Satirical Comics
Search through many many political cartoons until you find one that you think is funny because it is
Then make a slide that shows the cartoon and explains it in historical, social, and/or political context
Adi (2/27/18)
The boy is saying he wants to go into organized crime and the dad asks if he means government or private sector because the government is pretty much organized crime stealing money from the people
Americans are saying they want to get rid of illegal immigrants(Mexicans) to make America better even though they are also illegal immigrants that took from the people already there
Loic (4/27/18)
The world is so worried about Iran’s nuclear program and the deals it has made to limit its production, while no one pays attention to Israel, who is excelling in its progress in the nuclear field.
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Loic (4/27/18)
Kieran D (4/27/18)
Native Americans were here before the British came, so the British are immigrants
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Kieran D (4/27/18)
American child obesity rates are going up really fast
Evan (4/27/18)
Basically, many of the large corporations and government officials don’t care what happens to the Earth, as long as they stay rich.
Gabe (4/27/18)
The Human Condition revolves around us inflicting pain, and laughing about it.
It may also be making fun of the short attention span humans possess.
Audrey (4/27/18)
We as people currently have a ton of huge issues going on in the world that politicians and other people have been ignoring, allowing them to grow bigger and more threatening, and older generations are allowing our current problems to be our gift for the next generation.
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Audrey (4/27/18)
There are very few active people who are more concerned with climate change
Than with other, less concerning problems.
Sobhan (4/27/18)
Brexit
Leaving the trump administration
Noah (4/27/18)
Since the daughter has not taken a sex education class, she has already given birth to a child at a surprisingly young age.
Aine (4/27/18)
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Mia (4/27/18)
These cartoons poke fun at the ridiculousness of climate change deniers.
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Maya (4/27/18)
It’s using the anime trope of the ‘hero’ to depict Trump. The main protagonist or hero is supposed save the day and make everything better, but many think that Trump will make it worse.
Maya (4/27/18)
This is referring to the fact that Obama won his second election and his family will still be living in the White House. This is poking fun at romantic movies and the fact that the the couple is going through hardships and they can still keep what is important to them.
Adam (4/27/18)
Read the news paper…
So true….
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Aidan
Magic 8-Balls say a specific set of phrases, and Trump has a well known set of key catch-phrases he says like “Believe Me” and “Sad!”
Caedon
The people in the country work hard to earn their living (catch fish). But….
The government just takes from the people.
Danchi
The cop is saying the same thing as the innocent victims of crime. But while the victims are trying not to die, the cop is telling the media to not film him committing a crime.
This shows the corruption of the police system. The cop must shoot these innocent people but also make sure to cover up his tracks.
Gwen
During the #BlackLivesMatter fiasco the media focused on a lot of bad cops and bad people, black people don’t want to die, white people don’t want to die, the good cops hurt from that incident and the black community hurt from it as well, there’s nothing wrong with cops, some of them are bad but not all of them.
Cop said the people they swore to protect turning against them for mistakes other cops made
The black community suffers from racism and violence toward them
Max
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Their basically saying an alternative fact is a lie
Taran
The artist is saying that Trump is not going to build his wall on the border and the only wall he gets is this wall that says Trump sucks.
Will
Mitt Romney
Barack Obama
2012 Presidential Debates
Boxing gloves with metal in them show that the debates were more like dirty fights, rather than arguments.
This illustration depicts the 2012 presidential debates as extremely dirty and honorless fist fights.
Zayd
Trump did not run a traditional campaign, some might say he ruined it
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Zoya
Today, we‘re telling all the immigrants to get out of America, but we have to remember that all Americans were immigrants in the 1st place.
Netta
Trump cares more about twitter than political issues.
Amelia
Lance
Trump is always saying everything is huge. So Obama is telling him about how he can not fill Obama’s shoes.
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Evan
Trump is overlooking the fact that these people are protesting him, not supporting him.
Gabe
Laughing at the ridiculousness of our political climate by pointing out that the president throws tantrums similarly to a toddler, has the integrity of a 2-year old, and actually believes that he has everything under control, while the rest of his, nearly empty, cabinet runs our nation.
Zach
All these comics are about how network neutrality will destroy our lives.az
Bruce
Anyone remember Trump’s political debates? Basically, Trump just interrupts and says stupid insults. On top of that, he’s saying all the insults into a mirror but I’m not really sure why.
Emma
Male celebrities and politicians have been recently found to assault women and men.
Emma
Recently there have been lots of news on gun violence yet lots of video games that children play have to do with violence, particularly with guns. Parents have been more focused on the news itself rather than what their kids games are saying and what the game is making them do.
Audrey
We’re currently destroying our own planet earth with climate change, deforestation, air pollution…(I could list a whole lot more.) So, the earth is warning other planets, telling them what awful creatures we are, because if we discovered another habitable planet, it would probably go the same way as earth.
Jamie
Donald J. Trump doesn't speak anything worth listening. Donald is the bird that is speaking “waste”.
Kaili
Eminent Domain:
“the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation.”
Kaili
Betsy DeVos is is the new Secretary of Education
A Veep is the Vice President
Bears are supposed to be a scary species of animals but the children feel safer with the bears rather than with the government.
Samek
It is seen that politicians are very slow and do no work. Hence the joke: the opposite of pro is con, so the opposite of progress is congress.
Samek
Often times the pot is not smashed, it is shattered. The government spends ¾ of their time fixing problems they created.
Samek
If you don’t get this there is something wrong.
Polina
Trump always appeared oblivious to negative truths towards him, and attempted to twist the way the world was. When hundreds of people came to protest him, all he saw was the amount of people, not the reason for them being there.
He also focuses on comparing himself to the previous president, instead of on being president.
Mary
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Roslyn
Trump is “re-evaluating” his first 100 Days in office, labeling all of his F’s as some of his favorite
Benjamin
The sheep are saying that the wolf ‘tells it like it is’ even though it is obvious he is up to no good. This is like Donald Trump during his campaign, when people preferred him over Hillary Clinton because he ‘tells it like it is’.
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Benjamin
The joke is that all these men are making decisions on what should be none of their business.
Mia
This is shows how popular Hamilton (the musical) has made Hamilton (the historical guy), and how it has had a pretty big influence on the U.S. today.
Kieran D
DeVos can't answer simple questions, and shouldn’t be ed secretary
Republicans vs democrats.
Chris
The G.O.P. (Republican Party) is blaming social programs such as aid for jobless people or other types of welfare for the “sinking” budget (huge federal deficit).
The cartoonist is pointing out that they/we are ignoring the fact that the tax cuts for rich people is “costing” much more!
The cat represents welfare and aid programs.
The tax cuts (or tax breaks) for rich people cost gov’t much more.