Saturday morning (political) cartoon thread - Politics

Saturday morning (political) cartoon thread
A Return to Civility
Stop calling the party of Donald Trump “conservative”: It’s a party of dangerous, destructive reactionaries
Report: Russia hacked RNC, but did not leak info
Schumer calls for full investigation by Congress of Russian interference in U.S. elections
Bombshell Secret CIA Report Says Russia Aimed To Steal White House For Trump
Report: Russia hacked GOP but didn’t release info, intel agencies believe
Donald Trump is actually a fascist
Donald Trump’s Twitter posts seem awfully close to violating the platform’s rules on abusive behavior
Sanders congratulates Carrier union leader after Trump attack
CIA Concludes Russia Interfered in U.S. Election to Help Trump Win
Trump team sparks fears of 'witch hunt' as it seeks names of Energy Department climate experts
How Mitch McConnell Prevented Stronger Action Against Russian Election Meddling
Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House
Reid: Comey should be investigated in wake of Russia report
The CIA concluded Russia worked to elect Trump. Republicans now face an impossible choice.
Donald Trump says pledge to jail Hillary Clinton played 'great before the election' but now 'we don't care'
The imperial presidency of Donald Trump: Stand by for tweets divorced from reality and a Cabinet full of corporatists
Intelligence: Russians hacked RNC too, to hurt Clinton, help Trump
CIA Reportedly Confident Russia Interfered With Election To Help Trump Win
Poll: Americans Skeptical Over Key Trump Agenda Items, Disapprove of Trump's Handling of Transition
Donald Trump has weaponized Twitter — with dangerous consequences
Donald Trump's talk of 'draining the swamp' rings hollow
Donald Trump’s behavior on Twitter is a bannable offense
Ford CEO says Trump's threats won't change plans to move small-car production to Mexico
Trump Admits His Threat To Lock Up Clinton Was Just For Show
Glenn Beck on Trump’s Boeing fight: ‘If America wants to go over the cliff, that’s fine. They can ... I’m not’

Saturday morning (political) cartoon thread

Posted: 10 Dec 2016 08:57 AM PST

It's Saturday morning, folks. Let's all kick back with a cup of coffee, some cereal and share some cartoons!

Feel free to share political cartoons in this thread. The subject doesn't have to be US politics and can be from any time. Just keep them political and safe for work.

Have fun.

edit: Political cartoons only - not memes, please. We'll save those for another Saturday!

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A Return to Civility

Posted: 10 Dec 2016 09:30 AM PST

The election is over, but the activity levels are still mostly unchanged. That is great! But with that activity we have found ourselves inundated with a continued lack of incivility throughout our subreddit.

The mod team has been working very hard to ensure that this subreddit can be used as a platform for people of many political persuasions to come together and discuss news, ideas, events, and more. To this end, we've been striving very hard for a quality and diverse experience on /r/politics with things such as our Presidents series, AMAs, megathreads, and our Friday Fun & Saturday Cartoon threads. As great as these things are and as much as our community is enjoying them, the quality of the subreddit has still not risen up accordingly.

Here is where the problem is: people are failing to read and respect our civility policy. A conversation fails to be an effective discussion or debate about policy or candidates when it turns to disparagement of other Redditors.

We've taken several steps over the last months to mitigate this as best we can. Our Automod stickied comment on each thread is not popular, but it has quantifiably cut down on incivility. We've autoremoved terms such as "cunt," "cuck" and "shill", words that had an overwhelming ratio of being used to disparage other users. We've tightened up our ban policy, using a 1 day ban as a warning rather than giving multiple toothless warnings like we had previously. These measures, unfortunately, were still not enough. Even with the tighter ban policy, the rate of reoffending was still through the roof.

These things have never been okay. They interfere with the tone of discourse we'd like to see on this forum. We are going to stop them.

To this end, with determination to foster a thoughtful community prone to picking at ideas rather than shooting down users; we are today announcing our new significantly more rigid ban policy. Infractions against our civility policy will now be met with a permanent ban from /r/politics. They make this subreddit a worse place for those hoping for honest and in-depth discussion, and we unfortunately can no longer tolerate it.

So, I reiterate, any and all infractions against our civility policy are now subject to an immediate and permanent ban from /r/politics. We are not totally heartless though. If the offense was a person's first, we can always be modmailed to request a second chance after explaining to us that you are aware of what you did wrong. We will no longer be providing third and fourth chances like before. /r/Politics aims to be a place for people who wish to discuss issues rather than each other's failings. The latter group is welcome to seek another community.

This policy will go into effect on Monday, December 12th at 12am EST.

Feel free to discuss this meta issue in the comments where mods will be chatting with you throughout the weekend. We understand this change is significant, but it's one we've made with a mind for vast betterment of each and every member of this community.

On an entirely unrelated and far more fun note, our user flair is back due to popular demand in the last meta thread! Make sure to go click the "edit" button below your name in the sidebar to select your appropriate location if you wish.

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Stop calling the party of Donald Trump “conservative”: It’s a party of dangerous, destructive reactionaries

Posted: 10 Dec 2016 03:12 AM PST