob]

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 07:19 AM

The clown suit isn't so surprising

That shoe fits. Getting corporate interests dressing as Indians? That's where it gets trippy.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 12:24 PM

Now, now there, Dearie!

You just settle down with that ol' "dissent", and let Big Brothers Peon/Shills do all that nasty ol' "thunken" for ya'!!!

It'll allll be better, then; even the naughty little man in your head! You know, the one who told you to kil......

Don't you know REAL Amerikkkans when you see them, Mr. so-called 'Tomorrow'?

Why, you ACT LIKE in YOUR Future....the streets would flow with honey, or something, you, you, you......COMMIE!

Love 'Colbert-ing' you!

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